Feature Films T to Z | Passthemarmalade

PRE-2000

TAKE AN EASY RIDE (Kenneth Rowles 1975) - The perils of hitch-hiking are at the forefront of this odd 44-minute docu-drama featurette, a series of vignettes in which hitchers encounter perverted and predatory truck-drivers. Sexual assault, brutal murder, drugs and the like pep up this exploitative quickie. From the makers of THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A HANDYMAN…

TALE OF A VAMPIRE (Shimato Sako 1992) - Julian Sands as a vampire in London who discovers his lost love reincarnated as a present-day librarian.

TALES FROM THE CRYPT (Freddie Francis 1972) - best of the Amicus anthologies, a five-parter including Peter Cushing's award-winning turn as 'Arthur Grimsdyke' in 'Poetic Justice', and the awesome 'Blind Alleys' episode, an opportunity for Patrick Magee to pull out all the stops as leader of a revolt in a shabby, run-down home for the blind. It's also the one where Joan Collins is stalked by a psychotic Father Christmas!

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1951) - from Jacques Offenbach's opera fantastique, a majestic three-part dance extravaganza with Moira Shearer as a ballerina automaton, Ludmilla Tcherina aiming to steal Hoffman's reflection, and Ann Ayars as the lethargic patient of a sinister and dominant doctor. Frequently breathtaking.

TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS (Freddie Francis 1973) - terrible anthology notable only for the bizarre episode featuring Michael Jayston lusting after a tree-stump!

TAM LIN (Roddy McDowall 1971) - inspired by a Robert Burns poem; Ava Gardner stars as a flamboyant widow with designs on one of her entourage (Ian McShane), who is pursued by a pack of imaginary hell-hounds as the film works towards its frenetic finale.

TASTE OF FEAR (Seth Holt 1961) - first, and best, of Hammer's forays into PSYCHO/LES DIABOLIQUES country, with Susan Strasberg as the menaced heroine.

TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (Peter Sasdy 1970) - quality Dracula sequel from Hammer, despite Christopher Lee's rather perfunctory appearance in the second half only.

THE TELL-TALE HEART (Brian Desmond Hurst 1934)

THE TELL-TALE HEART (Ernest Morris 1960)

TEN LITTLE INDIANS (George Pollock 1965) - Agatha Christie's proto-body count thriller in the first of several versions produced by Harry Alan Towers, this one set in a snowbound mountain resort. See also AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1974).

TEN LITTLE INDIANS (Alan Birkinshaw 1989) - yet another Harry Alan Towers version (his third!) of the Agatha Christie murder mystery, this time staged during an African safari.

10 RILLINGTON PLACE (Richard Fleischer 1971) - chilling dramatization of the Christie murder case. Starring Richard Attenborough and John Hurt.

TERROR (Norman J.Warren 1979)

THE TERROR (Richard Bird 1938) - based on Edgar Wallace's play.

TERROR OF THE TONGS (Anthony Bushell 1961) - following Fisher's STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY, more Asian sadism from Hammer.

THE TERRONAUTS (Montgomery Tully 1967)

THARK (Tom Walls 1932) - Walls and Ralph Lynn stay in a haunted house. Film version of the Ben Travers farce.

THEATRE OF BLOOD (Douglas Hickox 1973) - a perfect role for Vincent Price in this truly excellent slice of camp horror - he portrays Edward Lionheart, taking revenge for the critical savaging of his Shakespearian revival season by doing away with his critics, using methods suggested by the Bard's works. An all-star cast lends splendid support.

THEATRE OF DEATH (Sam Gallu 1966) - a Grand Guignol theatre company in Paris seems to be the focus for a series of mysterious vampiric killings.

THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE (Freddie Francis 1967)

THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (Arthur Woods 1938) - with fey Ernest Thesiger as a stocking-strangler, holding recently-released criminal Emlyn Williams prisoner in his gloomy mansion.

THINGS HAPPEN AT NIGHT (Francis Searle 1948) - girl possessed by a poltergeist.

THREE CASES OF MURDER (Wendy Toye, David Eady, George More O'Ferrall 1954) - trilogy of murder/horror tales, introduced by Eamonn Andrews. Orson Welles and Alan Badel play rival M.P.s who can control each other's dreams in 'Lord Mountdrago', and the best yarn is opener 'In The Picture', where a strange painting on display in an art gallery lures victims into its deadly canvas.

THREE DANGEROUS LADIES (Alvin Rakoff, Robert Fuest, Don Thompson 1977) - episodes of the TV show 'Classics Dark And Dangerous' were stitched together for this compendium release, featuring the celebrated vampire tale 'Mrs Amworth' plus 'The Island' and 'The Mannikin'.

THREE WEIRD SISTERS (Dan Birt 1948) - sinister melodrama about a trio of elderly sisters fighting it out over an inheritance, with murderous results. Co-scripted by Dylan Thomas.

THREE'S COMPANY (Charles Saunders, Terence Fisher 1953) - three-part anthology, which despite Fisher's credit, probably holds most interest for Saunders' contribution, a horror segment about a scream which inhabits a house, awaiting the murder which will permit it to be heard.

TINTORERA (Rene Cardona Jr. 1977) - Susan George stars in this Anglo-Mexican JAWS rip-off.

TITUS (Julie Taymor 1999) - Anthony Hopkins stars in epic U.S./U.K. film version of Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus'.

TO KILL A CLOWN (George Bloomfield 1971) - Alan Alda as deranged Vietnam veteran, using his fierce dogs to intimidate a young couple in a New England town. Based on Algys Budris' 'Master Of The Hounds'. A U.S./U.K. co-production.

