The few remaining residents of a Canadian sorority house are celebrating the onset of Christmas vacation, but a stalk'n'slash freak is on the loose and one by one the residents get suffocated, chopped etc. Will any of them survive? Director Bob Clark's tense, effective film is a precursor, in effect the template, to the 'stalk'n'slash' films, Friday 13th, Halloween et al, that would come a half decade later. find out more...

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

A scientific expedition sniffing around in the Amazon awaken the interest of a man in a rubber suit, who proceeds to stalk, kill and kidnap (he's infatuated with the pretty female on board) expedition members. 'Creature From the Black Lagoon' endures as a classic icon from 50s B-movie sci-fi/horror flicks. Every decent DVD library should have this even if it never rents. find out more...

Still spooky after all these years this superb Ealing chiller is still the best example of a portmanteau tale. Five guests in a country house relate their tales and the film moves into nightmare territory. Watch it with a friend! 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...

Whilst on a routine vampire destroying mission in Transylvania, Professor Abronsius and his idiot assistant chance upon a buxom serving wench, but are they too late to prevent the evil blood-suckers getting their teeth into her? Gloriously over-the-top schlock horror! find out more...

Hill House is a dark brooding mansion with a chillingly eerie history. Dr Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, and an unhealthy penchant for terror, is drawn to the site and, along with two researchers and a skeptic, sets out to unravel the house's mysteries.
A really good early horror made thrilling by the atmosphere, the low key sound effects and the chilling camerawork. find out more...

A mad megalomaniac scientist has been experimenting with drugs (monocane) and discovered the secret of invisibility, except that he normally covers himself in bandages in order to be seen! After a bit of crime and killing in a Sussex village the demented soul has to leg it. Superior stuff, especially with the slow uncloaking of the scientist's invisibility, and the movie that turned Claude Rains into a star. 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...

An American scientific expedition stumbles across a long-buried UFO and it's extraterrestrial occupant in the ice of the North Pole. When they dig it up and take it back to their camp for study they unwittingly wake the creature from its hibernation. The original sci-fi paranoia trip based on the short story 'Who Goes There' by John W Campbell and later updated in glorious fashion by John Carpenter as 'the Thing'. A must for fans of the latter's ooze-fest. find out more...