Description: John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, one of the most prolific and famed character actors in Hollywood history. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille’s stock company and later John Ford’s company, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. In the latter decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies, but continued to also appear in higher-profile fare. In total, he holds 351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English-speaking actors of all time. Carradine was married four times, had five children, and was the patriarch of the Carradine family, including four of his sons and four of his grandchildren who are or were also actors. Most notably are his sons: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, and Robert Carradine. note: clicking on the above Names will display their filmographies. As this Playlist primarily reflects his film career, his many TV appearances, Short subjects and most of his voiceover roles have been omitted.
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Daniel Boone
( 1936 )
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Winterset
( 1936 )
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
( 1939 )
Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.
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Stagecoach
( 1939 )
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
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Five Came Back
( 1939 )
A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
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The Grapes of Wrath
( 1940 )
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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Man Hunt
( 1941 )
In July 1939, British hunter Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
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Northwest Rangers
( 1942 )
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions, one a dedicated Royal Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious if well liked gambler.
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Whispering Ghosts
( 1943 )
An actor who plays a detective on a radio show and his sidekick get it into their heads to try to solve a murder that had been committed several years previously.
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
( 1943 )
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
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Captive Wild Woman
( 1943 )
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Hitler's Madman
( 1943 )
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
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Silver Spurs
( 1943 )
Roy's boss has inherited a very large ranch, but the will keeps him from selling it--although his widow could. Lucky Miller is out to get control of the ranch, so he has a girl come West to marry him, then after the wedding he has his henchman kill the owner. Roy is nearby, and when the murder gun is switched with his, he finds himself in jail.
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Isle of Forgotten Sins
( 1943 )
The owner of a seedy dive and brothel on a South Seas island meets two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship with a $3-million cargo of gold. She persuades them to let her in on the deal. Complications ensue because of intrigue, double-crosses and an approaching violent monsoon.
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Revenge of the Zombies
( 1943 )
After the death of Max's spouse, Lila, Max holds a funeral for her, but he has also reanimates her as a zombie. He is amazed when Lila show signs of free will and challenges him for control.
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Gangway for Tomorrow
( 1943 )
On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
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Voodoo Man
( 1944 )
Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo and hypnosis in an attempt to revive his dead wife by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion.
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The Black Parachute
( 1944 )
An imprisoned King must be rescued from the Nazi general holding him captive.
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Waterfront
( 1944 )
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his codebook, and he must get it back.
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The Mummy's Ghost
( 1944 )
Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
( 1944 )
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
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Return of the Ape Man
( 1944 )
A scientist seeks to transplant a brain into the body of a thawed caveman in order to get it to do his bidding.
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Barbary Coast Gent
( 1944 )
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Bluebeard
( 1944 )
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
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Alaska
( 1944 )
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
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House of Frankenstein
( 1944 )
A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
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House of Dracula
( 1945 )
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
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The Face of Marble
( 1946 )
Dr. Randolph is so obsessed with re-animating the dead in his isolated old dark house and lab that he doesn't realize his wife is in love with his younger assistant.
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Down Missouri Way
( 1946 )
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
( 1947 )
In 1880, in Paris, chance brought together two former comrades-in-arms - Charles Forestier, who had become a journalist for "La Vie française" - and Georges Duroy, idle since leaving the sixth regiment of hussars.
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#Dupe#
( 1947 )
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafes and Folies Bergere crowd, and then moves on to dally with Clotilde de Morelle (Angela Lansbury.) Always striving to move upward on the social scale, he ditches her to marry Madeleine Forestier (Ann Dvorak). Now he gets on the fast track. He persuades Madame Walter (Katherine Emery), the wife of his publisher, to fall in love with him, and then compromises Madeleine to frame a divorce, so he can pursue Madame Walter's daughter, Suzanne (Susan Douglas, before somebody decided her later-married name was her most-often used screen name.) He moves along so well that ere long he is in legal position to usurp the title of one of France's most noble houses. The moral, at the end, is it is okay to mess with French women, but triffling with French titles is going too far.
