ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) Dick Miller, Barbara Morris, Antony Carbone. A truly great “cult” film.

THE WASP WOMAN (1959) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Well done, low budget sci-fi. BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are killed off by a horrible

THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1957) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates.  No classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film.  The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world.  TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1957) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor.  Thrill-seeking teenagers take a boat ride out to a strange island.  To their horror, they’re captured by a lady mad doctor who uses nerve gas to turn a people into mindless slaves...  

INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS (1974) Norman Kelley, Tanna Hunter, Bruce Detrick. Young women are brutally slain in an out-of-the-way valley.  Behind the crimes is a modern band of bloodthirsty druids seeking a rare blood type that will resurrect their queen in time for a ritualistic blood feast.  SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (1974) Alan Brock, Jennifer Stock, Tawm Ellis.  What’s the dark, grisly secret of the murdering white yeti?  A group of college students finds out when they venture to a mysterious island...  

ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie’s an alien mad scientist whose mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in an invasion.  PLUS:  MISSION STARDUST (1968) Lang Jeffries, John Karlsen, Essy Persson. A space hero, backed by a team of astronauts, heads to the moon to rescue a blonde alien babe who seeks the aid of a blood scientist to help save her dying race...

CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, directed by Riccardo Freda. A large, living radioactive mass is found in a subterranean pool near Mayan ruins.  Plus: THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton. The chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum who slowly transforms into a horrible, two-headed monster

WITCH KILLER OF BLACKMOOR (1970) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell, Howard Vernon. Lee is superb as an evil judge who condemns citizens to be burned as witches. Vernon is terrific as his twisted

RETURN OF DR. MABUSE (1961) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Frobe and Barker play detectives on the trail of Dr. Mabuse. A number of mysterious murders

WAR OF THE INSECTS (1966, aka GENOCIDE) Yusuke Kawazu, Emi Shindo, Kathy Moran. It’s man against bugs in this cool sci-fi shocker. A plane carrying an atomic bomb is attacked by a new strain of killer

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman. McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer. She plays a servant girl forced into exile because of her strange

BURKE AND HARE (1971) Harry Andrews, Yutte Stensgaard, Glyn Edwards, Kerry Nesbitt. This terrific body-snatching thriller is a grisly horror film, yet also a marvelous, sexy black comedy. The best Burke and Hare

THE LORELEY’S GRASP (1972) Tony Kendall, Helga Line, Loretta Tovar. You’ve got a lovely woman who, at times, transforms into an ancient monster. This beast is a scary, snarling lizard-type monster that rips

HORROR HOTEL (1960) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Valentine Dyall, Patricia Jessel. Classic horror as a witch lures victims into a New England village for blood sacrifices.   Plus: THE HEAD (1959) Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke. A serum that keeps severed portions of the human body alive is used by a mad doctor on its own inventors decapitated head

I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy. Pure, lovable, low-budget schlock. A playboy writer and his publisher fly to a mysterious Caribbean island where they

HORROR OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE (1968) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Baal inherits a mysterious old castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. That’s when bodies start

DOCTOR ORLOFF’S MONSTER 1964, aka SECRET OF DR. ORLOF) Jose Rubio, Perla Cristal. This is the second in the "Dr. Orlof" series about the good doctor and his latest monstrosity: a human robot that is

THE BLUE PANTHER (1965) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner. A lady is traveling by train when a stranger entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes

DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER (1972) Klaus Kinski, Ewa Aulin, Angela Bo, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart. A supernatural film about a crazed man who utilizes ancient Incan formulas to raise the dead for purposes of