Three Chilling Tales of Terror...Pausing to admire a window display of his own books the distinguished horror writer Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes is attacked by a desperate vampire Eramus faint from lack of sustenance. Assuring the startled victim that his neck bite was not deep enough to bring him into the fold the grateful vampire takes him to the Monster Club where all his friends foregather. The rich selection of vampires werewolves snakemen wasp-women ghouls and other weird creatures enjoying themselves to the happy beat of pop music offers plenty of new material for the author. In addition Eramus explains to Ronald the hierarchy and basic rules of Monsterdom and illustrates his theme with three unusual tales...Released on DVD for the first time THE MONSTER CLUB is a blackly-comic horror movie starring all-time greats Vincent Price John Carradine and Donald Pleasance. This film won director Roy Ward Baker the Audience Award at the 1981 Fantafestival in Rome.
World War Two thriller starring John Mills. While out on routine patrol, the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated drifting mine, and plunges immediately to the sea bed. As time - and air - start to run out, the Captain, Lt Cmdr Armstrong (Mills) gathers the handful of survivors together and tries to figure out the best means of escape. Richard Attenborough and Nigel Patrick co-star.
When two innocent victims discover the blood drained corpse of a missing friend in Dracula's castle necropolis the flesh-creeping horror begins. Christopher Lee the definitive Count Dracula to British film fans portrays both the creature's essential power and evil and his sexual and magnetic appeal in a script which stems directly from the original Bram Stoker novel.
Versatile director Roy Baker tackles the question of racial bias in this effective drama. Jacko Palmer (John Mills) is a dedicated, talented union leader who manages to mediate an upheaval over a black foreman at work and prevent a strike. Meanwhile, Palmer's daughter Kathie (Sylvia Syms) has fallen in love with a schoolteacher colleague of hers, Peter Lincoln who happens to be black. The couple plan on marrying, and that creates havoc in the Palmer home where Kathie's mother throws a fit. The full gamut of racial prejudices unfolds, while the father tries to reconcile his own feelings and root out any biases that lurk there. Nominated for BAFTA Best British Screenplay 1962.
Episodes Comprise: 1: The Town of No Return 2: The Gravediggers 3: The Cybernauts 4: Death at Bargain Prices 5: Castle De'ath 6: The Master Minds 7: The Murder Market 8: A Surfeit of H2O 9: The Hour That Never Was 10: Dial a Deadly Number 11: Man-Eater of Surrey Green 12: Two's a Crowd 13: Too Many Christmas Trees 14: Silent Dust 15: Room Without a View 16: Small Game for Big Hunters 17: The Girl from Auntie 18: The Thirteenth Hole 19: Quick-Quick Slow Death 20: The Danger Makers 21: A Touch of Brimstone 22: What the Butler Saw 23: The House That Jack Built 24: A Sense of History 25: How to Succeed.... at Murder 26: Honey for the Prince
Based on the Ernest Hemigway novel of the same name Peck plays the part of a wounded hunter who is accompanied by two young women in the African wilds. Each of them tries to analyse his or her past life.
The legendary George Cole plays Arthur Daley, an entrepreneur and king of the dodgy deal. If there's money to be made Arthur's interested! Arthur needs a bodyguard enter Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman); just out of prison and in need of work, Terry becomes Arthur's business associate and Minder . Drinking in the Winchester Club run by Dave The Barman Harris (Glynn Edwards), driving the Capri and chatting up the ladies, Arthur and Terry cook up one half-baked scheme after another and their relationship strains to the limit, but ultimately they remain the best of friends. When Terry finally tires of Arthur and escapes to Australia, Arthur takes his nephew Ray Daley (Gary Webster) under his wing, and so begins a whole new chapter of wheeling and dealing the Arthur Daley way! The most entertaining, tightly scripted, inventively comic and sharply directed drama series of all time. SPECIAL FEATURES: Five Series Specials: Minder On the Orient Express, Christmas Bonus, Around the Corner, An Officer and a Car Salesman, The Cruel Canal Photo Gallery Interview with George Cole
Titles Comprise: The Devil Rides Out: Revered as one of the best horror films produced by Hammer Studios The Devil Rides Out is a chilling battle between good and evil. Christopher Lee perhaps best known for his role as Dracula gets to show his good side as the heroic and cavalier Duc de Richleau who maintains the air of a gentleman throughout his tireless battle with a Satanic coven led by the wonderfully villainous Mocata (Charles Gray). Dracula: Prince Of Darkness:Ignoring a strange warning a young party travelling to the Carpathian Mountains are abandoned by their coachman. Their luck changes however when another mysterious coach appears and delivers them to the hospitality of Count Dracula... Quatermass And The Pit: A London subway excavation abruptly halts when construction workers unearth a cluster of prehistoric skulls and skeletons. Anthropologist Dr. Roney his assistant Barbara Judd and space expert Professor Quatermass are driven by curiosity and dig deeper to discover a strange 'missile' that is not of this earth... The Nanny: A nanny (Bette Davis) is hired to look after a ten-year-old who has just returned from a mental institution. The boy's mother has just been poisoned and he believes the nanny is to blame. When his aunt arrives and hears the boy's accusations she sides with the nanny claiming the boy is making it all up. Frankenstein Created Woman: In a 19th century Balkan village Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Hertz (Thorley Walters) are embarking upon an experiment to capture the souls of the dead and impose them into other bodies. When their assistant Hans (Robert Morris) is unjustly accused of murdering his girlfriend Christina's father and put to death the two men claim his body and trap his soul in their laboratory. Meanwhile Christina (Susan Denberg) is consumed with grief over the death of her beloved Hans and commits suicide. Frankenstein and Dr. Hertz are able to revive Christina and transfer Hans' soul into her body which results in a vision of beauty. Their experiment appears successful until Frankenstein discovers that Christina's actions are being driven by the spirit of Hans and his passion for revenge...
The Monster Club is a trio of terror tales featuring late great actors John Carradine Donald Pleasence and the master of macabre himself Vincent Price. A writer of horror stories (Carradine) is invited by a mysterious old gentleman (Price) to join in a sinister storytelling session at a rock nightclub. Once there Price spins three tales of horror and suspense featuring vampires monsters ghosts and ghouls all interspersed with humor and musical interludes.
Hammer Horror! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular! Count Dracula journies to a remote Chinese village in the guise of a warlord to support six vampires who are dispirited after the loss of a seventh member of their cult. At the same time vampire hunter Prof. Van Helsing happens to be lecturing in the country and is persuaded by villagers to help them fight this curse of the ages... Possibly the only film to combine the traditions of a vampire story with Kung Fu!
By 1984 Minder was an international television award winner and Series 5 arrives with great fanfare and chart-topping episodes. Relive the comic capers of the crafty Cockney Arthur Daley (George Cole) and his tough-talking sidekick Terry McCann (Dennis waterman). Disc 1 - Episodes 1 to 3. Goodbye Sailor. What Makes Shamy Run? A Number Of Old Wives' Tale. Disc 2 - Episodes 4 to 6. The Second Time Around. Second Hand Pose. The Long Ride Back To Scratchwood. Disc 3 - Episodes 7 to 8. Hypnotising Rita. The Balance Of Power.
The vampire Countess Carmilla Karnstein (Ingrid Pitt) makes her way through the Austrian countryside creeping into the households of aristocrats and taking their daughters as victims. The families begin to catch on when a pattern of deaths in the area takes shape. Vampire hunter Baron Hartog (Douglas Wilmer) is called upon to put an end to Carmilla's wicked ways and end the legacy of terror the Karnstein family is known for.
Workmen unearth prehistoric skulls while carrying out excavations on the London Underground. Very soon a strange and malevolent force is unleashed.
