Feature Films K to O | Passthemarmalade

PRE-2000

THE KILLER TONGUE (Alberto Sciamma 1998) - Anglo-Spanish production from Christopher (HELLRAISER) Figg, delivering exactly what the title promises.

KILLER'S MOON (Alan Birkinshaw 1978) - four escapees from a high security psychiatric ward, spaced out on experimental drugs, encounter a stranded bus-load of nubile fourth-formers...

KILLING TIME (David Attwood 1990) - feature-length BBC production, with Pip Donaghy as a Dennis Nielsen-type loner who takes in, befriends, and murders a homeless teenager.

KISS OF THE VAMPIRE (Don Sharp 1962) - Hammer fang fare sans Dracula, but pretty spectacular nonetheless; fabulous climax involving hordes of bats swooping down on the vampire sect.

KONGA (John Lemont 1961) - Michael Gough meets a giant gorilla...

POST-2000

KANNIBAL (Richard Driscoll 2001) - Linnea Quigley and Eileen Daly star in a poor cash-in on Ridley Scott's HANNIBAL. Director Driscoll (THE COMIC) appears under the pseudonym 'Steven Crane'. Filmed in London, Atlanta, New York, and Florence.

KILL KEITH (Andy Thompson 2011) - D-list celebrities in contention for a breakfast TV presenting slot are bumped off by a killer. Featuring Keith Chegwin, Russell Grant, Joe Pasquale, and Vanessa Feltz as themselves, with Tony Blackburn as a Tony Blackburn impersonator (someone who looks nothing like him plays Tony!). Lead actress Susannah Fielding went on to a more prestigious but very similar role a few years later, hosting spoof small screen magazine show 'This Time With Alan Partridge'

KILL LIST (Ben Wheatley 2011) - something of a modern classic, as two PULP FICTION-style hitmen (Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley) find that they are in way over their heads during their current assignment. The crime movie trappings gradually give way to faux pagan folk-horror and a weird parade and planned sacrifice at the estate of a right wing Member of Parliament. A much-misunderstood film, far from the 'WICKER MAN rip-off' that many have accused it of being.

KILLER STORIES (Joe Newton 2011) - 106-minute low budget anthology compiled from Jason Impey's short horror films, with Jason using a (Joe D'Amato inspired?) pseudonym for this release.

KILLERKILLER (Pat Higgins 2006) - "the public call them murderers…she calls them prey". From the director of TRASHHOUSE, a new horror film shot back-to-back with HELLBRIDE during the summer of 2006.

KILLERSAURUS (Steve Lawson 2015) - scientist is coerced by the military to create a Tyrannosaurus Rex which can be used as a weapon in battle.

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos 2017) - arthouse drama starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, a UK/Ireland co-production. Mysterious teenager seeks revenge on the surgeon who failed to save his father - telling him that his entire family will be paralyzed, then starve, then bleed from the eyes, before dying, unless the surgeon chooses to kill one of the family as an act of balance.

KLAUS: THE DEVIL'S PRIMATE (S.N. Sibley 2019) - a killer ape, ninjas, and mercenaries are among the elements of this no-budget 70-minute horror comedy made for under £200.

KNIFE EDGE (Antony Hickox 2009) - gaslighting thriller or supernatural story? Wall Street broker returns to live in the UK but her new home in the country holds a disturbing secret. Her husband tries to exploit her concerns by making her think she is insane; meanwhile, her young son has befriended a boy with the same name as a murder victim killed in the property thirty years earlier...

KNIGHT OF THE DEAD (Mark Atkins 2013) - "Assassins pursue crusading knights escorting the Holy Grail through plague-ridden countryside. When the knights enter a forbidden valley to escape their pursuers, a horde of flesh-eating zombies attacks them". Shot in Snowdonia.

K-SHOP (Dan Pringle 2016) - left in charge of his dad's kebab shop, Salah (Ziad Abaza) begins to murder abusive and drunken customers, and then serves up their flesh. Saturday night vigilantism meets Sweeney Todd.

PRE-2000

LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (Ken Russell 1988) - wild, outrageous adaptation of Bram Stoker's 'other' novel, concerning a legendary cavern-dwelling monster worm. An excuse for Ken to film Catherine Oxenberg in her underwear and to pack his movie with as much juvenile phallic imagery as possible...

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (Kevin Connor 1974) - Doug McClure meets cheap dinosaurs in this undemanding adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel. Co-scripted by Michael Moorcock.

LAST DAY AT THE BEACH (Brian Davies 1989) - 42-minute video featurette from Davies' 'Videas Films', distributed by mail order. Coastal hotel is due to be sold off to an American buyer, but the staff takes drastic steps to keep things just so...

THE LAST NIGHT (Michael J.Murphy 1982) - bloody theatrical mayhem in the companion piece to Murphy's INVITATION TO HELL.

THE LATIN QUARTER (Vernon Sewell 1945) - one of several Sewell films based on the play 'L'Angoisse', this time with the old plaster-covered-corpses routine well to the fore.

THE LAWNMOWER MAN (Brett Leonard 1991) - futuristic virtual reality thriller, loosely based on Stephen King’s short horror story. U.S./U.K. co-production.

THE LEGACY (Richard Marquand 1979) - a country house, a diabolic coven, and a string of strange deaths. Roger Daltrey chokes on a chicken bone.

LEGEND (Ridley Scott 1985) - awful fairytale fantasy, almost redeemed by Tim Curry's panto turn as the Lord Of Darkness.

THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (John Hough 1973) - scary film version of Richard Matheson's 'psychic investigators in a haunted house' novel. Probably the director's finest hour. And just look who the near-legendary Emeric Belasco turns out to be!

LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES (Roy Ward Baker 1974) - Hammer horror goes East in this enjoyable chop-socky collaboration with Shaw Brothers studios.

LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF (Freddie Francis 1975) - more old-fashioned Gothic from Tyburn Films, with David Rintoul behind the fur and fangs this time.

LEGEND OF THE WITCHES (Malcolm Leigh 1969) - witchcraft documentary, a Negus-Fancey production.

LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper 1985) - based on Colin Wilson's 'Space Vampires', this lively sf shocker was pilloried at the time but contains myriad delights - Mathilde May nude, Patrick Stewart speaking in a female voice, people turning into shrivelled zombies every couple of hours, and the near-destruction of London!

THE LIFETAKER (Michael Papas 1975) - a pre-'Blue Peter' Peter Duncan stars in this sex drama with horror movie overtones, in which a former mercenary plots ritualistic revenge on his wife and her lover.

LINK (Richard Franklin 1986) - trained chimpanzee, about to be put down in the name of science, goes berserk. Terence Stamp and Elisabeth Shue star in this one, set in Scotland.

LISZTOMANIA (Ken Russell 1975) - supposedly a biopic of Franz Liszt, this wild musical fantasy turns into a bizarre horror film with Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas) revealed as a vampire attepting to create an Aryan Master Race via Frankenstein-like experiments. Voodoo doll; Liszt hired by the Pope to perform an exorcism; Wagner revived as a Hitler/Frankenstein-monster hybrid; Liszt saving the day by piloting a music-powered rocket from Heaven down to Earth!

LIVING DOLL (Peter Litten, George Dugdale 1989) - Dick Randall produced this everyday story of necrophilia, set in New York.

THE LODGER (Alfred Hitchcock 1926)

THE LODGER (Maurice Elvey 1932) - Ivor Novello, star of Hitchcock's earlier version, returns for (and co-scripts) the sound remake.

THE LORELEI (Terry Johnson 1990) - visions, premonitions, and strange disappearances affect a schoolteacher in Wales. Disappointing supernatural drama made for the BBC 'Screen Two' slot.

THE LOST CONTINENT (Michael Carreras 1968) - daft Hammer monster fun based on Dennis Wheatley's 'Uncharted Seas'.

LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (Jimmy Sangster 1971) - Yutte Stensgaard sports the fangs this time in the weakest, by far, of Hammer's lesbian vampire outings.

POST-2000

LADY MACBETH (William Oldroyd 2016) - Breakthrough for Florence Pugh in the title role of this loose adaptation of 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District' by Nikolai Leskov. Young woman marries into wealth but is left alone for long periods of time by her much older husband. She embarks on a passionate affair, and the tale takes a turn into the sort of fiendish plotting-and-murder territory once reserved for Tod Slaughter. First rate period penny dreadful with Pugh and Christopher Fairbank outstanding.

LADY OF THE DARK: GENESIS OF THE SERPENT VAMPIRE (Philip Gardiner 2011) - young woman transformed into bloodthirsty monster. One of the earliest of the torrent of dreadful quickie horror films churned out by Gardiner.

THE LAST DAYS ON MARS (Ruairi Robinson 2013) - astronauts versus zombie-like creatures on the Red Planet. Irish/UK co-production starring Liev Schreiber and Elias Koteas.

LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST (Matthew Owen 2004) - 41-minute featurette from Blue Dog films, described as a "gothic horror thriller". Ref: Paul Higson.

THE LAST HORROR MOVIE (Julian Richards 2003) Wedding photographer doubles as a mass killer who films the murders he commits. From the director of DARKLANDS.

THE LAST HOUSE ON CEMETERY LANE (Andrew Jones 2015) - screenwriter in a Welsh haunted house.

THE LAST MAN (Alex Murray 2010) - "hunting trip turns to horror as seven lifelong friends are forced to face their fears in a remote woodland". Talky, cabin-set low-budgeter, touted rather hopefully as Britain's answer to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Another one...

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Edgar Wright 2021) - young fashion student struggling to settle in London is somehow whisked back to the swinging 60s, where she has a strange connection to an aspiring pop singer. Savage murders, terrifying apparitions, secrets, lies, bodies under the floorboards, and more, in this captivating multi-layered drama which combines psycho-horror, time travel, and the supernatural in ways unlike anything since THE SHINING.

THE LAST SEVEN (Imran Naqvi 2010) - in a post-apocalyptic London, the last seven survivors are hunted down by a demonic power. starring Danny Dyer as 'the Angel of Death'.

THE LAST SHOWING (Phil Hawkins 2014) - Robert Englund plays a former cinema projectionist who kidnaps a couple in the theatre and sets out to make his own real-life horror movie.

THE LAST SIGN (Douglas Law 2003) - Andie McDowell plays a woman haunted by the ghosts of her abusive father and her late husband. Canadian/U.K. co-production.

THE LAST ZOMBI HUNTER (S.N. Sibley 2010) - Sibley's 'Axel Falcon' character (played by Ken Mood) appears yet again (after such films as A HOME FOR THE BULLETS and A GRAVE FOR THE CORPSES) in another zombie epic.

LD 50 (Simon de Selva 2003) - a group of animal rights activists are trapped in a disused lab, to become the subject of strange experiments. Starring Tom Hardy and former Spice Girl Melanie Brown.

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (Stephen Norrington 2003) - based on the Alan Moore/Kevin O’Neill comic book. Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, vampiric Mina Harker, Dr.Jekyll, Dorian Gray and the Invisible Man team up to save the world from a 19th-century supervillain.

THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE (Steve Bendelack 2005) - big-screen outing for the inhabitants of t.v.'s Royston Vasey.

