
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.


“A chill-filled festival of horror!”
Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.

Beryl Reid
Ellie Ballantyne

Flora Robson
Joyce Ballantyne

John Hamill
Alan Marlow

Tessa Wyatt
Nurse Sutherland

T. P. McKenna
Det. Chief Sup. Paddick

Vernon Dobtcheff
Newsmith

John Kelland
Sgt. Young
David Dodimead
Dr. Spencer

Christopher Chittell
Baker
Peter Craze
Roy
The Beast in the Cellar is a thriller, horror film released in 1971 exploring themes of cellar, spinsters, hagsploitation. Directed by James Kelley, it stars Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill. Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.
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