Biography: Freddie Francis |
A clapper boy in British films while a teenager, Freddie Francis became a camera assistant and in the mid-1950s was an operator for Oswald Morris, the director of photography on John Huston's Moulin Rouge (1953) and Beat the Devil (1954); he also... more
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Cast: Theodore Bikel
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 91min
A successful architect (Jenny Agutter) is in the middle of a large building project, but a series of murders among the construction crew disrupts her plans. She gradually realizes that the unseen force is actually the ghost of her long-dead husband. ~...
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Tags: Gothic Film Horror Costume Horror Crime Drama
Length: 93min
A movie version of the stage play +The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had been planned and shelved by several filmmakers before producer Mel Brooks and director Freddie Francis finally brought the...
Cast: John Hurt
Tags: Thriller Horror Costume Horror
Length: 88min
England's Tigon studios produced fairly sophisticated period horror films in the 1970s, including this drawing-room horror-mystery directed by Hammer stalwart Freddie Francis. Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible...
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 90min
Peter Cushing stars as a police investigator whose search into a series of murders--committed during the full moon--leads him to a French zoo run by a strange keeper. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Cast: Kim Novak Donald Pleasence Jack Hawkins
Tags: Horror Comedy Supernatural Horror Horror Comedy
Length: 90min
Essentially a reworking of their earlier omnibus Asylum, this is another anthology of pulp horror tales from Amicus, this one helmed by the ever-reliable Freddie Francis. It features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of...
Cast: Christopher Lee
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror Thriller
Length: 91min
Peter Cushing delivers one of his finest hand-wringing performances as Emmanuel Hildern, a Victorian man of science who relates a mad tale of horror to his half-brother and professional rival James (Christopher Lee). His tale begins with the discovery...
Cast: Peter Cushing Ralph Richardson
Length: 92min
The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting ironic horror tales had its beginnings in William Gaine's E.C. comic series. At one time, outlandish E.C. Comics were at the...
Cast: Freddie Francis Jack Palance
Tags: Slasher Film Horror
Length: 96min
Another slice of processed cheese from Herman Cohen, producer of Trog and other such wonders. This cheap occult programmer (ostensibly based on the novel -Infernal Idol by Henry Seymour) stars Jack Palance as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner...
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 90min
Freddie Francis' Son of Dracula, not to be confused with the 1943 film featuring Lon Chaney, Jr., is a minor curiosity, an attempt at a comedic, modern-day vampire story that is most notable for its eccentric casting and pop soundtrack. The title role...
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 97min
Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci went to Germany and hired British director Freddie Francis to make this vampire comedy starring his Scandinavian wife, Pia Dagermark (Elvira Madigan). The resultant international mish-mash is neither very scary nor...
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