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Classic Horror films come from a distinctive series of horror films made by Universal Studios in California from the 1920s through to the 1950s. With their iconic gallery of monsters, Universal would create a lasting impression on generations of avid moviegoers around the world.
Since that time dozens of filmakers, and movie studios have conributed to horror films. Today - there are many horror films loved by fans around the world. Only a few have the distinction of Horror Classics.
Director Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-nominated shocker has been terrifying viewers for decades. When exhausted, larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane (Janet Leigh)
goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life,
she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where twitchy manager Norman
Bates (Anthony Perkins) cares for his housebound mother. The place seems quirky but fine -- until Marion decides to take a shower.
All
work and no play make Jack a bloodthirsty boy. On the wagon after his
alcoholism created family troubles, aspiring novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson)
accepts a position as off-season custodian at an elegant but eerie
hotel so he can write undisturbed. No sooner have Jack, his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny settled in than the ominous hotel starts to wield its sinister power over father and son.
This video features twice the screams with two Vincent Price haunted-house horror films. In the first, a maniac known as "The Bat" lurks in a spooky mansion owned by a mystery novelist (Agnes Moorehead). The House on Haunted Hill, directed by William Castle,
features Price as a sinister gentleman who offers five people $10,000
each to spend the night in a creepy old house -- and then tries to
frighten the guests into using the guns he's given them.
If this horror classic doesn't terrify you, maybe you need a shrink. Movie actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) realizes an evil spirit may possess her daughter (Linda Blair). Against formidable odds, two priests (Max von Sydow and Jason Miller)
try to exorcise the demon. A superb meditation about the nature of
evil, The Exorcist was created with adults in mind and isn't
appropriate for youngsters.
It's a scary proposition, but a team of four paranormal investigators
accepts an invitation for a week's stay in a mansion rumored to be
haunted. Depending on their viewpoints, the group members either intend
to prove the presence of ghosts or are determined to debunk the myths.
Previous guests of Hell House are known to have gone mad. … Will this
group survive the week?
Director George Romero's
low-budget horror classic continues to inspire heebie-jeebies, in part
because of the randomness of the zombies' targets. As dead bodies
return to life and feast on human flesh, young Barbara (Judith O'Dea)
joins a group of survivors in a farmhouse hoping to protect themselves
from the hordes of advancing zombies. But even with assistance in
slowing down and killing zombies, soon only one person remains in the
farmhouse.
With names like Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Fay Wray,
Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill and even Humphrey Bogart, this
assortment of 1930s horror films adds up to one impressive collection.
Bloodthirsty vampires, mad scientists, crazed killers, demonic dolls
plus a host of other menacing characters spell heaps of ghoulish fun
for vintage horror buffs. The set also includes commentaries by
directors, screenwriters, historians and more.
Millionaire Frederick Loren offers five people $10,000 to stay a night
in a remote haunted house, giving each of them a loaded gun as a "party
favor." Throughout the night, they're terrorized by skeletons,
disembodied heads and other grisly apparitions. Will any of the guests
survive to win the prize? Or will the house scare them to death? The
legendary Vincent Price stars in one of director William Castle's most famous chillers.
Three creepy tales are brought to life -- or, more appropriately, death
-- in this frightening collection featuring the genius of Bela Lugosi.
In Murders in the Rue Morgue, an evil scientist (Lugosi) conducts a
horrific experiment. The Black Cat has two shadowy characters battling
for supremacy in a haunted castle in the Balkans. And Edgar Allan Poe's
macabre tale serves as inspiration for The Raven, which has Lugosi
playing a murderous surgeon.
Darren McGavin
stars as hard-nosed reporter Carl Kolchak in this creepy double
feature. Set in Las Vegas, The Night Stalker has Kolchak tracking a
string of murders where all the victims are showgirls and all were
completely drained of their blood. In The Night Strangler, Kolchak
uncovers an underground city in Seattle as he investigates another
blood-sucking murderer. The success of these films launched McGavin's
TV show "The Night Stalker."
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