My top 25 Episodes of Thriller
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- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffHenry JonesGeorge MacreadyA man seeks to resurrect his son by using a suit crafted using black magic.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffJo Van FleetJohn CarradineCissy Hawk's farm keeps gaining massive blue ribbon hogs, while the passing drifters she hires magically disappear. Well-read grifter Jason Longfellow figures he'll last a lot longer at her Isle of Aiaie via blackmail, but seductive Cissy keeps local Sheriff Ulysses wound around her finger tighter than a pig's tail.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffRonald HowardHenry DaniellFiendish Moloch and his huge creature Styx kill a chauffeur and kidnap his passengers, who are en route to a bachelor party. The 2 abductees (a bridegroom, who's heir to an English country estate, and the estates overseer), are forced to slog through foggy moors to an ancient Gothic fortress. As dawn approaches, the diabolic pair push their captives to speed up, because the demonic creatures fear the coming of dawn's light.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffWilliam ShatnerNatalie SchaferCelebrity author Beatrice Graves purchases a cursed painting of the Grim Reaper; her nephew Paul warns her that most of its previous owners have died violently but she scoffs-until blood appears on the Reaper's blade.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffMildred DunnockHarry TownesA man invents a pair of glasses that can see the truth in others and oneself. They lead to a series of suicides, murders, and tragedies for the wearers.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBoris KarloffJohn NewlandAntoinette BowerWhite magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffPatricia BarryJohn BaragreyAn aging actress tries for a comeback in a film about a witch hanged for murder. As a stunt she insists on wearing the historical woman's wig, which turns out to be cursed, changing her into a literal man-killer.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsBoris KarloffDick YorkCarolyn KearneyPenniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffEdward AndrewsPatricia BarryA bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffWilliam ShatnerJoanna HeyesA married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffRobert MiddletonDanielle De MetzFrance, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole allowing him to be pardoned if the executioner dies before his execution. He then enlists his wife in a scheme to make sure that this improbable scenario comes to pass.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffPippa ScottJeanette NolanA young woman is held captive in a mansion by a family of recluses hiding a supernatural secret.
- DirectorJules BrickenStarsBoris KarloffMacdonald CareyPatricia MedinaAn artist "pawns" his soul to the devil and must retrieve it by painting a portrait of another person whose soul will be exchanged for his.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffOscar HomolkaMartin KosleckA murder outside a traveling wax museum attracts the attention of the police--and a European detective who claims that the wax figures of murderers are brought to life by black magic so they can kill again.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffNorma CraneEd NelsonTwo tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, an elderly morgue attendant can speak to the cadavers in his charge and he learns the identity of the gunman who killed a noted racketeer. In the second story, a greedy nephew returns to his family home in the Lousiana bayou to claim his inheritance but why does his dotty old aunt insist that he is dead?
- DirectorRichard CarlsonStarsBoris KarloffLarry BlydenSusan OliverA beach bum locks onto a wealthy young woman whose sadness is as obvious as her flashy jewels and sports car. At first Ralphie Teal only desires a quick score, but when the comely Ms. Landers forgives his larceny in exchange for his serious attention, the heel sees a much bigger payoff looming, via her only relative, a harsh uncle who's loaded.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffRip TornPatricia BarryA practical-minded skeptic must stay in the spooky Baton Rouge mansion his brother willed to him for one night or forfeit it to his cousin and her husband, who warn him of ghosts.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBoris KarloffBrandon De WildeCrahan DentonTwo stranded motorists and a local sheriff battle evil forces that inhabit a run-down, abandoned mansion in the middle of a swamp in the middle of nowhere.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffEdward AndrewsDoro MerandeMilquetoast Maynard plans on killing his wife, unaware that a pair of nosy sisters across the street have just killed one of their husbands. Maynard has a cozy love-nest for himself and his paramour Babs but his penurious wife interferes with these philandering ways, so the would-be Lothario hastens his plan of removing his wife from his life.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffLarry PennellEdward PlattA brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffSidney BlackmerScott MarloweAn aging millionaire survives being buried alive, but his devilish fiancée plans to take advantage of his next cataleptic seizure, by marrying him and then making sure he stays in his grave. Then the gorgeous Victorine will inherit his estate, and run off with her young lover, a painter. But the cataleptic millionaire and his loyal physician Dr. Thorn take every possible measure to allow him to survive another mistaken entombment.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffUrsula AndressAlejandro ReyAfter a young woman and her penniless lover defy her her grandmother's wishes, the old lady uses witchcraft to make their lives unpleasant
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsBoris KarloffMary AstorLin McCarthyAn aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffMartin GabelStuart ErwinA schoolteacher and religious hypocrite takes a creepy interest in a handsome 20-year-old and the girl supposedly corrupting him. He murders her, but then discovers the young man has a more serious interest in another "corrupter".
- DirectorPaul HenreidStarsBoris KarloffGuy RolfeHazel CourtA concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.