Cinema of the Damned
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Son of Frankenstein
›1939 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Crooked HouseSeries
›2008 · Mystery · 1 season · Lee Ingleby, Mark Gatiss
Crooked House is a British supernatural drama miniseries broadcast on BBC Four from 22-24 December 2008. Created and written by Mark Gatiss, and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, the serial stars Lee Ingleby and Gatiss. A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house — Geap Manor — weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s, and present day.
Twice-Told Tales
›NR1963 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 120m · Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
Lady Usher
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Theresa Santiago, Billie D. Merritt, John Tupy
An updated re-telling based in the Gothic South with the Usher Family, led by Mother. The family has been cursed by madness, unrequited love and when Roderick comes home with his girlfriend Morgan, it spells the beginning of the end as her sister Madeline will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage as Morgan fights to take Roderick away from the madness that is the House of Usher.
The Resonator: Miskatonic U
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Alex Keener, Dane Oliver, Christina Hélène Braa
Visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on the Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds.
Frankenstein 1970
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Boris Karloff, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
Netherworld
›R1992 · Horror · 87m · Michael Bendetti, Denise Gentile, Anjanette Comer
A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.
The Covenant
›PG-132006 · Fantasy, Horror, Adventure · 97m · Chace Crawford, Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
The Hidden II
›1993 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Jovin Montanaro
The alien criminal from the first movie is dead, but he left a few eggs which are hatching now. The good alien, who still inhabits Tom Beck's body, has been waiting just in case this happened. Unfortunately, his presence in the body has taken a terrible toll on it, draining it of life energy. Additionally relations with Beck's daughter Juliet (now a cop) have deteriorated. But when the killing starts again, they will need to work together to stop the new generation of aliens.