WATCHknownNight of the Demon
1957 · UK · 95m
The runic parchment, the smoke on the railway line, and a monster the producer added against the director's wishes.
The films
486 entries, from the 1931 Universal cycle to last year. Curated, not exhaustive: a short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate.
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WATCHknownThe Bad Seed
1956 · USA · 117m
The Production Code would not let a child murderer go free, so it ends with a spanking. See it anyway.
WATCHknownThe Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · UK · 82m
The film that made Hammer, made in colour, with blood that looks like blood.
WATCHcanonCreature from the Black Lagoon
1954 · USA · 79m
The last great Universal monster, and a suit design nobody has improved on in seventy years.
WATCHcanonHorror of Dracula
1958 · UK · 85m
Christopher Lee plays Dracula as a physical threat rather than a foreign gentleman, and it is over in 82 minutes.
WATCHcanonLes Diaboliques
1955 · France · 114m
The film Hitchcock tried to buy and missed. Ends with a title card asking you not to spoil it.
WATCHcanonInvasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · USA · 80m
The best paranoia film ever made, and it works whichever politics you bring to it.
WATCHcanonGodzilla
1954 · Japan · 100m
A serious film about the atomic bomb with a man in a suit in it, and the American recut removed most of what mattered.