Saturday, October 31, 2026

Friday, October 30 - Treasure of Fear (Scared Stiff)

Scared Stiff (1945)

It's about a chess expert, an antique dealer, a lady detective and a boy prodigy, and the action takes place in a winery owned by a couple of elderly eccentrics. The latter have come into possession of a set of rare old chessmen, and, for one reason or another, all the others in the cast are out to get hold of the chessmen.

Friday, October 30, 2026

Thursday, October 29 - The Veil: Girl on the Road


John Prescott is driving back to Boston when he helps a stranded young woman named Lila Kirby , whose car has run out of gas.

John takes Lila to a local bar for a drink. When the bartender mentions or calls for a man named Morgan Debs, Lila panics and flees, though she promises to meet John later at a spot called Lookout Point.

At Lookout Point, John meets the wheelchair-bound Morgan Debs, who reveals a shocking truth. Lila had actually died three years earlier when she drove off the edge of Lookout Point—an accident that also left Debs disabled. John later finds Lila's wrecked car at the bottom of the cliff.

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Wednesday, October 28 - Chamber of Horrors


The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace, the story blends "old dark house" tropes with macabre crime fiction. Upon his deathbed in 1928, the wealthy patriarch Lord Selford demands to be entombed alongside a massive fortune in family jewels. The tomb is secured by seven separate locks, and the seven accompanying keys are distributed among different trustees and descendants.

Ten years later, Canadian heiress June Lansdowne (played by Lilli Palmer) returns to England and receives a mysterious key, drawing her into a dangerous conspiracy. As she and a team of investigators try to unravel the mystery of the missing keys, they cross paths with Dr. Manetta (Leslie Banks), a devious and sadistic physician who operates a hidden underground torture chamber.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Tuesday, October 27 - Meet the Wildcat

Meet the Wildcat (1940)

One day in Mexico, magazine photographer Ann Larkin is in a museum when she happens to see a man steal a painting. Pursuing and accusing him, she believes the man, Brod Williams, to be a notorious art thief known only as "The Wildcat."

Brod brings the stolen painting to Leon Dumeray, a gallery owner. Dumeray recognizes it as stolen property and notifies the police, who place Brod under arrest. Ann comes to visit Brod in jail, but after complying with his request to bring him a pineapple from a local fruit stand, she is shocked to find a gun has been hidden inside it. Brod makes a daring escape, forcing Ann to switch clothing with him and fleeing the jail dressed as a woman.

Law authorities later congratulate Brod on his scheme. He is actually a police detective from New York City who is trying to smoke out Dumeray, who is the real Wildcat. He is offered a job by Dumeray, who now trusts Brod to be a dishonest man. Ann, however, doesn't know Dumeray is the thief and tips him off to Brod's true identity. Dumeray takes both as his prisoners, but Brod breaks free and calls for the police.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Monday, October 26 - Adam Adamant Lives!: The Village of Evil


On holiday in the country, Adam comes to a mysterious old inn near a rundown village, where the residents are secretly members of a murderous coven of Satan-worshiping witches and warlocks.

Monday, October 26, 2026

Sunday, October 25 - King of the Zombies

King of the Zombies (1941)

During World War II, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off-course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts. Exploring, the three find a voodoo ritual in the cellar, where the doctor is trying to acquire war intelligence by transferring personalities into his zombies. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their creator.

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Saturday, October 24 - Dead Men Walk

Dead Men Walk (1943)

The story involves a kindly small-town physician, Doctor Lloyd Clayton, who has secretly murdered his twin brother Elwyn, because of Elwyn's deep involvement in satanic occult practices. Only Elwyn's hunchback assistant Zolarr suspects the good doctor of doing away with his master and confronts him, but the doctor maintains that he only acted in self-defense when his brother had become a danger to society.

Meanwhile, because Elwyn had gone far with his study of the dark arts before his demise, he returns to life as an evil supernatural being who begins murdering the villagers by draining them of their blood. The doctor and his beautiful young niece, Gayle Clayton, and her fiancé Dr. David Bentley, soon discover that Elwyn is still alive, and are in peril for this knowledge.

Dr. Clayton realizes the only way he can help his niece is to kill Elwyn again, and plans to destroy him with fire. Clayton becomes trapped in the resulting conflagration, and along with Elwyn and Zolarr perishes in the flames of Elwyn's accursed library.

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Friday, October 23 - The Veil: Vision of Crime


While on a boat trip to Paris, a man has a vision in which he sees his brother murdered. He returns to England to discover that his brother has been killed and that a man he knows isn't the murderer is the prime suspect.

Friday, October 23, 2026

Thursday, October 22 - Guest Wife

Guest Wife (1945)

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing.

On the eve of the Price's second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe's wife.

In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Wednesday, October 21 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Nightlifers


A group of bored and rich young people go from endless pot and booze parties aboard a houseboat to violent crimes in the city. Their creepy leader has an obsessive hate for middle class morality, and calls their misdeeds "giggles".

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Tuesday, October 20 - Night Into Morning

Night Into Morning (1951)

 Philip Ainley is a respected English professor whose life shatters when his wife and son die in a domestic fire explosion. Struggling with deep grief and refusing to open up, he turns heavily to alcohol. Despite support from his friend Tom and department secretary Katherine, Ainley spirals toward a drunk driving incident and an eventual suicide attempt before intervention saves him.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Monday, October 19 - Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)

Janet Smith (Gloria Talbott) learns that she is not only the daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll, but is convinced by her guardian, Dr. Lomas (Arthur Shields), that she has inherited her father's transformative condition. Janet begins to believe that she turns into a monster after two local women are found horribly killed[2] and nearly takes her own life because of it. However, all is not what it seems.