THE LEFT HAND PATH (Michael Fenton Crenshaw 2018) - "The film is about friends on a weekend break and faced with a sinister chain of events including ancient demons" - Gravesend Reporter website. Low budgeter shot in 2014 for £3000.

LEGACY OF THORN (MJ Dixon 2016) - psycho offering from Mycho Entertainment Group. "4 years ago on February 29th... Jessica Lawrence and her friends lived a nightmare that has left her pursued from that moment by the unstoppable Killer known as Thorn... Four years on, Jessica and a band of survivors from that night make an attempt to stop him once and for all... but how can you stop what can't be stopped?"

THE LEGEND OF THE 5IVE (James P. Weatherall 2012) - documentary filmmaker Julia joins 'Paranormal Investigations Inc.' for their live Halloween special, investigating the Screaming Spectres of Emerson Farm - the spirits of five people who were killed 300 years ago, with their bodies arranged in the form of a pentagram.

LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS (Phil Claydon 2009) - James Corden and Matthew Horne star in horror comedy, as two friends who find themselves in a Norfolk village where the females become lesbian vampires on their 18th birthday

THE LESSON (Ruth Platt 2015) - two disruptive schoolboys are abducted and tortured by a teacher who can take no more of their behaviour.

LET ME IN (Matt Reeves 2010) - Hammer Films' remake of the Swedish vampire hit LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Some fans and critics found this English-language retread to be even better than the original. US/UK co-production.

LET US PREY (Brian O' Malley 2014) - Liam Cunningham and Pollyanna McIntosh star in this tense and bloody shocker set in a small Scottish police station; charismatic, mysterious stranger known only as 'Six' carries a notebook containing names, speaks of Old Testament vengeance, and seems to have supernatural powers.and the ability to induce violent behaviour in others. Is he a drifter, a killer, a god or a devil?

LIE STILL (Sean Hogan 2005) - man moves into bed-sit flat but experiences horrific nightmares and frightening occurrences. "A kind of M R Jamesian take on REPULSION… an extended variant of the moderately creepy old-dark-house chillers that used to crop up regularly on 1970s British TV" - 'Neil Young's Film Lounge' website.

LIGHTHOUSE (Simon Hunter 2000) - bunch of shipwrecked prisoners and their guards are stalked by psycho-killer at a remote lighthouse.

THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM (Juan Carlos Medina 2016) - based on Peter Ackroyd's novel 'Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem', this attempt to revive the vintage period-set shockers of British horror's heyday turned out to be a rather dull misfire. In Victorian London, the residents of Limehouse believe that a spate of recent murders is the work of the legendary Golem, but a police investigation reveals a more conventional - albeit surprising - killer is responsible.

LITTLE DEATHS (Simon Rumley, Sean Hogan, Andrew Parkinson 2011) - anthology of stories from three of the most challenging and exciting directors on the modern British horror scene. 'House & Home', 'Bitch', and 'Mutant Tool' are the weird tales.

LITTLE MONSTERS (Abe Forsythe 2019) - Australian/UK/US co-production - a school trip is disrupted when an incident at an army base sparks a zombie invasion, with the kids and their adult supervisors right in the middle of it.

LITTLE OTIK (Jan Svankmajer 2000) - childless couple fashion a 'baby' from a tree-stump; it comes to life and grows into a killer monstrosity with a voracious appetite. Svankmajer combines an old European folk-tale with echoes of his own DOWN TO THE CELLAR to great effect in this lengthy but absorbing feature. Czech/U.K., produced by Keith Griffiths and co-funded by FilmFour.

THE LITTLE STRANGER (Lenny Abrahamson 2018) - rather slow gothic drama set in the 1940s, with strange figures appearing and odd noises occurring in an old run-down hall. Theories about poltergeist activity (emanating from a living person as opposed to a dead one) and telekinesis are put forward.

THE LITTLE VAMPIRE (Uli Edel 2000) - young boy whose family moves from America to Scotland befriends a nine-year-old vampire. Fantasy comedy based on the children’s books by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg; starring Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Lipnicki and Alice Krige. U.K./German co-production.

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (Simon Rumley 2006) - English lord is called away to discuss the sale of his estate, leaving his bed-ridden wife and mentally-disturbed, drug-taking son in the house. The son decides it is his task to make his mother 'well' again… "A nightmarish descent into hell" - Ain't It Cool News.

LOCKED (Niki Cornish 2022) - “a film noir horror short (running time 40 minutes) written and directed by Niki Cornish and filmed by blind photographer, Ian Treherne. Starring Wendy Morgan, with a cast and crew of Niki's unique friends, this stylish, cinematic motion picture uses magnificent musical notes and stark lighting effects to lure the audience into a chilling anecdote of a fallen soldier's horrifying revenge.”

THE LODGE (Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala 2019) - woman and her stepchildren are trapped in a cabin during a blizzard, and must "fight for their lives against an unseen evil force". US/UK production from the 21st century incarnation of Hammer Films.

LONDON VOODOO (Robert Pratten 2003) - man moves his family from New York to London; his wife inexplicably becomes heightened in terms of sexuality and violence. Independent supernatural thriller from Zen Films.

LONG TIME DEAD (Marcus Adams 2001) - Lukas Haas stars in U.S./U.K. production; bunch of young Londoners dabble with a Ouija board, unleashing a demonic force which begins to kill them one by one.

LORD OF TEARS (Lawrie Brewster 2013) - schoolteacher has visions of a being called The Owl Man; comes to realise that this is the physical manifestation of the god Moloch, whom his parents worshipped and to whom he was to have been sacrificed, before the decision to kill a nanny instead.

