Hammers Hands of the Ripper deals with the fictional story of the daughter of Jack the Ripper. Orphaned at a young age, at the age of 17 starts to be influenced by the spirit of her dead father. While a kindly psychiatrist tries to help her with tragic results for his household.
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Scream and Scream Again is a cross between the horror movie and conspiracy genres. It has three different plot lines that don’t seem connected. A jogger collapses in the street, and wakes up in a hospital. There, one by one, his limbs are being amputated. A serial killer drains his victims of their blood. A Communist dictatorship, where people are being killed by what looks like the Vulcan nerve pinch.
The Black Sleep – Many of Hollywood’s top horror stars appears in this story of a mad doctor. He’s performing brain surgery on unwilling victims attempting to save the life of his wife. The story begins in a dark cell of Newgate Prison in London of 1872. Sir Joel Cadman (Basil Rathbone) is an eminent surgeon who is visiting Dr. Gordon Ramsey (Herbert Rudley). He’s a former student who has been condemned to death by hanging for murder. A murder that he believes himself to be innocent of having committed.
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In Isle of the Snake People, a small remote island is a home for voodoo rites, death cults and an evil thing named Damballah. Local law officials turn a blind eye to their evil ways … Until Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland.
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John Haloran (Peter Read) and his wife Louise (Luana Anders) are relaxing on the lake when they begin to argue about his eccentric wealthy mother’s will. Lady Haloran (Eithne Dunne) has arranged for her fortune to go to a charity under the mysterious name Kathleen. John reminds his wife that she won’t inherit anything if he dies before his mother, he then immediately has a fatal heart attack. Louise dumps John’s body in the lake and makes it look like John is away on a business trip so she can trick Lady Haloran into changing her will. Haloran Castle has a strange tradition where the Haloran family must relive the funeral of Kathleen every year, where Lady Haloran faints every single time. Louise then begins her cruel plan.You have to see Dementia 13 for yourself because the description of this film will never match the visual madness.
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is the first show of its kind ever produced; chronicling the history of movie horror from the earliest experimental chillers through the unforgettable “golden age of movie monsters,” and on through today’s terrifying fright films.Hosted by Christopher Lee, the screen’s legendary King of Horror, the show features appearances by Robert De Niro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hugh Hefner, Charlton Heston, Kenneth Branagh, Joe Dante, and many more. Also featured are fascinating interviews with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Claude Rains. Included as a special bonus are never-before-seen interviews with the friends and families of the legendary names of horror such as Bela Lugosi, Jr.; Boris Karloff’s daughter, Sarah Karloff; Claude Rains’ daughter, Jessica Rains, and more.
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The Return of Count Yorga is one of those few sequels that is superior to the original film — in this case, Count Yorga, Vampire. The acting is, for the most part, better and the characters are at least as interesting.
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Count Yorga, Vampire begins with a coffin being unloaded from a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. It’s then driven to a mansion in the California hills.
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Dracula vs Frankenstein, starring J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr. in their final film – a truly terrible film that’s only good for mocking
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The Spell is an NBC made-for-television movie, clearly, a rip-off of Carrie. However, it was actually slightly more than that. The Spell begins with a young teenager named Rita (Susan Myers, Revenge of the Nerds) who is being picked on by her fellow high school students for being “fat” — i.e. not being anorexic like them. As they’re tormenting her, the Phy Ed teacher stands by and watches, doing absolutely nothing. This prompted one of my children to comment, “The teacher’s evil! She’s just standing there!” Actually, she’s more right than she knows, but more on that later.
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