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The House of Seven Corpses is a 1974 American horror film starring John Ireland, Faith Domergue and John Carradine. A director courts disaster by filming a horror movie in an actual haunted house. During the filming a zombie (The Ghoul) is awoken by a magical chant from The Book of the Dead. Actress Faith Domergue (Gayle Dorian) plays an actress playing a Satan worshipper. Faith reads from a copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead and chants in Latin, 'may the dead rise and come to me'. The...

And Now the Screaming Starts! Is a 1973 British gothic horror film starring Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee and Stephanie Beacham. The large gothic house used in the film is Oakley Court near Bray Village, which is now a four-star hotel. In 1795, newlyweds Catherine Fengriffen (Stephanie Beacham) and Charles Fengriffen (Ian Ogilvy) arrive at Charles' family's castle to begin their married life together. When Catherine arrives she feels an interest in the portraits of the Fengriffen family,...

What a Carve Up! Is a 1961 British comedy-horror film starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Shirley Eaton. The film was loosely based on the novel The Ghoul by Frank King. The relatives of Gabriel Broughton (Phillip O'Flynn) are summoned to Blackshaw Towers, an old, isolated country house in the middle of the Yorkshire moorlands to hear the reading of his will. Gabriel's nervous nephew Ernest Broughton (Kenneth Connor) brings along his flatmate Syd Butler (Sid James) for support. At the...

The Night Caller from Outer Space is a 1965 British science fiction film starring John Saxon and Patricia Haines. Scientist Dr. Morley (Maurice Denham) and his American associate Jack Costain (John Saxon), detect a meteorite heading to Earth. After determing where the meteorite has crashed they and their aides investigate a meteorite in the British countryside, discovering that it is an alien device from Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. The device is in the shape of a small sphere. While working...

In March of 1914, against social and religious taboo, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematician, left his wife and family in India to sail to Trinity College in Cambridge, England. He was just twenty-six years old. With almost no formal training in pure mathematics, Ramanujan made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. When his skills became apparent to the wider mathematical community, he began a famous...

William Sylvester (Paul Baxter) is on holiday with a group of friends when he stumbles into a small English town in Brittany, which is primarily inhabited by gypsies. Baxter incurs the wrath of Count Sinistre (Hubert Noel), when he takes possession of a precious talisman belonging to The Count. Count Sinistre is a 400 year-old vampire. However, the group which follow The Count are really a group of Satan worshippers, who just happen to be led by the evil vampire, Count Sinistre. Not to...

Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British sci-fi film starring Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Jane Merrow. Jeff (Patrick Allen) and Frankie Callum (Sarah Lawson) run The Swan, an inn on the island of Fara, somewhere off the English coast. In the middle of winter the island is experiencing a heat wave with temperatures rising so rapidly that cars stall, beer bottles shatter, televisions explode, and telephones cease to work. A tramp is burned to death in a cave by something...

King Charles II is being pursued by a troop of Roundheads when he stops to bid one of his supporters, a Royalist Lord Lucius Vyne (Hugh Grant) farewell, and gives him one of his favorite rings, telling Lucius to send it if he ever needs his help. Meanwhile, Lady Panthea Vyne (Lysette Anthony) is tricked into marriage by a lecherous Drysdale (Ian Bannen). He promises to save her brother Lord Richard, who he says is about to be executed. They get married and Drysdal sexually attacks Lady Panthea...

Charade is a 1963 American romantic comedy mystery film starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, George Kennedy, Walter Matthau, and James Coburn. Filmed on location in Paris, the film is noted for its score and theme song by Henry Mancini. While on holiday, Regina 'Reggie' Lampert (Audrey Hepburn), tells her friend Sylvie (Dominique Minot) that she has decided to divorce her husband Charles. Reggie also meets a charming American stranger, Peter Joshua (Cary Grant). On her return to Paris, Reggie...

Jack Davies, an art dealer from London, does a deal with his friend, Michael Clare, son of a gifted artist, Victor Clare. Michael steals some of his father's works and Jack sells them at his gallery, splitting the profit with Michael. Both men realize that Victor works are worth a fortune. Unfortunately, Victor is a recluse, and lives in isolation above an abandoned tin mine in Cornwall. It would be impossible to smuggle out any more of his paintings without being noticed. You really must...

In 19th century England a series of grisly murders are being committed on good-looking young men between the ages of twenty and thirty, and all have had their throats torn open and their blood drained from them. The hunt begins in this classic thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end!

The Haunted House of Horror is a British horror film starring Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth. The film's tagline read 'Behind its forbidden doors an evil secret hides!'

