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Bay of Blood (Reazione a catena) (Italy, 1971)

Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Volonte, Anna M. Rosati, Chris Avram, Leopoldo Trieste, Laura Betti, Brigitte Skay, Isa Miranda. When a group of teenagers stumble upon an apparently deserted resort they find much more than they bargained for. Hailed by many as the film that inspired high-body-count slasher pics such as "Friday the 13th," Mario Bava's gory, early 1970s mystery has nice atmosphere and plenty of gore. In fact, this is probably the most explicit film Bava ever made. From a story by Dardano Sacchetti and Franco Barberi. 84 min. DVD X1439

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Bedlam (1946)

Directed by Mark Robson. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser. Karloff plays the doomed overseer of an insane asylum, St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum in 1761 London. 79 min. DVD 4474

Mank, Gregory W. "Bedlam." In: Hollywood cauldron : thirteen horror films from the genre's golden age / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c1994 (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.H6 M315 1994)

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The Black Castle (1952)

Directed by Nathan Juran. Cast: Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Paula Corday, Lon Chaney, John Hoyt, Michael Pate, Nancy Valentine. Karkoff is mesmerizing as an 18th century knight who avenges the deaths of two friends who have attended a hunting party at the castle of a sadistic Viennese count. 82 min. DVD 6216

Black Sabbath (I tre volti della paura) (Italy / France / USA, 1963)

Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Michèle Mercier, Jacqueline Pierreux. Presents Brava's classic triptych (three tales of terror) hosted by Boris Karloff: The telephone: A prostitute is threatened by the pimp she helped send to prison. The wurdalak: A returning patriarch to an Eastern European family may be a Wurdalak--a vampire who thirsts for the blood of his loved ones. A drop of water: A nurse steals a diamond ring from the finger of a dead clairvoyant, and is haunted that night by the woman's ghost. Bonus features: Audio commentary with author Tim Lucas ; A life in film: an interview with Mark Damon ; international and U.S. theatrical trailers ; TV and radio spots ; poster and still gallery ; Mario Bava and Boris Karloff biographies. Il telefono = The telephone -- I wurdulak = The wurdulak -- La goccia d'acqua = The drop of water. 92 min. DVD 7575

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The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. Cast:Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard. Three student filmmakers set out into the forest to film a documentary on a legend known as The Blair Witch. As they become lost in the woods, an unseen evil begins to stalk and harass them. They soon realize that what they are filming is not a legend, but their own descent into a horrifying encounter with the supernatural. 87 min. DVD 172; vhs 999:2382

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Blood Feast (1963)

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Cast: Thomas Wood, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton, Scott H. Hall. Set in Miami, police are baffled by a series of grisly murders that involve ritualistic dismemberment. A deranged Egyptian caterer name Fuad Ramses goes around hacking up beautiful young gals and brings their body parts back to his temple as an offering to the goddess Ishtar. Special features: Audio commentary by director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman; original theatrical trailer; rare outtakes; actors Thomas Wood and Harvey Korman demonstrate how to slice meat in the grisly educational short subject," Carving magic" (20 min.); gallery of exploitation art. 87 min. DVD 4602

Grossman, Andrew. "Blood Feast Revisited: Or H. G. Lewis, Keeper of the Key to All Erotic Mystery." Bright Lights, May 2004 | Issue 44

Wisniewski, John. "Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis." Bright Lights November 2002 | Issue 38

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Brainiac (Germany, 2004)

Directed by Terry Michael King. Cast: Greg Bayan, Lisa Nistri, Joe Hansard, Elizabeth Shevock, Sara East. Brain chemistry research has produced a drug - Nirvana - that can wipe out addiction and mental illness by stimulating pleasure centers in the brain and flooding the brain with endorphins. PsyMax Labs is about to release Nirvana, but suddenly something goes badly wrong. Nirvana causes drastic genetic changes, switching on dormant genes to produce BRAINIAC, a creature whose need for the brain's pleasure chemicals causes it to begin eating human brains. Victims are found with their heads drilled and their brains literally sucked out. As the mysterious deaths pile up, Doctor Sunday Morgan, Assistant Laboratory Director at PsyMax, finds clues to a cover-up at PsyMax. 98 min. DVD X1767

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)(Germany, 1920)

Directed by Robert Wiene. Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover. A somnambulist commits murders under a hypnotist's influence in this German expressionist horror classic. Also featured is a lengthy excerpt of "Genuine: a tale of a vampire," a 1920 release Cast:Fern Andra.which reunited "Caligaris" creative team. 75 min. DVD 1383; DVD 232; DVD 5; vhs 999:39

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The Card Player (Il cartaio) (Italy, 2004)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Silvio Muccino, Adalberto Maria Merli, Fiore Argento, Mia Benedetta. Summary An Italian policewoman is forced to play a sick game with a serial killer. She teams up with a British cop to try to find the identity of the killer but for every round they lose, a kidnapped young girl is mutilated alive via webcam. Special features: interactive menus; scene selection; "Playing with death" (documentary); "Maestro of fear" (documentary); commentary track; trailer; behind-the-scenes; Dario Argento bio; previews. 104 min. DVD X1650

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Carrie (1976)

Directed by Brian De Palma. Cast: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie. Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is-- gifted, and you really don't want to get her angry. Special features: 45-minute "Acting Carrie" documentary; 45-minute "Visualizing Carrie" documentary; "Carrie: the musical" featurette with Betty Buckley and L.D. Cohen; Stephen King and the writing of Carrie; animated photo gallery; original theatrical trailer and more. 100 min. DVD 4091; vhs 999:1004

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Directed by Paul Leni. Cast: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Tully Marshall, Flora Finch. Greedy relatives assemble in an old mansion to hear the will of an eccentric recluse. The beautiful heroine, heiress to a possible fortune, is menaced by a mysterious killer disguised as a hideous monster. A forerunner to many horror-comedies that reveal seemingly supernatural events as the doings of a human villain, the story features secret passages, vanishing actors and claw-like hands reaching out from the darkness. 85 min. DVD 4953

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Cat People (1942)

Directed by Jacques Tourneur; produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt. Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she is the victim of an ancient curse- whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill. 72 min. DVD 4472; vhs 999:76

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Fujiwara, Chris. Jacques Tourneur : the cinema of nightfall Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. (PFA : PN1998.3.T68 F84 2000; MAIN: PN1998.3.T6 F85 2000)

Newman, Kim. Cat People London: British Film Institute, 1999. BFI film classics. (Main Stack PN1997.C365.N49 1999)

Cheezy Horror.

Tale of terror, Blackula, Friday the 13th, Velvet vampire, Rabid. An anthology of theatrical trailers from the worst of the worst horror films ... "some of the best, worst and cheeziest horror films ever made" ... together they present an overview of the genre. Trailers (Vol. 1): Frankenstein and the monster fom hell, Curse of the undead, Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Inn of the damned, Humanoids from the deep, Abby, Horrors of the black museum, Seizure, The sinful dead, Eaten alive, Fearless vampire hunters, House on Haunted Hill, Dr Phibes, The children, Count Dracula and his vampire brides, The old dark house, The chosen, Tales from the crypt, Terror in the wax museum, house of fright. Trailers (Vol. 2): Return of Dracula, Curse of the demon, Indestructible man, Black zoo, The tingler, Axe, Something is out there, Raw meat, The exorcist, Circus of horrors, Horror of Dracula, Legend of Hell House, Texas chainsaw massacre, Sugar Hill, My bloody valentine, Tale of terror, Blackula, Friday the 13th, Velvet vampire, Rabid. 120 min. DVD 8090

Curse of the Cat People (1944)

Directed by Robert Wise & Gunther von Fritsch. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter. Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena. 70 min. DVD 4472

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The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del Diablo) (Spain / Mexico, 2001)

Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Cast: Marisa Parades, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Iñigo Garces, Irene Visedo. Thanks to the Civil War in Spain, Carlos his arrived at the desolate Santa Lucia School, now a makeshift shelter for war orphans, where an unexploded bomb rests in the courtyard. More frightening are the odd things keep happening to Carlos - he sees strange shadows, hears voices, and at night he is being visited by the "One Who Sighs." Special features: Guillermo del Toro commentary ; Director's thumbnail track ; Making of documentary, "?Que es un Fantasma? The Making of the Devil's Backbone" (28 min.) ; Deleted scenes ; Thumbnail/storyboard comparisons ; Galleries ; Previews. 108 min. DVD 8225

Brinks, Ellen. ""Nobody's Children": Gothic Representation and Traumatic History in The Devil's Backbone." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 2004, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p291-312, 22p

Chun, Kimberly. "What is a Ghost?: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro." Cineaste, Spring, 2002, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p 28-31

Davies, Ann. "he Beautiful and the Monstrous Masculine: The Male Body and Horror in El espinazo del diablo (Guillermo del Toro 2001)." Studies in Hispanic Cinema; 2007, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p135-147, 13p

Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio. "The Transnational Reception of El espinazo del diablo (Guillermo del Toro 2001)." Hispanic Research Journal, Feb2007, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p39-51, 13p

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Savage, Julian "The Object(s) of Interpretation: Guillermo Del Toro's El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone)" Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema, vol. 21, pp. (no pagination), July 2002

Dead of Night (UK, 1945)

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer. Ealing Studios. An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences and finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. Includes Alberto Cavalcanti's ghost story about a mysterious young girl during a Christmas party. Dead of night is based on short stories: The Linking story, and The Hearse / by E.F. Benson, and The Golfing story / by H.G. Wells, and by one story each by the writers of the screenplay. 104 min. DVD 4092; vhs 999:1124

The Dead Zone (1983)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, Nicholas Campbell, Martin Sheen. One fateful night, Johnny Smith smashes head-on into an enormous truck. For five long years, Johnny is plunged into a deep coma. When he awakens, he discovers that his youth, his career and his fiancee, Sara, have all been lost. But Johnny has gained something--extraordinary psychic powers allowing him to see visions of the past, present and future. In episode after episode, Johnny is propelled into horror-filled, supernatural experiences. 103 min. DVD 4622

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Death Train (Kyôfu ressha) (Japan, 2004)

Directed by Kazuyuki Sakamoto. Cast: Cast: Aja, Narumi Konno, Saya Tuki. Three high school friends on a weekend trip experience a strange flash of light and loud sound while on a train to an amusement park. Everything seems normal at first, but then strange things start happening including being chased by strange men in black. Plagued by nightmarish sensations they flee only to find themselves at the amusement park. They are stuck between nightmare and reality, between the walls of two worlds that are closing in on them. But which world is real? Based on the horror comic strips of Hideshi Hino. 61 min. DVD 6801

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Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (Italy, 1975)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Clara Calamai, Macha Meril. A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely. 126 min. DVD 5262

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Do You Like Hitchcock? (Ti piace Hitchcock?) (Italy, 2005)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: Elio Germano, Chiara Conti, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Cristina Brondo. Italian master of horror Dario Argento returns to the thriller genre with this sly and sexy tribute to Hitchcock. Giulio, a nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur, begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have conspired to commit a brutal murder. But when reel obsession leads to real danger, one question alone holds the key to terror: Do you like Hitchcock? 93 min. DVD X1650

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Doppelgänger (Dopperugengâ) (Japan, 2003)

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Yakusho Ko-ji, Nagasaku Hiromi, Santamaria Yusuke. A meek scientist meets and eventually learns to deal with his double, who, though physically identical to him, is frighteningly opposite in nature. 107 min. DVD X1429

Equinox (1967 and 1970 versions)

Directed by Jack Woods, Mark Thomas McGee and Dennis Muren. Cast: Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Boers Jr. [i.e. Bonner], Robin Christopher, Jack Woods, Jim Phillips, Fritz Leiber, Patrick Burke, Jim Duron, Sharon Gray, Louis Clayton, Norvelle Brooks, Irving L. Lichtenstein (1970 version). Skip Shimer, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Boers Jr., Robin Snider, Fritz Leiber, Louis Clayton, Jim Phillips, Patrick Burke, Sharon Gray, Jim Duron (1967 version). Deep within the woods and canyons of California, four teenagers happen upon an ancient book containing the secrets of a strange, malevolent world that coexists with that of mankind. "Equinox" is noteworthy as a missing link of sorts between the fantastic cinema of "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Star Wars," marking the transition from artisans like Harryhausen to a new breed of special effects artist. Made by in 1967 (Equinox: a journey into the supermatural) for a mere $6,500 by future Industrial Light and Magic supervisor Dennis Muren and friends, it was distributed by Jack H. Harris (The Blob), after Harris had writer/director Jack Woods do some reshooting to give it a professional sheen. Released theatrically in 1970 (Equinox), the film gained a passionate cult following, inspiring succeeding generations of horror/fantasy filmmakers. Special features: Disc 1. Two audio commentaries ; video introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman -- Disc 2. Interviews with Muren and actors Frank Bonner, Barbara Hewitt, and James Duron ; deleted scenes and outtakes from the 1970 version ; archival stop-motion test footage ; "The magic treasure," rare animated fairy tale by Equinox effects animator David Allen ; acclaimed Kong Volkswagen commercial by Allen, including test footage ; "Zorgon: the H-bomb beast from Hell" (1972, 9 min.), a short film featuring Equinox crew ; extensive gallery featuring rare stills, promotional material, and more ; trailer and radio spots for the 1970 theatrical release. 82 min. DVD X1483

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Eraserhead (1977)

Directed by David Lynch. Cast: John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near. A nightmarish collage of images which blends the grotesque and the absurd, the deeply disturbing and the darkly humorous. Henry is the nerdish central character who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby. The extraordinary special effects create an eerie, dream-like world with a logic all its own. 85 min. DVD 5568; vhs 999:2999

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The Evil Eye (La Ragazza Che Sapeva Troppo; The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (Italy, 1963)

Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Leticia Roman, John Saxon, Valentina Cortese, Dante Di Paolo. Nora Davis jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith, an old friend of her family. Unfortunately, her trip is anything but relaxing. On the first night, Edith dies, and as Nora runs into the night for help, she becomes an eyewitness to murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna! 86 min. DVD 1830

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Fear in the Night (UK, 1972)

Directed by Jimmy Sangster. Cast: Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing, James Cossins, Gillian Lind. A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her new teacher-husband to a remote country boarding school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man - and nobody believes her. 94 min. DVD 2170

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The Ghost Ship (1943)

Directed by Mark Robson. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard, Edmund Glover. The Altair was known as a death ship. Although two sailors have died under mysterious circumstances, the new third officer chooses to ignore the warnings he has heard. But he finally comes to believe that the captain is insane, and during a shore leave he decides not to return to the ship. When he is brought back to the ship after being knocked unconscious in a brawl, he is confronted by the captain, and he has no doubt what his fate will be unless he can manage to escape. 69 min. DVD 4482

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The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) (Germany, 1920)

Directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener. Set in medieval Prague, the rabbi gives life to the Golem who falls in love with the rabbi's daughter and brings fear to the emperor's court. He is destroyed by an innocent child. Based on the legend of the Golem, a popular figure in Jewish tradition.

Restored authorized edition, 86 min.: DVD 1384

90 min. version: DVD 1385

94 min. version: vhs 999:141

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (Delirios de un Anormal) (Brazil, 1977)

Directed by José Mojica Marins. Marins put together in one movie all of the scenes from over 10 of his movies that were censored by the military dictatorship in Brazil. In this Brazilian horror film a young man is haunted in his dreams by Coffin Joe. 85 min. 999:1417

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Hanging Shadows: Perspectives on Italian Horror Cinema

With its roots in the pulpy crime novels of the 1920s and 30s, Giallo cinema or Italian horror cinema, as it's more commonly known, first emerged in the late 1960s. Following the neo-realists, the giallo films represented a radical break with Italy's cinematic past. This documentary presents an informative historical overview of the giallo genre, exploring its genesis and chronicling the films, directors, and personalities that made up its golden age. Includes interviews with a fascinating group of filmmakers who redefined the horror genre and forever changed the way we think of horror films. Written, produced and directed by Paolo Fazzini. Dist.: Cinema Guild. c2006. 60 min. DVD 8604

The Haunted Strangler (UK, 1958)

Directed by Robert Day. Cast: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson, Vera Day, Tim Turner, Diane Aubrey, Max Brimmel, Leslie Perrins, Jessica Cairns, Dorothy Gordon, Desmond Roberts, Roy Russell, Derek Birch, Peggy Ann Clifford, John Fabian, Joan Elvin. Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin believes that the wrong man has hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret. 79 min. DVD 9117

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Hellraiser (1987)

Directed by Clive Barker. Cast: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Nelson. An old family home holds untold horrors for Larry Cotton and his wife, Julia. Horrors are fueled by the fugitive spirit of Larry's brother, Frank. Slowly, the old family home begins to swallow the Cottons. Special features: Audio commentary with writer/director Clive Barker and star Ashley Laurence, moderated by writer Pete Atkins; featurette: Resurrection; theatrical trailer; still gallery. 93 min. DVD 7499

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Cherry, Brigid. "Broken Homes, Tortured Flesh: Hellraiser and the Feminine Aesthetic of Horror Cinema." Film International, vol. 5, no. 17, pp. 10-16, 2005

Wells, Paul. "Hellraiser." In: The horror genre : from Beezlebub to Blair Witch London : Wallflower, 2000. (MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 W455 2000)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Directed by Don Siegel. Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Caolyn Jones, Ralph Dumke, Jean Willes. Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people. Based on the novel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney. 80 min. DVD 466; vhs 999:150

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Directed by Philip Kaufman. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright. Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home and as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities--everything except their emotions, their uniqueness, their souls. Special DVD features: Disc 1: Commentary by director Philip Kaufman ; Disc 2: "Re-visitors from outer space or How I learned to stop worrying and love the pod" featurette; inside the pods: examining the Invasion: "Practical magic," "The man behind the scream" and "The invasion will be televised." 117 min. DVD 8104; vhs 999:2322

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The Invisible Ray (1936)

Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Cast: Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi; Frances Drake; Frank Lawton. Dr. Janos Rukh returns from Africa with a deadly discovery. Exposed to an unknown element, he accidentally kills everyone he touches. His friend and colleague, Dr. Benet, develops an antidote that helps but with terrible side effects. 79 min. DVD 5468

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Directed by Adrian Lyne. Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello. Jacob is a man living in a nightmare. Having survived Vietnam, he's back home in New York City. But memories of both his wartime demons and the accidental death of his son haunt and terrorize him. Jacob's grip on reality begins to slip and only his friend can save him. 116 min. DVD 44

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KM 31 (Kilómetro 31: un lugar entre la vida y la muerte) (Mexico / Spain, 2006)

Directed by Rigoberto Castañeda. Cast: Iliana Fox, Adria Collado, Raúl Méndez, Julín Alvarez, Carlos Aragon, Luisa Huertas. The film is inspired by the Crying Woman legend (la Llorona) and legends about highways ghosts (very popular in Mexico). While driving one night through the forests near Mexico City, Agata Hameran has a terrible accident on kilometer 31 in which she loses her legs and falls into a coma. After that horrible night, her twin sister Catalina begins to feel a strong psychic connection with her sister, as Agata seems to be screaming desperately for help. Haunted by horrible nightmares and ghastly visions, Catalina decides to investigate what exactly happened that night on kilometer 31, hoping to end the pain her sister is suffering. 95 min. DVD X1764

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Killervator (2002)

Directed by Patrick Lim. "Killervator" (2002, 10 min.) is a tribute to B-grade horror movies. See what happens to two film students in the final hours before their disappearance. Second feature "Choice" (2002?, 23 min.)is an expletive-driven account of three young people pouring out their screwed up lives to each other during a steamy night of pot and alcohol. Non-US format DVD (PAL). DVD 5140

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Lisa and the Devil (Lisa e il diavolo) (Italy, 1974)

Directed by Mario Bava and Alfredo Leone. Cast: Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Alessio Orano, Gabriele Tinti, Kathy Leone, Eduardo Fajardo, Alida Valli. Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon, she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre. Videodisc release of a 1973 motion picture: Lisa and the devil (95 min.) and its 1975 re-edited version, titled: The house of exorcism (96 min.). 191 min. DVD X1442

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Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Jackie Joseph, Jonathan Haze, Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson. In a flower shop's basement a timid employee discovers a ferocious, talking, rapidly-growing plant, which forces him to lure victims to satisfy its taste for human flesh. 70 min. DVD 4063; vhs 999:1680

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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Directed by Frank Oz. Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray. Lyrics, Howard Ashman; music, Alan Menken. In this musical-comedy set in the Mushnik's Flower Shop basement a timid employee discovers a ferocious, talking, rapidly-growing plant, which forces him to lure victims to satisfy its taste for human flesh. 96 min. DVD 9113; 999:1674

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

Directed by Larry Blamire. Cast: Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Susan McConnell, Brain Howe, Jennifer Blaire, Larry Blamire, Dan Conroy, Robert Deveau. In this spoof of 1950's B sci-fi movies a scientist tries to save the world from an assortment of aliens, monsters, an evil scientist and a crabby skeleton. Special features: Retro-style trailer, classic Skeleton frolic cartoon, cast and crew commentaries, Q & A at the American Cinemathéque, "Obey the lost skeleton!" featurette, blooper reel (in color), virtual skelectables. 90 min. DVD X862

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Madhouse (UK, 1974)

Director, Jim Clark. Cast:Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Natasha Pyne, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone. A television actor, famous for his role as Dr. Death, forced into retirement by a nervous breakdown after the brutal murder of his fiancee, is invited to return to the role twelve years later. The comeback is sabotaged by a series of grisly murders. 91 min. DVD 9846

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Man Who Made Kong: Willis O'Brien (1920)

Directed by Willis O'Brien. Includes: Dinosaur and missing link; Morpheus Mike; RFD 10,000 BC; Prehistoric poultry; Ghost of slumber mountain; Creation. Willis O'Brien's 1920's stop-frame animation with figures which illustrate animation techniques leading up to the creation of King Kong.40 min. 999:596 - U-matic format (3/4" tape.)

Mysterious Island (1961)

Directed by Cy Endfield. Cast: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Beth Rogan, Herbert Lom. Visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. In this sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", escapees from a Confederate prison camp seize a balloon which is wrecked on a Pacific island, where Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus attempts to rescue them from the dangers of the island. Based on the story by Jules Verne. Special features: "The making of Mysterious Island"; "The Harryhausen Chronicles"; and "This is Dynamation" featurette. Based on the story by Jules Verne. 100 min. DVD 3295

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Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)

Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81

Renzi, Thomas C. Jules Verne on film: a filmography of the cinematic adaptations of his works, 1902 through 1997 / Thomas C. Renzi. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1998. (UCB Main PQ2469.Z5 R37 1998)

Necromancer (Chom khamang wet; Jom kha mung wej) (Thailand, 2005)

Directed by Piyapan Choopetch. Cast: Chatchai Plengphanit, Phutthichai Amattayakun, Phanthiwa Phumiprathet. Three police officers use supernatural powers to protect themselves and catch criminals. When one of them is caught trying to steal money, he is locked away in a special cell that blocks his magic powers, but how long will it be able to hold him as his evil magic begins to take over? 105 min. DVD (PAL, Region 3) DVD 7332

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Night Creatures (aka Captain Clegg) (UK, 1962)

Directed by Peter Graham Scott. Cast: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper. The Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in a small 18th century seaside town, so they send Captain Collier and his crew to check it out. As the Captain gets into his investigation, mysterious swamp phantoms cloud up the issue. The Captan suspects that the odd village vicar might be hiding something, and what better way to do that than by fortuitous ghosts to scare away the curious. 82 min. DVD 4450

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Nightmare (UK, 1953)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce. As a child Janet saw her insane mother murder her father, and now as a young woman, Janet's convinced she'll also go insane. She and her teacher go to the home of her guardian for help, but at his home her fears come to life. Are her problems in her head, or is there a sinister force at work? 83 min. DVD 4450

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The Old Dark House (1932)

Directed by James Whale. Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, William Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Raymond Massey, Brember Wills, Elspeth Dudgeon. A group of travelers on a mountain road, overtaken by a thunderstorm and torrential rains, seek shelter in a mysterious old mansion which turns out to be full of eerie characters and uncanny happenings. A ghoulishly delightful treat, a one-of-a-kind macabre comedy of gothic eeriness. 72 min. DVD 1394

Mank, Gregory W. "Old Dark House." In: Hollywood cauldron : thirteen horror films from the genre's golden age / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c1994 (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.H6 M315 1994)

One Missed Call (Chakushin ari)(Japan, 2003)

Directed by Takashi Miike. Cast: Kou Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Renji Ishibashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Goro Kishitani. Teens mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths. Special features: Trailers; making-of documentary; cast & crew interviews; alternate ending; TV spots; exclusive interview with the director, screenings, A day with the Mizunuma family; TV show special. 113 min. DVD X606

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One Missed Call (Japan / USA / Germany, 2008)

Directed by Eric Valette. Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe, Margaret Cho, Meagan Good, Rhoda Griffis. Beth Raymond is a college student who begins losing all her friends after one of her classmates is found dead. She doesn't understand why. All she knows is that each of her friends received a voicemail on their cell phones, one that told them when they would die and what they would say at the moment of their death. Beth eventually gets the call. With the help of Officer Jack Andrews, Beth hopes to solve this mystery before her time runs out. 87 min. DVD X615

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One Missed Call 3 (Chakushin ari final) (Japan, 2006)

Directed by Manabu Asou. Cast: Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki, Itsuji Itao, Jang Gun Suk. On a field trip to Korea, Asuka gets revenge on the classmates that have bullied her by sending a disturbing photo with a message that instructs her classmates to forward the message to save their own lives. Little do they know the truth is quite the opposite. Based on the book by Yaushi Akimoto. Bonus features: Documentaries 1 & 2, "One missed call final : love story", making of, mini program. 87 min. DVD X615

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Onibaba (Demon Woman) (Japan, 1964)

Director: Kaneto Shindô. Cast: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama, Sensho Matsumoto, Kentaro Kaji, Hosui Araya. An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder worn-out samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole. Special features: New video interview with writer/director Kaneto Shindo ; rare footage provided by actor Kei Sato, shot on location during the filing of Onibaba ; original trailer ; stills gallery Cast:production sketches and promotional art ; essay by Chuck Stephens ; filmmakers statement from Kaneto Shindo ; rare English translation of the original Buddhist fable that inspired the film. 103 min. DVD 6943

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Kapur, Jyotsna. "The Return of History as Horror: Onibaba and the Atomic Bomb." In: Horror international Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)

Serper, Zvika. "Shindo Kaneto's Films Kuroneko and Onibaba: Traditional and Innovative Manifestations of Demonic Embodiments." Japan Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 231-56, Summer 2005

