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"Night of the Living Dead" The granddaddy of all zombie flicks, this 1968 horror tale from George Romero has become a cult classic.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD a ' The granddaddy of all zombie flicks, this 1968 horror tale from George Romero has become a cult classic.

Halloween movies: 'Cat People,' 'The Body Snatcher,' 'The Haunting,' two versions of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

But what were the first films that started to pump fear and adrenaline through our veins and continue this tradition to today? The earliest horror film was none other than the inventor of the motion picture camera himself, Thomas Edison and his company.

The tale of a mild-mannered scientist struggling with his evil self has been filmed many times, but the 1920 silent version of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

DVD collections is devoted to horror films and, like the genre itself, is a mix of the good, the bad and the scary.

TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #19 - "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" October 10, 5:17 PM Classic TV Examiner Doug Krentzlin Palance as Jekyll & Hyde There have been countless stage and film adaptations of Robert Lewis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr.

You may know the story of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," but not the way playwright Jeffrey Hatcher tells it.

Freaks 1932 // 64 Minutes // Not Rated Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde 1941 // 114 Minutes // Rated G House Of Wax 1953 // 88 Minutes // Rated PG The Haunting 1963 // 112 Minutes // Rated G Released by Warner Bros.

Sir Critic on Cinema Sir Critic on Cinema September 2009 Archives Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 11:39 AM The summer's early movies continue to roll out on DVD, but this week's picks are not much inspiring than last week's. Battle for Terra : Nobody cared when this animated film made it to theaters.

Halloween seems to be an ever-expanding holiday. Television stations are catching on and running with the scary programming trend, much to the delight of fans of this kind of viewing.

There's never been a zombie movie in competition here -- George A. Romero's "Survival of the Dead" is a first.

As I have mentioned in the past, I'm a huge fan of black and white horror films and will take the time to watch them from time to time.

C will begin its fall film series with John Barrymore's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at 7 p.m. today in Room 153.

The Mansfield Memorial Museum is paying tribute to silent film actress Martha Mansfield.

Fans of the Masterpiece Mystery series will love this three-disc collection as David Suchet returns as the Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.

JOHN BARRYMORE lives on in the popular imagination as the consummate stage performer, a thespian of the old school armed with an impossibly cultured voice, a gift for grand gestures and majestic poses, and a mysterious ability to look good in tights.

The details: John Barrymore could be a glorious capering ham a ' see Twentieth Century a ' but he also could be a focused under-actor, a key transitional figure in 20th-century drama and a lot more than Drew Barrymorea TMs grandfather.

Dalton Trumbo's favorite of all his screenplays was this stirring adaptation of Edward Abbey's Brave Cowboy -- a moving and exciting modern chase western, with Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns, an individualist modern cowboy on the run from a posse that includes helicopters, high-powered rifles and police radio.

JOHN Barrymore and John Gilbert, legendary womanizers and pals who drank themselves to death, were two of the biggest stars of the silent era.