The City Of The Dead -1960- A.k.a. Horror Hotel... Jun 2026

“To understand evil,” Driscoll says, “one must sometimes visit it.”

(famously released in the U.S. as ). Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey in his directorial debut, this film is a masterclass in low-budget world-building, transforming a Surrey studio set into the eerie, cursed village of Whitewood, Massachusetts. The Plot: A Research Trip Gone Wrong The City of the Dead -1960- a.k.a. Horror Hotel...

The Raven’s Inn is run by the elderly, soft-spoken Mrs. Newless (a chilling Patricia Jessel, whose face becomes a mask of serene evil). The townsfolk are polite, but vacant—each one a silent watcher. That night, Nan learns the truth: Whitewood is a living mausoleum. It is a town cursed to remain unchanged since 1692, when its founder, the witch Elizabeth Selwyn, was burned at the stake. But before she died, she made a pact with the Devil: the soul of a virgin sacrificed every year on Candlemas Eve would keep her—and the town—alive in a state of unholy stagnation. The Plot: A Research Trip Gone Wrong The