Foundations of Horror

Celebrate the superb, scary cinema that gave birth to film's most popular genre.

In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch.

Director Eli Roth brings together the masters for an in-depth look at horror's roots.

In this classic chiller, stranded travelers stumble upon a strange old house, and find themselves at the mercy of a highly eccentric family.

An escaped killer returns home in John Carpenter's classic.

A group of friends are terrorised by a chainsaw wielding madman and his depraved family in this legendary horror.

This horror classic about a killer stalking sorority girls on Xmas helped spawn the slasher genre.

Herschell Gordon Lewis' shocking cult classic is considered the first gore movie.

George Romero's original zombie classic introduced viewers to a new type of terror.