(1985) Sigurjona Sverrisdottir, Þorsteinn Hannesson.  A student lands a job as a night watchman in a big TV broadcasting studio, which is supposedly haunted.  The old watchman he’s replacing warns him about the ghost of a red-haired woman who is known to stalk the studio's corridors.  But when the new kid gets the makeup girl to make him up as a red-haired ghost (as sort of a joke) he finds out how seriously haunted the building really is...

(1980) Patrick Magee, Per Oscarsson, Brendan Price, Marilù Tolo, Curt Jurgens.  This dark, scary tale is set in 1815 as a young Brit tours Europe seeking to win a fortune at the roulette tables.  However, his attention soon shifts to a beautiful French countess, who invites him to her castle.  Romance grows in his heart for her.  But when people start dying horrifically, the young Brit realizes he has fallen into a terrifyingly situation... 

(1978) John Phillip Law, Florinda Bolkan, Guido Wieland.  Law is an engineer entrusted with surveying properties in and around a small Austrian village to determine the future sight of a factory.  This means casting many villagers off their land.  Unfortunately, he doesn’t know that the village is protected by a warlock and his witch daughter, who make things more than a little unpleasant for him with their supernatural powers...  

(1974) Peter Cushing, Alida Valli, Bernard Menez.   Cushing plays an actor who is famous for playing Dracula, but no longer wants to do horror.  Instead he wants to do romance, so his producer sends two screenwriters to his castle to convince him otherwise.  What follows are surrealistic moments of horror and off-beat comedy.  It’s a bit jarring to see Cushing in full Dracula regalia, complete with fangs...

(1967) Hae Hwang, Ae-ran Jeong, Mi-ae Kang, Do Kum-Bong, No-shik Park.  This Asian chiller has all kinds of grisly stuff:  Acid thrown in the face, eyes being gouged out, the horror of drug addition, vengeful ghosts, etc.  The plot is pretty simple, a former geisha girl takes her life because she’s essentially lost her husband to the wanton lure of a servant girl.  But like in any good Asian ghost story, revenge is a must!  So...

(1973) William Berger, Montserrat Prous, Edmund Purdom, Loreta Tovar, Directed by Jesus Franco.  This is one of Franco’s Dr. Orloff series and it’s odd not to see Howard Vernon running about.  The plot involves a wheelchair-bound young woman who’s surrounded by horrific thrills and chills...

(1934) Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell, Thomas Shenton, James Fleck.  This British obscurity has been a much sought-after horror film by fans for decades.  It offers a fairly engaging rendition of the classic Poe story.  This film was released stateside as Bucket of Blood...

SECRET OF THE MUMMY (1982) Joel Barcellos, Rubem Barra, Carla Bayton.  Scorned when he announced his discovery of the “elixer of life,” a scientist, Professor Vitus, devotes himself to the recovery of a map that has been divided into eight parts.  But when the professor gets the map back together, he ends up making a startling archaeological discovery: the tomb of Runamb, the Mummy...

ALABAMA’S GHOST (1973) Christopher Brooks, Peggy Browne, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Steven Kent Browne, Ken Grantham.  A nightclub stage manager stumbles upon a forgotten, secret chamber underneath his nightclub.  Inside is an old magician's belongings.  He tries on the costume and…voila…he becomes "Alabama, King of the Cosmos."  His new identity leads to a lot more than he bargained for...

MORGIANA (1972) Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Nina Divísková, Petr Cepek, Josef Somr.  Klara and Viktoria are sisters, both very different from each other. When their father dies, he leaves most of his property to Klara. Naturally this doesn’t go over to well with Viktoria, and when Klara falls in love with the man that her sister loves, Viktoria comes up with a sinister plot to kill her...

ONE MINUTE BEFORE DEATH (1972) Wanda Hendrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie.  This movie is often mistaken as an alternate title for The Oval Portrait, but it’s not.  It’s an entirely different film, shot by the same production unit.  Family relatives (we won’t say which) conspire to murder a rich widow (Hendrix) by putting her into a catatonic state and burying her alive...

(1967) Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyoko Mikage, Hiroshi Nawa, Tatsuo Matsumura.  In ancient Japan, a treasonous underling overthrows his master.  He buries his former boss, alive, inside a wall.  When he takes after the wife, she drowns herself in a nearby swamp along with her cat, thus cursing the swamp for all time...

THE VAMPIRE OF THE OPERA—Widescreen Edition (1964) Marco Mariani, Giuseppe Addobbati, Barbara Hawards, Alberto Archetti, Carla Cavalli.  An acting company has secured use of a creaky old theater for producing the group’s new production.  They are warned, though, by the aging caretaker that the theater is the home of an ancient vampire, who might be awakened by their presence...

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...

THE PIT (1962) Brian Peck, Burt Letts, Dave Lloyd.  A grim retelling of Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” like you never seen before.  This  is perhaps the most horrific of any filmed version of the Poe classic with many shocks.  If you’re looking for a happy ending, forget it! The masterful B&W photography is atmospheric and terrifying down to the final seconds...  

THE GHOST OF CHIBUSA ENOKI  (1958) Akira Nakamura, Katsuko Wakasugi, Asao Matsumoto, Hiroshi Ayukawa, Keiko Hasegawa.  This is another Kaidan-style ghost story in which the apprentice of a famous artist rapes the artist’s wife and eventually murders the artist himself, as well as their servants!  The ghost of these tortured souls soon come calling for revenge...

THE PORTRAIT (1948) Otomar Krejca, Ljuba Skorepová, Karel Dostal.   Dostal plays the personification of evil, a quintessential example of what we loved in actors like Lugosi, Karloff, Lorre, and others.  Knowing he is dying, he hires an artist to paint his portrait.  He wants the spirit of his black-hearted soul to be captured on canvas so that his spirit might live on after death...

THE WOLF OF THE MALVENEURS (1943, Upgraded 7/16/22) Pierre Renoir, Madeleine Sologne, Michel Marsay. Renoir plays Reginald Malveneur, a research scientist and the last of his bloodline—a bloodline that legend says is infected by werewolfry.  He conducts experiments in the dungeon lab of his crumbling chateau in hopes of finding a “cell rejuvenation” cure for his ailing wife...