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Hong Kong, 1910. When his daughter is murdered by the Red Dragon Tong, British skipper Jackson Sale (Geoffrey Toone) vows to crush the corrupt organisation.

He wins the devotion of Lee (Yvonne Monlaur), a Tong collector's 'bond slave', and tracks down the Red Dragon's inscrutable leader, Chung King (Christopher Lee). Jackson is subjected to an agonising torture, escaping only to find that his every move is now dogged by traitors. Chung King orders that Sale must die in a ceremonial killing. Lee tries to warn him, and in the process becomes the next target for the ruthless hatchet men...

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Having made their mark on American horror cinema with three colourful adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe - 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'Pit and the Pendulum' and 'Tales of Terror' - Vincent Price and director Roger Corman enjoyed a brief hiatus from the macabre author with 'Tower of London'.

Shot in black and white, the film was loosely based on the Universal horror picture of the same name as well as two Shakespeare plays: a dash of 'Macbeth' and a dollop of 'Richard III'. Price plays Richard of Gloucester, brother to a dying king and eager to take his place on the throne. When he is overlooked in favour of their sibling, the Duke of Clarence, things take a murderous turn. Richard goes on a murderous rage, only for the ghosts of those he has slain to return from the grave and haunt him... Less well-known than the Poe movies, 'Tower of London' is no slouch. Price relishes the opportunity to flex his Shakespearean muscles, just as he would eleven years later with Theatre of Blood, and Corman works wonders, as usual, with his low budget. If you've ever wondered what a drive-in Shakespeare film would look like, you're in the right place!

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In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Kamstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla (Yutte Stensgaard).

The nearby finishing School offers rich pickings not only in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster (Ralph Bates) who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple. As students in the school, inhabitants of the nearby village, and those who suspect Mircalla start to die, suspicion turns towards the Kamsteins and their ominous castle. A visiting author, Richard Lestrange (Michael Johnson), instantly falls for her seductive yet lethal charms; and must save her from the wrath of his fellow villagers whilst protecting himself against her deadly kiss.

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In medieval Hungary, Countess Elisabeth Nadasdy (Ingrid Pitt), an embittered, ageing widow, discovers by accident that virgin's blood causes her skin to become youthful and smooth.

Determined to retain her new youth at all costs, the Countess coerces her lover to abduct a string of young virgins to keep her supplied with the blood she now craves to stay beautiful...

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Horror legend Vincent Price is Dr. Phibes, former musician, current murderer. Seeking revenge from the medical staff that left his wife for dead, he sets about knocking them off one-by-one in a series of elaborate murders based upon a Ten Plagues of Egypt.

Death by bats, by boils, by blood and more await the nurse and surgeons who failed to save the life of the beloved Victoria Regina Phibes!

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In his earlier Edgar Allan Poe films, Roger Corman took short stories by the great Gothic master and expanded them into full-length features. Here, by contrast, the stories stay short, the only other thing they have in common being the participation of Vincent Price.

In 'Morelia', Price plays a tormented man forced to confront a dark family secret when his long-estranged daughter tracks him down. In 'The Black Cat', he's the rakish lover of the wife of Peter Lorre, who naturally plots a deadly revenge. And in the title role of 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', he tries to relieve chronic pain by asking Basil Rathbone to hypnotise him, something that leaves poor Valdemar hovering on the border between the dead and the living. Corman's previous Poe films were played completely straight, and parts of Tales of Terror are as authentically creepy as any of them. But he also stirred comedy into the Poe brew for the first time, particularly in the scenes between Price and Lorre.

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A dying man's report of a ritual black mass stirs Britain's security chief into action, and a mansion filled with young vampire girls is soon discovered. And this is but the first twist in a labyrinth of horror.

Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee pair up for the final Hammer Dracula in this follow-up to 'Dracula A.D.' (1972). In this go-round, the Count (Christopher Lee) follows a more pulpish, super-villainous playbook, posing as a millionaire industrialist alive and well and living in London while secretly brewing up a batch of super-plague in a quest to destroy the world. Mixing Satanists, spies and sci-fi, the film makes viewers glad that Peter Cushing is on hand to solidly anchor the more outre elements as the effortlessly expositioning Dr. Van Helsing. Lee, in turn, has more dialogue as Dracula than was the norm, and rachets up the evil to the nth dgree. Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) co-stars.