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (Peter Sykes 1976) - apart from its horribly botched ending, this Hammer version of the Dennis Wheatley novel is rather undervalued. Richard Widmark tops an all-star cast, and highlights include a stunning Denholm Elliott cameo and some superb stunt work (by Eddie Powell, doubling for Anthony Valentine) as a victim of Satan's wrath suffers a hideous death by flames.

THE TOMB OF LIGEIA (Roger Corman 1964) - the last, and perhaps the finest, of Corman's Edgar Allan Poe series for AIP. Like MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, this was shot in the U.K., and stars Vincent Price as the haunted Verden Fell.

TORMENT (Michael J.Murphy 1989) - singing star is caught at the centre of a series of horrific murders perpetrated by an obsessive fan - the killings eventually drive her to kidnap and torture the psycho.

TORTURE GARDEN (Freddie Francis 1967) - Jack Palance and Peter Cushing in a version of Robert Bloch's 'The Man Who Collected Poe' highlights this so-so Amicus anthology.

TOWER OF EVIL (Jim O'Connolly 1972)

TOWER OF TERROR (Lawrence Huntington 1941) - wartime drama as British agent attempts to rescue Frenchwoman from her Nazi captors. Horror element emerges when insane lighthouse keeper is revealed to have murdered his wife; there's the disinterring of a rotting corpse, and a hook-handed killer threatening the heroine.

TREAD SOFTLY (David MacDonald 1952) - almost a proto-giallo, set in a supposedly haunted theatre where a throat-slashing killer is at large. Plenty of song-and-dance stuff but in between the hoofing routines there's plenty here to satisfy those looking for vintage predecessors to the modern psycho movie. As if Mr Cholmondley-Warner from 'The Fast Show' had directed Michele Soavi's STAGEFRIGHT.

TROG (Freddie Francis 1970) - Joan Crawford's final film, as a scientist who lures a cave-dwelling prehistoric missing link into the open, only for the beast to commence a wild rampage.

THE TROLLENBERG TERROR (Quentin Lawrence 1958) - tentacled aliens attack a Swiss village. Based on a BBC t.v. serial.

TRUNK CRIME (Roy Boulting 1939) - undergraduate, driven mad by the torments of a student rival, attempts to bury his enemy alive.

THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Rusty Lemorande 1992) - the Henry James classic, in a new version set in the 1960s. With Patsy Kensit.

TWINS OF EVIL (John Hough 1971) - puritanical Peter Cushing meets 'Playboy' sensations the Collinson twins in another Hammer lesbian vampire epic.

TWISTED NERVE (Roy Boulting 1968) - Hywel Bennett as split personality killer in this controversial psychological thriller which caused as much fuss as any movie since PEEPING TOM.

THE TWO FACES OF DR.JEKYLL (Terence Fisher 1960) - Wolf Mankowitz scripted this fascinating revision of the familiar story, well handled by the experienced Fisher.

POST-2000

TALES FROM THE LODGE (Abigail Blackmore 2019) - Mackenzie Crook and Johnny Vegas in an anthology about a group of ex-university pals who gather to scatter the ashes of an old friend. They tell each other tales involving possession, ghosts, zombies etc but soon become aware of another horror unfolding around them.

TALES OF TERROR (Jason Impey, Mark Lewis, Natalie Pledger 2009) - compilation of Jason Impey short films plus 'The Long Hall' by Lewis and 'Conscience' by Pledger.

TALES OF TERROR 2 (Jason Impey, Natalie Pledger 2009) - another compilation largely comprising Jason Impey's short horror films.

TALES OF TERROR 3 (Jason Impey 2012) - another compilation feature from Impey, 69 minutes of his horror short films.

TANK 432 (Nick Gillesppie 2018) - aka BELLY OF THE BULLDOG. Mercenaries transporting two people across a battlefield become trapped in an abandoned personnel carrier - this then develops into a horror movie with decapitated bodies, mysterious hooded figures, and a strange orange powder called 'Kratos'. Executive producer was Ben Wheatley.

THE TAPES (Lee Alliston and Scott Bates 2011) - found footage feature with a budding 'Big Brother' contestant asking her boyfriend to film her audition for the show; in a local pub they hear talk of a swingers party, and decide to attend and film the goings-on, but soon wish they hadn't as they find they have stumbled into a sect of Devil worshippers.

TAUNTED (Andrew Ireland, Andrew Sutton 2002) - “school caretaker…troubled by the ghost of a young girl” (ref: Paul Higson). This low-budget supernatural item was sadly shelved following completion, in the wake of the real-life Ian Huntley/Soham murder case.

TEAR ME APART (Alex Lightman 2015) - in post-apocalyptic England, two brothers become cannibals in order to survive - but then encounter a teenage girl who may be the last living female, causing tensions between them.

TED BUNDY (Matthew Bright 2002) - stark dramatization of the life of notorious serial killer Bundy. A U.S./U.K. co-production with involvement from Britain’s Tartan Films.

TELL-TALE (Michael Cuesta 2009) - Josh Lucas, Brian Cox and Lena Headey in a Ridley Scott/Tony Scott-produced drama 'inspired by' Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (with nods to the likes of 'The Hands of Orlac'). Man has heart transplant, then becomes an avenger when he spies one of his donor's murderers.

TEMPTATION (Catherine Taylor 2009) - woman attacked and killed by a cab driver is offered the opportunity of immortality by an ancient female vampire.

TERROR OF THE KILLER CARNIVOROUS COAT (Mark Adams 2011) - 46-minute no-budget comedy starring David Curtis (as 'Gabriel Cushing') and Nathan Head. "A group of friends struggle for survival as they are faced with the ancient, demonic evil of - the killer carnivorous coat".