The Orphanage (El orfanato) (Mexico / Spain, 2007)

Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Cast: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andres Gertrudix, Edgar Vivar. A mother of a young boy decides to purchase the orphanage she spent her own childhood in, hoping to restore and reopen the long abandoned facility as both a home for them and a school for disabled children. However, her son's imagination seems to run wild in their new home, as he becomes increasingly involved with a group of seemingly imaginary friends. Special features: "When Laura grew up: constructing The orphanage" featurette (18 min.); "Tomas' secret room" production featurette (11 min.); "Horror in the unknown: make-up effects" featurette (10 min.); "Rehearsal studio" featurette (4 min.); still gallery; "Marketing Campaign" teasers and trailers (6 min.); poster gallery; 105min. DVD X542

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Paranoic (UK, 1963)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Alexander Davion. Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his mother in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent by Keith Kossett, son of the attorney for the family estate, who has been dipping into the family trust fund. 80 min. DVD 4450

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Phenomenon (Italy, 1985)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Patrick Bauchau, Donald Pleasance. Summary Jennifer, a young woman at a Swiss boarding school tries to find a serial killer attacking her fellow students. Special features: Audio commentary; 2 behind-the-scenes segments; theatrical trailer; Claudio Simonetti music video; Bill Wyman music video; Dario Argento interviewed by Joe Franklin; Dario Argento Bio. 110 min. DVD X1650

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Purana Mandir (India, 1984)

Directed by Tulsi Ramsay, Shyam Ramsay. Cast: Aarti Gupta, Mohnish Bahl, Puneet Issar, Ajay Agarwal. Tells of the ancient curse visited on an Indian king 200 years ago - all female members of his family will turn into hideous monsters and die in childbirth. The daughter of one of his descendents tries to put an end to the curse and travels to the ancient temple where it all began 200 years ago. What awaits her and her friends there is terror beyond their wildest nightmares. Special features (Disc 2): Documentary South Asian horror; interview - Freddie, Jason & Saamri; extensive text notes and essays; Mondo Macabro previews. "Mondo macabro, the wild side of world cinema." 145 min. DVD 9464

Rabid (Canada, 1977)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Frank Moore. After a motorcycle accident and experimental surgery, Rose develops an unexplained lesion and a insatiable desire for human blood. 91 min. DVD 4571

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Repulsion (UK, 1965)

Directed by Roman Polanski. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Yvonne Furneaux. A psychological drama about a young manicurist in London who's bland, unresponsive exterior hides her raging inner torment over the thought of sex. Left all alone for a weekend, she decends into madness, leading to murder. 105 min. DVD 3782; vhs 999:67

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Ringu (Ring) (Japan, 1998)

Directed by Hideo Nakata. A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when inquisitive journalist Reiko finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger. 96 min. DVD 2852

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Ringu 2(Ring 2) (Japan, 1999)

Directed by Hideo Nakata. In this sequel to 'Ringu', journalist Reiko decides to conduct her own investigation into the powers of the lethal videotape. Along the way she witnesses the gruesome effects wrought upon those who have been exposed to it, until eventually her investigation leads her deeper into the dark world of Sadako. 95 min. DVD 2851

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The Ring (USA / Japan, 2002)

Directed by Gore Verbinski. Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Richard Lineback, Daveigh Chase, Lindsay Frost, Pauley Perrette, Jane Alexander, Brian Cox. A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve the puzzle of the video and who is behind it. Based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and the movie "The ring" . 115 min. DVD 8764

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The Ring Virus (South Korea, 1999)

Directed by Kim Dong-bin. Cast: Shin Eun-gyeong, Jeong Jin-yeong, Bae Du-na. This eerie Korean homage to the Japanese hit, The Ring, has journalist Sun-joo investigating the sudden death of her cousin. She finds a videotape filled with strange images and an ominous warning that whomever watches it has only 7 days to live. 95 min. DVD X1969

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Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Directed by Jim Sharman. A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof, this film begins when a couple of ordinary, clean-cut kids have car trouble one dark rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion. Once inside, the couple is stunned to learn that they have stumbled into an ongoing convention of kinky characters, hosted by the dominating, dynamic Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual. 100 min. DVD 5692; vhs 999:1002

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Scanners (Canada, 1980)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert Silverman. Supernaturals with the power to destroy human beings through telepathy are bent on taking over the world while a young artist races against time to stop them. 103 min. DVD 4624

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Sisters (1972)

Directed by Brian De Palma. Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, Bill Finley, Lisle Wilson. Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad. Special features: Director Brian De Palma's 1973 Village Voice essay Murder by Moog : scoring the chill, on working with composer Bernard Herrmann ; a 1973 print interview with De Palma on the making of Sisters ; Rare study of siamese twins in Soviet, the 1966 Life magazine article that inspired De Palma ; excerpts from the original press book ; production, publicity, and behind-the-scenes stills. 92 min. DVD 9131

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Six Films to Keep You Awake (Películas para no dormir)

Spectre (Regreso a Moira) (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Mateo Gil. Cast: Juan Jose Ballesta, Natalia Millan, Jordi Dauder, Victoria Mora, David Arnaiz, Adrian Marin, Jose Angel Egido. An elderly man returns to his home town, having left the country in his youth. During the course of his homecoming, we see flashbacks to his past and learn of his love affair with a woman branded a witch by the deeply religious locals. However, all is not as it seems and his jealousy and infatuation set into action a course of events that come back to haunt him years later... 75 min. DVD X477

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A Real Friend (Adivina quién soy) (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Enrique Urbizu. Cast: Goya Toledo, Nerea Inchausti, Eduard Farelo, Josep Maria Pou, Aitor Mazo. The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widowed mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and Vampire. 73 min. DVD X477

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A Christmas Tale (Cuento de navidad) (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Paco Plaza. Cast: Maru Valdivielso, Cristian Casas, Roger Babia, Pau Poch. A group of children spending Christmas in a summer resort village discover a woman disguised as Santa Claus in a well in the woods. When they go to the police for help, they discover that she is in fact a dangerous thief who is on the run with a substantial haul. They make a decision. They will help her out of the well in exchange for the money that she still has on her. 71 min. DVD X477

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The Baby's Room (Adivina quién soy) (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Alex de la Iglesia. Cast: Javier Gutierrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, Maria Asquerino, Antonio Dechent, Terele Pavez, Ramon Barea, Eulalia Ramon, Asuncion Balaguer, Manuel Tallafe. A couple with a recently born child arrive at their new home. Before going to bed, the couple go and check the child monitor that has been installed in the baby's bedroom. It is the very latest model. Not only does it allow you to listen in while the baby is sleeping, it lets you watch the baby as well... they soon discover that there is someone else living in this house, someone whose presence can be felt every night, right beside their baby's cradle. 77 min. DVD X477

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To Let(Para entrar a vivir) (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Jaume Balaguero. Cast: Marcarena Gomez, Nuria Gonzalez, Adria Collado, Ruth Diaz. A couple expecting a child are looking for an apartment. They have seen dozens already. Like all of the properties in the area, this flat seems to have been abandoned. They go up to the third floor and enter which is something they should never have done... Their flat, the whole building in fact, is a trap watched over by a diabolical landlady. 68 min. DVD X477

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Blame (La culpa) (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. Cast: Nieve De Medina, Montse Mostaza, Asuncion Diaz, Alejandra Lorenzo, Mariana Cordero. When single mother nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her colleague and friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter into her big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria would assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons. Gloria soon discovers that Ana runs an abortion clinic, and also that she is lesbian and has a crush on her. When Ana gets pregnant by her lover Javier, Ana proposes an abortion. After more than three months, the reluctant Gloria accepts her offer with tragic consequences. 68 min. DVD X477

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Slither (2006)

Directed by James Gunn. Cast: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker, Tania Saulnier, Don Thompson. Grant Grant, the wealthiest and most powerful citizen is a small rural town, is taking a walk through the woods when he comes across a strange and unfamiliar life form. Grant makes the mistake of getting too close and soon an alien creature invades his body. It is not long before Grant isn't the only one who has been attacked by the strange and slimy things. His wife, Starla, begins to notice that something is very wrong with her husband. At the same time, Sheriff Bill Pardy becomes aware that there is a pattern of missing people and animals. Together, Starla and Bill set out to put a stop to the alien invaders intent upon taking over. Special features: Deleted scenes with optional commentary by director James Gunn; Gag reel; Visual effects: "Step by step"; "Who is Bill Pardy?"; The sick minds and slimy days of 'Slither'; Bringing 'Slither's' creatures to life; Slithery set tour with Nathan Fillion; "Gorehound grill: brewin' the blood"; The king of cult: Lloyd Kaufman's video diary; Feature commentary with director James Gunn and actor Nathan Fillion; Extended scenes. 96 min. DVD X40

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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Director, Jack Clayton. Cast: Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier. On a gusty October day in Green Town, Illinois, two young boys encounter a distressed man who foretells of danger blowing their way. Soon after, the town is visited by a seductive stranger named Mr. Dark and his Pandemonium Carnival. Terrifying things begin to happen when the adverturous boys stumble onto the carnival's deadly and destructive secret. Based on the novel by Ray Bradbury. 96 min. DVD 6094

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Stepford Wives (1975)

Directed by Bryan Forbes. Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Rossen, Patrick O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson. Joanna reluctantly moves with her husband and children from New York City to the suburban community of Stepford, Connecticut. But when life in Stepford begins to seem too perfect, Joanna and her new friend Bobby investigate a mysterious conspiracy among the town's husbands. 115 min. DVD 4051; vhs 999:1623

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The Strange Door (1951)

Directed by Joseph Pevney. Cast: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Stapley, Alan Napier, Paul Cavanagh. The sire de Maletroit is an evil French nobleman so obsessed with hatred for his own brother that he imprisons him in the castle dungeon. The Sire tries to destroy the life of Cavanaugh's daughter by forcing her to marry a rogue but plans are upset when they fall in love. Aided by Voltan, an abused servant, the lovers attempt to escape but the Sire imprisons them in a cell, whose closing walls may mean violent death for these innocent victims. 81 min. DVD 6216

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Strange World of Ze do Caixao [Coffin Joe] (O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão) (Brazil, 1968)

Directed by José Mojica Marins. A trio of terrifying tales from the demonic Coffin Joe about a strange dollmaker whose creations look almost real, the world of necrophilia, and a doctor (Coffin Joe himself) out to prove his theory that love is dead by capturing and torturing a couple of non-believers. 83 min. 999:1417

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Suspiria (Italy, 1977)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bose, Luciano Tovoli, Joan Bennett. Suzy Banyon, a young American ballet dancer arrives at a prestigious European dance adademy, but murder and the academy's unspeakable secret of supernatural evil turn her expectations into a nightmare. 98 min. DVD 6451

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A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon) (South Korea, 2003)

Directed by Ji-woon Kim. Cast: Yeom Jeong-A, Im Soo-Jung, Moon Geun-Young, Kim Kab-Su. Something strange is happening when Su-mi and her younger sister, Su-yeon, come home to their father's large but dark and somewhat foreboding house after a stay in the hospital. Their dad is taciturn and burdened, and their stepmother, Eun-joo, greets them with forced enthusiasm and more than a little sense of irritation. But that's nothing compared to what happens when bedtime rolls around. Special features: Commentary with director, cinematographer and lighting director ; Commentary with director and stars ; Original promotional footage ; Hidden feature: a letter from Su-yeon. 115 min. DVD X1966

Teeth (2007)

Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstei. Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny von Dohlen. Dawn is a pretty high school virgin who unknowingly has a set of mutant teeth between her legs. Caught between her emerging sexuality and a host of oversexed young men, Dawn eventually gives in to her freakish powers. 94 min. DVD X144

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Tenebrae (Italy, 1982)

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Tetsuo, The Iron Man (Japan, 1988)

Written,edited and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. Fueled by cyberpunk sensuality and wrought iron perversion, the film begins with a bizarre merging of flesh and metal and accelerates into a hyper-hallucinatory state where springs, wires, and solder erupt fountain-like from a man's body. As the "Iron man" mutates uncontrollably into a walking, clanking man-machine, terrorized by his new body parts, sex becomes dehumanized and mechanical. 67 min. DVD 821

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Theater of Blood (UK, 1973)

Director, Douglas Hickox. Cast: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, Eric Sykes. A demented actor and his daughter set about murdering each of London's nine prominent drama critics according to murders in Shakespeare's plays. 104 min. DVD 4101; also DVD 9845

Benshoff, Harry M. "Vincent Price and Me: Imagining the Queer Male Diva." Camera Obscura; Jan2008, Vol. 22 Issue 67, p146-150, 5p

Hutchings, Peter. "Theatres of Blood: Shakespeare and the Horror Film." In: Gothic Shakespeares / edited by John Drakakis and Dale Townshend. Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PR2976 .G68 2008)

Three Extremes (Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea, 2004)

Cast: Box: Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe. Dumplings: Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, Tony Ka-Fai Leung. Cut: Lee Byung-Hun, Lim Won-Hee, Gang Hye-Jung, Yum Jung-Ah. Presents a cross-cultural trilogy of odd and horrific film shorts by Asian directors. In Box, beautiful successful novelist Kyoko lives a solitary life. In Dumplings a woman experiments with anti-ageing dumplings containing a sinister secret ingredient. In Cut, a happy and successful film director encounters a stranger in his living room. Contents: Box: Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe. Dumplings: Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, Tony Ka-Fai Leung. Cut: Lee Byung-Hun, Lim Won-Hee, Gang Hye-Jung, Yum Jung-Ah. 126 min. DVD X792

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Tower of London (1939)

Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Leo G. Caroll, Miles Mander. A chilling 15th Century melodrama based on the life of Richard III. Sixth in line to the throne, Richard is an ambitious man who, with the aid of Mord his executioner friend, treacherously disposes of the five who stand between him and the crown. Mercilessly this cold-hearted pair torture and kill the heirs in the infamous Tower of London. 73 min. DVD 6216

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Trauma (Italy, 1993)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, James Russo, Laura Johnson, Frederic Forrest, Piper Laurie. Summary A young man tries to help a teenage European girl who escaped from a clinic hospital after witnessing the murder of her parents by a serial killer. They try to find the killer before the killer finds them. Based on an original story by Franco Ferrini, Gianni Romoli and Dario Argento. 106 min. DVD X1650

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Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Cast: Connie Mason, Thomas Wood, Jeffrey Allen, Shelby Livingston, Ben Moore. Six "Yankee" tourists are the horrified "guests of honor" for the centenniel celebration of the Civil War in a small southern town in this terrifying drive-in cult classic. 83 min. DVD 1380

Wisniewski, John. "Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis." Bright Lights November 2002 | Issue 38

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Videodrome (Canada / USA, 1982)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Max Renn, a cable TV producer of soft-core pornography and hard-core violence, keeps searching for ever more sensational programming. He stumbles onto an underground program called Videodrome whose speciality is murder. Its transmissions have the powerto induce a mind-altering brain tumor in viewers causing them to hallucinate. 87 min. DVD 3042; vhs 999:829

Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) (Germany, 1923)

Directed by Paul Leni. A poet imagines scenarios in a wax museum fairground that involve Jack the Ripper, Ivan the Terrible, and Haroun al-Raschid. 61 min. DVD 1381; vhs 999:288

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Eisner, Lotte H. "'Decorative' Expressionism." In: The haunted screen : expressionism in the German cinema and the influence of Max Reinhardt / by Lotte H. Eisner ; [translated from the French by Roger Greaves]. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1973, c1969. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.E512 1973; Media Center PN1993.5.G3.E513 1969; Grad Svcs PN1993.5.G3.E513 1969)

Kasten, Jürgen. "Episodic Patchwork: The Bric-à-Brac Principle in Paul Leni's Waxworks" In: Expressionist film--new perspectives / edited by Dietrich Scheunemann. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2003. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.E94 2003)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Directed by Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee. An aging ex-vaudeville child star initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled sister, a former movie-queen of the 1930's. 132 min. DVD 4072

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Aldrich, Robert. Robert Aldrich : interviews Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004. (GRDS: PN1998.3.A44 A5 2004; MAIN: PN1998.3.A44 A5 2004)

Arnold, Edwin T. The films and career of Robert Aldrich University of Tennessee Press, c1986. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 A559271 1986; MOFF: PN1998.A3 A55927 1986)

Russell, Lorena. "Queering Consumption and Production in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" In: Horror film : creating and marketing fear / edited by Steffen Hantke. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H674 2004)

Williams, Tony. Body and soul : the cinematic vision of Robert Aldrich Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004. (MAIN: PN1998.3.A44 W55 2004)

The Wicker Man (1962)

Directed by Robin Hardy. Cast: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Christopher Lee. When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems. Disc 1. Theatrical version, widescreen presentation -- Disc 2. Extended version. 88 min.; 99 min. (extended version) DVD 7464

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Willis O'Brien: The Man Who Made Kong (197?)

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Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan) (Denmark / Sweden, 1922)

Directed by Benjamin Christiansen. Cast: Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winter, Maren Pedersen, Wilhelmine Henriksen, Kate Fabian, Oscar Stribolt, Clara Pontoppidan, Alice O'Fredericks, Johannes Andersen, Tora Teje, Poul Reumert. Through painstaking research, this silent Swedish docu-drama attempts to reconstruct the practices of witchcraft and satanism from the 15th through the 17th centuries, concluding with cases of demoniac possession in the 1920's. Contents Häxan (104 min.) -- Witchcraft through the ages / narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty (76 min.). Special features: Music from the original Danish premiere ; commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg ; Benjamin Christensen's introduction to the 1941 re-release ; a short selection of outtakes ; "Bibliothèque Diabolique": a photographic exploration of Christensen's historical sources ; stills gallery. 131 min. DVD 2463; vhs 999:1199

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Monstrous Children/Children and the Supernatural

Balmain, Colette. "The Enemy Within: The Child as Terrorist in the Contemporary American Horror Film." In: Monsters and the monstrous : myths and metaphors of enduring evil / edited by Niall Scott. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007. (Main Stack GR825.M676 2007)
Petley, Julian. "The Monstrous Child" In: The body's perilous pleasures : dangerous desires and contemporary culture / editor, Michelle Aaron. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1999. (Main Stack PN1995.9.B62.B63 1999)

The Bad Seed (1965)

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Cast: Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden. Rhoda Penmark is an 8 year old well-mannered, sunny-faced perfect little lady. She is also a efficient, unfeeling killer. Her mother who has long been troubled by Rhoda's icy demeanor, discovers that her girl has killed and will kill again, and now must make a harrowing decision. Special DVD features: Commentary by Patty McCormack and Charles Busch; new making-of documentary Einfant Terrible: a conversation with Patty McCormack; theatrical trailer. 129 min. DVD X462; vhs Video/C 999:3464

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Hendershot, Cyndy. "The Cold War Horror Film: Taboo and Transgression in The Bad Seed, The Fly, and Psycho." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 20-31, Spring 2001

Jackson, Chuck. "Little, Violent, White: The Bad Seed and the Matter of Children." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 64-72, Summer 2000

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Simmons, Jerold. "The Production Code under New Management: Geoffrey Shurlock, The Bad Seed, and Tea and Sympathy." Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 2-10, Spring 1994

The Boy From Hell (Jigoku kozô) (Japan, 2004)

Directed by Mari Asato. Cast: Mirai Yamamoto, Mitsuru Akaboshi, Kanji Tsuda. A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim. Based on the horror comic strips of Hideshi Hino. 50 min. DVD 6796

The Brood (Canada, 1979)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Nuala Fitzgerald, Henry Beckman, Susan Hogan, Cindy Hinds. Frank Carveth finds himself faced with a terrible predicament. His wife is in an institution suffering from mental illness, yet her therapy does not seem to be working. The institute's director refuses to reveal the nature of the therapy he is using to treat her. Before Frank can learn more, a series of bizarre murders rock the city-- victims of vengeful, murderous creatures that destroy anything that gets in their way. 92 min. DVD 4623

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Carrie (1976)

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Children of the Damned (UK, 1963)

Directed by Anton M. Leader. Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, Patrick Wymark. Six gifted young children are found to pose a threat to the world. They all live in England but are from different parts of the world and have no parents. When a psychologist attempts to find out more, he unlocks a horrifying mystery that could lead to the destruction of the universe. 89 min. DVD 2832

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The Exorcist

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Godsend (USA / Canada, 2004)

Directed by Nick Hamm. Cast: Cast: Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Robert De Niro, Cameron Bright. Paul and Jessie are devastated when their 8-year-old son dies. When a fertility expert offers them an opportunity to resurrect their boy through a secret and illegal cloning procedure, they don't know that the doctor's hidden agenda will have horrifying repercussions when their "new" son passes his eighth birthday. Adam begins having "night terrors" and marked changes in his behavior, beginning to display a palpable sense of menace. Paul and Jessie cannot escape the fact that this Adam is different. 102 min. DVD 3677

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The Good Son (1993)

Directed by Joseph Ruben. Cast: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts After the birth of a baby girl, a posh New York couple are undone by their jealous and brilliant nine-year-old son who fills the household with utter despair and unspeakable horror. 86 min. DVD X438

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The Innocents (UK, 1961)

Directed by Jack Clayton. Cast: Elijah Wood, Macaulay Culkin, Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Jacqueline Brookes. Eight-year-old Mark is sent to live with his cousin Henry and his family for a few weeks. Mark soon begins to suspect that all is not right with the seemingly innocent-looking Henry. 100 min. DVD 4753; vhs 999:2332

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It's a Good Life (Twilight Zone) (TV, 1963)

Directed by James Sheldon. Cast: John Larch, Cloris Leachman, Don Keefer. On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish. DVD 2605

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Joshua (2007)

Directed by George Ratliff. Cast: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts After the birth of a baby girl, a posh New York couple are undone by their jealous and brilliant nine-year-old son who fills the household with utter despair and unspeakable horror. 106 min. DVD X437

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The Omen

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Lizard Baby (Watashi no akachan) (Japan, 2004)

Director, Yoshihiro Nakamura. Cast: Kurume Arisaka, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Matomu Onda. Horror screenwriter, Umeki, has writer's block. He goes with his pregnant wife, Akiko, to a check-up and is struck with an incredible idea - a horror story about a woman who gives birth to a reptile! Despite his wife's disgust, Umeki goes ahead with the screenplay, which the critics love. But the horrible prophecy fulfills itself, as his wife gives birth to a freak of nature. His baby is born half human, half lizard! The reptilian baby slithers on the floor, leaving a wet trail of slime behind it. To his horror, his wife, Akiko, holds it lovingly in her arms. His movie has become a mirror image of his own life as Umeki slips slowly into madness... Based on the horror comic strips of Hideshi Hino. 50 min. DVD 6795

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Poltergeist (1982)

Directed by Tobe Hooper. Screenplay by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais & Mark Victor Cast: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein. Life is very pleasant for a California family until a host of other-worldly forces invade their peaceful suburban home. Their house is turned into a supernatural sideshow, and if the family doesn't clear out, they will be swept off into nightmarish chaos. Special features: "They are here: the real world of poltergeists revealed" documentary in 2 parts: "Science of the spirits" and "Communing with the dead." 114 min. DVD 8731

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The Ring

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The Sixth Sense (1999)

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Cast: Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Haley Joel Osment. A noted child psychologist attempts to help Cole, a frightened 8-year-old boy who is experiencing terrifying visions of the dead. The journey of discovery through Cole's incredible sixth sense leads them both to mysterious and unforseeable consequences in this supernatural thriller. 107 min. DVD 1670

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The Turn of the Screw (1973)

Directed by Dan Curtis. Lynn Redgrave, Megs Jenkins, Jasper Jacobs, Eva Griffith. Jane Cubberly, hired by the mysterious Mr. Cooper as a governess for his wards Miles and Flora at his remote estate, is forced to wage a desperate battle to save the children's souls. 118 min. DVD 9138; vhs 999:2240

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The Turn of the Screw (TV, 1999)

Directed by Ben Bolt. Cast: Jodhi May, Pam Ferris, Colin Firth, Joe Sowerbutts, Grace Robinson, Jason Salkey, Caroline Pegg and Jenny Howe. Adaptation of Henry James' classic 19th-century tale of dark desires and supernatural Gothic horror in which a governess on a remote estate is forced to wage a desperate battle to save the soul's of the children in her charge. 118 min. 999:2973

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Village of the Damned (UK / USA, 1960)

Director, Wolf Rilla. Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Martin Stephens, Laurence Naismith. The monsters of this film are a band of innocent-faced, platinum-blond children, all of whom are born in a small, peaceful village on the same day. Their rapid physical development is matched by their fast-growing mental powers. With calm, blood-curdling efficiency, they are soon terrorizing the tiny hamlet. 77 min. DVD 2832

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Hendershot, Cyndy. "Domesticity and Horror in House of Usher and Village of the Damned." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 221-27, Fall 2000

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BeDevil(Australia, 1993)

Directed by Tracey Moffat. Three short films from Australia concerning spirits, ghosts and unexplained happenings. Mr. Chuck concerns an island community that still feels the malevolent presence of an American GI who died in the swamps nearby. Choo choo choo choo tells the story of a family who is haunted by invisible trains which run on the tracks next to their home. The final story "Lovin' the spin I'm in" tells of a woman's sense of loss when her son and his lover leave their community to escape opposition to their marriage. The couple dies, but as a young boy discovers, their spirits will never find peace. Video/C 999:3752

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Baron, Cynthia. "Films by Tracy Moffatt: Reclaiming First Australians' rights, celebrating women's rites." Women's Studies Quarterly. Spring 2002. Vol. 30, Iss. 1/2; p. 151 (27 pages)

Mimura, Glen Masato. "Black memories: Allegorizing the colonial encounter in Tracey Moffatt's beDevil (1993)." Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Apr-Jun 2003. Vol. 20, Iss. 2; p. 111

Senzani, Alessadra. "Dreaming Back: Tracey Moffatt's Bedeviling Films." Post Script, Fall2007, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p50-71, 22p,

Summerhayes, Catherine. "Haunting Secrets: Tracey Moffatt's "beDevil"." Film Quarterly, No. 4, Summer, 2004, pp. 1-72

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Turcotte, Gerry. "Spectrality in Indigenous Women's Cinema: Tracey Moffatt and Beck Cole." Journal of Commonwealth Literature. St. Giles: 2008. Vol. 43, Iss. 1; pg. 7

Beetlejuice (1988)

Directed by Tim Burton. Cast: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder. A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in. 92 min. DVD 3998

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Carnival of Souls (1962)