LORDS OF CHAOS (Jonas Åkerlund 2018) - as disaffected young Scandinavian teenagers form their own rock bands in late 80s Oslo, the genre of 'True Norwegian Black Metal' begins to emerge; one extreme vocalist commits a ghastly suicide, and rivalries then start to consume the scene, ultimately leading to brutal murders. And then there's the spate of church-burnings... what's more, it's all true (or loosely based on truth, at least). Excellent music biopic-cum-horror movie, a Swedish/UK co-production with a mainly American cast including Rory Culkin.

THE LOST (Neil Jones 2009) - apparently shot over just 48 hours, this movie (budgeted at £3000) has three WW2 soldiers lost in a forest, running out of food and water, and eventually losing their senses and turning on one another - is the woodland somehow influencing their actions? Use of a Peter Cushing spoken-word recording from 1991 entitled 'No White Plains' sparked a bit of fan interest ('Peter's posthumous return to horror', that sort of thing).

LOVE BITE (Andy De Emmony 2012) - young lad falls for an American girl who arrives to stay in the seaside town where he lives - but soon after her arrival, reports of werewolf activity begin to escalate...

LYCANTHROPY (Kevin McDonagh 2006) - detective investigates a series of murders in this nightclub-set thriller that links ancient werewolf myths to modern-day drug culture.

PRE-2000

MACBETH (Roman Polanski 1971) - Jon Finch and Francesca Annis star in Polanski's grisly, post-Manson take on Shakespeare's 'Scottish play'.

MADHOUSE (Jim Clark 1974) - campy romp with Vincent Price as the face behind horror movie sensation 'Doctor Death', surrounded by tragedy and disaster on the set of his new film.

THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK (Michael Powell 1936) - aristocratic young female is abducted by a psycho for use in his fiendish scientific experiments.

THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT (Vernon Sewell 1961) - gripping crime thriller with two young tearaway hoodlums coshing a bookie for the briefcase of takings chained to his wrist, finding they are unable to rid themselves of the body. Builds to a hysterical fever pitch, climaxing unforgettably with an urban variant on the frantic finale from Val Lewton's THE BODY SNATCHER. Incredible.

THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND (Robert Stevenson 1936) - decent Karloff mad scientist outing with John Balderston and Sidney Gilliatt involved on script duties.

THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (Terence Fisher 1959) - Anton Diffring as a doctor who has discovered the secret of eternal youth in this splendid, very underrated Hammer chiller. Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, and a great fiery finale - what more could you want?

THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF (Basil Dearden 1970) - doppelganger thriller with Roger Moore in the title role.

THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY (W.Lee Wilder, Charles Saunders 1957) - tycoon with a brain tumour seeks a new head - and scientists just happen to have revived the bonce of the renowned prophet Nostradamus...

MANIAC (Michael Carreras 1963) - Hammer psychothriller set in France and involving murder by oxy-acetylene torch.

MARIA MARTEN (Walter West 1928) - the notorious Red Barn murder.

MARIA MARTEN: OR THE MURDER IN THE RED BARN (Milton Rosmer 1935) - Tod Slaughter barnstorms his way on to the big screen in this ripe version of the old melodrama

MARY REILLY (Stephen Frears 1996) - John Malkovich and Julia Roberts re-do the Jekyll and Hyde story, told from the perspective of the good doctor's maid. Based on Valerie Martin's novel.

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (Kenneth Branagh 1994) - unnecessary re-telling which failed to please either horror buffs or the costume drama devotees at whom it appears aimed.

THE MASKS OF DEATH (Roy Ward Baker 1984) - Cushing as Holmes once more in a feature-length Tyburn t.v. production.

MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (Roger Corman 1964) - classic Poe adaptation with Vincent Price and Jane Asher.

THE MEDIUM (Vernon Sewell 1934)

THE MEDUSA TOUCH (Jack Gold 1978) - Richard Burton hams it up as a telekinetic master of disaster, wreaking havoc from his hospital bed in an over-the-top psychic chiller.

MR.CORBETT'S GHOST (Danny Huston 1986) - with the director's illustrious father, John, playing the Devil in a Faustian fantasy-drama.

MR.FROST (Philippe Setbon 1990) - French/English co-production with Jeff Goldblum as an asylum inmate who has murdered 24 people and who claims to be the Devil himself.

THE MONKEY'S PAW (Sidney Northcote 1915) - early silent version of W.W.Jacobs' classic horror tale.

THE MONKEY'S PAW (Manning Haynes 1923)

THE MONKEY'S PAW (Norman Lee 1948) - somewhat padded, semi-comic version but with an effective and creepy climax.

THE MONSTER CLUB (Roy Ward Baker 1980) - somewhat misguided attempt by Milton Subotsky to produce an anthology "horror film for children". Final story with Stuart Whitman trapped in a fog-bound town full of ghouls has its moments. Vincent Price plays a vampire, John Carradine plays author R.Chetwynd-Hayes.

MOONCHILD (Michael J. Murphy 1989) - woman employed as an assistant to an expert on occult matters discovers there may be more to the appointment than she originally bargained for. 16mm feature shot by the elusive director of INVITATION TO HELL and TORMENT.

MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE (John Gilling 1952) - notorious comedy pitting Arthur Lucan against Bela Lugosi and a clunky robot; entertaining, if you're in the right mood!

THE MUMMY (Terence Fisher 1959) - action-packed Hammer version with Christopher Lee sporting the bandages.

THE MUMMY'S SHROUD (John Gilling 1967) - more Hammer Egyptology, sold with the unforgettable tag-line "Beware The Beat Of The Cloth-Wrapped Feet!"

MUMSY NANNY SONNY AND GIRLY (Freddie Francis 1970) - little-seen Francis shocker about a strange family who kidnap victims for use in their lethal fun and games.

