Max Rosenberg

An overview of the history of Great Britain's Amicus Films, which was a rival of Hammer Studios in the horror field. Included are interviews with company co-founder Max Rosenberg, cameraman Freddie Francis and director Roy Ward Baker, and clips from various Amicus productions.

She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.

Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. England's most successful independent film company, the "fear factory" of Hammer Studios, has a history filled with feuds, censorship battles and streaks of luck both good and bad. Now the legacy of horror returns, featuring interviews with such Hammer legends as Raquel Welch, Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Hazel Court, Martine Beswicke, Freddie Francis, Val Guest and Ray Harryhausen. Plus you'll be treated to behind-the-scenes home movies and nonstop shock scenes from over 40 classic films, including Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Curse of the Werewolf and many more! It's the definitive study of one of the greatest names in horror!

A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.

Insect-like aliens invade a small town. The local teenagers have been watching a sci-fi marathon in the local theater, and from those films they get ideas on how to fight the creatures.

Good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen Tommy (Michael Morgan) tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom (Dame Joan Collins) decides to make a man out of him.

Após vários anos Irena Gallier, uma sensual e jovem mulher, encontra Paul, seu irmão, e descobre horrorizada que pertencem a uma tribo que, na hora do sexo, se transforma em panteras assassinas. Como está apaixonada, mas ainda é virgem, teme em se transformar quando estiver ao lado do diretor do zoológico Oliver Yates, o homem que ama. Paralelamente é assediada pelo irmão, que diz que a única relação sexual possível que diz que ela pode ter um relacionamento incestuoso com ele, assim como aconteceu os pais deles, que também eram irmãos e carregavam a mesma maldição.

Sketchy producers hire an ailing movie star, hoping to cash in on the insurance when he dies.

Três garotos absolutamente normais, Steven, Curtis e Debbie nascem durante um eclipse total. Normais, mas, com um detalhe: os três, aos dez anos, começam uma onda de crimes que põe a cidadezinha da California, onde nasceram, em pânico. Só Timmy e sua irmã Joyce, colegas do trio assassino é que sabem da verdade. Ninguém acredita neles, que são cassados pelos matadores. Os irmãos fogem, mas, são atraídos a uma cidade onde têm de enfrentar os possuídos por uma força maligna numa batalha onde a derrota quer dizer morte. Um filme de arrepiar com as crianças mais sinistras do cinema.

Como único sobrevivente da missão e com o corpo todo coberto de feridas pútridas, ele acorda no leito de um hospital do exército todo enfaixado, com o governo mantendo em sigilo o fracasso da expedição e a morte dos outros dois astronautas, isolando a imprensa e a população dos fatos reais.

Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.

A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely

Um veículo projetado especialmente para perfurar as rochas do solo, faz uma viagem para o núcleo da Terra, encontrando uma misteriosa civilização vivendo em seu interior, além de perigosos animais pré-históricos.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um navio alemão afunda um navio inglês e traz os sobreviventes para bordo. Depois de uma curva errada, o submarino os leva à terra desconhecida de Caprona, onde encontram dinossauros e neandertais.

Recém-recuperado de um colapso nervoso, Toombes se torna o principal suspeito de uma série de assassinatos estranhos cometidos no set de filmagem de um programa de televisão sobre o famoso personagem de filmes ` Dr. Morte' , interpretado por ele.

Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.

Uma antologia de quatro breves histórias de terror que giram em torno de uma loja de antiguidades britânica e seu misterioso proprietário.

In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.

Uma antologia de cinco histórias de horror compartilhadas por cinco homens presos no porão de um prédio de escritórios.

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.

Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to convince her that radical youth have taken over England are planning to do away with "oldies" like her.

Cinco estranhos vão a uma excursão para ver cavernas antigas e se perdem do grupo, mas encontram o sinistro guardião de uma cripta que conta como cada um deles morreu através de cinco histórias.

Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.

Um investigador da Scotland Yard investiga quatro casos misteriosos envolvendo uma casa abandonada.

A 30-year-old man, who has been in a coma since birth, is finally restored to consciousness by a breakthrough brain operation. Although physically an adult, the man is "reborn" in the eye of an infant; the doctors caring for him must teach him to walk, talk and prepare for life in the outside world. Tension builds as he escapes from the hospital, wanders among people who do not realize his identity, and is hunted by the police.

A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.

Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.

A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.

A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.

Para tentar evitar um assalto em Londres, o policial Tom Campbell, por engano, termina dentro da TARDIS, uma máquina de viajem no tempo e espaço criada pelo Dr. Who. Dr.Who, sua filha, neta e Campbell viajam para o futuro e chegam no ano de 2150, encontrando Londres e o mundo inteiro destruídos. Quando começam a investigar, se encontram com alguns sobreviventes, que lhes dizem que a raça alienígena Daleks tomaram conta da Terra e tem planos para mover o planeta inteiro para sua terra natal, onde eles pilharão os seus recursos naturais. Dr. Who vai agora liderar a resistência para impedir que os Daleks tenham êxito em sua missão.

Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.

An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.

Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Mexican Hayride, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Little Giant, In Society, Ride 'Em Cowboy, The Naughty Nineties, Buck Privates Come Home, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Lost in Alaska, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. - Written by Tom Weaver

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.

The story of the rough collie hero, Sunnybank Lad.

The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.

Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.

Jamboree adheres to the usual formula of late-1950s rock&roll films: A plethora of musical numbers linked together by the wispiest of plotlines. Kay Medford heads the cast as manipulative showbiz agent Grace Shaw. Hoping to land pop singer Pete Porter (Paul Carr), Grace connives to break up Pete's romance with female vocalist Honey Wynn (Freda Holloway). But who cares? The audience came to see such musical faves as Fats Domino, Count Basie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jodie Sands, Ron Coby, Slim Whitman, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon, Charlie Gracie and the Four Coins. As a promotional tie-in, Jamboree also features appearances by 21 of North America's top rock-and-roll deejays.

O Barão Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) descobre uma maneira de enganar a morte. Para testar sua descoberta, monta um corpo com pedaços de diferentes cadáveres. O resultado é uma criatura sem nome, irracional e sedenta de morte. Ciência ou loucura?"

A teenage girl, Dori Graham, can't convince her dad to buy her a strapless gown so she decides to get the money together herself in time for the prom.