The costume horror epics of Hammer and American International Pictures (as well as the TV series "Thriller") gave the actor a new, young audience later in life for such enjoyable horror/fantasy vehicles as "Black Sabbath" and "The Raven" (both 1963). Ironically, one of his last performances was in Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets" (1968), where Karloff movingly played an aged horror film star whose brand of screen terror pales besides that of a real-life serial killer.