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All the greatest Classic Hollywood titles streaming now: TCM Select, Criterion Channel, and arthouse, cult, docs & foreign favorites.

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Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here in GUNGA DIN ('39)

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Kaidan aka Kwaidan (1964), dir. Masaki Kobayashi

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La Mujer sin Cabeza (Lucrecia Martel) (2008)

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Vampyr (1932) 

dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (x)

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From a million years back…Horror explodes into today!

Trog (1970)

Joan Crawford’s last movie

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Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964)

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A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)

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Veronica Lake in I Married a Witch (1942)

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The Lure // Agnieszka Smoczynska // 2015

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VAL LEWTON was one of that fairly rare species, a truly creative producer. As such, he was able to achieve an outstanding reputation for the high quality, unusual, and interesting “B” pictures he produced at RKO Studios starting in the early 1940s. He brought something new to the so-called horror films. They were a rare breed–the “psychological” horror film where the tension and fear were generated not by monsters and special effects but by suggestion, the fear of the unknown. As such they are chilling and frightening films. – Robert Wise

Horror too often is played for revulsion. Val used to say that the audience is the most important actor in the theatre, if you give it a chance. Let the audience fill in the details, Val said. If you do everything for them, the power of suggestion doesn’t come into play…stimulate their imaginations… outline the details. – Boris Karloff

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Ingrid Bergman in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

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Horror History: The 1920s, the Silent Era. Films Featured (not in order): Nosferatu (1922), The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Haxan (1922), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), The Golem (1920), The Hands of Orlac (1924), The Man Who Laughs (1928).

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“If only it was the picture who was to grow old, and I remain young. There’s nothing in the world I wouldn’t give for that. Yes, I would give even my soul for it…” - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

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I like the dark. It’s friendly. 

Cat People (1942) dir. Jacques Tourneur

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laboratories in old horror movies

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