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Spooky Cinema

We at Red Carpet Cinema want to help enrich your Halloween season with movies to match.

If you love the classics, then this list of 31 terrifying hidden gems is for you!

Click on each image for more info about the movie.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit wrong-doings.

Häxan (1922)

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

Doctor X (1932)

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

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Island of Lost Souls (1932)

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.

Vampyr (1932)

A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

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Doctor Cyclops (1940)

A mad scientist working in the South American jungle experiments on his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.

Cat People (1942)

An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.

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The Uninvited (1944)

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

Dead of Night (1945)

Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories in this horror anthology.

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Isle of the Dead (1945)

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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the Mad Magician (1954)

An illusionist becomes homicidal when his best kept magic secrets are stolen by his rival.

Diabolique (1955)

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plans to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

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The Night of the Hunter (1955)

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow.

The Bad Seed (1956)

Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother grows suspect.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

The Blob (1958)

An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.

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The Fly (1958)

A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

I Bury the Living (1958)

A cemetery director  discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram, strange things happen to the plots owners.

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Curse of the Undead (1959)

While a malady is claiming the lives of young women in a Western town, a sinister gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire.

The Tingler (1959)

An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.

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Eyes without a Face (1960)

A surgeon's daughter is left disfigured after an accident.

House of Usher (1960)

Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.

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Midnight Lace (1960)

In London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.

Village of the Damned (1960)

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

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The Innocents (1961)

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

The Mask (1961)

A psychiatrist receives an Aztec mask that makes him have strange nightmares.

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The Haunting (1963)

Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not Hill House  is haunted.

Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

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Wait Until Dark (1967)

A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.

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