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Free horror movies
Horror is the reason this site exists. The films here run from the silent era to the drive-in decades: gothic chillers, poverty-row creature pictures, regional independents that played four counties and vanished, and a handful of genuinely great ones that have been circulating freely for decades.
Every title on this page plays here, in full, with no account, no subscription and no sign-up wall. Each one was opened and checked before it went up — not the listing, the video file, confirmed to start and confirmed to be the feature rather than a trailer or a fifteen-minute excerpt carrying the same name.
Prints of old horror vary enormously, and each film says what it is on its own page rather than pretending otherwise. Where we have restored a print ourselves, that page says what was done to it and why.
24 films
14 of them carry an audio description track written and recorded here — all the described films are listed together.
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A Bucket of Blood (1959)Audio described
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse, hides a dead cat under a coat of clay and is hailed overnight as a brilliant new sculptor. Now the poets want more. Roger…
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)Audio described
Two young entertainers, Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, fall out of a plane and wake up on a South Pacific island, where Dr. Zabor keeps a laboratory and a chimpanzee named…
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Carnival of Souls (1962)Audio described
A young woman walks away from a river crash that should have killed her, takes a job as a church organist in a new town, and finds herself followed by a pale man nobody else…
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Dementia 13 (1963)Audio described
After her husband dies suddenly, Louise Haloran hides his death and goes to his family's castle in Ireland, hoping to secure his inheritance. The family is still mourning a…
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)Audio described
Barbra and her brother Johnny are laying a wreath at a grave in a country cemetery when a stranger attacks them. She runs to an empty farmhouse, where a handful of strangers…
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The Amazing Mr. X (1948)Audio described
A woman living in a great house above the sea is drawn to Alexis, a smooth spiritualist who seems to know far more about her than he should, while those closest to her grow…
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)Audio described
Dr. Bill Cortner, a surgeon who experiments where other doctors will not, keeps his fiancée's head alive in his laboratory after a car accident and goes looking for a new body…
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The Giant Gila Monster (1959)Audio described
When Pat Wheeler and Liz Humphreys fail to come home one night, the sheriff of a small oil-country town asks Chase Winstead, a young mechanic who keeps the local hot-rod crowd in…
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The Killer Shrews (1959)Audio described
A supply boat calls at a private island, and a storm strands its captain overnight with the scientist who lives there and his household. The animals the scientist has been…
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)Audio described
Seymour Krelboined, the hapless clerk at Mushnick's flower shop on Skid Row, is growing a strange new plant that brings in customers and has an appetite of its own. Roger…
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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)Audio described
The big-game hunter Bob Rainsford, sole survivor of a wreck in shark-infested waters, reaches an island where Count Zaroff keeps a fortress, a Cossack servant named Ivan, and…
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The Terror (1963)Audio described
Lieutenant André Duvalier, a French officer separated from his regiment, meets a young woman named Helene in the forest and, looking for her, finds his way to the castle of Baron…
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The Wasp Woman (1959)Audio described
The founder of a cosmetics company, watching her own face age out of her advertising, funds a researcher's youth serum made from queen wasps and tries it on herself. Directed by…
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White Zombie (1932)Audio described
On their way to be married in Haiti, Madeleine and Neil are drawn to the plantation of Charles Beaumont, who wants Madeleine for himself and turns to Murder Legendre, a voodoo…
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Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson Executioner.
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Frankenstein (1910)
This is Edison's COMPLETE 1910 silent Frankenstein film.
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Grave of the Vampire (1974)
William Smith tracks down his father, a vampire who raped his mother.
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Horror Express (1973)
In 1906, on a train racing through Siberia, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are engulfed in nightmare when a frozen missing link comes to life.
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Invasion of the Bee girls
This one's about strange women who love their men to death, literally! Maybe the fact that there's a research facility doing top secret experiments might have something to do…
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Naked Massacre (1976)
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and…
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Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts.
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The Ghoul (1933)
The Ghoul is a 1933 British Horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson, whose debut film this was. The plot centres around a…
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The Naked Witch
One of Larry Buchanan's first films, so don't expect the polish and complex character interactions of his later work, like "Mars Needs Women" or "Zontar, the Thing from Venus."
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae…