The Pianist with Ten Fingers (Piano Horror films)
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- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsRobert AldaAndrea KingPeter LorreIn a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAlan AldaJacqueline BissetBarbara ParkinsAn old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
- DirectorEugenio MiraStarsElijah WoodJohn CusackKerry BishéA pianist with stage fright endures a performance under the eyes of a mysterious sniper, who will shoot and kill him if a wrong note is played.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsConrad VeidtAlexandra SorinaFritz StrassnyA world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsBarry MorseJoan HackettDon DurantSadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.
- DirectorJohn HarrisonStarsMichael WarrenLisa BonetPhilip RothStruggling composer Pete Bancroft is contacted by strange Wilson Farber, who has invented a synthesizer that can read minds and may be able to help Bancroft in his career.
- DirectorSteve PerryStarsTimothy DaltonDennis FarinaWalter GotellAn Agatha Christie-style mystery sees the inhabitants of a remote hotel terrorized by rumors of a werewolf prowling the area. Not to fear, as a self-appointed werewolf hunter is amongst them. But might he have a dark secret of his own?
- DirectorDon WeisStarsDarren McGavinSimon OaklandFred BeirThe evil spirit of a murdered arsonist who loved classical music is somehow incinerating his former enemies, while simultaneously trying to take to life again.
- DirectorThomas J. WrightStarsJoe PennyNorman FellTom O'BrienRicky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his musical talent might see him free if he continues to play a certain piano.
- DirectorRodney BennettStarsRoald DahlWendy HillerJoseph CottenA musically appreciative stray cat comes between an elderly husband and wife.
- DirectorWilliam FruetStarsBen CookBarclay HopeCarolyn ScottWhen Jerry and his family move into a new house, he finds a long-abandoned piano. After deciding to take lessons, however, a ghost warns him that the music school he attends is not what it seems.
- 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.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsGerard ButlerEmmy RossumPatrick WilsonA young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
- DirectorRupert JulianLon ChaneyErnst LaemmleStarsLon ChaneyMary PhilbinNorman KerryA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsNelson EddySusanna FosterClaude RainsAn acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsPaul WilliamsWilliam FinleyJessica HarperA disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
- DirectorJaume Collet-SerraStarsVera FarmigaPeter SarsgaardIsabelle FuhrmanA husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
- DirectorHerk HarveyStarsCandace HilligossFrances FeistSidney BergerAfter a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsMel FerrerChristopher LeeDany CarrelA pianist who loses his hands in a plane crash receives the transplanted hands of an executed criminal but his new hands have the murderous tendencies of their previous owner.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele LaviaA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
- DirectorLamberto BavaStarsAndrea OcchipintiAnny PapaFabiola ToledoA killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
- DirectorDavid TausikStarsBen CrossJennifer BurnsBeverly GarlandGabriella finds an unfinished symphony that was written by her late uncle Octave Barron who found inspiration through murder. Thrilled by its possibilities she hires Marius (Ben Cross) to complete the symphony. As he begins work on the piece he finds himself stuck in a bizarre murdering cycle handed down from the original composer.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJack PalanceBurgess MeredithBeverly AdamsAn anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.
- DirectorNewt ArnoldStarsPaul LukatherJoan HarveyJames NoahA concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAnica DobraMilorad Mandic-MandaPiano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood, as well as by political oppression in his youth. Decades later, all those traumas lead to carnage.
- DirectorEric EnglandNick EverhartEmily HaginsStarsSymbaThea TrinidadNicholas TucciFrom the people that brought you Steve Niles' Remains and Dead Souls comes a terrifying new anthology film based on the human senses...
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBoris KarloffRicardo CortezEdmund GwennAfter hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
- DirectorDon GronquistStarsLaurel MunsonJanet PennerSara AnsleyThree young women who crash their car during a rainstorm are taken in by a bizarre family at their large, rural estate.
- DirectorBill RebaneStarsPaul BentzenStephanie CushnaCarol PerryA murderous demon lurks inside an antique piano in a picturesque coastal town.
- DirectorAlfonso Corona BlakeStarsGuillermo MurraySilvia FournierMauricio GarcésA vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the vampires in Europe.
- DirectorRafael BaledónStarsEnrique RambalAbel SalazarMartha RothA failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
- DirectorMichel SubielaStarsClaude JadeFrançois DunoyerAndré ReybazA young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition?
