La mansión de los crímenes (1971)
Vampires! Voodoo! Vixens! Victims!
Género : Terror, Misterio
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 42M
Director : Peter Duffell
Sinopsis
Narra 4 cuentos de terror relacionados por una vieja y fantasmal mansión en la que se realiza una investigación policial para esclarecer ciertas desapariciones. Escritos en tono paródico por Robert Bloch. 1) METHOD FOR MURDER: Un escritor conjura desde su imaginación a un estrangulador y cual es su sorpresa cuando nota que el criminal ha tomado vida real.
After terribly gory happenings occur one day in a hidden beach house on the Malibu Shore, it leaves one person crying, one person soaked in blood, and another one dead. 17 months later, a group of hot twenty somethings move into the now abandoned beach house, all of them unaware of what had happened in the place over a year ago. One by one, temptation seduces the house mates into betraying their romantic relationships and they are punished for their infidelities, by an avenging angel of death. When the first victim is killed, the police believe that it is simply a drug overdose, but a whacked out spiritualist believes in actuality, it was the ghost of the dead girlfriend. With the help of the spiritualist, the new tenants of the house fight to survive and search desperately to unlock the shocking mystery of...THE SCORNED.
Peter (Jerry Lewis) está casado con la encantadora Nancy (Anne Francis) y tiene dos hijos. Tras una visita rutinaria, su médico (Peter Lawford) le comunica que padece una enfermedad terminal. Ante esta perspectiva, Nancy y él deciden disfrutar al límite del tiempo que le queda y gastan el dinero a manos llenas. Estando de viaje, el médico llama a Peter para comunicarle que el diágnóstico es erróneo. Con unas facturas que ascienden a 100.000 dólares, Peter y Nancy tendrán que buscar una solución que les permita salir del atolladero en que se han metido.
Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.
Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.
Fresh from seminary school, a new Reverend embarks on his first parish: A small, low-maintenance chapel based in the idyllic setting of a quiet country village. While on the surface the village seems to be a peaceful parish, with perfect residents, soon it becomes apparent that something more sinister lurks beneath the façade of a local businessman. On a wet, cold night, a mysterious girl visits the Reverend at the chapel. She is welcomed in warmly, but soon it becomes apparent that her visit is not for sanctuary but to deliver a message, a message in the form of a deep, bloody bite... Awoken with an unknown, uncontrollable thirst, the confused Reverend can't find any evidence of the girl from the night before. With nothing but his thirst and memory of the bite, the Reverend embarks on a mandate to clean up the village and the neighboring estate...by preaching or feasting.
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
A gripping tale of horror, murder, and revenge unfolds as Jack Devlin (Claude Akins in his final screen appearance), caretaker of the Spencer House State, reveals an unforgettable history of zombies, vampires, and witches to a prospective buyer. The chilling stories grow more horrifying and even Jack's visitor is stunned by the final fate at this house where evil lives.
En el futuro, un sustituto sintético de la sangre es dispensado por el Gobierno rumano, lo que permite a los seres humanos y vampiros convivir
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.
Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!
Coffin Joe presents an anthology film which tells three macabre tales, all delightfully demented, perverted and grotesque.
Un policía camuflado se infiltra en dos organizaciones de tráfico de drogas para acabar con ellas. Sus métodos no siempre son ortodoxos..
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusions that he is a great Samurai warrior and the movie flashes back and forth between present day and ancient times.
Una actriz de una película de terror debe salir a cenar con su director, y en esa noche, escuchar todas las historias de horror a cambio.
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
Carla y Bruno son una pareja de universitarios. Son jóvenes e inteligentes y creen que lo saben todo acerca del amor, son tolerantes y abiertos. Sin embargo aparecerá en sus vidas un elemento que todo lo perturbará: Rai, un kamikaze de los sentimientos capaz de nadar en cualquier orilla, que desafía los convencionalismos y proclama una libertad sexual que Carla y Bruno ni siquiera se habrían planteado nunca. Así, a ritmo de funky callejero y de break dance, los tres iniciarán una relación más allá de los tabúes en la que aprenderán mucho más de ellos mismos de lo que puedan imaginar.
A community of Cajun fishermen living around a remote bayou includes one authentic beauty, Marie, who wants to better herself but must deal with the unwelcome attentions of storekeeper Ulysses. When she meets Martin Davis, visiting New York architect, they hit it off at once; but the sinister Ulysses is not inclined to suffer a Yankee rival.
En Manhattan, un psicópata asesina a las prostitutas. Se asigna un detective para localizarlo y capturarlo.
On Halloween night, two shabby, dimwitted hunchbacks dig up the anthology horror video CreepTales that was buried with their Uncle Munger, and show it to their dimwitted monster friends.Filming began in 1986 and was finished in 1989, but the video was never released until 2004.
Paco y Fernando son dueños de una editorial al borde de la bancarrota. Aún así, se las arreglan para conseguir un contrato con la escritora española de más éxito, Adela Mora. La noche en la que se va a firmar el acuerdo, Paco pide a Fernando su casa para una cita mientras él cena con la escritora. Pero la mujer de Paco, Carmen, también había pedido la casa a la mujer de Fernando, Rosa, para su propia cita amorosa.
