HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959) Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee. Sherlock Holmes, Hammer style. The plot concerns a supposed curse on the Baskerville family line. Doctor Mortimer believes that the recently deceased Sir Charles Baskerville died because of his encounter with a hellhound that comes to claim all the heirs to the Baskerville title. Hoping to prevent another tragedy, Mortimer engages the services of Sherlock Holmes to protect Sir Henry Baskerville, recently arrived from South Africa to claim his Uncle’s title and estate.

MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959) Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee. Dr Georges Bonner has found that regular replacements of certain glands every decade will retard the aging process. He's lived to 104 years old and is nearing the time for his next operation but his now aged partner, Dr Ludwig Weiss is unexpectedly delayed by a stroke and Bonner has to turn to murder in order to obtain a glandular fluid vital to his process. Complications set in when Bonner tries to persuade another doctor, Pierre to take over the operation and Bonner's former fiancé, Janine catches up with him.

THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY (1960) Guy Rolfe, Jan Holden, Andrew Cruickshank, George Pastell. The British East India Company is disturbed by a number of unexplained disappearances of travelers in India and sends military officer Connaught-Smith to investigate. Captain Lewis is dismayed that the relatively inexperienced Connaught-Smith has been assigned to the case and when his servant goes missing, Lewis carries out his own investigation and discovers a cult of murderous Thuggees.

THE TERROR OF THE TONGS (1961) Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Toone, Yvonne Monlaur. In Hong Kong, 1900, the Red Dragon Tong kill Helena, the daughter of a British sailor, Captain Jackson. Seeking vengeance, Jackson begins to track down the shadowy organisation via one of its 'collectors'. Eventually he traces the gang to its lair but is captured by its evil leader, Chung King and is tortured. He is rescued by an undercover anti-tong agent but is a marked man, uncovering Tong corruption in even the upper echelons of the East India Trading Company.

SCREAM OF FEAR (1961, also TASTE OF FEAR) Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee. A wheelchair-bound young woman named Penny goes to visit her stepmother and her father's Riviera resort. Although she is told he is away on business, his corpse appears throughout the mansion.

NIGHT CREATURES (1962 CAPT. CLEGG in the UK) Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Michael Ripper, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain. Dymchurch, 1792: villagers are being terrified by 'marsh phantoms', sinister figures that only come out at nights to stalk the nearby Romney Marshes. Captain Collier is sent to investigate with a team of revenue men and uncovers a smuggling ring run by the village vicar, Dr Blyss...

PARANOIC (1963) Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham. A long time ago Simon's parents died and shortly thereafter Antony committed `suicide'. Simon's sister is considered insane and one day as she is about to commit suicide herself she is rescued by long dead brother Antony. Everyone eventually is convinced of Antony's authenticity except for Simon because only he knows the shocking truth.

THE DAMNED (1963) Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox. In Weymouth, American Simon Wells is attacked by a gang of local thugs led by the brutal King, who resents Wells flirting with his sister Joanie. When King and his gang later try to attack Wells again, he and Joanie fall from a cliff and are rescued by a group of children who emerge from a nearby research facility run by scientist Bernard. The children are the radioactive subjects of experiments being run by Bernard, the offspring of women exposed to high levels of radiation to produce children capable of surviving a nuclear war.

THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1963) Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns. Tom Penderel is asked by his flat mate to deliver a car to his ancestral home, Femm Hall on Dartmoor and meets the eccentric Femm family. He soon realises that a vast inheritance has been left to the house itself and the family must remain in the house each night until midnight to claim their share of the fortune. Before long, the bodies are starting to pile up...

THE MANIAC (1963) Kerwin Matthews, Norman Bird, Liliane Brousse, Nadia Gray. In the south of France, a vengeful Georges Beynat murders the rapist of his daughter with a blowtorch. Four years later, American artist Geoffrey Farrell is drawn into a web of intrigue by Eve Beynat who, with her lover Henri, plans to frame him for the murder of her now deranged husband.

NIGHTMARE (1964) David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce. Schoolgirl Janet is so traumatised by witnessing her mother murdering her father that she starts to have visions that she will end up a killer herself and will end up in a psychiatric institution. Driven to distraction by a series of strange happenings, Janet stabs to death Helen Baxter, the wife of her guardian, Henry. With the help of a sympathetic teacher, Janet starts to uncover a cruel conspiracy against her...

NOTE:Plot summaries taken from pressbooks, The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Films and TV (Roger Keightley; Kevin Lyons, contributors), Scanner Communications, (c) 2000 - 2002, IMDb and from various internet video review sites.

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