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 Monsters, Gouls, and Miscellaneous Horrors
- Frankenstein
- Vampires
- Werewolves
- Zombies and Other Undead
- Mummies and other Tightly Wrapped Creatures
- The Invisible
- Ghosts, Spirits, and Other Paranomal Goings-on
- It Came from the 1950s! (50s Horror Films)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Animals and the Environment Gone Wild
- Slashers, Serials Killers, Psychos, Maniacs
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction books/articles in UCB Library
- Horror film books/articles in UCB Library
- 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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- 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
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- 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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- All Night Long Collection
- Written and directed by Katsuya Matsumura. DVD 6845
- All Night Long (Ooru naito rongu) (Japan, 1994)
- Cast: Eisuke Tsunoda, Yoji Ietomi, Ryosuke Suzuki, Hiromasa Taguchi.
The first of three sequential psychological horror films from Japanese director Katsuya Matsumura. A dark and twisted film following three Japanese school mates. One day one of their girl friends is brutally tortured and raped by a gang. The three friends can't take it any more and embracing the shocking underworld of savagery, the three teenagers make a pact to find the perpetrators and exact revenge.
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- All Night Long, Atrocity (Ooru naito rongu 2: Sanj) (Japan, 1995)
- Cast: Masashi Endo, Kanori Kadomatsu, Masahito Takahashi.
The second of three sequential psychological horror films from Japanese director Katsuya Matsumura. In downtown Japan, a lonely computer nerd tries to maintain a peaceful existance while being stalked by a gang of deviant homosexuals who want to use him for their brutal S&M activities. 76 min.
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- All Night Long, the Final Chapter (Ooru naito rongu 3: Saishuu-sh?) (Japan, 1996)
- Cast: Yujin Kitagawa, Kanori Kadomatsu, Tomoro Taguchi.
The third of three sequential psychological horror films from Japanese director Katsuya Matsumura. A bellboy stalks a woman who frequents the hotel where he works. The boundaries he will cross are limitless, and the distance he will go to satiate his needs are beyond redemption. The conclusion to the series reiterates that human existence is meaningless and "human beings are garbage." 76 min.
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- At Midnight I'll take Your Soul Away (À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma) (Brazil, 1965)
- Directed by José Mojica Marins. This is a classic of South American horror. The evil hero, a grave-digger, haunts a small town in search of the woman who will give him the perfect son to continue his legacy of horror. 100 min. 999:1416
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- The Awakening of the Beast: Ritual of the Maniacs (O Despertar da Besta: Ritual dos Sadicos) (Brazil, 1968)
- Directed by José Mojica Marins. `The Beast' of the title is LSD. Marins shows the suffering of a drug user on acid, tormented by visions of terror and pain, a psychedelic jigsaw of violence and incredible images. Banned from distribution by the Brazilian military dictatorship for over 18 years. 92 min. 999:1417
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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
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- Val Lewton bibliography
- 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
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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.
