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The Driller Killer
Published 1979
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Nicholas St. John (screenplay) (as N.G. St. John)
Stars: Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
Atom Age Vampire
Published 1960
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A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her.
Director: Anton Giulio Majano
Writers: Piero Monviso (story), Gino De Santis (scenario) (as Gino De Sanctis)
Stars: Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni
Bowery at Midnight
Published 1942
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Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders.
Director: Wallace Fox
Writers: Gerald Schnitzer (original story), Gerald Schnitzer (screenplay)
Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
A Bucket of Blood
Published 1959
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A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Charles B. Griffith (screenplay)
Stars: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
Carnival of Souls
Published 1962
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After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
Director: Herk Harvey
Writer: John Clifford (written: )
Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger
Dead Men Walk
Published 1943
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The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writer: Fred Myton (original screenplay)
Stars: George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
Dementia 13
Published 1963
A scheming widow hatches a daring plan to get her hands on her late husband's inheritance, unbeknownst to her that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks within the family's estate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola)
Writers: Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola), Jack Hill (second unit written by)
Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
The City of the Dead
Published 1960
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A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey (as John Moxey)
Writers: George Baxt (screenplay), Milton Subotsky (story)
Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee
The Corpse Vanishes
Published 1942
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A scientist, aided by an old hag and her two sons, kills virginal brides, steals their bodies, and extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
Director: Wallace Fox
Writers: Sam Robins (original story), Gerald Schnitzer (original story)
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin
Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Published 1920
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Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: John S. Robertson
Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson (by), Clara Beranger (scenario) (as Clara S. Beranger)
Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst
Haxan
Published 1922
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Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in modern Europe.
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Writer: Benjamin Christensen
Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
House on Haunted Hill
Published 1959
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A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
Directors: William Castle, Rosemary Horvath (uncredited)
Writer: Robb White
Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
The Last Man on Earth
Published 1964
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When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Directors: Ubaldo Ragona (as Ubaldo B. Ragona), Sidney Salkow
Writers: William F. Leicester (screenplay), Richard Matheson (screenplay) (as Logan Swanson) | 3 more credits »
Stars: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Daniel
The Terror
Published 1963
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A young officer in Napoleon's Army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
Directors: Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola (uncredited)
Writers: Leo Gordon (screenplay), Jack Hill (screenplay)
Stars: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
White Zombie
Published 1932
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A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
Director: Victor Halperin
Writers: Garnett Weston (story), Garnett Weston (dialogue)
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn