trick or treat?

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trick or treat?

TRICK
OR TREAT?
Halloween and Horror titles
available FROM Park Circus
TRICK OR TREAT? www.parkcircus.com
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IMAGE: the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (see p16)
TRICK OR TREAT?
Halloween and Horror titles available from Park Circus
We’ve got all manner of devilish tricks and ghoulish treats in store to make Halloween more
than just a day-long celebration of the macabre. Resurrect your own spooky season with the
dirty secrets lurking in our vaults. There are glistening digital prints of genre classics for special
screenings, and Gothic chills from both the Hammer catalogue and the vivid adaptations of
Edgar Allan Poe from Roger Corman and Vincent Price. Not to mention fantastic creatures of
all genetic possibility in numerous insane incarnations. Programme your own midnight movie
marathon with our extensive range of cult oddities, grindhouse endurance tests and surreal
hallucinations. Remember, a horror shared is a horror halved.
For updates, further details and additional titles available internationally, see www.parkcircus.com/horror
Words: James Kloda is a freelance film writer and gonzo hack. He is the home entertainment reviewer
for The Dark Side, the UK’s premier magazine of the macabre and fantastic, and has offered indelicate
musings on genre offerings both past and present for a range of publications academic, trade and
populist. Recently, he attempted a spirited, if ultimately woebegone, defence of Exorcist II: Heretic for
Centipede Press’ definitive compendium on the franchise.
Images: © the appropriate studio. All rights reserved.
Brochure designed by and © Park Circus Limited, 2013. Revised 2016.
All rights reserved.
cover image: scream (SEE p7)
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contents
Just a little guide to help you navigate the bloodsoaked aisles of the Park Circus vaults. You
wouldn’t want to end up taking a wrong turn,
would you? There are zombies, vampires and
chainsaw-wielding maniacs in here.
halloween hoedown
p5
the new breed
hammer-time
p7
p8
peter cushing
gothic poe-try
vincent price
p9
p10
roger corman
p11
p13
midnight movies
grindhouse
p14
p16
the monster squad
p17
fantastic creatures &
unnatural animals a superb vintage
p19
walk on the wild side
p20
p21
Please note: we can’t promise to protect you from
the transparent guy. You’re on your own with him...
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HALLOWEEN HOEDOWN
Line the aisles with Jack’o’lanterns and, for once, leave the cobwebs on the seats. Halloween is
positioned between the end of summer and the advent of Christmas, a time when spirits depressed
by the onset of winter need a dose of the outrageous and an electrifying shock to the system. Like
any festival, it is best celebrated with a large group and there is nothing like that community feeling
of fellow enthusiasts jumping as a frightened Mexican wave, recoiling together at a gore-saturated
extremity or filling the theatre with polyphonic laughter at the wickedly outré. This season, we have
a number of defining classics of the genre to spill their innards at large on the big screen, many
newly restored in blood-curdling high-definition. From psychic nerds to hammy vampire slayers,
comicbook demons and angry automobiles, via head-spinning possession, haunted hotels and
the slasher of your dreams. There’s something for every nightmarish predilection to announce the
witching hour with. Just keep repeating, “It’s only a movie, it’s only a movie…”
donnie darko
Dir: Richard Kelly
October 1988 and small town USA is about to witness the end of the world. It’s home to Donnie Darko,
a brilliant but troubled teenager, plagued by terrifying visions the meaning of which he alone holds the
key. With his class mate Gretchen and a mysterious ex teacher, Grandma Death, he must unravel the
strange occurrences infecting his school, his home and his life before a horrifying spectre known only as
“Frank” can pull Donnie over the edge of his sanity.
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HALLOWEEN HOEDOWN
IMAGE: donnie darko
Dir: Jonathan Demme
Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee, is assigned by her
superior to interview an imprisoned, cannibalistic
psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, in the hope that he
may help uncover the identity of an elusive serial
killer who skins his female victims. Lecter’s dazzling
criminal genius unearths clues, but at the price of
deadly mind games with the vulnerable Clarice.
The Amityville HorroR
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg
The middle-class Lutz family are terrorised by their
new Long Island home, which is possessed by
vitriolic demons.
Invasion Of The Body
Snatchers
Dir: Philip Kaufman
This dazzling, whip-smart remake of the 1956
spine-tingler stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke
Adams and Leonard Nimoy as characters caught
in an eerie tale of possession by alien pod-people.
Shallow Grave
Dir: Danny Boyle
Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny
Boyle, this is a savagely entertaining contemporary
black comedy, which sees three cocksure twentysomethings sharing a flat in Edinburgh getting
more than they bargained for when they go in
search of a new roommate.
CARRIE
Dir: Brian De Palma
Carrie is a born victim: ruthlessly bullied by her
classmates, inhibited by her psychotically-religious
mother. When she becomes the butt of a vicious
prank, her telekinetic powers are unleashed to
devastating effect.
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HALLOWEEN HOEDOWN
The Silence Of The
Lambs
IMAGE: from dusk till dawn
From Dusk Till
Dawn
Dir: Robert Rodriguez
Two deranged convicts kidnap a
preacher and his kids, and flee for
the safety of a remote nightclub
in Mexico. Once they arrive, they
discover that the place is anything
but a safe haven for criminals.
Featuring an outrageous plot
hijacking that still thrills today.
Mimic
Dir: Guillermo del Toro
Three years ago an entomologist
genetically engineered an insect to
kill cockroaches carrying a virulent
disease. Now the species are out
to destroy their only predator,
mankind…
Scream
Dir: Wes Craven
The residents of a picturesque
small town are being victimised
by a masked psycho with a twisted
love for scary movies, mimicking
horror films with real acts of terror.
An instant audience favourite for
its unique style and humour.
Also available:
scream 2 and 3
TRICK OR TREAT? Halloween tends to beg nostalgia for seasonal cinema
classics. But let’s not forget that the last two decades have
seen the genre flourish with dark imagination, postmodern
wit and eerie classicism from around the globe. Filmmakers
such as Robert Rodriguez and Guillermo del Toro turned
their comicbook sensibilities into iconic nightmares, whilst
J-Horror exploded a uniquely twisted surrealism. Meanwhile,
the teen horror would never be the same after Wes Craven’s
knowing reinvention of the slasher film that his Elm Street
franchise so nurtured with Scream. The new crop of horror
cinema stands proud amongst its forefathers.
The Faculty
Dir: Robert Rodriguez
Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after a series of
bizarre occurrences.
The Others
Dir: Alejandro Amenábar
A woman who lives in an old house with her two photosensitive
children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.
SCARY MOVIE
Dir: Keenen Ivory Wayans
A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidently killed,
a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.
Also available: scary movie 2 and 3
Insidious
Dir: James Wan
Fear runs in the family in this supernatural horror when young
Dalton Lambert inherits his father’s ability to channel demonic
spirits.
Also available: Insidious: Chapter 2
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Dir: Troy Nixey
Co-written by Guillermo del Toro, this story of a young girl living in
a 19th-century mansion and menaced by sinister creatures from
the basement bears all the hallmarks of the filmmaker’s dark,
fantastic style.
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the new breed
THE NEW BREED
HAmmer-time
IMAGE: the vampire lovers
HAMMER-TIME
Hammer is a British institution. For a golden period, the company consistently brought lurid reimaginings of the classic monster figures to life, upping the ante in every way conceivable: defiant
color, garish smatterings of blood, low-cut corsetry and impolite violence. Horror grew up under
Hammer and revelled in it. But the studio had a moral compass underpinning the depictions
of nefarious deeds - the sincerity of its two principal actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Cushing invested his characters with thoughtful anxiety, never a clear-cut hero or villain. He
would have turned 100 last year and this added momentum to the resurgence of the unique
brand. A Hammer horror is a perfectly grown-up way to spend the evening.
Countess Dracula
The Vampire Lovers
Dir: Peter Sasdy
Dir: Roy Ward Baker
One day in a fit of rage, embittered widow Countess
Elizabeth strikes a chambermaid and blood from
the girl splashes onto her face. To her amazement,
her skin becomes youthful and smooth. Elizabeth
kidnaps the maid and kills her, making herself look
25 years younger. But the effect is only temporary, so
what lengths will she go to keep up appearances?
In a peaceful hamlet in 18th-century Eastern
Europe, a female vampire with lesbian
tendencies ravages the townsfolk, who, years
earlier, killed off her fellow kind.
Vampire Circus
Dir: Terence Fisher
Dir: Robert Young
A circus arrives at a Serbian village where it will
perform a show for the locals. Many of them believe
that the plague that has gripped their community
is the result of a curse inflicted on them by Count
Mitterhaus, a vampire. Unbeknownst to them, the
leader of the circus is the Count’s cousin intent on
reviving his relative and having his revenge...
The Hound Of The
Baskervilles
In this spellbinding Sherlock Holmes mystery,
Cushing stars as the great detective who must
unlock the mystery of a hound’s horrible cry
and the systematic deaths of generations of the
Baskerville family.
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No one did sorrow like Peter
Cushing: the flesh from his
cheekbones become wearily
sucked back, as if exposing
skull. There is something always
morbidly touching about the actor,
even if some of the characters he
played were genuine monsters. It
is his solemn dignity and brooding
circumspection that begs intrigue,
which went far beyond the
Hammer stable.
House Of The
Long Shadows
Dir: Pete Walker
Desi Arnaz Jr. plays a young writer
who bets that he can bat out
a mystery play in one evening,
squirrelling himself away in an
old mansion where, unbeknownst
to him, a bizarre family reunion is
scheduled to commence. But then
the participants begin dropping
like flies. House of the Long
Shadows represents the only costarring effort of those titans of
terror Cushing, Lee and Price.
At The Earth’s
Core
Dir: Kevin Connor
A Victorian-era scientist and his
assistant take a test run in their Iron
Mole drilling machine and end up
in a strange underground labyrinth
full of prehistoric monsters and
cavemen, and ruled by a species
of giant telepathic bird.
IMAGE: HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS
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peter cushing
PETER
CUSHING
Inspired by the stories of claustrophobic insanity and private paranoia written by Edgar
Allan Poe, pioneering B-movie producer and director Roger Corman made a series of films
that, despite their meagre budgets, looked dazzlingly ambitious and artful. What powered
these Gothic epics was Vincent Price, brimming with sinister camp, adroitly straddling
the line between homicidal madness and earnest self-delusion that characterised Poe’s
protagonists.
House Of Usher (1960)
When a beautiful young woman’s suitor arrives to ask her hand in
marriage, the doors of the mysterious house of Usher fling open
and terror begins. Her jealous brother will resort to macabre ends
to prevent the family bloodline from becoming tainted.
The Masque Of The Red Death
Whilst a virulent epidemic rages outside, a Satan-worshipping
prince stays confined in his castle and holds a party for the elite.
All is revelry and debauchery until, during the great masque
which crowns the entertainment, the guests succumb to the
plague one-by-one.
Pit and The Pendulum
Price stars as Nicholas Medina, the son of a notorious Spanish
Inquisition torturer, whose wife has died under mysterious
circumstances. The tormented Medina comes to believe that
she was buried alive, and can hear his wife’s voice calling out
to him.
The Raven
Inspired by Poe’s poem, and starring horror legends Peter Lorre
and Boris Karloff alongside Price, this is a cult classic of wizards
duelling for magical supremacy.
Tales Of Terror
A ghoulish anthology dramatising three of Poe’s short stories
(Morella, The Black Cat, and The Case of M. Valdemar).
The Tomb Of Ligeia
IMAGE: pit and the pendulum
A widower falls in love and marries an exact replica of his first
wife. The second wife soon discovers her husband’s fixation with
his dead spouse and becomes the object of evil happenings.
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gothic poe-try
gothic poe-try:
VINCENT PRICE & ROGER CORMAN
VINCENT PRICE
IMAGE: THE MONSTER CLUB
VINCENT PRICE
Price was a performer who was better than the mould in which he was typecast. Critical reaction
seemed to trap him in a repertory of malevolent dilettantes and effete magicians, yet he always
played them with arch relish. Outside of the Poe cycle, there is plenty more opportunity to watch the
macabre master of disguise.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes/
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Dir: Robert Fuest
A man who was disfigured in a car wreck seeks revenge
on those he believes are responsible for the death of
his wife. Each slaying is patterned after the plagues
brought down on Rameses, from killer locusts to bloodsucking bats. In the second film, he sets out for Egypt
to find the secret elixir of life so that he may resurrect
his beloved.
the Comedy Of Terrors
Dir: Jacques Tourneur
A horror spoof in which a funeral director, who is in
arrears on rent, aggressively pursues customers to
bolster his business. The fact that they haven’t died yet
doesn’t seem to dissuade him.
TRICK OR TREAT? Cry Of The Banshee
Dir: Gordon Hessler
A 16th-century lord goes on a rampage to
rid the countryside of witches. He kills the
children of the chief sorceress, who retaliates
by putting a death hex on him and his heirs.
The Monster Club
Dir: Roy Ward Baker
A rich collection of vampires, werewolves,
snakemen, wasp-women, ghouls and other
weird creatures gather to enjoy themselves
amid the flashing lights and rock music at
the Monster Club. Vampire Eramus (Price,
his only role as a bloodsucker) takes a recent
victim there and spins three fantastical tales.
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VINCENT PRICE
IMAGE: theatre of blood
Dr. Goldfoot and The
Bikini Machine/
Dr. Goldfoot and The
Girl Bombs
Dir: Norman Taurog/Mario Bava
The foppish mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot has invented
an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to
seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over
their assets: in Bava’s follow-up, he plots another saucy
scheme to take over the world by killing off the major
global military leaders.
Scream and Scream Again
Dir: Gordon Hessler
Theatre Of Blood
Dir: Douglas Hickox
Edward Lionheart is a crazed
Shakespearean actor who adds murder
to his repertoire when he takes gruesome
revenge on the critics who slighted him.
Price is a glorious hamper of hamminess
in this deft and witty film: tuck in.
Madhouse
Dir: Jim Clark
A horror movie star returns to his famous
role after years in a mental institution.
But the character seems to be committing
murders independent of his will.
A deranged scientist, seeking to create a race of
superhumans by means of organic transplant, commits
a series of brutal murders in order to utilize their bodies.
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ROGER CORMAN
IMAGE: bloody mama
ROGER CORMAN
Corman had a knack for economy, not only financially but in storytelling. His prolific career is full
of highlights both eccentric, satirical and morbid. Famous for kick-starting the careers of many
filmmakers (Joe Dante, Jack Nicholson), this is an ideal time to remember that he was a great
director in his own right.
A Bucket Of Blood
Bloody Mama
When Walter Paisley accidentally kills his
neighbour’s cat and covers the remains in
plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed
as a brilliant sculptor. But with his work now in
demand, Walter must return to this method to
produce new masterpieces…
Ma Barker (Shelley Winters) and her four sons leave
a life of poverty for one of sadism, incest, murder
and violence, until the FBI begin to hunt them down.
The Haunted Palace
When a man arrives in the village of Arkham to
claim the mansion that was once the domain of
his great-great grandfather, a black magician
who was burned alive, he discovers that the
place is populated by strangely deformed people
who are under his ancestor’s curse. Which,
unsurprisingly, threatens to possesses him.
Premature Burial
Guy Carrell (Ray Milland) is obsessed with the idea
that he will be buried while in a state of catalepsy.
He marries a woman who promises to cure him
with love but then his fears become real.
Tower Of London
Vincent Price stars in this chilling tale based on the
story of King Richard III, a disfigured, homicidal
misanthrope who tortured his way to the British
throne.
TRICK OR TREAT? Gas! -or- It Became
Necessary to Destroy
the World in Order to
Save It
A poisonous gas accidentally escapes from a
chemical company in Alaska and kills off everyone
in the world over the age of 25. A society forms that
is a twisted parody of our destroyed civilization.
The Trip
A TV-commercial director decides to try LSD, and
experiences visions of sex, death, dancing girls
and a torture chamber.