This is a British horror film starring Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff. Antiques dealer Robert Manning is searching for his brother. He stays at a remote house where he is invited by the niece of the owner. Robert has strange dreams of ritual sacrifice. He is assured that his brother is not there, but his suspicions are aroused by a witchcraft cult which is still active in the area. Robert has nightmarish hallucinations about the cult, and the search for his brother will mystify you.

Richard Fountain (Patrick Mower) is a brilliant young don at Oxford. He has lost touch with his friends after going to Greece to research a book on mythology. Concerned about him, one of Richard's pupils travel to Greece to find him and asks the British military attache for help. He is told that Richard has fallen in with a strange Greek woman named Chriseis (Imogen Hassall), a vampire, and her unsavory friends who practice occult rituals. There is a fantastic ending to this film that you...

This extraordinary documentary tells the story of a small group of inventors who are seeking in various ways to unlock the vast amounts of energy locked up in water! A vast untapped storehouse of one of the greatest fuels in the universe, hydrogen. At first their efforts were ignored by scientists, but steadily their work has won recognition. If only a fraction of their hopes were to be realized, untold amounts of clean energy would become available to future generations. This documentary...

What lies at the bottom of the oceans? This unique documentary follows a group of scientists from Cambridge in the UK and from Russia on a voyage to explore the mysteries of the seabed over 3000 metres beneath the mid Atlantic. Using a state-of-the-art submarine they dive to observe the remarkable hydrothermal vents on the sea floor. This program reveals both the challenge of deep sea research and the cultural and scientific exchange between Western and Russian scientists

The passion to build higher has been around for hundreds of years. The great medieval master builders competed to build the tallest and most slender bell towers and cathedral spires, without knowing much about the science of building loads. But it is really the master builders of modern America who have taught the world how to reach towards the clouds. Today no city is complete, from New York to Shanghai, without its skyscrapers. This film lays bare the science and the art of skyscraper...

We take flight safety entirely for granted and scarcely bother to pay attention to the in flight security briefing. Should we be so casual? Every plane that lifts off has to negotiate a dozen hazards to arrive at its destination safely, from the increasingly crowded airspace around every major airport, to storms and high altitude jet streams en route, not to mention technical failure. The fact that accidents are so few is due to the immense professionalism of the people who have your flight in...

Conrad Veidt was a German actor remembered for his many classic film roles. After a successful career in German silent films, he and his Jewish wife Liona Prager were forced to leave Germany in 1933 after the Nazi takeover and the couple settled in Britain. He appeared in many British films including 'The Thief of Bagdad' before emigrating to the US in 1941, leading to being cast as Major Strasser in 'Casablanca'. Here we feature him in two of his most intriguing wartime spy thrillers.

Horror Hospital is a British horror-comedy film starring Robin Askwith, Michael Gough, Dennis Price and Skip Martin. When attempts to break into the entertainment business leave him with nothing but a bloody nose, songwriter Jason Jones (Robin Askwith), decides to take a break with 'Hairy Holidays', an outfit run by shifty travel agent Pollock (Dennis Price). After failing to impress Jason, Pollock sends him to a pseudo-health farm, Brittlehurst Manor. On the train journey, Jason meets Judy...

Arch of Triumph is a British film starring Anthony Hopkins and Lesley-Anne Down. Ravic (Anthony Hopkins) is an Austrian doctor who helped Jews escape from the Nazi regime. He was tortured in a concentration camp. In 1939 he is living in Paris, under a false name and without any documents, constantly aware of the risk of being arrested. At the river Seine, Ravic meets Joan Madou (Lesley-Anne Down), a woman about to attempt suicide. Ravic helps Joan and a relationship begins between them....

Before the start of the Second World War, Sir Robert Hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle, but hesitates to shoot and is then spotted and tackled by an SS guard. What will Hunter decide to do? Will he live or die? This is a fast moving drama packed full of action and suspense with an unforgettable performance by Peter O'Toole.

Mesmerized is a drama film starring Jodie Foster, John Lithgow and Michael Murphy.In 1880 New Zealand, Victoria (Jodie Foster) is on trial. She recalls her journey to that point. As a baby, she was dropped off at an orphanage. Growing up at the orphanage, she is introduced to merchant Oliver Thompson (John Lithghow) who quickly proposes marriage to her. She married him only to later discover that he is a controlling, volatile and manipulative man. His father is of the same temperament, but his...

Island of Terror is a British horror film shot in rural England. On a remote island off of Ireland a farmer goes missing and his wife contacts the local authorities. The constable finds Ian Bellows (Liam Gaffney) dead in a cave without a single bone in his body and contacts physician, Dr. Reginald Landers (Eddie Byrne), but Landers is unable to determine what happened. All doctors are left stranded on the island while the helicopter travels back to the mainland. This is a fantastic horror...