Boris Karloff

The grouchy Grinch tries to stop Christmas from coming to Whoville, but the Whos teach him the true meaning of Christmas instead.

One of the great horror anthology films, and Bava's personal favorite of his works, Black sabbath solidified the director's reputation as Europe's maestro of the macabre. In "The telephone," a woman is haunted by menacing phone calls from a former lover. "The Wurdulak" stars Boris Karloff as a vampire hunter whose family is stalked by the wandering spirit of an undead ghoul. "A drop of water" involves a nurse who steals a ring from a corpse-not realizing...

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.

Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster in his laboratory but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast.

When Dr. Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls a convention of monsters to elect his successor.

The ape (1940, 62 min.): Boris Karloff roams the streets at night in an ape skin killing to obtain a curing serum for a crippling spinal disease which killed his wife and daughter. The ghoul (1934, 73 min.): an eccentric English Egyptologist believes he must be buried with a rare scarab to avoid an ancient curse. After his death, thieves try to steel the treasure. The terror (1963, 81 min., col.): A young officer (Jack Nicholson) in Napoleon's army...

The ape: An evil doctor disguises himself with the pelt of a slain circus ape in order to murder his victims for their spinal fluid for his research. Doomed to die: Asian detective James Lee Wong investigates the murder of an unscrupulous shipping tycoon whose son is the prime suspect. The fatal hour: Detective Wong investigates the murder of a police officer, assisted by a crusty police captain and a brash cub reporter.

Every Who down in Who-ville likes Christmas a lot, but the Grinch who lives just north of Who-ville does not! So the cuddly as a cactus Grinch (with termites in his smile and garlic in his soul) tries to wipe out Christmas for the cheerful Who-villians, only to discover maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more. Special features include: Dr. Seuss and the Grinch; From Whoville to Hollywood; and much more.

The Bells (68 min.). An ambitious innkeeper murders a wealthy traveller to settle his debts and is haunted by a hypnotist in a traveling carnival. His conscience is tormented by an apparition of the dead man seeking a confession of his own. At 3:25 (19 min.). A surreal fantasy in which an eccentric scientist freezes the population of Paris with a mechanical ray of his own invention. The American edition of the French film.