Movie Listings by Genre

Director: Bryan Forbes    More Info
Starring: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Josef Sommer, Mary Stuart Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, John Aprea, William Prince

 Ira Levin's best-selling novel is brought to the screen as mysteries unfold behind the personalities of "perfect" housewives in the town of Stepford, Connecticut. Joanna (Katherine Ross) and Walter (Peter Masterson) move with their children to Stepford to enjoy what they believe is an ideal suburban community. But, Stepford has a dark secret: the husbands are replacing their wives with robots that will perform domestic tasks and exist only to please their husbands. Will Joanna be able to escape this nightmare?

Director: Dan Curtis    More Info
Starring: Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm, Gregory Harrison, Tracy Curtis, Kathryn Reynolds, Orin Cannon

 Dan Curtis, of the "Dark Shadows" TV show, brings three interwoven stories to a made-for-TV film–all starring Karen Black. "Julie"-A student is infatuated with his teacher, gets her out on a date, then drugs and photographs her. When he tries to blackmail her, she kills him, and now it starts over with another student. "Millicent and Therese"-Two estranged sisters have opposite personalities. When Millicent tries to kill her sister using a voodoo doll, we find out that they are actually the same person. "Amelia"-This one makes the film and has become a classic in itself. Amelia bought a doll that supposedly contains the soul of a great tribal warrior. When a chain around the doll breaks, the soul is released, and the doll and Amelia fight it out around the apartment. When Amelia thinks she has killed the doll, she finds she is mistaken since the warrior now possesses her. This film broke new ground in TV with its sex and horror theme.

Director: Joel M. Reed    More Info
Starring: Harve Presnell, Doris Roberts, P.J. Soles, Jack Somack, Jerry Lacy, Curt Dawson, Stefan Schnabel, Norman Bush, William Chen, Deborah Loomis

 Four spooky tales compose this anthology told around the dinner table by actors and actresses resting after a day of filming a horror film. The stories involve a hit man who is facing problems, and the second story is about a hen-pecked husband trying to get rid of his wife. The other stories involve a loan shark haunted by the ghost of the man he killed, and the final story revolves around a karate champion who pays the ultimate price for using his powers for money.

Director: Jeff Lieberman    More Info
Starring: Zalman King, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard, Robert Walden, Charles Siebert, Ann Cooper, Ray Young, Alice Ghostley, Stefan Gierasch, Richard Crystal

 Jerry (Zalman King) is on the run after committing a murder in self defense. He knows that something bad is going on: one-by-one, some of his neighbors in a quiet suburban community lose all their hair and then go into uncontrollable, murderous rages. His investigation leads to a professor at his university 10 years ago who developed an LSD variant "Blue Sunshine" and tested it on students. The drug's affects are now showing up.

Director: Dan Curtis    More Info
Starring: Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Oliver Reed, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Bette Davis, Dub Taylor, Anthony James, Joseph Riley, Todd Turquand

 A young family–Ben and Marian Rolf (Oliver Reed and Karen Black) and their young son Davey (Lee Montgomery) with elderly Aunt Elizabeth (Bette Davis) in tow–rent an old home in Northern California from Arnold and Rox Allardyce (Burgess Meredith and Eileen Heckart). They are looking forward to a good summer vacation and discover, too late, that the house is haunted.

Director: Brian De Palma    More Info
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Amy Irving, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, P.J. Soles, Sydney Lassick, Stefan Gierasch

 In Brian De Palma's terrifying tale, a reserved, high-school senior, Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), with telekinetic abilities is scorned by her classmates. When Carrie goes to the prom with campus jock Tommy Ross (William Katt), she discovers that others have devised a nasty plan to further humiliate her. Carrie, however, has a few nasty tricks of her own. From the Stephen King novel by the same name. Both Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, for her role as Carrie's delusional mother Margaret, received Oscar nominations.

Director: Joy Houck Jr.    More Info
Starring: John David Carson, Dennis Fimple, Jack Elam, Bill Thurman, Dub Taylor, Jim McCullough Jr., Catherine McClenny, Becky Smizer, Michelle Willingham, Joy Houck Jr.

 Two anthropology students head to Louisiana in search of a creature that may be the missing link. Despite run-ins with the sheriff, they are finally successful. The low budget shows, but Jack Elam (and Dub Taylor, to a lesser extent) makes it worth watching.

Director: E.W. Swackhamer    More Info
Starring: Robert Wagner, Kate Jackson, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour, John Carradine, Bill Macy, Marianna Hill, Joseph Bernard, Robert Gibbons

 Long dead Lorna Love (Marianna Hill) was a movie queen. Her life is being researched by Joel (Robert Wagner)–whose father had an affair with Lorna–and Joel's wife, Donna (Kate Jackson). It turns out that Lorna used many techniques to gain stardom, including witchcraft. Now, Joel's obsession with Lorna results in her return from the dead. Originally made for TV.

Director: William Fruet    More Info
Starring: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards, Don Granberry, Ed McNamara, Michael Kirby, Richard Donat

 Four sadistic young men arrive at the remote home–in the countryside of Ontario, Canada–of a playboy dentist. They kill the dentist and then plot horrendous acts against his girlfriend.

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff    More Info
Starring: David McCallum, Sandra McCabe, George Wyner, Eric Server, Sterling Swanson, Holly Harris, Freddie Hice, Lance Hool, Jimmy Stathis, Linda Gray

 Secret government experiments are being conducted at Southwestern University, and it appears that, as a result of the experiments, nearby pet dogs are gathering into wild packs and attacking not only cattle but their owners as well. With help from scientist Harlan Thompson (David McCallum), Caroline Donoghue (Sandra McCabe) is lucky enough to escape the beasts.

Director: Edouard Molinaro    More Info
Starring: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Helene Breillat, Catherine Breillat, Raymond Bussieres, Claude Genia, Anna Gael, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Bernard Alane, Mustapha Dali

 Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his son Ferdinand (Bernard Menez) differ on the subject of vampires because Ferdinand becomes squeamish at the sight of blood. Now, the Communists take over the family's Transylvania castle, and they are banished from Romania. The Count and Ferdinand go their separate ways until they reunite in Paris where they meet beautiful Nicole (Marie-Helene Breillat), and both fall in love with her. Nicole chooses Ferdinand and accidentally exposes the Count to sunlight, which makes him disappear. A few years later, Nicole and Ferdinand have married and have two children. While playing, the daughter cuts her knee, causing the son to sprout fangs–and the family spirit continues.

Director: Larry Cohen    More Info
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney, Sam Levene, Robert Drivas, Mike Kellin, Richard Lynch, Sammy Williams, Jo Flores Chase

 The perpetrators of murders without motives freely admit their guilt with the statement that "God told me to." Detective Peter Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco) investigates, and the answers appear to lie with a Christ-like figure, Bernard Phillips (Richard Lynch) who has an eerie glow. It turns out that Bernard and Peter are both the result of their mothers being impregnated by aliens, and Bernard wants Peter to help him create a new race. How will Peter handle the situation?

Director: William Girdler    More Info
Starring: Christopher George, Richard Jaeckel, Andrew Prine, Joan McCall, Joe Dorsey, Charles Kissinger, Kermit Echols, Harvey Flaxman, Mary Ann Hearn, Vickie Johnson

 Following a grizzly bear's attacks on rangers and campers in a national park, the park supervisor, Charley Kittridge (Joe Dorsey), sends in hunters to kill the bear, but they are untrained and are killing everything that moves. Now, ranger Mike Kelly (Christopher George) joins forces with pilot Don Strober (Andrew Prine) and naturalist Arthur Scott (Richard Jaeckel) and sets out in hot pursuit of the beast.

Director: Arthur Marks    More Info
Starring: Glynn Turman, Joan Pringle, Louis Gossett Jr., Carl Crudup, James Louis Watkins, Alice Jubert

 A gangster, murdered over 30 years before, returns and possesses the body of a law student in order to extract revenge.

Director: Jesus Franco    More Info
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux, Lina(2) Romay, Andreas Mannkopff, Ursula von Wiese, Otto Dornbierer, Regine Elsener, Hans Gaugler, Olga Gebhard

 Klaus Kinski takes on the role of a doctor who is also Jack the Ripper by night. This is a bloody, gory version as he dismembers London prostitutes–with bad dubbing to boot. Still, one of Franco's better efforts. Does that tell you anything about his other horror films?

Director: Chris Munger    More Info
Starring: Suzanna Ling, Eric Mason, Herman Wallner, Patricia Landon, Beverly Eddins, Linda Spatz, Rita French, Jay Scott, Rebecca Eddins, Susan Eddins

 John Bradley (Herman Wallner) and his wife Martha (Beverly Eddins) operate a mortuary and are raising their teenage daughter Susan (Suzanna Ling). Susan raises tarantulas as pets, and when she is upset because she believes that Martha is plotting John's murder, she unleashes her tarantulas in Martha's bed, and Martha dies of a heart attack. Susan continues with her plot, and, when she feels tormented by her fellow students, she also releases the tarantulas on them.

