The Shadow (1933)
The Shadow Kills to Thrill!
Gênero : Mistério
Runtime : 1H 3M
Director : George A. Cooper
Escritor : Terence Egan, H. Fowler Mear
Sinopse
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Quando os Klopek, uma inusitada família se muda para a casa ao lado da de Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) várias situações estranhas começam a surgir e moradores a desaparecer. Restará a Ray e ao resto da população local, descobrir quem são essas pessoas e seus envolvimentos nos atuais acontecimentos.
Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable but now decaying apartment block in Hollywood, and soon realise that a number of young residents have met unusually violent deaths. Before long, Nell makes some disturbing discoveries about the building's manager and her fellow tenants.
Nos anos 1930, na cidade de Nova York, o milionário Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) usa poderes ocultos para se tornar "O Sombra", um misterioso vigilante. Seu objetivo é fazer justiça e impedir que seu arqui-inimigo Shiwan Khan (John Lone), descendente de Genghis Khan, detone uma bomba atômica e domine o mundo. Para isso, o herói vai usar sua habilidades de invisibilidade e de confundir mentes para salvar a cidade ameaçada das mãos desse terrível vilão.
Um casal muda-se com seu bebê recém-nascido para uma nova casa. É uma linda casa antiga que foi totalmente reformada. Antes de dormir, o casal checa a babá-eletrônica que foi instalada no quarto do bebê. Mas eles logo vão descobrir que há mais alguém vivendo naquela casa, alguém cuja presença é sentida toda noite, sempre no quarto do bebê.
Ben e Marian conseguem alugar uma mansão por um valor estranhamente baixo e depois que se mudam para a casa Ben começa a ter explosões de violência, enquanto Marian passa a maior parte do tempo no quarto da velha senhora que tem que cuidar mas que ninguém jamais conheceu. À medida que "acidentes" vão acontecendo a casa parece ficar cada dia mais nova, e seus habitantes não tem como sair.
Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.
Um assassino enlouquecido conhecido como "The Bat" está à solta em uma mansão cheia de pessoas.
A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
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 local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.
Parentes de um milionário excêntrico reúnem-se em sua mansão assustadora no 20º aniversário da sua morte para a leitura de seu testamento.
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where no one will ever find them. Unfortunately, no one will hear their screams either. Turns out, they may not be alone after all. It seems this farmhouse is the site of a horrific urban legend. Now, holed up together with nothing to do but snort, smoke and shoot up, the strung-out "cookers" fall prey to paranoia, private demons and terrifying visions which, whether they are hallucinations or hauntings, are equally terrifying and just as deadly!
A group of teenagers take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead, and the teenagers realize that they're not alone in the mansion.
A group of travelers, stranded at an isolated, fog-bound mansion, are beset upon by the living dead from the adjoining cemetery.
A young museum curator Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) is sent to look at an ancient artefact, discovered in the basement of a stately home in Shropshire. Welcomed into the sprawling manor house by a seemingly hospitable family; Karl (Larry Rew), his wife Evelyn (Babette Barat) and their beautiful daughter Scarlet (Florence Cady), but all is not what it seems, as a dark and terrifying secret hangs over them.
Most of the film takes place in an old mansion where the characters participate in a séance while a storm rages outside. During their stay, the film uses an extensive flashback structure to reveal the various criminal acts that each have perpetrated. The man leading the seance (Luciano Pigozzi, the "Italian Peter Lorre") seems intent on holding them responsible for their various crimes, and his seemingly supernatural knowledge of their past gradually cracks the facade of each one. A classic Italian Gothic from Antonio Margheriti. German/Italian co-production, 'old dark house' style.
While sorting her dead grandmother's affairs, a young woman boards in a southern mansion and soon discovers the matriarch may desire more than just her company.
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.