THEATRE OF FEAR (Andrew Jones 2014) - "A sinister family of traveling performers (Jared Morgan, Lee Bane, Nathan Head) commits gruesome acts behind the curtain"

THEY'RE OUTSIDE (Sam Casserly & Airell Anthony Hayles 2021) - Nicholas Vince and Emily Booth take supporting roles in this horror-drama about an agoraphobic young woman undergoing treatment. Gets increasingly eerie as it goes on and almost ends up rivalling its inspiration THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT during a terrifying final third.

13HRS (Jonathan Glendening 2010) - werewolf causes havoc during a party in a barn. Aka NIGHT WOLF

THE 13TH SIGN (Jonty Acton, Adam Mason 2000) - Man goes on murder spree in English village - fifteen years later, with a solar eclipse looming, his daughter has a premonition that history is about to repeat itself.

THIS CHANGED EARTH (Ross Bradley, David Hinds 2011) - experimental anthology film that was originally exclusively uploaded to the private tracker filesharing website Cinemageddon. Episodes are 'The Queen Of Hearts', 'The Hunt For The House On Cuckoo Lane', 'The Seeds Of Damnation' and 'The Rabbit In The Pantry'. Content includes the search for a notorious underground movie, a stalker pursuing a beautiful woman, and a man who finds a box left on his doorstep and begins to receive instructions from a mystery stranger.

THE THOMPSONS (The Butcher Brothers 2012) - directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores follow up their 2006 American movie THE HAMILTONS with this sequel shot in Ashford and London. Vampire family being pursued by the authorities flee to England, intending to hook up with an ancient vampire clan

3s A SHROUD (Dan Brownlie, David V.G. Davies, Andy Edwards 2012) - babysitter tells horror stories to the child in her charge, unaware that her own life depends on telling the scariest tales possible. Horror anthology with episodes 'Don't Open The Door', 'Over Developed', and 'Time Traveller's Knife'. Emily Booth and Dani Thompson appear.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Craig Griffith 2002) - artist whose creative flow has temporarily stemmed begins to see apparitions, shadowy figures, and horrific visions in an old mirror. Supernatural thriller shot on digital video format on a budget of just £2000.

TICKET ZER0 (Ian Chisholm 2018) - 66-minute horror feature shot for £1000. "Corporate IT troubleshooter Iain joins a dysfunctional night-shift crew to try and diagnose a mysterious long term problem. He uncovers old secrets, showing the cause to be far more sinister than he expected. The night goes from a technical investigation to simple survival as the night crew try to escape the monster in the machine."

TIDELAND (Terry Gilliam 2006) - Gilliam himself describes this one as "ALICE IN WONDERLAND meets PSYCHO"; echoes of the Ed Gein story feature in this saga of a junkie couple's child and the taxidermy-practising folks who live over the hill.

TONE DEATH (Roger Armstrong and John Hickman 2017) - drug-addled techno producer seeks the perfect frequency that will enhance human consciousness through sound, but the machine he constructs to transmit the tone kills anyone who steps into the booth. Great little 71 minute horror comedy, a lovely modern and original twist on the likes of THE PROJECTED MAN.

TONY (Gerard Johnson 2009) - portrait of a serial killer, London style. Peter Ferdinando is outstanding as a flat-dwelling Dennis Nilsen-like social misfit in Dalston, taking people home, showing them his outdated collection of VHS tapes, and casually murdering them. Music by the director's brother Matt, better known as The The.

THE TORMENT (Andrew Cull and Steve Isles 2010) - "Late one night, a young couple receive a visit from their friend David, who is plagued by a demonic presence. They soon discover that it has followed him". Aka THE POSSESSION OF DAVID O'REILLY.

TORMENTED (Jon Wright 2009) - unpopular boy, driven to suicide by his classmates, returns as a ghost to take revenge. From the director of GRABBERS and with the feature debut of Tuppence Middleton, this one is pretty good of its type.

THE TORMENTED (Jason Impey 2009) - 40-minute kidnap/torture/psycho affair from the prolific Impey. Features a main character who declares "I was known as John Englund. I am now Robert Saxon!"

TORN: A SHOCKYOUMENTARY (Justin Carter 2014) - faux documentary - "If you go down to the woods today.... Has a supernatural evil come to terrorise the rural Devon village of Orchardlea? Or is the escalating body count and sense of impending doom actually the self fulfilling prophecy of two hoaxsters accused of a brutal murder?"

TORTURED (Jason Impey 2008) - hour-long video feature involving violent escaped convicts, degradation, rape, and a zombie, with a general LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT-like vibe. Aka SEX SLAVE.

THE TOYBOX (Paolo Sedazzari 2004) - two countryside-dwelling children are affected by local fantasies and legends, the girl convincing herself she is a witch; grown-up, they encounter a man resembling the mythical 'Jake The Mid-Folker', a figure from their childhood past. Lyrical horror film, shot on 35mm.

THE TOYMAKER (Andrew Jones 2017) - third in the 'Robert the Doll' franchise, this time set in Nazi Germany in 1941 where an occult book containing secrets of bringing inanimate objects to life falls into the hands of a toymaker.

TRASHHOUSE (Pat Higgins 2005) - five people are each given a room in a house in order to set up their own perfect environment; one of the quintet is a psychopath, and before long, zombies, axes, chainsaws and plenty of blood come into play. First full-length feature from Shoebury-based Jinx Media.

TRAUMA (Marc Evans 2004) - Colin Firth plays man who awakens from a coma to discover his wife has died in a car accident, and that he may be connected with the murder of a female singer.

TRIANGLE (Christopher Smith 2009) - when a yacht capsizes the passengers take refuge on an ocean liner, but find themselves stalked by a killer. Then the weird time loop stuff begins... imaginative and strange offering from the director of CREEP and SEVERANCE, an Australian/UK co-production.

TRUTH OR DARE (Robert Heath 2011) - "Five teenage friends are taken hostage by a vengeful psychopath and forced to play a party game with life-or-death consequences.". British psychological horror, released in the States as TRUTH OR DIE.

