Anthony Perkins hosts a graveyard tour through cinema's darkest dreams — no survivors, all classics.
Acting
Perkins' deliciously creepy hosting — who better than Norman Bates?
Editing
Jarring montage of 40 years of screams, stitched like Frankenstein's monster.
Director
Richard Schickel
Anthony Perkins
Self - Host
Bud Abbott
(archive footage)
Lou Costello
(archive footage)
Julie Adams
(archive footage)
Richard Arlen
(archive footage)
James Arness
(archive footage)
Lionel Atwill
(archive footage)
Martin Balsam
(archive footage)
John Barrymore
(archive footage)
Ernest Borgnine
(archive footage)
John Carradine
(archive footage)
Lon Chaney Jr.
(archive footage)
Lon Chaney
(archive footage)
Peter Cushing
(archive footage)
Bette Davis
(archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schickel fought studios for months to license clips; some iconic scenes appear only as still photographs due to rights hell.
Made at horror's lowest commercial ebb, just before Halloween resurrected the genre — it's a time capsule of what almost died.
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