Exploitation films

The House That Dripped Blood

Four Robert Bloch stories, Cushing and Lee on hand, and barely a drop of the title's blood.

The Whip and the Body

Bava and Christopher Lee doing sadomasochism the censors did not catch.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

The film that invented the Amicus anthology, dealt out as tarot on a train.

Hercules in the Haunted World

Bava shoots Hades in gel colours. Looks like nothing else in the cycle.

Black Sabbath

Three stories, one Karloff. The Wurdulak segment is the best thing Bava shot.

The Vampire Lovers

Hammer clocks that the censors have loosened and sends Ingrid Pitt to make the most of it.

Vampyros Lesbos

Franco's most watchable. The soundtrack outlived the film by decades.

Inferno

Argento's sequel to Suspiria. Even less plot, even more colour. A building that is alive.

Black Sunday

Bava's debut as director. Barbara Steele and a mask full of spikes.

The Curse of Frankenstein

The film that built Hammer, in blood-red colour the censors hated.