THE TRUTH WILL OUT (Jessica Hunt and Sam Mason Bell 2019) - no-budget feature with a celebrity documentary host and his camera team visiting a family of alleged gypsy witches. An hour of amusing banter and conversation leads to a few personal revelations and an unexpectedly scary climax.

28 DAYS LATER... (Danny Boyle 2002) - From the director of TRAINSPOTTING, this is a post-apocalyptic drama set in a zombie-infested London; scripted by Alex ('The Beach') Garland.

28 WEEKS LATER (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo 2007) - sequel to the Danny Boyle hit, with Robert Carlyle escaping 'infected' in the countryside and heading to a US Military-occupied London in search of his wife.

TWISTED SISTERS (Wolfgang Buld 2006) - graphic murders galore in this Anglo-German production from the director of PENETRATION ANGST. Young woman works for a PR firm; someone who looks exactly like her seems to be responsible for a series of gruesome killings. The clue is in the title…

2 DIE FOR (2018) - "a horror anthology of short horror films from cult underground indie horror filmmakers from across the globe". Thirty-four different directors, including the likes of Jason Impey, Sam Mason-Bell, Killian H. Gore etc, are credited in this multi-episode 78-minute compendium, a UK production.

PRE-2000

THE UNCANNY (Denis Heroux 1977) - disappointing three-part compendium with the stories all centred on evil cats.

UNCLE SILAS (Charles Frank 1947) - master farceur Ben Travers scripted this version of the Sheridan le Fanu novel about a young woman victimized by her domineering uncle and his evil housekeeper.

UNDERWORLD (George Pavlou 1985) - gangsters, subterranean mutants, and experimental drugs are the ingredients of a messy script co-written by Clive Barker, directed by Pavlou who later helmed RAWHEAD REX.

THE UNEARTHLY STRANGER (John Krish 1963) - scientist discovers that he is actually married to an alien, at the forefront of a proposed invasion of Earth.

UNFAIR EXCHANGES (Gavin Millar 1984) - Julie Walters stars in Ken Campbell-scripted t.v. film, made for the BBC, as a woman pestered by nuisance phone calls - turns out that the phone system itself is responsible, and it won't necessarily stop at heavy breathing...

THE UNHOLY QUEST (R.W.Lotinga 1934) - doctor attempts to use the body of a blackmailer murdered by his butler to revive the corpse of an embalmed Crusader.

UNMASKED: PART 25 (Anders Palm 1988) - dodgy spoof of stalk and slash movies, featuring hockey mask-wearing killer.

URBAN GHOST STORY (Genevieve Joliffe 1997) - from the makers of WHITE ANGEL; young girl 'dies' for 184 seconds, returns to life but becomes the focus of strange activity and phenomena. With Jason Connery.

THE URGE TO KILL (Derek Ford 1988) - one of the kings of '70s exploitation, Ford was still churning 'em out years later. This latter-day entry stars fellow '70s contender Peter Gordeno and is a.k.a. ATTACK OF THE KILLER COMPUTER. Ref: Internet Movie Database; also mentioned in Ford's filmography in David McGillivray's 'Doing Rude Things'.

POST-2000

UFO (Dominic Burns 2012) - aliens invade the UK (mainly Park Farm, Allestree, Derby, not a million miles away from where this website is based!) and a typical Burns all-star cast fights back. Dom amazingly secured the services of Jean-Claude Van Damme this time, along with Sean Pertwee, Julian Glover, Andrew Shim, and Sean Brosnan (son of Pierce). Also released as ALIEN UPRISING.

UMBRAGE: THE FIRST VAMPIRE (Drew Cullingham 2009) - Doug Bradley stars in 90-minute feature involving a vampire-hunter-turned-vampire, an ancient Babylonian mirror, and the figure of Lilith.

UNCUT (Philip West 2009) - 80-minute 'killer on the loose in a theatre' fare, distinguished by being shot in one continuous 80-minute take. Shaun Williamson features among the cast.

UNDER THE SHADOW (Babak Anvari 2016) - deservedly-acclaimed Persian language tale of mother and daughter being terrorised by a strange evil spirit, manifesting as a floating, patterned chador, as the Iran/Iraq war rages outside.

UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer 2013) - Scarlett Johansson as an alien seducing young men in Glagow, luring them back to her house where they are submerged in a liquid black gloop. Exceptional and enigmatic highbrow science fiction.

UNDERWORLD (Len Wiseman 2003) - vampires versus werewolves in this MATRIX-inspired horror actioner starring Kate Beckinsale. U.S./U.K./German/Hungarian co-production.

THE UNFOLDING (Eugene McGing 2016) - with the world on the brink of nuclear war, a couple staying in an old house in rural England find themselves menaced by an evil presence.

UNHALLOWED GROUND (Russell England 2015) - bunch of cadets assigned with guarding Dhoultham School on the last day of term discover that it is the site of multiple Black Plague deaths from hundreds of years earlier - and that the restless ghosts are out for blood.

UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY (Mark Harriott and Mike Matthews 2011) - touted as "the gay WICKER MAN", three friends visit the remote Amen Island and find that the islanders are over-insular and religious-minded. Further twists, turns, connections and revelations take this one into sinister horror territory. Later re-released as AMEN ISLAND.

THE UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS (Lawrie Brewster 2016) - the LORD OF TEARS team return with another delve into ancient evil. War veteran experiencing flashbacks of his military service finds that the visions are increasingly populated by raven-like creatures, and that he is destined to confront a supernatural force known as the Raven Warriors.

THE UNSEEN (Kevin Gates 2003) - villagers become the victims of a malevolent alien who absorbs them and turns them into shape-changing monsters.

