Manufacturer: Network
Starring: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Carole Lynne
Directed By: Walter Forde

While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts ...

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Directed By: Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer

To date Stanley Kubrick remains one of cinema's most controversial film-maker. This box set highlights some of his greatest work, from the visionary 2001:A Space Odyssey, the violent and highly-debated A Clockwork Orange, the chilling adaptation of The Shining, the acclaimed war drama Full Metal Jacket, to his final piece, the controversial Eyes Wide Shut. And to ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell, Vincent DOnoforio, Nicole Kidman
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

An early entry in the 1950s cycle of creature-feature pictures, Them! is the one about hordes of ants mutated to a giant size by the first A-bomb test. An exciting, persuasive exercise in paranoid science fiction, it exhibits an interesting tension between cautious warning about irresponsible tampering with the atom and a Cold War vision of the authorities taking on extraordinary powers to ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Directed By: Gordon Douglas

"Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to ...

Manufacturer: Eureka Entertainment
Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder
Directed By: F.W. Murnau

Manufacturer: Network
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Googie Withers, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

For Rosemary's Baby, his modern horror tale about Satanic worship and a pregnant woman's decline into madness, Roman Polanski moves from the traditional monolithic mansions of Gothic flicks to an apartment building in New York City. Based on Ira Levin's novel, the story concerns Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse who find the apartment of their dreams in a luxurious complex in ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans
Directed By: Roman Polanski

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon
Directed By: Sidney Hayers

One of the most sublimely silly products to emanate from Roger Corman's studio, The Raven has the very loosest of connections with the Edgar Allen Poe poem that gives it its title and which Vincent Price intones sepulchrally at the beginning. A retiring magician, Craven (Price) has opted out of the power struggles of peers such as Dr Scarabus (Boris Karloff) to brood on his dead wife and ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess
Directed By: Roger Corman

Manufacturer: Second Sight Films Ltd.
Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Claude Brasseur
Directed By: Georges Franju