Director: Nicolas Gessner    More Info
Starring: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Scott Jacoby, Clesson Goodhue, Dorothy Davis, Hubert Noel, Jacques Famery, Mary Morter

 A psychopathic, 13-year-old orphan Rynn (Jody Foster), lives in a large house with a "father" who never seems to be home and nobody has seen. The fact that Rynn also gets very nervous when the subject of her basement is discussed adds to the chilling mystery. Nosy neighbor Mrs. Hallet (Alexis Smith) ends up being knocked down the basement stairs when she looks for evidence of Rynn's father being at home. Meanwhile, Mrs. Hallet's pedophile son Frank (Martin Sheen) is also curious and presses Rynn for answers–all of which leads to a nasty confrontation with Rynn's boyfriend Mario (Scott Jacoby).

Director: Michael Pataki    More Info
Starring: Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Trish Stewart, Lance Henriksen, Libby Chase, Vic Tayback, Al Ferrara, JoJo D'Amore, Donna Andresen, Marilyn Joi

 Surgeon Dr. Leonard Chaney (Richard Basehart) abducts young people and removes their eyes in an insane effort to restore his daughter Nancy's (Trish Stewart) eyesight. As operation after operation fails, Chaney collects a myriad of eyeless people in his dungeon–until they escape and gain revenge by ripping out Chaney's eyes.

Director: Richard Donner    More Info
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, Anthony Nicholls, Robert Rietty

 The son of Satan is raised by a very nice couple, American Ambassador Robert Thorn and his wife Katherine (Gregory Peck and Lee Remick). Five years before, they had replaced their baby who did not survive childbirth with another. Now, a series of deaths have occurred, and their young boy, Damien (Harvey Stephens), is a suspect. Could he be the Antichrist?

Director: Robert Allen Schnitzer    More Info
Starring: Sharon Farrell, Richard Lynch, Jeff Corey, Ellen Barber, Edward Bell, Danielle Brisebois, Margaret Graham, Rosemary McNamara, Thomas Williams, Roy White

 Five-year-old Jamie (Danielle Brisebois) is afraid that her mother, Andrea (Ellen Barber), is going to take her away from her foster mother, Sheri (Sharon Farrell). Jamie is right; Andrea and carnival clown Jude (Richard Lynch) have plans to kidnap Jamie, but Sheri will not be sitting idly by.

Director: Peter Sykes    More Info
Starring: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe, Nastassja Kinski, Eva Maria Meineke, Anthony Valentine, Derek Francis, Isabella Telezynska

 Good scenery and special effects are the saving grace of this Hammer Film. Father Rayner (Christopher Lee) is an ex-priest and is now the head of a Satanic cult. He intends to sacrifice young Catherine (Nastassja Kinski), whose father had sold her soul to guarantee his own safety. But now the father has second thoughts and asks occult expert John Verney (Richard Widmark) to save the day.

Director: Richard Ashe    More Info
Starring: Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, Gregorio Sala, Francine Kessler, Joe Blasco, Patrick M. Wright, Crawford MacCallum, Fred McCaffrey, Timothy Wayne Brown, Alan Swain

 Mineralogist Paul Carson (Chase Cordell) is out searching for minerals with his girlfriend Kathy (Leigh Drake) when he is hit by a meteorite, which lodges itself in his skull. Unfortunately for Paul, he is transformed into a giant lizard monster (at night) that goes on murderous treks. It turns out that the monster is linked to an ancient Indian god, and Paul searches for the cure while Kathy stands by her man in his time of need. But that may not be enough to save Paul in this bomb.

Director: Robert Wise    More Info
Starring: Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd, John Hillerman, Robert Walden, Philip Sterling, Ivy Jones, Stephen Pearlman

 In this horror film, Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins) tries to convince the Templetons–Janice (Marsha Mason) and Bill (John Beck)–that their 11-year-old daughter Ivy (Susan Swift) is really a reincarnation of his dead daughter, Audrey Rose, who was killed in a car accident. Although Janice and Bill do not believe Elliot, Ivy has been having terrible nightmares that now grow worse, and many strange events take place.

Director: Robert Voskanian    More Info
Starring: Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson, Richard Hanners, Ruth Ballan, Ralph Lucas, Slosson Bing Jong, Rod Medigovich, Wendell Hudiberg, Chris Tieken

 Young Rosalie Nordon (Rosalie Cole) is resentful about her mother's brutal murder and is able to bring zombies back from the dead to get revenge. And the poor, newly-hired nanny, Alicianne Del Mar (Laurel Barnett) has to put up with what's going on. It's not fair!

Director: Charles Band    More Info
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Sue Lyon, John Ericson, Leslie Parrish, John Carradine, Jerome Guardino, Paul Dubov

 A jealous husband (Jose Ferrer) tries to bring his wife's (Sue Lyon) life to an untimely end; meanwhile, she has her own devious plans set for him.