Rare Fantastic Films
Most interesting and forgotten classic horror and fantastic films.
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- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsIrene DunneRicardo CortezJill EsmondA young woman plots astrological revenge on schoolgirls from her past.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsJack HoltFay WrayDorothy BurgessA young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her. Years later, as an adult, she feels a strong compulsion to return to the island to confront her past. Her husband, her daughter, and her nanny go with her, but once back on the island, the woman finds herself elevated by the locals to the stature of a voodoo goddess, and she begins her inevitable descent into madness, with disastrous results for her family.
- DirectorArthur RobisonStarsAnton WalbrookTheodor LoosDorothea WieckPrague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsMichael RedgraveJames MasonBarbara MullenCynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsArlettyMarie DéaFernand LedouxIn medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyIrene DunneVan JohnsonA dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsPierre FresnayJosseline GaëlNoël RoquevertRoland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame, and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. Of course, there is nothing free in this world, and after one year, the devil comes and asks for his due.
- DirectorEdward A. BlattStarsJohn GarfieldPaul HenreidSydney GreenstreetPassengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
- DirectorBasil DeardenAlberto CavalcantiStarsMervyn JohnsGlynis JohnsTom WallsA group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsJohn ClementsGoogie WithersRaymond HuntleyAdapted from a J.B. Priestley play with many of the original actors. The tale of various people who have come to live in an "ideal" city and their hopes and reasons for doing so.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMargaret LockwoodJames MasonBarbara MullenAn elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJohn LoderAudrey LongEdgar BarrierA remake of Richard Connell's famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," about a madman who hunts human prey on his personal island habitat.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsPeter LorreSydney GreenstreetGeraldine FitzgeraldThree strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsLouis HaywardJoan LeslieVirginia FieldOn New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsAnne CrawfordSiobhan McKennaMaxwell ReedEmily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don't, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their men and one woman, Bess Stanforth, is especially disturbed by her. When Dan, a man from Emily's past, shows up and accuses her of having tried to kill, him Beth's suspicions are further aroused, and they're confirmed after Dan is found murdered in a local barn. Beth sets out to find out exactly who Emily is and to prove that she murdered Dan.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsAnton WalbrookEdith EvansYvonne MitchellAn army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsMichel SimonGérard PhilipeNicole BesnardThe Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsGérard PhilipeSuzanne CloutierJean-Roger CaussimonMichel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
- DirectorArthur Maria RabenaltStarsHildegard KnefErich von StroheimTrude HesterbergA scientist creates a beautiful "perfect woman", but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsMarianne HoldHorst BuchholzPierre VaneckA young man in a Bavarian boarding school falls in love with a mysterious girl.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPaul DouglasEva BartokLeslie PhillipsAn American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDonald WolfitVincent BallBarbara ShelleyIn 1870s Transylvania, scientist Dr. Callistratus is put to death by villagers who wrongly believe he's a vampire. However, his horribly disfigured henchman, Carl is on hand to orchestrate a life-saving heart transplant.
- DirectorErnest MorrisStarsLaurence PayneAdrienne CorriDermot WalshWhile called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsJane HyltonPeter DyneleyNanette NewmanA couple wants to buy a house. An inventor owned it and was electrocuted in his laboratory. A later owner had problems with the lights and the appearance of a ghost. A psychic is consulted who reveals the secret behind the house.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsKieron MooreHazel CourtIan HunterPeople are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.