- DirectorGreydon ClarkStarsRobert EnglundMichelle ZeitlinMarianna MoenA dance instructor brings his dance troupe to Russia for training. What his dancers don't know, however, is that he has a dual personality, and his hidden personality is a serial killer.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsHerbert LomHeather SearsEdward de SouzaAn acid-scarred composer has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer to his London sewer hide-out.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- DirectorGok KimSun KimStarsHahm Eun-jungHwang Woo-seul-hyeMaydoniGirl group "Pink Dolls" is always pushed into the background by other popular idols. When the girls release their new song "White", a remake from unknown origins they become instant sensations.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGösta EkmanEmil JanningsCamilla HornThe demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr CepekJan KrausVladimír KudlaAn ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna JandaIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
- DirectorJohn R. LeonettiStarsJoey KingRyan PhillippeKi Hong LeeA teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them.
- DirectorKarl FreundStarsPeter LorreFrances DrakeColin CliveIn Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
- DirectorSteve DaytonStarsTyler AlbrechtJason AndersonNatoli BarberaZombie punk comes back to life to rock.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsTakanori JinnaiShinya OheYuto IsetaPunk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsPerry KingMerrie Lynn RossTimothy Van PattenA new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsPeter Lind HayesMary HealyHans ConriedA young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsGeorge C. ScottTrish Van DevereMelvyn DouglasAfter experiencing tragic personal losses, a music professor rents a Seattle mansion, haunted by a slain boy.
- DirectorDarren Lynn BousmanStarsPaul SorvinoAnthony HeadAlexa PenaVegaA worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
- DirectorNeal SundstromStarsAdam WoolfDanny KeoghMilan MurrayA rock band gets stuck on a haunted farm while visiting their lead singer's family.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsCristina MarsillachIan CharlesonUrbano BarberiniA young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsRay MillandRuth HusseyDonald CrispA composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
- DirectorDwight H. LittleStarsRobert EnglundJill SchoelenAlex Hyde-WhiteA young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer, who has plans for those who oppose him or the young singer.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsTasko NacicNikola SimicSrdjan SaperA mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.
- DirectorTony SwanseyStarsAllison BattyKevin OestenstadStephen DeanWhen band members are stranded on a country road, excitement of their first tour is diminished by the horrors of a science experiment gone awry. Their pig-human hybrid mutant captors have many horrors in store but true revulsion does not descend until daylight when the extent of their work is revealed.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFredric MarchMiriam HopkinsRose HobartDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
- CreatorSteven SpielbergJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStarsCharles DurningDouglas SealeSharon SpelmanTruly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances.Episode: Grandpa's Ghost (1986) - Edwin's grandpa died in his sleep last night. So why is the old man still hanging around the apartment, playing the piano and swapping stories with Edwin's grandma?
- CreatorSteven SpielbergJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStarsCharles DurningDouglas SealeSharon SpelmanTruly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and directors made guest appearances.Episode: Gershwin's Trunk (1987) - Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the grave.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRoger DaltreySara KestelmanPaul NicholasComposer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).
- StarsFrank GallopJack La RueMercer McLeod"Lights Out" was a US narrated horror short story series.Episode: Strange Legacy (1951) - After suffering a concussion in a car accident on the Oregon coast, Stephen Elliott is carried to the home of an old man and his beautiful daughter-in-law to recover.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsRomain DurisAure AtikaEmmanuelle DevosWill Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?
- CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingLarry WatsonJoanna PettetRod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.Episode: The Dark Boy/Keep in Touch - We'll Think of Something (1971) - Composer Eric Sutton has an ulterior motive for asking the police to find a woman.
- CreatorBryan FullerStarsHugh DancyMads MikkelsenCaroline DhavernasExplores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.
- CreatorRod SerlingStarsRobin WardCharles AidmanRichard MulliganA collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.Episode: Time and Teresa Golowitz/Voices in the Earth (1987) - Offered any wish by the Devil at his death, a musician travels back in time to make love to a girl as he regretted not doing before, but then learns one of the guests committed suicide that night.
- DirectorAlan RafkinStarsDon KnottsJoan StaleyLiam RedmondA timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiDavid MannersAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
- DirectorJuan MasStarsDamon AbdallahBrooke BaileyMike BrandtWhen news breaks that the lead singer of 'The Choke' is going solo, their last gig promises to be packed with bad feelings, and murder. The band and their entourage eerily find themselves trapped in their last venue with a vicious killer.
- DirectorRobert FuestStarsVincent PriceJoseph CottenVirginia NorthDoctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsMichael BrandonMimsy FarmerJean-Pierre MarielleA musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKirk DouglasJames MasonPaul LukasA ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsHugh QuarshieTomas AranaFeodor Chaliapin Jr.An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsLaird CregarLinda DarnellGeorge SandersA promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
- DirectorRobert FuestStarsErnest BorgnineEddie AlbertIda LupinoA satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsOlga KarlatosRay LovelockClaudio CassinelliThe owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsIan HendryAlan BadelBarbara FerrisSix impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.