MURDER BY DECREE (Bob Clark 1978) - following in the footsteps of A STUDY IN TERROR, Sherlock Holmes meets the Ripper once more, this time with royal connections...

MURDER BY ROPE (George Pearson 1936) - executed criminal seems to return from the dead to kill judge and hangman.

MURDER ELITE (Claude Whatham 1985) - Billie Whitelaw as stable owner who is plotted against by her sister and an employee; meanwhile, a maniac killer stalks the countryside. A vintage James Bernard score helps this old-fashioned horror thriller from Tyburn, also starring Ali McGraw and (in something of a nod to his characters in TWISTED NERVE and ENDLESS NIGHT) Hywel Bennett.

THE MUTATIONS (Jack Cardiff 1974) - unbelievable and highly entertaining tat with Donald Pleasence as mad scientist turning people into giant plants; Julie Ege, a pre-'Doctor Who' Tom Baker, and a supporting cast of true-life freaks join the fun.

MUTE WITNESS (Anthony Waller 1994) - mute make-up girl on a horror film shooting in Russia discovers the crew filming snuff footage after hours - and must run for her life. Tense thriller, rather let down by too many dull subplots.

MY LEARNED FRIEND (Basil Dearden, Will Hay 1943) - the final film of master comic Hay, a macabre comedy thriller in which he plays the inept defence counsel of mass killer Mervyn Johns, his client carrying out his threat to dispose of everyone connected with the trial. Exciting climax on the face of Big Ben.

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (Cy Endfield 1961) - more outsize Harryhausen marvels in this fantasy adventure based on Jules Verne.

MYSTERY AT THE VILLA ROSE (Leslie Hiscott 1930)

MYSTERY OF THE MARIE CELESTE (Denison Clift 1936) - Bela Lugosi on board the famous vessel in this early Hammer production.

POST-2000

MADHOUSE (William Butler 2003) - Lance Henriksen stars in this U.S./U.K. co-production, a shocker set in a mental health institution.

MALEVOLENT (Olaf de Fleur Johannesson 2018) - "A brother-sister team that fabricates paranormal encounters for cash gets more than it bargains for when it takes a job in an estate with real paranormal activity". MIDSOMMAR/LADY MACBETH star Florence Pugh heads the cast.

THE MAN IN A HAT (David C.G. Hare and Andrew Forbes 2006) - young man contacts women via the internet, arranges to meet them...with murder as his intention. Stalking in the woods; "grave yard scene"; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS-like abduction/torture.

MANDY THE HAUNTED DOLL (Jamie Weston 2018) - young girl is locked in a church and freezes to death - decades later, her spirit has possessed the doll she was clutching, which proceeds to go through the usual Chucky-on-a-shoestring motions.

MANFISH (Marc Coleman 2021) - a Gill-man like sea creature emerges on to the Canvey Island shoreline - and is seen as a money-spinning opportunity by the local low-lifes and drug dealers, entering a domestic dwelling and initially being kept in the bath before being put to work gluing shells on to ornamental jewellery boxes! Odd comic British take on THE SHAPE OF WATER, complete with interspecies homosexuality! The world premiere was held at the 2022 Horror-on-Sea festival, at which many in the audience selected this as their favourite film screened at the event.

MASK OF THORN (MJ Dixon 2018) - girl is kidnapped on her 16th birthday, but her abductors don't realise that she is also the target of Mycho Entertainment Group's 80s-style time-travelling pychokiller Thorn. Slaughter-filled origin story for the character previously featured in LEGACY OF THORN.

MATRIARCH (Scott Vickers 2018) - following a car accident, a couple are taken in by a family living in a farnhouse - they seem particularly interested in the fact that the woman is 9 months pregnant, and there's something of a weird vibe to their own family unit... tense and twisty Scottish backwoods horror thriller.

MESSAGES (David Fairman 2006) - pathologist seems to be receiving contact from his dead wife via computer; meanwhile, a maniac is kidnapping and torturing young girls. Jeff Fahey stars in this horror thriller scripted by renowned Hammer Films expert Wayne Kinsey.

MILLENNIAL KILLER (Sam Mason Bell 2019) - amateur 71-minute feature - faux estate agent shows young potential buyers around a rental flat and then imprisons or murders them there.

MINDFLESH (Robert Pratten 2008) - London cabbie becomes obsessed with a woman he keeps spotting during his travels. They eventually begin a relationship - but he also then starts seeing a monster from another dimension, which may or may not have a connection with the alluring lady. SF/body-horror from the director of LONDON VOODOO.

MINDHUNTERS (Renny Harlin 2004) - FBI psychological profiler trainees must track down a serial killer in their midst during a training exercise. Action/horror fare from one-time Hollywood golden boy Harlin, a US/UK/Dutch/Finnish co-production shot in Holland.

MINOTAUR (Jonathan English 2005) - Rutger Hauer, Tony Todd and Tom Hardy star in film based on the legend of Theseus, with young victims being sacrificed to the bull-like monster of the title.

THE MIRROR (Edward Boase 2014) - found-footage horror - three friends take up the James Randl Foundation's Million Dollar Challenge to obtain proof of the paranormal - they purchase a purportedly 'haunted' mirror and set up cameras to record activity around it.

MOLLY CROWS (Ray Wilkes 2013) - shot in Burslem on a reported £700 budget. "Jess, a bullied 7-year-old girl, is able to communicate with spirits. When she is brutalized, vengeful spirits arrive to seek revenge until the townspeople commit a terrible act"

MOM AND DAD (Brian Taylor 2017) - outrageous horror comedy with parents suddenly getting an unstoppable urge to murder their children. Ideal fare for Nicolas Cage to give one of his grandstanding performances. US/UK co-production with involvement from thefyzz production company.

MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards 2010) - much-publicised debut feature by Edwards, attracting attention because of its state-of-the-art visual effects all created by the director in his own bedroom. Following the crash of a NASA space probe, huge alien life forms appear around the US/Mexican border - we follow a couple attempting to make their way from Mexico to Texas.

MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (Tom Green 2014) - disappointing sequel to Gareth Edwards' MONSTERS, following US soldiers on duty in the Middle East, and focusing far more on the military aspects than any science fiction, horror or monster angle. The creatures from MONSTERS appear every now and then but to little impact.

MOSCOW ZERO (María Lidón 2006) - US/UK/Spain/Russia co-production starring Vincent Gallo and Joss Ackland. Rescue team seeks a missing anthropologist in catacombs below the Moscow streets - the caverns are inhabited by demons.

THE MOST ASSASSINATED WOMAN IN THE WORLD (Franck Ribière 2018) - Belgian film made for Netflix, co-produced by Scotland's Sinner Films. A sort of combined biography of/homage to real-life Grand Guignol star Paula Maxa, and a slasher horror/mystery - a 21st century THEATRE OF DEATH?

MR BLADES (Thomas Lee Rutter 2007) - early video feature (70 minutes) from the director of BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM. "Somebody is murdering all of Jeff's friends but who? Strange nightmares begin to taunt him until he finally discovers the true identity of MR BLADES. Possibly the only Giallo-natured slasher to come from the West Midlands, UK: MR BLADES boasts some truly disgusting scenes of carnage"

MUM & DAD (Steven Sheil 2007) - Dido Miles and Perry Benson are chilling as a Fred & Rose West-like couple in this tale of a Polish airport cleaner who is lured to and entrapped within their house of horrors.

MUMMIES IN HERTFORD (Michael Curtis 2011) - 103-minute home-made feature, on a budget of £1000. Guitarist Curtis wanted to make a movie to showcase his songs, resulting in this, the first of a 'horrors-in-Hertford' series with ZOMBIES IN HERTFORD following in 2015.

THE MUMMY REBORN (Dan Allen 2019) - robbers raid an antique store and find an ancient mummy and an amulet. What they don't realise is that if the amulet is separated from the mummy, the bandaged one will do anything to retrieve it...

MY BLOODY BANJO (Liam Regan 2017) - meek and humiliated office worker Peltzer Arbuckle is persuaded by a devilish imaginary friend to exact terrible revenge on his colleagues and tormentors. ESCHATRILOGY director Damian Morter plays the imaginary 'Ronnie' in this horror comedy, which screened as BANJO at a few festivals before its title change.

MY GUARDIAN ANGEL (Mumtaz Yildirimlar 2016) - indie horror feature (100 minutes) of twin girls (one autistic, the other dead) and their abusive parents.

MY LITTLE BROTHER’S A VAMPIRE (Garnet Mae 2003) - shot in London and Hastings by Australian director Mae.

MY LITTLE EYE (Marc Evans 2001) - five young people must spend 6 months in a spooky old house, their every move watched by CCTV cameras, in order to pick up a big money prize – but events take a horrific turn. U.K. production, set in the States and filmed in Canada, from the director of RESURRECTION MAN.

MYSOPHOBIA (Matthew D. Muller 2004) - 80-minute British horror thriller inspired by Italian 'giallo' movies.

PRE-2000

NAKED EVIL (Stanley Goulder 1966) - West Indian voodoo practitioner operates from the basement of a student hostel.

NAKED LUNCH (David Cronenberg 1991) - William Burroughs' 'unfilmable' novel hits the screen as only Cronenberg knows how, mugwumps, centipedes, Benway (Roy Scheider) and all. U.K./Canadian.

THE NANNY (Seth Holt 1965) - Bette Davis in the first of her Hammer roles.

NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE SAND (Fred Burnley 1972) - rather odd coastal zombie romance, based on a novel by ITN newsreader Gordon Honeycombe.

NIGHT, AFTER NIGHT, AFTER NIGHT. (Lewis J.Force 1969) - psychotic transvestite judge murders prostitutes. Sleazy affair, directed under a pseudonym by Lindsay Shonteff.

THE NIGHT CALLER (John Gilling 1965) - another alien invader.

NIGHT CREATURES (Peter Graham Scott 1962) - the story of smuggler Dr.Syn, here masquerading as Hammer horror - eerie scenes of the pirate rogues riding their luminous, skeletal horses through the night.

THE NIGHT DIGGER (Alastair Reid 1971) - psychological chiller scripted by Roald Dahl.

NIGHT HAIR CHILD (James Kelly 1971) - preposterous incest-and-murder fare from Harry Alan Towers, with OLIVER! star Mark Lester as the young man causing all the fuss.

THE NIGHT HAS EYES (Leslie Arliss 1942) - dramatic chiller set on the stormy Yorkshire moors - man suspects he is a killer influenced by the appearance of the full moon. With James Mason.

NIGHT MUST FALL (Karel Reisz 1964) - axe murders are the name of the game in this angry-young-man revamp of Emlyn Williams' play, previously filmed in 1937.

THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP (Leslie Norman 1954) - 'Twilight Zone' type feature from Ealing as a passenger on an air flight from Hong Kong gradually realises he has already experienced the journey in a dream, with the trip ending in calamity.

NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT (Terence Fisher 1967)

NIGHT OF THE DEMON (Jacques Tourneur 1958) - from M.R.James' 'Casting The Runes'. Produced by Hal Chester.

NIGHT OF THE EAGLE (Sidney Hayers 1961) - modern-day witchcraft tale adapted from Fritz Leiber's 'Conjure Wife'.

