Horror Hotel Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson) makes a deadly mistake when she decides to spend her college vacation researching witchcraft in the spooky town of Whitewood, Massachusetts. Bathed in a thick fog, the village has a foreboding quality that Nan discovers goes much deeper than its appearance. Whitewood's residents are strange, especially Raven's Inn owner, Mrs. Newlis (Patricia Jessel), whom Nan discovers is a 268-year-old witch that, after being burned at the stake, sold her soul to the devil in exchange for eternal life. The entire village belongs to Mrs. Newlis's coven, including Nan's innocent-appearing history professor (Christopher Lee). But if all that weren't shocking enough, Nan makes the most terrifying discovery of all - she's been marked for sacrifice. The Devil's Hand When an unsuspecting window-shopper named Rick (Robert Alda) happens upon an unusual boutique, he's immediately drawn to an extraordinary doll the proprietor tells him was made in the likeness of a woman named Bianca (Linda Christian). Owner of the specialty doll shop by day, Frank Lamont (Neil Hamilton) is the "High Executioner" of a satanic chapel by night. Hoping to lure Rick into his cult, Frank gives him the woman's address. When Rick goes to see her, he's immediately enchanted by Bianca's beauty. High-priestess of the cult, she promises her undying love, if only he will join them. Thoroughly bewitched, Rick realizes he must somehow break Bianca's spell after learning the cultists have kidnapped his girlfriend (Ariadna Welter) for sacrifice. A Bucket Of Blood No matter how hard Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) tries to fit in, he just can't seem to get it right. A nerdy waiter at a hip, beatnik hang-out, Walter is exceedingly jealous of the artistic types that frequent his workplace. But in a bizarre twist of fate, Walter gets the attention he's always craved after he accidentally kills his landlord's cat. In an attempt to hide his misdeed, Walter covers the cat in clay, thus producing a macabre work-of-art the beatniks go wild over. Praised and admired for his "artistic" talents, Walter has only one dilemma: where to get another corpse for his next sculpture. The problem is solved when Walter introduces a nosy cop to the blunt side of a cast-iron skillet. From there on out, the crazed pseudo-artist begins whacking his competition as the demand for sculptures grows. I Bury The Living On the level of Hitchcock's bizarre-but-brilliant chillers, I Bury the Living is a suspenseful masterpiece that is centered on main character Robert Kraft (Richard Boone), the chairman of a sprawling cemetery who begins to lose his grip on reality. When Robert accidentally mixes up the pins representing the purchased, but unoccupied, burial lots with the occupied ones on a large wall map of the cemetery, the plot owners begin to drop like flies - and Robert begins to believe he's God. As the bodies pile up, the mystery delves deeper until an astonishing secret is revealed. But will the truth be enough to shake Robert from his warped delusions? |