A Century of Horror
1960s
Targets
Peter Bogdanovich was famously given two stipulations from producer Roger Corman when starting Targets. You gotta film two days with Boris Karloff, and you gotta use 14 minutes of footage from The Terror. From those rules, he turned in one of the first modern masterpieces about the changing guard of horror. Karloff plays an old-time horror actor who is confronted with the true terror of a purposeless mass sniper who murders his family and then starts picking off people on the freeway and at a climactic drive-in movie.
Spider Baby: Or The Maddest Story Ever Told
A ‘60s update on The Old Dark House, Spider Baby is exploitation-master Jack Hill’s weirdest and wildest film. Lon Chaney Jr. is trying his best to keep control of the Merrye family, who’ve been cursed with insanity that kicks in at 10 years old and gets stronger the older they get.
Orgy of the Dead
Another movie I don’t know if I’d recommend in polite company, but nobody who’s this deep on the Halloween Haven website is polite company. This is less a movie and more 10 burlesque performances done in a shoddy smoke-filled cemetery set with some truly poetic Ed Wood dialog connecting all the dancing. The perfect accompaniment for a very particular tone of Halloween party.
Castle of Blood
A journalist bets Edgar Allan Poe that ghosts aren’t real and an eavesdropper convinces him to spend the night in his haunted house. A bunch of ghosts pop in to say “boo!” in a truly atmospheric castle and Barbara Steele is a ghost who’s got to help him escape. If you need more information than this, we do not have the same taste.
Also Recommended
The Monster of Camp Sunshine, Psycho, Kill Baby Kill!, Black Sabbath, Night of the Living Dead, Orgy of the Dead, Planet of the Vampires, Blood and Black Lace, Black Sunday, Masque of the Red Death, Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, The Whip and the Body, The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales, Viy, The Haunting, The Tomb of Ligea, House of Usher, The Last Man on Earth, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, Spirits of the Dead, It!, The Raven, The Gorgon, Witchfinder General, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Homicidal, Eyes Without a Face, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Curse of the Fly, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Diary of a Madman, Brides of Frankenstein, Devil Doll, Doctor of Doom, The Curse of the Werewolf, Dracula Prince of Darkness, 13 Ghosts