Charles Beaumont

Brain Dead -- An eclectic mix of characters all stumble into a deserted fishing lodge and find themselves under siege from zombie fishermen.

7 Faces of Dr. Lao -- An elderly Chinese man routs evil in a Western frontier town by setting up his circus for the townspeople. The various performers affect each of the circus' visitors in a different way.

Two escaped convicts, a couple of attractive lost hikers, a televangelist with car trouble and his pretty, young assistant, all stumble into a deserted fishing lodge, miles from civilization. Every single window is boarded up, and there's no sign of the fishermen who own it. The convicts capture the others at gunpoint but are soon forced to put aside their differences and work together when they discover that the missing fishermen have been murdered and decapitated or turned into zombie-like brain-eaters by an alien goo, accidentally brought to earth within a falling meteorite. As the zombies outside assault the lodge, the people inside realize that with no way out, the shelter they sought earlier may now become their final resting place.

At a 12th-century masked ball from hell, dissolute satanist Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) torments his guests, forcing them to participate in a variety of gruesome lethal games in this Roger Corman-directed horror flick based on two stories by Edgar Allen Poe. While most of the games end in someone's death, those who survive Prospero's amusements must endure the nightmare of torture and unthinkable depravity.