Il telefono = The telephone -- I wurdulak = The wurdulak -- La goccia d'acqua = The drop of water. 92 min. DVD 7575
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- Balmain, Colette. "Mario Bava's The Evil Eye: Realism and the Italian Horror Film." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 20-31, Summer 2002
- Guins, Raiford. "Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States." In: Horror international Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)
- Hunt, Leon. "A (sadistic) night at the Opera: notes on the Italian horror film." Velvet Light Trap; nr.30 (Fall 1992); p.65-75
- Mangravite, Andrew. "Once upon time in the crypt." Film Comment v. 29 (January/February 1993) p. 50-2+
- 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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- Balmain, Colette. "Mario Bava's The Evil Eye: Realism and the Italian Horror Film." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 20-31, Summer 2002
- Guins, Raiford. "Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States." In: Horror international Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)
- 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)
- Hunt, Leon. "A (sadistic) night at the Opera: notes on the Italian horror film." Velvet Light Trap; nr.30 (Fall 1992); p.65-75
- Jarmick, Christopher J. "Mario Bava's Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan." Senses of Cinema vol. 25, pp. (no pagination), March 2003UC users only
- Mangravite, Andrew. "Once upon time in the crypt." Film Comment v. 29 (January/February 1993) p. 50-2+
- 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
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- 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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- 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
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- 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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- 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; Video Disc 144; vhs 999:39
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- 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
- 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)
- 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.). DVD 1744
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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
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- The Cat and the Canary (Silent, 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
- 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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- 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
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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
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- "Assault on the senses: The horror legacy of Dario Argento." (Special Issue) Kinoeye
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- Guins, Raiford. "Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States." In: Horror international Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)
- Hunt, Leon. "A (sadistic) night at the Opera: notes on the Italian horror film." Velvet Light Trap; nr.30 (Fall 1992); p.65-75
- McDonagh, Maitland. "Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento." Film Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2. (Winter, 1987-1988), pp. 2-13.UC users only
- "The Mother of All Horror: Witches, Gender, and the Films of Dario Argento." In: Monsters in the Italian literary imagination / edited by Keala Jewell. pp: 89-105 Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, c2001. (Main Stack PQ4053.M66.M66 2001)
- Schneider, Steven Jay and Frank Lafond. "Dario Argento Resources online and in print." Kinoeye
- 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.)
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Romney, J. "Delicatessen." Sight & Sound v. ns1 (January 1992) p. 41-2
- 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 films of Tod Browning / edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. London: Black Dog Pub., 2006 (Main Stack PN1998.3.B773.F55 2006)
- Norden, Martin F.; Cahill, Madeleine A. "Violence, Women, and Disability in Tod Browning's 'Freaks' and 'The Devil Doll.'" Journal of Popular Film and Television v26, n2 (Summer, 1998):86 (9 pages)..UC users only
- Skal, David J. Dark carnival: the secret world of Tod Browning--Hollywood's master of the macabre / David J. Skal and Elias Savada. 1st ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
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- Wood, Bret. "The witch, the devil and the code." (influence of the Production Code on the making of 'The Devil Doll') Film Comment v28, n6 (Nov-Dec, 1992):52 (5 pages).
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The Dybuk (Di Dibuk) (Poland, 1937; in Yiddish with English subtitles)
- 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. 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.UC users only
- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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 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.
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- 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 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. 999:3706
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- Goldberg, Ruth. "Of mad love, alien hands and the film under your skin." Kinoeye, Vol 2
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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 UC users only
- 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."
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- House of Wax (1953)
- Directed by Vincent Prince. 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
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- 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: Sonya Levien ; adaptation, Bruno Frank ; music, Alfred Newman.
Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Edmund O'Brien.
Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame, rescues and defends the gypsy girl, Esmeralda. 117 min. 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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- 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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- 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; also vhs 999:2332
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- 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 (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
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- 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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- 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.
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- Balmain, Colette. "Mario Bava's The Evil Eye: Realism and the Italian Horror Film." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 20-31, Summer 2002
- Guins, Raiford. "Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States." In: Horror international Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)
- Hunt, Leon. "A (sadistic) night at the Opera: notes on the Italian horror film." Velvet Light Trap; nr.30 (Fall 1992); p.65-75
- Mangravite, Andrew. "Once upon time in the crypt." Film Comment v. 29 (January/February 1993) p. 50-2+
- Killervator; Choice (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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- 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. 6520; vhs 999:3620
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- Goldberg, Ruth. "Of mad love, alien hands and the film under your skin." Kinoeye, Vol 2
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- 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
- 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
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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.)
- 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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- 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.
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- 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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- 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
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- Onibaba (Demon Woman) (Japan, 1964)
- Director: Kaneto Shind?. 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
- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- Iles, Timothy. "The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films." electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies 6 October 2005
- Japanese horror cinema / edited by Jay McRoy. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005 (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b; PFA PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b)
- Lu, A. "Horror Japanese-style." Film Comment v. 38 no. 1 (January/February 2002) p. 38
- Kermode, Mark. "Ring.(Review)." Sight and Sound 10.9 (Sept 2000): 48(2).