THE UNSEEN (Gary Sinyor 2018) - couple mourn the death (by drowning) of their son; the wife begins to experience problems with blurred vision and the husband begins hearing things. Psychological, grief-stricken drama that tumbles into out-and-out horror by the finish.

UNTIL DEATH (Charles Buchanan 2002) - woman is haunted by the ghost of her unfaithful husband after he is killed in a fight with one of her friends. A.k.a. CATFLAP.

UP ALL NIGHT (John Henderson 2015) - movie spin-off from the CBBC childrens' TV series 'Friday Download' (and released to DVD as FRIDAY DOWNLOAD: THE MOVIE following a theatrical run as UP ALL NIGHT). Van-load of teens seek refuge in a spooky old mansion after their vehicle breaks down, leading to strange and scary goings-on in a 'Scooby-Doo' vein.

PRE-2000

VAMPIRA (Clive Donner 1974) - embarrassing horror comedy, starring David Niven.

VAMPIRE CIRCUS (Robert Young 1971) - highly imaginative Hammer entry.

THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (Roy Ward Baker 1970) - Ingrid Pitt in the first of Hammer's lesbian vampire series, based on le Fanu's 'Carmilla'.

VAMPYRES (Jose Larraz 1974) - atmospheric, erotic and gory tale with Anulka and Marianne Morris as the sexy bloodsuckers.

VAULT OF HORROR (Roy Ward Baker 1973) - another Amicus anthology based on E.C. comic strips, though not a patch on TALES FROM THE CRYPT.

VENGEANCE (Freddie Francis 1962) - Anglo-German remake of 'Donovan's Brain'.

THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU (Jeremy Summers 1967)

THE VENGEANCE OF SHE (Cliff Owen 1967)

VENOM (Peter Sykes 1971) - Bavarian-based horror about a woman reputed to be a lethal spider-goddess.

VENOM (Piers Haggard 1981) - big-name cast in over-heated drama about a botched kidnap, with a deadly black mamba slithering all over the house adding to the fun.

VENUS IN FURS (Jess Franco 1968) - Euro co-production with some U.K. involvement, courtesy Harry Alan Towers. James Darren stars as a jazz trumpeter who finds a woman's mutilated corpse washed up on a beach; flashbacks show her involved in strange sexual rites, and she then turns up alive at a nightclub...

THE VERY EDGE (Cyril Frankel 1963) - Anne Heywood suffers a miscarriage following a brutal assault by psycho Jeremy Brett; Her marriage falls apart and she begins to find all men alienating - meanwhile, the monstrous rapist is back on the scene with violence in mind. Gripping black-and-white cheapie with an intense Brett in great loopy form.

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (Wolf Rilla 1960) - George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, and a brood of creepy blonde children star in fine adaptation of John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos'.

THE VIRGIN WITCH (Ray Austin 1970)

VOICES (Kevin Billington 1973) - Gayle Hunnicutt and David Hemmings as a couple who move to a country house after their son has drowned, and begin to see and hear things they shouldn't...

THE VULTURE (Lawrence Huntington 1967) - Akim Tamiroff as the scientist who becomes a vengeful half-man, half-bird creature.

POST-2000

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (Mark Waters 2014) - lame US/UK teen vampire movie, a major box office flop, filmed at Charterhouse School in Surrey.

VAMPIRE HUNTER WERBALS (Tom Stavely 2011) - black and white vampire low-budgeter. Director Stavey has made dozens of short films and this was one of three features he offered up in 2011. Available on YouTube.

THE VAMPIRE VIDEO DIARIES (Mark James and Phil O'Shea 2005) - documentary filmmaker invites a gothic-looking girl to take part in her latest project, an examination of the 'weekend vampire' scene; her subject is revealed to be the real deal, as a series of vampiric murders takes place…

VAMPIRES (Richard Johnstone 2014) - volunteers for a medical drugs trial are taken to a remote castle where... well, the film is called VAMPIRES and is also known under the name BLOODLESS. Shot in the North-East of England.

THE VAMPIRES OF BLOODY ISLAND (Allin Kempthorne 2005) - low-budget horror comedy set off the coast of Cornwall, featuring vampires, werewolves and demons a-plenty.

THE VANGUARD (Matthew Hope 2008) - "The year is 2015 and overpopulation and famine have plunged our planet into chaos and one desperate survivor finds himself being hunted and pursued by hordes of rage-crazed zombies"

A VAULT OF VICTIMS (Anthony Brems and Maria Lee Metheringham 2014) - Yorkshire-shot no-budget horror anthology with stories 'Hidden Camera', 'Sweet Mirror', and 'Terror the Bear'

THE VEIL (Richard Chance 2005) - another THE CRAZIES-style 'virus outbreak' affair - in black and white and coming in at a whopping two and a half hours. Would have been overlong at half that running time.

VENUS DROWNING (Andrew Parkinson 2005) - aquatic baby-like creature feeds on human sexual energy. From the director of I ZOMBIE: THE CHRONICLES OF PAIN.

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN (Paul McGuigan 2015) - colourful period-set retelling of the Frankenstein story, with James McAvoy effervescent and enthusiastic as Victor, supported well by Daniel Radcliffe as the circus hunchback upon whom Frankenstein operates before employing him as an assistant. The usual body-construction antics ensue. Highly watchable old school fare.

VINYAN (Fabrice du Welz 2009) - international co-production with UK involvement. Couple lose their son during a tsunami in Thailand, but later see what appears to be him in an orphanage fund-raising video. they set off in search of the boy, in the faint hope that he may still be alive. Slow-paced character drama with echoes of DON'T LOOK NOW and APOCALYPSE NOW, with hints of the supernatural, all leading to a shocking finale.

VIRUS OF THE DEAD (2018) - 102-minute multi-director anthology featuring approximately two dozen short takes on the 'zombie apocalypse' theme. Features segments by a variety of international directors but was a project conceived in the UK by producer Tony Newton.

