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poster Easter Eggs
Easter Eggs
(2.9/5)
3mn - Fantasy
A magical woman and her magical eggs.
poster Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween
Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween
89mn - Horror, Comedy
Two bumbling half-brothers think they've landed the perfect house-sitting gig, but their easy job turns into a supernatural nightmare when ghostly visions, levitating objects, and demonic possessions tran…
poster The Devil in a Convent
The Devil in a Convent
3mn - Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
poster Horror Express
Horror Express
(3.3/5)
84mn - Horror
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
poster Entr'acte
Entr'acte
(3.7/5)
22mn - Comedy, Fantasy
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp …
poster The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
3mn - Comedy
A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.
poster The Witch
The Witch
13mn - Family, Fantasy
A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.
poster A Hundred Tricks
A Hundred Tricks
(2.8/5)
3mn - Comedy
poster The New Lord of the Village
The New Lord of the Village
(2.7/5)
2mn - Fantasy
There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then there's another scene in the village... and that's it.
poster The Genii of Fire
The Genii of Fire
4mn - Drama, Fantasy
Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.
poster The Terror
The Terror
81mn - Horror, Thriller
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
poster The Vanishing Lady
The Vanishing Lady
(3.2/5)
1mn - Mystery
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
poster Maniac
Maniac
51mn - Horror
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
poster Horse Trick Riders
Horse Trick Riders
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
In the background is a house. In the foreground, a groom holds the reins of a sleek black horse that stands in profile. A tall man, dressed in a black uniform, demonstrates how to mount the horse then enc…
poster Zigoto and the Affair of the Necklace
Zigoto and the Affair of the Necklace
(2.9/5)
8mn - Comedy
The film begins with the Count giving an actress a necklace. However, after her performance, the valuable necklace is missing and so the actress goes to hire some detectives to find it. I loved the strang…
poster Bride of the Monster
Bride of the Monster
69mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the loca…
poster Nightmare Castle
Nightmare Castle
(2.9/5)
105mn - Horror
When a sadistic doctor discovers his wife's infidelity, he brutally tortures and murders her and her lover, harvesting their hearts for a sinister experiment. Years later, he marries her mentally fragile …
poster The Oubliette
The Oubliette
29mn - Drama, History
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …
poster The Monster
The Monster
2mn - Fantasy, Horror
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
poster Manos: The Hands of Fate
Manos: The Hands of Fate
73mn - Horror, Thriller
A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
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