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A Chinese Ghost Story (Sinnui Yauman) (Hong Kong, 1987)

Directed by Siu-Tung Ching. Featuring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma. The story of Ning Tsai-chen, a Chinese scholar who befriends and falls in love with Nieh Hsiao-chien, a she-ghost captured and tyrannized by the Tree Ogre. 97 min. DVD 842; vhs 999:2418

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Zou, John. A "Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man." In: Chinese films in focus : 25 new takes / edited by Chris Berry. London : BFI Publishing, 2003. (Chinese Stdy PN1993.5.C4.C463 2003; Main Stack PN1993.5.C4.C463 2003)

A Chinese Ghost Story II (Qian nu you hun II; Tao tao tao; Sinnui yauwan II; Qian nu you hun II) (Hong Kong, 1990)

Director, Siu-Tung Ching (Ching Siu-Tung); Hark Tsui. Cast: Zhang Guorong, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Xueyou, Li Jiaxin. Lin meets a young and witty Taoist, Chi Chau, and they become good friends. They run into some people who pretend to be ghosts. These people are actually trying to save the innocent Fu from imprisonment. Fu has two daughters Ching Fung and Yet Chi who both fall in love with Lin. Fu tries to ask the emperor's right-hand man, Liu Suen, for help but Liu turns out to be a goblin. Lin, Chi Chau and the two sisters all team up to fight against the evil force in order to help Fu. 103 min. DVD 8757

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A Chinese Ghost Story III (Qian nu you hun III; Tao tao tao; Sinnui yauwan III; Qian nu you hun III) (Hong Kong, 1991)

Director, Siu-Tung Ching (Ching Siu-Tung); Hark Tsui. Cast: Tony Leung, Joey Wang, Jacky Cheung, Nina Li.In the heart of a weird wood stands Orchid Temple, a haunted place that is the doom of men. Beautiful spirits lure travelers to their doom. When the lowly monk Fong ventures to the temple, intent on driving the ghosts away, he instead falls in love with the beautiful Lotus. This forbidden passion places the couple in danger from both the local ghostbusters, and the forest's hideous supernational beings. 106 min. DVD 4884

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Dark Water (Honokurai mizu no soko kara)(Japan, 2001)

Directed by Hideo Nakata. Cast: Kuroki Hitomi, Kanno Rio, Oguchi Mirei, Mizukawa Asami. Yoshimi Matsubara fights to gain legal custody of her five year-old daughter Ikuko while the two live together in a dark, sullen and musty apartment building. Already insecure and uncertain about her future with her daughter, Yoshimi is haunted by murky water dripping through the ceiling and walls, and by the almost taunting appearances of a small red bag that once belonged to a girl who had mysteriously disappeared two years prior. Though she desperately struggles to find the strength within herself for Ikuko's sake, her horror intensifies as she comes closer to discovering the connection between these events, and is completely unprepared for the truth that lies ahead. 100 min. DVD 6832

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Dark Water (2005)

Directed by Walter Salles. Cast: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, Camryn Manheim, Ariel Gade, Perla Haney-Jardine. Dahlia has started a new life. She is recently separated from her husband, has a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her estranged relationship behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. Then when her strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment seems to have a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild. This all leads Dahlia on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. Special features: Deleted scenes; "The sound of terror: the subliminal soundscapes of 'Dark water'" featurette on the movie's sound design; analyzing 'Dark water' sequences: explore the creation of specific scenes with viewing options; "Beneath the surface:" The making of 'Dark water'" featurette; "An extraordinary ensemble" featurette. Based on the novel "Honoguri mizu no soko kara" by Koji Suzuki and the film adaptation "Honogurai mizu no soko kara" by Hideo Nakata and Taka Ichise. 103 min. DVD X613

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Dead of Night (UK, 1945)

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Don't Look Now (Italy / UK, 1973)

Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato. Psychic terror in a Gothic setting provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter. 110 min. DVD 4135

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The Dybuk (Di Dibuk; Der Dibuk) (Poland, 1937)

Directed by Michal Waszynski. Years after their parents had made a pledge that they would marry, a young couple meet and fall in love. The father of the young man had long before perished and the young woman's father, forgetting his vow, keeps the two apart. The film concerns unfullfilled love, broken promises, and the supernatural, as the persona of the youth enters his beloved's body and possesses her. 120 min. DVD 3578; vhs 999:843

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Konigsberg, Ira. "'The Only 'I' in the World': Religion, Psychoanalysis, and The Dybbuk." Cinema Journal, vol. 36 no. 4. 1997 Summer. pp: 22-42.

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The Eye (Jian Gui) (Hong Kong | Singapore, 2002)

Directed by Oxide and Danny Pang. In this Chinese horror film, a blind girl gets a cornea transplant after 18 years of blindness but the face she sees in the mirror is not her own and she begins to realize she is seeing ghosts. So she sets out of find the origins of her cornea and the history of the previous dead owner. 95 min. DVD 1777

Ghost (1990)

Directed by Jerry Zucker. Cast: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Leeds, Vincent Schiavelli. A ghost teams up with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder --and to rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate. 126 min. DVD 8732

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Ghostbusters (1984)

Directed by Ivan Reitman. Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis. When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! 105 min. DVD 8150

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Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Directed by Ivan Reitman. Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson. Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York City five years ago, the heroes of the hereafter once again answer the call when an underground river of ghoulish goo threatens to rot the Big Apple to the core. Special features: 2 episodes from the animated series "The real Ghostbusters : Citizen ghost" and "The real Ghostbusters : Partner in slime". 124 min. DVD 8151

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The Innocents (UK, 1961)

Directed by Jack Clayton. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens. Shortly after coming to live with orphans Flora and Miles in their dark, eerie mansion, the new governess mistakes their strange behavior for precociousness. But she soon comes to believe that the charming, beautiful children are possessed by evil, malicious spirits--the souls of their previous governess and estate manager who are now dead. Screenplay by William Archibald and Truman Capote Based on the story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. 99 min. DVD 4753; vhs 999:2332

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The Grudge ( Ju-On) (Japan, 2000)

Directed by Takashi Shimizu. Cast: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kunji Tsuda, Takako Fuji. Presents an eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begin. 92 min. DVD 3159

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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 209 pp. (On Order for Main)

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Newman, K. "The Grudge." Sight & Sound v. ns14 no. 12 (December 2004) p. 48, 50

Osmond, A. "The Grudge (Ju-On)." Sight & Sound v. ns14 no. 6 (June 2004) p. 59-60

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The Grudge 2 (USA, 2006)

Directed by Takashi Shimizu. Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amber Tamblyn, Edison Chen, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Teresa Palmer, Misako Uno, Sarah Roemer, Matthew Knight, Takako Fuji, Ohga Tanaka, Joanna Cassidy. Karen's sister, Audrey has been affected by the supernatural curse. Audrey is trying to find the origin of the hate infected curse and find a way to free herself. The quest involves families who are living in Chicago, a photojournalist from Hong Kong, and three schoolgirls from Tokyo's International High School. This group of unrelated strangers try to find and stop the curse before it is too late. Based on the movie "Ju-on: the grudge" by Takashi Shimizu. 108 min. DVD 8092

The Grudge 3 (USA, 2009)

Directed by Toby Wilkins. Cast: Johanna Braddy, Gil McKinney, Emi Ikehata, Jadie Hobson, Beau Mirchoff, Marina Sirtis, Matthew Knight, Shawnee Smith. Kayako and Toshio's curse continues to haunt survivor, Jake. He is now confined to a psychiatric hospital after his family's alleged suicide. When the curse of the Grudge finally kills him too, news reaches a mysterious young woman in Japan. Dr. Sullivan who was Jake's case worker, goes to investigate his Chicago home. In the meantime, the curse continues to claim more victims. As the rage spreads, it becomes clear that Jake's horrifying stories are true, and the Japanese woman is the only hope of finally burying the Grudge once and for all - unless she becomes another victim. Special features: Deleted scenes; "Tokyogaoria" featurette; "The curse continues" featurette. 90 min. DVD X1647

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The Haunting (1963)

Directed by Robert Wise. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Lois Maxwell, Rosalie Crutchley, Fay Compton, Valentine Dyall, Diane Clare, Ronald Adam. Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and wishes to explore the horrors of the unseen and the unexplained. Based on the novel: The haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 113 min. DVD 8384; vhs 999:984

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Inner Senses (Yi du kong jian)

Directed by Chi-Leung Law. Cast: Leslie Cheung, Lin Jiaxin, Zhou Jialing. Leung is a psychiatrist who believes his latest patient is hallucinating, when she claims that she sees dead people. Their search for a solution eventually leads to a confrontation with the forgotten past. 100 min. DVD X1968

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Isle of the Dead (1945)

Directed by Mark Robson. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer. In this eerie thriller Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested (and perhaps spirit-haunted) island. 72 min. DVD 4474

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Telotte, J.P. "The horror mythos and Val Lewton's Isle of the dead." Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol X nr 3 (Fall 1982); p.119-129

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Kill, Baby, Kill (Operazione paura) (Italy, 1966)

Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali, Max Lawrence, Giana Vivaldi, Piero Lulli. A child who bled to death during a festival when villagers were too drunk to save her returns to haunt them. 80 min. DVD 7573

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The Kingdom (Riget)(1994)

Directed by Lars von Trier. Cast: Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Norby, Udo Kier. The Kingdom Hospital is ailing, this venerable institution has become a carnival of horrors as a restless ghost haunts the halls crying for redemption. The patients try to contact the uneasy spirit with seances. The doctors, feeling their own inadequacy, turn to exorcism, and voodoo in desperate attempts to salvage their power as healers. But a terrible secret, buried in the past has the hospital in its grasp. But it may be too late to save The Kingdom. Television mini-series Riget originally broadcast in 1994. 265 min. DVD X666; 999:2112

Kwaidan (Japan, 1964)

Director: Masaki Kobayashi. Four terrifying tales (The black hair; The woman of the snow; Hoichi, the earless; In a cup of tea) of the supernatural filmed with exquisite visual sensitivity. The film is filled with graceful camera movements, dream-like settings, elaborately stylized action, unusual colors, and haunting sound effects and music. 164 min. DVD 357; vhs 999:835:1&2 (2 tapes)

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Price, J. "Kwaidan" Sight & Sound v. 36 no. 4 (Autumn 1967) p. 202-3

The Medium(TV, 1948)

Directed by Paul Nickell. Cast: Marie Powers, Lois Hunt, Leo Coleman, Beverly DAme, Joseph Bell, Catherine Mastice. An opera in two acts about Madame Flora, a medium who becomes terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent seances. Originally broadcast on the television series Studio One on December 12, 1948. 60 min. DVD X596

Night Creatures (UK, 1962)

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Poltergeist (1982)

Pulse (Kairo)(2001)

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Kato Haruhiko, Aso Kumiko, Koyuki, Arisaka Kurume, Matsuo Masatoshi. A group of young friends is rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own. When his ghostly image appears on their computer screens, something far more horrifying is unleashed. The terror mounts as more deaths and disappearances occur. 119 min. DVD X921

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Séance (Kôrei) (Japan, 2000)

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Koji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kitarou, Ittoku Kishibe. A young girl escapes her kidnappers and hides in Koji's, a sound effects engineer, equipment case while he is recording sounds in the woods with his psychic wife. The stage is set to promote her psychic abilities, but the hoax goes terrifyingly wrong. 97 min. DVD X1489

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The Shining (USA / UK, 1980)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd. In this horror movie a young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts of its evil past. 143 min. DVD 198; vhs 999:992

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Shutter (2008)

Director, Masayuki Ochiai. Cast: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, Megumi Okina, David Denman, John Hensley. Summary Newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they are involved in a tragic car accident, leaving a young local girl dead. When they regain consciousness, they find no trace of the girl's body. A bit distraught, the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance. Special features: "A ghost in the lense" featurette ; "A history of spirit photography" featurette. 85 min. DVD X1967

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The Sixth Sense (1999)

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13 Ghosts (1960)

Directed by William Castle. Cast: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary De Camp, Donald Woods, Margaret Hamilton, John Van Dreelen. When an impoverished family inherits a ramshackle house, they get more than they anticipated. Twelve ghosts are in residence, looking for a 13th to set them free. 84 min. DVD 1822

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Castle, William. Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America New York : Putnam, c1976. (MAIN: PN1998 .A3C3351)

The Woman in White (UK, 1997)

Directed by Tim Fywell. Cast: Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Simon Callow, Justine Waddell, Andrew Lincoln. A young drawing master hired to teach two young women is startled by an encounter with a ghostly woman dressed in white who resembles one of his new students. Their determination to learn about the mysterious woman in white draws them into a world of secrets, crime and treacherous involvement with the fascinating, but sinister, Count Fosco. 120 min. 999:3648

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Whispering Corridors (Yeogo goedam) (South Korea, 1998)

Director, Ki-hyeong Park. Cast: Lee Mi-Yeon, Kim Kyu-Ree, Choi Se-Yeon. When a former alumni of an all girls school returns as a teacher but is soon found dead, ghosts of past murders at the school haunt the student body. 105 min. DVD 8758

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Whispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori (Yogo koedam: tubo(ntchae iyagi) (South Korea, 1998)

Directors, Tae-Yong Kim and Kyu-Dong Min. Cast: Kim Min-so(n, Pak Ye-jin, Yi Yo(ng-jin, Paek Chong-hak, Kong hyo-jin. A high school student, Min-ah, finds a diary belonging to two of her fellow students that can cause hallucinations. After one of them commits suicide, Min-ah feels as if she is possessed by the dead girl. 99 min. DVD 1499

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Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs (Yeogo goedam 3: Yeowoo gyedan) (South Korea, 2003)

Director, Yoon Jae-Yeon.. Cast: Song Ji-Hyo, Park Han-Byeol, Jo An. A staircase leading to the dormitory of a boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but if you count each step aloud a 29th will appear. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins. Special features: "Making of" featurette; director's sketchbook and notes; original theatrical promotional materials; photo gallery; Tartan Asia Extreme new releases. 97 min. DVD X1965

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The Devil, You Say

Mitchell, Charles P. The devil on screen : feature films worldwide, 1913 through 2000 Jefferson, N.C. : London : McFarland, 2002. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.S8 M58 2002)
Schreck, Nikolas. The satanic screen London : Creation, 2001. (MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 S342 2001)

Angel Heart (1987)

Directed by Alan Parker. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert DeNiro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling. A journey of violence and murder that canvasses the streets of Harlem, the jazz clubs of New Orleans, and voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana. From the novel "Falling angel" by William Hjortsberg. 98 min. DVD 3819; vhs 999:2295

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The Book of Life (1998)

Directed by Hal Hartley. Cast: Martin Donovan, P.J. Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan, Dave Simonds, Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, James Urbaniak. In this dark comedy about the Apocalypse, Jesus arrives at JFK Airport with his assistant, Magdalena. He transfers the "Book of Life" to computer disk and battles the Devil for human souls, with second thoughts about whether these lives are worth saving. 63 min. DVD 3783

Devil's Advocate (1997)

Directed by Taylor Hackford. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Craig T. Nelson. Hotshot attorney Kevin Lomax's 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job Lomax accepts isn't what it seems. The Devil is in the details. 144 min. DVD 4705

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The Devil's Envoys (Les Visiteurs du soir) (Frace, 1942)

Directed by Marcel Carné. Cast: Arletty, Jules Berry, Marie Dea, Fernand Ledoux, Alain Cuny, Marcel Herrand, Gabriel Gabrio. In the Middle Ages, the Devil sends two envoys, Giles and Dominique, who were selfish lovers on earth, to a chateau to intervene in the betrothal between the count and Lady Anne. Since the count and Lady Anne were not truly in love their betrothal is destroyed, but Giles finds true love in his seduction of Anne. The Devil himself arrives and sets everyone at odds. 120 min. 999:3380

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The Devil in a Convent (Diable au couvent) (France, 1899)

Director, Georges Méliès. "In a convent, a priest adjusts the position of some chairs before departing. As soon as he’s gone, the devil emerges from the font, and looks around. Spotting a rope dangling from the ceiling, he tugs on it, and a bell rings. He wraps his cloak around himself and turns into a priest. Seven white-clad nuns enter and kneel on the chairs as the priest/devil mounts the pulpit. He begins preaching, and the nuns cross themselves. He turns back into the devil, and they react with horror, fleeing the room as he laughs menacingly. He descends from the pulpit and makes the font and then the chairs disappear. He summons up demonic gargoyles to decorate the walls. He opens a trapdoor in the floor and two small children emerge. He conjures up a large pan, from which four other devils appear. A giant demonic cat-like head appears, from which three women emerge. The head turns into a gigantic toad, which the devil mounts while the others dance around him. A nun enters the room and holds up a crucifix. The devil reacts as though scalded, and the others vanish. He gets off the toad, which also vanishes. He confronts the nun, but cannot get past the crucifix. Three more nuns appear, each holding crucifixes, and they surround the devil. They then vanish, leaving the devil on the ground. He gets up, and is confronted by a guardsman. They fight, and the devil sends his opponent packing. Another man enters and chases the devil up to the pulpit. The devil jumps to the ground and vanishes. Bemused, the man descends from the pulpit, only to find the devil emerging from another trapdoor. The man tries to assail him, but the devil disappears down yet another trapdoor, immediately reappearing in the pulpit. A group of men and boys clad in white surplices enter. A statue of Saint Michel appears, and when the devil attempts to climb onto its plinth, the statue comes to life and throws him off. The devil disappears in a puff of smoke, while the men and boys file out." [Film Journal] 3 min. DVD 9625

Devil's three Golden Hairs (Wer reißt vor'm Teufelt denn gleich vor'm Teufel aus) (East Germany, 1977)

Director, Egon Schlegel. Cast: Hans-Joachim Frank, Dieter Franke, Rolf Ludwig, Katrin Martin, Wolfgang Greese, Hannjo Hasse. The poor lad Jacob is dogged by misfortune and now even the king is out to get him. The king sends Jacob to the devil to get the latter's three golden hairs, hoping to get rid of Jacob. On his way Jacob promises the king's exploited subjects to ask the devil how they can escape their misery. Once he arrives in hell, he takes advantage of the she-devil's absence by disguising himself in her clothes. He then snatches the three golden hairs from the devil, finds out the solution for the farmers and returns home a hero. PAL format tape; in German without subtitles. 88 min. Video/C 7259

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Exorcist (1973)

Directed by William Friedkin. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Blair. A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured. 122 min. DVD 4024; vhs 999:1005

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God, Man and Devil (Got, Mensh un Teyvel)(USA, 1949)

Directed by Joseph Seiden. Cast: Michal Michalesko, Berta Gersten, Lucy Gehrman, Gustav Berger. Poor, pious Torah scribe Hershalle Debrovner has a life that glorifies God until Satan, disguised as a business partner, turns him into a greedy, dishonest factory owner whose success desecrates both his religion and his community; betrayal and abandonment replace serenity and familiarity. Based on the play by Jacob Gordin. In Yiddish with English subtitles. 100 min. Video/C 999:3756

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Hell (Jigoku)(Japan, 1960)

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa. Cast: Amachi Shigeru, Mitsuya Utako, Numata Yo-ichi. A university student haunted by a dark alter ego and surrounded by a web of deaths is sent on a tour of hell in which he and innumerable other people suffer a variety of gruesome torments. Special features: "Building inferno," a new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film ; theatrical trailer ; poster galleries ; new essay by Asian-cinema critic Chuck Stephens. 101 min. DVD X1472

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The Howling Man(TV, 1960)

Episode of the series Twilight Zone. Directed by Douglas Heyes. Cast: John Carradine, H.M. Wynant, Robin Hughes. After WWII during a walking trip in central Europe, Ellington loses his way and comes upon a monastery where an insane monk claims he's captured the Devil himself. 25 min DVD 5873

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The Omen(2006)

Directed by John Moore. Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Amy Huck, Pedja Bjelac, Carlo Sabatini, Bohumil Svarc. Robert and Katherine Thorn are loving parents but as fate would have it, their new son Damien is far from the typical child. As the mysterious boy's growth begins to share frightening parallels with the Biblical passages detailing the rise of the Antichrist, and the lives of all who seek to reveal his true nature are cut gruesomely short, Robert and Katherine are forced to face the horrifying prospect that their child has been sent from Satan to hasten the fall of modern civilization, and that there is little they can do to curb his prophesied path of ultimate destruction. 110 min. DVD X447

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Damien Omen II(1978)

Directed by Don Taylor. Cast: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Nicholas Pryor. Since the sudden, suspicious death of his parents, Damien has been in the care of his wealthy aunt and uncle. Now in military school, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncles's business empire and ultimately the world. And anyone attempting to unravel the mystery of his connection to the grisly events that occur around him will meet with an equally horrific and cruel demise! 107 min. DVD X481

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Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)

Directed by Graham Baker. Cast: Faye Grant, Michael Woods, Michael Lerner, Madison Mason, Asia Vieira. Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia's real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby. 107 min. DVD X482

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Omen IV: The Awakening(1991)

Directed by Jorge Montesi, Dominique Othenin-Girard. Cast: Faye Grant, Michael Woods, Michael Lerner, Madison Mason, Asia Vieira. Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia's real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby. 97 min. DVD X483

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Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan) (Denmark / Sweden, 1922)

Directed by Benjamin Christiansen. Through painstaking research, this silent Swedish docu-drama attempts to reconstruct the practices of witchcraft and satanism from the 15th through the 17th centuries, concluding with cases of demoniac possession in the 1920's. 131 min. 999:1199

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Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Directed by Roman Polanski. Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy. Possibly the best horror film ever made. In this drama about a New York City couple, the husband makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward while the unsuspecting wife is unwillingly impregnated by the devil. 134 min.DVD 333; vhs 999:473

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Queen of Spades (UK, 1948)

Directed by Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold, Yvonne Mitchell. An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit. 95 min. DVD 4092

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The Seventh Victim (1953)

Directed by Mark Robson; produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Tom Conway. During the 1940's, producer Val Lewton created a style of horror film that remains an important influence on the genre even today. His speciality: psychological terror, relying on the powers of his viewer's imagination. And nowhere is his hand more evident than in this mystery revolving around devil worship. When Jean Brooks disappears, her innocent sister (Kim Hunter) sets out to find her in the seamier regions of Greenwich Village. What she finds instead is a satanic cult with the intent of applying the title to her. 99 min. DVD 4481; vhs 999:3101

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The Soul Guardians (Tui mo lu) (South Korea, 1998)

Directed by Kwang-chun Park. Seung-heui is a beautiful female auto mechanic who was born in the midst of a mass suicide by a cult of Satanists -- which might explain why she often has bad dreams. Further enlightenment about her sleep difficulty is provided by Father Park and Jun-hu whose research into spiritual and paranormal matters has led them to believe Satan himself wants Seung-heui to be the mother of his child. A fast-paced supernatural thriller, loaded with special effects. 97 min. DVD 1494

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Witches

Bell, Book and Candle(1958)

Directed by Richard Quine. See Fantasy films

Barron Blood (Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga) (Italy, 1972)

Black Sunday (Maschera del demonio) (Italy, 1961)

Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici. A woman executed as a witch by the Inquisition returns from the grave to seek gruesome revenge on the descendants of those who caused her death. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. 88 min. DVD 1833

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The Craft (1996)

Directed by Andrew Fleming. Cast: Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True. A supernatural horror story filled with special effects, about a group of unpopular high-school girls who dabble in witchcraft. Once unleashed, the power becomes too much for them to handle, leading to a battle for control between Sarah, the new girl in the group, and power-crazed Nancy. Special features: Director's commentary ; 3 deleted scenes ; making-of featurette: "Conjuring The Craft" ; talent files ; theatrical trailers. 101 min. DVD X464

Practical Magic(USA / Australia, 1998)

Directed by Griffin Dunne. See Fantasy films

Spectre (Regreso a Moira) (Spain, 2006)

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Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan) (Denmark / Sweden, 1922)

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Witch's Revenge (Le Sorcier)(1903)

Directed by Georges Méliès. Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and to be condemned to death for his practice of witchcraft. He begs the king to permit him just one hour of liberty, assuring the king that he will create, thanks to his power, a charming woman, worthy of becoming the king's consort. 3:22 min. DVD 9625

The Witches of Eastwick(1987)

Directed by George Miller. See Fantasy films

Wizard of Oz(1939)

Directed by Victor Fleming. See Fantasy films

It Came From the 50s! (1950s Horror Films)

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Heffernan, Kevin. Ghouls, gimmicks, and gold: horror films and the American movie business, 1953-1968 Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. (MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H45 2004)

The Astounding She-Monster (1958)

Directed by Ronnie Ashcroft. Cast: Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. Hollywood gangsters kidnap a Beverly Hills socialite in her Cadillac convertible and whisk her off to a remote mountain cabin where a curvy "starlet" in a spandex spacesuit lands in her "white light' spaceship to bring handsome leading man Robert Clarke a message and to heat up his hormones. One problem with this cosmic encounter--her touch is deadly! 62 min. DVD 5980

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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

Directed by Nathan Hertz. After encountering an alien from space, a woman grows until she is 50 ft. tall. Seeking revenge against an unfaithful husband she storms through town destroying everything in her path. 74 min. DVD 8651; vhs 999:985

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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Director, Eugene Lourie. Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey. Special visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. An atom bomb test deep in the Arctic Circle disturbs the sleep of a giant rhedosaurus encased in ice for over 100 million years. The Beast swims down from the Arctic to New York City on a rampage of destruction and death. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury. 80 min. 999:3090

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Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)

Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81

The Blob (1958)

Directed by Irvin S. Yeawarth. Cast: Steven McQueen, Aneta Corseaut [i.e. Corsaut], Earl Rowe, Olin Howlin, Steven Chase, John Benson, Robert Fields. Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader. 82 min.DVD 4000; 999:749

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Blood of Dracula (1957)

Directed by Herbert L. Strock. Cast: Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley, Jerry Blaine. A teenage girl is furious with her father's decision to re-marry, so he promptly packs her off to the Sherwood School for Girls. The girl's pent-up rage makes her an ideal subject for a deranged instructor's experiment which ultimately turns the beautiful girl into a blood thirsty monster. 71 min. DVD 8110

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Bucket of Blood (1959)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Julian Burton. Walter Paisley, a strange little busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse, seeks love and acceptance from the poets and artists he serves by becoming a "sculptor". When his more than life-like creations are declared masterpieces, fame and fortune follow until the horrible truth behind his work is revealed. 66 min. DVD 317

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Corridors of Blood (UK, 1958)

Directed by Robert Day. Cast: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie, Francis Matthews, Adrienne Corri, Francis De Wolff, Basil Dignam, Frank Pettingell, Carl Bernard, Marian Spencer, Nigel Green, John Gabriel, Howard Lang, Yvonne Warren, Christopher Lee. In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer, as well as Bolton's devastating addiction to his own medicines. 87 min. DVD 9116

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

Directed by Jack Arnold. Cast: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno. In the upper reaches of the Amazon River, a scientific team discovers an amphibious creature, a living missing link. The creature is captured and falls in love with the female assistant of the leader of the research team. The lonely creature kidnaps her, and the scientist mounts an effort to reclaim his sweetheart and return the creature to his watery home. DVD special features: Back to the Black Lagoon, feature commentary with film historian Tom Weaver, production photographs, theatrical trailers, cast and filmmakers, production notes. 79 min. DVD 519; vhs 999:485

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The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Directed by Nathan Juran. Cast: Craig Stevens, Alix Talton, William Hopper, Donald Randolph, Pat Conway. A giant man-eating mantis frozen for millions of years thaws out in Alaska and makes its way to New York City. As the menacing insect kills everything in its path, scientists work feverishly to stop it in this battle between man and mantis! 79 min. 999:3135

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Fiend Without a Face (UK, 1958)

Directed by Arthur Crabtree. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Kim Parker, Stanley Maxted, Terence Kilburn, James Dyrenforth, Robert MacKenzie, Peter Madden, Gil Winfield. A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains. Special features: Audio commentary: A conversation with executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver; a collection of trailers from Godon films: Fiend without a face, The haunted strangler, Corridor's of blood, First man into space, and The atomic submarine; rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary; vintage advertisements and lobby cards. 94 min. DVD 5312

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The Fly (1958)

Directed by Kurt Neumann. Vincent Price plays a brilliant research scientist who has discovered how to transport matter through space. But during an experiment a common household fly plays an unwitting part in a bizarre tragedy which results in the man of science winding up with the head of a fly, while his own head is attached to the fly's body. 94 min. DVD 4012; vhs 999:705

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Gonder, Patrick. "Like a Monstrous Jigsaw Puzzle: Genetics and Race in Horror Films of the 1950s." The Velvet Light Trap Number 52, Fall 2003

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Knee, Adam. "The Metamorphosis of The Fly." Wide Angle: A Film Quarterly of Theory, Criticism, and Practice, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 20-34, Winter 1992.

