The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

This adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale was directed by James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber. It is a silent movie, with a run time of just thirteen minutes, and offers an interesting interpretation of the story….

Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.

Invisible Ghost (1941)

Bela Lugosi stars as Charles Kessler, a man who has never really got to grips with the fact that his wife has left him. That is the least of his problems though, because there have been a lot of murders recently and they have all taken place on the Kessler estate.

The town’s leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

House on Haunted Hill is quite an atmospheric movie. It has spooky background music, plenty of cobwebs, ceilings that drip blood, and organs that play all by themselves and… oh, I nearly forgot, it also has one of the best horror actors of the day – Vincent Price….

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

City of The Dead (1960)

Also known as City of The Dead, Horror Hotel is a horror movie with a witchcraft theme. Christopher Lee stars.A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

Dementia 13 (1963)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman, Dementia 13 is the story of a greedy young woman who marries into money, but stands to loose it all when her husband dies. Not wanting to miss out, she covers up his death and sets about trying to soft-soap her mother-in-law into writing….

Dementia (1955)

Dementia is a black and white film from 1955. It is a silent film and there is not a single line of dialogue in the entire film, nor are there any storyboards to tell the viewer what is going on. This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman’s nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.