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...

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...