Horror - English

Cast: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Dwight Frye, Walter Brennan, Una O'Connor Director: James Whale Synopsis: Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken in by the eccentric philosopher-scientist Dr Pretorius. Pretorious tries to persuade Frankenstein into building the monster a mate but Frankenstein wants nothing more to do with his cursed creation. Finally Pretrorious blackmails Frankenstein into doing so by having the monster abduct Elizabeth.

Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, Frederick Kerr, Lionel Belmore, Marilyn Harris Director: James Whale Synopsis: Dr. Henry Von Frankenstein undertakes a dark experiment: building, from fragments of corpses, a new human being. With the help of his servant Fritz, he enters the local cemeteries at night to remove the parts he needs from the corpses. What he does not know is that the brain he used in his experiment had belonged to a criminal.

Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Noble Johnson, James Flavin, Sam Hardy, Frank Reicher Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Sinopsis: While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent of all the unusual and exotic creatures is "King Kong," a fifty-foot gorilla. Using gas bombs, Denham subdues the beast and brings him to New York City, where Kong goes on a rampage, destroying everything in his past and kidnapping a beautiful young actress.

Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw, Doreen Lang, Ruth McDevitt, Joe Mantell Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognizes Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland, Patricia Hitchcock Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to keep the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel Manager Norman Bates oddly seems to be dominated by his mother.

Cast: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Anne Gwynne, Lionel Atwill, Peter Coe, Elena Verdugo, George Zucco, Sig Ruman Director: Erle C. Kenton Synopsis: Deranged scientist Gistar Niemann (Boris Karloff) escapes from prison and becomes the director of a macabre journey through the chamber of horrors. By removing the stake from a skeleton's chest, he will resurrect the famous Count Dracula (John Carradine) and send him to kill the man responsible for his years in prison. He also finds Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange) and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) frozen, buried under the ruins of Doctor Frankenstein's famous laboratory. When he brings them back to life, the monster becomes uncontrollable.

Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Alan DeWitt, Buddy Mason, Linda Rogers, Luree Holmes, Paul Barselou, Beverly Powers, Basil Rathbone, Douglas Williams Director: Jacques Tourneur Synopsis: Alcoholic, wife-beater Waldo Trumbull has run the funeral business he inherited from his father-in-law into the ground. His landlord John F. Black demands a year's unpaid rent or else he will foreclose. And so Trumbull and his assistant Felix Gillie decide to resort to murder in order to drum up some business. But when the wife of their first victim leaves town without paying their bill, they decide they can kill two birds with one stone by making Black their next victim.

Cast: Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson, Connie Wallace, Williams Baskin, Aaron Saxon Director: Roger Corman Synopsis: Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help - the evil Scarabus has turned him into a raven and he needs someone to change him back. He also tells the reluctant wizard that Craven's long-lost wife Lenore, whom he loved greatly and thought dead, is living with the despised Scarabus.

Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday, Sharyn Moffett, Donna Lee Director: Robert Wise Synopsis: In Edinburgh in 1831, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased for classroom demonstration purposes. With cemeteries being increasingly guarded, Gray turns to drastic measures to provide MacFarlane with fresh bodies.

Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, John Brinkley, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson, Bert Convy, John Herman Shaner, Judy Bamber, Myrtle Vail Director: Roger Corman Synopsis: Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing.