During a bout of insomnia the artist Pickman discovers the diary of his eccentric great uncle. Discoveries within the diary lead Pickman on a maddening search for the embodiment of true horror. His obsession leads him to the lair of one who is willing to feed his dark desire... for a price. The Faustian conclusion brings the artist's work to darkness and the subject, at last, to horrible light.
When fate brings two souls together, sometimes they cannot be torn apart- even after death. On a fateful day in the park, a lonely man meets Morella, a beautiful yet singularly bewitching woman. And from their first meeting their souls become inseperable, their lives bound together forever. Morella is a woman of great intelligence and powers of the mind, she spends her days studying the occult and reading to the man from her collection of ancient texts.
Three classic Lovecraft tales brought to life through puppets and miniatures: The Picture in The HouseA traveler seeks shelter from a sudden storm in a decaying old house. In the living room of the apparently abandoned house, he finds a weird old book entitled "The Kingdom of Congo." What secrets does it hold?The Dunwich HorrorAwakened in the middle of the night by the snarls and barks of his watchdog, a University professor makes a grim and disturbing discovery in his library.
Saturday only 5:00pm. A couple of Ghouls go out one night to a cemetery for dinner and have a healthily conversation about life in general. But on this night, the dead aren't so conversational. For tonight the dead will have revenge! Great short film not to be missed by artist Gris Grimly.
This animated adaptation of the one-shot comic from Hellboy's Mike Mignola follows the adventures of a steampunk secret agent for Abraham Lincoln who, indeed, possesses a robotic screw-on head. Originally aired as the pilot for a possible TV series, this stand-alone episode pits the Amazing Screw-On Head against the treacherous Emperor Zombie, his batty vampiric lover, a lycanthropic granny, and a gunslinging chimp. From the back rooms of Marrakesh to the banks of the Mississippi, the Screw-On Head pursues Emperor Zombie to prevent the resurrection of an ancient supernatural warlord.
Loosely based on the short story by M.R. James - previously adapted for film in Jacques Tourner's classic Night of the Demon - was adapted for television by BAFTA-nominated playwright Clive Exton, and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, who also helmed the "Ghost Story for Christmas" series. When a TV series devoted to debunking mediums and mystics lampoons infamous demonologist Julian Karswell (played with exquisite menace by Iain Cuthbertson), its producer (Jan Francis) and cast soon find themselves threatened by mysterious, malevolent forces.
Uncut and uncensored, the kids take on Great Cthulhu himself after he was summoned from BP drilling on the moon.
A multimedia experience to aid in the development of blood-lust, madness, and gibbering snatches of forbidden knowledge.
Roger Corman's trippy take on the tale of the Whately family,now as it was meant to be with spine-chilling live score from Cassadine (w/ Nate Carson of Witch Mountain) and bizarro shadow-cast performance by Club Pangaea, while Sandra Dee's body double gyrates and Dean Stockwell chants from The Necronomicon. You will be changed!
Lilith Delaney sits in a bleak interrogation room, recounting the tale of her short-lived run as Communications Director for Victor Balch, a rising Republican candidate for the Presidency once written off as a caricature for his brash, confrontational style. Despite his glaring flaws, Balch is rising rapidly in the polls, trouncing a more established opponent and gaining a fiercely loyal following. Though Lilith initially considers her role as just another job, she gradually finds herself subject to Balch's ineffable spell...