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England is in civil war as the Royalists battle Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain power by exploiting village superstitions.

One of these men is Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne (Robert Russell), he travels from town to town and wrenches confessions from "witches" in order to line his pockets. When Hopkins persecutes a priest (Rupert Davies), he incurs the wrath of Richard Marshall (Ian Ogilvy), who is engaged to the priest's niece. Risking treason by leaving his military duties, Marshall relentlessly pursues the evil Hopkins and his minion Stearne.

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Well-remembered for its unsettling depiction of a society in meltdown, the 10-part series 'The Changes' was first broadcast on the BBC in early 1975 and is now available on Video for the first time.

When a strange noise is emitted from machinery and electricity pylons, previously placid and easy-going folk violently turn against the technology that surrounds them, ruthlessly attacking radios, TVs and other domestic appliances. In the devastating aftermath, young Nicky Gore (Victoria Williams) is separated from her parents and finds a surrogate home with a group of Sikhs. But they soon are dubbed 'The Devil's Children' by superstitious locals and Nicky is accused of sorcery by a witch-finder. In grave danger, she is forced to find a way to escape, find her parents and uncover what caused the world to become so unbalanced. This highly acclaimed series was adapted from Peter Dickinson's best-selling trilogy by Anna Home (who would later become chief executive of the Children's Film and Television Foundation), and features music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's Paddy Kingsland (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). The Changes paved the way for the likes of Survivors and The Day of the Triffids and the gritty depiction of a near-apocalyptic world, and its integration of Sikh characters make it as progressive and fascinating now as it was when it was first broadcast.

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Originally shown on BBC1 in 1974 and rarely seen since, "Penda's Fen" has become the stuff of legend, its name invoking the spirit of a time when television had the power to provoke and astound.

Exploring themes of personal and national identity, language, history and industrial progress, this unclassifiable drama boldly weaves its exquisite, fantastical imagery with the rousing music of Elgar to tell a tale of ancient legends and sexual awakening which stands as one of British television's greatest ever achievements.

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From its seemingly placid opening, "Village of the Damned" keeps piling one eerie and disquieting detail upon another, creating that rarest of achievements - an utterly believable masterpiece of horror! Starring the ever-imperturbable George Sanders (who does not remain that way for long), this

classic, havoc-filled tale of mind reading and hypnotism will have you completely hypnotized...and shaken to the core! The "monsters" of this film are a band of innocent-faced platinum-blond children, all of whom are born in a small, peaceful village on the same day. Their rapid physical development is matched by their fast-growing mental powers and with calm, blood-curdling efficiency, they are soon terrorizing the tiny hamlet. They can read the thoughts that are forming in your mind...which makes them an altogether unstoppable enemy!

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator (Richard Burton) and a hypnotic research specialist (Louise Fletcher) free her from its grasp?

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This star-studded anthology from Hammer Films presents thirteen unforgettable tales of spine-chilling terror.

Reimagining classic Hammer themes in a contemporary British setting and signalling a new direction for the legendary film studio under the aegis of producer Roy Skeggs, the series blends the supernatural with a very modern horror - from hauntings and demonic possessions to sinister incarcerations and cannibalism...

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An aspiring young painter falls for his patron's niece but forsakes love for ambition when a ghoulish stranger demands her for himself. Adapted from the chilling ghost story by J.

Sheridan Le Fanu, 'Schalcken the Painter' weaves a fictional tale of terror around the work of real life seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Godfried Schalcken.

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After years of unavailability, the three surviving episodes from the legendary BBC horror anthology series 'Dead of Night' finally come to video. Originally screened on BBC2 in 1972, and rarely seen since, 'Dead of Night' has been highly sought by fans of classic TV and British horror for decades.

1. The Exorcism
In what is perhaps the most terrifying of the episodes, four wealthy, middle-class friends (Clive Swift, Edward Petherbridge, Anna Cropper and Sylvia Kay) gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.
2. Return Flight
The professionalism of an experienced and respected airline pilot (Peter Barkworth) is placed under scrutiny when he encounters the ghostly apparition of a Second World War Lancaster bomber.
3. A Woman Sobbing
A middle-class housewife (Anna Massey) becomes increasingly paranoid when her nights are interrupted by the terrifying and unexplained sound of a woman crying in one of the rooms in her new house.