Cinema of the Damned
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The Living and the DeadSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama · 1 season · Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer, David Oakes
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?
The Stone Tape
›1972 · Horror, TV Movie, Mystery · 90m · Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
The Devil Commands
›NR1941 · Horror, Science Fiction · 65m · Boris Karloff, Richard Fiske, Amanda Duff
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles
After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…
House of Dracula
›1945 · Horror, Science Fiction · 64m · John Carradine, Onslow Stevens, Lon Chaney Jr.
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
The Bat People
›PG1974 · Horror · 95m · Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew, Michael Pataki
Dr. John Beck, recently married, decides to take his wife, Cathy, spelunking in Carlsbad Cavern. While there, Dr. Beck, who specializes in bats, is bitten by a fruit bat. He is then, inexplicably, transformed into a vampire bat. While he escapes and seeks help from another doctor, it is clear the treatments are not working. In fact, they are aggravating his condition. Dr. Beck unwittingly goes on a killing spree, catching the attention of Sergeant Ward.
