These three 1930s horror films from Universal Pictures are great vehicles for the creepy, leering Bela Lugosi, who spits out some wonderful camp-horror one liners. Just don’t expect too much from the Edgar Allan Poe association.
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A welcome re-release for this likeable Chinese martial arts comedy horror. It is the film that made hopping vampires popular. That’s right, hopping vampires are a thing.
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Marlene Dietrich steals the show – and an odd moral high ground – in this tantalising taste of a great movie.
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Lush neo-noir visuals are the star turn in this beautiful 4K restoration of the great Hong Kong director’s genre-bending tale of urban misfits, addictive impulses and judo.
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A prime slice of “baguetti western” from the legendary director of The Great Silence, Django and Companeros. This 4K restoration highlights the unique look of Sergio Corbucci’s great westerns.
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Here is proof that ‘old-school’ can still excite. The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse is the last film by one of the great directors of the first 50 years of the industry.
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Dr James Xavier (Milland) is a respected, slightly pompous, middle-aged surgeon running a risky piece of research. He is experimenting with eyedrops that would give medical staff three-dimensional views of the interiors of their patients’ bodies.
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Zu Warriors is one of those films that everyone needs to expose themselves to once. It has a crazed but cut-up energy, owing to a dizzying story line, unusually fast editing and long action sequences.
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Hallucinatory and disorienting if slightly unoriginal, Color Out of Space is still an instant classic of cosmic horror.
Read moreThis lovely, full-blown epic fantasy tells its story in an unhurried and linear fashion. It manages to be simple, emotionally powerful and to engage with its deployment of fantasy elements.
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