HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL:

Shock Theatre veteran Vincent Price stars in this cult classic as Frederick Loren, a baleful tycoon who owns an ominous mental institution-turned-mansion. Loren throws a party that promises to be a hauntingly good time but turns into a murderous disaster. With his foes in attendance, Loren hands out party favors in the form of miniature wooden coffins that contain handguns. The ominous host has a few scary tricks up his sleeve that he hopes will provoke his guests into using their weapons, but it turns out that his calculating wife and her lover have some plans of their own. All of the devious scheming and backstabbing of the guests, mixed in with the house’s own malevolent supernatural element, make for one terrifying, white-knuckled fright night.

THE BAT:

The setting of this murder mystery is a proverbial old, dark, and creepy mansion leased for the summer by Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead), an eccentric mystery writer who finds inspiration for her novels in her eerie surroundings. But soon after Cornelia moves in, it seems as if one of her mysteries has sprung to life when a strange prowler, who is later dubbed The Bat, breaks into the mansion clad in a fedora, mask, and gloves outfitted with razor-sharp metal claws. The Bat terrorizes Cornelia and her maid and then commits a gruesome act of murder. The frightened novelist, refusing to fall victim to the masked marauder, resolutely sets out to expose the killer’s true identity and get to the bottom of the mystery by turning the tables on the vile villain.

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH:

A sinister plague sweeps the earth, transforming humankind into a race of vampire-like monsters. Every human on earth becomes infected—with the exception of one man, scientist Robert Morgan (Vincent Price), who is inexplicably immune to the affliction. Morgan, the last vestige of the human race, takes it upon himself to wipe out the vampire race—one monster at a time. When he restores a woman back to her old self with a blood transfusion involving his own blood, the scientist is given hope that he will be able to cure others. But his plans fall to the wayside when the vampire race tracks him down in order to slay their sole threat. Now Morgan must figure out a way to save himself if he has any hope of restoring humanity.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 15 Februari, 2010