Cinema of the Damned
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Scream and Scream Again
›PG1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
A serial killer who drains his victims of blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
›PG1980 · Comedy, Horror, Crime · 108m · Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
Robert Reborn
›2019 · Horror · 85m · Lee Bane, Lux Kapsaski, Dennis Farrin
In 1951 USSR, as the Cold War intensifies, infamous dictator Joseph Stalin is suffering with illness and his death is imminent. Meanwhile, KGB agent Stoichkov discovers a mysterious stage show in the Baltic region featuring three creepy dolls - Robert, Kalashnikov and Miss Cyclops. Spellbound by the lifelike animation displayed by the dolls on stage, Stoichkov investigates the show's host and discovers he is a German Toymaker who owns a mystical book which holds the key to eternal life. Believing the Toymaker and his book will help Stalin escape death, Stoichkov kidnaps him and they board a plane to Moscow. But the Toymaker's living creations have followed them. When the plane is in mid air all hell breaks loose as Stoichkov and his team of KGB agents realize the three dolls are on board and will stop at nothing to rescue their puppet master. Fasten your seat belt and prepare for blood soaked toy terror at 30,000 feet.
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
›NR1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
Killers from Space
›NR1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Teenage Zombies
›PG1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte
A boating trip to an uncharted island becomes a fight for survival when two men happen upon a mad scientist, her brainwashed minions and a murderous gorilla.
The Crawling Hand
›NR1963 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Rod Lauren, Sirry Steffen, Peter Breck
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach. The boy takes the arm home, where it becomes animate and the alien force which animates it soon possesses his mind as well.
The Astro-Zombies
›1968 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 91m · Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace
For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.
