Boris Karloff is your host for this 1963 Italian-made triptych of terror which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror. The first story centers on a nurse who takes a diamond ring from the hand of a dead clairvoyant. She soon becomes the focus of the corpse's revenge. Next, a prostitute receives threatening calls from a man she once betrayed. But how can that be possible when the man is dead? Finally, Karloff himself plays a Balkan hunter who becomes a vampire and must prey on his loved ones. Also starring Mark Damon, Rika Dialina, Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Jacqueline Pierreux, Massimo Righi and Susy Anderson. Directed by Mario Bava. (Not Rated)

Meet Doctor Phibes: a one-time concert musician who’s now an all-time crazed murderer. In this clever, crypt-kicking classic, horrormeister Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit. Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise: “Nine killed her, nine shall die, nine eternities in doom!” After a team of surgeons botch his beloved wife’s surgery, leaving her for dead, the emotionally distraught Dr. Phibes creatively concocts a fatal prescription for revenge. Using the Good Book as his guide, Phibes unleashed a score of old testament atrocities – from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats – on his enemies that climax in what may be one of “the eeriest endings on screen record” (Syracuse Herald-Journal)! Also starring Joseph Cotton, Virginia North, Terry Thomas and Hugh Griffith. Directed by Robert Fuest. (Rated PG)

Vincent Price delivers a tour-de-force performance while his walking-dead co-stars literally chew up the scenery behind him in this terrifying chiller from the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Price plays the sole survivor of a lethal virus that transforms all others into vampire-like zombies. Desperate, lonely and at the end of his ropes, he fights them nightly. During the day, he canvasses his abandoned hometown, tracking down and stalking his former friends and neighbors, always making sure to return before nightfall, when the dead rise to assault his fortified house. Later remade as THE OMEGA MAN and more recently as I AM LEGEND. Also starring Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Umberto Raho. Directed by Sydney Salkow. (Not Rated)

The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with his mute aide-de-camp Vulnavia and the corpse of his dead wife. To resurrect his spouse, Phibes gets up to his usual, diabolical tricks: cleverly murdering people in strange and heinous ways to invoke a magical incantation. But once he is in the tomb of the dead Pharaohs, the good doctor discovers that his pursuit of an after-life may be foiled by his nemesis who wants to end the reign of this sadistic surgeon of gore. Also starring Robert Quarry, Fiona Lewis, Terry Thomas, Beryl Reid and Peter Cushing. Directed by Robert Fuest. (Rated PG)

Journalist Alan Foster finds Edgar Allan Poe in a London tavern on All Souls' Eve. Lord Blackwood accompanies him and backs up Poe’s claim that his writings about the living dead are not fiction; the two men bet Foster that he cannot survive one night alone in the Blackwood Castle. Foster accepts the bet and encounters Blackwood’s sister Elizabeth in the castle. Horrified to find that she has no heartbeat, Foster learns from Dr. Carmus, a necromancer who also inhabits the castle, that All Souls' Day is the one day of the year when the dead return to life and reenact their final moments of life. Starring the Queen of Horror, Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margaret Robsahm, Sylvia Sorente and Henry Kruger. Directed by Anthony Dawson (Antonio Margheriti). (Not Rated)

Christopher Lee added to his catalogue of iconic horror roles with this 1971 version of Jekyll and Hyde, although the character names have been changed. Lee plays psychologist Charles Marlowe who invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions - but when he tests it on himself he becomes cruel, immoral Edward Blake who descends into crime and eventually murder. Peter Cushing plays Marlowe’s lawyer, Utterson, who believes that Black is blackmailing his friend until he discovers the truth. This British production from Amicus also stars Mike Raven (LUST FOR A VAMPIRE), Kenneth J. Warren (THE CREEPING FLESH) and George Merritt (HORROR OF DRACULA) and features the work of cinematographer Moray Grant (HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN). Directed by Stephen Weeks. (Rated PG)