Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Tormented
Devil Doll
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Blood Feast
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Nightmare in Wax
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!
The Beach Girls and the Monster
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Curse of the Stone Hand
Spider Baby
Teenage Zombies
The Bride and the Beast
The Killer Shrews
The Slime People
Stranded At The Drive-In
Schlock horror films are wonderfully trashy, campy, B-movies from an era when you used to take a date to the drive-in to neck (that means make out). Featuring every creature imaginable: zombies, slime people, giant leeches, ocean monsters, aliens, vampires, ghosts and your boring old human villain, these films will schlock you to tears and have you screaming with laughter.
From flying saucers and zombies (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) to decapitated heads (TORMENTED; THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE), tweens eating spiders (SPIDER BABY) and beach party teens dancing to their death (THE BEACH GIRLS AND THE MONSTER), this list should give you all the costume inspiration necessary. Happy Halloween!
Selected Films
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Devil Doll
Grab a good seat and don't look away from the stage, for the Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is about to dazzle London with his eerie mixture of hypnotism and ventriloquism. However, there may be something a little too lifelike about his dummy, Hugo, who has the ability to walk across the stage...Watch Movie
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
After a local slackjaw reports shooting something in the swamp that "weren't nothin' nature put out there," an apparent love-triangle-gone-bad reveals a darker mystery in the Everglades. The 1959 swamp horror ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES is a boilerplate Roger Corman-produced...Watch Movie
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!
A series of disappearances turns out to be linked to a maddened amusement arcade fortuneteller, Madame Estrella, who throws acid in the faces of the men who refuse her, then keeps them as disfigured monsters locked in the back room of her carnival booth. When teen lay-a-bout...Watch Movie
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The Beach Girls and the Monster
A time capsule from one very odd moment in film history when beach-party movies began to lumber, fake-monster-like, into a then-untested realm of horror crossover (with familiar maneuvers from daytime television). Jobbing B-movie actor Jon Hall, in his directorial debut, plays...Watch Movie
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The Killer Shrews
A shortsighted scientist hoping to combat overpopulation tries to develop a method to shrink humans to half-size (there by using up fewer resources) but unwittingly creates monsters out of the shrews once used as test subjects. With no way off of their island compound as a...Watch Movie
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Spider Baby
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of ten or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their...Watch Movie
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Teenage Zombies
Made with little effort and even less money, the '50s cult classic TEENAGE ZOMBIES stands in mockery of every film production that never saw completion or release. Writer/director/producer Jerry Warren, who wrote the script in seven days and shot the film in five on what he claimed was...Watch Movie
