Sci-Fi & Horror
Few genres stretch like science fiction, a marketplace for idle prediction, utopia, apocalypse and wonder. Meanwhile, tales of terror have been embraced by cinema since its birth.
From chilling gothic horror to strange dystopian worlds this collection showcases genre defining examples of sci-fi and horror from throughout film history. Discover films unafraid to explore themes of genetic engineering, inter dimensions and the occult.
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The Queen of Spades
The distinguished British film director Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984), made only nine features in a chequered but remarkable film-making career which began in 1936 and ended in 1955. He subsequently became BritainĂs first Professor of Film at the Slade School of Art and wrote the much re-printed ...
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Carry On Screaming!
The sinister Dr Watts and his monsters are on the loose! Kidnapping local women to be bungled into his haunted mansion to be transformed into shop-window mannequins. The only thing standing in his way is the hapless Detective-Sergeant Bung and his equally hapless side-kicks. With his quest for cl...
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The Nightcomers
Set in Victorian England, The Nightcomers follows two orphans - Flora and Miles - as they are left by their tutor in a mansion, under the care of the elderly housekeeper Mrs Grose, the governess Miss Jessel, and the groundskeeper Peter Quint. When Grose attempts to have the master of the house fi...