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Horror Films

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Title:	30 days of night
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2097 AV LIB
Subject:	Vampires Alaska Drama. Sheriffs Alaska Drama. Vampire films. Horror films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Feature films.
Abstract:	An isolated Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock presents: Volume 2
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0049 AV LIB
Subject:	Television programs. Television plays. Detective and mystery television programs. Horror television programs.
Abstract:	A release of four television programs from the popular mystery series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0048 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films. Bates, Norman (Fictitious character) Drama. Murderers Drama. Hotelkeepers Drama. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0048 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films. Bates, Norman (Fictitious character) Drama.
Abstract:	Hitchcock's classic horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother?
Title:	Alfred Hitchcock's the birds
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0056 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
Title:	Altered states
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2594 AV LIB
Subject:	Research Drama. Scientists Drama. Consciousness Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Science fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	The incredible terrifying tale of a research scientist experimenting with altered states of consciousness, and the horrors he finds in secret landscapes of the mind.
Title:	Anatomy = Anatomie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0928 AV LIB
Subject:	Medical students Drama. Secret societies Drama. Feature films Germany. Foreign films. Motion pictures, German. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	When Paula, a brilliant, ambitious medical student, is accepted into a prestigious anatomy class taught by a legendary professor, it seems like a dream come true. But her school days soon turn to nightmares when several of her fellow classmates turn up dead in the university's morgue.
Title:	April Fool's Day
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1363 AV LIB
Subject:	Friendship Drama. Murder Drama. April Fools' Day Drama. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	A practical joker invites her college pals to her family's mansion, where one by one they're threatened and killed.
Title:	April Fool's Day
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2500 AV LIB
Subject:	Friendship Drama. Murder Drama. April Fools' Day Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A practical joker invites her college pals to her family's mansion, where one by one they're threatened and killed.
Title:	Behind the mask: the rise of Leslie Vernon
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2094 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murderers Drama. Documentary films Drama. Feature films. Slasher films. Films for the hearing impaired. Horror films.
Abstract:	When a maniac invites a film crew to document his killing spree, where does the crew draw the line between voyeuristic thrills and slasher movie mayhem?
Title:	Black Christmas
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1368 AV LIB
Subject:	Greek letter societies Drama. Psychopaths Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A group of Sorority sisters stay at their house over the holiday season, but quickly become terrorized by a lone psychopath stalking the house.
Title:	Black X-mas
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2726 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murderers Drama. Greek letter societies Drama. Horror films. College students Drama. Christmas plays. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house.
Title:	Bram Stoker's Dracula
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7023 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Dracula films. Vampire films. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is about a young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) who is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.
Title:	Bride of Frankenstein
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0201 AV LIB
Subject:	Frankenstein films. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	Classic second movie based on the Frankenstein story. Baron Frankenstein is blackmailed by Dr. Praetorious into reviving his monster and building a mate for it.
Title:	Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0239 AV LIB
Subject:	Silent films. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	In the film The cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a somnambulist commits murders under a hypnotist's influence. Classic example of the German Expressionist movement. This is an offically restored version of the film.
Title:	Call of Cthulhu
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2657 AV LIB
Subject:	Monsters Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Silent films. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Written in 1926, just before the advent of "talking" pictures, The Call of Cthulhu, a tale of madness and monstrous creatures, is one of the most famous and influential tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of gothic horror. This film is done in the style of a classic 1920s silent movie using the "Mythoscope" process -- a mix of modern and vintage techniques. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has worked to create the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted.
Title:	Cask of amontillado
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0817 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Short stories, American. American literature.
Abstract:	"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." So speaks Montresor in this faithful rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's chilling story of a murderous trap irresistibly baited with fine wine and flattery ... "on container."
Title:	Cat people ; The curse of the cat people
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1058 AV LIB
Subject:	Panthers Drama. Imaginary companions Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Cat People : Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill. Includes commentary by Greg Mank with Simone Simon, and theatrical trailer.
Title:	Count Dracula
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2743 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Castles Romania Transylvania Drama. Vampires Romania Transylvania Drama. Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Castles Romania Transylvania Drama. Television mini-series. Dracula television programs. Vampire television programs. Horror television programs. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner, and discovers Dracula's true nature.
Title:	Countess Dracula
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1293 AV LIB
Subject:	Vampires Drama. Dracula films. Vampire films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Countess Dracula is a voracious vampire vixen who discovers that virgins' blood holds the secret to eternal youth. When her beloved stumbles onto her secret, things really affect her love life. The vampire lovers is the story of Carmilla, who travels the countryside looking for the best looking maidens that she can find to quench her thirst for blood.
Title:	Cronos
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4822 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	An alchemist perfects an invention (the Cronos device) which gives him the key to eternal life. Centuries later, an elderly antique dealer finds the hellish machine and becomes obsessed with its incredible powers. The more he uses the device the younger he becomes. When a ruthless millionaire comes looking for the Cronos device, there's hell to pay.
Title:	Curse of Frankenstein
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1287 AV LIB
Subject:	Frankenstein (Fictitious character) Drama. Monsters Drama. Feature films. Frankenstein films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A young German nobleman has uncovered life's mystery and unleashed a chain of blood-curdling terrors that seem similar to the monstrous horrors of a generation earlier. Outraged, the local citizenry imprisons the nobleman and condemns him to death, hoping to blot his family's ignominious name.
Title:	Dracula has risen from the grave
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1291 AV LIB
Subject:	Vampire films. Horror films. Dracula films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A village trembles in fear ; a priest forsakes his vows in the service of evil ; young beauties fall victim to a mysterious seducer ; and each night brings a new threat of death, all because Dracula has risen from the grave.
Title:	Dracula
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1295 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Throughout history Dracula has filled the hearts of men with terror and the hearts of women with desire. This stylish new production of the classic gothic horror tale stars Frank Langella, repeating his electrifying, award-winning stage performance as the blood-thirsty Count, and Laurence Olivier as the devout vampire hunter Von Helsing who is Dracula's nemesis. A great cast, fine direction, and a superbly atmospheric musical score make this the ultimate Dracula.
Title:	Dracula
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3956 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Timeless tale of the infamous count and the lovely Eva. Filmed simultaneously with the English version and with the same sets and script, but with a different focus and atmosphere.
Title:	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0854 AV LIB
Subject:	Monsters Drama. Medical drama. Multiple personality Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A doctor experiments in order to turn himself into a fiend.
Title:	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0531 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Silent films. Horror films. Film adaptations.
Abstract:	Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
Title:	Espíritu de la colmena = The spirit of the beehive
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1933 AV LIB
Subject:	Girls Spain Drama. Imagination in children Drama. Horror films Drama. Motion pictures, Spanish. Foreign films Spain. Feature films.
Abstract:	Shortly after the Spanish civil war, a six-year-old girl attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes haunted by her memory of it.
Title:	Fall of the house of Usher.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3326 AV LIB
Subject:	Short films. Horror films.
Abstract:	An adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title about the last member of the Usher family who is tortured by the mysterious despair contained within the family house.
Title:	Faust
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0367 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Foreign films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Live action, claymation, stop motion animation and puppetry are used in this modern interpretation of the Faust myth in which a non-descript and seemingly normal man sells his soul to the devil in return for all that his heart desires. Based on both Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and the earlier Faust folk/puppet plays.
Title:	Fly.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7706 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films. Science fiction films.
Abstract:	Vincent Price portrays the brother of a brilliant research scientist who discovers how to transport matter through space. During an experiment, the scientist's atoms intermingle with those of a common household fly, leaving him with the head of an insect while his own head is attached to the fly's body. Classic science fiction from the 1950s.
Title:	Frankenstein must be destroyed
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1288 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Frankenstein films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Frankenstein wields his scalpel on the cutting edge of medical research, experimenting with brain transplants. Alas, the procedure is imperfect. And a new pitiable terror now stalks an unsuspecting world.
Title:	Frankenstein: [the man who made a monster]
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0134 AV LIB
Subject:	Frankenstein (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster in his laboratory but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast.
Title:	Frankenstein
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VD177 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster in his laboratory, but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast.
Title:	Freaks
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0536 AV LIB
Subject:	Circus performers Drama. Freak shows Drama. Sideshows Drama. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
Title:	Freddy's dead: the final nightmare
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1232 AV LIB
Subject:	Krueger, Freddy (Fictitious character) Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Maggie Burroughs is a child psychologist with horrible recurring nightmares that eventually lead her to the town of Springwood and a certain house on Elm Street.
