The Curse of Frankenstein 1957  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood, Fred Johnson, Melvyn Hayes, Marjorie Hume, Sally Walsh, Paul Hardtmuth, Henry Caine, Claude Kingston, Alex Gallier, Michael Mulcaster
This is the first in Hammer Film's series of Frankenstein movies–and perhaps the best. Mary Shelley's story about man entering a new realm of science without first considering the consequences is told through Dr. Frankenstein's (Peter Cushing) creation of life from dead bodies that results in a creature (Christopher Lee). But, the creature's brain accidentally gets damaged during the resurrection, and the creature turns into a homicidal monster using townsfolk as its victims. This leads to a dramatic confrontation between the monster and Frankenstein.
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Danger Within 1959  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Breakout
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, William Franklyn, Vincent Ball, Peter Arne, Hazel Court
A pretty good tale of British POWs attempting to break out of a prison camp during World War II. There must be a traitor amongst them.
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 Devil Girl from Mars 1954  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: David MacDonald
Cast: Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Patricia Laffan, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie, Sophie Stewart, Anthony Richmond, James Edmund
Assorted people at a Scottish inn receive a visit from black leather-jacketed Martian Nyah (Patricia Laffan) and her robot. She's beautiful, but ruthless, and tells them that a revolution on Mars resulted in a takeover by women, and she is after healthy males for use as breeding stock. Bizarre but sort of fun.
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Dr. Blood's Coffin 1961 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Fred Johnson, Paul Stockman, Kenneth J. Warren, Andy Alston, John Ronane, Gerald Lawson, Paul Hardtmuth
Move over Dr. Frankenstein, here comes Dr. Peter Blood (Kieron Moore). Dr. Blood experiments with heart transplants and moves to Cornwall after losing his job for experimenting on humans. Now residents in his new home start disappearing, and it is the good doctor who is responsible. Silly, but somewhat fun.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marle, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Michael Ripper, Ronald Adam, Gerda Larsen, Middleton Woods, Denis Shaw, Ian Hewitson, Frederick Rawlings, Charles Lloyd Pack, Marie Burke
In this remake of "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1944), Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) uses transplant surgeries involving the removal of a gland from living victims who die during the surgery. The surgeries have stopped Georges' aging, and, although he is 104-years old, he appears to others as a 35-year-old man. Now, his obsession with Janine (Hazel Court) who has fallen for his aide Dr. Pierre Gerrard (Christopher Lee) will lead to Georges' ultimate undoing.
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Masque of the Red Death 1964  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee, Skip Martin, Nigel Green, Robert Brown, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Julian Burton
This is one of Vincent Price's best horror films. He plays the villainous Prince Prospero of Spain who hides in his castle while the Bubonic Plague sweeps over the countryside.
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The Premature Burial 1962  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel, Alan Napier, John Dierkes, Dick Miller, Clive Halliday, Brendan Dillon
Based on Edgar Allen Poe's tale, this is Roger Corman's only film based on Poe's stories that does not star Vincent Price. The plot involves medical student Guy Carrell (Ray Milland who is afraid of being buried alive. His fears are realized, and following his premature burial he returns for revenge.
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 The Raven 1963 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Connie Wallace, William Baskin, Aaron Saxon
Any movie starring the trio of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff is a "must see." They save the film from boredom with humor in the face of danger as magicians fight it out with Karloff.
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| 1. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
2. Danger Within (1959)
aka: Breakout
3. Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
4. Dr. Blood's Coffin (1961)
5. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
6. Masque of the Red Death (1964)
7. The Premature Burial (1962)
8. The Raven (1963)
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