Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
A long thought lost radio interview with Peter Cushing is accompanied by comments from friends and colleagues.
Mystery on Monster Island
A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because he wants to travel around the world first. His wealthy uncle agrees to send him on a global expedition aboard his ship, but en route the boy and his travelling companion are shipwrecked on a remote island, populated by countless prehistoric creatures as well as gold-hunting bandits.
Horror of Dracula
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
The Creeping Flesh
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil, he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
Horror Express
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Torture Garden
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
House of the Long Shadows
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
The Skull
An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
Nothing But the Night
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
Frankenstein Created Woman
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Corruption
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.
The Uncanny
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Trouble in the Sky
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
The Big Scare
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
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Richard Edwards
Director
Jenny Hanley
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Narrator
Christopher Lee
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Self
Peter Cushing
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Self
Madeline Smith
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Self
David Hatton
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Professor Thomas Artelect
Terence Stamp
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Taskinar / Skinner
Carol Marsh
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Lucy Holmwood
Michael Ripper
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Carter
Duncan Lamont
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Inspector
David Bailie
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Young Doctor
Alice Krige
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Lucie Manette
Barry Morse
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St. Evremonde
Chris Sarandon
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Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
Telly Savalas
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Capt. Kazan
Julio Peña
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Inspector Mirov
Michael Bryant
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Colin Williams
Timothy Bateson
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Fairground Barker
John Standing
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Leo Winston
John Harvey
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Commissionaire
Joanna Lumley
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Jessica Van Helsing
Patrick Barr
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Lord Carradine
John Le Mesurier
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Barrymore
Sam Kydd
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Perkins
Desi Arnaz Jr.
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Kenneth Magee
Vincent Price
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Lionel Grisbane
Laurence Olivier
Director
Norman Wooland
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Horatio, His Friend
Anthony Quayle
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Marcellus
Niall MacGinnis
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Sea Captain
David Prowse
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Monster
Shane Briant
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Simon Helder
Nigel Green
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Inspector Wilson
Peter Sasdy
Director
Michael Brennan
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Deck Hand
Morris Perry
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Dr. Yeats
Colin Jeavons
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Priest
Alec Mango
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Spokesman
Anthony Booth
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Mike Orme
Samantha Eggar
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Edina Hamilton
Ray Milland
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Frank Richards
Roland Culver
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Wallace
Gordon Jackson
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Capt. Bateson
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
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Capt. Braddock
Alida Valli
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Héloïse
Miou-Miou
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Marie
Francis Matthews
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Charles
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