Title:	Friday the 13th, part 3 ; Friday the 13th, the final chapter
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1318 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Camps Drama. Camp counselors Drama. Teenagers Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	1st work: Camp counselors continue to ignore Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy at their peril, as Jason Voorhees continues to pile up victims. 2nd work: After being revived in a hospital morge, Jason Voorhees returns to what he does best, fixating his disturbed mind on the unfortunate Jarvis family and a group of teenagers.
Title:	Friday the 13th, part V, a new beginning ; Friday the 13th, part VI, Jason lives
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1319 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Halfway houses Drama. Teenagers Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	1st work: Jason Voorhees rises from the dead to slaughter the residents of a secluded halfway house. 2nd work: One of the few teenagers not butchered by Jason digs him up, and discovers he's not (and never will be) dead. Carnage ensues.
Title:	Friday the 13th, part VII, the new blood ; Friday the 13th, part VIII, Jason takes Manhattan
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1320 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Camps Drama. Campers (Persons) Drama. Psychokinesis Drama. Teenagers Drama. Ocean travel Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	1st work: Jason Voorhees is trapped in chains at the bottom of Crystal Lake - but not for long. Camper Tina Shepard can see the future (but apparently not enough of it). Because she is telekinetic, Jason convinces her to free him with her powers, and the slaughter gets under way. 2nd work: Jason once again returns from beyond the grave, getting on board a teen-filled boat heading for Manhattan. But as the blood-soaked ship cruises into Manhattan, one of the teens escapes, the better to later confront Jason in the sewers beneath New York.
Title:	Friday the 13th ; Friday the 13th, part 2
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1317 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Camps Drama. Camp counselors Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	1st work: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for its horrifying and creative murder sequences. 2nd work: Five years have passed since the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, and Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are just memories. Although the new camp counselors have been warned, they do not sense the lurking ominous presence in their midst.
Title:	From dusk till dawn
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1947 AV LIB
Subject:	Fugitives from justice Drama. Hostages Drama. Vampires Drama. Feature films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they are forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive.
Title:	Funhouse
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1362 AV LIB
Subject:	Teenagers Drama. Carnivals Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Two teenage couples find themselves trapped in the maze of a carnival funhouse where they are stalked by monsters.
Title:	Gothic
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0137 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	In 1816, a sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of horror and madness. Lord Byron and Percy Shelly, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, her stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears and share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night.
Title:	Haunting
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0654 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thiller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena.
Title:	Häxan: ett kulturhistorist föredrag i levande bilder i 7 avdelningar
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2659 AV LIB
Subject:	Witches Drama. Witchcraft Drama. Mental illness Public opinion Europe Drama. Silent films. Horror films. Feature films. Foreign films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
Title:	Hellboy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1738 AV LIB
Subject:	Hellboy (Fictitious character : Mignola) Drama. Heroes Drama. Demonology Drama. Nazis Drama. Monsters Drama. Fantasy films United States. Horror films United States. Feature films United States.
Abstract:	A demon conjured from hell by the Nazis grows up to defend the world against evil of the paranormal sort and creatures from the underworld.
Title:	Horror of Dracula
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1290 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Vampires Romania Transylvania Drama. Dracula films. Vampire films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Dracula, a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal blood-crazed half-life, travels from his native Transylvania to London and to a savage fate. In the decadent nightlife he finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing, a brilliant scientist, who becomes Dracula's implacable foe in a bat-and-mouse game of blood-red Gothic gore.
Title:	Hunchback of Notre Dame
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2593 AV LIB
Subject:	Quasimodo (Fictitious character) Drama. Esmeralda (Fictitious character) Drama. Deception France Paris Drama. Feature films. Silent films. Horror films.
Abstract:	Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. When he sets Quasimodo out to kidnap Esmeralda, Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, rescues her and captures Quasimodo. Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. After Clopin forces Esmeralda to leave Phoebus at the ball, she sends a note to Phoebus to meet her at Notre-Dame. In the garden, Phoebus is stabbed in the back by Jehan. Esmeralda is accused of stabbing Phoebus, convicted by the courts and sentenced to hang. Clopin, Phoebus and Quasimodo all try different ways to save Esmeralda.
Title:	Innocents
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6290 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Shortly after coming to live with orphans Flora and Miles in their dark, eerie mansion, the new governess mistakes their strange behavior for precociousness. But she soon comes to believe that the charming, beautiful children are possessed by evil, malicious spirits--the souls of their previous governess and estate manager.