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A Christmas Carol
( 1947 )
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past,...Read all
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'C'-Man
( 1950 )
A Treasury Department agent is murdered. His best friend, a fellow agent, investigates and stumbles into a scheme involving smuggling and murder.
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Dark Venture
( 1956 )
An intrepid reporter embarks on an African safari, hoping to locate a place of lore known as "The Elephant's Graveyard". During his adventure, he must face the aggressive hostilities of the regional tribesmen as well as the many dangers of the savage jungle.
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Hidden Guns
( 1956 )
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
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Desert Sands
( 1956 )
The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
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Female Jungle
( 1955 )
Several persons, including an off duty policeman and a weird rich guy, are suspects in the murder of a beautiful actress.
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The Unearthly
( 1957 )
Mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls, with disastrous results.
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The Black Sleep
( 1956 )
Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
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Hell Ship Mutiny
( 1957 )
Jim Knight is the captain of a ship trading in the South Seas. He runs into trouble when he makes port at an island where crooks Malone and Ross hold the natives under their cruel domination while they seek a fortune in pearls. Knight and his crew are taken prisoners and he falls for native princess Mareva, and her non-plump charms are more than enough motivation for ...Read all
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Showdown at Boot Hill
( 1958 )
A deputy marshal kills a murderer in a town that loved him, and when no one is willing to identify him, he can't collect any reward.
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Half Human
( 1958 )
Japanese villagers worship a monster and its son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster, and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts.
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The Cosmic Man
( 1959 )
A spherical UFO proves to contain one alien visitor. How to deal with him? Investigators disagree...
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Tarzan the Magnificent
( 1960 )
A clever crook and a romantic triangle complicate Tarzan's efforts to bring a wanted criminal to justice.
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The Incredible Petrified World
( 1959 )
When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.
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The Wizard of Mars
( 1965 )
In 1975, four astronauts, Dorothy, Doc, Charlie, and Steve, crash land on Mars when taking readings, with only four days of supplies.
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Curse of the Stone Hand
( 1965 )
Compilation of two Chilean titles, the first adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club," the second the tale of younger siblings dominated by their evil elder brother.
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
( 1966 )
Dracula travels to the American Old West, intent on making a young and beautiful female ranch owner his vampire bride. Her fiance, the reformed outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
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Red Zone Cuba
( 1966 )
Escaped convict Griffin and his friends ran all the way to Hell...with a penny, and a broken cigarette.
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Gallery of Horror
( 1967 )
"Gallery of Horror" is a 1967 anthology horror movie with John Carradine narrating five horror tales with macabre twists.
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The Hostage
( 1967 )
Pesky little boy Davey Cleaves stows away on a moving truck that's driven by volatile psychopath Bull and his meek partner Eddie. Naturally, Davey finds himself in considerable danger after he's discovered by the two no-count criminals.
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The Astro-Zombies
( 1968 )
The Plan - to build a super human. How? By murdering innocent, convenient victims, and using various bits of them. The result? Creatures on the rampage.
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Diabolical Pact
( 1969 )
A crazed doctor performs gruesome experiments in his search for a youth serum.
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Las vampiras
( 1969 )
A wrestler (Mil Máscaras) tries to break up a covey of vampires, led by the King of Vampires (Carradine)
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Blood of Dracula's Castle
( 1969 )
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
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Madame Death
( 1969 )
A mad scientist teams with an evil, disfigured woman to kidnap and operate on young women to make her look beautiful again.
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Five Bloody Graves
( 1970 )
A former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissaries on Earth, to do a large harvest of souls.
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Horror of the Blood Monsters
( 1974 )
In the near future with a intergalactic vampire plague threatening earth, an expedition is sent to a distant galaxy in hopes of discovering the plague's source. Landing on a mysterious planet they discover that Spectrum radiation has turned the atmosphere into a one-color tint. Exploring further, the group discovers living dinosaurs, a race of vampire cavemen, and oth...Read all
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Blood of the Iron Maiden
( 1970 )
A crazed movie director (Marvin Miller), aided by a deranged doctor (John Carradine), gives LSD to aspiring actresses before murdering them with an iron maiden in his torture chamber.
