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Films about personifications of death.Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul.
Prison of the Dead is a 2000 supernatural horror film with elements of a zombie film and a slasher directed by David DeCoteau under the pseudonym Victoria Sloane and produced by Charles Band. It follows a group of friends who unwittingly resurrect a trio of zombie prison executioners that systematically hunt them down.
The Sickle or the Cross is a 1949 American drama film directed by Frank Strayer, which stars Kent Taylor, Gloria Holden, and Gene Lockhart. The screenplay was written by Jesse L. Lasky Jr. from an original story by T. G. Eggers. Produced and distributed by the Lutheran Laymen's League, it had its world premiere in Burbank, California on July 1 ...
Gustave Doré Death on the Pale Horse (1865) – The fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Death is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in Revelation 6:7–8. [36] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
The theater opened on September 19, 1927, with a program including Native American dancers and singers, a performance on the newly installed $18,000 Wurlitzer theater organ, and the comedy film Painting the Town. According to local legend, the KiMo Theatre is haunted by the ghost of Bobby Darnall, a six-year-old boy killed in 1951 when a water ...
The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the ninth of fourteen such films the pair made. [1] The story is loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" [2] but features some additions, such as Evelyn Ankers as an accomplice of the villain played by Miles Mander, and Rondo Hatton as a ...
Death, hooded with a pale man's face, is a prominent character in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal. An archetypal Grim Reaper appears in Terry Pratchett 's 1980s-1990s fantasy comedy series of novels Discworld (simply named Death ); the 1991 science-fantasy comedy film Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey ; the 1998 video game Grim Fandango ...
The Asphyx, also known as Spirit of the Dead and The Horror of Death, is a 1972 British horror film/science fiction film directed by Peter Newbrook and starring Robert Stephens and Robert Powell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]