A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town
Oct 30, 2008
Inner Sanctum (1948)
A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town
Oct 24, 2008
Mr. Imperium (1951)
Romantic tale that centers on a playboy crown prince (Ezio Pinza) who meets up with a nightclub singer (Lana Turner) while they are both vacationing in Italy.
Oct 19, 2008
The Screaming Skull (1958)
A widower remarries and the couple move into the house he shared with his previous wife. Only the ghost of the last wife might still be hanging around.We guarantee to bury you without charge if you die of fright while viewing The Screaming Skull!
Oct 18, 2008
Horror Express (1973)
An English anthropologist (Christopher Lee) has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one.
Oct 17, 2008
The Devil's Messenger (1961)
Satan's job isn't an easy one. In this film, Satan checks several poor souls into an eternity of fire, but after hearing the story of a young girl who has arrived as consequence of suicide, Satan gives her the opportunity to earn a second chance. The catch? She has to recruit possible new candidates from earth. Lon Chaney Jr. stars as Satan in this three part story based on a collection of episodes from the never-aired TV series No. 13 Demon St.
Oct 14, 2008
Burt Lancaster - Vengeance Valley (1951)
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred..
Born to Win (1971)
A Times Square smart-mouthed junky and hairdresser-to-be inadvertently runs into his dependable girlfriend while breaking into her car looking for "just one more fix".
Stars: George Segal, Robert De Niro
Oct 12, 2008
The Panther's Claw (1942)
Arrested for loitering in a cemetery, wigmaker and operetta company proprietor Everett P. Digberry claims to have been lured there by a blackmailer known only as the Black Panther. But as Colt and his lieutenant, Anthony Abbott, soon discover, the paw print on the blackmail note belongs to Digberry's own pet cat and when the wigmaker's secret inamorata, Nina Politza, is found murdered, Digberry becomes the obvious prime suspect.
Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
Elvira Irving has terrible dreams about bloody murders that culminate in the actual killing of her father. She convalesces at the rented country estate of Krisna, an Indian guru. Meanwhile, a masked zombie master runs amok, using voodoo rituals to raise female corpses from the dead and send them to carry out bizarre murders. A disfigured fiend named Kantaka performs black masses that summon forth Satan. Elvira's writer friend Lawrence has a theory linking the murders to India, where all the female victims once lived.
Oct 11, 2008
Condemned to Live (1935)
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
Buster Keaton - The Scarecrow (1920)
Farmhands Keaton and Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy and a love for the farmer's daughter. Keaton, disguised as a scarecrow, causes troubles for his rival and the farmer.
East Side Kids - Spooks Run Wild (1941)
The boys are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is shot by a grave-digger, and they are forced to seek aid at an old mansion. The owner of the mansion (Lugosi), insists that the boys spend the night.
Superman - The Mummy Strikes (1943)
While investigating an egyptologist's mysterious death, Superman must battle dangerous mummies.
Oct 8, 2008
City of the Dead/Horror Hotel (1960)
A young college student studying "Old Salem" witchcraft travels to the quiet New England town where, centuries earlier, a witch was burned at the stake. She finds that things are not as quiet as they appear, and soon she is the target of the coven that still exists there, searching for a sacrifice to offer to the devil on "Candlemass Eve".
Oct 7, 2008
Phantom Ship (1935)
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Staring: Bela Lugosi
AKA "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste"
Buster Keaton - One Week (1920)
Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts.
Oct 5, 2008
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom (Lon Chaney) threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom in the catacombs, where he lives. What's his goal? What's his secret?
Range Defenders (1937)
The Three Mesquiteers are back for more action in this well-photographed Republic western. This time, heroes Stoney Brooke (Bob Livingston), Tucson Smith (Ray "Crash" Corrigan) and Lullaby Joslin (Max Terhune) find themselves in a middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.
Roy Rogers - Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
Roy Rogers is mistaken for a hired gun the crooked mayor of Tombstone sent for to help him gain control of the town. But Roy'd better be on his toes; the malicious magistrate is wise to him, and the real trigger man is goin' a-gunnin' for him.
Oct 3, 2008
Nothing Sacred (1937)
In this classic screwball comedy, Carole Lombard plays Hazel Flagg, a small-town girl who pretends to be dying from radium poisoning so she can win a free trip to New York City. Fredric March plays Wally Cook, the big-city newspaper reporter who sets up the plan by breaking the story and then complicates matters when he falls for Hazel.
The Torch (1950)
A revolutionary and his band take over a small Mexican town. The townspeople begin to take sides over whether to fight him, join forces with him or just try to get along with him.
Oct 2, 2008
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch (John Travolta), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in incubator conditions. He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from the hospital where he was being kept as a boy. He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various coverings.
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Sassy Dixie Daisy (Barbara Stanwyck) is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that's been turned into a burlesque theater. She's popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she'd get the top spot. Also complicating matters is the return of the Princess Nirvena, the show's former star who once had a fling with the boss. When the Princess blackmails her way into the top spot, Dixie is none too pleased. When both Lolita and the Princess are murdered, Dixie becomes a prime suspect.
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