Roth, Marty. "Twice Two: The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers." In: Dead ringers : the remake in theory and practice / edited by Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002. (Main Stack PN1995.9.R45.D43 2002)

Return of the Fly (1959)

Directed by Edward L. Bernds. Cast: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton, David Frankham, Dan Seymour. A sequel to "The Fly," the story takes up with the scientists's son, who continues his father's experiments 15 years after his father's tragic accident that left him with the head of a fly. 87 min. DVD 4012

Godzilla King of the Monsters (Gojira) (1954, dubbed in English)

Directed by Morse & Honda. (Starring: Raymond Burr.) A radioactive monster, Godzilla, attacks Tokyo and terrifies the world. 79 min.DVD 6378; DVD X189 (PAL region 2); vhs 999:809

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Godzilla vs. King Ghidora (Gojira vs. Kingu Gidorâ) (Japan, 1991, dubbed in English)

Directed by Kazuki Omori. A UFO is sighted over present day Tokyo; in reality, it is a time travel device carrying representatives from the 23rd century with an urgent message about the future of Japan: there is no future. Godzilla is about to destroy the whole nation. To stop the birth of Godzilla, the travellers return to the past, where they are confronted by an even greater threat, King Ghidra, a horrific three-headed reptile with breath of fire. 103 min. 999:3089

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Godzilla vs. Mothra (Mosura tai Gojira) (Japan, 1964)

Directed by Ishiro Honda. Cast: Akira Takarada, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yuriko Hoshi, Yoshibumi Tajima, Kenji Sahara, Emi & Yumi Ito, Yu Fujiki, Jun Tazaki, Kenzo Tadake, Susumu Fujita, Yoshio Kosuge, Yutaka Sada. A giant egg washes ashore in Japan and becomes an instant tourist attraction. The only problem is, it belongs to a giant butterfly-like creature from Monster Island named Mothra - and she wants it back! Dubbed in English 87 min. DVD 6379

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Godzilla's Revenge (Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki) (Japan, 1969, dubbed in English)

Directed by Ishiro Honda. Cast: Tomonori Yazaki, Kenji Sahara, Eisei Amamoto, Sachio Sakai, Kazuo Suzuki. Little boy Ichiro is tired of being beat up by the local bully and imagines what Godzilla's son Minilla would do in the same situation, so he imagines traveling to Monster Island where he's befriended by Minilla in person! 70 min. DVD 6381

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[Godzilla] Terror of Mechagodzilla (Mekagojira no gyakushu) (Japan, 1975)

Directed by Ishiro Honda. Cast: Akihiko Hirata, Tomoko Ai, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Katsumasa Uchida, Goro Mutsumi. Aliens from a dying galaxy construct a robot, Mechagodzilla, armed with lasers and guided missles to conquer Earth. Godzilla's strength is no match for Titanosaurus and Mechagodzilla until Interpol agents discover a weakness that gives Godzilla a chance to save the world. Dubbed in English78 min. DVD 6380

The Haunted Strangler (UK, 1958)

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How to Make a Monster (1958)

Directed by Herbert L. Strock. Cast: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, John Ashley. A studio makeup artist goes berserk and turns his creations into zombie-like killers. 73 min. DVD 8110

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I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)

Directed by Gene Fowler, Jr. Cast: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Robert Ivers, Ty Hardin, John Eldredge, Alan Dexter. In this vintage science fiction thriller Marge is growing increasingly alarmed over the changes in her new husband Bill. And for good reason: Bill -- and most of the other men in their small town - have been taken over by sinister aliens who have arrived on planet Earth to marry human women with the hope of reviving their dying race. 77 min. DVD 2965

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I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Directed by Gene Fowler. A rebellious teenager is treated by a psychiatrist for his aggression, but the treatment is worse than the "disease." The teen becomes a werewolf and begins a murder spree that makes his past behavior seem like a stroll in the park! 75 min. 999:982

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Jancovich, Mark. Rational fears : American horror in the 1950s Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996. (MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 J37 1996)

Metz, W. ""I was a teenage Messiah": Powder and its 1950s intertexts." Engaging film criticism: film history and contemporary American Film. New York : P. Lang, c2004. (Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.M47 2004)

Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Directed by Jack Arnold. Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey. Scott Carey encounters a mysterious radioactive mist on a boating trip and soon finds his life taking a bizarre and frightening twist. His physical size begins to diminish as he shrinks to a mere two inches. Suddenly ordinary household situations loom over him with lethal intensity: a playful cat becomes demon and a spider a gargantuan monster. Carey finds he must rely on his wits to survive in his new oversized world. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson. 81 min. DVD 7477; 999:463

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Directed by Don Siegel. Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people. Based on the novel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney. 80 min. DVD 466; vhs 999:150

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It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)

Directed by Robert Gordon. Cast: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox, Jr. Special visual effects, Ray Harryhausen. An angry giant octopus, driven from the depths by an H-bomb explosion counts among its victims a fishing trawler, a family sunning at the beach, several San Francisco skyscrapers and even the Golden Gate Bridge! A daring attempt by a submarine commander and scientists to destroy the monster while saving themselves is a gripping finale to this science fiction thriller with terrific stop-motion special effects by the master, Ray Harryhausen. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury. 80 min. DVD 3292; vhs 999:2165

Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)

Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81

It Came From Outer Space (1953)

Director, Jack Arnold. Cast:Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes. After discovering that a meteor-like object buried under a landslide is an inhabited space ship from another planet, a young scientist delays an attack by panic-stricken townspeople so that the ship can leave the earth. 80 min. DVD X494; vhs 999:3092

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Hendershot, Cyndy. "The Invaded Body: Paranoia and Radiation Anxiety in Invaders from Mars, It Came from outer Space, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 26-39, Spring 1998

Yamamoto, Jerry. "In them we trust? Fear, faith, and It came from outer space ." In: Science fiction America : essays on SF cinema Edited by David J. Hogan. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2006. (Main Stack PN1995.9.S26.S275 2006; Moffitt PN1995.9.S26.S275 2006)

Mesa of Lost Women (1953)

Directed by Herbert Tevos and Ron Ormond. Cast: Jackie Coogan, Tandra Quinn, Lyle Talbot, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Mary Hill, Robert Knapp. The infamous Dr. Arana is conducting bizarre experiments in the forbidden Mexican desert of Zarpa Mesa. It is rumored that he has created a race of rabid super-women by injecting them with a 'spider venom' derivative so powerful and perveted that it transforms them into deadly sexual predators! 69 min. DVD 5980

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The Mole People (1956)

Directed by Virgil Vogel. Cast: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva, Alan Napier. A team of archaeologists digging in the Middle East stumble upon a race of albinos living under the earth. They are afraid of light of any kind and keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slaves. 78 min. DVD 520; vhs 999:2860

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The Monolith Monster (1957)

Directed by John Sherwood. Cast: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Phil Harvey, Trevor Bardette. A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. When a storm exposes these fragments to water, they grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths which then topple and shatter into thousands of pieces that grow into monoliths themselves and repeat the process. Any humans in the way are crushed or turned into human statues. The citizens of San Angelo desperately try to save themselves and the world from the spreading doom. 78 min. DVD 7477 vhs 999:3074

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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

Directed by Arnold Laven. A routine Navy experiment in California's Salton Sea produces giant, radioactive, prehistoric monsters bearing eggs -- and the terrifying possibility of thousands more. The trouble really begins when an earthquake stimulates the slimy sea monsters to life. 84 min. DVD X453; vhs 999:3136

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Monster on the Campus (1959)

Directed by Jack Arnold. Cast: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, Phil Harvey, Whit Bissell. A paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a prehistoric fish. While examining the find he is accidentally exposed to it's blood, turning him into a murderous Neanderthal. 79 min. DVD 7477

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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958)

Directed by Ed Wood, Jr. Cast: Tor Johnson, Vampira, Tom Keene, Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Dudley Manlove, Mona McKinnon. Universally hailed as the worst movie ever made, this cult classic is also one of the funniest. Aliens invade the Earth in flying saucers that look suspiciously like paper plates, to rob graves in the San Fernando Valley conscripting the corpses into an army of mindless murdering zombies. 78 min. DVD 8245; vhs 999:1638

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The She-creature (1956)

Directed by Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Ron Randell, Freida Inescort. Using hypnosis, Dr. Carlo Lombardi claims that he can have his patients regress and recover memories from their past lives, thereby proving that reincarnation exists. He also claims that the spirit of these past lives can be brought forth to take physical form. A series of violent murders by a creature that seems to disappear into the sea suggests that Lombardi's claim may be correct. 77 min. DVD X493

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Heffernan, Kevin. "The Hypnosis Horror Films of the 1950s: Genre Texts and Industry Context." Journal of Film and Video 54:2-3 (Summer-Fall 2002) p. 56-70

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Tarantula (1955)

Directed by Jack Arnold. Cast: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott. A biochemist has a plan to feed the world by using a growth formula on plants and animals. But instead he creates a spider of mammoth proportions with an appetite to match! 81 min. DVD 7477

Them! (1954)

Directed by Gordon Douglas. Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Chris Drake. Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. He next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing enough formic acid to kill 20 men. Special features: Behind-the-scenes archive footage ; montage on the design and operation of giant ants ; interactive menus ; cast film highlights ; theatrical trailer ; scene access. 93 min. DVD 1389; vhs 999:465

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Hendershot, Cyndy. "Darwin and the Atom: Evolution/Devolution Fantasies in 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,' 'Them ,' and 'The Incredible Shrinking Man.'" Science-Fiction Studies v25, n2 (July, 1998):319 (17 pages).

Leskosky, Richard J. "Size Matters: Big Bugs on the Big Screen." In: Insect poetics / Eric C. Brown, editor. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006. (Main Stack PN56.I63.I57 2006)

Monk, Philip. Double-cross : the Hollywood films of Douglas Gordon Toronto: Power Plant, c2003. (PFA: N6797.G67 M65 2003)

The Thing (The Thing From Another World) (1951)

Directed by Christian Nyby. A team of scientists, investigating a magnetic disturbance near the North Pole, discovers a disc-shaped object and some sort of man-like creature frozen beneath the ice. 80 min. DVD 9158; vhs 999:774

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Crogan, Patrick. "Things Analog and Digital." Senses of Cinema

Katovich, Michael A. and Kinkade, Patrick T. "The Stories Told In Science Fiction And Social Science: Reading The Thing And Other Remakes From Two Eras." Sociological Quarterly 1993 34(4): 619-637.

White, Eric. "The Erotics of Becoming: Xenogenesis and The Thing." Science-Fiction Studies, vol. 20 no. 3 (61). 1993 Nov. pp: 394-408.

13 Ghosts (1960)

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Castle, William. Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America New York : Putnam, c1976. (MAIN: PN1998 .A3C3351)

The Tingler (1959)

Director, William Castle. Cast: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge. A doctor discovers that fear is a parasitic creature that grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. He captures it (the Tingler), but it escapes and runs amok in a crowded movie theater. 82 min. DVD 1836

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Brottman, Mikita. "Oral and anal tensions in The Tingler." In: Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cinema vomitif Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.B67 1997)

Brottman, Mikita. "Ritual, tension and relief : the terror of The tingler." Film Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4. (Summer, 1997), pp. 2-10.

Castle, William. Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America New York : Putnam, c1976. (MAIN: PN1998 .A3C3351)

Heffernan, Kevin. "The Hypnosis Horror Films of the 1950s: Genre Texts and Industry Context." Journal of Film and Video 54:2-3 (Summer-Fall 2002) p. 56-70

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20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Director, Nathan Juran. An American rocketship returns from a flight to Venus but crashes in Italy, leaving behind a cute little creature from Venus. Unfortunately, the little creature doesn't stay little for long and threatens to tear apart the Colosseum. Technical effects, Ray Harryhausen. Special DVD features: Harryhausen chronicles; This is dynamation. 83 min. DVD 3294; vhs 999:3091

Harryhausen, Ray. Ray Harryhausen : an animated life New York : Billboard Books, 2004. (MAIN: NC1766.U52 H374 2004)

Mandell, P. "Of genies and dragons: the career of Ray Harryhausen." American Cinematographer v. 73 (December 1992) p. 77-81

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The Bride (1985)

Directed by Franc Roddam. Cast: Sting, Jennifer Beals, Geraldine Page, Clancy Brown, Anthony Higgins. Remake of the Bride of Frankenstein, with a twist. This time the bride is beautiful and intelligent, and the doctor might be falling in love with her. 118 min. DVD 8111

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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Directed by James Whale. Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Dwight Frye, O.P. Heggie, Una O'Connor. When an evil doctor meets a lonely Frankenstein, he decides to build him a mate in this horror classic. DVD has special features: Special features: She's alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein, an original documentary; feature commentary with film historian Scott MacQueen; The Bride of Frankenstein archive. 75 min. DVD 89; vhs 999:13

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Curse of Frankenstein (UK, 1957)

Directed by Terence Fisher. A young German nobleman has uncovered life's mystery and unleashed a chain of blood-curdling terrors that seem similar to the monstrous horrors of a generation earlier. Outraged, the local citizenry imprisons the nobleman and condemns him to death, hoping to blot from the earth his family's ignominious name. The townspeople now understand something their forebears did not--the young man's name is more than a name, it's the curse of Frankenstein. 83 min. DVD 6483; vhs 999:1003

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The Evil of Frankenstein (UK, 1964)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, Sandor Eles. Baron von Frankenstein attempts to resurrect his original monster but he needs the help of Zoltan, a mystical hypnotist, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and punish the chief of police, which leads to a violent confrontation between the Baron and the townspeople. 87 min. DVD 4450

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Frankenstein (1931)

Directed by James Whale. An adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about the scientist who creates a terrifying monster. Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster in his laboratory, but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast. Special features: Disc 1: "Karloff: the gentle monster": a tribute to the film career of Boris Karloff; "Monster tracks": interesting interactive pop-up facts about the making of 'Frankenstein'; Feature commentary with Rudy Behlmer; Feature commentary with historian Sir Christopher Frayling; Disc 2: "The 'Frankenstein' files": how Hollywood made a monster; "Frankenstein archives": original posters and photo galleries; "Universal horror": documentary, narrated by Kenneth Branagh; "Boo!": a short film. 71 min. (feature only) DVD 6523; Also copies: DVD 77 (single disc version); vhs 999:134

Frankenstein (1910)

Directed by J. Searle Dawley. Edison "Biograph" 1910 cinematic release of the first screen version of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel. This is one of the only Frankenstein films where the monster is truly created. All Frankenstein films that followed assembled body parts from various corpses to make the monster. In this film, Frankenstein uses chemicals and "potions" to create the monster. The "creation" scene was made by filming a monster-dummy burning, and then playing the footage backwards. 16 min. DVD 6944

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Frankenstein (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein; Flesh for Frankenstein) (1974)

Directed by Paul Morrissey. Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier, Arno Juerging, Dalila di Lazzaro, Srdjan Zelenovic. Andy Warhol's gore/sex/horror version of Frankenstein blending high camp and serious filmmaking, has transformed the tale into a stunning cult classic. The mad Baron Frankenstein is married to his sister, Katrin. With their two children they live a demented sitcom family's life; hubby rushes off to his lab and wife complains of neglect. With his trusty servant, Otto, the baron has constructed a heroic female and now plans to make her a male mate. For him he needs the brains of a lustful primitive 'who wants to make love to anything'. Things go awry when the baron transplants the head of a would-be monk instead of the lusty peasant, who becomes the baroness' lover. 96 min. DVD 4380; vhs 999:1927

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (UK, 1969)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley. Frankenstein wields his scalpel on the cutting edge of medical research, experimenting with brain transplants. Alas, the procedure is imperfect and a new pitiable terror now stalks an unsuspecting world. 101 min. DVD 6489

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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, Michael Hutchence, Nick Brimble. A brilliant scientist experimenting in the year 2031 finds himself zapped into the 1817's in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Frankenstein and his contemporaries. 86 min. 999:3722

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (UK / Japan / USA, 1994)

Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realizes that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life. 123 min.DVD 8463; vhs 999:1549

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Young Frankenstein (1974)

Directed by Mel Brooks. Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Madeline Kahn, Gene Hackman. Summoned to Transylvania to inherit his late grandfather's castle, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers his grandfather's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who only wants to be loved. Special DVD features: Mel Brooks' audio commentary, documentary: "Making Frankensense of young Frankenstein", interviews with stars Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder & Cloris Leachman, 7 deleted scenes, outtakes/bloopers and production stills. 106 min. DVD X463; vhs 999:2686

Vampires

Dracula, Fact and Fiction. Explores the myths, mysteries and realities of Dracula with a look at the historical figure Vlad Dracul, the novel by Bram Stoker and the many portrayals of Dracula in films. Features archival film footage with commentary by authors, academics and film directors. Supplementary short issued with: The Adventures of young Indiana Jones. 2007. 25 min. DVD X235

Bandh Darwaza (India, 1990)

Directed by Tulsi Ramsay, Shyam Ramsay. Cast: Hashmat Khan, Manjeet Kullar, Ajay Agarwal. In this East Indian version of Dracula, a childless woman visits the lair of an evil magician in order that she may conceive. When she gives birth to a baby girl the magician demands that she hand her over. She refuses and has the magician killed. Years later he is revived as a fully fledged member of the undead. He comes looking for the now teenage girl intending to make her his slave. 145 min. DVD 9464

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Black Sabbath (I tre volti della paura) (Italy / France / USA, 1963)

Directed by Mario Bava. Cast: Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Mich`ele Mercier, Jacqueline Pierreux. Presents Brava's classic triptych (three tales of terror) hosted by Boris Karloff: The telephone: A prostitute is threatened by the pimp she helped send to prison. The wurdalak: A returning patriarch to an Eastern European family may be a Wurdalak--a vampire who thirsts for the blood of his loved ones. A drop of water: A nurse steals a diamond ring from the finger of a dead clairvoyant, and is haunted that night by the woman's ghost. Bonus features: Audio commentary with author Tim Lucas ; A life in film: an interview with Mark Damon ; international and U.S. theatrical trailers ; TV and radio spots ; poster and still gallery ; Mario Bava and Boris Karloff biographies. 92 min. DVD 7575

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Blacula (1972)

Directed by William Crain. Cast: William Marshall, Denise Nicholas, Vonetta Mcgee, Gordon Pinsent, Thalmus Rasulala, Emily Yancy, Lance Taylor, Sr., Charles Macaulay. In 1815 the African prince Mamuwalde is cursed by Dracula and sealed in a coffin doomed to be tortured by an unquenchable lust for blood. Two decoratorspurchase Blacula's coffin and unwittingly release him and become his first victims. 93 min. DVD 2346

Benshoff, Harry M. "Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription?" Cinema Journal 39.2 (2000) 31-50

Gateward, Frances. "Daywalkin? Night Stalkin? Bloodsuckas: Black Vampires in Contemporary Film." Genders, issue 40, 2004

Hudson, Dale. "Vampires of color and the performance of multicultural whiteness." In: The persistence of whiteness : race and contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Daniel Bernardi. London : New York : Routledge, 2008. (Main Stack PN1995.9.M56.P47 2008)

Lehman, Paul R.; Browning, John Edgar. "The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) cultural revolution." In: Draculas, vampires, and other undead forms : essays on gender, race, and culture / edited by John Edgar Browning, Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.D64 D735 2009)

Medovoi, Leerom. "Theorizing Historicity, or the Many Meanings of Blacula." Screen, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-21, Spring 1998.

Rickels, Laurence A. "Blacula." In: The vampire lectures Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999. (MAIN: PN1995.9.V3 R53 1999)

Blood of Dracula (1957)

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Brides of Dracula (UK, 1960)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, David Peel. A young French girl, stranded enroute to a teaching assignment in Eastern Europe, is persuaded to spend the night at the nearly deserted castle of a mysterious Baroness. 86 min. DVD 4450

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Dracula (1931)

Directed by Tod Browning. With Bela Lugosi. Based on a novel by Bram Stoker and the play adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Classic horror film of a Transylvanian vampire stalking the foggy streets of London for more victims. Special features: Disc 1: "Lugosi: the dark prince": a tribute to the film career of Bela Lugosi, with director Tod Browning; "Monster tracks": interesting pop-up facts; "The road to 'Dracula'" documentary; Feature commentary with film historian David J. Skal; Feature commentary with Steve Haberman; Score by Philip Glass performed by the Kronos Quartet; Disc 2: 'Dracula' (1931) Spanish version with introduction by Lupita Tovar Kohner; "Universal horror" documentary. DVD 6524; other copies: vhs 999:205 (73 min.); Restored Version, with music by Philip Glass, played by the Kronos Quartet (75 min.): DVD 344; vhs 999:2191

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell, Sadie Frost, Tom Waits. Jonathan Harker is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula and imprisoned by his minons. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends, including her fiance, gather together to try to drive Dracula away. Special DVD features [on DVD 8525 only]: Disc 1: Film introduction: watch Bram Stoker's Dracula with Francis Coppola; full-length director's audio commentary. Disc 2: "The blood is the life: the making of Dracula" documentary; "The costumes are the sets: the design of Eiko Ishioka" documentary; "In-camera: the naive visual effects of Dracula" documentary; "Method and madness: visualizing Dracula" documentary; over thirty minutes of newly unearthed deleted scenes. 130 min. DVD 8525; DVD 338; vhs 999:1548

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Dracula (1973)

Producer/director, Dan Curtis; Cast: Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown, Fiona Lewis, Penelope Horner, Murray Brown. 91 min. 999:1923

Dracula (UK, TV, 2006)

Director, Bill Eagles. Cast: Marc Warren, Sophia Myles, David Suchet, Dan Stevens, Tom Burke, Stephanie Leonidas, Rafe Spall. A young man tries to cheat death by joining a sinister cult and unleashing the evil force of Count Dracula when he finds he has a horrible disease. 90 min. DVD 7817

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Dracula (Andy Warhol's Dracula; aka Blood for Dracula; Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!!)(1974)

Written and directed by Paul Morrissey. Cast :Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry. 91 min. DVD 6405; vhs 999:1923

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Dracula, Dead and Loving It (1995)

Directed by Mel Brooks. Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony. Another spoof from the mind of Mel Brooks. This time he's out to poke fun at the Dracula myth. Basically, he took "Bram Stoker's Dracula," gave it a new cast and a new script and made a big joke out of it. The usual, rich English are attacked by Dracula and Dr. Van Helsing is brought in to save the day. Special features: Commentary by director/co-writer Mel Brooks, co-stars Steven Weber and Amy Yasbeck and co-writers Rudy DeLuca and Steve Haberman; theatrical trailer. 90 min.DVD X864

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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (UK, 1968)

Directed by Freddie Francis. Cast: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews, Ewan Hooper. When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young neice his bride. 92 min.DVD 6490

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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Canada, 1992)

Directed by Guy Maddin. Cast: Zhang Wei-Qiang, David Moroni, Johnny Wright, Tara Birtwhistle, Cindy Marie Small. Filmmaker Guy Maddin resurrects the style and visual grammar of the silent cinema in this ambitious screen adaptation of the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's acclaimed dance production, which incorporates elements of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu. In 1897, a mysterious visitor from the East, Dracula, arrives in London, and soon puts the wealthy Lucy under his spell. Dracula next sets his sights on the virginal Mina, but when the vampire's machinations begin to alter her personality, her fiance realizes something is wrong and vampire hunter Von Helsing is brought in to slay the monster. 75 min. DVD 2780

O'Donoghue, Darragh. "Particles of Illusion: Guy Maddin and His Precursors." Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema, vol. 32, pp. (no pagination), Summer 2004

Losier, Marie; Porton, Richard. "The Pleasures of Melancholy: An Interview with Guy Maddin." Cineaste, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 18-25, Summer 2004

Shaviro, Steven. "Fire and Ice: The Films of Guy Maddin." In: North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 Edited by William Beard and Jerry White. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2002. (Main Stack PN1993.5.C2.N67 2002; PFA PN1993.5.C2.N67 2002)

Sweitzer, Charlie. "Guy Maddin: Eclectic Filmmaker Weds Ballet and Dracula." The Independent Film & Video Monthly. Jun 2003. Vol. 26, Iss. 5; p. 15 (2 pages)

