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...

THE BURNING COURT (1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Edith Scob.  This Euro-chiller has a most interesting combination of “old dark house" and “witch’s curse” themes.  PLUS:  THE NIGHT THEY KILLED RASPUTIN (1962) John Drew Barrymore, Edmund Purdom, Gianna Canale.  An atmospheric retelling of the rise and fall of Rasputin, whose seemingly supernatural powers made the czarina his hypnotic slave... 

THE DEATHHEAD VIRGIN (1974) Jock Gaynor, Diane Mc Bain, Larry Ward, Vic Diaz.  Gaynor’s a treasure hunter who finds a big haul—a sunken ship in the Pacific.  However, the ship is guarded by the vengeful spirit of an ancient princess. PLUS: EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW (1974) Stella Carnacina, Chris Avram, Lucretia Love.  A beautiful woman purchases an ancient statue.   In a shocking scene, it comes to life and rapes her.  She then becomes possessed and is taken to a convent where an exorcism priest is brought in to free her...

THE MURDER CLINIC (1966, WIDESCREEN) Williams Berger, Barbara Wilson, Mary Young. Dr. Vance owns a clinic for the mentally ill located in a gloomy forest.  Unfortunately, there’s a hooded killer on the grounds, slashing people to death with a straight razor. PLUS:  THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS (1966) Joan Stapleton, Robert Gregory, Wes Morland.  An Old West horror film about a female vampire who has a passion for unsuspecting cowboys and soon takes revenge on the four thugs who murdered her husband in cold blood...

MINOTAUR, WILD BEAST OF CRETE (1960, WIDESCREEN) Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo.  King Minos sacrifices the “required” number of virgins to the monstrous Minotaur.  But as his wife is dying, she confesses that their daughter has a twin hidden away to avoid giving her to the Minotaur.  PLUS:  A LUST FOR DYING (1960, WIDESCREEN) Annette Stroyberg, Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer. This retelling of Lefanu’s classic vampire tale, Carmilla, is a good one.  Carmilla’s obsession with her friend’s engagement leads her into the darkness of a female vampire’s tomb...

THE MAGIC SERPENT (1966, WIDESCREEN) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by a treacherous lord and his sorcerer.  Years later, an epic battle ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  PLUS:  THE WITCH (1966) Richard Johnson, Rossanna Schiaffino, Sarah Ferrati.  A young historian is brought to a magnificent palatial estate to assemble the largely erotic memoirs of a deceased general.  There he falls in love with a beautiful witch... 

THE HEADLESS EYES (1971) Bo Brundin, Ramon Gordon, Kelly Swartz.  A down-on-his luck artist gets more than he bargained for in a failed robbery attempt—an eye gouged out with a spoon!  With his eye hanging out and dangling by the nerve, he screams into the night!  He then goes nuts and turns to killing women and cutting their eyes out.  PLUS:  THE GHASTLY ONES (1968) Veronica Radburn, Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, directed by Andy Milligan.  Three couples spend the night in a creepy Victorian house in order to claim their inheritance.  Before long, they start dying horribly at the hand of a knife-and-pitchfork-wielding psycho who wants their inheritance...

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman.  McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer.  Reed is a carnival boxer who falls under her spell and ends up hideously scarred from her jagged fingernails.  Soon, young men turn up slain.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey, Eric Micklewood.  A man obtains a dead monkey’s magical paw.  He is bestowed three wishes. His first wish is to be debt-free.  The wish is granted, but the price is his son’s life.  The next wish is for the son to be returned to life—but the price is truly horrible...