Charles Beaumont’s secret crush on Madeleine, who has newly arrived in Haiti with her fiancée, leads him to ask Murder Legendre for help. Murder, a voodoo master, prepares a potion to turn Madeleine into a zombie, and a willing creature ready to submit to Charles’s love. The film is largely consi...
"If one had to pick the best of the campy horror films that made [Castle's] reputation, this 1958 feature would probably be it." Chicago Reader
Horror Legend Vincent Price plays a wealthy man who hosts a haunted house party, offering to give each of his guests $10,000 - if they can survive the n...
In 2015, the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show celebrated their fifth anniversary by putting on a unique presentation of F.W. Murnau’s iconic and influential horror film Nosferatu with an original musical score performed LIVE by Toronto band Del Bel. Live score screenings were a staple of the silent f...
A silent adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s famous novel in which a deformed musician living in the cellars of the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It was both the stepping off point for Chaney's run as a superstar at ...
Vienna International Film Festival
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off a bridge. It appears they all drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recoveri...
"The original and the best" Empire Magazine
George A. Romero's influential debut set the template for the zombie film, and features tight editing, realistic gore, and a sly political undercurrent. There's a reason that "The Walking Dead" is a black and white comic; this film is that reason.
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In fifteenth century Paris, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen. Meanwhile, a revolution is brewing… This film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris was a super-duper-spectacular as only Hollywood of the 1920s could make them, but it is never so large that it dw...
"Based on a much-anthologised short story by Richard Connell, this is one of the classic ‘high concept’ action movies." Empire Magazine
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclu...
TIFF Cinematheque
Busan International Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival - Midnight Madness
In Dario Argento's sophomore feature, a newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's experimental, top-secret research...
An unauthorized, only slightly-altered adaptation of Stoker's Dracula novel, F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film begins in the Carpathian mountains, where real estate agent Hutter has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok. Despite the feverish warnings of the local peasants, Hutt...
