南北戦争中のアラバマ州のアウル・クリーク鉄橋で、農場主ペイトン・ファーカーが、南軍に味方して鉄橋を破壊しようとしたスパイ容疑で絞首刑にされようとしていた。彼は残してきた農場や妻子のことを思いながら、もう一度家に戻れたらと思いを巡らせる。絞首刑が執行されたが、首を吊るす縄が途中で切れたためファーカーは川に落ち、そのまま逃げ出した。銃弾をかいくぐって川を泳ぎ、野山を走り、かろうじて逃げおおせたファーカーは、死に直面する前には思いもしなかったほど樹にも草にも鮮烈な印象を受ける。森の道をたどったファーカーはやがて一軒の家にたどり着く。そこは妻と子供が暮らす自分の家であった。<1961年制作のフランスの映画。日本では1963年に公開された。1963年アカデミー賞短編実写賞、1962年カンヌ国際映画祭パルム・ドール(短編)を受賞。オリジナルは3部作で構成されているが、『ふくろうの河』は3部(白黒、28分)。ロベール・アンリコは、アメリカ合衆国の作家アンブローズ・ビアスの、南北戦争下の兵士と市民を描いた短編小説集『生のさなかにも』から3つの短編を選んでそれぞれ短編映画とした。第3部である『ふくろうの河』は「アウル・クリーク橋の一事件」を映画化したものである。1964年にはアメリカのテレビドラマシリーズ『トワイライト・ゾーン』の第5シーズンで142話「アウル・クリーク橋の一事件」としても放送された。>

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

刑務所を出所した村木は、賭場で少女と出会う。ある夜、彼は屋台でその少女と再会した。彼女の名は冴子。冴子はもっと大きな勝負があるところへ連れて行ってほしいとせがんだ。二人は大きな賭場へ行くが、村木はそこで、葉という男を見つけた。殺しと麻薬だけに生きているという葉は、賭けをしている冴子のことを見つめていた。

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

After discovering a mysterious doll in an attic, two high school friends are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing and unexplained events.

Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.

While stuck in her car after an accident, a young woman makes an emergency call and reaches an operator who attempts to keep her calm. Having immediately formed an undeniable bond, they spend months trying to reconnect amongst repeated obstacles and misunderstandings.

When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.

The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

義眼刑事を演じ80年代に名を馳せたTV俳優も、今はドン底暮らし。だが、その刑事が実在すると信じるイカれた殺人犯に指名され、再び注目を集めるチャンス到来!

Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.