Samantha Eggar
2) The brood
Series
Criterion collection volume 777
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The year was 1492. While most still believed the world to be flat, Christopher Columbus had a revolutionary idea: he thought the world was square. Together with his friend, a lively and courageous little woodworm named Pico, Columbus embarks on the greatest journey of all time--an expedition to discover America.
6) Curtains
Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of women gather for a weekend casting call at the secluded mansion of director Jonathan Stryker. He's searching for the perfect woman to play the role of the crazed character Audra, and these women are just dying for the chance to play her. Unfortunately, a crazed killer in a disgusting 'hag' mask is viciously murdering them one by one.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, pirates led by Captain Kongre (Yul Brynner) try to capture a lighthouse on Cape Horn. They kill two keepers, but the third (Kirk Douglas) escapes and carries on the battle against the pirates. This adventure story was adapted from Jules Verne's classic 1905 novel *The Lighthouse at the End of the World*.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the improverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are...
9) The uncanny
Publisher
Severin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
10) The collector
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn butterfly collector decides to add to his collection by kidnapping a beautiful girl and locking her up in hopes that she will fall in love with him.
11) Double indemnity
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
13) Lady in waiting
Author
Language
English
Description
After her husband leaves her, Jane Lindsay finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one other word: "Jane." Feeling instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring--and perhaps about herself and the lives of a sixteenth century dressmaker, Lucy Day, and the innocent young woman known in history as...
14) Rose cottage
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1940s England, a young woman searches for information on her mother. Kate Herrick was born out of wedlock and abandoned at the age of six. Now a widow, she returns to the shuttered cottage of her childhood and finds someone was there before her.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family experience various adventures in Egypt early this century while accompanying her husband who is digging in tombs. The boys go undercover in search of a villain while the daughter becomes involved in the local version of women's lib.
Author
Language
English
Description
Born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer attained wealth, power, and title with her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales. But her ultimate triumph owed nothing to those circumstances and everything to her inner qualities: an innate ability to understand and connect with ordinary people, particularly the desperately sick, the rejected, the "unloved." Biographer and journalist Peter Donnelly recounts the...