X: The Man With The
X-Ray Eyes
Involved in research seeking to increase the power
of the human eye, a scientist decides to test a new
serum on himself, which will allow him to see as
if with X-rays. But his vision continues to develop
in sensitivity until he can no longer bear it. If thine
own eye offend thee…
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MIDNIGHT MOVIES
The ideal slot to experience horror. ‘After hours’ in the relative sanctuary of the movie theater,
surrounded by like-minded souls, but utterly alone once the light hits the screen. Or laughing out
loud at the demented frolics before you within a community addicted to the weird and wonderful.
Whether they’re enlivened by fancy dress or fun gimmickry, or played po-faced to provide genuine
fright during the witching hour, there is nothing like the opportunity to revel in the bizarre and brutal
with a bunch of other game individuals. Enjoyed in unusual double bills or just memorable one-offs,
these midnight movies became ‘cult’ for a reason…
The Burning
Deranged
Dir: Tony Maylam
Dir: Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen
A disfigured man burned by kids when he was a gardener
at summer camp returns to maul and decapitate with giant
hedge shears. Cue lots of modern teens getting killed to the
music of Rick Wakeman.
A middle-aged farmer, whose
domineering mother warped him into
becoming a psychotic killer, mummifies
her body when she dies and then
takes home other women to keep her
company. A gleeful, gory take on the
Ed Gein story.
Crawlspace
Dir: David Schmoeller
Gunther (Klaus Kinski) seems like a conscientious landlord
who looks out for his female tenants. What they don’t know
is that he has a crawlspace from where he watches their
every intimate move and plans their murders.
Death Line (RAW MEAT)
Dir: Gary Sherman
“Mind the doors!” There’s something pretty grisly going on
in the tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square involving
cannibalistic ex-tube workers. You’ll never want to take the
underground again.
From Beyond
Dir: Stuart Gordon
A doctor invents a machine that
stimulates a sensory gland in the brain
that allows the user to view an extra
dimension. Unfortunately, when he
sees the monstrous inhabitants of this
realm, they can see him too and are
rather eager to introduce him to their
world: one that goes beyond the flesh.
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MIDNIGHT MOVIES
IMAGE: from beyond
Ghoulies/
Ghoulies 2
Dir: Luca Bercovici/Albert Band
When a college student inherits an old
mansion he finds he has also inherited
its residents - a bunch of slimy, hairy,
fanged creatures who’ll do anything for
him. Even kill. And lurk in the toilet. Then
they come back in a sequel giving both
those on screen and in the auditorium a
night they’ll never forget.
Killer Klowns
From Outer Space
Dir: Stephen Chiodo
Truly one-of-a-kind alien-invasion scifi featuring blood-drinking intergalactic
clowns harvesting a small city of its
plasma.
Terrorvision
Dir: Ted Nicolaou
A bizarre cosmic accident has produced
an oozing, tentacled creature which
projects itself out of television sets and
eats its viewers. The Ring on lysergic
acid.
Troll/Troll 2
Dir: John Carl Buechler/Claudio Fragasso
When an evil troll attempts to bring about
cataclysmic changes that will forever
erase mankind, an ancient sorceress
and a young boy join forces to stop him
before he can carry out his diabolical
plan. But that is nothing compared to the
‘so-bad-it’s-brilliant’ sequel. Trolls live in
the woods around Nilbog and feed on
the town’s population. By transforming
themselves into people, the trolls are
able to come into town and pick their
menu. But before they can eat, their prey
must first be turned into vegetables. Yes.
You heard that right.
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MIDNIGHT MOVIES
IMAGE: troll 2
GRINDHOUSE
In the last few years, video nasties, Italian horror and exploitation schlock have all risen in popularity,
partly in thanks to Quentin Tarantino but also due to dedicated DVD labels treating the movies with
the respect their fans demand. But these grisly, stylish offerings are still best enjoyed on a big screen,
where the lurid fantasy is magnified as perverse opulence.
Anthropophagous
Dir: Joe D’Amato
A group of vacationers find themselves trapped on a
deserted island and pursued by a bloodthirsty cannibal.
