Written by Anthony Hinds Directed by Peter Graham Scott Starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed US Release June 13, 1962 RT 82 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. After always reading and hearing rave reviews for Night Creatures…

Written by David T. Chantler & Lewis Greifer Directed by Quentin Lawrence Starring Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon US Release May 15, 1962 RT 84 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. On December 23, the employees of the Haversham branch…

Written by Jimmy Sangster Directed by Seth Holt Starring Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee US Release Aug. 22, 1961 RT 81 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. Taste of Fear (aka Scream of Fear in the United States)…

Written by Val Guest and Ronald Scott Thorn Directed by Val Guest Starring Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis US Release June 21, 1961 RT 107 min. Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains fundamental plot spoiler. There are two scenes in Stop Me Before I…

Written by Michael Carreras Directed by Roy Ward Baker Starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell US Release March, 1970 RT 100 min. Home Video Warner Bros. Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed. Oh my goodness, what do I make of Moon Zero Two? …

Written by Nigel Kneale Directed by Roy Ward Baker Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover US Release Feb. 16, 1968 RT 97 min. Home Video Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. A decade after Professor Bernard Quatermass appeared in two Hammer Films (The…

Written by Evan Jones Directed by Joseph Losey Starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed US Release July 7, 1965 RT 87 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. What do you make of The Damned, a…

Written by John Clifford Directed by Herk Harvey Starring Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger US Release Sept. 26, 1962 RT 91 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; twist of movie revealed. There’s not much I can write about the cult classic, Carnival of Souls,…

Written by Jess Franco, Peter Welbeck Directed by Jess Franco Starring Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford US Release Sept. 24 1969 RT 94 Home Video Blue Underground Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed… You learn all you need to know about supervillian Fu…

From time to time, Classic Horrors will feature movies released after 1978 when they have a direct connection to those released before 1978.  Beginning in May, 2010, until it expanded its content to include more than just the horror genre as Boom Howdy.com, I wrote a column for Downright Creepy.com called “Remake Rewind.”  With permission of Boom Howdy, we present an…