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Classic Horror
Tales of terror have been embraced by cinema since its birth, and horror remains one of the most popular genres in world cinema.
From Hammer horror to American gothic, these unnerving films show how cinema has revelled in showing us our darkest fears.
The BeyondThe Beyond
Horror 1981 84 minsDirector: Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci's Italian zombie-horror classic about a New Orleans hotel built upon one of the seven gateways to Hell.
The Black PantherThe Black Panther
Drama 1977 97 minsDirector: Ian Merrick
Gripping crime drama charts the killing spree which Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, perpetrated across England during the mid-70s.
The Body BeneathThe Body Beneath
Horror 1970 82 minsDirector: Andy Milligan
Vampires rampage around Hampstead in a strange, bloody cult horror by low-budget sex-gore auteur Andy Milligan.
The Company of WolvesThe Company of Wolves
Fantasy 1984 95 minsDirector: Neil Jordan
Angela Carter and Neil Jordan's magical, radical take on Little Red Riding Hood.
Countess DraculaCountess Dracula
Horror 1970 94 minsDirector: Peter Sasdy
An ageing countess finds that if she bathes in the blood of virgins her youth is restored.
City of the Living DeadCity of the Living Dead
Horror 1980 93 minsDirector: Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulciβs sensationally gory zombie horror finds undead hordes overtaking a sleepy New England town, with only a reporter and a local psychic to stop them.
The Devil's BackboneThe Devil's Backbone
Horror 2001 108 minsDirector: Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo Del Toroβs elegant and chilling ghost story, set in an orphanage for victims of the Spanish Civil War, which is haunted by the spectre of young boy.
The Devil Rides OutThe Devil Rides Out
Horror 1968 95 minsDirector: Terence Fisher
Dennis Wheatley's occult tale is given the Hammer treatment.
The Fall of the House of UsherThe Fall of the House of Usher
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1982 16 minsDirector: Jan Svankmajer
The first of Ε vankmajer's 'tactile experiments', chosen partly because the title was on an official list of 'approved' texts. In this version there are no humans, just a glimpse of a live raven as the camera roams around an eerie derelict house.
FascinationFascination
Horror 1979 82 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
Jean Rollinβs best-known film is the most full-blooded of his vampire tales, teeming with sex and lavishly filmed gore scenes
The GhoulThe Ghoul
Horror 1933 80 minsDirector: T. Hayes Hunter
The occupants of an old house are menaced by a dead - and very angry - Egyptologist.
The Grapes of DeathThe Grapes of Death
Horror 1978 91 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
A woman visiting RoublΓ¨s deep in Franceβs winemaking country discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.
InfernoInferno
Fantasy 1980 107 minsDirector: Dario Argento
Dario Argentoβs baroque, operatic horror follows a student who discovers a powerful witch living in a New York City apartment block.
Hands of the RipperHands of the Ripper
Horror 1971 85 minsDirector: Peter Sasdy
In Edwardian London, a series of gruesome murders match those of the Whitechapel Ripper, revealing an unlikely suspect.
Haunters of the DeepHaunters of the Deep
Children's 1984 61 minsDirector: Andrew Bogle
A ghostly boy returns from the grave to warn against reopening 'The Devil's Mine' in this spooky drama.
The Living Dead GirlThe Living Dead Girl
Horror 1983 90 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
When toxic waste spill disturbs her grave, a deceased girl comes alive to walk the earth again in Jean Rollin's macabre tale of zombie carnage.
The Iron RoseThe Iron Rose
Drama 1973 80 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
A pair of lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, but then find themselves unable to escape from the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery.
Lips of BloodLips of Blood
Horror 1975 87 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
Jean Rollinβs hauntingly poetic horror about a man trying to solve the riddle of a tormenting childhood memory.
The Mask of SatanThe Mask of Satan
Horror 1960 86 minsDirector: Mario Bava
Italian horror classic from acclaimed Italian horror auteur Mario Bava, about a beautiful witch Asa (Barbara Steele) who rises from her grave to take revenge upon her enemies.