Woloski, Jason. "Guy Maddin." (Great Directors, A Critical Database) Senses of Cinema

Dracula 2000 (2000)

Director, Patrick Lussier. Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Gerard Butler, Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Esposito, Danny Masterson, Jeri Ryan, Omar Epps, Christopher Plummer. A rare antiques collector has been keeping a secret buried deep in a locked vault. When robbers seeking a fortune in gold steal the casket they believe contains the gold, they unleash the terror that has been haunting a young woman's dreams. 99 min. DVD 838

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The Fearless Vampire Killers: or Pardon me, But Your Teeth are in My Neck (USA / UK, 1967)

Directed by Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne. This spoof on old vampire films finds a young maiden kidnapped by a Jewish vampire and his gay son. 111 min. DVD 8548; vhs 999:1025

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Flesh of Your Flesh (Carne de Tu Carne) (Colombia, 1983)

Directed by Carlos Mayolo. Centers on a wealthy family fighting over the last testament of a just-deceased matriarch. From there, the family members are shown to have an incestuous relationship, and eventually vampires come into the picture, as well as unbridled slaughter. 86 min. 999:3414

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From Dusk Till Dawn(1996)

Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Cast: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin, Fred Williamson, Salma Hayek. From Dusk till dawn: After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele--a band of vampires--they are forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive. Special feature: Includes full-length documentary on the making of the film: "Full-tilt boogie" (2000, 100 min.) Bonus material: Feature commentary with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino; outtakes; featurette: Hollywood goes to hell; theatrical trailer; TV spots; music videos; stills gallery; art of making the movie, with commentary by Rodriguez and Greg Nicotero; deleted scenes and alternate takes; on the set; cast & crew bios. Disc 1. Full-tilt boogie (2000, 100 min.)[An extensive documentary behind-the-scenes look a the making of the action hit "From dusk till dawn." You're there for all the excitement direct from the set] -- Disc 2. From dusk till dawn (1996, 108 min.) 108 min. DVD 8086

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Genuine (The Tale of a Vampire) (Germany, 1920)

Directed by Rober Weine. Cast: Fern Andra, Albert Bennefeld, Lewis Brody, John Gottow, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen. 43-minute condensation. DVD 1383; DVD 232; DVD 5; vhs 999:39

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Horror of Dracula (UK, 1958)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee. Dracula, a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal blood-crazed half-life, travels from his native Transylvania to London and to a savage fate. In the decadent nightlife he finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing, a brilliant scientist, who becomes Dracula's implacable foe in a bat-and-mouse game of blood-red Gothic gore. 81 min. DVD 6482; vhs 999:994

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The Hunger (UK, 1983)

Directed by Don Sharp. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Dan Hedaya, Beth Ehlers. Miriam, an ageless vampire, spends her time prowling Manhattan's trendiest nightspots in search of new blood. John, her partner of 200 years, inexplicably begins to age at an accelerated pace. A scientist is called upon to try to save John and gets pulled into their triangle of sex, blood and desire. 97 min. vhs 999:3360

Kiss of the Vampire (UK, 1962)

Directed by Don Sharp. Cast: Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Barry Warren. Lost on the way to their honeymoon, a young couple stumbles upon a mysterious family of vampires and their unspeakably evil leader. 88 min. DVD 4450

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The Last Man on Earth (1971)

Directed by Sidney Salkow. Cast: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart. Thinking himself the only person alive after a plague has also killed his wife and child, a scientist who is immune to the germ that caused the epidemic, fights a nightly battle with what appear to be vampires, trying to break into his house. 87 min. DVD 2275

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (Sweden, 2008)

Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Mikael Rahm, Karl-Robert Lindgred, Anders T. Peedu, Pale Olofsson. 12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building but Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oscar the only way she knows how. Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. 115 min. DVD X1869

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London After Midnight (1927)

Director, Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall. A presumed suicide could be a case of murder -- or maybe the supposed victim is alive! Chaney plays the dual roles of a Scotland Yard sleuth and a vampire in this offbeat mix of horror and whodunit. 61 min. DVD 2359

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Anderson, Robert Gordon. Faces, forms, films; the artistry of Lon Chaney New York, Castle Books [c1971] (Main: PN2287.C48 .A8 1971; PFA PN2287.C48 .A8 1971)

Beck, Calvin. "Lon Chaney." In: Heroes of the horrors. New York, Collier Books [1975] (PFA: PN1998.A2 B38 1975)

Blake, Michael F. The Films of Lon Chaney Lanham : Madison Books, 2001. (Main PN2287.C48 B57 2001; PFA PN2287.C48 B57 2001)

Blake, Michael F. Lon Chaney : the man behind the thousand faces Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, 1993. (Main PN2287.C48 B58 1993)

Bodeen, DeWitt. "Lon Chaney." In: From Hollywood : the careers of 15 great American stars South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, c1976 (Main: PN1998.A2 .B62 1976)

Slide, Anthony. "Lon Chaney." In: Silent players : a biographical and autobiographical study of 100 silent film actors and actresses Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2002 (Main Stack PN1998.2.S547 2002; PFA PN1998.2.S547 2002)

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Directed by Tod Browning. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt. Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the Count's next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who's sent in to prevent her death. At the same time, secrets are revealed surrounding the circumstances of Sir Karell's death. 60 min. DVD 6521

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Mank, Gregory W. "Mark of the Vampire." In: Hollywood cauldron : thirteen horror films from the genre's golden age / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c1994 (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.H6 M315 1994)

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Moon Child (Japan, 2003)

Directed by Takahisa Zeze. Cast: Hyde, Gackt, Wang Leehom, Zeny Kwok, Taro Yamomoto, Anne Suzuki. Part futuristic science fiction and part John Woo style gunplay, Mood Child is a gothic vampire horror film from Japan. Director Takahisa Zeze brings a deliciously stylized vision to this tale of doomed friends whose gangster lifestyle becomes corrupted. 119 min. DVD 9674

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Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (Germany, 1922)

Directed by F.W. Murnau. Cast: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder. The first film adaptation of the story of the unmasking of the insatiable Transylvanian vampire, Count Dracula. The tale unfolds with an awesome eeriness unequalled in later versions. 72 min.

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DVD 9325 Kino restored version. Special features: Hans Erdmann's original 1922 score ; Documentary: The language of shadows : the early years and nosferatu ( 52 min.) ; Nosferatu : an historic film meets digital resoration (3 min.) ; Lengthy excerpts from other films by F.W. Murau: Journey into the night (1920), The haunted castle (1921), Phantom (1922), The finances of the Grand Duke (1924), The last laugh (1924), Tartuffe (1925), Faust (1926), and Tabu (1931)

DVD 1382 This Kino edition has been mastered from a color-tinted 35mm negative restored by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologne at the laboratories of L'Immagine Ritrovata."-- Container. Supplemental features: Lengthy excerpts from other films by F. W. Murnau: Journey into the night (1920), The haunted castle (1921), Phantom (1922), The last laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Tabu (1931); two musical scores to choose from; photo gallery; scene comparison: novel, screenplay & film. 84 min.

DVD 232 (Masterworks of German Horror Cinema) Special features: Still photo galleries featuring original artwork, 12 page booklet containing artwork and extensive liner notes on all films. 64 min.

DVD 31 Blackhawk Films. Mastered from 35mm archive material, features exclusive audio essay and a collection of supplementary materials. 81 min.

vhs 999:2395 This newly restored Kino version...was mastered from a 35mm negative and includes recently discovered scenes and intertitles freshly translated from the original German prints. 84 min.

vhs 999:40 72 min.

Nosferatu: The Vampire (West Germany / France, 1979)

Directed by Werner Herzog. Cast: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz. A remake of the German silent film classic by F.W. Murnau of the unmasking of the insatiable Translyvanian Vampire, Count Dracula. Closely based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. 107 min. DVD 94; vhs 999:2004

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Pura Sangre (Pure Blood) (Colombia, 1982)

This first film by Colombian producer/director Luis Ospina is an obvious metaphor that relates vampirism to the social oppression of the poor by the ruling classes. Here a powerful Colombian industrialist must survive through the blood of young boys, blood that comes from victims selected from a different class than the proletariat. Cast: Florina Lemaitre, Carlos Mayolo, Humberto Arango, Luis Alberto Garcia, Gilberto "Fly" Forero. 98 min. 999:3407

Shadow of the Vampire (UK / USA / Luxembourg, 2000)

Directed by E. Elias Merhige. Cast: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes, Aden Gillet, Eddie Izzard, Udi Kier, Catherine McCormack. This riveting suspense thriller is about the filming of "Nosferatu" and the difficult relationship between the director, F. W. Murnau and actor Max Schreck. As cast and crew begin to disappear, it seems that Murnau has made a devil's bargain with Schreck, whose performance is too authentic. 92 min. DVD 2330

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Atkinson, M. "Vampire variations" [E. E. Merighe's Shadow of the vampire]. Film Comment v. 36 no. 6 (November/December 2000) p. 27-9

Calhoun, J. "Fangs for the memories [Shadow of the vampire]. Entertainment Design v. 35 no. 2 (February 2001) p. 8

Elsaesser, T. "Six degrees of Nosferatu." Sight & Sound v. ns11 no. 2 (February 2001) p. 12-15

Kemp, P. "Shadow of the vampire." Sight & Sound v. ns11 no. 2 (February 2001) p. 50-1

Sterritt, D. "Shadow of the vampire." Cineaste v. 25 no. 4 (2000) p. 34-5

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Taste the Blood of Dracula (UK, 1969)

Directed by Peter Sasdy. Cast: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden, Ralph Bates, Anthony Corlan, John Carson, Peter Sallis, Isla Blair, Martin Jarvis. Three community leaders out on a lark think they've done it all but of course, they haven't. They're duped into an adventure that transforms Dracula from moldering dust into blood-lusting flesh. 95 min. DVD 6491

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30 Days of Night (2007)

Directed by David Slade. Cast: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone, Jr., Mark Rendall, Amber Sainsbury, Manu Bennett. An isolated Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction. Based on the comic by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith. 113 min. DVD 9297

Twilight (2008)

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Cam Gigandet, Ashley Greene, Anna Kendrick, Nikki Reed, Taylor Lautner, Kellah Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Michael Welch, Gil Birmingham, Justin Chon, Christian Serratos, Jose Zuniga, Rachel Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Sarah Clarke. Bella Swan is a clumsy, kind hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble. Edward Cullen is an intelligent, good looking vampire who is trying to hide his secret. Against all odds, the two fall in love but will a pack of blood thirsty trackers and the disapproval of their family and friends separate them? Based on the novel "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer. Special features: [Disc 1] Audio commentary with Catherine Hardwick, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart; "Supermassive Black Hole" performed by Muse; "Decode" music video by Paramore; "Leave out all the Rest" music video by Linkin Park; extended scenes: Are people talking about the Cullens again?; James let's not play with our food; You don't know how it's tortured me; A hundred years worth of journals; Don't read Charlie's mind; [Disc 2] Deleted scenes with director's introduction; The adventure begins: the journey from page to screen; The comic-con phenomenon ; theatrical campaign. 122 min. DVD X1646

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Vampire Hunter D (Banpaia hantâ D) (1985)

Director, Toyoo Ashida. Animated feature (anime) In the year 12,090 AD, the Earth has fallen into the clutches of vampires and humans are enslaved by a corrupted feudal system, prey to the whims of vampire aristocrats. Vampire Hunter D is the only being who dares to challenge the authority of the immortal vampires. 80 min. DVD 753

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Vampire Princess (Kyûketsuki Miyu) (1997)

Directed by Hirano Toshihiro. In this animated television series (episodes 1-26), Miyu was born a Vampire Princess, charged with the responsibility of banishing evil demons from the Earth. Stranded in the twilight between human and demon, she has the power to offer humans the gift of eternal happiness with one bite, yet is herself, destined for perpetual solitude. 650 min. (3 discs) DVD 3682

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Vampyr (Der Traum des Allan Grey) (France / Germany, 1932)

Directed by Carl Dreyer. A subtle, disturbing version of the vampire legend. A young man becomes involved with an attempt to stop the vampire and save a family. A cinema classic also known as "The Strange adventure of David Grey". In German with Danish and English title frames, and Danish subtitles. Special features on DVD 9984: Newly credited alternate version of Vampyr with English text, audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns, new and improved English subtitle translation. A booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Koerber on the restoration, and a 1964 interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg, as well as a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 story "Carmilla," a source for the film. DVD 9984; also DVD 212, 72 min. - includes "The Mascot", 26 min.; vhs 999:297, 66 min.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hyde (1971)

Director L. Ray Monde. When slimy stud Dr. Chris Leeder takes possession of Dr. Jekyll's ancient notebook, he quickly becomes obsessed with the murderous sex crimes of the original Mr. Hyde. The demented doc mixes the potion and promptly turns into ... "Miss Hide," a sexy homicidal nymphomaniac. After enjoying a lesbian romp and the sadistic slaughter of a drunken sailor, Miss Hide decides to pay a visit to Leeder's fiancee and permanently cancel the wedding. 91 min. DVD 218

Black Friday (1940)

Directed by Arthur Lubin. Cast: Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi; Stanley Ridges; Anne Nagel; Anne Gwynne. A brain specialist attempts to save his dying friend, Professor Kingsley, by transplanting part of the brain from an injured gangster. The side effects prove deadly as Kingsley's dual personalities transform him into a Jekyll-Hyde. 69 min. DVD 5468

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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: John Agar, Gloria Talbot, Arthur Shields. Young, attractive, soon-to-be-wed Janet Smith is living a quiet life of bliss and serenity in a rustic, isolated English village. But suddenly her easy existence is shattered when she learns the truth of her family's dreaded secret: her late father was none other than the infamous Dr. Jekyll, mad genius able to uncover every man's hidden, darker self. Special features: Original theatrical trailer, archive of rare stills and artwork, behind-the-scenes interviews with star John Agar and with Arianne Ulmer Cipes of the Edgar G. Ulmer Preservation Corp. Inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. 1957. 70 min. DVD 242

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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)

Directed by William Crain. Dr. Henry Pride, a black man, is involved in research at a large hospital to find a cure for cirrhosis of the liver. In his lab alone at night Dr. Pride injects a brown rat with his latest serum and is astonished to see the color pigmentation drain and the rat turn white. Even its nature changes as it attacks and kills the other rats in the cage. Pride continues to perfect the serum and later, injects an old black woman near death from a liver ailment. She turns a ghastly white, her face becomes grotesque, and with superhuman strength, attacks a nurse then collapses and dies. Dr. Pride, certain he has now perfected the serum, injects it into himself. As he watches in the mirror, a hideous transformation takes place. 88 min. vhs 999:1756

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (1920; Silent with English subtitles and organ accompaniment)

Directed by John S. Robertson. Cast: John Barrymore. The story of a radical doctor whose experiments lead him to the discovery of a destructive potion that transforms him into a hideous creature of unbridled emotions. Special features (DVD X1702): The transformation scene" a rare 1909 Audio Recording ; Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride: a 1925 one-reel parody starring Stan Laurel ; "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde": an excerpt of the rival 1920 version starring Sheldon Lewis ; "The many faces of Jekyll/Hyde": an illustrated essay on the story's origins and incarnations ; About the score" by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. 83 min. DVD X1702; also DVD 83; vhs 999:1510

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins. Famous version of the Stevenson masterpiece about a scientist who concocts a potion that releases the animal side of man. Restored version contains 17 minutes of previously censored material. 97 min. DVD 2231; vhs 999:464

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Briefel, Aviva. "Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in the Horror Film." Film Quarterly; Spring2005, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p16-27, 12p

Thanouli, Eleftheria. "Orson Welles and Rouben Mamoulian: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?" Kinema, Fall2008 Issue 30, p79-92, 14p

Sevastakis, Michael. "The Stylistic Coding Of Characters In Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Journal of Film & Video, Fall85, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p15-26, 12p;

Wexman, Virginia Wright. "Horrors of the Body: Hollywood's Discourse on Beauty and Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" In: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde after one hundred years / edited by William Veeder and Gordon Hirsch. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988. (Main Stack PR5485.D71 1988; Moffitt PR5485.D7 1988)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Directed by Victor Flemming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner. 113 min. DVD 2231; vhs 999:1511

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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde(Canada / USA, 1968)

Director Charles Jarrott. Cast: Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Tessie O'Shea,Torin Thatcher, 1968. DVD 331

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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde(1912)

Director, Lucius Henderson. Cast: James Cruze, Harry Benham, Florence LaBadie, Marie Eline 12 min. DVD 5863; vhs 999:2837

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)

Directed by Herbert Brenon. Cast: King Baggott, Jane Gail. one of the earliest film adaptations of the Stevenson horror story about a doctor whose experiments lead him to the discovery of a destructive potion that transforms him into a hideous creature. 28 min. vhs 999:1573

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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (UK, 1972)

Directed by Roy Ward Baker. In foggy Victorian London, Dr. Jekyll experiments with an elixir of life which transforms him into the beautiful, but murderous, Sister Hyde. His lethal, sultry twin stalks Whitechapel to provide victims to continue his blood-stained research. 93 min.vhs 999:1527

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Hyde and Hyde (1955)

Directed by Friz Freleng. Warner Brothers. Animated short. "Bugs Bunny comes to a city park to be daily fed carrots by a meek, little man. Bugs proposes that the man adopt him as a pet. The man accepts and takes Bugs home, where he states he is a doctor - and the name on his shingle is Dr. Jekyll. Unbeknownst to Bugs, Jekyll gives into the temptation to drink his potion that changes him into Mr. Hyde. Bugs keeps fleeing Hyde and running to the re-transformed Jekyll for help, but behind Bugs' back, Jekyll involuntarily changes back into Hyde. Bugs helps himself to some of Jekyll's potion before leaving to return to the park, where he changes into a shaggy, green rabbit that scares everyone away." [Internet Movie Database] Included on DVD 2231

Jekyll and Hyde Together Again (1982)

Directed by Jerry Belson. Cast: Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Tim Thomerson, Krista Errickson, Michael McGuire. Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picutre. Inside the antiseptic walls of a Los Angeles hospital a surgeon, Dr. Jekyll, noses around and discovers the secret to man's alter ego in a white powder. Nodding off one day, Dr. Jekyll accidentally snorts a sampling of the snuff which quickly transforms this shy man into a wild disco deviant with New Wave tendencies. A modern comic spoof on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story. 87 min. vhs 999:1539

Mary Reilly (1996)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon, Kathy Staff, Glenn Close. The classic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets a chilling new twist when seen through the eyes of Dr. Jekyll's devoted maid. Equally attracted to her kind employer, Dr. Jekyll, and his mysterious assistant, Mr. Hyde, she must confront her own dangerous desires if she is to survive. 108 min. DVD 1007

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Foss, Chris. "When 'Good' Men Turn Bad: Mary Reilly as Disturbing Allegory of Domestic Abuse." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 12-15, 2000

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (UK, 1960)

Directed by Terence Fisher. After years of unsuccessful scientific experimentation, attempting to reveal his subjects' hidden personalities, Dr. Henry Jekyll finally turns the testing on himself. The doctor succeeds in releasing his own alter ego, transforming himself into Edward Hyde, a handsome playboy whose charming exterior masks an insidious creature. 87 min. vhs 999:2574

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Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (TV, 1959)

Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast:Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Billis, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold. This French television version of the celebrated tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is set contemporaneously and shot like a documentary program. It's also the only one in which the two characters are believably distinct: one would never guess that the fussy, ascetic Jekyll and the careless, garish Hyde could be the same man. 97 min. DVD 7586

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The Avenging Conscience (or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill') (1914)

Directed by D.W. Griffith. Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Spottiswoode Aitken, Ralph Lewis. Avenging conscience: A young writer who was raised by a stern uncle falls in love with a young woman. When the uncle attempts to track down the woman, the nephew kills him and then sees ghosts. Based on "The Tell-tale heart" and "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe. Special feature: Edgar Allen Poe / directed by D.W. Griffith ; screenplay by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods; featuring Herbert Yost, Linda Arvidson (1909, 7 min.): a biographical short on one of history's most haunting writers. 91 min. DVD X621; vhs 999:1889

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The Black Cat (1934)

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi; David Manners; Jacqueline Wells; Lucille Lund. A bus crash on a lonely Austrian road compels American honeymooners to spend the night at the house of Herr Poelzig, a sinister looking man who is engaged in an intense death-feud with Dr. Werdegast, whom the couple met on the Orient Express. They attempt to leave only to discover that they are being held captive. Suggested by the i Edgar Allan Poe story. 66 min. DVD 5468; vhs 999:874

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Darkness There

Directed by Jimmy Tsai A modern interpretation of a classic tale by Edgar Allen Poe. UCB student film. 12 min. Video/C 6260

The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders. Convinced that his family's blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister's wedding. But when her fiance arrives at the haunted castle to claim his lovely bride he soon discovers that, for this family, their house is also their tomb! Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the House of Usher." 80 min. DVD 736

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Fall of the House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher) (1928)

Directed by Jean Epstein; Assistant Director, Buñuel. In an aristocratic English family the young lord finds to his horror, while painting his wife's portrait, that as the work progresses life drains from his lady. In this poetic horror film, called by some the most outstanding achievement of this genre, an absolute mastery of editing and rhythm is employed with lighting and Gothic sets combining to impart an unearthly sense of mystery. Based on two short stories by Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Oval Portrait". Silent film with music and French intertitles. 44 min. DVD 360; vhs 999:1377

O'Donoghue, Darragh. "On Some Motifs in Poe: Jean Epstein's La Chute de la maison Usher." Senses of Cinema vol. 30, pp. (no pagination), January 2004

The Fall of the House of Usher (1926-27)

Directed by J.S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber. DVD 4667

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Lunacy (2005)

Directed by Jan Svankmajer. In (supposedly) nineteenth-century rural France, a young man named Jean Berlot becomes caught up in the nightmarish world of a mysterious, decadent Marquis, orgiastic black masses, "therapeutic" funerals and an asylum with a smorgasbord of macabre treatments and tarred-and-feathered doctors. Features Svankmajer's usual mix of live action and stop-motion animation. Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. 126 min. DVD 8911

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Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee. The evil Prince Prospero is a devil worshipper and a tyrannical ruler. Anyone who stands against him is sentenced to death. Two men dare to denounce the Prince and are imprisoned. A beautiful woman pleads for their release, but is captured by the Prince for his own pleasures. The two prisoners are brought to the Prince at his "Masque Ball" for public torture. But there is one uninvited guest standing in the shadows waiting for the right moment to strike. From a story by Edgar Allan Poe. 88 min. DVD 1007

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Peary, Gerald. "The Masque of the Red Death." American Film 15.n9 (June 1990): 53

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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Directed by Cy Endfield. Cast: Sidney Fox; Bela Lugosi; Leon Waycoff; Bert Roach. A lunatic scientist scours Paris for a prospective bride for his pet gorilla. Inviting young ladies to his sinister laboratory, he injects his victims with gorilla's blood and then disposes of their ravaged bodies through an ingenious trapdoor. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. 60 min. DVD 5468

Woolf, Paul. "The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen." In: Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen / edited by R. Barton Palmer. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. (Main Stack PN1997.85.N54 2007)

The Oval Portrait

Directed and photographed by Richard L. Bare; story adapted by Richard L. Bare. Based on the Edgar Allan Poe story about an artist who is so obsessed with painting his lover's portrait that he doesn't notice she is dying with every stroke of his brush until it is too late! 1:42.08 DVD 8296

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast:Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Anthony Carbone. A young man's search for the truth of his sister's death uncovers a bizarre and ghastly secret -- and plunges him into a nightmarish torture devised by a notorious master of the Inquisition. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. 80 min. DVD 732

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Hogan, David. "High Priestess of Horror: Barbara Steele." In: Dark romance : sexuality in the horror film Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1986. (MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H591 1986; MOFF: PN1995.9.H6 H59 1986)

Worland, Rick. "AIP's Pit and the Pendulum: Poe as Drive-In Gothic." In: Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film / edited by Barry Keith Grant. pp: 307-320. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.P56 1984; Moffitt PN1995.9.H6.P56 1984)

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The Premature Burial (1962)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel. In a dark, deserted graveyard a mad doctor and two young medical students watch as workmen labor to exhume the body of someone thought to be buried alive. The discovery triggers an unexplainable reaction in Guy Carrell, one of the young students whose ancestors met their untimely deaths in strange and unusual ways and Guy is worried that he may be next. Based on the book by Edgar Allan Poe. 81 min. DVD 6952

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Der Rabe (Austria, 1951)

Directed by Kurt Steinwendner. Cast: Leopold Rudolf, Margit Jerguis. A short horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." In German without English subtitles. DVD 7765

The Raven (1935)

Directed by Louis Friedlander. Cast: Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi; Lester Matthews; Irene Ware. Dr. Vollin has a fetish for instruments of torture. After saving the life of a beautiful young girl, the doctor becomes infatuated with her and cooks up a scheme to torture and kill her fiance. When he teams up with an escaped killer who needs a new identity, the doctor turns him into a hideous monster to guarantee his subservience. Suggested by Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven." 61 min. DVD 5468

Spirits of the Dead (Histoires extraordinaires; Tre passi nel delirio) (France / Italy, 1968)

Presents three films based on the dark prose of Edgar Allan Poe. Metzengerstein, directed by Roger Vadim, with Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson, directed by Louis Malle, with Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelganger in a duel. Toby Dammit, directed by Federico Fellini, with Terence Stamp, is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed, and was liberally adapted from Edgar A. Poe's novel Don't Wager Your Head to the Devil. 121 min. DVD 1819

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Porcari, George. "Fellini's forgotten masterpiece: Toby Dammit." CineAction - Wntr 2007 i71 p9(5)

"Fellini's Toby Darnmit" an original adaptation.Full Text Available Film Criticism, Spring76, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p26-29, 4p

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Tales of Terror (1962)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Joyce Jameson. A trilogy of terror from the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In Morella a man blames his wife's death on his daughter. He sends her away but she returns 26 years later with her mother's spirit inhabiting her body to haunt the man. In The Black Cat, Fortunato takes Montresor home where he meets and falls in love with his wife, so Montresor buries them both alive. In The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Valdemar seeks relief from an evil mesmerist, who holds him in a state between life and death, until death itself intervenes. 85 min.vhs 999:1747

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The Telltale Heart (1928)

Directed by Leon Shamroy. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. "Influenced by 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' in its stylized set design, this Poe adaptation has a narrative-driven structure, without much experimentation in the line of, say, 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the American film), released in the same year. That does not mean it doesn't offer creative solutions for the storytelling. But it is a more modest film. The main actor is made to look like Poe himself, a nice idea in my opinion as Poe's stories are probably deeply related with his own neuroses and fears. Also, the actor playing the old man conveys exactly the image intended by Poe's text, especially the pale eyes with a film on them. Overall, a worthy film, recommended for fans of silent cinema." [Internet Movie Database] DVD 4667

An American Werewolf in London (UK, 1981)

Directed by John Landis. Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine. It's a rainy night on the Welsh moors. Two American students on a walking tour of Europe trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl ... Three weeks later, one is dead and the other is in the hospital. 98 min. DVD 8105

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The Curse of the Werewolf (UK, 1961)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller. A young man is unable to deny the dark forces within himself as he becomes an uncontrollable, seemingly unstoppable killer when the moon is full. 91 min. DVD 4450

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Ginger Snaps (2000)

Directed byJohn Fawcett. Cast: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers. Ginger and Brigitte, are two dysfunctional 15-year-old sisters trapped in the Canadian suburbs. Introverted and misanthropic, they are obsessed with mayhem, torture and death until they get a taste of the real thing. Bitten by a wild animal, Ginger begins to mutate into a sexually agressive woman with some nasty canine tendencies. Is it a virus? Is it a curse? Or the first step towards becoming a werewolf? Brigitte must fight to save Ginger and their classmates. 108 min. DVD 7527

Barker, Martin; Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier "Menstrual Monsters: The Reception of the Ginger Snaps Cult Horror Franchise." Film International, vol. 4, no. 3 [21], pp. 68-77, 2006

Bianca Nielsen, "'Something's Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female': Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps" thirdspace 3/2 (March 2004): 55-69

Flaherty, Erin M. "Howling (and Bleeding) at the Moon: Menstruation, Monstrosity and the Double in the Ginger Snaps Werewolf." Pace University, digital commons, 2008,

Mendik, Xavier. "Menstrual Meanings: Brett Sullivan Discusses Werewolves, Hormonal Horror and the Ginger Snaps Audience Research Project." Film International, vol. 4, no. 3 [21], pp. 78-83, 2006

Miller, April. "'The Hair That Wasn't There Before': Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed." Western Folklore, vol. 64, no. 3-4, pp. 281-303, Fall 2005

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Ruth, Linda "Ginger Snaps." Sight and Sound 11.6 (June 2001): p36(2).

