"The Lodger" (1944)
-Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar


London 1880's: An elderly couple rents some rooms to a doctor but after several weeks begins to suspect their tenant may be Jack The Ripper.

Phantom's Review: A great movie. Atmospheric, creepy and beautifully photographed. (black and white is so great with these kind of thrillers)
The cast is perfect, but like most Hollywood films about the Ripper it's about 99% fiction and damn little fact.
But overall it's a good creepy film.

The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

...:D

I think the last classic I saw was Dracula (1931), a somewhat overrated classic, at least compared to Nosferatu (1922). What is good is the gothic sets and of course the performances by Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye (the best Renfield ever IMO).

Spider Baby (1968)--Awesome weirdness.

Three cases of murder ['55]

an underrated gem.

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

The Terror (1963)

>>: C+

Horror Anthology
 

I like the old stuff myself. Lately I haven't watched any horror movies but three months ago i watched these flix.

Carnival Of Souls
House On Haunted Hill
Salem's Lot
:p

The Wasp Woman (1960)

>>: C+

The thread says classic HORROR movie. ;)

yeah...and that's a horror movie from classic era:D

Les Diaboliques

Air Good, Fire bad

"House Of Dracula" (1945)
-Lon Chaney jr. John Carradine, Glenn Strange

Fun atmospheric sequel to "House Of Frankenstein". Very enjoyable,

Hounds of the Baskervilles with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (1959...a excellent year!!!!) :D

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. Excellent highly underrated Hammer fare. My one issue? No Cushing.

Ditto. love this one.

last seen:

Cat People (1942)

Suspense, atmosphere and the magical use of lights & shadows undoubtedly made it a benchmark in psychological horror. loved it. (My first Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur film, just opened the Val Lewton Collection box set last night.:))

>>: A

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

Who choose this title?...the studio? Other than this unrelated title (actually there were some relations of few characters), I think it was a very lovely & beautiful film indeed for all ages. Glad to know that Robert Wise was also involved in direction.

>>: B+

Horror Movie
 

I watched House on haunted hill with vincent price.

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The Uninvited (1944)

>>: B

"The Man From Planet X" (1951)

Plot: IMDB

A New York City newspaper reporter flies to a remote island off Scotland, on an invitation from a scientist who is a long-time friend, to cover the news of the approach to earth of a previously-unknown planet, which the scientist has called Planet X. While awaiting the calculated date of it closest approach to Earth, they discover a torpedo-shaped craft in which an agent of Planet X, peacefully disposed, has landed to make preparations for further landings of X-people when the planet reaches its closest proximity to Earth. The scientist's assistant crosses up the friendly visitor, who depends on a tank of X-atmosphere for survival. The Man from Planet X, using a mesmeric ray, captures the scientist, his daughter, the assistant and several townspeople. The reporter calls Scotland Yard.

Phantom's Review: Made in just six day's and on a microscopic budget, this sci-fi thriller is actually pretty decent, nothing great, just decent. Make some popcorn, turn your brain off and enjoy.

White Zombie (1932). Simply awesome, especially considering the budget and the prop limitations. Ashe.
d

Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Though not as great as WHTBJ? but surely it's a decent follow up of Baby Jane from the collaboration of Bette Davis & Robert Aldrich. Pretty nicely done an intense psychological thriller with a fantastic powerful cast.

>>: B+

Vampyr (1932)

An outstanding masterpiece from early years of Horror cinema. The movie made me almost as amazed as I was after watching The Cabinet of Dr. Calligari. Whatever the reasons behind the print quality, it intentionally or unintentionally able to build an eerie, uncanny atmosphere with mind blowing magical shadow game & brilliant camera trickery, considering at the time they made the film. Hat's off to the people behind the camera.

>>: A

"the Wicker Man"

Great movie this one is. Never gets old watching it.

Murders in the Rue Morgue.






Good movie, not a classic though.
"Horror and monster movies from the 1960's and before"

Oh I see. Did not read the first post in the thread.

Then I shall have to switch my answer to "Peeping Tom" by Michael Powell.
Another awesome movie =]

Ive seen alot worse movies than The Wicker Man referred to as a classic in this thread. Some dolt actually put one the Friday the 13th movies, like part 5 or something.






Peeping Tom is awsome, been to long since Ive seen that.

We're not talking specifically here about what people consider to be "a classic," but films released in the classic era- pre-1970. For films 1970 on, pleae post in the modern horror forum.

I've been watching Les Vampires. Gleefully anarchic, but I can only take so much of it at once. It kind of sucks that it's due back tomorrow and I've only watched the first half.

"It ! The Terror From Beyond Space"

One of the great 1950's sci-fi monster movies and the inspiration for the original "Alien"

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

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The last part of Robert Aldrich's Psycho-biddy trilogy with another great cast on the leads. Geraldine Page as usually gave a stellar performance as a wicked widow and Ruth Gordon surely was an equal match on the opposite as the tough, temperamental old biddy determined to bring her to justice. Not as great as Baby Jane & Sweet Charlotte but overall it's a pretty decent part indeed.

>>: B

Can't go wrong with Ruth Gordon!

Mad Love

Peter Lorre at his creepiest. A really great classic.

King Kong vs Godzilla

one of the great asian monster movies

Dracula (1958).:cool:

Mad Love (1935)

By the name itself "Dr. Gogol" is like one of the pretty interesting characters that we always love to see on screen & Lorre's bald, sinister looks & his unique touch for Gogol's persona in this role made it a pure gem for any classic genre fan.

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There's a scene where Dr. Gogol, seated in one of the boxes in the theater. We only see half of his face, because the other half hidden in shadows. We clearly get a sense of evil with only a minimal of lighting and gesture in the sinister figure of Dr. Gogol. These closeups on Lorre, the shadows in the hallway magnificently worked with black-and-white cinematography. Another brilliant showcase of Karl Freund's amazing works.

>>: A

I haven't seen much of Peter Lorre movies yet, so thanks a lot for the rec; it's been really a delightful watch.:)

Carnival of Souls

"I Walked With A Zombie"
and
"Earth vs The Flying Saucers"

The City of the Dead. It's free for download!

The Sadist (1963)

Fantastic! Excellent camera works, perfectly tight script and the solid casts surely made it an exemplary achievement in low budget film making.

>>: B+

Great stuff, roshiq!

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Kicked off my October movie watching with Carnival of Souls (1962).