Motel Hell
Dir: Kevin Connor
Veteran actor Rory Calhoun stars as fiendish Farmer
Vincent in this deliciously ghoulish tale of the macabre
that has now become a cult classic.
THE Texas Chainsaw
Massacre 2
Dir: Tobe Hooper
Over ten years after making the original
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper
returns to his deranged family of reclusive
cannibals for another round of chainsaw
chases and non-stop screaming.
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grindhouse
IMAGE: anthropophagous
THE MONSTER SQUAD
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, albeit usually misshapen and certainly over-powering.
Eschewing more traditional horror stalwarts, here’s a whole menagerie of ghoulish goblins waiting
to shiver the timbers. We’ve got fuzzy adolescent were-teens, bloodthirsty blaxploitation vampires,
shuffling cadavers desperate for brains, amazing transparent monsters and much more.
Howling 2: Your Sister Is A
Werewolf
Dir: Philippe Mora
Ben White is investigating the death of his sister, a reporter
killed with a silver bullet. His findings lead him to Transylvania
to battle an evil witch queen and put an end to her werewolf
coven in this demented sequel to Joe Dante’s classic.
The Beast Within
Dir: Philippe Mora
A teenager is experiencing growing pains of a most shocking
sort in this exciting, tense and all-too-real story of monstrous
transformation.
Blacula/
Scream, Blacula,
Scream
Dir: William Crain/Bob Kelljan
An old victim of Count Dracula’s
bite is loose and stalking the streets
of 20th-century Los Angeles in this
Blaxploitation classic: for the sequel,
he returns to the world of the living by
means of voodoo and is loose once
again with insatiable lust. Perfect for
a double bill.
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THE MONSTER SQUAD
IMAGE: the beast within
THE MONSTER SQUAD
IMAGE: the return of the living dead
Count Yorga, Vampire
Pumpkinhead
Dir: Bob Kelljan
Dir: Stan Winston
In this contemporary version of the Dracula myth, a sophisticated
and clever vampire establishes a coven in Los Angeles and
terrorizes the local teenagers. Memorable, distinctive, it’s the
best bloodsucker few know of and begs rediscovery.
“For each of Man’s evils a special
demon exists...” Pumpkinhead exists
in folklore, via a diabolic ritual to
ensure wrongs are righted. When
a father’s son dies in an accident,
he invokes the ancient score-setter,
and finds that vengeance has no
easy price.
the Return Of The Living
Dead
Dir: Dan O’Bannon
Two employees of a medical supply company accidentally
release a toxic gas that reanimates the dead. Soon the town is
overrun with flesh-eating residents of the local cemetery who
are hungry. For brains…
The Amazing
Transparent
Man
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer
The Ape
Dir: William Nigh
A doctor disguised as an ape slays two women and attempts
to kill a third in order to obtain their spinal fluids.
From cult director Ulmer, a mad
scientist experiments with a serum to
make man transparent and uses an
escaped convict to rob a bank.
The Manster
Dir: Kenneth G. Crane/George P. Breakston
An American reporter in Japan is given a mysterious injection
by a scientist, which turns him into a two-headed monster in
this bizarre curiosity.
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FANTASTIC CREATURES
& UNNATURAL ANIMALS
Nature must get fed up of us humans: constantly trashing it and ignoring the delicate balance
of its beauty. So it begins to rebel, species mutating into vicious predators to fight back or
prehistoric remnants rapidly returning to life in our self-polluted atmosphere. There are angry
insects, bilious frogs and hopping-mad bunnies to terrorize us all: freaks of nature can be
gloriously dangerous. Let that be a lesson...
The Bat People
Reptilicus
Dir: Jerry Jameson
Dir: Sidney W. Pink
A doctor and his wife out vacationing in the mountains have a close
encounter with some bats inhabiting a vast, mysterious cavern. Soon,
the doctor begins to mutate into a horrible, blood-sucking monster,
and his wife may be in for the same fate…
Copper miners in the
tundras of Lapland discover
a frozen piece of reptilian tail
belonging to some unknown
prehistoric creature. But
then the fossil regenerates
into a giant, acid-spitting
monster that terrorizes the
country and blowing it up
will only create hundreds of
little creatures...