Young, Suzie. "Snapping Up Schoolgirls: Legitimation Crisis in Recent Canadian Horror." In: Horror international Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2005 (Main PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)

The Howling (1980)

Directed by Joe Dante.. Cast: Dee Wallace-Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickins, Elisabeth Brooks. Severely traumatized by a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White takes time off at a secluded retreat called 'the Colony.' But when, after nights of being tormented by bestial , bloodcurdling cries, Karen ventures into the woods seeking answers, she makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her life-- but for her soul! Special features: "Unleashing the beast : making 'The howling'" multi-part documentary; deleted scenes; outtakes; "Making a monster movie : inside 'The howling'" documentary; audio commentary with director, Joe Dante, Dee Wallace, Christopher Stone and Robert Picardo; photo gallery; original theatrical trailers. 91 min. DVD X448

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Directed by Gene Fowler. Cast: Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Tony Marshall. A rebellious teenager is treated by a psychiatrist for his aggression, but the treatment is worse than the "disease." The teen becomes a werewolf and begins a murder spree that makes his past behavior seem like a stroll in the park! 75 min. 999:982

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Nazareno Cruz y el lobo las palomas y los gritos (The Nazarene Cross and the Wolf). (Argentina, 1975)

Directed by Leonardo Favio. Cast: Juan José Camero, Marina Magali, Lautaro Murua, Alfredo Alcon, Nora Cullen. A seventh son, Nazareno Cruz has a curse: if he falls in love, he will turn into a werewolf when there is a full moon. In Spanish without subtitles. 92 min. DVD 6911

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The She-Wolf of London (1946)

Directed by Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley, Lloyd Corrigan. A young woman fears that the family curse has turned her into a she-wolf committing a series of murders in London. Her fiance is determined to prove otherwise and sets out to unmask the real killer. 62 min. DVD 4603

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Werewolf of London (1935)

Directed by Stuart Walker. Cast: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington, Valerie Hobson. While on a botanical expedition in Tibet, Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked by a dark, strange animal. Back in London, he nightly turns into a werewolf and terrorizes the city. The only antidote is a rare Asian flower. 62 min. DVD 4603

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Wolf (1994)

Directed by Mike Nichols. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer. After publishing executive Will Randall is bitten by a wolf, his life begins to change. First his mood changes, and his sense of hearing and smell go into overdrive. Will has become a werewolf and he has an appetite for human blood. His newly found friend, Laura wants to help, but she doesn't know what Will is yet. If Will's new problem wasn't enough to keep him occupied he must also contend with Stewart who is out to get his job. 125 min. DVD X551

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The Wolf Man (1941)

Directed by George Waggner. Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya. The classic story of the young man who returns to his native village, courts a beautiful girl, kills a wolf who bites him first and becomes a wolf man! 70 min. DVD 522; vhs 999:484

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Wolfen (1981)

Directed by Michael Wadleigh. Cast: Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Dick O'Neill. Scary tale of a series of grisly murders in Manhattan, and the rumpled cop who finally discovers who (or what) is responsible. 114 min. DVD X457

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American Zombie (2007)

Directed by Grace Lee. Cast: Austin Basis, Suzy Nakamura, Al Vicente, Jane Edith Wilson, John Solomon. Story of two Los Angeles filmmakers who set out to document a group of high functioning zombies and their struggles to gain acceptance in human society. 91 min. DVD X44

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Biozombie (Sun faa sau si) (Hong Kong, 1998)

Directed by Yip Wai-Shun. Cast: Jordan Chan, Sam Lee, Angela Tong, Lai Yiu Cheung, Cheung Kam Ching. Out for a joy ride, Woody and Bee hit a pedestrian and end up with a dead body in their trunk! The dead body is infected with a strange biochemical formula, which transforms the hapless, mall-goers into an army of blood-hungry zombies! 90 min. DVD 7559

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Black Dragons (1942)

Directed by William Nigh. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke, Clayton Moore. Following the outbreak of World War II, Japanese spies known as "Black Dragons" ingeniously transformed by plastic surgery into doubles of prominent American business leaders, use their disguises to cause sabotage, labor unrest, and other measures to destroy the U.S. economy. The Nazi doctor who has performed the surgery now bears a grudge against the Japanese, visits the fifth columnists, and, after turning them into zombies, sadistically murders them. 61 min. DVD 5884

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The Boy From Hell (Jigoku kozô) (Japan, 2004)

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Carnival of Souls (1962)

Directed by Herk Harvey. Cast: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt, Herk Harvey. A church organist inexplicably survives a car wreck, and finds herself haunted by visions of ghouls who seem to be following her. Contents: Disc 1. Original theatrical version (78 min.) -- Disc 2. Extended director's cut (83 min.) Special features (Disc 1): Rare out takes, theatrical trailer, essay and photo gallery of Saltair (the film location) ; documentaries The movie that wouldn't die (30 min.) and Carnival tour (5 min.) ; -- Disc 2: Feature length commentary by director and screenwriter, essay on Centron Corporation and various film clips of their movies, interviews with Herk Harvey, John Clifford, and Candace Hilligoss. DVD 1744

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Corpse Bride (UK / USA, 2005)

Directed by Tim Burton. Voices: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee. This stop-motion animated feature follows the story of Victor. Having messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, Victor is traveling through the woods practicing his vows. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded wife. 80 min. DVD 5259

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The Crow (1994)

Director, Alex Proyas. Cast: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott. Exactly one year after a young rock guitarist and his fiancee are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, he returns, watched over by a hypnotic crow, to seek revenge against the crime lord and his band of thugs, who must answer for their crimes. 101 min. DVD 1388

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Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Directed by George A. Romero. Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross. The corpses of the recently-dead are returning to life and attacking the living, devouring their victims. Two members of the Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team and their friends land in a shopping mall occupied by the living dead. They secure the mall through brutal battles with the creatures, but can they escape both the bandits and the zombies? 127 min. DVD 2399

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Day of the Dead (1985)

Directed by George A. Romero. Cast: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joe Pilato, Richard Liberty. In this sequel to 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Dawn of the Dead', a nightmarish, flesh-eating army of walking corpses rules the Earth. Fortified in a vast underground bunker, a small band of scientists conducts grotesque experiments on captured ghouls in a desperate attempt to domesticate them. However, the brutal military men who share the scientists' refuge don't want the zombies controlled, they want them destroyed. 101 min. DVD 2398

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Dead Alive (aka Braindead) (New Zealand, 1992)

Directed by Peter Jackson. Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody. A hapless young man's overbearing mother gets him into a heap of trouble when she catches a bizarre zombie virus and starts turning innocent passersby into walking corpses. 97 min. DVD 7576

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Dead Girl Walking (Kaiki! Shinin shôjo) (Japan, 2004)

Directed by Koji Shiraishi. Cast: Ayaka Maeda, Katsumi Nagashio, Kansai Eto, Moe Karasawa. The unimaginable happens when Sayuri is pronounced "dead" by her doctor, but her body continues to function. Her wounds begin to fester and her body begins to rot. Her once loving family are now repulsed by her. She flees from them, but is snatched away by a strange man who runs a freak show, where she is forced to exhibit her putrefied body. Based on the horror comic strips of Hideshi Hino. 44 min. DVD 6794

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The Evil Dead (1981)

Directed by Sam Raimi. Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Sarah York. The evil dead lie in wait for the one ancient incantation that will give them license to attack the living. Five vacationing college students unwittingly resurrect these demons. One by one, the students are transformed into monsters whose own thirst for revenge becomes insatiable. 85 min. DVD 7529

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England, Marcia. "Breached Bodies and Home Invasions: Horrific representations of the feminized body and home." Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography; Apr2006, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p353-363, 11p

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Royer, Carl. "Horror, humor, poetry : Sam Raimi's Evil dead trilogy." In: The spectacle of isolation in horror films : dark parades / Carl Royer, Diana Royer. New York : Haworth Press, c2005. (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.H6 R69 2005)

The Evil Dead 2 (1987)

Directed by Sam Raimi. Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley. A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other. 84 min. DVD X637

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Fido (Canada, 2006)

Directed by Andrew Currie. Cast: Mary Anne Waterhouse, and actress Carrie-Anne Moss; deleted scenes with optional director commentary; theatrical trailer. Written by Robert Chomak, Andrew Currie and Dennis Heaton. Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, K'Shun Ray, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Czerny. Timmy's best friend in the whole world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. When Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the Earth to keep Fido a part of the family. 92 min. DVD X45

Enright, R. "The Domesticated Zombie: Andrew Currie's "Fido", 2007." Border Crossings v. 26 no. 2 (May 2007) p. 20-1

Thomson, Patricia. "Zombies in Suburbia." American Cinematographer; Jul2007, Vol. 88 Issue 7, p18-24, 4p

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I Am Legend (2007)

Directed by Francis Lawrence. Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan. Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson and the 1971 screenplay by John William Corrington & Joyce Corrington. Special features: Disc 1: Four animated comics "Death as a gift," "Isolation," "Sacrificing the few for the many," "Shelter" ; Cautionary tale; creating I am legend ; Disc 2: Alternate theatrical version of the film; digital copy (theatrical version). 100 min. DVD 9599

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I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell. A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition, and learns about local voodoo practices in her search for a cure. 68 min. DVD 4473; vhs 999:3640

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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies (1963)

Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. Cast: Brett O'Hara, Cash Flagg, Gene Pollock, Carolyn Brandt, Toni Camel, Erina Enyo, Ray Dennis Steckler, Atlas King. Cult horror film about a carnival fortuneteller who hypnotizes people and disfigures them with acid to make freaks for her sideshow. 80 min. DVD 7526

Ancuta, Katarzyna. "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies or How to Be the Living Dead in Technicolor." In: (Trans)-Formations I : identity and property : essays in cultural practice / edited by Wojciech Kalaga and Tandeusz Rachwa?. Katowice : Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, 2002. (Main Stack PN51.T695 2002)

The Last Man on Earth (1971)

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King of the Zombies (1941)

Directed by Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor. In World War II, a small plane crashes in an island between Cuba and Puerto Rico, but the pilot (Bill) and his two passengers (Mac and Jeff) survive. Bill is on a mission trying to find Admiral Arthur Wainwright, who vanished in that area. They are lodged by the Austrian Dr. Mikhail Sangre in his mansion. The scared Jeff finds that the place has zombies, but Mac and Bill do not believe on him. Later, they find that Dr. Sangre is a spy transferring the knowledge of the admiral and other prominent persons to the zombies. But can the fliers stop the mad scientist from using the zombies to aide the Axis powers? 67 min. DVD 9447

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Directed by George A. Romero. Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley. A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds--the devouring of human flesh. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity. 90 min. DVD 3161; vhs 999:825

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Occult Detective Club: the Doll Cemetery (Japan, 2004)

Directed by Kiyoshi Yamamoto. Cast: Sayaka Hosaka, Kazunori Tani, Hitomi Miwa. Out of curiosity, Nanami and Daisuke decide to join their high school's Occult Research Club. They are currently investigating a "curse" surrounding a student who committed suicide last year. An old doll found in the back of her closet may hold a clue. Daisuke is freaked out, while Nanami is intrigued, until she is possessed by the same spirit of the "doll." As a result, the group decides to investigate a criptic spot called "The doll cemetery," a wretched graveyard with piles of discarded mannequins and stuffed animals. Sensing intruders, the "dead" dolls suddenly come to life, and Nanami and the group must desperately fight off ghoulish toy clowns and zombie dolls. But what awaits them is far worse.... Based on the horror comic strips of Hideshi Hino. 54 min. DVD 6800

Planet Terror (2007)

Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton. After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doctor, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world. 105 min. DVD 8642

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Atkinson, Mike. "Grindhouse Cinema: Givers of the Viscera." Sight and Sound 17:6 (June 2007) p. 19-21

Benson-Allott, Caetlin. "Grindhouse: An Experiment in the Death of Cinema." Film Quarterly, Fall2008, Vol. 62 Issue 1, p20-24, 5p

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James, Nick. "Welcome to the grindhouse." Sight & Sound, Jun2007, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p16-18, 3p

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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2008)

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman. Cast: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham, Allyson Sereboff, Robin L. Watkins. Musical parody of zombie films, featuring chicken zombies. When the American Chicken Bunker, a military themed fast food restaurant, builds its latest chain restaurant on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits take revenge on unsuspecting diners and transform them into chicken zombies! Now, it's up to a dimwitted counterboy, his collegiate lesbian ex-girlfriend and a burqa-wearing fry cook to put an end to the foul feathered menace once and for all. Disc 1 extras: Lloyd Kaufman and Gabe Friedman cluck off (feature-length commentary) -- Food stuffs: Lloyd Kaufman and Gabe Friedman cluck off (feature length audio commentary) -- Food stuffs: Lloyd Kaufman and Gabe Friedman cluck off (feature length audio commentary) Original theatrical trailer ; "lovely scenes from Bergman's Virgin spring" ; Calamari safari music video: not by new found glory ; Count Smokula music video ; DVD credits -- Deep fried extras: The Toxic Avenger ; Terror firmer ; Citizen Toxie ; Class of Nuke 'Em High ; Tromeo and Juliet ; Radiation march. Disc 2 extras: "Poultry in motion: the truth is stranger than chicken" (behind the scenes cluck-u-mentary) ; "Poultrygeist: night of the chicken dead" (documentary, ca. 80 min.) -- Tromahawk nuggets: NYC premiere ; Cellu-Lloyd closet ; Make your own damn omelette ; Blow me...away : shooting the ACB explosion sequence ; Make your own damn movie sound design ; Recording the songs ; Designing the monsters ; The Poultrygeist rooftop re-shoots ; Filming the meat grinder ; Joe Fleishaker gets a head mold ; Deleted scenes ; Ron Jeremy's "happy ending" ; Charlotte Kaufman death scene - Time bomb! -- Deleted scenes -- Humus S-U-I-C-I-D-E song. Disc 3 extras: "American chicken bunker: chickens of mass consumption" ; Kara-Yolk-E! : Poultrygeist theme song ; Revenge is a dish best served fried ; Fast food love ; Generous general ; Longing to live waiting to die ; S-U-I-C-I-D-E -- Egg Stras: Trailers: Poultrygeist ; Toxic Avenger ; Special needs ; Bloodspit ; Coons ; Crazy animal. 103 min. DVD X520

Pure Blood (South Africa, 2000)

Directed by Ken Kaplan. Cast: Marius Weyers, Amanda Lane. This controversial dark comedy follows a young white police rookie, Fanus, living in a strangely unreal industrial town. His late father was a sinister general in the Apartheid regime and his long-lost older half brother has just returned home to resume an incestuous relationship with his mother. Little does Fanus know, his "racially pure" blood is the key to resurrecting his dead father and the sinister order he embodied! 90 min. DVD 4075

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Re-animator (1985)

Directed by Danny Boyle. Cast: Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson, Jeffrey Combs. Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Experimenting with a glowing green fluid, he successfully reanimates dead tissue. However, the dead are uncontrollable and difficult to subdue. Special features: (Disc 1) Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and, producer Brian Yuzna, and actors Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Robert Sampson. (Disc 2) Featurette: "Re-animator resurrectus" (70 min.) ; interviews with director Stuart Gordon, producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band ; music discussion with composer Richard Band ; interview with Fangoria editor Tony Timpone ; deleted scene ; extended scenes ; trailer ; TV spots ; production stills gallery ; behind-the-scenes still gallery ; fun on the set still gallery ; posters and advertising gallery ; storyboard gallery ; Stuart Gordon Bio. 86 min. DVD 7577

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Worland, Rick. "Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror." In: The horror film : an introduction / Rick Worland. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.W64 2007 Moffitt PN1995.9.H6.W64 2007)

Resident Evil (UK / Germany / France / USA, 2002)

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, Colin Salmon. A virus has escaped and infected a secret lab and the scientists turned into zombies. A special-operations force is sent to battle the virus before it infects the planet. Based upon Capcom's video game "Resident evil." Special features: Alternate ending; cast and filmmakers' commentary; visual effects commentary; 11 featurettes; filmographies; theatrical trailer. 101 min. DVD 7678

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Mayers, Dan. "Resident Evil." Sight & Sound Vol XII nr 6 (June 2002); p.50-51

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Shaun of the Dead (UK / France, 2004)

Directed by Edgar Wright. Cast: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Billy Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Jessica Stevenson. When flesh eating zombies go on the hunt for a bite to eat, it is up to Shaun and his best pal to save their friends and family from becoming the next entree. Special features: Missing bits: outrageous outtakes and all-new deleted scenes not shown in theaters; "Raw meat": never-before-seen casting tapes; Simon Pegg's video diary and special effects comparisons; TV bits: includes interview with Coldplay; plus uncensored commentary with the cast and crew; a zombie photo gallery; Zomb-o-meter (zombie-trivia) and more hilarious special features. 99 min. DVD 7578

Cox, David. "Gross-Out Horror Meets Slacker Comedy British-Style in Shaun of the Dead, A Cult Sitcom Director's Movie Debut" Film Comment. May/Jun 2004. Vol. 40, Iss. 3; pg. 14, 2 pgs

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Moribundity, Mundanity and Modernity: Shaun of the Dead." Screen Education, Winter2008 Issue 50, p99-103, 5p; (AN 33160420)

Maio, Kathi. "Mission Accomplished at the Zombie Jamboree." Fantasy & Science Fiction. Oct/Nov 2007. Vol. 113, Iss. 4/5; pg. 192, 5 pgs

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Michel, Frann "Life and Death and Something in Between: Reviewing Recent Horror Cinema." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Dec 2007. Vol. 12, Iss. 4; pg. 390, 8 pgs

Newman, K. "Shaun of the Dead." Sight & Sound v. ns14 no. 5 (May 2004) p. 72-3

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They Came Back (Les Revenants) (France, 2004)

Directed by Robin Campillo. Cast: Geraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frederic Pierrot, Catherine Samie, Victor Garrivier, Djemel Barek, Marie Matheron, Saady Delas. One morning, a small French city wakes up to discover thousands of recently dead people walking into town. The reason why is a mystery and there is no time to look into it. Hasty reunions--some passionate, some strained-- occur with their survivors. But can they be reintegrated into society when their jobs have been filled and their partners have moved on? As officials try to figure out that to do with them, the dead begin behaving in bizarre ways and it becomes apparent that the returnees are not exactly who they used to be. 103 min. DVD 8272

28 Days Later (UK, 2002)

Directed by Danny Boyle. Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson. An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come. 113 min. DVD 2274

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Johnson, Brian D. "Disease, Monsters And Metaphor." Maclean's; 7/1/2003-7/8/2003, Vol. 116 Issue 26/27, p85, 3p

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Kermode, Mark. "28 Days Later." Sight and Sound. Dec 2002. Vol. 12, Iss. 12; p. 59

Lane, Anthony. "Days Of Plague: The Current Cinema" The New Yorker. Jun 30, 2003. Vol. 79, Iss. 17; pg. 102

Williams, G. Christopher. "Birthing an Undead Family: Reification of the Mother's Role in the Gothic Landscape of 28 Days Later." Gothic Studies, Nov2007, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p33-44, 44p

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Uncle Sam: I Want You ... Dead(1996 )

Directed by William Lustig. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Bo Hopkins, Isaac Hayes, David Fralick. A sadistic Army helicopter gunner named Sam Harper was shot down by friendly fire during the Gulf War. Five years later his widow, sister, and nephew are doing fine, until the sealed casket shows up with Sam's body in it. Soon the charred demon rises from the dead and begins killing everyone who doesn't give Uncle Sam his proper due. 90 min. DVD 5421

Undead or Alive (2007)

Directed by Glasgow Phillips. Cast: Chris Kattan, James Denton, Navi Rawat, Matt Besser, Chris Coppola, Leslie Jordan. In this unusual take on the Old West, an innocent cowboy, Luke, with his reluctant new partner, Elmer, fleece a crooked sheriff and attempt to disappear into the desert. Only Geronimo's smart and beautiful niece, Sue, can help them break a mysterious Indian curse and escape from Sheriff Zombie's bloodthirsty posse. Will romance between Luke and Sue blossom, or will the undead permanently keep them apart? 91 min. DVD 9279

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White Zombie (1932)

Directed by Victor Halperin. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer. In this classic horror film, a magician uses his powers to raise the dead to supply zombie laborers for the sinister plantation owner Beaumont. 73 min. DVD 5974

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And So Died Riabouchinska (Ray Bradbury Theater)(TV, 1988)

Directed by Denys Granier-Deferre. Cast: Alan Bates, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Patti Layne, Annabelle Mouloudji. A detective finds there are strings attached to a murder case involving a ventriloquist. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury. DVD 5761 (disc 1)

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And So Died Riabouchinska (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)(TV, 1956)

Directed by Robert Stevenson. Cast: Charles Bronson, Claude Rains. A dead man is found in the basement of a theater, and a detective comes to investigate. He learn that the deceased had been seen near the theater asking for Fabian, the ventriloquist. As the detective questions Fabian in his dressing room, a voice comes from the box in which Fabian's female dummy is stored. When the dummy, Riabouchinska, continues to talk, the detective is annoyed, thinking that the ventriloquist is trying to be funny. But the detective humors him and 'talks' to the dummy, and he soon learns about a web of tensions involving Fabian, his wife, and his manager. Much of the tension concerns the dummy - and there is also a connection with the dead man. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury. DVD 4467

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Child's Play (1988)

Directed by Tom Holland. Cast: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff. Six-year-old Andy is thrilled when he gets a brand-new cheery Chucky doll for his birthday. But he quickly discovers that Chucky is possessed by the soul of a notorious serial killer who swiftly begins terrorizing Andy, his ill-fated babysitter and his disbelieving mom. And he doesn't stop there. Proving he's nobody to toy with, the demonic doll schemes to transfer his evil spirit out of its "kid-friendly" container-- and into Andy. Special features: Audio commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chucky designer Kevin Yagher; Audio commentary with producer David Kirschner and screenwriter Don Mancini; Scene specific Chucky commentary; "Evil comes in small packages" featurette: The birth of Chucky, Creating the horror, Unleashed; "Chucky: building a nightmare" featurette; "A monster convention" featurette; "Introducing Chucky: the making of 'Child's play'" vintage featurette; Still photo gallery. 87 min. DVD X532

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Dead of Night (UK, 1945)

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer. Ealing Studios. An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences and finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. The last of the stories, another directed by Cavalcanti, was to become the most celebrated. It concerned a ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) who is becoming possessed by his dummy, which has a repugnant persona. The dummy leads its host to degradation, murder, a prison cell and madness. The possession motif is one that has been revived in the cinema, and Richard Attenborough's Magic (1979) even used the idea of an apparently animate dummy inspiring murder. The story was later adapted for the television show Twilight Zone [See: DVD 2607 ] DVD 4092; vhs 999:1124

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Dead Silence (2007)

Directed by Tom Holland. Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Fairman, Joan Heney, Bob Gunton, Laura Regan, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Judith Roberts, Keir Gilchrist, Steven Taylor, David Talbot, Steve Adams, Shelley Peterson. After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. Special features: Alternate opening; alternate endings; deleted scenes; the making of Dead silence; May Shaw's secrets; evolution of visual FX; Alden's "We sleep forever" music video. 91 min. DVD X533

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Devil Doll (1936)

Directed by Tod Browning. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano. Barrymore, a framed escaped con, disguises himself as a kindly old lady running a toy store, from whence he sends tiny assassins he created with a mad scientist's shrinking serum out to get the men who set him up. 78 min. DVD 6520

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The Glass Eye (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)(TV, 1957)

Directed by Robert Stevens. Cast: Jessica Tandy, Tom Conway, Rosemary Harris, William Shatner, Billy Barty. "When a man called Jim and his wife Dorothy are going through his dead sister Julia's apartment, he tells her the story of Julia's one and only love, about forty years before, and how it ends with a strange glass eye she kept on the dresser. When Julia was about thirty, she went to see the performance of a ventriloquist by the name of Max Collodi, and his dummy George. She fell in love with him at first sight. Julia then started following him across the country, watching all of his shows, until she finally wrote him a letter, asking to meet him. Julia kept asking, and Max finally agreed, saying that she would be only to stay five minutes, but the visits could be longer if she continued to wish to see him. She came to his hotel room, and found him sitting in the dark with George. They had a pleasant conversation, but it came to an abrupt end when Julia tried to touch Max. He fell over to the ground and his head popped off, letting one of his eyes roll on the ground. To make things more horrific, George then stood up and shouted angrily for her to leave. She ran out screaming, having realized, to her horror, that Max was actually George's dummy. In her haste, she picked up one of Max's glass eyes, and has kept it ever since. After the whole love affair, Max Collodi disappeared and no one knows what happened to him, but Jim states that he believes George is now part of a traveling circus." [IMDB] DVD 8927

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Pinocchio's Revenge (1996)

Directed by Kevin S. Tenney. Cast: Rosalind Allen, Brittany Alyse Smith, Lewis van Bergen, Todd Allen, Candace McKenzie, Aaron Lustig. A little girl's delight at having her own Pinocchio puppet proves short-lived when it becomes apparent that a demon dwells within it. Pretty soon the murderous marionette goes on a horrible killing spree. 96 min. DVD X534

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Poltergeist (1982)

Directed by Tobe Hooper. Screenplay by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais & Mark Victor Cast: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein. Life is very pleasant for a California family until a host of other-worldly forces invade their peaceful suburban home. Their house is turned into a supernatural sideshow, and if the family doesn't clear out, they will be swept off into nightmarish chaos. Features an unnerving sequence in which a toy clown in the kids' room take on a murderous life of its own. Special features: "They are here: the real world of poltergeists revealed" documentary in 2 parts: "Science of the spirits" and "Communing with the dead." 114 min. DVD 8731

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Puppet Master (1989)

Directed by David Schmoeller. Cast: William Hickey, Paul Le Mat, Jimmie F. Scaggs, Irene Miracle, Robin Frates, Barbara Crampton, Alex Whittaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon's secret of death in the form of five killer puppets--each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem. 85 min. DVD X535

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Cannibals and Other Non-Zombie Flesh Eaters

Cannibal Holocaust(1980)

Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Banned and heavily censored the world over, here is a film that is so intense, graphic and unflinching in its realistic portrayal of cannibalism that the director and producer were arrested upon its original release. Tells the story of a professor who searches for four documentary filmmakers who disappeared into "the green inferno," a.k.a. Amazon River country. Eventually he meets the tribe responsible for the crew's demise and returns to the U.S. with several rolls of "found footage." Disc 1. Cannibal holocaust -- Disc 2. In the jungle, the making of Cannibal holocaust (documentary, 60 min.) ; interviews with Deodato, Kerman and co-str Gabriel Yorke ; still gallery and poster art ; original theatrical trailers ; Necrophagia, Cannibal holocaust music video ; biographies. 96 min. DVD 5250

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Brottman, Mikita. Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cinema vomitif Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.B67 1997)

Jackson, Neil. "Cannibal Holocaust, Realist Horror and Reflexivity." Post Script: Essays in Film & the Humanities. 21(3):32-45. 2002 Summer

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Jauregui, Carolina Gabriela. ""Eat it alive and swallow it whole!": Resavoring Cannibal Holocaust as a Mockumentary." Invisible Culture, Issue 7

Kerekes, David. Killing for culture: An illustrated history of death film from mondo to snuff New, rev. and updated ed. London ; San Francisco : Creation Books, 1995. (Main Stack PN1995.9.D37.K47 1995; Moffitt PN1995.9.D37.K47 1995)

Delicatessen (France, 1991)

Directors, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro. Cast: Dominique Pino, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard. In this futuristic comedy, set in a starving, post-holocaust France, a butcher keeps his customers supplied by his cannibalistic tendencies. But when his daughter falls in love with a circus performer, only an underground band of vegetarian freedom fighters can save her beloved from the meat cleaver. 100 min. DVD 5505; also DVD 2648 (PAL, 95 min.)

