Tag: 1950s

  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls

    When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his uncle is a warlock, Lewis begins learning magic, but when he rebelliously resurrects an evil warlock he must find the secret of the house and save the world from destruction.

  • Insidious: The Last Key

    Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

  • Lessons in Chemistry

    In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott’s dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

  • The Black Tree Epic

    In “The Black Tree Epic”; the excitement, sadness and love will touch hearts as the reality of goodness and evil, the world of existence and non-existence are told side by side in the ancient lands of Anatolia in the 1950s and 1970s.

  • Dreams of Liberty

    In 1958 Spain, Jesus shoots his new wife, Begoña, while fleeing through the woods with his daughter. What events led Jesus to turn against his own family?

  • Ip Man 3

    When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

  • Lovecraft Country

    The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

  • Them

    A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

  • Ferrari

    Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.

  • Asteroid City

    In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.