Freddie Francis
1) Dune
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
MacLachlan is Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, who struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Barkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1051
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A notorious true story set in Victorian England. When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship"--Container....
4) Glory
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Robert Gould Shaw and Cabot Forbes are two idealistic young Bostonians that lead the regiment; Sergeant Major John Rawlins is the inspiration who unites the troops; Private Trip is a runaway slave who joins the regiment.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Set in nineteenth-century England, this gothic ghost story centers around a governess taking care of two orphans in a foreboding Victorian mansion. As eerie apparitions appear and the children's behavior becomes strange, the governess begins to wonder about the fate of the previous governess and her sadistic lover. Could it be that their restless spirits are trying to corrupt the innocence of the children, or is this 'haunting' a product of her own...
8) Draculas
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Four films about Dracula.
10) Glory
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. Robert Gould Shaw and Cabot Forbes are two idealistic young Bostonians that lead the regiment; Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins is the inspiration who unites the troops; Pvt. Trip is a runaway slave who joins the regiment.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Dracula has risen from the grave : When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young neice his bride.
Horror of Dracula : Christopher Lee as the centuries-old vampire Dracula and Peter Cushing as his implacable foe Van Helsing battle for the souls of Londoners in the retelling of Bram Stoker's novel.
The curse of Frankenstein : Victor Frankenstein builds...
Series
Criterion collection volume 768
Language
English
Formats
Description
A parallel narrative of a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and of the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair.
13) Cape Fear
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Vicious psychopath Max Cady emerges after being imprisoned for fourteen years with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney, Sam Bowden. Realizing he is legally powerless to protect his beautiful wife Leigh and his troubled teenage daughter Danielle against Max's relentless psychological torment, Sam resorts to unorthodox measures, leading to an unforgettable action packed showdown on Cape Fear"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Six men share a railway compartment. One of them introduces himself as Dr. Terror and takes out a deck of Tarot cards. He calls the cards his "house of horrors" and explains that the cards are used to predict the future. Dr. Terror predicts grotesque deaths for all five men.
17) Nightmare
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As a child, Janet witnessed an unbearable horror her insane mother stabbing her father to death. Now a young woman, Janet suffers from recurring nightmares that have her convinced that she'll follow her mother to the asylum. Accompanied by her schoolteacher, Miss Lewis, Janet retreats to the home of her guardian, who has hired lovely Grace as a companion to help calm his troubled ward. But Janet's nightly terrors, magnified by the eerie, creaky old...
18) The innocents
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
19) The psychopath
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of WW II are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.