A father is haunted by the death of his young child. Omens point to disaster and hallucinations predict the future as this wonderful atmospheric film moves to its disturbing climax. Shot in the beautiful city of Venice and based on the book by Daphne du Maurier.

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Charlotte Hollis has been closeted in her mansion, a deteriorating Southern plantation, since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster's relatives and friends appear to rally behind her but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumours of the last forty years appear to be coming true. On hand are cousin Miriam, Dr Drew Bayliss, Jewel Mayhew and the scariest inhabitant of all, loyal serva find out more...

A miner wanders the Japanese countryside with his young son, desperately in search of work, his misery compounded by the presence of a mysterious and murderous white suited stranger. The victims of the unknown killer return as wraiths, invisible to the now fearful and suspicious living, but no wiser as to the reason for their misfortune. Pitfall was Hiroshi Teshigahara's first feature, a dark, ghostly drama with its roots set firmly in the impoverished reality of a post-war Japan. This "document find out more...

When down and out artist Eben Adams meets the mysterious Jennie in Central Park he begins to paint her portrait, a work that shows more greatness than anything he has ever done. When Jennie suddenly disappears Adams searches for her to no avail and when he sees her again, a few weeks later, she has aged dramatically. The story that ensues is considered one of the greatest and moving love stories ever told right through to the awesome storm at sea that supernaturally heralds their final parting. find out more...

A psycho-chiller/thriller from the master of the genre as the naive young wife of a rich Cornish land owner is haunted by the image of his first glamorous wife, Rebecca. The usual mix of pyschology and fine film making, and widely considered to be one of Hitchcock's best works. Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards. find out more...

Shortly after coming to live with orphans Flora and Miles in their dark, eerie mansion, the new governess begins to realise that her young charges share their bodies with evil spirits and sets about trying to save the children from their fate at increasing personal risk to herself. Based on Henry James' gothic ghost tale "The Turn Of The Screw", 'The Innocents' is rich in malevolent atmosphere, a classic spine chiller. find out more...

A long dead Egyptian named Imhotep is brought to life when an archaeologist reads out aloud from the Scroll of Thoth. Imhotep reincarnates as a modern Egyptian archaeologist determined to find the reincarnation of his long dead lover the Princess Ankh-es-en-amon. Unfortunately for an Ankh-es-en-amon look-alike he attempts to mummify her, not the most edifying of romantic passes, but fortunately, and just in the nick of time, she prays to the ancient goddess Isis and hey presto it's bye-bye Imhot find out more...

Legend has it that whoever is the last person to die on New Year's Eve will be destined to drive the Phantom Carriage collecting dead souls for a year. When a drunkard is found at the stroke of midnight, the victim of a vicious fight, he is forced to relive his past to see how he and those around him have been destroyed by his selfish and destructive ways. Directed by pioneering Swedish film-maker Victor Sjöström "The Phantom Carriage" is arguably the most influential, especially on the legendar 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...

To spark up or not to spark up? This rambling, flamboyant, incoherent ‘head movie' should be approached with caution by anyone who hasn't got any drugs in their system. In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story. On a trip to Madrid a Belgian soldier takes a short cut across the mountains, a land of robbers, body snatching gypsies and devils, and stays at an inn named the Venta Quemada....Luis Buñuel (who seldom viewed movies more than once) liked t find out more...