Title:	Interview with the vampire: the vampire chronicles
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1300 AV LIB
Subject:	Lestat (Fictitious character) Drama. Vampires Drama. Vampire films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A vampire with a conscience, Lestat (Cruise), tells the story of how he lured a young aristocrat (Pitt) into the immortality of the damned.
Title:	Invasion of the body snatchers
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1013 AV LIB
Subject:	Doppelgängers Drama. Human-alien encounters Drama. Life on other planets Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Science fiction films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people.
Title:	Invasion of the body snatchers
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6160 AV LIB
Subject:	Science fiction films. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	This science fiction film depicts the citizens of a small town being invaded and replaced by unfeeling alien pod clones. One couple becomes the last defenders of normal humanity. Considered by some film critics to be a parable on McCarthyism.
Title:	Invisible man
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0856 AV LIB
Subject:	Scientists Drama. Drugs Physiological effect Drama. Murder Drama. Personality disorders Drama. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible but can't reverse the process. He realizes with terror that he has become a prisoner of his unseen self, and this unbearable state drives him to madness and murder.
Title:	Isle of the dead
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1060 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder Drama. Haunted places Drama. Mentally ill prisoners Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Isle of the dead (72 min.): Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested (and perhaps spirit-haunted) island.
Title:	I walked with a zombie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1059 AV LIB
Subject:	Voodooism Drama. Zombies Drama. Body snatching Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	I walked with a zombie: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition, and learns about local voodoo practices in her search for a cure.
Title:	John Carpenter's Halloween
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1253 AV LIB
Subject:	Halloween Drama. Serial murderers Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital ... until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again ... and again ... and again. Tonight is Halloween!
Title:	Ju-on
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0629 AV LIB
Subject:	Murder Drama. Demonology Drama. Horror films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Feature films.
Abstract:	An eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begin.
Title:	Kaidan = Kwaidan
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0759 AV LIB
Subject:	Ghosts Drama. Horror films. Fantasy films. Feature films Japan.
Abstract:	Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi, the earless, a blind musician-monk named Hoichi is commanded by a gathering of ghosts to sing the saga of their ancient deeds. The head monk paints Hoichi's body with prayer verses to protect him, but unfortunately overlooks Hoichi's ears. In In a cup of tea, a writer wonders what would happen to a person who drinks another's soul and finds out.
Title:	Leatherface: Texas chainsaw massacre III
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1666 AV LIB
Subject:	Cannibalism Texas Drama. Rural families Drama. Chain saws Drama. Automobile travel Drama. College students, White Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recorings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	The infamous Leatherface is back, in pursuit of a pair of college students who intended to drive across the country.
Title:	Leopard man ; the ghost ship
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1061 AV LIB
Subject:	Ghosts Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	The Leopard Man (66 min.): a nightclub performer in New Mexico takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled. Includes commentary by William Friedkin and theatrical trailer.
Title:	Lost boys
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1298 AV LIB
Subject:	Vampires Drama. Vampire films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	When Sam, Michael, and their mother move to Santa Clara, California, strange things begin to happen. A new twist on the familiar vampire story.
Title:	Man and the snake & the return
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3201 AV LIB
Subject:	Supernatural in motion pictures. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Two stories of fear, terror and suspense, by Ambrose Bierce. The first, The Man and the Snake, is about a man with a fear of scaley creatures. The second, The Return, is about a man in a desolate country house with a ghost who cannot rest.
Title:	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0147 AV LIB
Subject:	Frankenstein (Fictitious character) Drama. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realizes that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.
Title:	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6539 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realizes that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.
Title:	Mothman prophecies
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0256 AV LIB
Subject:	Unidentified flying objects West Virginia Drama. Human-alien encounters West Virginia Drama. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	This story is based on actual events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie "moth-like" entity, an entity similar to the one seen by his late wife.
Title:	Mr. Vampire.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1941 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Martial arts films. Vampire films. Ghost stories, Chinese Drama. Feature films.
Abstract:	A corpse inside the coffin has become a vampire and set free to stalk the land.
Title:	Mummy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0857 AV LIB
Subject:	Mummies Drama. Archaeologists Drama. Mummy films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	For the first time ever, the original The Mummy film comes to DVD in the extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring Boris Karloff and four sequels featuring Lon Chaney, Jr. and others.
Title:	Mummy
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1289 AV LIB
Subject:	Mummies Egypt Drama. Archaeology Egypt Drama. Mummy films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Three British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it a bad curse falls on them for having woken up the mighty guard of the grave who was buried with the priest.
