Curtis Harrington Movies

When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police...

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.

This film resulted from the unfinished short film Puce Women. The film opens with a camera watching 1920s style flapper gowns being taken off a dress...

Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate...

Writer Truman Jones travels to the home of old, eccentric poet Roderick Usher in his quest for wisdom from the aging poet.

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a...

In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films....

A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale.

Curtis Harrington's student film based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story.

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

Larry Wessel presents darkest Hollywood and explores some of tinsel town's most grisly tragedies, including the murders of Sharon Tate and The Black...

A young man returns home to his mother's boardinghouse after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks...

Horror documentary with interviews to William Friedkin, Stan Winston, John McNaughton, Tom Holland and Ridley Scott.

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, presenting images of her paintings and recitations of her poems.

In this fragile yet frightening poetic fantasy set against a dark industrial landscape, a woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man...

In the reality of American middle-class life, the protagonist experiences an idealistic dream-quest, from which he is finally cast off.

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, The Four Elements is a poetic and...

A figure cloaked in black and wearing a white mask wanders Venice, carrying a single rose. The entity boards a gondola to make much of its journey...