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Genre "Costume Horror" Movies
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| 1. Black Sunday (year: 1960) |
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Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on t ...
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| 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula (year: 1992) |
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Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of th ...
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| 3. Brotherhood of the Wolf (year: 2001) |
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French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan — a huge, wolf-like monster — was responsible for the violent ...
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| 4. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (year: 1969) |
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The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron Frankenstein in a mask. Hammer's fif ...
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| 5. From Hell (year: 2001) |
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The true-life horror story of Jack the Ripper gets a new spin in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbel ...
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| 6. Interview With the Vampire (year: 1994) |
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Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director ...
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| 7. Kwaidan (year: 1964) |
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Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who began his career in the Unit ...
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| 8. Lake of Dracula (year: 1971) |
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Dracula really doesn't appear in the Japanese Lake of Dracula, but there is a charismatic male vampire roaming about... or is there? The story focuse ...
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| 9. Nosferatu (year: 1922) |
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F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much so that Stoker's widow ...
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| 10. Pit and the Pendulum (year: 1961) |
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American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the ...
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| 11. Sleepy Hollow (year: 1999) |
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Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this versi ...
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| 12. The Devil Rides Out (year: 1968) |
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Adapted by Richard Matheson from a novel by Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out admirably adopts a restrained approach to its horrific material. Chri ...
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| 13. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (year: 2003) |
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Based on the novel by Ridley Pearson, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is a prequel to the goose-pimply 2002 TV miniseries Stephen King's Rose Red. In its ...
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| 14. The Ghost of Frankenstein (year: 1942) |
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though prod ...
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| 15. The Oblong Box (year: 1969) |
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When Sir Edward Markham (Alastair Williamson) is horribly disfigured by African natives, he is kept chained and out of sight by his brother Julian (Vi ...
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| 17. The Raven (year: 1963) |
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Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the direct ...
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| 18. The Revenge of Frankenstein (year: 1958) |
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He may be calling himself "Dr. Stein," but the audience isn't fooled: that popular general practitioner (Peter Cushing) in the mittel-Europe ...
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| 19. Van Helsing (year: 2004) |
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The greatest monster hunter of them all has his work cut out for him as he tracks down three deadly foes in this action-adventure saga. Gabriel Van He ...
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| 20. Wax Mask (year: 1997) |
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In the grand tradition of Britain's Hammer low-budget horror films of the '60s, this Gothic and gory chiller is the third screen version of Gaston Ler ...
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