Romney, J. "Delicatessen." Sight & Sound v. ns1 (January 1992) p. 41-2

Eating Raoul (1982)

Directed by Paul Bartel. Cast: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley, Jr., Buck Henry. Paul and Mary live in an apartment complex in L.A. that is being mistaken for a swingers establishment. One day Paul finds Mary fighting off a swinger and hits him with a frying pan. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide how to dispose of the body. 83 min. DVD 2574

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Corliss, R. "Eating Raoul." Time v. 120 (October 4 1982) p. 82

Bartel, P. "Paul Bartel's guilty pleasures." {Eating Raoul}. Film Comment v. 18 (September/October 1982) p. 60-2

"Eating Raoul." Film Comment v. 17 (July/August 1981) p. 6+

Kroll, J. "Eating Raoul." Newsweek v. 100 (October 11 1982) p. 103

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Director, Wes Craven. Cast: Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Michael Berryman, Virginia Vincent, James Whitworth. The Carter family's going on vacation, crossing the desert headed for California. But when they take an ill-advised short cut, crash, and are stranded deep inside an "isolated" air force testing range, they are attacked by a mysterious, terrifying group of modern cannibalistic savages. Special features: Audio commentary with Wes Craven and Peter Locke; "Looking back on The hills have eyes," an all-new documentary; "The directors: the films of Wes Craven," a career retrospective of Wes Craven; alternate ending; theatrical trailers; TV spots; behind-the-scenes photos; posters & advertising art; original storyboard art. 89 min. DVD 2094

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2007)

Directed by Tim Burton. Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ed Sanders, Anthony Head, Peter Bowles. Summary Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's amorous accomplice who creates diabolical meat pies out of the remains of Mr. Todd's victims. Special features: Commentary by Tim Burton; "Burton + Depp + Carter = Todd" featurette. 117 min. DVD X1089

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(1982)

Directed for television by Terry Hughes. Cast: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, and the original Broadway cast. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by Hugh Wheeler; directed for the stage by Harold Prince; production designer, Eugene Lee; lighting, Ken Billington; costumes, Franne Lee; musical director, Paul Gemignani; dance and movement. Cast: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, and the original Broadway cast. A staged version of the 1982 national tour of the Broadway musical set in 1846 London. Times are hard and one must make do, so Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd. 139 min. DVD 3150

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2001)

Directed by Lonny Price. Cast: Cast: Patti LuPone, George Hearn, Davis Gaines, Victoria Clark, Timothy Nolen, John Aler, Lisa Vroman, Neil Patrick Harris, Stanford Olsen ; San Francisco Symphony ; San Francisco Symphony Chorus. A staged concert version of the 2001 tour featuring the original Broadway cast of the darkly comic story of a razor-wielding barber seeking revenge in turn-of-the-century London and the sly meat pie seller who helps dispose of his handiwork. 139 min. Performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco in July 2001. DVD 2002

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Directed by Tobe Hooper. SEE Slashers, Serials Killers, Psychos, Maniacs

We're Going to Eat You (Di yu wu men) (Hong Kong, 1980)

Directed by Hark Tsui. Cast: Han Guocai, Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong, Feng Feng, Tony Liu, Siu- Ming To, Hon Gwok Choi, Din Long Lee, Cory Yuen. Agent 999 is on a mission in pursuit of a bandit called Rolex. On the route he goes to a remote island where local people are all merciless cannibals. 90 min. DVD 7506

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Silence of the Lambs (and other Hannibal Lecter films) (1991)

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Mummies and Other Tightly Wrapped Creatures

Frost, Brian J. The essential guide to mummy literature Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008. (MAIN: PR830.T3 F76 2008)

Eyes of the Mummy (Die Augen der Mumie Ma: Drama in 4 Akten) (Germany, 1918)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Max Laurence (Furst Hohenfels), Harry Liedtke (Albert Wendland, ein Maler), Emil Jannings (Radu, ein Araber), Pola Negri (Ma). An Egyptian girl is held hostage in an ancient Egyptian temple by an ominous Arab. After being rescued by an Englishman, she moves to Great Britain, but is soon haunted by her former nemesis. 88 min. DVD 6484

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The Egyptian Mummy (1914)

Directed by Lee Beggs. Cast: Constance Talmadge, Lee Beggs, Joel Day. In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments. DVD 8450

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The Mummy (1932)

Directed by Karl Freund. Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan. A mummy is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a British archeology team. Dressed in the garb of a modern-day Egyptian, he sets out to find his lost love, terrorizing the members of the expedition who must find a way to stop him. 74 min. DVD 520; vhs 999:2860

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The Mummy (UK, 1959)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux. Feliz Aylmer, Raymond Huntley, Eddie Byrne, George Postel. Three British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it an evil curse falls on them for having woken up the mighty guard of the grave who was buried with the priest. 88 min. DVD 6484

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The Mummy (1999)

Director, Stephen Sommers. Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Jonathan Hyde, Kevin J. O'Connor. As punishment for killing Pharaoh Seti and sleeping with his mistress, Egyptian priest Imhotep was mummified alive and cursed. But in 1923 he is inadvertently resurrected by treasure hunters and must be stopped before he can wreak his final vengeance on the world. 125 min. DVD 2095

Hall, M. A. "Romancing the Stones: Archaeology in Popular Cinema." European Journal of Archaeology v. 7 no. 2 (August 2004) p. 159-76

Simpson, Philip L. "The horror "event" movie : The mummy, Hannibal, and Signs." In: Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004. (Main Stacks PN1995.9.H6 H674 2004)

The Monstrous Body / The Body Defiled / Monstrous Disease

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Directed by Robert Fuest. Cast: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas, Virginia North. Long thought dead, the victim of a horrible accident, Dr. Anton Phibes still lives, surrounded by art-deco bric-a-brac and attended by mute beauty Vulnavia. Outwardly normal in appearance, Phibes actually wears a rubber mask, covering his hideously deformed countenance; giving away the artifice is the fact that, when he dines, he takes his food through his neck rather than his mouth. Able to speak only when plugging a wire into his damaged vocal chords, Phibes elucidates his plan to murder the medical team whom he holds responsible for the death of his wife. 95 min. DVD 3999

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Benshoff, Harry M. "Vincent Price and Me: Imagining the Queer Male Diva." Camera Obscura; Jan2008, Vol. 22 Issue 67, p146-150, 5p

Worland, Rick. "Faces behind the mask: Vincent Price, Dr, Phibes, and the horror genre in transition." Post Script XXII:2 (Winter-Spring 2003)

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Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

Directed by Robert Fuest. Cast: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing, Beryl Reid, Terry-Thomas. Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways to invoke a magical incantation. His search for the elixer of life leads him into mortal combat with the invincible Biederback. 89 min. DVD 3999

Worland, Rick. "Faces behind the mask: Vincent Price, Dr, Phibes, and the horror genre in transition." Post Script XXII:2 (Winter-Spring 2003)

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Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

Directed by Robert Florey. Screenplay, Curt Siodmak. Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Nash. A concert pianist is partially paralyzed and retires to a gloom-filled mansion with only his secretary and a nurse to look after him. After his sudden, violent death, his disembodied hand returns to the mansion to traumatize his secretary and commit a series of shocking murders. 89 min. vhs 999:3686

The Body Snatcher (1945)

Directed by Robert Wise. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wad[e], Sharyn Moffett. A surgeon and teacher of anatomy needs fresh cadavers for classroom demonstrations and pays a sinister cabman to supply them. When the cemeteries become more closely guarded, the cabman turns to other means to provide the bodies. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. 78 min. DVD 4473

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Coma (1978)

Directed by Michael Crichton. Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark. Young doctor at Boston hospital finds that patients suffer irreparable brain damage when supposed minor operations are performed. Determined to find the cause of these mysterious events, she turns to her boyfriend and a senior physician for help. But as her investigation unfolds, Susan uncovers a horrific conspiracy and suddenly finds herself marked for death. 114 min. 999:2183

Corridors of Blood (UK, 1958)

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Dead Ringers (Canada / USA, 1988)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Identical twin gynecologists, one suave, the other introspective, share the same medical practice, the same apartment and the same women. When one special woman enters their lives, their bizarre bond is threatened for the first time, sending them into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness. 117 min. DVD 4083; vhs 999:2113

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Doctor X (1932)

Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford. When the moon is full, murder stalks the streets in this classic chiller. An investigative reporter traces the trail of corpses to the suspicious Dr. Xavier and his medical college, where grisly experiments are being performed. 76 min. DVD 6522

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Return of Doctor X (1931)

Directed by Vincent Sherman. Cast: Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Lya Lys, Huntz Hall. New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she shows up alive and threatens to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with "Dr. Xavier" who is an expert on human blood. Barnett then finds a connection to a series of gruesome murders where the victims were all found drained of blood. 61 min. DVD 6522

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Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux sans visage) (France, 1959)

Directed by Georges Franju. A distinguished surgeon kidnaps young women intending to graft their features onto his daughter's disfigured face. 88 min. DVD 3065; vhs 999:477

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Face of Another (Tanin no kao) (Japan, 1966)

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyo, Mikijiro Hira, Kyoko Kishida, Miki Irie, Eiji Okada, Minoru Chiaki, Hideo Kanze, Kunie Tanaka, Bibari Maeda, Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshie Minami. Okuyama, after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations. 124 min. DVD 9081

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The Fly (1958; 1986)

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Freakmaker (aka Doctor of evil; Mutation) (UK, 1974)

Directed by Jack Cardiff. Cast Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege, Michael Dunn, Scott Antony, Jill Haworth, Olga Anthony. Professor Nolter, a renowned university teacher, believes it is man's destiny to survive an uncertain future by evolving into a hybrid plant/human mutation. To test his theories, Nolter experiments on abducted young co-eds, fusing them with mutant plants developed in his laboratory. 92 min. DVD 7850

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Freaks (1932)

Directed by Tod Browning. The side-show freaks have created their own unified community within the carnival. When the beautiful trapeze artist marries one of the freaks for his money, and then plots to kill him, the enraged freaks defend their friend and take gruesome revenge on their betrayers, transforming the aerialist into the most hideous side-show attraction of all. 66 min. DVD 2830; vhs 999:80

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The Hands of a Stranger (1962)

Directed by Newton Arnold. Cast: Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, James Stapleton, Irish McCalla, Barry Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Ted Otis. Famous pianist Vernon Paris' hands are crushed in a car accident. An ambitious doctor grafts new hands onto him in a revolutionary experimental operation. Unbeknownst to Paris, the hands are those of a killer and they begin to take over his life, forcing him to commit heinous acts and murder. Adapted by Louis Nerz from the novel by Maurice Renard 85 min. DVD 9962

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Olney, Ian. "The Problem Body Politic, or 'These Hands Have a Mind All Their Own!': Figuring Disability in the Horror Film Adaptations of Renard's Les Mains d'Orlac." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 294-302, 2006

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The Hands of Orlac (Olac's hande) (Germany / Austria, 1925)

Directed by Robert Wiene. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri. A noted concert pianist's hands are severed in a train wreck. A surgeon grafts the hands of an executed strangler onto Orlac's wrists and he begins to believe he is possessed with the mind of the strangler. 98 min. DVD 9343; vhs 999:3706

Evans, A. "The Fantastic Science Fiction of Maurice Renard." Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Nov., 1994), pp. 380-396

Goldberg, Ruth. "Of mad love, alien hands and the film under your skin." Kinoeye, Vol 2 Issue 4 18 Feb, 2002

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House of Wax (1953)

Directed by Vincent Price. Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Roy Roberts, Angela Clarke, Paul Cavanagh, Dabbs Greer, Charles Buchinsky, Reggie Rymal. Jarrod, an acclaimed wax sculptor goes from slightly wacko to completely deranged when he loses both his art showcase and the use of his hands in an arsonist's inferno. The flame scarred Jarrod rebuilds his house of wax by dipping his victims in wax! Both critics and the public praise his new works. But a lone voice cries murder when heroine Sue Allen discovers a wax figure with an uncanny resemblance to her missing friend. As she sets out to prove his guilt, she hardly knows the horrors that await her. 88 min. DVD 3925; vhs 999:1114

Benshoff, Harry M. "Vincent Price and Me: Imagining the Queer Male Diva." Camera Obscura; Jan2008, Vol. 22 Issue 67, p146-150, 5p

Heffernan, Kevin. "Horror in three dimensions: House of wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon." In: Ghouls, gimmicks, and gold : horror films and the American movie business, 1953-1968 Durham : Duke University Press, 2004. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H45 2004)

House of Wax (Australia / USA, 2005)

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Richard. When their car breaks down on the way to a college football game, six friends become sidetracked and set foot into an eerie backwoods town. Curiosity gets the better of them when they are intrigued by its macabre 'House of Wax'. They soon find out that the town is not what it seems and they must find their way out before they fall victim to its ghoulishly inventive killers. 113 min. DVD 5195

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Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Directed by William Dieterle. Cast: Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshall, Walter Hampden, Katherine Alexander. Charles Laughton stars as Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame and Maureen O'Hara is Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy he rescues and defends. Special DVD features: Behind-the-scenes documentary, interview with Maureen O'Hara, production notes, theatrical trailer. 117 min. DVD 8966; vhs 999:391

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Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923; silent)

Directed by Wallace Worsley. Cast: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Raymond Hatton. A drama about a hunchback bellringer in the Cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI who falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl. 99 min. DVD 6193; vhs 999:818

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Anderson, Robert Gordon. Faces, forms, films; the artistry of Lon Chaney New York, Castle Books [c1971] (Main: PN2287.C48 .A8 1971; PFA PN2287.C48 .A8 1971)

Beck, Calvin. "Lon Chaney." In: Heroes of the horrors. New York, Collier Books [1975] (PFA: PN1998.A2 B38 1975)

Blake, Michael F. The Films of Lon Chaney Lanham : Madison Books, 2001. (Main PN2287.C48 B57 2001; PFA PN2287.C48 B57 2001)

Blake, Michael F. Lon Chaney : the man behind the thousand faces Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, 1993. (Main PN2287.C48 B58 1993)

Bodeen, DeWitt. "Lon Chaney." In: From Hollywood : the careers of 15 great American stars South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, c1976 (Main: PN1998.A2 .B62 1976)

Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV, 1982)

Directed by Michael Tuchner. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet, Gerry Sundquist, Tim Pigott-Smith, John Gielgud, Robert Powell, Lesley-Anne Down. A drama about a hunchback bellringer in the Cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI who falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl. 102 min. 999:1506

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Infection (Kansen) (Japan, 2004)

Directed by Masayuki Ochiai. Cast: Koichi Sato, Masanobu Takashima, Mari Hoshino, Michiko Hada, Kaho Minami, Shiro Sano. A patient in a hospital dies due to malpractice. In a panic, the doctors who are responsible stage a cover-up. Meanwhile, an ambulance leaves a patient in the emergency with a lethal infection. When the muscles and internal organs of the patient liquefy, Dr. Kiyoshi Akai convinces his two colleagues to examine and research the virus, leading the employees of the night shift to a tragic end. 98 min. DVD 6941

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Mad Love (1935)

Directed by Karl Freund. Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Edward Brophy. An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her husband's wounded pianist's hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives. 68 min. DVD 6520; vhs 999:3620

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Goldberg, Ruth. "Of mad love, alien hands and the film under your skin." Kinoeye, Vol 2 Issue 4 18 Feb, 2002

Draper, Ellen. "Zombie Women When the Gaze Is Male." Wide Angle: A Film Quarterly of Theory, Criticism, and Practice, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 52-62, 1988

Mank, Gregory W. "Mad Love." In: Hollywood cauldron : thirteen horror films from the genre's golden age / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c1994 (Main (Gardner) Stacks PN1995.9.H6 M315 1994)

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Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Directed by Roger Corman. Cast: Ray Milland, Diana van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles. Dr. James Xavier is a world renowned scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He devises a drug, that when applied to the eyes, enables the user to see beyond the normal realm of our sight (ultraviolet rays etc.) it also gives the user the power to see through objects. Xavier tests this drug on himself, when his funding is cut off. As he continues to test the drug Xavier begins to see, not only through walls and clothes, but through the very fabric of reality! 77 min. DVD X607

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The Man Who Laughs (1927)

Director, Paul Leni. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, Cesare Gravina. A nobleman's son is kidnapped and then mutilated by a gypsy "surgeon" who carves a permanent smile on the man by order of King James II. He becomes a clown with a circus troupe where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful blind girl, the one person who cannot be repulsed by his appearance. 110 min. DVD 1916

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allan Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister. This is a long lost color print, unearthed by the American Film Institute, of a horror classic about a deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask. He opens a wax museum in which he dips his human victims in wax until one woman becomes suspicious of his activities and begins to work to reveal his guilt. 77 min. DVD 3925; vhs 999:1118

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Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Directed by Rupert Julian. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe. A horror/melodrama about a hideous-looking man who lives in the catacombs below the Paris Opera House and his unrequited love affair with an opera starlet whom he tutors. DVD includes restored version of 1929. 79 min. DVD 3914; vhs 999:802

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Williams, Andrew P. "The Silent Threat: A (Re)Viewing of the 'Sexual Other' in The Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu." Midwest Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 90-101, Fall 1996

Anderson, Robert Gordon. Faces, forms, films; the artistry of Lon Chaney New York, Castle Books [c1971] (Main: PN2287.C48 .A8 1971; PFA PN2287.C48 .A8 1971)

Beck, Calvin. "Lon Chaney." In: Heroes of the horrors. New York, Collier Books [1975] (PFA: PN1998.A2 B38 1975)

Blake, Michael F. The Films of Lon Chaney Lanham : Madison Books, 2001. (Main PN2287.C48 B57 2001; PFA PN2287.C48 B57 2001)

Blake, Michael F. Lon Chaney : the man behind the thousand faces Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, 1993. (Main PN2287.C48 B58 1993)

Bodeen, DeWitt. "Lon Chaney." In: From Hollywood : the careers of 15 great American stars South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, c1976 (Main: PN1998.A2 .B62 1976)

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Directed by Arthur Lubin. Cast: Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo. A melodrama about a strange man who lives in the catacombs below the Paris Opera House and his love affair with an opera starlet whom he tutors. Based on the book entitled Le Fantome de l'Opera, by Gaston Leroux. 93 min. DVD 521

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The Phantom of the Opera (UK, 1962)

Directed by Terence Fisher. Cast: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters. A madman called the Phantom terrorizes an opera house. When a singer named Christine is contacted by the specter, her producer tracks him to his underground lair and finds he is a brilliant but disfigured composer demanding revenge. Christine is the Phantom's only weakness and he pays the ultimate price to keep his love for her. 85 min. DVD 4450

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Quarantine (2008)

Directed by John Erick Dowdle. Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez, Johnathon Schaech, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Dania Ramirez, Rade Sherbedgia. Assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire station, television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman, go out on a routine 911 call. It takes them to a small apartment building where they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams. Something unknown has infected a woman living in the building. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, the residents of the building, along with the news crew, find that the CDC has quarantined the building. All outside information access has been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape. Based on the motion picture [Rec] by Jaume Balagueró & Luiso Berdejo & Paco Plaza. 89 min. DVD X1611

The Ravaged House: Zoroku's Disease (Japan, 2004)

Directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. Cast: Marie Kawaguchi, Satoshi Morishita. Without warning, one day a kind young man is ravaged by a bizarre disease that blisters his skin and deforms his body. Fearful that the villagers will see his grotesque transformation, his parents lock him up in the house. But the village chief's son sees him and soon, he is ostracized by his community and his sister is viciously assaulted. Unable to watch his suffering any futher his parents reluctantly decide to end his misery themselves. He and his sister escape from the confines of the house...but to what end? Based on the horror comic strips of Hideshi Hino. 63 min. DVD 6799

[Rec] (Spain, 2007)

Directed by Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza. Cast: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso, David Vert, Vicente Gil, Martha Carbonell, Carlos Vincente, Ma Teresa Ortega, Manuel Bronchud, Akemi Goto, Kao Chen-Min, Maria Lanau, Claudia Silva, Javier Botet, Ben Temple. A beautiful, young TV reporter and her crew cover the night shift at the local fire station. When the station receives a call from an old lady trapped in the her apartment, the reporter and crew decide to ride along. Once the building is sealed off, the news crew, firefighters, and residents all become trapped inside, and with the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself. 78 min. DVD X1885

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Teeth (2007)

Director, Mitchell Lichtenstein. Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny von Dohlen. Dawn is a pretty high school virgin who unknowingly has a set of mutant teeth between her legs. Caught between her emerging sexuality and a host of oversexed young men, Dawn eventually gives in to her freakish powers. 94 min. DVD X144

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They Came From Within (Shivers) (Canada, 1974)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Migicovsky, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele. A bizarre mystery of a deadly disease that causes its victims to perform barbarous acts of violence and perverse sexual behavior. Life is ideal on Starliner Island. The wealthy people who reside in this secluded oasis are surrounded by every possible luxury and convenience. It's the atmosphere of easy country living while being in the midst of a large city. Starliner Tower is the showpiece of the island, with its own shops, recreational facilities, and private medical clinic. The residents couldn't be more secure ... until it happened! Suddenly, a strange disease is passed from resident to resident gaining virulence with each passing day. 91 min. 999:3747

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The Unknown (1927)

Director, Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford. Alonzo the Armless (Chaney) throws knives for a living -- with his feet, because he is supposedly armless. Nanon Zanzi (Crawford) is his assistant who, fearful of the touch of any man's hand, fancies him. Perhaps Chaney's most bizarre work. 61 min. DVD 2359

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Anderson, Robert Gordon. Faces, forms, films; the artistry of Lon Chaney New York, Castle Books [c1971] (Main: PN2287.C48 .A8 1971; PFA PN2287.C48 .A8 1971)

Beck, Calvin. "Lon Chaney." In: Heroes of the horrors. New York, Collier Books [1975] (PFA: PN1998.A2 B38 1975)

Blake, Michael F. The Films of Lon Chaney Lanham : Madison Books, 2001. (Main PN2287.C48 B57 2001; PFA PN2287.C48 B57 2001)

Blake, Michael F. Lon Chaney : the man behind the thousand faces Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, 1993. (Main PN2287.C48 B58 1993)

Bodeen, DeWitt. "Lon Chaney." In: From Hollywood : the careers of 15 great American stars South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes, c1976 (Main: PN1998.A2 .B62 1976)

The Invisible

Hollow Man (2000)

Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Cast: Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Joey Slotnick, Greg Grunberg, Mary Randle, William Devane. After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Detemined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to phase III: human experimentation, with himself as the first subject. 113 min. DVD 1581

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Cohen, Michael. "Too Much Bacon: what's visible in Hollow Man." Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 9, Sep-Oct 2000

Conroy, Melissa. "The Invisible Body of God: Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man." Journal of Religion and Film, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. [no pagination], Spring 2004

Holben, J. "Invisible force." [interview with Paul Verhoeven]. American Cinematographer v. 81 no. 8 (August 2000) p. 50-5

Telotte, J.P. "What you can't see can hurt you: of invisible and hollow men." In: Dark thoughts: philosophic reflections on cinematic horror Edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Daniel Shaw. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003.(MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 D27 2003)

Telotte, J. P. "A 'Charming' Interlude: Of Serials and Hollow Men." In: Replications : a robotic history of the science fiction film Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995. (MAIN: PN1995.9.S26 T46 1995; MOFF: PN1995.9.S26 T46 1995)

Thompson, D. "Hollow man." Sight & Sound v. ns10 no. 10 (October 2000) p. 45

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Wells, Paul. "The invisible man : shrinking masculinity in the 1950s science fiction B-movie." In: You Tarzan : masculinity, movies, and men / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993. (Main Stack PN1995.9.M46.Y68 1993; Moffitt PN1995.9.M46.Y68 1993)

Invisible Man (1933)

Directed by James Whale. Cast: Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains, William Harrigan, Dudley Digges, Una O'Connor, Henry Travers, Forrester Harvey. A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible but can't reverse the process. He realizes with terror that he has become a prisoner of his unseen self, and this unbearable state drives him to madness and murder. Special features: Background information on the film "Now you see him: the invisible man revealed," commentary with film historian Rudy Behlmer, production photographs and notes, cast and filmmakers bios. 71 min. DVD 504; vhs 999:716

Jolly, John. "Scientist as Social Climber: James Whale's The Invisible Man." Cinefocus, vol. 1 no. 1. 1990 Jan. pp: 25-32.

