Old Dark House
see all genres ›A classic horror archetype drawn from Gothic romance fiction and stage thrillers, the "old dark house" story terrorizes its protagonists with ghostly apparitions, hidden passageways, clutching hands and other frights that may or may not be supernatural in origin.
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Spider Baby
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of ten or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their...Watch Movie
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The House that Dripped Blood
A review of the files of the local policeman shows that everyone who has owned a particular mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In one instance, "Method for Murder," the obsessions of a mystery writer provide his wife with an opportunity to do him in. In a second,...Watch Movie
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Cyan Eye
A cabin deep in a remote forest lures four women into a trap with its French punk rock spell. Its forbidden fruit turns the beauties into beasts, savage monsters under the control of the hypnotic sound. Only one can elude the trance. But... can she escape the horrors of the house and save her...Watch Movie
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Lisa and the Devil
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, LISA AND THE DEVIL is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. Elke Sommer stars as a tourist in Spain who, upon seeing the image of a bald, grinning...Watch Movie
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Count Dracula's Great Love
Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. They each in turn fall into the evil hands of a doctor who forces them to suck each other's blood and to whip innocent village virgins so they can lick the oozing cuts clean. [The source for this film...Watch Movie
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The Attic
A month after Emma Callan and her family move into their seemingly picture-perfect Victorian home, Emma starts to have ghastly visions of a girl who appears to be her twin but is pure evil. Co-starring Elisabeth Moss, John Savage and Catherine Mary Stewart, this riveting film from the director of...Watch Movie
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House on Haunted Hill
Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price) and his fourth wife Annabelle have invited five people to the HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, an old mansion with a murderous history, for a "Haunted House" party. The rules? Simple. Whoever will stay in the house for one full night...Watch Movie
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Bloody Pit of Horror
"Filmed in PsychoVision" isn’t even the most outlandish claim made by a movie that opens with a bogus quote attributed to the Marquis de Sade ("My vengeance needs blood!") who, in the 1960s, became synonymous with all things kinky. Admittedly, by the standards of the time,...Watch Movie
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The House of Seven Corpses
"Eight graves! Seven bodies!" screamed the ads, "One killer… and he's already dead!" Hollywood legends John Ireland, John Carradine and Howard Hughes' paramour Faith Domergue star this much-loved 1970s shocker about a film crew shooting an occult drama in a sinister manor,...Watch Movie
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Keyhole
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound-and-gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses,...Watch Movie
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The Boogey Man
A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death. [Apologies for the poor source quality of this film. It is presented here in the best transfer currently...Watch Movie
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The Terror
One of the most notoriously slapdash projects in film history, THE TERROR exemplified Roger Corman and American International Pictures' ability to create something marketable out of practically nothing. Having purchased three days' work from horror superstar Boris Karloff on the cheap, Corman...Watch Movie
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Wot a Night
Tom and Jerry (not the later cat-and-mouse duo but a Mutt and Jeff-type pair of button-nosed, humanoid pals) are taxi drivers who pick up a couple of beardos at the train station. They take these passengers to a creepy castle where they end up trapped themselves as skeletons cavort and spirits...Watch Movie
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Tomb of Torture
Anna, a young woman who is the reincarnation of a murdered countess named Irene, is afflicted with nightmares in which she reenacts the murder. In an effort to help her, her father, Dr. Darnell, takes her to the scene of the crime. There, in the manor where Irene was murdered, other strange...Watch Movie
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The Headless Ghost
Three foreign exchange students, Americans Ronnie and Bill, and Danish Ingrid, go on a day-trip to the supposedly haunted Ambrose Castle. The students decide to spend the night in the castle to find out if it is really haunted, and meet the ghost of the Fourth Earl of Ambrose...Watch Movie
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Once Upon a Time
I had been intrigued for many years at the idea of filming a haunted castle. In turning to a set of very old platinum-plate photographs of the Fontainbleau interiors I was finally able to approach this subject through animation. The palace is actually haunted by fragments of...Watch Movie
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Jasper and the Haunted House
George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful...Watch Movie