Frogs
Dir: George McCowan
A revenge-of-nature film in which thousands of swamp critters attack
a wheelchair-bound Deep South plantation owner and his family on
his birthday, the 4th of July. Does the fact that he’s been destroying the
bayou wildlife around him have anything to do with it?
Night Of The Lepus
Dir: William F. Claxton
Cole Hillman’s Arizona ranch is plagued with ‘mongrel’ rabbits, and
he wants to employ an ecologically-sound control method: the animals
are injected with genetically-mutated blood in an effort to develop
a method of disrupting their reproduction. One of the test subjects
escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-,
and cow-eating bunnies.
Squirm
Dir: Jeff Lieberman
When a power line falls
to the ground on a rainy
Georgia night, slimy killer
sandworms emerge from the
ground and terrorize a small
town.
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fantastic creatures & unnatural animals
IMAGE: the bat people
Before
Technicolor
made
murder luridly scarlet and
monsters kaleidoscopic beasts,
nightmares were imagined in
stark monochrome. Looming
silhouettes stalked the screen,
long shadows cast to reflect
the dark halves of human
personality, high contrast
monochrome perfectly poised
to dramatize the battle
between good and evil. Horror
cinema was getting to grips
with scaring its audience,
imagination let loose through
experimental technique and
ingeniously evocative imagery.
I Bury The
Living
Dir: Albert Band
Unjustly ignored by many books
on the horror film, I Bury the
Living is a bone-chilling little
mood piece, almost completely
dominated by Richard Boone’s
performance as a troubled man
who becomes convinced that he
has the power over life and death.
The Lodger
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
One of Hitchcock’s first films,
based on the story of Jack The
Ripper. A landlady suspects her
new lodger is the madman killing
women in London. Accompanied
by Paul Zaza music soundtrack.
IMAGE: the lodger
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a superb vintage
A SUPERB
VINTAGE
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
Horror is not just about monsters, spooks, slashers and buckets of blood. There is much that
troubles with skin-crawling suggestion, macabre sexuality and unsettling oddity. From the
distinctive visions of David Lynch to the uncompromising rawness of Charles B. Pierce, these
are films spiked with an unforgettable menace that will leave you disturbed and beguiled in
equal measure.
Blue Velvet
The Town That
Dreaded Sundown
Dir: David Lynch
A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings
in a small all-American town. A college student
stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to
know more, perhaps too much more. The oblique
world he’s found lurking beneath his hometown’s
picture-postcard veneer is about to become violently
stranger.
The Company Of Wolves
Dir: Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan’s fascinating and imaginative retelling
of Little Red Riding Hood and werewolf fables.
Adapted by Angela Carter from her own story.
TRICK OR TREAT? Dir: Charles B. Pierce
The documentary-style story of a hooded killer
who terrorized the border town of Texarkana,
Arkansas in 1946, leaving no less than five
murder victims in his wake. He was never
caught...
The Evictors
Dir: Charles B. Pierce
A young couple move into an eerie house
which is located in a small Louisiana town,
unaware of its violent history, and soon find
themselves tormented by the previous owners.
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IMAGE: blue velvet
IMAGE: whoever slew auntie roo
Whoever Slew Auntie
Roo?
Dir: Curtis Harrington
An ex-music hall singer becomes a recluse since the
death of her only daughter, rocking and singing to
the cradle that holds the child’s mummified remains.
When the psycho biddy kidnaps a local girl to raise
her as her own, she becomes locked with the parents
into a fight to the finish. Auntie Roo’s finish!
Wicked Stepmother
Dir: Larry Cohen
Transforming into a cigarette-smoking black cat is
just one of Bette Davis’ evil tricks in this campy, funfilled brew that mixes sorcery with mayhem.
Hardware
Dir: Richard Stanley
It is the 21st Century, a post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear
world where our worst environmental fears have come
true. A young couple find a dismantled robot in the
TRICK
OR TREAT?
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desert,
unaware that the creature was
programmed to
kill humans.
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