Roger Corman and Vincent Price hook up for yet more horror in Edgar Allan Poe's most terrifying tale of passion, possession and purrfect evil find out more...

Now regarded as a classic, this is the first Dracula film that Hammer Horror made. Bits such as the famous opening shot with the menacing shadow of Lee gliding down the stairs to emerge as a crisply charming aristocrat, still look excellent. Required viewing for horror buffs. find out more...

The original 1953 classic has a suitably sinister Vincent Price going that extra mile to ensure the realism of his wax effigies. Creepy, camp and kitsch – it's wonderful. Check out the youthful Charles Bronson! find out more...

A London subway excavation abruptly halts when construction workers unearth a cluster of prehistoric skulls and skeletons. Anthropologist Dr Roney, his assistant Barbara, and space expert Professor Quatermass are driven by curiosity and dig deeper to discover a strange 'missile' that is not of this earth. A classic si-fi horror that relies on impending dread rather than blood and guts. find out more...

One of Roger Corman's earlier adaptations of an Edgar Allan Poe tale finds us in the repressive, claustrophobic Usher household where the occupants have been driven insane by their dark, deep fears and unspeakable lusts. It is the impending wedding of Roderick Usher's sister that finally brings the doomed family to their chilling denouement, a sense of dread enhanced by the blood red art direction and a tight intelligent script. Creepy as! find out more...

The Fane family are an unusual, if not unhinged, group of individuals, but their nanny is in a league of her own. 'The Nanny' is a delicious psychological thriller which pays considerable homage in its style and atmosphere to Bette Davis' earlier 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'. find out more...

Camp-it-up Hammer horror with Vincent Price on top form as a deranged actor who exacts stylishly horrible revenge on his critics. When he fails to win the Actor of the Year Award he takes a few leaves out of Shakespeare's books to bump off the judges one by one. Imaginatively over the top.

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece. find out more...