- 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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- Iles, Timothy. "The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films." electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies 6 October 2005
- Japanese horror cinema / edited by Jay McRoy. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005 (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b; PFA PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b)
- Lu, A. "Horror Japanese-style." Film Comment v. 38 no. 1 (January/February 2002) p. 38
- Kermode, Mark. "Ring.(Review)." Sight and Sound 10.9 (Sept 2000): 48(2).
- Newman, Kim. "The Ring Two.(Movie Review)." Sight and Sound 15.5 (May 2005): 74
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Spider (France / Canada / UK, 2002)
- Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville, Bradley Hall, Lynn Redgrave. Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair. 98 min. DVD 1915
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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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- Helford, Elyce Rae. 'It's a Rip-Off of the Women's Movement': Second-Wave Feminism and The Stepford Wives." In: Disco divas : women, gender, and popular culture in the 1970s / edited by Sherrie A. Inness. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.
(Main Stack HQ1421.D57 2003; Moffitt HQ1421.D57 2003)
- Silver, Anna Krugovoy. "The Cyborg Mystique: The Stepford Wives and Second Wave Feminism." Arizona Quarterly 58 (1): 109-26. 2002 Spring.
- 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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- "Assault on the senses: The horror legacy of Dario Argento." (Special Issue) Kinoeye
Vol 2, Issue 11, 10 June 2002
- Guins, Raiford. "Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States." In: Horror international Edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005)
- Hunt, Leon. "A (sadistic) night at the Opera: notes on the Italian horror film." Velvet Light Trap; nr.30 (Fall 1992); p.65-75
- McDonagh, Maitland. "Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento." Film Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2. (Winter, 1987-1988), pp. 2-13.UC users only
- "The Mother of All Horror: Witches, Gender, and the Films of Dario Argento." In: Monsters in the Italian literary imagination / edited by Keala Jewell. pp: 89-105 Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, c2001. (Main Stack PQ4053.M66.M66 2001)
- Schneider, Steven Jay and Frank Lafond. "Dario Argento Resources online and in print." Kinoeye
- 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 (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
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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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- 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)
- 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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- 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. 999:2240
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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
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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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- The films of Tod Browning / edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. London: Black Dog Pub., 2006 (Main Stack PN1998.3.B773.F55 2006)
- Koller, Michael. "The Unknown." Senses of Cinema
vol. 16, pp. (no pagination), September 2001 UC users only
- Randell, Karen. "Masking the Horror of Trauma: The Hysterical Body of Lon Chaney"
Screen, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 216-21, Summer 2003
- Skal, David J. Dark carnival: the secret world of Tod Browning--Hollywood's master of the macabre / David J. Skal and Elias Savada. 1st ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
(Main PN1998.3.B773 S53 1995; Moffitt PN1998.3.B773 S53 1995)
- Worland, Rick. "Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927)." In: The horror film : an introduction / Rick Worland. (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.W64 2007 Moffitt PN1995.9.H6.W64 2007)
- 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
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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
- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- 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. 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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- BeDevil (Australia, 1993)
- Directed by Tracey Moffatt. Cast: Tracey Moffatt, Lex Marinos, Diana Davidson, Jack Charles, Benjamin Kennedy, Luke Roberts. 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. 90 min. 999:3752
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- 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)
- 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.). DVD 1744
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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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- 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)
- 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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- Japanese horror cinema / edited by Jay McRoy. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005 (Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b; PFA PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b)
- Kermode, M. "Dark Water." Sight & Sound v. ns13 no. 7 (July 2003) p. 39
- Newman, K. "Dark Water." Sight & Sound v. ns15 no. 8 (August 2005) p. 50-1
- 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. 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
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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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- 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. 999:1005
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- The Eye (Jian Gui) (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
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- 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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- Ju-On (The Grudge) (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
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