List of the best Freddie Francis movies: Tales from the Crypt(1972), Paranoiac(1963), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors(1965), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave(1969), The Skull(1965), The Doctor and the Devils(1985), Torture Garden(1967), The Evil of Frankenstein(1964), The Psychopath(1966), Hysteria(1965), Tales That Witness Madness(1973), The Ghoul(1975) ... ...
Horror
UK
1972
92 Minutes
Director
Ralph Richardson Joan Collins Peter Cushing Geoffrey Bayldon Nigel Patrick Patrick Magee Robin Phillips Oliver MacGreevy Chloe Franks Ian Hendry Frank Forsyth
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Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Horror
UK
1963
80 Minutes
Director
Janette Scott Oliver Reed Alex Davion Liliane Brousse Sheila Burrell Maurice Denham
A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Horror
UK
1965
98 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Donald Sutherland Max Adrian Ann Bell Michael Gough Jennifer Jayne
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Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
Horror
UK
1969
92 Minutes
Director
Christopher Lee Rupert Davies Veronica Carlson Michael Ripper Barbara Ewing Barry Andrews
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When Castle Dracula is exorcised by the Monsignor, it accidentally brings the Count back from the dead. Dracula follows the Monsignor back to his hometown, preying on the holy man's beautiful niece and her friends.
Horror
UK
1965
83 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Jill Bennett Patrick Wymark Michael Gough George Coulouris Patrick Magee
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A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.
Horror
UK
1985
92 Minutes
Director
Timothy Dalton Jonathan Pryce Twiggy Julian Sands Stephen Rea Phyllis Logan Lewis Fiander Beryl Reid T.P. McKenna Patrick Stewart Sian Phillips
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done. Based on the horrifying Burke and Hare case.
Horror
UK
1967
93 Minutes
Director
Jack Palance Burgess Meredith Beverly Adams Peter Cushing Barbara Ewing Michael Bryant Maurice Denham John Standing Robert Hutton John Phillips Michael Ripper
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An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.
Horror
UK
1964
97 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing Peter Woodthorpe Duncan Lamont Sandor Eles David Hutcheson James Maxwell
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Upon returning to his home village to continue his experimental research, the destitute Dr. Frankenstein revives his old creature, but a hypnotist wants the monster to control for himself.
Horror
UK
1966
83 Minutes
Director
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Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1965
85 Minutes
Director
Robert Webber Anthony Newlands Jennifer Jayne Maurice Denham Lelia Goldoni Peter Woodthorpe Sandra Boize Sue Lloyd John Arnatt Marianne Stone Irene Richmond
After a car accident in England, an American develops amnesia and tries to find his true identity, using various clues, but ends-up in the midst of a mysterious murder.
Horror
UK
1973
90 Minutes
Director
Donald Pleasence Kim Novak Joan Collins Jack Hawkins Georgia Brown Donald Houston Suzy Kendall Peter McEnery Frank Forsyth Michael Jayston
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A psychiatrist tells stories of four special cases to a colleague.
Horror
UK
1975
88 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing John Hurt Alexandra Bastedo Gwen Watford Veronica Carlson Stewart Bevan Ian McCulloch Don Henderson
A former Priest named Dr. Lawrence harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his savage ... See full summary »
Horror
UK
1967
83 Minutes
Director
Suzanna Leigh Frank Finlay Guy Doleman Catherine Finn John Harvey Michael Ripper Anthony Bailey Tim Barrett James Cossins Frank Forsyth Kay Wild
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
Horror
UK
1970
91 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Michael Gough Bernard Kay David Griffin Kim Braden Joe Cornelius John Hamill Geoffrey Case Thorley Walters Jack May Rona Newton-John
A sympathetic anthropologist uses drugs and surgery to try to communicate with a primitive troglodyte who is found living in a local cave.
Horror
1974
96 Minutes
Director
Jack Palance Diana Dors Julie Ege Trevor Howard Suzy Kendall Michael Jayston Edith Evans
Horror
1973
94 Minutes
Director
Christopher Lee Peter Cushing Lorna Heilbron George Benson Kenneth J. Warren Catherine Finn Michael Ripper Duncan Lamont Harry Locke Jenny Runacre Hedger Wallace
A Victorian scientist (Peter Cushing) injects his daughter (Lorna Heilbron) with the just-add-water essence of evil.
Sci-Fi
1967
85 Minutes
Director
Robert Hutton Jennifer Jayne Zia Mohyeddin Bernard Kay Michael Gough Geoffrey Wallace Maurice Good Luanshiya Greer John Harvey Diana King Paul Bacon
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Caped spacemen need slaves on the moon; a physicist (Robert Hutton) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Jayne) deal with them.
Horror
Philippines
1971
90 Minutes
Director
Pia Degermark Thomas Hunter Ferdinand Mayne Yvor Murillo Ingrid van Bergen Joachim Kemmer Lyvia Bauer Oskar Wegrostek Daria Damar
Horror
1975
90 Minutes
Director
Peter Cushing Ron Moody Hugh Griffith Roy Castle David Rintoul Lynn Dalby
On the trail of a fiend who kills during the full moon, a police officer is led to a French zoo and its keeper.
Documentary
UK
2010
86 Minutes
Jack Cardiff Martin Scorsese Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall John Mills Thelma Schoonmaker Kim Hunter Kathleen Byron Christopher Challis Raffaella De Laurentiis Richard Fleischer
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In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette ... See full summary »