BRAIN OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1971) Kent Taylor, Grant Williams, Regina Carrol, John Bloom, Reed Hadley, Angelo Rossitto, Zandor Vorkov. By 1971, drive-ins across America were clamoring for a new BLOOD ISLAND movie. But Hemisphere instead turned to writer/producer/distributor Sam Sherman (SATAN’S SADISTS) and director Al Adamson (BLOOD OF DRACULA’S CASTLE) to deliver a comparable saga of gruesome... 

(1951, Upgraded 2/28/21) Lon Chaney, Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh, Gisela Werbisek.  The setting is a steamy jungle estate where a deadly love triangle has evolved between Burr, Payton, and Cavanagh.  Things start to spiral out of control when a voodoo priestess puts a curse on Burr, which slowly makes him lust for the jungle and transforms him into...

(1959, Upgraded 5/1/24) Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson, Judy Bamber. A truly great “cult” film. Miller plays a wimpy waiter of a beatnik coffee shop who--more or less--accidentally kills a number of people and animals. He conceals them in clay and passes them off as statues...

(1976) Martin Shaw, Pamela Moiseiwitsch, Wolfe Morris, Stuart McGugan.  A striptease club owner looks into buying a dilapidated old dolphinarium, called “Finnyland.”  Its owner seems to be in a hurry to sell; he seems to be scared of something in the old building...

(1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean Claude Brialy, Edith Scob. A strange film that deals with a number of weird subjects, including occultism, possession, family curses, etc. There's even a disappearing, reappearing b

THE BURNING COURT—Widescreen Edition (1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Edith Scob. Finally—a beautiful widescreen edition of this horror-mystery classic!  A most interesting combination of “old dark house" and “witch’s curse” themes.  Scob plays the lovely descendant of an ancient witch who was wronged by her lover, and whose descendants she cursed...

(1973, aka IT HAPPENED AT NIGHTMARE INN, Upgraded 11/10/20) Judy Geeson, Aurora Bautista, Esperanza Roy, Victor Alcazar, Lone Flemming.  R-Rated 87 minute version.  A grisly film in which murder victims are hidden in large container of cooking wine...

(1970) Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Burt Young, Kaly Mills. A real guilty pleasure—a film so crappy that it’s very enjoyable; and it’s just filled with ‘70s drive-in schlock. There’s a psycho-killer roaming the midway at Coney Island! The killer picks out his victims, then slays and dismembers them. It’s not pretty. The local DA investigates, but in spite of the peril he...

(1943) Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, Guillaume de Sax, Antoine Balpetre.  This is a wonderful French horror movie.  The setting is a mountainside inn that’s been cut off by an avalanche.  In spite of that, the mood is festive; the guests are in good spirits.  Things are interrupted, though, by the arrival of a strange, one-handed man carrying small package...

(1962, Herts-Lion, Upgraded 11/21/21) Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger, Stan Levitt, Frances Feist, Art Ellison. An absolute MUST-SEE clut classic film!  The lone survivor of car wreck is haunted by a ghostly personage. Who is he, and why is he following her? Seldom have the elements of sight and sound come together in such a horrifying way...

(1980) Paul Naschy, Elko Nagashima, Jack Molina. A gangster double crosses his gang and flees with stolen diamonds. The gang tracks him to a small town, but the crooks start being bumped off in a horrible

(1962, Upgraded 8/18/22) Joachim Berger, Karin Dor, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Antonio Casas, Fernando Sancho, Roberto Rey, Werner Peters, Carl Lange. Small poison gas balls mean certain death in this well-made, stylish Krimi Euro-thriller.  These pellets of death are used by a mad genius to gain revenge against...

(1966, Upgraded 5/12/21) Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Harry Corbett, Jim Dale, Angela Douglas. This is a fine British horror comedy much in the same vein as The Addams Family and The Munsters. The evil Dr Watt is abducting young ladies and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, a clueless detective from Scotland Yard is put on the case...

(1979, Upgraded 7/16/22) Jan Francis, Iain Cuthbertson, Bernard Gallagher, Joanna Dunham, Edward Petherbridge.  Based on the classic M.R. James horror story.  A man is walking his dog when he is confronted with a supernatural horror that sends him stumbling and screaming into and open field.  The authorities find him dead, nearly every bone in his body broken...

CASTLE OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. A Euro-horror classic about a writer who accepts a bet that he'll be alive in the morning after spending the night in a haunted castle. Top notch, supernatural horror as Barbara portrays a tortured...