Powerhouse Films

From the mind of one of Italian genre cinema's most outrageous and uncompromising filmmakers comes Black Magic Rites (Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel Trecento... aka The Reincarnation of Isabel),...

For almost half a century, June, Ron and Tim Ormond, a Nashville mother-father-son trio, cranked out a wild bunch of movies, from Lash LaRue westerns to the stripper-gore-musical outrage The Exotic...

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1930s Mexican horror directed by Ramón Peón. Based on Mexican folklore, the film tells the story of the wailing woman who kills herself and her two children before returning in spectral form to...

1970s horror starring Donald Pleasence and Peter Cushing. When a number of tourists disappear from a picturesque Greek village, anxious priest Father Roche (Pleasence) turns to his old friend,...

Robert Hartford-Davis directs this 1960s British horror starring Peter Cushing and Sue Lloyd. When his fiancée, fashion model Lynn (Lloyd), is badly scarred in an accident, plastic surgeon Sir John...

1970s British horror starring Calvin Lockhart and Peter Cushing. A variety of guests assemble at the lodge of wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Lockhart), each of them in some way possessing a...

1970s British horror starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. In 19th century London, Dr Charles Marlowe (Lee) has manufactured a new drug which relieves inhibitions. After successful trials on...

Collection of low-budget films directed by Michael J Murphy. The collection includes: 'Tristan and Iseult' (1970), 'Happy Ever After' (1974), 'Secrets' (1977), 'Almost a Movie' (1979), 'The Cell'...

The final entry in the five-film cycle reviving Sax Rohmer's Chinese super-villain, Fu Manchu, from maverick British producer and writer Harry Alan Towers (Count Dracula). Jesús Franco (Vampyros...

Made shortly after the box-office success of House of Wax, The Mad Magician returns Vincent Price to the world of three-dimensional horror. He plays Don Gallico, the creator of elaborate illusions...

John Carpenter directs this horror based on the novel by John Steakley. When Jack Crow (James Woods)'s team of mercenary vampire hunters is slaughtered by the master vampire Valek (Thomas Ian...

John Carpenter directs this 1980s horror based on the novel by Stephen King. Teenage outcast Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon)'s life is turned around when he buys and lovingly restores a 1958 Plymouth...

Classic slice of 1950s psychological horror. Dana Andrews stars as American psychologist Dr John Holden, who arrives in London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the aim of exposing...

1960s British horror directed by Freddie Francis. Dr Diabolo (Burgess Meredith) is a fairground showman who promises revellers that he can show them potential evil in their future through an effigy...

1980s Canadian slasher horror starring Melissa Sue Anderson as Virginia, a pretty, young student at the exclusive Crawford Academy, whose disturbing past holds the key to a set of grisly murders that...

American horror in which fading publishing executive Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) drives alone on a freezing night in Vermont, hits a wolf on the road and believes it to be dead. When he gets out of...

1960s Hammer horror sequel in which a team of archaeologists uncover a cursed tomb in Egypt. The American financier of the expedition intends to display the tomb's treasures in London, but a...

Classic British horror starring Tallulah Bankhead as the fanatically religious Mrs Trefoile, a psychotic woman who, with the help of her gardener, Joseph (Donald Sutherland), imprisons her dead son's...

Classic British horror starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The village of Vandorf seems to be cursed with an ancient evil when a series of murders take place. The victims are all turned to...

Horror icon Vincent Price (The Mad Magician) plays a scientist who makes a remarkable discovery: within every human resides a creature, attached to the spine, that tingles in cases of fear. He...

When the Zorba family inherit a house from their late uncle, the occultist Plato Zorba, they didn't expect it come with a host of ghostly houseguests, including a headless lion tamer (and lion!), an...

Fresh from Hammer's Taste of Fear, Ronald Lewis teamed up with William Castle for what the famed horror producer considered one his favourite films. Lewis plays Sir Robert Cargrave, a British doctor...

Small-town secrets, a family inheritance, a spate of murders, and a remarkable twist make up producer-director William Castle's audacious spin on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And if it all gets to be...

Sensationally based on a `true story', Hammer's The Stranglers of Bombay incorporates elements of the horror and thriller genres within an exotic adventure tale involving the murderous...

One of Hammer's most enduring and successful releases, 1958's The Revenge of Frankenstein was a swift sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein, their box-office smash of the year before. It ushered in...

Perennially undervalued, Hammer's take on Robert Louis Stevenson's oft-filmed tale of dual personalities is one of the novel's most unique cinematic adaptations, turning down the horror elements to...

Boasting a strong female cast - including Judy Geeson (10 Rillington Place), Stephanie Beacham (Tam-Lin) and Victoria Tennant (Flowers in the Attic) - and co-financed by Run Run Shaw of the Shaw...

For his first foray into horror cinema - the genre in which he would ensure his legacy - Norman J Warren teamed up with critic-turned-screenwriter David McGillivray (House of Whipcord) and Hammer...

Norman J Warren's final feature as director is also one of his most unclassifiable. Filmed in Wales, it focuses on a group of teens who find themselves on a stranded island while holidaying. The...

Influenced by Dario Argento's horror classic Suspiria, director Norman J Warren and screenwriter David McGillivray - reteaming two years after the success of Satan's Slave - created an offbeat blend...