NIGHT STALKERS (Wayne Hargood 1995) - werewolf movie featuring an all-deaf cast, shot in Liverpool and London on a tiny budget of just $600.

NIGHT TRAIN TO MURDER (Joe McGrath 1984) - much-loved comic duo Morecambe & Wise starred in this t.v. movie which re-hashes all the horror-mystery clichés familiar from THE BAT and THE CAT AND THE CANARY, with sliding panels, elaborate disguises, eyeless portraits, and murders galore in an old dark house setting. You’ve seen and heard it all before but it’s good fun.

NIGHT WATCH (Brian G.Hutton 1973) - Elizabeth Taylor as a neurotic who begins to glimpse dead bodies in the house opposite her own.

NIGHTBEAST (1990) - feature-length remake of Don Dohler's infamous U.S. cheapie, the debut film from Yorkshire satirical comedy troupe 'Smile Orange'. Ref: 'Fantastic Films Weekend 2005' pages at www.nmpft.org.uk

NIGHTBREED (Clive Barker 1990) - innocent murder suspect finds himself in Midian, a mythical world populated by monsters; meanwhile, the real killer, his psychiatrist (a flesh-crawling turn from David Cronenberg) is still at work. Disparate genre elements are well pulled together by Barker in this ambitious horror fantasy.

THE NIGHTCOMERS (Michael Winner 1971) - ill-advised 'prequel' to the events of Henry James' 'The Turn Of The Screw', with Marlon Brando as Quint.

NIGHTMARE (Freddie Francis 1964)

NIGHTMARE WEEKEND (Henry Sala 1986) - scientist creates a method of converting objects into silver spheres, which in turn fly down the throats of victims to transform them into computer-controlled zombies. U.S./U.K./French co-production, overloaded with softcore sex scenes. Produced by the notorious Bachoo Sen.

NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (Peter Sasdy 1972) - first-rate chiller from Christopher Lee's short-lived Charlemagne production company - an orphanage is the focus for a bizarre 'eternal life' scheme. Scene-stealing performance by Diana Dors in unstoppable form.

POST-2000

NAILED (Adrian O'Connell 2006) two burglars break into a house, only to find a bandage-covered man lying on a bed… that's the starting point for Northern Irish horror film set in Brooklyn but shot in Belfast, the plot of which apparently takes a turn for the supernatural.

NAILS (Dennis Bartok 2017) - Shauna Macdonald plays a woman paralyzed following an accident, who claims that she is being menaced by a deadly, evil presence in her hospital room. Pretty good little chiller, with comic Ross Noble notable in a supporting role as a helpful and friendly nurse's assistant.

NATURE MORTE (Paul Burrows 2006) - killer who specialises in murdering women and painting their portraits commits suicide after claiming his tenth victim; but the French police have a later painting, seemingly emanating from an island off the coast of Thailand...

NAZI ZOMBIE DEATH TALES (James Eaves, Pat Higgins, Alan Ronald 2012) - filmed as BATTLEFIELD DEATH TALES and released in the US as ANGRY NAZI ZOMBIES, this three-parter contains stories from a trio of directors; 'Medal of Horror', 'Devils of the Blitz', and 'Harreit's War'

NECROPHILIAC: THE LUSTFUL DEAD (Jason Impey 2015) - 63-minute feature. "An independent documentary filmmaker conducts an interview with necrophiliac Haydn Reef".

NEFARIOUS (Richard Rowntree 2019) - very impressive genre mash-up with an in-debt factory worker planning a break-in and safe robbery to assist with his financial predicament; the heist goes wrong, in more ways than anticipated, and then when a bookcase is accidentally knocked over, something which has been concealed behind it changes the entire game and sends this reeling into horror carnage...

NEVER PLAY WITH THE DEAD (Ray Kilby 2001) - “A Race To Stay Alive, Where Death Is The Only Prize” – tagline. Group of friends break into a disused asylum to stage a rave, but the building begins to take on a life of its own…

A NIGHT IN THE WOODS (Richard Parry 2011) - found footage film where campers on Dartmoor hear local legends of The Huntsman, a killer who carves crosses into the foreheads of sinners.

NIGHT JUNKIES (Lawrence Pearce 2006) - "a dark sexy, urban vampire thriller with an injection of Tarantino cool and ballistic action" - HD-shot vampire feature test-screened in London in June 2006.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: RESURRECTION (James Plumb 2012) - Welsh zombie outing supposedly paying homage to George A. Romero

NIGHT OF THE LIVING 3D DEAD (Samuel Victor 2013) - British 3D remake of the classic George A. Romero groundbreaker, featuring the same characters and situations. Apparently made after the director noticed a young audience at a screening of the original were not scared by the film but were engrossed by the storyline...

NIGHTSHIFT (Bryn Hammond 2006) - gory follow-up to the same director's SUMMER OF THE MASSACRE.

NINA FOREVER (Ben Blaine and Chris Blaine 2015) - recently-bereaved young man starts a relationship with a new girlfriend, but his ex returns from the dead to taunt them during intimate moments.

NINE LIVES (Andrew Green 2002) - centuries-old spirit is unleashed in a Scottish manor.

NINE MILES DOWN (Anthony Waller 2009) - contact is lost with a drilling team working in the Sahara desert. Everett De Roche-scripted movie based on 1990s stories about a Russian drilling operation in which some claimed the team had bored down to Hell itself. UK/US/Australian/Hungarian co-production.

THE 9TH PASSENGER (Richard Janes 2005) - 8 friends sail to the mainland during spring break, but a mysterious ninth presence may or may not have travelled with them, and after they become lost in a jungle region, the ninth passenger seems to be picking them off one by one. U.S./U.K. co-production.