The Man from NowhereThe Man from Nowhere
Children's 1976 59 minsDirector: James Hill
Victorian orphan Alice Harvey - arriving to live at her great uncle's spooky house - is frightened by a mysterious, dark-clad intruder.
The Man Who Changed His MindThe Man Who Changed His Mind
Horror 1936 63 minsDirector: Robert Stevenson
Boris Karloff stars as Dr. Laurence, a scientist who has devised a way to put one personβs mind into anotherβs body.
Nosferatu the VampyreNosferatu the Vampyre
Horror 1979 107 minsDirector: Werner Herzog
English language version of Herzogβs stimulating take on the Dracula story starring Klaus Kinski, with echoes of Murnauβs 1922 Nosferatu.
NosferatuNosferatu
Horror 1922 89 minsSilentDirector: F.W. Murnau
This influential Dracula adaptation contains some of the most famous images of expressionist film, and remains shocking and stylish after 100 years.
Night of the HuntedNight of the Hunted
Horror 1980 91 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
Jean Rollinβs stylish and futuristically surreal horror about patients at a mysterious clinic whose memories are disintegrating.
Peeping TomPeeping Tom
Drama 1960 101 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Michael Powellβs dark, disturbing, once controversial tale of a shy camera technician who films women as he kills them is now rightly deemed a classic.
The Nude VampireThe Nude Vampire
Horror 1969 85 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
Jean Rollinβs second vampire film is a mesmerisingly surreal art-horror, short on logic but steeped in gorgeously sensual imagery.
One of the MissingOne of the Missing
War 1968 27 minsDirector: Tony Scott
A nightmarish, Gothic American tale directed by a 24-year-old Tony Scott.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Horror 1925 91 minsSilentDirector: Rupert Julian
'Man of a thousand faces' Lon Chaney stars in the first version of Gaston Leroux's oft-filmed novel.
Out of the DarknessOut of the Darkness
Children's 1985 68 minsDirector: John Krish
A ghostly drama of the Derbyshire plague village of Eyam, as unquiet spirits of the long dead make contact with the living.
The Pendulum, The Pit and HopeThe Pendulum, The Pit and Hope
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1983 15 minsDirector: Jan Svankmajer
Ε vankmajer's second adaptation of the work of Edgar Allan Poe, in which a prisoner is forced to undergo trials of torture.
The ShoutThe Shout
Drama 1978 83 minsDirector: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cannesβ Grand Jury Prize was awarded to this unnerving drama about a man who claims to be able to kill people with a βterror shoutβ learned from an Aboriginal shaman.
Quatermass and the PitQuatermass and the Pit
Horror 1967 94 minsDirector: Roy Ward Baker
One of Britainβs finest sci-fi films, based on Nigel Knealeβs masterful script, about the discovery of ancient alien craft beneath central London.
The Reflecting SkinThe Reflecting Skin
Drama 1990 96 minsDirector: Philip Ridley
Stunningly photographed drama about a young American boy caught up in the nightmare of a sinister rural community.
SymptomsSymptoms
Drama 1976 91 minsDirector: JosΓ© R. Larraz
The official British Palme d'Or entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Symptoms is a sophisticated modern gothic horror film exploring the themes of sexual repression and psychosis.
Requiem for a VampireRequiem for a Vampire
Horror 1972 87 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
Two female fugitives hide out in a deserted castle, only to become embroiled in a plot to extend the bloodline of a horde of blood-crazed vampires.
Shiver of the VampiresShiver of the Vampires
Horror 1970 95 minsDirector: Jean Rollin
Newlyweds visit their cousins at a remote rural chateau, finding them under the spell of two vampire girls.
Vampire CircusVampire Circus
Horror 1972 94 minsDirector: Robert Young
A dying vampire swears vengeance on the townsfolk who killed him. The promise seems to have been realized when, years later, plague arrives.
To Have and to HoldTo Have and to Hold
Drama 2000 13 minsDirector: John Hardwick
A woman finds that death will not part her from her deceased lover.
Twins of EvilTwins of Evil
Horror 1971 87 minsDirector: John Hough
Chilling vampire horror from Hammer in which a pair of innocent twins come under the influence of the evil Count Karnstein.