THE GHOST OF CHIBUSA ENOKI  (1958, Upgraded 8-15-25) 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...

(1961, Updated 11-14-24) Yoshiko Fujishiro, Sentarô Fushimi, Jûshirô Konoe, Yumiko Marhara.  A demented samurai warrior seeks to reunite with his estranged wife who left him because of his murderous ways.  Complications arise, though, with the appearance of a revenge-seeking ghost!  This is a lavish chiller with many fine scenes...  

GHOST STORY OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF HONSHO (1957) Jûzaburô Akechi, Namiji Matsuura, Shigeru Amachi.   A shift-shifting ghost (a Tanuki) is saved by a Japanese noble and vows to protect him and his family.  However, the noble’s nephew has eyes on the old man’s fortune—and his young wife!  After murdering him in cold blood, the nephew finds a supernatural ring slowly...

(1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Dirch Passer, Kirsten Walther, Axel Strøbye, Preben Kaas.  This film has been remade many times in Britain and other Euro nations.  In this version, made in Denmark, a group of people are again stranded in a forlorn train station, which according to train conductor is “haunted.”  Things take a turn for the mysterious when the conductor falls to the floor, dead...

(1931, 1941, Upgraded 10/14/21) Arthur Askey, Richard Murdock, Kathleen Harrison, Carole Lynn. What we have here are both versions of the famed British ghost story classic. Hulbert starred in the ’31 version, while Askey...

(1963, Upgraded 12/29/20) Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Elio Jotta, Harriet White. The chilling sequel to HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK. Barbara and her lover plan the murder of her husband, Dr. Hichcock, who somehow miraculously survived his fall off the stairwell in the first film.  They kill him, but is he...

THE GHOSTS OF KASANE SWAMP (1957) Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa, Tetsurô Tanba.  A blind Japnese masseur visits a samurai warrior to ask for the return of a loan. The samurai, arrogant and cruel, slays him in anger.  Later, his servant dumps the masseur’s body in a dreadful swamp.  Howeve,r the masseur’s ghost soon returns to haunt the samurai...

(1956) Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akemi Tsukushi, Chieko Sôma,  Haruo Tanaka, Chôko Iida. A classic Japanese horror movie.  The conniving mother of a Samurai warrior convinces her son to do away with his wife.  He poisons her and kills her “supposed” lover.  But the two come back from the grave and haunt him, seeking revenge.  The scene where the dead rise from the swamp is amazing.  And when the ghosts materialize, no samurai sword can fend them off...

(1943, Upgraded 11/11/21) Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Bobby Jordan, Wheeler Oakman, Frank Moran. The East Side Kids find themselves taking on a Nazi spy ring (headed by Bela) inside the cozy confines of a "haunted house."  Bela's spy headquarters are in the cellar.  Little do the neighbors suspect that there is a Nazi propaganda unit inside—they just think the house is haunted...

(1965, Upgraded 7/14/22) Stéphane Fey, François Vibert, Marie Laforêt, Reine Courtois, Michael Lonsdale.  In a small 1800s Massachusetts town, a student of theology becomes fascinated with a dilapidated old country mansion.  He soon learns the place is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman, whose father was responsible for her death...

(1933, UPGRADED 9/16/21) Boris Karloff, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Hyson, Ernest Thesiger, Sir Cedric Hardewicke, Sir Ralph Richardson. This is the one of the true horror masterpieces of British cinema of the 1930s. Karloff has great fun as a dead Egyptologist who returns from the grave to seek vengeance on those who defiled his tomb. Much of the action takes place in a...

(1920) Pat O’Malley, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery, J. Barney Sherry.  A forgotten silent horror-science fiction gem resurfaces!  O’Malley is a green reporter who is caught in the middle of a plot to sabotage his newspaper.  Who is the traitor...

(1973) Chris Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Peggy Brown. The plot is simple: A mad doctor creates a monstrous, bloodthirsty mutant sheep that goes berserk near a Wild West town. It emits

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Agar, Rosemarie Stack, Abner Biberman, Andre Narcisse, Jacques Molant.  Agar plays a devil-may-care treasure hunter in this obscure voodoo thriller. He meets up with a beautiful young woman who possesses a golden idol, stolen by her father during a native voodoo ceremony. After obtaining directions and various voodoo charms, he and the girl go in search of the treasure.  They end up on a pagan island and soon find what they’re searching for—a section of the ocean floor covered with skulls and hundreds of idols.  Will the natives let them bring back their loot alive?  Lots of seagoing danger and voodoo thrills.  Listed on IMDB as an adventure-horror film.  The Golden Mistress is presented in its original 1.75 widescreen format.  Nice color, from 16mm.

(1936) Harry Baur, Roger Karl, Charles Dorat, Germaine Aussey, Ferdinand Hart, Jany Holt.  It is a time of great persecution of the Jews by the Emperor (marvelously played by Baur) in Prague.  A rabbi has promised that the Golem—whose body is now hidden and dormant—will return for justice if things reach a breaking point...