The Birthday Party

1968

English

6.4

♡ 4

100%

William Friedkin Director

Sydney Tafler as Goldberg

Patrick Magee as McCann

Moultrie Kelsall as Petey

Robert Shaw as Stanley

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.

King Lear

1970

English

7.2

♡ 3

67%

72%

Action

based on play or musical

Peter Brook Director

Patrick Magee as Cornwall

Ian Hogg as Edmund

Jack MacGowran as Fool

Paul Scofield as King Lear

King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess their affection vehemently. Cordelia, who does not respect the process her father has chosen, does not humor him. Lear's perceived rejection from Cordelia leads to her banishment, thus splitting the kingdom between the other two. This hasty decision becomes his fatal error.

The Black Cat

1981

Italian

5.8

♡ 6

33%

Lucio Fulci Director

Lucio Fulci as Doctor

Bruno Corazzari as Ferguson

Mimsy Farmer as Jill Trevers

Patrick Magee as Prof. Robert Miles

Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.

Beware My Brethren

1972

English

5.3

♡ 1

religion and supernatural

serial killer

slasher

Robert Hartford-Davis Director

Ann Todd as Birdy Wemys

David Lodge as C.I.D. Inspector

Tony Beckley as Kenny Wemys

Patrick Magee as Minister

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Dementia 13

1963

English

5.7

♡ 7

69%

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Patrick Magee as Justin Caleb

Mary Mitchel as Kane

Luana Anders as Louise Haloran

William Campbell as Richard Haloran

A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

1981

French

6.0

♡ 9

Walerian Borowczyk Director

Udo Kier as Dr. Henry Jekyll

Patrick Magee as General William Danvers Carew

Eugene Braun Munk as Mr. Enfield

Catherine Coste as Mrs. Enfield

In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery.

Marat/Sade

1967

English

7.5

♡ 5

93%

Peter Brook Director

William Morgan Sheppard as A Mad Animal

Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday

Patrick Magee as Marquis de Sade

John Steiner as Monsieur Dupere

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

Die, Monster, Die!

1965

English

5.6

♡ 18

78%

Daniel Haller Director

Patrick Magee as Dr. Henderson

Paul Farrell as Jason

Boris Karloff as Nahum Witley

Nick Adams as Stephen Reinhart

A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.

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The Birthday Party

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The Black Cat

Beware My Brethren

Dementia 13

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

Marat/Sade

Die, Monster, Die!