AT MIDNIGHT I’LL TAKE YOUR SOUL (1964) Jose Marins, Nivaldo Lima, Valeria Vasquez. An engaging horror film about a maniacal gravedigger who is greatly feared by the local villagers. He murders a number

THE MONSTROUS DR. CRIMEN (1953) Jose Maria Linares-Rivas, Miroslava, Carlos Nivarro, Fernando Wagnerl.  A classic South-of-the-Border horror film.  PLUS:  DAUGHTER OF HORROR (1955) Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Angelo Rossitto, Narr. by Ed McMahon. A bizarre film about a wandering girl who falls into a strange series of events

DARK PLACES (1973) Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Robert Hardy.  Hardy plays the head of an asylum who has inherited an eerie old mansion from a deceased patient—a patient who murdered his wife and kids on the premises!  PLUS:  HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973) Andrew Prine, Patty Shepard, Mark Damon.  Prine and Damon are two archaeologists on a scientific dig when they discover a vampire cemetery with live blood-sucking monsters.

THE NUDE VAMPIRE (1969) Olivier Martin, Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline Cartier.  A beautiful vampire woman gets involved with a playboy whose father is experimenting with artificial youth.  PLUS:  DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie is an alien scientist whose race is set to invade Earth.  His mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in the invasion.  His grisly lineup is amazing:  Frankenstein, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Mummy. 

INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957) Junko Kanoi. Ryuji Shinagawa, Shozo Southern, Ghastly murders are being committed.  The one similarity is that an odd buzzing sound is heard before each murder.  The killer is actually a man who shrinks to the size of a fly.  PLUS:  SPACEMEN OVER TOKYO (1956) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki, Bin Yagisawa, Shozo Nanbu.  A spaceship full of starfish aliens visits Earth to warn of impending global destruction.  Aka Warning from Space.  

THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Jane Hylton, Terri Zimmern. This was first released on DI Combo #2 many years ago along with Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus.  Sadly, we lost Dr. Faustus to the GATT copyright restoration.  But we always felt The Manster should have another DI partner, so here it is, the chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist.  PLUS:  THE SCREAMING SKULL (1958) John Hudson, Peggy Webber.  It's another great AIP horror film about a woman who is terrorized by the vision of her husband's first wife's skull.  

PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK (1976) Paul Naschy, Alberto deMendoza, Teresa Gimpera, Maria Perschy.  A Leon Klimovsky apocalyptic sci-fi thriller about a group of capitalists and military men who hold a seedy party in an old castle when nuclear war breaks out.  PLUS:  HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976) Francesco Marciano, Lino Capulacchio, Gianni Cavina. An art restorer comes to a village to restore a fresco painted by a strange artist. He soon senses a creepiness to the villagers—as though they are hiding something.  In Italian with English subtitles.

TERROR CIRCUS (1974) Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni.  Prine is a twisted psycho who captures girls and terrorizes them in his barn.  They are his animal act and he is the ringmaster, whipping and torturing them with zeal.  There’s a cool, gross-looking monster in a shed.  PLUS:  THE SEVERED ARM (1973, R-Rated, 91 min.) Deborah Walley, Paul Carr, Marvin Kaplan.  Six stranded climbers amputate and eat the arm of one of their group.  Years later, the other group members begin to meet horrible violent deaths.  

THE STRANGER (1973) Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Lew Ayres, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger.  After a mishap in space Corbett finds himself in a strange hospital where no one can give him any answers.  PLUS  CROWHAVEN FARM (1970) Hope Lange, Paul Burke, John Carradine, Lloyd Bochner. Lange and hubby inherit a strange old farm.  She soon sees visions of ancient settlers doing weird things with rocks and wooden doors...

GARDEN OF THE DEAD (1972) Phil Kenneally, Duncan McLeod.  Chain gang convicts make the mistake of sniffing a new, experimental formaldehyde to get high.  They then try to escape and are shot dead by the guards.  After they're buried, they crawl out of their graves to seek a bloodthirsty revenge.  PLUS:  ENTER THE DEVIL (1972) Irene Kelly, Josh Bryant.  People are disappearing in the desert near the Texas border.  A brave (and beautiful) occult expert comes to a lonely town and finds a Penitentes-style devil-cult...

RETURN OF THE WITCH (1952) Mirja Mane, Toivo Makela. An ancient witch’s body is unearthed. A stake is pulled from her rotted corpse.  Soon a beautiful naked girl is found in the witch’s grave.  Villagers are sure it’s the witch returned to life.  PLUS:  GEISHA GIRL (1952) William Andrews, Martha Hyer, Archer MacDonald.  A mad scientist develops explosive pills more powerful than A-bombs!  He shocks the world by vaporizing a Pacific island!  Plans of world conquest are thwarted though, when the pills fall into the hands of two wacky GIs...

LEGEND OF HORROR (1972) Williams Bates, Karin Field, Fawn Silver. When Legend of Horror came out in 1972, it incorporated a 1960 South American version of “The Telltale Heart” along with about forty minutes of new footage with American actors, expanding the original Poe story significantly.  There’s one cool scene with zombies in a graveyard!  PLUS:  THE DRACULA SAGA (1972) Tina Sainz, Tony Isbert.  The last heir to the Draculas (who is pregnant) arrives at the castle of the infamous Count.  Soon her husband is having flings with the Count’s “brides!” This movie has lots of sharp teeth and flowing blood...

HYPNOSIS (1962, aka DUMMY OF DEATH) Jean Sorel, Heinz Drache, Gotz George.  A hypnotist is murdered in his dressing room!  His ventriloquist dummy seemingly watches the crime being committed. A boxer and part-time delivery boy is blamed for the crime.  Soon another murder occurs!  Was the killer human…or was it the dummy?  PLUS:  STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963) Karin Dor, Ingmar Zeisberg.  A hooded maniac is loose and he’s murdering numerous people inside a dark, dank, creepy old English castle.  A cool Edgar Wallace chiller...

CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE (1976—Full Widescreen, 35mm) Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson.  One of the best drive-in horror movies of the ‘70s.  Plus:  DEVIL KISS (1975, Full Widescreen) Silvia Solar, Olivier Othot, Jose Nieto, Evelyne Scott.  A great Euro-horror thriller about a psychic countess and mad scientist...

ISLAND OF TERROR (1966, Full Widescreen) Edward Judd, Peter Cushing, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne.  Things go terribly wrong in a research lab on an isolated British island and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters is created.  PLUS:  THE PROJECTED MAN (1966, Full Widescreen) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments...

NEUTRON AND THE BLACK MASK (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Armando Silvestre, Rosa Arenas.  Our black-masked atomic super hero takes on a gang of thugs who are conspiring to steal a formula for a neutron explosive.  PLUS:  NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Rosita Arenas.  Our favorite south-of-the-border super hero, Neutron, locks horns again with the insane Dr. Caronte...

FACE OF TERROR (1962) Lisa Gaye, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira.  Scientist Rey takes a young but crazed woman and transforms her disfigured face into a thing of beauty. PLUS:  NO PLACE LIKE HOMICIDE (1961) Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton, Michael Gough. A man shows up at the sinister home of his dead uncle to claim his inheritance...

THE AMAZING WORLD OF GHOSTS (1978) Narr. by Sid Paul. This schlockumentary explores haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, etc.  PLUS:  UFO TARGET EARTH (1974) Nick Pakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Phil Erickson.  This ‘70s oddity is about an electronics pro who spends his time searching for evidence of space aliens...