Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Onibaba (1964), Kwaidan (1964), The Innocents (1961), Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Dracula (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Costume Horror movies.
Storyline: It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can't get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth, Whitechapel becomes more and ...
Plot Keywords: lesbian kiss, 19th century, victorian era, opium, prostitute, bare breasts, grave side ceremony ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rosaleen is a teenager, living in a country house in England with her family in the present days, and having a nightmare with wolves and werewolves in the Middle Ages. In her dream, her boring sister is dead, she lives with her father and her mother, but she spends lots of time with her lovely grandmother. Granny tells her many stories of werewolf and gives her the following advice: "- Never stray from the path in the woods, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet." One day, Rosaleen, while going to visit her grandmother, meets a handsome man and bets who would arrive first at her granny's house. Soon she finds who he is.
Plot Keywords: grandmother, werewolf, wolf, cult film, dream, girl, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.
Plot Keywords: cemetery, living dead, alien, victorian era, irish, grave robbing, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Van Helsing is in the world to rid all evil, even if not everyone agrees with him. The Vatican sends the monster hunter and his ally, Carl, to Transylvania. They have been sent to this land to stop the powerful Count Dracula. Whilst there they join forces with a Gypsy Princess called Anna Valerious, who is determined to end an ancient curse on her family by destroying the vampire. They just don't know how!
Plot Keywords: werewolf, absinthe, secret agent, female vampire, anti hero, dark fantasy, psychopath ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the mad Lord Byron's country estate. Personal horrors are revealed and the madness of the evening runs from sexual fantasy to fiercest nightmare. Mary finds herself drawn into the sick world of her lover Shelley and cousin Claire as Byron leads them all down the dark paths of their souls.—Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: bare breasts, costume horror, jealousy, prank, flintlock pistol, competition, drug addiction ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: murder, performance, actor, paris france, dream, detective, maniac ...
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