NO ONE LIVES (Ryuhei Kitamura 2012) - Pathe UK co-financed this Louisiana-filmed US shocker - standard 'backwoods gang kidnap a travelling couple; fare with the added twist that the man they abduct and hold captive is himself an on-the-run psychokiller. Starring Luke Evans.

NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY (Steve Lawson 2014) - aka THE HAUNTING OF ANNIE DYER. "Annie Dyer (Raven Lee) moves into a new apartment and quickly discovers she is not alone; a malevolent spirit repeatedly attempts to seduce her in order to possess her body as a vessel to carry out its vengeful mission" - moviesandmania.com

THE NUMBERS (Andrew Elias 2018) - 48-minute featurette in which three people, in different time periods (a la THE UNCANNY) are affected by fate in a trio of horror sketches.

THE NUN (Luis de la Madrid 2005) - the spirit of an evil nun returns to kill off the girls she used to teach at a catholic school. Co-production between Spain's Filmax and the U.K.'s Future Film.

PRE-2000

THE OBLONG BOX (Gordon Hessler 1969) - a premature burial is at the centre of this derivative AIP production, originally to have been helmed by the late Michael Reeves. Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star.

THE OLD DARK HOUSE (William Castle 1963) - Castle and Hammer join forces for an inferior re-tread of James Whale's 1932 classic.

OLD MOTHER RILEY'S GHOSTS (John Baxter 1941) - Arthur Lucan in a haunted castle, revealed as a front for nefarious Nazis. It's John Laurie you'll remember, though - "that's a thing ah dinnae care to talk aboot!"

THE OMEN (Richard Donner 1976) - is Damien Thorn, the 5-year-old son of the U.S. ambassador to Britain, really the Devil's offspring? Classic shocker from 20th Century-Fox, starring Gregory Peck. Big-budget U.S. production, but set in the U.K. and shot largely at Shepperton and on several distinctive British locations.

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (Don Chaffey 1966) - Harryhausen dinosaurs meet Raquel Welch's fur bikini in Hammer's "100th film".

ONLY DARKNESS (Jon Kirby/Mitchell Morgan 1999) - "Writer who wants to change his life meets a woman on the run from people who want to end hers. Psychothriller from British filmmakers Kirby and Morgan" - 'Fangoria' 182.

THE ORCHARD END MURDER (Christian Marnham 1980) - “OF MICE AND MEN-flavoured story about a couple of homicidal railway workers” – ‘English Gothic’. Featurette which supported DEAD AND BURIED on original U.K. release.

THE OTHER PERSON (B.E.Doxatt-Pratt 1921) - under the influence of a ghost, a spiritualist murders his rich father; a séance reveals the details of the crime.

POST-2000

OCTANE (Marcus Adams 2003) - woman attempts to save her daughter from an evil cult. Scripted by Stephen Volk.

ONCE UPON A HAUNTING (Michael Munn 2016) - "Two couples find themselves locked in a lonely country house for the night where a ghost has been waiting two centuries for her curse to be fulfilled"

ONCE UPON A TIME AT CHRISTMAS (Paul Tanter 2017) - faux-American slasher set in New York State and filmed in Canada. Psycho Santa stuff.

ONE MISSED CALL (Eric Valette 2008) - US/UK/German/Japanese co-production, remake of the 2003 Takashi Miike movie. Voicemails from the imminent future seem to herald the death of the recipient..

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch 2013) - sophisticated centuries-old vampire couple Adam and Eve have their peaceful existence and arty lifestyles disrupted when Eve's wild and uncontrollable sister arrives to stay. Languid, impressive vampire drama with a big name cast well-handled by Jarmusch. German/UK co-production.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR (Johannes Roberts 2016) - bereaved mother learns about a Hindu temple where people can say goodbye to a lost loved one for a final time. Unable to resist opening the door, despite warnings that this is strictly forbidden, she unleashes her son's spirit to return and terrorise the family.

THE OUIJA BOARD (Matthew J. Stone 2005) - the spirit of a car-accident victim returns to avenge herself on five young people as they experiment with ouija at a remote holiday cottage.

OUIJAGEIST (John R. Walker 2018) - Ouija board causes havoc for a young single mother and her friends and family in the West Midlands. From the director of AMITYVILLE PLAYHOUSE, and scripted by Darrell Buxton and Steve Hardy.

OUTCAST (Colm McCarthy 2010) - woman descended from a clan possessing the powers of magic, and her teenage son, are pursued - but does the man hunting them down intend to kill them, or save them from a greater evil? James Nesbitt and Kate Dickie star in a slice of urban monster fare.

OUTPOST (Steve Barker 2008) - bunch of mercenaries hired to investigate an old World War II bunker find evidence of strange Nazi experiments - and undead members of the SS.

OUTPOST: BLACK SUN (Steve Barker 2012) - sequel to OUTPOST, with a female Nazi-hunter on the trail of Klausener, the German scientist responsible for raising an immortal zombie army battalion.

OUTPOST 11 (Anthony Woodley 2013) - in an alternate world powered by steam, a trio of soldiers man an Arctic listening post - without warning, the warning light goes off and their world is plunged into chaos. They must deal with the isolation - and the threat of arctic spiders - in order to survive.

OUTPOST: RISE OF THE SPETSNAZ (Kieran Parker 2013) - prequel to OUTPOST; Russian soldiers during World War II take on an army of invincible undead Nazi soldiers.

THE OWNERS (Julius Berg 2020) - bunch of youngsters break into a remote country house but discover that the elderly residents have terrifying plans themselves. Rita Tushingham and Sylvester McCoy excel as the creepy geriatrics; Maisie Williams heads the younger element of the cast.