THE NANNY (1965) Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers, Pamela Franklin. After spending two years in a school for disturbed children after he was implicated in the drowning of his sister, ten-year-old Joey returns home where he begins a war of nerves with his Nanny. He's convinced that Nanny i s trying to kill him and that she was the one who murdered his sister. But is Joey telling the truth, and if he is how can he persuade anyone of the danger he's in?

HYSTERIA (1965, also HISTERIA) Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham. The amnesiac Smith turns to psychiatrist Keller for help in restoring his memory. But the manipulative Keller sees Smith as the perfect fall guy for his planned murder of his wife.

DIE DIE MY DARLING (1965 also FANATIC) Stefamie Powers, Tallulah Bankhead, Peter Vaughan, Donald Sutherland. Pat returns to England with her current beau, and she sets out to visit the mother of her old and very dead fiancé Steven. Pat soon discovers that Steve's mom is some religious crackpot named Mrs. Trefoile, who has taken the Bible to an extreme. Mrs. Trefoile intends to purify Pat of her evils, which includes: wearing lipstick, wearing red clothes, and of course not being a virgin. We find out that Pat was not really in love with Mrs. Trefoile's son Steve, who as it turns out, whacked himself. To help keep Pat in line, Mrs. Trefoile has a handyman, a butch looking maid, and a retard.

SHADOW OF THE CAT (1967) (Click on poster to see lobby card set) Conrad Phillips, Barbara Shelley, Andre Morell, Richard Warner, William Lucas. A rich elderly woman is murdered by her relatives for her money. They might get away with it too, except her pet cat Tabitha takes exception to the plot and decides to exact revenge.

THE DEVIL'S BRIDE (1967; THE DEVIL RIDES OUT in the UK) Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Charles Gray, Nike Arraghi. Duc de Richleau, a French nobleman, is asked by his old friend, Rex Van Ryn, to help him rescue their protege Simon from a group of Satanists. The Satanists are led by a charismatic and powerful leader known only as Mocata. At stake is Simon's soul, as well as that of a mysterious young girl named Tanith. This becomes clear when, during a secret ritual, they encounter the "Goat of Mendes," the Devil himself, during the ceremony.      The heroes retreat back to Simon's home, where they discover a "pentacle circle" in the attic. Richeleau has his friends step inside the pentacle as Mocata conjures up apparitions shaped as a large tarantula and the Angel of Death to attack them, but the circle protects them. After a few episodic encounters, de Richeleau and Van Ryn succeed in blocking Mocata's plans and finally sending him back to hell.

THE DEVIL'S OWN (1967 THE WITCHES in the UK) Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell. While working in Africa, school teacher Gwen Mayfield crosses the path of local witch doctor and, as a consequence, suffers a nervous breakdown. She returns to England and takes a teaching post in a small country town, hoping that the tranquility of her new surroundings will help her recover. But those hopes are dashed when she discovers that the village is run by a coven of witches who are planning to sacrifice a young local girl...

THE ANNIVERSARY (1968) Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James Cossins. A possessive and bitter widow tries to gather her three sons back home on the anniversary of her husband's death. One son and his wife are trying to move to Canada, another is a transvestite who steals women's underwear off the neighbor's clotheslines, and the last one has made the mistake of bringing his young girlfriend home for the occasion. As the evening wears on, the tension mounts and the mother is driven to desperate measures to hold the family together.

CRESCENDO (1970) Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire. Music student Susan Roberts travels to the South of France to research her thesis on a little known dead composer. She meets his widow, Danielle, and his strange, wheelchair-bound son, Georges. It soon becomes clear though that things are not that they seem in the dysfunctional household...

DEMONS OF THE MIND (1972) Robin Hardy, Gillian Hills, Shane Bryant. Baron Zorn keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death. Elizabeth escapes for a brief tryst with a local before being recaptured and subjected to a bleeding process to 'draw out the bad blood.' Emil keeps trying to escape, but is thwarted time and again by his aunt Hilda who runs the house like a prison. One reason the siblings have to be kept apart, is their incestuous attraction to each other. Local wenches are being murdered in the woods, and the superstitious peasants think demons are responsible. A wandering Priest dedicates himself to root out the evil, but isn't taken seriously. Arriving at the castle are two more interested parties: Mountebank scientist-huckster Falkenberg stands to make a small fortune if his strange apparatus can cure the children of their inherited evil. Young Carl simply wants to rescue Elizabeth. As more murders mount, Falkenberg enlists village lass Inge to play the dead mother in a psychodrama that he hopes will shock the children from their morbid state; but Baron Zorn's symptoms of derangement soon make it obvious that the doctor is treating the wrong patient.

STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING (1972) Rita Tushingham, Katya Wyeth, Shane Bryant. Shy Brenda Thompson writes naive children's stories to amuse herself. Stifled and desperate for a man of her own, she leaves Liverpool, telling her mom she's pregnant, and gets a job in a boutique in London. She moves in with the promiscuous but good-hearted Caroline but the mod set shuns her for her plain looks. Then she kidnaps a strange young man's dog, so as to perhaps get to know him while returning it. The young man turns out to be Peter, a psychopath with a predilection for killing beautiful things. He renames Brenda Wendy, and they start a hopeful, if strange, relationship. It might have a chance, if it weren't for Peter's murderous secrets.

FEAR IN THE NIGHT (1972) Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson. An isolated all-boys school, a lifeless schoolyard, and a dead body hanging from a tree. Who is it, and how did it get there? London; young Peggy Heller is packing her things, preparing to move in with her newly married husband who works at the previously mentioned prep school. She dismisses her maid, finishes packing...but there is somebody else lurking. Unknowingly, Peggy treads by the bathroom and is then attacked by a gloved madman. As she struggles, she pulls of the murderer's prosthetic arm and is then rendered unconscious. Minutes later, Peggy's maid discovers her in the bathroom and calls a doctor. Peggy tells the doctor of her attack, but both the doctor and her maid believe she was imagining things. 6 months earlier, Peggy was the victim of a nervous breakdown, and may be hallucinating. The next day her husband, Robert, picks her up and they arrive at the beautiful school. Once there, she meets her husband's employer, Headmaster Michael Carmichael, but there is something peculiar about him. He has only one arm, although Peggy does not notice. Peggy is attacked again by the one-armed stalker, but her husband, does not believe her. Michael has to go away to a conference, but someone is lurking. Armed with a rifle, Peggy is determined to fight for her survival, but things are not quite the way they seem.

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (1976) Christopher Lee, Richard Widmark, Nastassja Kinski. Father Michael, an excommunicated priest out to do the Devil's work. Having entered into a pact with the Dark One, Father Michael has agreed to secure a beautiful young virgin to become Satan's child-bride. However, when an occult writer discovers the evil Father's plan, he lies his way into Father Michael's cult to save the young girl from bearing Satan's spawn.

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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