Cinematography: William C. Thompson

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by William C. Thompson. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Dementia

1955 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction John Parker

Cast Adrienne Barrett · Bruno VeSota · Ben Roseman · Richard Barron

Plot As the narrator invites us to explore the horrors of an insane mind, a young woman wakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. We follow her through the...

6.4

412 votes

6.4

412 votes

Glen or Glenda

1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Bela Lugosi · Ed Wood · Dolores Fuller · Lyle Talbot

Plot Upon discovering the suicide of a known transvestite, the police inspector seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist familiar with the phenomenom. The psychiatrist tells him two tales. Glen is to be...

4.7

1K votes

4.7

1K votes

Final Curtain (S)

1957 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Duke Moore · Dudley Manlove · Jeannie Stevens

Plot After a horror play's final performance, The Vampire roams the theater.

4.5

24 votes

4.5

24 votes

Bride of the Monster

1955 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Bela Lugosi · Tor Johnson · Tony McCoy · Loretta King

Plot Dr. Varnoff captures twelve men for his experiment: to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Newspaperwoman Lawton gets too snoopy for her own good.

4.4

858 votes

4.4

858 votes

Plan 9 from Outer Space

1959 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Bela Lugosi · Maila Nurmi · Lyle Talbot · Gregory Walcott

Plot PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is Ed Wood's unintentionally hilarious film in which aliens plan to take over the world by resurrecting only three corpses. Horror icon Bela Lugosi died...

4.4

5K votes

4.4

5K votes

The Astounding She-Monster

1957 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Ronald V. Ashcroft

Cast Robert Clarke · Kenne Duncan · Marilyn Harvey · Jeanne Tatum

Plot A scientist and a gang that has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.

4.3

40 votes

4.3

40 votes

Maniac

1934 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction Dwain Esper

Cast William Woods · Horace B. Carpenter · Ted Edwards · Phyllis Diller

Plot An ex-vaudeville actor gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist to reanimate corpses and soon goes mad himself.

4.1

64 votes

4.1

64 votes

Jail Bait (Hidden Face)

1954 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Lyle Talbot · Dolores Fuller · Herbert Rawlinson · Steve Reeves

Plot Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops. This...

4.0

159 votes

4.0

159 votes

Night of the Ghouls

1959 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Kenne Duncan · Duke Moore · Tor Johnson · Valda Hansen

Plot Phony spiritualist raises the dead.

3.8

178 votes

3.8

178 votes

Son of the Renegade

1953 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Reg Browne

Cast Johnny Carpenter · Lori Irving · Joan McKellen · Valley Keene

Plot In a throw-back to the worse of the 1930's indie westerns, Red River Johnny (Johnny Carpenter) gathers his friends (most of whom are called some variation of the name Bill)and...

3.3

59 votes

3.3

59 votes

The Sinister Urge

1960 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Kenne Duncan · Duke Moore · Jean Fontaine · Carl Anthony

Plot A flunky for a porno movie ring starts murdering the smut films' lead actresses.

3.2

75 votes

3.2

75 votes

The Devil's Sleep

1949 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction W. Merle Connell

Cast Lita Grey · Will Charles · William Thomason · Timothy Farrell

Plot The head of an illegal drug ring uses a women's health spa as a front for his sleeping-pill racket.

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The Golden Mistress

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast John Agar · Rosemarie Stack · Jacques Molant · André Narcisse

Plot Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known...

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Project Moonbase (Project Moon Base)

1953 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Richard Talmadge

Cast Ross Ford · Donna Martell · Hayden Rorke · Larry Johns

Plot In the not-too-distant future of 1970, the United States is considering building bases on the Moon, and send a female colonel and two men to investigate. One of the men...

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Revenge

1918 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Too Soon to Love

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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No Greater Love

1932 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Dickie Moore · Alexander Carr · Richard Bennett · Beryl Mercer

Plot Owing more than just a passing nod to "Abie's Irish Rose," a kindly Jewish delicatessen owner in New York City, Sidney Cohen, adopts a young, crippled Irish girl, Mildred, with...

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Racket Girls

1951 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert C. Dertano

Cast Peaches Page · Timothy Farrell · Clara Mortensen · Rita Martínez

Plot Scalli is a gangster who manages women wrestlers as a front for his bookmaking, drug, and prostitution rackets. He trusts the wrong people and ends up trying to run away...

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The Violent Years

1956 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction William Morgan

Cast Jean Moorhead · Barbara Weeks · Art Millan · Theresa Hancock

Plot Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents whom don't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl gang...

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Not rated