VOODOO LAGOON (Nick Cohen 2006) - students holiday on a remote tropical island, little suspecting that they have been lured there by the island's owner in order to fulfil a voodoo prophecy. U.K./Australian horror.

PRE-2000

THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins 1965) - powerful docu-drama commissioned, and then banned by, the BBC. Watkins' dramatization of Britain under nuclear attack was eventually screened in the 1980s after its suppression became a cause celebre of the CND movement.

WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS (Kevin Connor 1978) - more Doug McClure, more monsters, and Cyd Charisse even pops up in this adventure set in the fabled undersea lost continent.

THE WATCHER (Colin Hives 1998) - Two escaped criminals hide out in an abandoned girls school which just happens to be haunted. Independent 78-minute feature from Liverpool-based Shivilenco Pictures, also responsible for a good number of horror shorts during the 1990s.

THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS (John Hough 1980) - Bette Davis and David McCallum in PG-rated supernatural offering from the Disney studios.

WHAT A CARVE-UP! (Pat Jackson 1961) - old dark house mystery-comedy featuring 'Carry On' stalwarts Sid James and Kenneth Connor.

WHAT BECAME OF JACK AND JILL? (Bill Bain 1971) - Paul Nicholas as an impatient young man intent on bumping off his grandma for the inheritance. Produced by Milton Subotsky.

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (Val Guest 1970)

WHERE HAS POOR MICKEY GONE..? (Gerry Levy 1964) - Warren Mitchell as a magician calling upon the forces of darkness to make a group of violent hoodlums vanish, one by one.

WHIRLPOOL (Jose Larraz 1969) - early obscurity from the director of SYMPTOMS and VAMPYRES. Sex photographer and his murderous aunt seek female victims.

WHISPERS OF FEAR (Harry Bromley-Davenport 1974) - woman inherits house in Wales from her late mother, but a campaign of hatred by the resentful local community drives her to derangement and murder.

WHITE ANGEL (Chris Jones 1993) - dentist who doubles as a psychotic killer of blonde women meets up with an author who has done away with her own husband, with the aim of chronicling his string of murders. Independent movie filmed using a grant from the Prince's Trust; shot on locations within walking distance of Cromwell Street, Gloucester, home of the real-life mass killers Fred and Rosemary West.

WHITE OF THE EYE (Donald Cammell 1987) - David Keith as stereo repairman responsible for a series of psycho killings in an Arizona desert town. Flashy, giallo-like shocker from the director of PERFORMANCE.

WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (Curtis Harrington 1971) - Shelley Winters stars in this exploitation update of 'Hansel and Gretel', co-written by Jimmy Sangster.

THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy 1973) - Policeman seeking a missing child on a remote Scottish island finds himself being led a merry dance by the locals, whose recent apple crop failures have led them to consider sacrificial offerings to appease their pagan gods. A masterpiece. "Woodward and Lee make fine sparring partners, one apoplectic and the other implacable, both as bigoted in their religious views. Quite the best film of the 1970s" - Andy Boot, 'Fragments Of Fear'.

WILDERNESS (Ben Bolt 1996) - Amanda Ooms stars as young University librarian who transforms into a wolf each month. 3-part ITV horror drama was released as a 99-minute feature version by ‘Fangoria’ magazine in 2001.

THE WISDOM OF CROCODILES (Po Chih Leong 1998) - Jude Law as a 'metaphysical vampire', needing to draw love and emotion from his female victims.

WITCHCRAFT (Don Sharp 1964)

WITCHCRAFT X: MISTRESS OF THE CRAFT (Elisar Cabrera 1998) - tenth film, and first British entry, in the long-running WITCHCRAFT video horror franchise. Vampires, witchery, and softcore sex scenes abound. As 'Elisar C.Kennedy', Cabrera had previously directed star Eileen Daly in DEMONSOUL.

THE WITCHES (Cyril Frankel 1966) - village schoolteacher takes on a coven in this Hammer vehicle for Joan Fontaine, scripted by Nigel Kneale.

THE WITCHES (Nicolas Roeg 1989) - Roeg's attempt at a film for children, based on a tale by Roald Dahl - young boy discovers that the meeting of the Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children is in fact the cover for a grand get-together of practitioners in witchcraft and black magic. He's turned into a mouse, which is where the fun really begins...

WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Michael Reeves 1968) - Vincent Price as true-life witchfinder Matthew Hopkins in brutal historical horror from cult figure Reeves.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (Herbert Wise 1989) - rather lukewarm filming (for ITV) of this supernatural thriller which had been a popular stage success. Penned by Nigel Kneale, from Susan Hill's story.

WOMANEATER (Charles Saunders 1957) - mad scientist feeds female victims to a carnivorous tree from the Amazon, hoping to create a serum to bring the dead to life.

POST-2000

WAKE WOOD (David Keating 2009) - one of the more disappointing productions from the revived Hammer Films, Bereaved parents move to a rural village and discover a local ritual that might help them to revive their dead child Alice.

WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (Nick Park 2005) - feature-length debut of the beloved Aardman duo.

WANDERING ROSE (Corrie Greenop 2014) - aka DEMON BABY and LITTLE DEVIL. Couple spend a weekend in the idyllic Scottish Highlands, but the pregnant woman (or her unborn baby?) is possessed by a spirit.