Quatermass Experiment: A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third, who is barely alive, undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth...Quatermass 2: Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which, on his arrival, he finds has been completely destroyed...Quatermass and the Pit: A London subway excavation abruptly halts when construction workers unearth a cluster of prehistoric skulls and skeletons. Anthropologist Dr. Roney, his assistant Barbara Judd, and space expert Professor Quatermass are driven by curiosity and dig deeper to discover a strange 'missile' that is not of this earth...
The One That Got Away is the remarkable true story of the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain who managed to escape and successfully return to his homeland. Hardy Kruger – one of Germany's leading actors and himself a prisoner of war who escaped from the Americans on three occasions – stars as the charismatic Lieutenant Franz von Werra; a strong supporting cast includes Michael Goodliffe Colin Gordon and Terence Alexander. This classic feature directed by Golden Globe winner Roy Ward Baker is presented here in a High Definition transfer from the original film elements. With the Battle of Britain at its height a German fighter pilot is shot down over England and taken into custody. Though confined to a POW camp his captivity cannot deter him from the single aim of escaping back to his homeland. After several months he sees his chance and takes it... Special Features Image Gallery Original Theatrical Trailer
When Doctor Martin arrives for a job interview at a secluded asylum for the incurable insane, he must prove himself by listening to the macabre tales of four inmates and deducing which is the former head of the facility who suffered a breakdown. One of the most chilling anthologies of terror from Amicus starring Peter Cushing, Robert Powell, Herbert Lom and Britt Ekland. Special Features: Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney 'Two's a Company': 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert Bloch Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky 'Inside The Fear Factory' Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve subtitles for the hearing impaired
Based on the remarkable true story of Franz von Werra The One That Got Away is the story of the only German prisoner of war to escape Britain and return to his homeland. The One That Got Away stars Hardy Kruger (Barry Lyndon Flight of the Phoenix) - a real-life prisoner of war who escaped from the Americans on three occasions - as the cocky and charismatic von Werra and supported by numerous British screen legends including Michael Goodliffe (The Battle of
CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE Following her recruitment by the SOE, Violette Szabo volunteers to be parachuted into occupied France to re-organise a shattered resistance group. She knows only too well that the life expectancy of an undercover operative can usually be measured in weeks and months... OLD BILL AND SON Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and he decides to enlist! When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet! A TOWN LIKE ALICE Jean Paget, an English woman taken prisoner by the Japanese, is among a group of women and children forced to trek through Malaya during the Occupation. During her ordeal she meets captive Australian Joe Harman and there is an instant magnetism between them. THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY With the Battle of Britain at its height, a German fighter pilot is shot down over England. Though confined to a POW camp, captivity cannot deter him from the single aim of escaping back to his homeland. After several months, he sees his chance and takes it...
Father Michael Keogh (John Mills) is a dedicated Catholic priest who arrives in a sleepy Mexican village to be confronted by a murderous gang of bandits led by Anacleto (Dirk Bogarde). To intimidate the newcomer Anacleto's gang set out on a series of murders of local villagers. The gutsy priest resolutely decides to challenge Anacleto's control of the village and a struggle ensues. Despite their rivalry Anacleto develops a grudging respect for the priest and is desperate to determine if he is drawn to the singer (the priest) or the song (religion). The film reaches a climax with a dramatic confrontation between the two men over a local girl Locha (Mylene Demongeot) who falls for the handsome priest. The film is an intricate brooding and dramatically played story filmed against spectacular scenery.
Professor Jekyll an earnest scientist obsessively works day and night haunted by the fear that one lifetime will not be enough to complete his research; sidetracked from his objective he becomes consumed with developing an immortality serum. Once convinced his findings are complete he consumes the potion only to discover that he is to become two as he turns into half Jekyll and half Hyde. Desperate to cover up his new found identity he calls her his sister but things take a turn for the worse when he realises that he needs female hormones if he is to maintain his existence. Before long he is battling with his alter ego Mrs Hyde as a number of young girls begin to go missing in the streets of London...
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