Title:	Near dark
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1305 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Vampire films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Horror film about a naive young country boy who is lured into a secret clan of savage vampires who prowl the night seeking victims.
Title:	Nightmare on Elm Street 2. Freddy's revenge.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1228 AV LIB
Subject:	Krueger, Freddy (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A new kid on Elm Street is being haunted every night by gruesome visions of the deadly dream stalker.
Title:	Nightmare on Elm Street. 3, Dream warriors
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1229 AV LIB
Subject:	Krueger, Freddy (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Killer Freddie Krueger is back for fresh victims. The last of the Elm Street kids are now at a psychiatric ward where Freddy haunts their dreams with horror. Their only hope is dream researcher and fellow survivor Nancy Thompson who helps them battle the psycho on his own turf.
Title:	Nightmare on Elm Street 4. The dream master
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1230 AV LIB
Subject:	Krueger, Freddy (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Killer Freddie Krueger faces a new adversary. As her friends succumb one by one to Freddy's wrath, telepathically gifted Kristen embarks on a mission to destroy the satanic dream stalker and release the tortured souls of his victims once and for all.
Title:	Nightmare on Elm Street 5. The dream child
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1231 AV LIB
Subject:	Krueger, Freddy (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Unable to overpower Alice, the Dream Master who vanquished him, Freddy haunts the dreams of Alice's unborn child and preys upon her friends with sheer horror.
Title:	Nightmare on Elm Street
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1227 AV LIB
Subject:	Krueger, Freddy (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Nancy is having grisly nightmares in which something monstrous wants to kill her. Meanwhile, her high-school friends, who are having the same dreams, are being slaughtered in their sleep by the fiend.
Title:	Nightmare series encyclopedia.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1234 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films Encyclopedias.
Abstract:
Title:	Night of dark shadows
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT8228 AV LIB
Subject:	Haunted houses Drama. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Feature films. Film adaptations.
Abstract:	The last survivor of the cursed Collins clan returns to his ancestral home with his young bride. His inheritance is Collinwood, a brooding gothic estate with a forbidding aura and a grim past.
Title:	Night watch
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1859 AV LIB
Subject:	Good and evil Drama. Supernatural Drama. Battles Drama. Feature films. Foreign films Russia. Horror films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Fantasy films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Living among humans are those who possess various supernatural powers. They are divided into the forces of light and the forces of the dark. Centuries ago both sides signed a treaty to end a war. Now the battle is about to happen again.
Title:	Nosferatu the vampyre
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6827 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	Jonathan Harber, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize a real estate deal. When he arrives at his destination, he encounters Count Dracula and a series of tragic events.
Title:	Nosferatu: a symphony of horror
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0238 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Vampires Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Silent films.
Abstract:	An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film. Supplemental features include lengthy excerpts from other films by F.W. Murnau: Journey into the night (1920), The Haunted castle (1921), Phantom (1922), The Last laugh (1942), Faust (1926), Tabu (1931).
Title:	Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1296 AV LIB
Subject:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) Drama. Dracula films. Horror films. Foreign films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:
Title:	Onibaba
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7762 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films. Foreign films.
Abstract:	In war-ravaged medieval Japan, a peasant woman and her daughter eke out an existence by murdering soldiers. A crafty warrior seduces the girl and manages to save his life until her mother takes revenge.
Title:	Phantom of the opera
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2574 AV LIB
Subject:	Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character) Drama. Composers Drama. Opera Drama. Disfigured persons Drama. Opera singers Drama. Revenge Drama. Feature films. Silent films. Horror films.
Abstract:	"A disfigured man in a mask abducts the prima donna of the Paris Opera House to his lair in the sewers below"--Halliwell's Film and Video Guide.
Title:	Phantom of the opera
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4040 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films. Silent films.
Abstract:	A horror/melodrama about a hideous-looking man who lives in the catacombs below the Paris Opera House and his unrequited love affair with an opera starlet whom he tutors.
Title:	Psycho
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6458 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	Hitchcock's classic horror film in which a young woman (Leigh) disappears after spending the night in a rundown motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man (Bates) and his mother?
Title:	Rebecca
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VD157 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
Title:	Ringu = The ring
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0352 AV LIB
Subject:	Foreign films. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	"A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger."--Container.