WAR TRUCK DISASTER DRIVE (Ewen Rigg 2016) - another feature from Twit Twoo Films, home of BLOOD AND STRAW etc. "Three guys go on an off road trip of a lifetime in their newly acquired Army Truck, but it all goes horribly wrong when they start meeting monsters"

WΔZ (Tom Shankland 2007) - gripping detectives-on-the-trail-of-a-serial-killer fare, set in New York, filmed in Belfast. Released as THE KILLING GENE in the US. The British title caused some confusion and hilarity in the UK - it actually refers to the Price equation (a real-life mathematical/genetic theory, which here is carved into the flesh of the killer's victims), and is pronounced "double u delta zee"

WE WAIT IN THE WOODS (Joe Duncombe 2019) - 46-minute featurette with a group of friends mourning the death of one of their group - they head for a weekend in the woods but are haunted by malicious spirits.

WHEN EVIL CALLS (Johannes Roberts 2006) - very innovative at the time, this was an attempt by director Roberts to make a series designed for viewing on mobile phones, with dozens of short episodic snippets. It was eventually compiled into a feature for DVD release, with some more than welcome linking material featuring a hugely entertaining Sean Pertwee, The concept is that students are granted wishes via text message, but the wishes come true in ultra-literal and often horrific ways!

WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT (Pat Holden 2012) - a Pontefract poltergeist attacks a family home during the power blackouts of 1974. Very impressive low-key British horror film, based on the supposedly true case of 'The Black Monk of Pontefract'.

WHISPER (Christopher Jolley 2021) - "A young Nurse is assigned to look after a patient in a remote location in the English countryside. As the night continues she finds herself terrorized by an unseen force that is connected with her patient."

WHISPERS (Tammi Sutton 2015) - "A young couple grieving the recent death of their daughter move to the countryside where they are haunted by their tragedy and a sinister darkness."

WHITE GOODS (Bazz Hancher 2018) - electrician is possessed by a demon when he attends a seance - anyone he visits thereafter is killed by electrical appliances. Broad horror comedy shot in Kidderminster.

WHITE NOISE (Geoffrey Sax 2004) - Canadian/U.K. horror centred on the 'E.V.P.' phenomenon whereby the voices of the dead are supposedly heard via televisions, radios and other modern technology. Starring Michael Keaton and Deborah Kara Unger.

WHITE SETTLERS (Simeon Halligan 2014) - couple move into Scottish farmhouse but pig-masked locals terrorise them.

WICKED WITCHES (Mark Pickering and Martin Pickering 2019) - man thrown out by his wife returns to Dumpling Farm, a place where he used to party in his youth; there he finds an old friend who seems not quite the same anymore, and a group of deminoic, flesh-eating, soul-trapping witches. Aka THE WITCHES OF DUMPLING FARM.

THE WICKER TREE (Robin Hardy 2011) - film version of Hardy's novel 'Cowboys For Christ' and the long-planned sequel to his classic THE WICKER MAN. Country singing star gives up her career to spread word about the Christian religious sect in which she has been raised, but encounters sinister pagans in Scotland. Many fans wish Hardy hadn't bothered, and this was never going to rival its predecessor (what would?!), but it contains pleasures and chills of its own.

WILD COUNTRY (Craig Strachan 2005) - Scottish werewolf feature starring Peter Capaldi.

WILDERNESS (Michael J. Bassett 2006) - a bunch of juvenile criminals are sent to a remote island; unknown to them or their guards, a psychopathic killer lies in wait. Gory survivalist horror from the director of DEATHWATCH.

WIND CHILL (Gregory Jacobs 2007) - two students share a long car journey but encounter strange figures en route and find that an incident from over fifty years ago has a deadly effect on travellers using that stretch of road. US/UK co-production with Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes.

WISHBABY (Stephen W, Parsons 2007) - urban chiller in which a teenager who saves an elderly lady (Fenella Fielding) from a gang is rewarded with the secret of how to make a 'wishbaby' - a magic doll which somehow enables a supernatural figure, The Governess, to appear and wreak havoc. "One of the core titles of the British Horror Revival" - MJ Simpson.

WISHMASTER 3: BEYOND THE GATES OF HELL (Chris Angel 2001) - Jason Connery and A.J.Cook star in third instalment of the 'evil Djinn' franchise, this time a U.K./Canadian co-production. Also released under the titles WISHMASTER 3: SWORD OF JUSTICE and WISHMASTER III: DEVILSTONE.

THE WITCHES HAMMER (James Eaves 2004) - gothic horror from the director of DIAGNOSIS, features vampire in a search for an ancient book written by the ‘first witch’.

WOLF (Stuart Brennan 2019) - Roman centurions on a mission across Hadrian's Wall encounter a monstrous beast.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (James Watkins 2012) - Daniel Radcliffe of 'Harry Potter' fame stars in this version of the Susan Hill novel, made for the revived Hammer Films. A decent-enough stab at old-fashioned gothic, but a little overrated and not a patch on Hammer's past glories. A big box-office hit, and hence followed by a sequel soon after.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH (Tom Harper 2014) - disappointing sequel to the 2012 Hammer hit. Group of children evacuated during World War 2 come under threat from an evil spirit at their new residence.

WOODS OF TERROR (Jason Impey 2009) - Jason's ZOMBIE VILLAGE and NIGHTMARE IN THE WOODS stitched together to form a 65-minute feature.

WORLD OF THE DEAD: THE ZOMBIE DIARIES 2 (Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates 2011) - sequel to THE ZOMBIE DIARIES, The Daily Mail called it "an 88-minute waste of electricity".

WORLD WAR DEAD: RISE OF THE FALLEN (Freddie Hutton-Mills, Bart Ruspoli 2015) - documentary crew marks the centenary of World War I by visiting the Somme; but local rumours persist about a cursed German regiment, and before long this is another found-footage zombie movie. Aka CLASH OF THE DEAD.

THE WORLD'S END (Edgar Wright 2013) - third and final film in Wright's 'Three Flavours Cornetto' trilogy sees a bunch of old mates on a reunion pub crawl encountering androids intent on conquering Earth and replacing any humans who stand in their way with robot lookalikes.

