A trio of tales told portmanteau style with Boris Karloff as your host; find out more...

The last of a series of 7 budget portmanteau horror films from the UK's Amicus Production House. The Gatecrasher; the lesson of which is don't trust antique mirrors and certainly don't hold seances in front of them. An Act of Kindness; the lesson of which is if you get married to a creepy girl then don't have a decorative groom on top of the wedding cake. The Elemental; the lesson of which is don't switch the price tags on snuff boxes - or you might snuff it. The Door; the lesson of whic find out more...

The inhabitants of a traditionalist Carpathian village are terrified for their lives as a series of ghastly murders rock the community. The killer demon is the vengeful ghost of Baroness Graps' dead daughter, Melissa, who wants to collect the souls of the hapless villagers. Only a local sorceress, and a visiting 'modern/rational' doctor, stand in the way of the Grap family's evil hold on the people, but is she powerful enough to end the slaughter? And can he lend a hand? find out more...

An intelligent and genuinely creepy adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's novel. Set in 12th Century Italy; Prince Prospero watches from the giddy heights of his castle as the plague decimates those below him, all the while contempating the delicious torture of his guests. Superbly atmospheric camera work by Nicolas Roeg and the camp wickedness of Vincent Price make for haunting viewing. find out more...

Seminal vampire film, the first to be based upon the Bram Stoker tale. An estate agent's clerk from Bremen embarks on a journey to Orlock's castle, where a client of his resides. On arrival, the full horror of the inhabitants confront him. Wonderful imagery and direction. Imitated but never equalled. find out more...

A young coed (Nan Barlow) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood. He originally cam from that village so he also recommends she stay at the "Raven's Inn," run by a Mrs. Newlis. She gets to the village and notices some weird happenings, but things begin t find out more...

Thorold Dickinson's 1949 British classic, based on Pushkin's short story, stars Anton Walbrook as Captain Suvorin, an impoverished military captain in 19th-century Russia. Like many of the time, he daringly admires the meritocratic genius of Russia's great enemy, Napoleon, and is obsessed with gambling. Suvorin is galvanised by the rumour that ugly old Countess Ranevskaya, played by Edith Evans, has sold her soul to the devil for the secret of winning at cards; he plans to offer her a chilling n find out more...

The tale is set in a smouldering, decimated post World War II in the town of Meridian. Keeping dialogue to a minimum they wisely let the cameraman cut loose on this odd fairy tale, avoiding the stagey static feel that pervades most early cinema. The Halperin brothers made White Zombie in just 11 days back in 1932 with $50,000 and sets left behind from Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein. White Zombie doesn't tell us a story when it can show us one and as such is one of the most visually interes find out more...

Set against the background of the English Civil War, this tale of the violent persecution of alleged witches by the eponymous central character is a masterpiece of 60's British cinema. Excellent performances, (especially Vincent Price's), complement evocative use of scenery. One point of interest is the changes in film stock, which makes the film appear redder at the end than at the beginning, a deliberate ploy on behalf of the director who uses the deepening crimson to symbolise the story's find out more...