Title:	Salem's Lot
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1294 AV LIB
Subject:	Journalists United States Drama. Early memories Drama. Strangers Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Into the sleepy little hamlet of Salem's Lot comes a stranger who unleashes an insidious evil so devastating it threatens to destroy the entire town and everyone in it. Ben Mears, a young novelist, returns home to Salem's Lot, determined to write a book about the eerie old Marsten House which overlooks the town. It is Mears' conviction that the source of all the trouble is the house itself, which he believes attracts evil to it. With the help of his old schoolmaster and a courageous teenager, he unravels the deadly plague that is claiming the lives and souls of the townspeople of Salem's Lot.
Title:	Scream 2
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1236 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Slasher films. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	In this sequel to Scream, Sidney Prescott thought she'd put the murders that shattered her life behind her, until a copy cat killer begins acting out a real life sequel.
Title:	Scream 3
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1237 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Motion pictures Production and direction Drama. Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	When people start dropping like flies around the production of the movie Stab 3 (the latest movie sequel based on events occurring in Scream), Sidney and other Greensboro survivors are once again drawn into mayhem.
Title:	Scream, Blacula, scream
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1096 AV LIB
Subject:	Blaxploitation films, Comedy films. Horror films. Vampire films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Story of voodoo power versus vampire fury when a crazed member of a voodoo cult unwittingly summons the true prince of darkness, Dracula's bloodbrother, from his eternal grave.
Title:	Scream
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1235 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murderers Drama. Teenage girls Drama. Stalking victims Drama. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	A series of mysterious murders committed by a masked killer transforms a seemingly peaceful community into a place where no one is safe and everyone is suspect. Part horror movie and part spoof of the slasher genre.
Title:	Serpent's egg
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1871 AV LIB
Subject:	Circus performers Germany Drama. Suicide victims Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	An American trapeze act comes to pre-World War II Germany; two of the members are trapped inside Berlin after the other commits suicide. They find work with Dr. Vergerus at St. Ana's clinic, and soon discover that all is not what it appears to be.
Title:	Seventh victim
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1062 AV LIB
Subject:	Orphans Drama. Missing persons Drama. Horror films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline.
Title:	Shining
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0006 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
Title:	Slumber party massacre II.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1364 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Courtney is the only sane survivor of the original Slumber party massacre. Now she dreams that the drill murderer will return and butcher her and her friends. The dream becomes reality when the driller killer is reincarnated as an evil rocker and begins killing her friends.
Title:	Slumber party massacre II
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2734 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Sixteen-year-old Courtney and her friends take off for a wild weekend slumber party at a friend's unoccupied apartment. Their weekend of fun becomes a living hell, as Courtney's bizarre nightmares about a psychopathic rocker wielding an electric guitar drill become increasingly real.
Title:	Slumber party massacre
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2716 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murderers California Drama. Massacres California Drama. High school students California Drama. Feature films. Horror films.
Abstract:	When Trish decides to invite her high school girl's basketball teammates over for a slumber party, she makes three big mistakes: she snubs the pretty new girl next door, she forgets about the teenage pranksters Jeff and Neil, and she doesn't know about an escaped mental patient who will be dropping by... with his portable drill.
Title:	Snakes on a plane
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1616 AV LIB
Subject:	Poisonous snakes Drama. Boidae Drama. Airplanes Drama. Witnesses Protection Drama. Assassins Drama. Feature films. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Action and adventure films. Horror films.
Abstract:	Nelville Flynn is escorting a witness on a plane that is bound for Los Angeles. The problem is that an assassin is bent on killing the witness. The assassin releases a crate containing about 450 deadly snakes onto the same plane. Nelville finds out and he becomes bent on doing his job and getting the snakes back where they belong - on land. If the snakes won't cooperate with Nelville, he will just have to send the snakes on to snake heaven.
Title:	Something wicked this way comes
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0077 AV LIB
Subject:	Horror films. Feature films.
Abstract:	Green Town, Illinois, is visited by a seductive stranger named Mr. Dark and his Pandemonium Carnival. Terrifying things begin to happen when two adventurous boys stumble onto the carnival's deadly and destructive secret.
Title:	Spawn
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1723 AV LIB
Subject:	Spawn (Fictitious character) Drama. Feature films. Film adaptations. Action and adventure films. Science fiction films. Horror films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Imagine a creature on the verge of creation. A creature who must come out of the dark and into the light to fight for justice and vengeance. From flesh to steel. From blood to blade. From man to "Spawn."