WORST FEARS (Keith Claxton 2016) - throughout the early part of the 21st century, veteran scriptwriter David McGillivray teamed with director Claxton to make a series of horror shorts, several of which were eventually compiled into this anthology released on DVD by the Nucleus label. TINCTURE OF VERVAIN, WEDNESDAY, IN THE PLACE OF THE DEAD, MRS DAVENPORT'S THROAT, CHILD NUMBER FOUR, AFTER IMAGE, and WE'RE READY FOR YOU NOW all feature in this variable but entertaining compendium.

WOUNDS (Babak Anvari 2019) - US/UK co-production from the director of UNDER THE SHADOW. Psychological horror about a New Orleans bartender who finds a mobile phone in his bar - his lifge then begins to unravel in increasingly strange ways.

WRITTEN IN BLOOD (Simon Cox 2000) - in the final weeks of the year 1999, a long-dead serial killer seems to have re-emerged, and is committing crimes akin to those featured in the new book by a best-selling author.

WYVERN HILL (Jonathan Zaurin 2021) - ambitious but ultimately overlong and unsuccessful attempt to mix the drama of an elderly lady's descent into dementia with slasher movie tropes, also adding Punch & Judy to the punch.

PRE-2000

X – THE UNKNOWN (Leslie Norman 1956) – sub-‘Quatermass’ sf from Hammer, with deadly radioactive sludge oozing all over Scotland.

XTRO (Harry Bromley-Davenport 1982) – incoherent sf shocker, with some good scenes (toys coming eerily to life; woman raped by alien giving birth to full-grown man). Followed years later by a series of Canadian/U.S. ‘sequels’ directed by Bromley-Davenport.

POST-2000

THE XLITHERMAN (Peter Lancett 2006) - psychological horror film directed by novelist Lancett, starring Steve Raymond and Marysia Kay.

XMOOR (Luke Hyams 2014) - two documentary filmmakers set out to Exmoor to attempt to find the fabled wildcat said to be roaming the area, but discover horrors beyond their expectations.

PRE-2000

YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES (Barry Levinson 1985) – Holmes and Watson as teenagers in imaginative fantasy with horror touches and Hammer-like ambience. U.S./U.K. co-production from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin’ Entertainment.

POST-2000

YOU MIGHT GET LOST (James Eaves 2021) - a brilliant Corinne Wickes plays a bereaved mother who is offered the chance to travel back in time and change her situation, via the mysterious Endeavour Institute. A very Philip K. Dick-like idea which adds a few gory horror murders to its high-concept SF.

YOUNG, HIGH AND DEAD (Luke Brady, Jonathan Brady, Daniel Fenton, Thabo Mhlatshwa 2013) - independent slasher movie; "When five friends head to the woods for a weekend of drug fueled madness their night soon descends into chaos when they pitch up next to the grave of a local missing child". Co-director 'Jonathan Brady' is actually Katie Anna Brady.

PRE-2000

ZOMBIE GENOCIDE (Andrew Harrison, Khris Carville, Darryl Sloan 1993) - hour-long amateur feature from Northern Ireland-based Midnight Pictures. Ref: Festival of Fantastic Films 2000 programme - “ Four friends return to suburbia after camping out in a local woodland. It’s early morning and the streets are empty. And unbeknown to them a horrifying disaster has happened in their absence”. A convincingly apocalyptic atmosphere and some imaginative directorial flourishes help this no-budget zombie outing along admirably.

ZOMBIE TOXIN (Tom Moose 1996) - amateur British horror feature, released by the Screen Edge video label in the U.K. (under the title HOMEBREW). "Monty Python meets DAWN OF THE DEAD" - advertisement in 'Fangoria' magazine.

POST-2000

ZIBAHKHANA (Omar Khan 2007) - Pakistani/U.K. co-production, part-backed by Pete Tombs' 'Mondo Macabro' company/dvd label. Muslim zombies!

THE ZOMBIE DIARIES (Kevin Gates and Mike Bartlett 2006) - apocalyptic zombie fare from the director of THE UNSEEN, told in three interlinked episodes 'The Dead City', 'The Farm', and 'The Outbreak'.

THE ZOMBIE KING (Aidan Belizaire 2013) - Edward Furlong and Corey Feldman get top billing but not a lot of screen time in this voodoo/zombie-based outing filmed in Shepton Mallet.

ZOMBIE LOVE STORIES (Barry Hutchinson 2000) - trilogy of shorts from Scottish filmmaker Hutchinson, shot on a £15000 budget. Ref: www.netribution/co.uk

ZOMBIE LOVER (Jason Impey 2011) - 91-minute zombie movie from Impey, featuring neo-Nazis, re-animation, zombies in the woods, and an Eileen Daly cameo. Aka THE TURNING.

ZOMBIE UNDEAD (Rhys Davies 2010) - following a terrorist attack in Leicester, zombies invade a hospital.

ZOMBIE VILLAGE (Jason Impey 2005) - 40-minute zombie film directed by the Milton Keynes-based winner of the 2004 '2 Days Later' short horror filmmaking competition (for his earlier ZOMBIES IN THE WOOD).

ZOMBIE WOMEN OF SATAN (Steve O'Brien and Warren Speed 2009) - co-director Speed steals the show as 'Pervo the Clown' in this entertaining bit of trash pitting travelling circus freaks against zombies. Of all the films to be followed by a sequel...

ZOMBIE WOMEN OF SATAN 2 (Warren Speed and Chris Greenwood 2016) - Pervo the Clown is back in this festival-circuit favourite, released in America as FEMALE ZOMBIE RIOT.

ZOMBIES IN HERTFORD (Michael Curtis 2015) - sequel to MUMMIES IN HERTFORD and part of a series of 'in Hertford' movies, YouTube fodder. This one runs a whopping 104 minutes.