- DirectorHarry HurwitzStarsNai BonetJohn CarradineYvonne De CarloDracula's granddaughter falls in love with a disco guitarist and runs away to New York City with him.
- DirectorJames WanStarsPatrick WilsonRose ByrneTy SimpkinsA family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
- DirectorJoseph EllisonStarsDan GrimaldiCharles BonetBill RicciA disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.
- DirectorKendal FlanaganOllie MartinStarsAlan DaleChristine JestonCraig AlexanderA rowdy rock group are accompanied by a film crew to desolate Lake Infinity to produce a music video. One night the musicians visit the local pub while the various members of the film crew satisfy their carnal desires with one another aboard the luxurious houseboat they are all staying in. They are so busy they fail to notice that a rampaging lunatic has snuck aboard the boat, and one by one the various characters are brutally slaughtered in a variety of grisly ways.
- DirectorGuillaume CanetStarsGuillaume CanetVirginie EfiraMathieu KassovitzLacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsOlivia PascalChristoph MoosbruggerNadja GerganoffGirls are killed at a language-school in Spain.
- DirectorG.B. HajimStarsClaudia BlackTara StrongRon GlassIn a dystopian spacefaring future, Naia, a female guitarist, and Parker, a female saxophonist, fall in love and form a successful band together. A sleazy music producer breaks them up. When his acts start dying, Parker must save Naia.
- DirectorSergio PastoreStarsAnthony SteffenSylva KoscinaGiovanna LenziA blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.
- CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingRobert McCordJay OverholtsOrdinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.Episode: A Passage for Trumpet (1960) - A suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be invisible to everyone, except for one helpful other musician.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsChristopher LeeMaria SchellLeo GennIn 1685 England, a young woman seeks to avenge her sister after she is executed by a Lord Chancellor who condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his political and sexual whims.
- DirectorRenaud GauthierStarsJérémie EarpSandrine BissonIvan FreudThe mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.
- DirectorRobert McGinleyStarsRobert McGinleyMegan MurphySteven Jesse BernsteinSkateboarder named Orpheus and friends go to Hell to stop television signals that are brainwashing America.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisPaul HenreidClaude RainsAfter marrying her long-lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
- DirectorRichard GriffinStarsShadow FayeAndre BoudreauKevin KillaveyRex Romanski, a suave playboy with all the right moves and undisputed Disco King, is in for a wild ride as a perfect one-night stand triggers a curse and a visit from hell's blackest demons. Now, make way for the Disco Exorcist.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsBela LugosiFrieda InescortNina FochWhen an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart
- DirectorRichard GriffinStarsKen ForeeLynn LowryTrent HaagaThe owner of a fetish club finds out that, along with dealing with his wife who wants to leave him, his dying father, and the city wanting to close his club, he now has to deal with a psycho killer that's offing his employees and patrons.
- DirectorJoJo HenricksonWilliam HolmesStarsDaniel AgostoCourtney BeanDave BergesFour hot chicks in a punk rock band, while on tour, get lost in the wilds of Wisconsin. There's a guy out there with a very serious foot fetish. He likes to collect them like baseball cards. It's a rock and roll horror adventure with a little bit of comedy mixed in.
- DirectorTerry O. MorseStarsGeorge ZuccoLionel AtwillJerome CowanAn investor recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday in his island home, intending to exact revenge on them.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsLaurence PaynePatricia DaintonJane GriffithsA married composer finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her death.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsTetsurô TanbaGô KatôKensaku MoritaDetectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsJames MasonAnn ToddHerbert LomA concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
- DirectorMark WilkinsonStarsThomas Jay RyanAnnunziata GianzeroRichard BakalyanOn the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and tosses her remains into a local river... A retired Boston PD detective isn't buying the news report of a local girl accidentally drowning... While Gypsy's unprecedented disappearance perplexes the entire music industry, she retreats with her husband to the desolation of Cape Cod in winter... Seeking refuge in his past, the murderer contacts his estranged brother and falls in love with his brother's wife, Gypsy... And then a body turns up on Cape Cod... And the detective isn't convinced that this will be the last... Here, in the smallest quietest corner of New England unfolds a disquieting tale of what happens when music meets murder... and a lyrical portrait of the ever-present guardians who preserve life's natural harmony.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsRichard CarlsonSusan GordonLugene SandersA man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials.
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsDanielle DarrieuxMichel AuclairJean Servais(1961) Danielle Darrieux, Michael Auclair. A singer believes she's being haunted by the ghost of her dead husband.