Cul-De-Sac 1966  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Iain Quarrier, Geoffrey Sumner, Jacqueline Bisset, Renee Houston, William Franklyn, Marie Kean
Two wounded gangsters hide out on a lonely island where they terrorize the couple who inhabit the island's castle. A good cast certainly helps this production.
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The Flesh and the Fiends 1959  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Fiendish Ghouls
Mania
Psycho Killers
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, Renee Houston, Dermot Walsh, Billie Whitelaw, John Cairney, Melvyn Hayes, June Powell
Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing) requires cadavers for his research, and the corpse suppliers resort to killing the locals to provide the needed bodies. Things get sticky when the good doctor's girlfriend shows up as a specimen. A good tale, though some gory parts–a few of which have been deleted in the various rereleases.
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The Horse's Mouth 1958  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Robert Coote, Reginald Beckwith, Veronica Turleigh, Arthur Macrae, Gillian Vaughn, Peter Bull, Clive Revill, Richard Leech, Mary Davies
This insightful satire is about Gully Jimson (Alec Guinness), a weird artist who cannot adapt to the world around him. Gully has served time in jail for vagrancy, and is now released when, uninvited, he moves into Sir William and Lady Beeder's (Robert Coote and Veronica Turleigh) flat while they are out of town. Gully puts his latest art work on their walls, which is NOT what they want. Next, Gully paints a culmination of his artistry in a deserted church, but the church is slated for demolition, and his art work is destroyed. Finally, Gully boards his houseboat and sails off to another world.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again 1951  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Pauline Stroud, Gladys Henson, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Cole, Diana Dors, Eddie Byrne, Kay Kendall, Renee Houston, Joan Collins, Sid James, Tommy Duggan, Dana Wynter
Waitress Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) enters a national beauty contest and wins money and a movie contract in London. But, Marjorie has no acting talents and ends up performing nude on the stage–until her boyfriend Larry (John McCallum) makes her promise to leave the show business world and settle down in the domestic world with him.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1962  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Musical / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Michael Gough, Edward DeSouza, Thorley Walters, Miles Malleson, Harold Goodwin, Martin Miller, Marne Maitland, Sonya Cordeau, Liane Aukin, Sonya Cordeau, Patrick Troughton, Miriam Karlin, Renee Houston
In this version of "The Phantom of the Opera," the story takes place at the Royal Opera House in London instead of the Paris Opera House. Years ago, music professor Petrie (Herbert Lom) was hideously burned in a fire but has returned to London where, as the masked Phantom, he terrorizes the opera house that is preparing to perform an opera that had been stolen from him. He lives in the sewer beneath the opera house and kidnaps opera star Christine (Heather Sears), who he loves, so that he can train her to perform his opera. Now, Christine's fiance Harry Hunter (Edward DeSouza) searches for Christine, and, when he finds her, it is Harry who unmasks the Phantom.
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 Repulsion 1965 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, James Villiers, Renee Houston, Valerie Taylor, Helen Fraser, Hugh Futcher, Monica Merlin, Imogen Graham, Mike Pratt, Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski brings to the screen this story of sexual repression and its effects on Carol Ledoux (Catherine Deneuve) when her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux) and Helen's married boyfriend Michael (Ian Hendry) leave on vacation. Carol is paranoid and cannot deal with being left alone in the apartment for several days. She loses control and suffers bizarre hallucinations that lead to murder. Powerful! This film is Polanski's first movie that was filmed in the English language.
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| 1. Cul-De-Sac (1966)
2. The Flesh and the Fiends (1959)
aka: The Fiendish Ghouls
aka: Mania
aka: Psycho Killers
3. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
4. Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
5. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
6. Repulsion (1965)
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