Before the days of of graphic, torturous horror movies that do nothing more than splash blood and gore across the screen, there were monsters….`

Kids spent what little change they had to sit in a darkened theater and get their shivers from larger than life creatures that would later on be haunting the shadows under the bed, lurking in closets, and spawning hundreds of remakes for years to come.

Right now we have an awesome selection of old school monster movies that may just make you remember all the things that can go bump in the night:

Dracula (1931) – The grand classic starring Bela Lugosi as the eerie blood sucker from Transylvania who sets out to turn innocent young women into vampires.

Frankenstein (1931) – The mad scientist who pieces together lifeless body parts to create one of the most memorable monsters of the silver screen, played by Boris Karloff.

The Mummy (1932) – Boris Karloff appears again, this time as Im-Ho-Tep, an Egyptian high priest who after being embalmed alive, is revived 1000’s of years later. He awakens and attempts to find his lost love.  Not only is this a scary one, but Karloff managed to tug at the old heartstrings a little with his tortured soul in love. That is devotion, man.

The Invisible Man (1933) – Based on the novel by H.G. Wells, this film stars Claude Rains as a mysterious doctor who discovers a serum to make him invisible. However, the serum slowly drives him to commit unspeakable acts of terror.

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – Boris Karloff returns as the misunderstood monster who longs for a mate and twisted Dr. Frankenstein is only too happy to comply and brings to life one freaky bride (Elsa Lanchester).

Phantom of the Opera (1943) – Another Claude Rains monster. This time he is a crazed, disfigured composer bent on revenge towards those who stole his music.

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) – In my opinion, one of the freakier monsters of old. A “living amphibious missing link” who gets captured by scientists,  falls in love with the scientist’s female assistant, escapes, kidnaps the girl and tries to evade the rescue team. I get a little shiver just thinking about him!

Night of the Living Dead (1968) – The zombie movie that redefined the horror genre for Hollywood and made a household name of George A. Romero and launched numerous sequels, remakes and copycats.

So if you feel like being scared by all the classic boogeymen, then come visit us and peruse our Wall O’ Ghoul…er Cool.

Sweeeet Dreams…muahahahahahahaha!!

Our fabulous Wall O’ Cool has some awesome stuff on it right now:

A whole Hitchcock shelf with classics like; The Birds, Psycho, Frenzy and Family Plot.

Two shelves of classics with titles like; The Great Escape, Patton, All About Eve, The Conversation and Touch of Evil.

A music shelf featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, The Melvins and John Lennon.

A comedy shelf with Office Space, The Big Lebowski and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

A whole shelf of family friendly films- Tron, Ice Age, Finding Nemo, E.T. and The Sound of Music.

Also a whole shelf dedicated to Stephen King movies!

Plus some new staff picks like American Psycho, Brick and Almost Famous.

Action packed animation, super sci-fi, chick flicks, dark comedies…..tons to choose from!

That’s the number of titles we have in stock right now. And now I’m going to talk about each one. Kidding. I am going to talk about a few really cool things we have, though.

Like your movies old, like from the glory days of Hollywood? We can do that: Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, in a super cool 3 disc edition. And then there’s a limited edition The Bridge On The River Kwai, one of the greatest WWI movies ever made, along with The Great Escape. We also have what many call the greatest film ever: Citizen Kane, plus Lawrence of Arabia, All About Eve, Lady From Shanghai, A Touch Of Evil and Marylin Monroe: The Diamond Collection featuring Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, How To Marry A Millionaire, Bus Stop plus Marylin Monroe: The Final Days.

Speaking of box sets, we also have The Ultimate Scream Collection with all three entries in the Scream franchise plus a bonus disc; The Crow Ultimate Collection, including The Crow and its two sequels; The Winona Rider Collection includes 1969, Autumn In New York, Great Balls Of Fire and Mermaids; a couple of two-packs: Labyrinth/Dark Crystal and The Cary Grant Collection which includes Father Goose and That Touch Of Mink; a horror/sci-fi three-pack with six movies on 3 discs: First Spaceship On Venus/Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet, Carnival Of Souls/Horror Hotel, House On Haunted Hill/Last Man On Earth and finally The Aussie Horror Collection Volume 2 which features four Australian horror flicks: The Dreaming, Snapshot, The Survivor and Voyage Into Fear.

We’ve got loads of other cool stuff, too, like Natural Born Killers (the director’s cut), The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Donnie Darko (the director’s cut), The Abominable Dr. Phibes, the Criterion Collection version of Naked Lunch, and the super-duper special edition Sin City!

And there’s a lot more. Come on in and check it out.