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Bigfoot
( 1970 )
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
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Crowhaven Farm
( 1970 )
A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
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Cain's Cutthroats
( 1971 )
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cai...Read all
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Shinbone Alley
( 1971 )
A newspaper man is reincarnated as a cockroach and makes friends with a free-spirited female alley cat.
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Blood of Ghastly Horror
( 1967 )
A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
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Shadow House (Short 1973)
A domineering wife puts pressure on her weak-willed, submissive husband to kill an old man who she believes has a treasure trove hidden somewhere.
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The Cat Creature
( 1973 )
A deceased rich man's collection is the key to solving a string of murder committed by a mysterious black cat
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The House of Seven Corpses
( 1973 )
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole...Read all
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Moonchild
( 1972 )
A young artists spends the night at a mysterious inn, where he meets a group of strange, sullen people, among them the innkeeper's beautiful daughter. What he doesn't know is that he has wandered into a kind of spiritual void, and the inn's residents are engaging in a battle over his soul.
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Terror in the Wax Museum
( 1974 )
The murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own the museum or if Jack the Ripper has returned to killing after a hiatus of ten years.
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The Lady's Not for Burning
( 1974 )
A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.
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Captains and the Kings
( 1976 )
The serialization of Taylor Caldwell's novel about an Irish immigrant and the establishment of his family name through the accumulation of wealth and power during the years from 1857 to 1912, along with his goal of having his son elected the first Catholic President of the United States.
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Satan's Cheerleaders
( 1977 )
The cheer-leading squad gets kidnapped by a janitor working for Satanists needing a virgin sacrifice, but one of the cheerleaders is a witch.
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Shock Waves
( 1977 )
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.
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Vampire Hookers
( 1978 )
Carradine is an aged vampire who has a bevy of vampiric beauties who lure many of their customers back to his lair. A pair of virile young Navy sailors get mixed up in their shenanigans.
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
( 1975 )
An American artist with a penchant for drinking blood begins seducing and dispatching residents of a small fishing town in Mexico.
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The Bees
( 1978 )
When South America killer bees corporately smuggled into the United States mutate into intelligent insects and attacks helpless people, young scientists work desperately to end the threat as the menace swarms in on the city areas.
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Nocturna
( 1979 )
Dracula's granddaughter falls in love with a disco guitarist and runs away to New York City with him.
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The Tehran Incident
( 1979 )
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
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Monstroid
( 1980 )
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
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The Boogey Man
( 1980 )
Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.
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The Monster Club
( 1981 )
A horror writer is summoned to a "monster club" by an enigmatic elder. There, three macabre tales unfold before him, interspersed with musical interludes. The convergence of storytelling and performance creates an eerie atmosphere.
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The Nesting
( 1981 )
A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. She doesn't know that the house is a former brothel, and is inhabited by the ghosts of dead prostitutes.
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Goliath Awaits
( 1981 )
During World War II, the passenger liner Goliath is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades they build a rigidly regulated society completely isolated from the surface world, until in contemporary times a diving team begins to explore the wreck.
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Doctor Dracula
( 1983 )
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
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Evils of the Night
( 1985 )
Vacationing teens are systematically kidnapped and taken to a strange, rural hospital, run by a mysterious group that needs their blood.
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Klynham Summer
( 1984 )
The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer's path.
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Revenge
( 1986 )
A Cult of devil-worshippers prey on students for human sacrifice.
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The Tomb
( 1986 )
A tomb robber steals artifacts from an unmarked tomb in Egypt and sells them to different archeologists in America. This displeases the immortal woman whose tomb has been desecrated, so she follows the artifacts to America, where she busies herself extracting revenge for the theft.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
( 1986 )
Peggy Sue, on the verge of a divorce, faints at her 25th high school reunion, and wakes up to find herself back in 1960, leading her to try to spot and correct the mistakes that led to disappointments and an unhappy marriage.
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Monster in the Closet
( 1987 )
Paul Dooley, Paul Walker, John Carradine and Henry Gibson head up an all-star cast in this horror-comedy about a murderous but misunderstood monster!
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