Equinox (1970)
Backwoods Occultism
A film about backwoods occult that comes with much H.P. Lovecraft influence. An inngenue film made by several unknowns who later became key figures at Industrial Light and Magic
Occult Artefacts
Occult Artefacts refer to inanimate objects imbued with the powers of evil. These can variously possess or transform individuals, unleash demonic forces, resurrect the dead, possess the user or else open gateways to other realms.
Such objects can take almost any form from books and manuscripts to items of jewellery, swords and weaponry, doorways, keys, statues and busts to mysterious boxes.
Dr Terror’s Gallery of Horrors (1967)
Horror Anthology
UK’s Amicus Films had a reasonable hit with their horror anthology Dr Terror’s House of Horrors. Director/producer David L. Hewitt jumped in with a copy with a soundalike title produced on a poverty row budget
The Skull (1965)
The Marquis de Sade's Possessed Skull
Peter Cushing-Christopher Lee vehicle from Amicus with Cushing as a collector who obtains the Marquis de Sade’s possessed skull. One of the more over-rated Anglo-horror films, this feels more like an episode from one of their anthologies than a full film
Blood of Dracula (1957)
Teenage Vampire
Producer Herman Cohen had great success with I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Here he makes a teenage vampire film where a troubled teen is hypnotically regressed into becoming a vampire
Dead of Night (1945)
Horror Anthology
Celebrated British horror anthology, which tells five ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. All are strong stories with The Ventriloquist’s Dummy segment in particular having become regarded as a classic
The Ghoul (1933)
Resurrection/Old Dark House Thriller
Creaky but atmospheric British film where Boris Karloff dies but is brought back from the dead by an Egyptian jewel to stalk his heirs through a big old mansion