The Uninvited (1944)
Dec 18, 2010Ghost Story
One of the earliest ghost stories made by Hollywood, a slow and old-fashioned effort where the scares are psychological
Ray Milland
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Aug 2, 2010Eccentric Scientist Becomes a Baseball Star
A comedy in which Ray Milland is cast as a chemistry professor who becomes a baseball star after inventing a wood-repelling chemical
Premature Burial (1962)
May 5, 2002Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
The third of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films, the only one without Vincent Price. Here Ray Milland develops a fearful obsession of being buried alive
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Apr 3, 1999Nuclear War/Ruthless Survivalism
A film about the outbreak of nuclear war directed by actor Ray Milland. What takes you aback is the naked liberatarian fantasy that Milland engages in, arguing in favour of a brutal ruthlessness in the name of survival
X – The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963)
May 9, 2001Scientist Develops X-Ray Vision
Great Roger Corman film in which Ray Milland is a scientist who invents a serum that allows him x-ray vision with disastrous consequences
Black Noon (1971)
Jul 18, 2017Horror Western/Sinister Town Where No-One Can Leave
Classic tv movie that is one of the earliest horror/Westerns hybrids where Roy Thinnes plays a preacher who ends up in town only to find he cannot leave amid mysterious goings-on
Frogs (1972)
Sep 14, 2002Nature's Revenge
Classic film from the 1970s Nature's Revenge fad with a group gathered for a party on an island finding that flora and fauna all around has become malevolent and turned against humanity
The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
Sep 1, 2007Two-Headed Transplant
Ray Milland is a dying white racist millionaire who has hit head transplanted onto the shoulders of a Black man. A film that sees the absurdities of its premise and plants tongue in cheek.
The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
Feb 2, 2003Old Dark House Comedy
Amidst the Anglo-horror cycle of the 1970s, there was this throwback to the 1940s styled Old Dark House comedy. Made as a vehicle for comedian Frankie Howerd, this only demonstrates how creaky the genre was
Terror in the Wax Museum (1973)
Jul 18, 1999Wax Museum Murders
Creaky old film that feels like it belongs in the 1940s about a series of murders at a wax museum. It does have a great cast line-up of genre veterans
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Jun 20, 2002Psi-Powered Alien Children/Disney Film
Disney live-action film with two psi-powered kids on the run. A popular hit that seems to have been mostly construed around a series of novelty effects set-pieces
The Dead Don’t Die (1975)
Jan 30, 2019Film Noir/Voodoo Resurrected Dead
Largely forgotten tv movie from a Robert Bloch script. Curtis Harrington creates a fascinatingly creepy atmosphere that blends film noir with mysterious happenings involving voodoo and the resurrected dead
The Uncanny (1977)
Jul 6, 1999Cat Horror Anthology
A production from Amicus founder Milton Subtosky in the style of the horror anthology that made the company's name
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Jun 26, 1999Space Opera
The original Battlestar Galactica tv series was an incredibly blatant copy built on the success of Star Wars. This is the pilot, which aired on tv in the US but was released theatrically to theatres in other countries
The Attic (1980)
Nov 17, 2021Gothic Madness and Family Secrets
In a similar vein to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, this a work of Gothic madness as Carrie Snodgress tends cranky sadistic father Ray Milland in a big old house
Starflight One (1983)
Jul 19, 2002Plane Trapped in Orbit/Disaster Movie
Made-for-tv disaster movie released to theatres about the attempts to rescue a plane that becomes trapped in orbit