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British cinema: Horror

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Robert Fuest

England, 1925. When several eminent doctors die in mysterious and horrific circumstances it soon becomes clear that the murders are linked...   [More...]

The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Val Guest

Dr John Rollason leads a botanical expedition to the Himalayas, accompanied by his wife Helen and colleague Peter Fox. Staying at a Tibetan monastery, Rollason becomes excited when he learns that another expedition, led by the American Tom Friend, will soon arrive, on a mission to find the Yeti, a prehistoric near-relation of modern man that has so far eluded discovery...   [More...]

Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women - is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure...   [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...   [More...]

And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
Roy Ward Baker

In 1790s England, Charles Fengriffen takes up residence at his large family estate with his new bride Catherine. Almost immediately after she has entered the old gothic mansion Catherine begins to experience a bizarre series of hallucinations, some involving a bloody severed hand, and she is strangely drawn to the portrait of Charles' grandfather...   [More...]

Asylum (1972)
Roy Ward Baker

Dr Martin arrives at a remote asylum which houses a number of dangerously insane inmates, to attend a job interview conducted by Dr Rutherford...   [More...]

Blind Terror (1971)
Richard Fleischer

Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house...   [More...]

The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Piers Haggard

In England of the 17th century, ploughman Ralph Gower finds the decomposed remains of a creature, part animal, part human, buried in a field...   [More...]

Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam

Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information...   [More...]

The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Terence Fisher

Count Dracula may have been destroyed but his legacy of vampiric evil endures, lingering like a poisonous cloud of death over the bleak Transylvanian landscape...   [More...]

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Otto Preminger

A few days after arriving in London, American Ann Lake leaves her four-year old daughter Bunny at a school for toddlers before rushing off to meet the removal men at her new apartment...   [More...]

Captain Clegg (1962)
Peter Graham Scott

In 1792, Captain Collier arrives in an English coastal town to investigate a possible smuggling operation. He soon begins to suspect that the local vicar, Dr Blyss, may be implicated, although his attempts to uncover any evidence of smuggling are thwarted...   [More...]

Carry On Screaming (1966)
Gerald Thomas

Something sinister is afoot in Edwardian England. One misty evening, a young couple, Albert and Doris, are disturbed whilst courting in Hocombe Woods...   [More...]

Children of the Stones [TV] (1977)
Peter Graham Scott

Adam Brake, an astrophysicist whose wife has recently died, arrives in the small English village of Milbury with his teenage son Matthew...   [More...]

The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Freddie Francis

In the late 19th century, Professor Emmanuel Hildern believes he is about to make a major scientific breakthrough that will change mankind's destiny forever...   [More...]

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Terence Fisher

Whilst in prison, awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein relates his tragic life story to a priest...   [More...]

Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Roman Polanski

For years, Professor Abronsius has devoted himself to obtaining tangible proof of the existence of vampires, and finally he believes he has found just that...   [More...]

Dead of Night (1945)
Alberto Cavalcanti

Wanting to make some changes to his farmhouse, Eliot Foley invites the architect Walter Craig to spend the weekend with him and his family...   [More...]

The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Terence Fisher

When his protégé, Simon Aron, fails to turn up for a reunion, the wealthy Duc de Richleau decides to visit him at his home...   [More...]

The Devils (1971)
Ken Russell

In 17th Century France, Catholics and Protestants live together in peace in the town of Loudun, under the benign governorship of the much-loved but slightly over-sexed priest Urbain Grandier...   [More...]

Don't Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Roeg

John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home...   [More...]

Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Roy Ward Baker

In East London of the 1880s, the young Dr Henry Jekyll is diligently engaged on finding vaccines for man's most feared diseases...   [More...]

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Freddie Francis

During a rail journey, five men who have never met before share a railway compartment with a strange mystic who introduces himself as Dr Schreck (which, as luck would have it, is the German word for Terror)...   [More...]

Dracula (1958)
Terence Fisher

Jonathan Harker makes the journey to Klausenberg to take up the post of librarian at Castle Dracula. The real motive for his expedition is to kill his employer, Count Dracula, but before he can do this he is attacked by a mysterious woman in white...   [More...]

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Terence Fisher

Englishman Charles Kent persuades his brother Alan and their two wives, Helen and Diana, to make a tour of the Carpathian mountains...   [More...]

Eye of the Devil (1966)
J. Lee Thompson

After a third disastrous harvest in a row at his vineyard in France, the Marquis Phillippe de Montfaucon has no option but to return to his medieval château, Bellenac...   [More...]

The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Don Sharp

In the early 1900s, Sir Dennis Nayland Smith, a senior British police commissioner, attends the formal execution of arch-criminal Fu Manchu in China...   [More...]

The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
John Gilling

Edinburgh, 1828. Dr Robert Knox is an eminent anatomist who needs a regular supply of human cadavers for his anatomy lectures...   [More...]

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Terence Fisher

Baron Frankenstein believes he has perfected a means of extracting the soul of a human being from a corpse and transferring it into another body...   [More...]

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Terence Fisher

Dr Frankenstein's experiments in brain transplant surgery are temporarily suspended when the scientist's cellar laboratory is discovered by an enterprising burglar...   [More...]



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