Horror

Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari )

1919 · 51 min · Horror · Germany

Directed by Robert Wiene

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the first modern Horror Film and it influence a number of contemporary productions. A real classic! PLOT: A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare…

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The Golem

1920 · 85 min · Horror · Germany

Directed by Carl Boese, Paul Wegener

Starring Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

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Nosferatu

1922 · 94 min · Horror · Germany

Directed by F. W. Murnau

Starring Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder

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Häxan

1922 · 105 min · Horror · Sweden

Directed by Benjamin Christensen

Starring Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious– instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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The Phantom of the Opera

1925 · 106 min · Horror · United States

Directed by Rupert Julian

Starring Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin

At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives.

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Mahal

1949 · 165 min · Horror · India

Directed by Kamal Amrohi

Starring Madhubala, Ashok Kumar, Vijayalakshmi

A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built.

Rights: Film copyright expired in India (Copyright Act 1957, s.26: 60 years from release). Songs and music may be separately protected.

House on Haunted Hill

1959 · 75 min · Horror · United States

Directed by William Castle

Starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house.

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The Little Shop of Horrors

1960 · 73 min · Horror · United States

Directed by Roger Corman

Starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

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Carnival of Souls

1962 · 78 min · Horror · United States

Directed by Herk Harvey

Starring Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring…

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Night of the Living Dead

1968 · 96 min · Horror · United States

Directed by George A. Romero

Starring Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

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