Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "premature-burial"

1. The Baby (1973)

PG | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor

Votes: 4,513

2. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders

Votes: 16,530 | Gross: $4.36M

3. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)

R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror

After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.

Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Oliver

Votes: 9,477

4. Bordertown (2007)

R | 112 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.

Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Irineo Alvarez

Votes: 11,436

5. The Premature Burial (1962)

Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel

Votes: 4,899

6. Necromancy (1972)

PG | 83 min | Horror

Mr. Cato is the head of a witches' coven in the town of Lilith, where he needs the powers of Lori Brandon to raise his son from the dead.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Lee Purcell, Michael Ontkean

Votes: 1,059

7. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)

76 min | Horror

In 1897 London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.

Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli, Maria Teresa Vianello

Votes: 1,943

8. Isle of the Dead (1945)

Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery

Votes: 5,276

9. The Blancheville Monster (1963)

Unrated | 88 min | Horror

The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.

Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Gérard Tichy, Leo Anchóriz, Ombretta Colli, Helga Liné

Votes: 848

10. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi

Votes: 1,557

11. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

Not Rated | 76 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe

Votes: 1,614

12. Bizarre (1970)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A brainy sex flick with a sense of humor, the film begins with a narrator/mummy who guides us through a number of vignettes promising to show what some of us go through in the pursuit of ... See full summary »

Director: Antony Balch | Stars: Richard Schulman, Janet Spearman, Dorothy Grumbar, Anthony Rowlands

Votes: 418

13. Poranek kojota (2001)

100 min | Comedy

Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs.

Director: Olaf Lubaszenko | Stars: Maciej Stuhr, Karolina Rosinska, Michal Milowicz, Magdalena Kumorek

Votes: 4,073

14. Strigoi (2009)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.

Director: Faye Jackson | Stars: Catalin Paraschiv, Rudy Rosenfeld, Constantin Barbulescu, Roxana Guttman

Votes: 1,266

15. The Fall of the House of Usher (1950)

TV-14 | 70 min | Horror

1950. Horror. A traveller arrives at Usher mansion to visit his friend Roderick (Kaye Tendeter) and discovers that Roderick and his sister (Gwen Watford) have been inflicted with a strange disease.

Director: Ivan Barnett | Stars: Gwen Watford, Kaye Tendeter, Irving Steen, Vernon Charles

Votes: 571

16. Panic (1972)

85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is nursing a doll like a real baby, and even hears its cries. Her fantasies becomes more deranged and her paranoia never lets her go. Is someone chasing her? Was she abused by three men?

Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Ana Martín, Ofelia Guilmáin, Joaquín Cordero, José Gálvez

Votes: 97

17. Stuk! (2014)

113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But... See full summary »

Director: Steven de Jong | Stars: Amin Ait Bihi, Mees Bink, Sanneke Bos, Yolanthe Cabau

Votes: 259

18. The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so that he can bury them alive.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Harriet Russell, Dwight Frye, Paul Guilfoyle

Votes: 401

19. Theatre Fantastique (2014– )

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Theatre Fantastique" by Hollinsworth Productions, is a non-hosted US horror anthology series that ran in 2014 and 2017 on YouTube, with a total of 10 episodes.

Stars: Christopher Pennock, Kelsey Hewlett, Elyse Ashton, Nathan Wilson

Votes: 22

20. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)

15 min | Animation, Short, Horror

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Petr Cepek

Votes: 795

21. Prelude (1927)

7 min | Short, Horror

A man listening to Rachmoninoff's 'Prelude' dreams he is the victim of premature burial.

Director: Castleton Knight | Star: Castleton Knight

Votes: 106

22. Kamenák 4 (2013)

83 min | Comedy

It's 10 years later and the popular protagonists of the town of Kamenákov are back in fine form. Pepa's wife Vilma has left for Australia to be with their daughter, so Pepa (Václav Vydra) ... See full summary »

Directors: Ján Novák, Pavel Pásek | Stars: Václav Vydra, Dana Morávková, Martin Dejdar, Bohumil Klepl

Votes: 204

23. O vecech nadprirozených (1959)

104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery

Three short stories about the supernatural based on the work of writer Karel Capek.

Directors: Jirí Krejcík, Jaroslav Mach, Milos Makovec | Stars: Ladislav Pesek, Vlastimil Brodský, Felix Le Breux, Bohus Záhorský

Votes: 74

24. Hostinec U létavého draka (1971 TV Movie)

84 min | Crime, Mystery

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of his well-known collection, "The Dark ... See full summary »

Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Jana Brejchová, Vladimír Smeral, Karel Sebesta

Votes: 18

25. Sicko-Psychotic's Super Shock Show (2021– )
Episode: The Blancheville Monster (2021)

Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Sicko and the gang attempt to get Aunt Clarice's comatose body up on the Sick-Shack's roof. After several interruptions and mishaps Evil Tree (ET) finally steps in to help.

Director: Jim Childs | Stars: Jim Childs, Jerome P. Eadeh, Alex Wentz, Demosthenes Papaeliou

26. Theatre Fantastique (2014– )
Episode: The Madness of Roderick Usher (2014)

14 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A surreal adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, told from the disturbed point of view of Roderick Usher.

Director: Ansel Faraj | Stars: Christopher Pennock, Elyse Ashton, J.R. Cox

27. Clever Girl (2015– )
Episode: Seal It (2018)

22 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller

Denise learns some disturbing things about her new boyfriend, and her confrontation proves to be a deciding moment in their relationship. Detective Hyde works with her partner Keenan Albertson on the case of Gillian Peters.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Kip Bennett, Tifani Winkfield, Shannon Faith, Jason Greear

28. Best of the Worst (2013– )
Episode: Wheel of the Worst #14 (2017)

TV-MA | 43 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

You thought it was dead. You thought wrong. The gang revives the Wheel of the Worst to torture us all!

Stars: Jay Bauman, Josh Davis, Mike Stoklasa, Rich Evans

Votes: 67