Cinema of the Damned
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The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries
›TV-PG1962 · Crime, Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Alfred Hitchcock
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Black Friday
›1940 · Science Fiction, Crime, Horror · 70m · Stanley Ridges, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
Hammer House of Mystery and SuspenseSeries
›1984 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season
A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.
The Agatha Christie HourSeries
›1982 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Crime · 1 season
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
Strange Harvest
›R2025 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 94m · Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andrew Lauer
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
Box
›2021 · Horror · 73m · Matt Shaw, Maria Lee Metheringham, Peter Eglitist
The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..
House of Horrors
›NR1946 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 65m · Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Robert Lowery
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
I'll Take Your Dead
›NR2018 · Horror, Crime, Drama · 83m · Aidan Devine, Ava Preston, Jess Salgueiro
William has a simple job: he makes dead bodies disappear. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough-looking men dropping off corpses, and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house.
London Road
›2015 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · 91m · Olivia Colman, Clare Burt, Rosalie Craig
London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Hard Luck
›2006 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 101m · Wesley Snipes, Jackie Quinones, Cybill Shepherd
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
Faces of Death III
›1985 · Horror, Documentary · 86m · Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz, Veronica Lakewood
Gory real-life footage of blood and guts on the German Autobahn, drug smugglers getting blown away, a parachutist landing in a crocodile pit, torture and murder in El Salvador, a PCP addict getting stoned, a videotaped rape/murder, a car thief getting ripped apart by two junkyard dogs, and much more.