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Peacock Premium
85
8.3
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80
/4195/
75
/1107/
3.9
/147696/
100
/28/
94
/91/
cc age 4+

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
poster
85
7.8
/58265/
74
/1385/
75
/1072/
4.0
/125566/
98
/57/
87
/1148/
95
/16/
cc age 9+

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
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YouTube TV
82
7.7
/87069/
74
/2244/
74
/1748/
3.8
/208369/
94
/94/
87
/1589/
91
/15/
cc age 10+

Frankenstein (1931)
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/33034/
74
/729/
74
/661/
3.8
/50787/
98
/51/
87
/796/
90
/12/

Scarface (1932)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Hoopla
75
7.3
/13411/
72
/316/
70
/228/
4.0
/39895/
89
/35/
81
/194/

Targets (1968)
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
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Amazon Prime Video
75
74
7.0
/15706/
69
/385/
72
/478/
3.6
/34274/
89
/19/
76
/246/
82
/8/

Black Sabbath (1963)
Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.
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Kanopy
73
7.0
/14593/
68
/405/
67
/291/
3.5
/30855/
97
/30/
70
/193/

The Old Dark House (1932)
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
poster
71
7.0
/441/
61
/13/
61
/8/
3.4
/243/
100
/42/
90
/607/

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
poster
74
71
7.0
/13204/
69
/322/
67
/270/
3.4
/16414/
95
/38/
72
/234/

Son of Frankenstein (1939)
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
poster
71
6.9
/14327/
65
/416/
67
/299/
3.5
/30885/
89
/36/
69
/206/

The Black Cat (1934)
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
poster
71
6.9
/32978/
67
/921/
67
/678/
3.3
/53825/
89
/47/
71
/562/
cc age 9+

The Mummy (1932)
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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74
70
7.3
/11170/
71
/225/
70
/198/
3.6
/12391/
86
/22/
75
/178/
74
/10/

The Body Snatcher (1945)
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
67
6.5
/7783/
66
/219/
65
/163/
3.2
/7874/
100
/9/
69
/93/

The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
67
6.5
/15008/
66
/357/
63
/272/
3.2
/16242/
88
/17/
64
/231/

The Raven (1963)
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
66
7.0
/5668/
69
/107/
62
/95/
3.5
/8126/
100
/7/
72
/56/

Lured (1947)
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
66
6.9
/7485/
68
/183/
68
/136/
3.4
/5144/
75
/12/
80
/183/

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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66
61
6.8
/7225/
67
/181/
66
/151/
3.3
/11754/
79
/29/
73
/108/
44
/5/

The Raven (1935)
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
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69
60
6.8
/4733/
67
/86/
66
/82/
3.4
/3802/
90
/21/
56
/83/

Bedlam (1946)
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
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72
59
6.8
/3921/
66
/69/
65
/74/
3.4
/2598/
100
/7/
65
/25/

The Lost Patrol (1934)
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
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65
59
6.5
/5762/
61
/113/
60
/115/
3.3
/7290/
90
/21/
53
/92/
61
/6/

Isle of the Dead (1945)
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
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Plex
67
59
6.6
/3947/
70
/142/
66
/75/
3.3
/7244/
67
/9/
68
/158/
cc age 6+

Mad Monster Party? (1967)
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
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64
59
6.4
/5487/
67
/200/
62
/89/
3.1
/3643/
67
/9/
62
/75/

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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66
56
6.3
/3298/
63
/83/
59
/57/
3.1
/3109/
100
/6/
51
/46/

Black Friday (1940)
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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68
54
6.2
/2672/
66
/58/
61
/67/
3.2
/1904/
100
/13/
60
/30/

The Sorcerers (1967)
An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
poster
64
54
6.6
/3587/
68
/152/
63
/94/
3.4
/9114/
60
/32/

The Walking Dead (1936)
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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Kanopy
61
54
6.3
/4819/
63
/123/
63
/111/
3.4
/7531/
63
/8/
49
/69/

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
poster
61
53
6.2
/4061/
60
/91/
54
/86/
3.0
/2595/
78
/9/
52
/64/

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
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57
53
6.2
/8580/
60
/225/
60
/179/
3.0
/10095/
55
/11/
47
/169/

House of Frankenstein (1944)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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75
53
7.3
/2781/
72
/36/
65
/43/
3.6
/1937/
91
/11/
79
/17/

Five Star Final (1931)
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
poster
64
53
6.7
/4500/
67
/123/
65
/56/
3.2
/2508/
62
/48/

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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61
52
6.5
/3442/
65
/88/
63
/59/
3.1
/2973/
63
/8/
53
/48/

The Invisible Ray (1936)
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
poster
70
52
6.9
/3233/
73
/92/
63
/60/
3.3
/1105/
86
/7/
67
/24/

Unconquered (1947)
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
poster
65
51
6.6
/2418/
62
/49/
60
/46/
3.2
/2019/
83
/6/
59
/38/

Tower of London (1939)
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
poster
JustWatch TV
57
51
6.0
/5259/
61
/154/
57
/100/
2.8
/6871/
60
/10/
48
/79/

The Mummy's Hand (1940)
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
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Amazon Prime Video
58
51
6.2
/5048/
64
/133/
62
/117/
3.2
/5827/
50
/6/
49
/97/

Madhouse (1974)
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
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Amazon Prime Video
58
50
5.6
/4070/
59
/100/
56
/65/
3.0
/3606/
78
/9/
40
/78/

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
poster
69
50
7.2
/2035/
66
/39/
68
/37/
3.5
/1228/
67
/6/
74
/71/

The American Nightmare (2000)
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
poster
65
48
6.9
/2718/
63
/51/
64
/59/
3.4
/2315/
65
/27/

The Black Room (1935)
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
poster
68
48
6.8
/2196/
67
/52/
66
/46/
3.4
/2091/
71
/7/
72
/20/

The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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Criterion Channel
59
44
6.4
/2535/
56
/40/
61
/49/
3.2
/2204/
50
/1677/

Corridors of Blood (1963)
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.
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Amazon Prime Video
52
42
5.8
/3692/
57
/72/
55
/60/
2.8
/3013/
36
/1498/

The Ghoul (1933)
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
poster
Criterion Channel
57
41
6.2
/2386/
62
/61/
59
/39/
3.0
/2866/
44
/30/

Grip of the Strangler (1958)
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
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Amazon Prime Video
46
41
5.1
/9252/
55
/156/
51
/171/
2.8
/9111/
45
/11/
22
/214/

The Terror (1963)
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
40
5.5
/3506/
57
/81/
52
/77/
2.9
/3761/
30
/270/

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
poster
82
39
7.0
/100/
76
/6/
81
/5/
3.6
/634/
100
/28/
94
/92/

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition (1994)
Phil Hartman hosts this retrospective look back at the legacy and making of the classic 1966 holiday special 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'
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Criterion Channel
62
39
6.9
/1724/
64
/28/
60
/33/
3.5
/2666/
50
/53/

The Criminal Code (1931)
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
poster
63
39
6.8
/2459/
67
/28/
69
/27/
3.2
/1464/
49
/347/

Smart Money (1931)
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
poster
77
38
7.1
/387/
68
/16/
77
/10/
3.4
/402/
94
/96/
87
/1600/

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (2002)
The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.


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