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Revenant Reels
13 Ghosts (1960)
From director William Castle.
A family inherits a house said to hold a hidden treasure, and thirteen
ghosts. Plus, the housekeeper is a witch. More fun than scarey and definitely
worth a look. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, and Wicked Witch
of the West Margaret Hamilton star.
13
Ghosts (VHS)
Army of Darkness (1993)
Third installment in Sam Raimi's
Evil Dead series. Ash (Bruce Campbell) travels through time from
the haunted cabin to a medieval castle beseiged by an army of zombies.
Armed with his trusty chainsaw, Ash battles the Deadite army and searches
for the words in the fabled Necronomicon spellbook which will return
him to the 20th century. Bridget Fonda, Embeth Davidtz, Ian Abercrombie,
and Ted Raimi co-star.
Army
of Darkness (VHS)
Army
of Darkness (DVD)
Cemetary Man (1994)
a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore.
The people buried in the local cemetary have an annoying habit of not wanting
to stay dead and buried, and hunky caretaker Rupert Everett has the daunting
task of making sure they die a second time before they get loose on the
town. Plenty of dark humor, and even a touch of eroticism. Anna Falchi,
Francois Hadji-Lazaro, and Mickey Knox co-star.
Cemetary
Man (VHS)
Children Shouldn't Play
With Dead Things (1972)
a.k.a. Revenge of the Living
Dead . A group of college students dig up a corpse and use him in a
ritual to raise the dead. Well, it works, but you just know when the party
guests show, they're gonna be hungry. Yum, yum, eat 'em up!
Children
Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (VHS)
Children
Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (DVD)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
George Romero's sequel to
Night of the Living Dead . Four survivors of the zombie epidemic take
refuge in a shopping mall, beseiged by the unded and a gang of vicious
bikers. Blood and gore galore! David Emge, Gaylen Ross, and Ken Foree
star.
Dawn
of the Dead (VHS)
The Evil Dead (1982)
Sam Raimi's cult classic! Five
friends spend the weekend at a cabin in the woods. Finding a copy of the
Necronomicon and a taped translation, they play the tape and resurrect
the dead in the surrounding woods. Zombies, dismemberment, gang rape by
trees - what's not to love? Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweis, Hal Deirich,
Sarah York, and Betsy Baker star.
Evil
Dead - Collector's Edition(VHS)
Evil
Dead - Special Edition (DVD)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by
Dawn (1987)
More a remake of Evil Dead
than a sequel. Ash (Bruce Campbell) is still trapped in the cabin, beseiged
by the evil deadites, only now he's joined by more friends who are also
turned into deadites. Ends with Ash being thrown through the time warp
which leads into Army of Darkness. Sarah Berry and Dan Hicks co-star.
Evil
Dead 2 (VHS)
Evil
Dead 2 Special Edition (DVD)
Ghost Story (1981)
Sixty years ago, four men killed
a girl. Now she's back, and out to destroy them and those they love. With
Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alice Krige, Patricia
Neal, and Craig Wasson.
Ghost
Story (VHS)
The Haunting (1963)
From Shirley Jackson's novel,
The Haunting of Hill House. A group of ghost hunters spend a weekend
in the haunted Hill House. But are the manifestations real, or a trick
being played on their minds by the house itself? With Julie Harris, Claire
Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton, Lois "Miss Moneypenny"
Maxwell, and Doctor Who's Valentine Dyall.
The
Haunting (VHS)
The Innocents (1961)
Perhaps the best adaptation
of Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw." Deborah Kerr is the governess
who believes her charges to be in the thrall of her dead predecessor and
the evil valet's ghost. But are the ghosts real, or is the governess slowly
descending into madness? Peter Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave, Megs Jenkins,
and Pamela Franklin co-star.
The
Innocents (VHS)
The Legend of Hell House
(1973)
A team of psychic investigators
spends a few days in the notorious Hell House. Is the house truly haunted
by murderous spirits, and if it is, will anyone survive? The Innocents's
Pamela Franklin co-stars with Roddy McDowall and Clive Revill.
The
Legend of Hell House (VHS)
The Mummy (1932)
Frankenstein may
have made Karloff a star, but this film shows him at his best. Ten years
ago, an archaeological expedition accidentally resurrected Imhotep, an
Egyptian priest who was mummified alive. Now, Imhotep is in Cairo, posing
as antiquarian Ardeth Bey, and hoping to secure the magickal text which
wil enable him to resurrect his dead love, now reincarnated in the body
lovely Zita Johan. Dracula's David Manners and Edward Van Sloan
co-star.
The
Mummy (VHS)
The
Mummy (DVD)
Night of the Living Dead
(1968)
"They're coming to get you,
Barbra." After radiation from a fallen satellite resurrects the dead as
flesh-eating zombies, a group of people take refuge in a farmhouse, fending
off attacks from the undead, and their own paranoia. The fact that Reader's
Digest attacked this flick as a sign of society's moral decay tells
you its gotta be good! From the wonderfully twisted mind of George Romero.
Night
of the Living Dead (VHS)
Night
of the Living Dead (DVD)
Plague of the Zombies
(1966)
From the good folks at Hammer
Studios. A professor travels to Cornwall to investigate mysterious deaths
in a mining town, then finds the newly dead being resurrected as zombies
to work in the mines. When the voodoo master loses control of his minions,
the fun really starts! Andre Morell, Diane Clare, Jacqueline Pearce, and
Brook Williams star.
Plague
of the Zombies (VHS)
Plague
of the Zombies (DVD)
The Serpent and the Rainbow
(1987)
Suggested by (but not actually
based on) Dr. Wade Davis's experiences investigating the voodoo culture
in Haiti. Bill Pullman arrives in Haiti hoping to find the potion used
in zombification and isolate its active ingredients for use in medicine.
But he runs afowl of the local bokar, and learns that the power of voodoo
is all too real. With Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, and Cathy Tyson. Directed
by Wes Craven.
The
Serpent and the Rainbow (VHS)
The
Serpent and the Rainbow (DVD)
The Uninvited (1944)
From the Dorothy Macardle novel.
Ray Milland and his sister move into an English seaside home, only tolearn
that the house is haunted. Who is the spirit in the home, and what is its
relationship with the lovely neighbor next door? A classic!
The
Uninvited (VHS)
White Zombie (1932)
One of Bela Lugosi's best peformances,
playing the voodoo priest overseer of a Haitian sugar mill who zombifies
his enemies and uses them as slave labor. He agrees to turn lovely Madge
Bellamy into a zombie for a friend, but then decides he wants the lady
for himself! Very atmospheric, this film anticipated Serpent and the
Rainbow by suggesting that zombification employed the use of a neurotoxic
potion.
White
Zombie (VHS)
White
Zombie (DVD)
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