Cinema of the Damned
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11 titles
Witchcraft
›1964 · Horror · 79m · Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
›NR1964 · Horror · 80m · Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
The Mummy's Shroud
›1967 · Horror · 90m · André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
The Undertaker
›1988 · Horror · 89m · Joe Spinell, Rebecca Yaron, Patrick Askin
A deranged undertaker kills various people to keep as his friends in his seedy funeral home.
The Mummy's Tomb
›1942 · Horror, Fantasy · 61m · Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Unrest
›R2006 · Horror, Mystery · 88m · Corri English, Scot Davis, Joshua Alba
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Frightmare
›1983 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Ferdy Mayne, Luca Bercovici, Nita Talbot
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.
The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill
›PG-132013 · Horror · 88m · Michael G. Bartlett, Kevin Gates, Craig Stovin
In March 1963, a black mass was held at a ruined church in Clophill, Bedfordshire by a coven of dark witches. Tombs were looted, animals sacrificed and human bones arranged during a macabre ceremony. Further defilements continued at Clophill in the following years, with cattle in nearby fields found mutilated, evidence of necromancy discovered and perpetual sightings of paranormal activity witnessed at the isolated ruin. 50 years on from the original incident, the Clophill legend remains etched on the psyches of the local populace. In 2010, a documentary team was assembled to investigate the legend of the Clophill witches and to try and uncover the truth behind the paranormal events. What followed during that long weekend at Clophill was a terrifying journey into the unknown.
Dawn of the Mummy
›1981 · Horror · 93m · Brenda Siemer Scheider, Barry Sattels, George Peck
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
The Awakening
›R1980 · Horror · 105m · Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Day of the Mummy
›NR2014 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy · 76m · Danny Glover, William McNamara, Andrea Monier
Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber disturbed by timeless human greed, the King rises from the dead with a blood-lust that cannot be quenched and a raging fury that will shred flesh from bone, bringing terrible and tormented death to all who dare witness the Day of the Mummy.