Horror That You Can Keep
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A rich old woman doesn't want anybody else to have her money if she should happen to die. So, she pays a scientist to develop a method of transferring her mind into a younger body. This movie is also known as Monstrosity.
Director: Joseph Mascelli
Producer: Jack Pollexfen and Dean Dillman Jr.
Audio/Visual: mono, black and white
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Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)
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A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Director: Joseph Green
Writers: Rex Carlton, Joseph Green
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
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After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering, Mary accepts a job in a new town as a church organist, only to be dogged by a mysterious phantom figure that seems to reside in an old run-down pavilion. It is here that Mary must confront the personal demons of her spiritual insouciance.
Director: Herk Harvey
Producer: Herk Harvey
Production Company: Harcourt Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 23 minutes
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A gang plans a heist to take over a small town and rob all the banks. This small budget film has a compelling plot and surprise ending.
Producer: Ferde Grofe
Starring: Richard Egan, Martha Hyer, Rick Jason, Jan Murray
Audio/Visual: sound, color
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For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
Director: James Cruze
Producer: Jonathan Cordish, James Cruze, Henry D. Meyer
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 8 minutes
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A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution.
Director: Jack Pollexfen
Writers: Vy Russell (screenplay) and Sue Dwiggins (screenplay)
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott
Production Company: C.G.K. Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 11 minutes
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A husband and wife team (Harold and Ev) with their lawyer friend, Martin, are skin-diving while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption of oxygen has killed everyone on the island - maybe in the world!
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Robert Towne
Starring: Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, Robert Towne
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 71 minutes
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Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)
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Roger Corman classic about a nerdy flower shop clerk who grows a giant, man-eating plant. Jack Nicholson makes his film debut as a dental patient who loves pain.
Producer: Roger Corman
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Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
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A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts.
Director: Tom Graeff
Producer: Tom Graeff
Production Company: Tom Graeff Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Length: 1 hour, 25 minutes
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13 years before the movie opens, there was a dinner party, at which the 13th guest failed to show up. The master of the manner has died, and left the bulk of his estate to this 13th guest, but nobody knows who that is. Now someone is murdering the remaining guests, and placing their dead bodies at the table, in the same seat they had occupied 13 years before.
Producer: M.H. Hoffman
Director: Albert Ray
Writers: Arthur Hoerl (screenplay), Frances Hyland (screenplay), Armitage Trail (story)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald, Paul Hurst, Erville Alderson
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
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