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Directed by Joe May. Cast: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Cecil Kellaway. Unjustly accused of murdering his brother, Geoffrey is given one last chance to find the real killer before going to the gallows. Sympathetic Dr. Griffin administers a drug that will make Geoffrey invisible for his investigation, but unknown to him, the drug has debilitating side-effects and the Dr. hopes to develop an antidote before he goes insane. 82 min. 999:1140

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Animals and the Environment Gone Wild Bellin, Joshua David. "Us or them!: Silent Spring and the "big bug" films of the 1950s." Extrapolation - Spring 2009 v50 i1 p145(24) UC users only Kozak, Warren. "Killer Monster Bugs from Hell! How Americans Forgot About the War and Learned to Loathe." (1950s and 1960s horror science fiction films on insects) ID Sept-Oct, 1997 Vol/Num: v. 44, n. 5, p. 76 (4 pages)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

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Black Sheep (New Zealand, 2006)

Directed by Jonathan King. Cast: Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney, Tammy Davis, Glenis Levestam. An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers on a New Zealand farm. After a 15-year absence, Henry returns to his farm to discover that his brother Angus has been performing genetic experiments on the sheep. Unfortunately for both the brothers and the rest of the humble farmers who make their living off of the land, these experiments have produced a strain of sheep that crave human flesh and will stop at nothing to satisfy their diabolical hunger. 86 min. DVD X837

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

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The Birds (1963)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren. The unexplainable attack on the residents of Bodega Bay, California, by birds of all shapes and sizes is the subject of this classic Hitchcock thriller. 119 min. DVD 199; vhs 999:280

The Fly (1958)

Directed by Kurt Neumann. SEE 1950s horror Films

The Fly (1986)

Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis. Seth Brundle develops a system to transport objects in a matter of seconds, but when he tries it on himself, Seth's genes and molecules are accidentally fused with those of a fly. Seth's excitement over his new physical abilities turns into a nightmare as his insect half begins to take over. 96 min. DVD 4013; vhs 999:2011

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The Fly 2 (1989)

Directed by Chris Walas. Cast: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, Harley Crosse, John Getz. In this terrifying sequel to "The Fly", a young man, the son of a human fly, awaits a horrifying transformation when the mutant genes inside him come out of their dormant state. 105 min. DVD 4013; vhs 999:2011

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Food of the Gods (1976)

Directed by Bert I. Gordon. Cast: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, Belinda Balaski, Tom Stovall, Ida Lupino. A mysterious substance is oozing from the ground. A farmer sees that it acts as a growth hormone and thinks his fortune is made. But when rats, chickens, worms and wasps begin sampling the potent substance, they morph into bloodthirsty giants. Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps, and as they try to escape they discover that the entire island is crawling with oversized animals. Based on the horror novel by H.G. Wells. 88 min. DVD 8752

Godzilla (Gojira)

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Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Cast: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, the Panther woman. Charles Laughton plays Dr. Moreau, the benign-looking doctor who lives and works on his own private South Seas island. When a shipwreck leaves Edward Parker stranded on the island, he learns of the hideous experiments that the doctor has been conducting in an area of the island known as "the House of Pain". When Parker encounters the beautiful creature Lota, the panther woman, Dr. Moreau gets the idea to create the first human-animal child through the two of them. The lines between humans and animals, however, begin to blur and Dr. Moreau could become the next victim of his own twisted creations. Based on the novel "The island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells. 71 min. 999:939

Kirby, David A. "Are We Not Men? The Horror of Eugenics in The Island of Dr. Moreau." Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, vol. 17, pp. 93-108, 2002.

It Came from Beneath the Sea

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Jaws (1975)

Directed by Steven Spielberg. Cast: Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton. When a man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast the police chief, a young ichthyologist and a shark fisherman join together to hunt and destroy it. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley. Special features: Documentary "Spotlight on location : the making of Jaws" (60 min.) / written, directed & produced by Laurent Bouzereau ; Universal Studios Home Video ; deleted scenes; outtakes; Get out of the water! trivia game; shark world; production photographs; original theatrical trailers. 125 min. DVD 2326; vhs 999:1044

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King Kong (1933)

Directed by Merian C. Cooper. Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Jan Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, James Flavin. Film classic which tells the story of a giant ape captured on an island who proceeds to terrorize New York until his final stand atop the Empire State Building. DVD Special features: Disc 1: Commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston; with interpolated interview excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray; Merian C. Cooper movies trailer gallery. Disc 2. (204 min.): "I'm King Kong! The exploits of Merian C Cooper," profiles the original King Kong's guiding hand; new 7-part documentary, "RKO Productions 601: the making of Kong, eighth wonder of the world"; original Creation test footage with Ray Harryhausen commentary. 105 min. DVD 4706; vhs 999:152

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King Kong (2005)

Directed by Peter Jackson. Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell. In the 1930s, a down-on-her-luck actress accompanies an over-ambitious filmmaker on an expedition to a remote island. There they encounter a terrifying giant ape who forms an attachment to the beautiful actress. Hoping to win fame and fortune, the filmmaker brings the ape back to New York City for public exhibition, with catastrophic results. Special features: Disc 1: The Volkswagen Toureg & King Kong; "Wish you were here" film trailer; Disc 2: Special introduction by Peter Jackson; post-production diaries: director Peter Jackson reveales virtually every aspect of post-production with nearly three hours of exclusive behind the scenes footage; "Kong's New York, 1933" - explores vaudeville, the skyscraper boom, the construction of the Empire State building and more; "Skull Island: a natural history": travel to treacherous Skull Island with Peter Jackson and his crew. 188 min. DVD 5347

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The Leopard Man (1943)

Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Produced by Val Lewton. Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Tula Parma, Ben Bard. A nightclub performer in New Mexico takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled. 66 min. DVD 4482

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Preston, Scott. "The strange pleasure of The Leopard Man: gender, genre and authorship in a Val Lewton thriller." CineAction - Wntr 2007 i71 p14(8)

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Lizard Baby (Watashi no akachan) (Japan, 2004)

Prophecy (1979)

Directed by John Frankenheimer. Cast: Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, Victoria Racimo. In this contemporary tale of stark horror a savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside. 102 min. DVD 8085

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Reptilian (Korea, 1999)

Directed by Hyunh-rae Shim. When a never-before-discovered dinosaur is unearthed, strange things begin to occur. Buried for millions of years, its resurrection is unleashed upon the Earth and General Murdock must stop the destructive beast before the president attacks it with nuclear weapons. 100 min. DVD 1517

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Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Directed by David R. Ellis. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson, Keith "Blackman" Dallas, Lin Shaye, Bruce James, Sunny Mabrey. Nelville Flynn is escorting a witness on a plane that is bound for Los Angeles. The problem is that an assassin is bent on killing the witness. The assassin releases a crate containing about 450 deadly snakes onto the same plane. Nelville finds out and he becomes bent on doing his job and getting the snakes back where they belong - on land. If the snakes won't cooperate with Nelville, he will just have to send the snakes on to snake heaven. Special features: Audio commentary Cast:director David Ellis, Samuel L. Jackson, and others; 10 deleted scenes; Easter eggs; "Snakes on a video" Cobra Starship featurette (includes music video); "Pure venom: making of 'Snakes on a plane'" featurette; "Snakes on a blog" featurette; "Meet the reptiles" featurette; "VFX" featurette; gag reel; music video; TV spot; theatrical trailer. 106 min. DVD 6833

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The Toxic Avenger (1984)

Directed by Michael Herz and Samuel Weil. Transformed from wimp to warrior by a dip in a chemical pool, Melvin (Tox to his friends) battles corruption and crime in a small American town. Join Toxie as he crushes heads, rips off arms and takes women to toxic climax. 110 min. DVD 1297

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American Nightmare

Knife-weilding murderers, buxom teens fleeing for theirlives, the undead limping across streets. These images are synonymous with horror movies. Go behind-the-scenes with filmmaker greats as they reveal their inspirations for some of the most disturbingly gruesome films that have emerged on screen. Includes excerpts from classic horror films. Contents: Scene excerpts: Bride of Frankenstain (1935) -- Thebrood (1979) -- The crazies (1973) -- Dawn ofthe dead (1978) -- Dracula (1931) -- Frankenstein(1931) -- The fun house (1981) -- Halloween (1978) --Maniac (1980) -- It came from outter space (1953) --Last house on the left (1972) -- Night of the livingdead (1968) -- Rabid (1977) -- Scanners (1981) --Shivers (1975) -- The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974) --Videodrome (1983) -- White Zombie (1932) -- Thewolfman (1941). 2000. 71 min. DVD 2417

American Nightmare (2002)

Directed by Jon Keeyes. Cast: Debbie Rochon, Brandy Little, Johnny Sneed, Robert McCollum, Kristin McCollum, Heather Haase, Kenyon Holmes, Chris Ryan, Brinke Stevens. To commemorate the massacre of four college students the year before, on Halloween night, a pirate radio show broadcasts from dusk til dawn. Seven friends meet for dinner and in the background the show is playing. Each takes a turn calling the show and describing their worst nightmare. Little do they know that they are confessing their fears to a killer. 92 min. DVD 2329

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American Psycho (2000)

Directed by Mary Harron. Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Bill Sage, Chloe Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner, Reese Witherspoon. A young, handsome man with a Harvard education, a stunning fiancee and success on Wall Street appears to have everything. But his circle of friends doesn't know his other side of terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. 101 min. DVD 3528

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Audition (Ôdishon ) (Japan, 1999)

Director Takashi Miike. Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi, Jun Kunimura. A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition for a phony film, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all and the widower becomes drawn into her sadistic and vengeful world. 115 min. DVD 3135

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Uccello dalle piume di cristallo) (Italy, 1970)

Directed by Dario Argento. Cast: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf. An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner. 96 min. DVD 5253

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Blood Feast (1963)

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Cast: Thomas Wood, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton, Scott H. Hall. Set in Miami, police are baffled by a series of grisly murders that involve ritualistic dismemberment. A deranged Egyptian caterer name Fuad Ramses goes around hacking up beautiful young gals and brings their body parts back to his temple as an offering to the goddess Ishtar. Special features: Audio commentary by director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman ; original theatrical trailer ; rare outtakes ; actors Thomas Wood and Harvey Korman demonstrate how to slice meat in the grisly educational short subject," Carving magic" (20 min.); gallery of exploitation art. 87 min. DVD 4602

Grossman, Andrew. "Blood Feast Revisited: Or H. G. Lewis, Keeper of the Key to All Erotic Mystery." Bright Lights, May 2004 | Issue 44

Wisniewski, John. "Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis." Bright Lights November 2002 | Issue 38

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The Climax (6216)

Directed by George Waggner. Cast: Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, Thomas Gomez. In his first color feature, Karloff is terrifying as a mad physician who plots to kill a beautiful opera singer who reminds him of his mistress whom he murdered. 87 min. DVD 6216

Color Me Blood Red (1965)

Directed by Herschell G. Lewis. Cast: Don Joseph, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner, Patricia Lee, Jerome Eden, Scott H. Hall. Features a mad artist who murders to obtain materials for his gruesome paintings--just the right shade of red pigment. 79 min. DVD 7528

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Wisniewski, John. "Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis." Bright Lights November 2002 | Issue 38

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Copycat (1995)

Directed by Jon Amiel. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton. An adrenaline pumper about the desperate hunt for a mass murderer with an elusive m.o...He copies serial killers of the recent past. 123 min. DVD 5072

Goldberg, Carl. "A psychological examination of serial killer cinema: the case of Copycat." Post Script XXII:2 (Winter-Spring 2003)

Dyer, Richard. "Kill and kill again. (portrayal of serial killers in film and television)." Sight and Sound 7.n9 (Sept 1997): 14(4).

Romney, Jonathan. "The last word on serial killing." New Statesman & Society; 05/03/96, Vol. 9 Issue 401, p35,

Simpson, Philip L. "Copycat, Serial Murder, and the (De)Terministic Screen Narrative." In: The terministic screen : rhetorical perspectives on film / edited by David Blakesley. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003. (Main Stack PN1994.T47 2003)

Friday the 13th Series

Dika, Vera. Games of terror : Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the films of the stalker cycle Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1990. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.D48 1990; Moffitt PN1995.9.H6.D48 1990)

Gill, Pat "The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family." Journal of Film and Video 54:4 (Winter 2002)

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Friday the 13th (1980)

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham. Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Jeannine Taylor, Kevin Bacon. Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for its horrifying and creative murder sequences. 96 min. DVD 7274; vhs Video/C 999:2602

Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981)

Directed by Steve Miner. Cast: Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King. Five years have passed since the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, and Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are just memories. Although the new camp counselors have been warned, they do not sense the lurking ominous presence in their midst. 87 min. DVD 7274

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Friday the 13th, Part 3 (1982)

Directed by Steve Miner. Cast: Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Richard Brooker. Camp counselors continue to ignore Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy at their peril, as Jason Voorhees continues to pile up victims. 95 min. DVD 7275

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Friday the 13th, The Final Chapter (1984)

Directed by Joseph Zito. Cast: Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson, Kimberly Beck, Peter Barton, Tom Everett, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, Richard Brooker. After being revived in a hospital morge, Jason Voorhees returns to what he does best, fixating his disturbed mind on the unfortunate Jarvis family and a group of teenagers. 90 min. DVD 7275

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Friday the 13th, Part V, A New Beginning (1985)

Directed by Danny Steinmann. Cast: Corey Feldman, John Shepard, Melanie Kinnaman. Jason Voorhees rises from the dead to slaughter the residents of a secluded halfway house. 92 min. DVD 7276

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Friday the 13th, Part VI, Jason Lives (1986)

Directed by Tom McLoughlin. Cast: Thom Matthews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagan. One of the few teenagers not butchered by Jason digs him up, and discovers he's not (and never will be) dead. Carnage ensues. 92 min. DVD 7276

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Friday the 13th: Killer Extras

The Friday the 13th chronicles: 8-part featurette -- Secrets galore behind the gore: 3-part featurette -- Crystal Lake victims tell all! -- Tales from the cutting room -- Friday artifacts and collectibles -- Scary trailers. Presents special features and commentaty on the filming of the Friday the Thirteenth motion pictures. Includes interviews with cast and crew from several of the films, including Sean S. Cunningham, Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, Corey Feldman, Kane Hodder, and Tom Savini. 2004. DVD 7278

From Hell (2001)

Directed by Albert and Allen Hughes. Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Flemyng. In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history--Jack the Ripper--before Mary is killed. 121 min. DVD 5006

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Guard from Underground (Jigoku no keibiin) (1992)

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Cast: Kuno Makiko, Matsushige Yutaka, Hasegawa Hatsunori, Ogata Kanta, Osugi Ren. An evil security guard stalks the claustrophobic corridors of the Akebono Corporation, in the form of an inhuman security guard who preys on any unsuspecting salaryman that gets in his way. With the building locked off from the outside world, it's up to new girl Akiko and her fellow workers of Department 12 to survive long enough to escape the guard's brutal rampage. 81 min. DVD X1480

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Halloween (1978)

Directed by John Carpenter. Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis. On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital... until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again... and again... and again. Tonight is Halloween! 92 min. DVD 459

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Hannibal (2001)

Directed by Ridley Scott. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Zeljko Ivanek, Gary Oldman. After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, moves to Florence, Italy where he has become one of the curators of the Palazzo Vecchio. His cover is broken when a cop, for money, turns Dr. Lecter over to his old patient, Mason Verger. FBI agent Clarice Starling finds out about Mason's evil plot to feed Dr. Lecter to a bunch of man-eating hogs and will do anything to make sure that Mason doesn't succeed. 131 min. DVD 4641

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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman)(1978)

Directed by Meir Zarchi. Cast: Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Anthony Nichols, Gunter Kleemann. A novelist spending the summer alone at an isolated lakeside house in upstate New York is raped, beaten and left for dead by four local residents. Emotionally destroyed, she no longer writes her novel; instead she finds herself choreographing a violent revenge scheme against the entire group. 104 min. DVD 6942

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Clover, Carol. "Getting even." Sight & Sound; May92, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p16-18, 3p

Clover, Carol J. "High and Low: The Transformation of the Rape-Revenge Movie." In: Women and film : a Sight and sound reader / edited by Pam Cook and Philip Dodd. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993. (Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.W63 1993; Moffitt PN1995.9.W6.W63 1993)

The Last House on the Left (1972)

Directed by Wes Craven. Cast: David A. Hess, Lucy Grantham, Sandra Cassell, Marc Sheffler, Ada Washington. Two young girls on their way to a Bloodlust concert end up as captives of three escaped convicts in this chilling drama of kidnap, torture and revenge. Special features: Commentary by director Wes Craven and producer Sean Cunningham; outtakes and dailies with never-before-seen footage, including the lost murder sequence (never been seen in any form) and the disembowelment scene; "Forbidden Footage" featurette exploring the film's most shocking scenes; making-of documentary (30 min.). 84 min. DVD 2096

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Manhunter (1994)

Directed by Michael Mann. Cast: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan. An FBI agent enlists the aid of Hannibal Lecter, an incarcerated mental patient, to help find the notorious serial killer, "The Tooth Fairy." 120 min. vhs 999:2303

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Mommy (1994)

Written and directed by Max Allan Collins. Cast: Patty McCormack, Jason Miller, Brinke Stevens, Michael Cornelison, Majel Barrett, Mickey Spillane, Sarah Jane Miller, Rachel Lemieux. The story of a psychopathic mother who'll stop at nothing to get what's best for her daughter and herself. 89 min. DVD 5044

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Mommy 2: (1996)

Written and directed by Max Allan Collins. Cast: Patty McCormack, Paul Petersen, Gary Sandy, Brinke Stevens, Mickey Spillane, Arlen Dean Snyder, Michael Cornelison, Rachel Lemieux, Sarah Jane Miller, Todd Eastland, Paula Sands, Del Close, Laurence Coven, Pamela Cecil. The film opens with "Mommy" on death row in an Iowa prison. An outraged public and a frenzied media do not stop Mommy from doing anything she can to regain the love of her daughter. 88 min. DVD 5044

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Writer/director, Wes Craven. Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund. A horror classic which gave birth to one of the most infamous undead villains in cinematic history. Burned alive by the parents of his young victims, Freedy returns years later in the dreams of the surviving Elm Street children. As Nancy suffers from grisly nightmares and witnesses her friends dying in their sleep, she realizes who is responsible and begins her battle with the blade wielding maniac. 92 min. DVD 475

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Directed by Jack Sholder. Cast: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund. Five years have passed since Freddy Krueger was sent howling back to hell. But now, a new kid on Elm Street is being haunted every night by gruesome visions of the deadly dream stalker. And if his twisted soul takes possession of the boy's body, Freddy will return from the dead to wreak murder and mayhem upon the entire town. Look for some of the most terrifying special effects ever to spatter the screen. 87 min. DVD 476

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Directed by Chuck Russell. Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Robert Englund. Killer Freddie Krueger is back for fresh victims. The last of the Elm Street kids are now at a psychiatric ward where Freddy haunts their dreams with horror. Their only hope is dream researcher and fellow survivor Nancy Thompson who helps them battle the psycho on his own turf. 96 min. DVD 477

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

Directed by Renny Harlin. Cast: Robert Englund, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, Lisa Wilcox, Andras Jones. Proving there's no rest for the wicked, killer Freddie Krueger is again resurrected from the grave to wreak havoc upon those who dare to dream but this time he faces a new adversary. As her friends succumb one by one to Freddy's wrath, telepathically gifted Kristen embarks on a mission to destroy the satanic dream stalker and release the tortured souls of his victims once and for all. 99 min. DVD 478

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Directed by Stephen Hopkins. Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Erika Anderson, Valerie Armstrong, Michael Ashton. Unable to overpower Alice, the Dream Master who vanquished him, Freddy haunts the dreams of Alice's unborn child and preys upon her friends with sheer horror. Will the child be saved from becoming Freddy's newest weapon or will the maniac again resurrect his legacy of evil? 90 min. DVD 479

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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Directed by Rachel Talalay. Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblat, Yaphet Kotto, Roseanne, Tom Arnold, Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp. Maggie Burroughs is a child psychologist with horrible recurring nightmares that eventually lead her to thetown of Springwood and a certain house on Elm Street -- where an evil that defies the grave is about to be unleased upon the world again. 96 min. DVD 480

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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

Directed by Wes Craven. Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, David Newsom, John Saxon, Jeffrey John Davis, Matt Winston. Freddy's back and scarier than ever! Reuniting the stars from the original "nightmare", this terrifying tale follows him on his final invasion of the world slashing his way through the silver screen. 112 min. DVD 481

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The Nightmare Series Encyclopedia (c1999)

A filmed encyclopedia on the Nightmare series including: Primetime, a documentary exploring the Nightmares; The Labyrinth which unlocks the mysteries of the series through a maze of intense menus; interviews with all seven directors, actors, horror fans, and professors; all seven theatrical trailers; multiple music videos; an MTV appearance by Freddy; Behind-the-scenes footage. DVD 482

Peeping Tom (UK, 1945)

Director, Michael Powell; Cast:Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley. A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera. 101 min. DVD 187; vhs 999:535

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Psycho (1960)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, John McIntire. Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother. Special DVD features: The Making of Psycho, an original documentary featuring new interviews with Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, Janet Leigh, screenwriter Joseph Stefano, and others; censored scene, theatrical trailers, production drawings, the shower scene with and without music; additional newsreel footage; theatrical trailers; production photographs. 108 min. DVD 1035 digitally restored); also DVD 91; vhs 999:66

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Psycho (1998)

Directed by Gus Van Sant. Cast: Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Anne Heche. On the run Marion Crane takes refuge at a motel operated by Norman Bates -- a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister and a private investigator who soon discover the morbid bond between Norman and his mysterious "mother," at the Bates Motel. 104 min. DVD X421; vhs 999:2505

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Saw (2004)

Directed by James Wan. Cast: Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Tobin Bell. Obessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying. Special features: Disc 1: 2 feature-length audio commentaries ; Disc 2: 'Saw' director's original short film; On-set previews of 'Saw II'; Hacking away at 'Saw': behind-the-scenes; Exclusive episode of "Full disclosure report": go inside the real Jigsaw investigation!; Alternate storyboard sequence;'Saw' director's art gallery; Trailers. 103 min. DVD 7497

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Saw II (2005)

Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Cast: DDonnie Wahlberg, Franky G, Glenn Plummer, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Beverley Mitchell, Erik Knudsen, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith. Jigsaw...returns in this...bloody sequel. Eric Matthews is a police detective who, after discovering the aftermath of a particularly gruesome murder, is convinced that Jigsaw is up to his ugly tricks again. Matthew's hunch turns out to be correct, but the master criminal proves to be disconcertingly easy to capture. As it happens, Jigsaw is eager to be put behind bars in order to throw the authorities off his trail as he once again punishes people who in his eyes have transgressed the boundaries of acceptable moral behavior....Eight people have been locked away by Jigsaw, and in a booby trapped shelter must torture their bodies and minds to achieve the terrible justice Jigsaw seeks. Special features: Disc 1. Audio commentary with director Darren Lynn Bousman, production designer David Hackl and editor Kevin Greutert ; audio commentary with executive producer James Wan and writer/executive producer Leigh Whannell ; theatrical trailer. Special features: Disc. 2. Zombie--a short student film by director Darrent Lynn Bousman ; the Scott Tibbs documentary ; the making of Saw II; the story behind the story ; Gregg Hoffman : in memoriam--tribute to producer Gregg Hoffman ; play me--set top game--navigate through Jigsaw's house of horrors successfully and unlock Billie the Puppet's life lessons! 95 min. DVD 7498

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Scream (1996)

Directed by Wes Craven. Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, Henry Winkler, Drew Barrymore. A series of mysterious murders committed by a masked killer transforms a seemingly peaceful community into a place where no one is safe and everyone is suspect. A smash hit thriller, part horror movie and part spoof of the slasher genre. Special features: Audio commentary by director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson ; producton featurette ; theatrical trailers ; TV commercials ; Behind-the-scenes footage ; Q&A with cast and crew ; special effects gallery ; cast and crew profiles ; film facts. 111 min. DVD 2097

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Scream 2 (1997)

Directed by Wes Craven. Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox [Arquette], Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett, Liev Schreiber. In this sequel to Scream, Sidney Prescott away at college, thought she'd put the murders that shattered her life behind her, until a copy cat killer begins acting out a real life sequel. 120 min. DVD 2098

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Scream 3 (2000)

Directed by Wes Craven. Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Jenny McCarthy, Emily Mortimer, Parker Posey, Deon Richmond. When people start dropping like flies around the production of the movie Stab 3 (the latest movie sequel based on events occurring in Scream), Sidney and other Greensboro survivors are once again drawn into mayhem. 117 min. DVD 2099

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Scream: The Ultimate Collection (1996-1999)

Cast:David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette. Presents "the complete insider's guide to the suspense trilogy that changed the face of fear." DVD: "Behind-the-Scream" documentary, outtakes from Scream, the cutting room, screen tests of Neve Campbell, Jamie Kennedy, Skeet Ulrich; Sunrise Studios trailers. DVD-ROM: trivia game, character web, ScreamSaver, website, screenplay and shot list. DVD 2100

The Seventh Victim (1953)

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