(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...

SOLITAIRE (1951) Margaret Field, Gertrude Michael, directed by Frank Wisbar.  A young actress finds a strange woman playing solitaire in her apartment.  What are the sinister, supernatural implications of this?  At first she is angry, then a feeling of unexplainable fear begins to set in.  Wisbar directs with flare as Field and Michael go toe to toe...

(1958, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Ashley, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd, Harold Lloyd Jr, Sandra Knight. Murphy plays a crazed (and extremely arrogant) descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein. He creates a new, hideous female monster using the dead parts of a beautiful girl (and others). Threatened is a group of typical 50's teenagers...

(1929, MGM) Roland Young, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead, Claude Fleming, Boris Karloff, John Miljan, Lionel Belmore, Polly Moran, Sōjin Kamiyama.  This early old dark house chiller has a lot of atmospheric moments.  Young is assaulted on a fog-cloaked London street but manages to escape death. But when it’s discovered that several other murder victims that evening were members of his WW1 army regiment...

(1940, Upgraded 10/28/21) Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Geoffrey Wardwell, Hillary Eaves. Many consider this to be Tod's best film. It's sooo gothic and fill with rich macabre goings-on.  Tod's a maniac (of course) who falsely claims an inheritance in a mysterious mansion after bumping off the rightful heir. There's also a pregnant girlfriend he has to contend with:  "I'll make you a bride...a bride of death! heh, heh, heh!" Todd has great fun as he...

(1937) Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan.  One of Hay’s best comedies, featuring lots of laughs all interwoven with criminal conspiracy thrills and some occasional elements of horror.  Hay is the new stationmaster at a lonely railway station (complete with laundry hanging across the tracks).  The locals believe the nearby train tunnel is the frequent haunt of a mysterious ghost who supposedly resides up the hill in a haunted windmill...

(1968, aka THE BRIDE FROM HADES) Kôjirô Hongô, Miyoko Akaza, Mayumi Ogawa, Akira Nishimura.  This is one of the most haunting Japanese horror films you will ever see—engaging, gripping, and absolutely chilling.  During the Obon festival of the dead, a samurai is visited by two beautiful women, one of whom he falls deeply in love with.  During the next few nights he comes to discover that his new lover and her older companion are ghosts...

(1973, WIDESCREEN) Paul Naschy, Silvia Solar, Olivier Mathot, Evelyn Scott, Claude Boisson.  This Naschy chiller features a mad scientist who decides to push the boundaries of science and perform a head transplant on an injured criminal.  The results, however, are not quite what the good doctor expects, as his creation becomes a far more deadly creature than the criminal ever was...

(1951) Kamal El-Shinnawi, Ismail Yassin, Souraya Helmy, Mohsen Hassanain. We are blessed with another Ismail Yassin comedy-horror film.  Oh joy!  This one is fairly decent (6.5 on IMDB) with Yassin having to spend a month in a haunted house in order to collect his inheritance...

(1945) Rauli Tuomi, Regina Linnanheimo, Kaija Rahola.  Although this is only marginally a horror film, it is an elegant gothic thriller, filled with old world charm and mysterious goings-on.  The plot revolves around a gathering of people in a creepy mansion, all of whom are seeking answers to an age-old family curse.  What are the secrets of the haunted wing of the mansion?  

(1961, Upgraded 5/15/24) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson, Esther Sandoval.  Now in widescreen from a stunning 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  The monster is kind of goofy-looking, but still more than able to rip you to shreds—which it does to more than one victim!  

(1958) Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Angela Greene.   It’s the first time in widescreen DVD video for this ‘50s drive-in gem!  A spaceship returns to Earth carrying an astronaut who's been impregnated with alien embryos, also on board is an alien monster that terrorizes a group of scientists in their mountain laboratory...

(1976) Pauline Quirke, Geoffrey Bateman, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Goring, Shirley Cheriton.  Quirke is brilliant in her portrayal of a pitiful, frumpy, inhibited teenage checkout girl at a small supermarket.  She has a crush on her manager who despises her and lusts for another female employee.  Then strange things begin happening.  It begins with a can rolling across the market floor, seemingly under its own power...  

(1968, Updated 4-22-25) Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa, Taketoshi Naito, Mizuho Suzuki.  This is an incredible Japanese horror film.  A highly skilled sculptor, along with his youthful apprentice, are pitted against the powers of a beautiful but wicked ghost, “The Snow Woman,” whom they encounter during a raging snow storm in a small hut...

(1974, Updated 4-18-25) Rosanna Schiaffino, Chris Avram, Eva Czemerys, Lucretia Love.  In this chilling Giallo (similar in some ways to Christie’s Ten Little Indians) a millionaire invites a group of people to a creepy, abandoned theater.  It turns out the theater is the site where an entire family was slain long ago.  Within a short time, the guests realize that they are trapped and at the mercy of a bloodthirsty killer who begins...

(1963) Ray Dennis Steckler (aka Cash Flagg), Carolyn Brandt, Brett O'Hara.  A nice widescreen edition of this cult classic.  Ray’s a drifter who’s drawn to an eerie sideshow where he's hypnotized by a gypsy and turned into a killer zombie.  Hidden in cages are other zombies whose faces have been disfigured with acid by the gypsy and her hunchback...

(1970, WIDESCREEN EDITION) Józef Duriasz, Edmund Fetting, Gustaw Lutkiewicz.  A pastor/professor comes to a remote estate in the forlorn mountains of 19^th Century Lithuania to study books on folklore and other ancient tomes.  The estate is owned by a mysterious young duke and his insane mother, the latter of whom was attacked by a wild bear nine months before the duke was born.  There are whispered rumors about the duke’s true bloodline...  

(1961) Tor Johnson, Douglas Meller, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Tony Cardoza, Conrad Brooks; written and directed by Coleman Francis.  One of the best "bad" movies of all time, now in its original 1.85 widescreen format for the first time. Tor is a Russian scientist caught in a nuclear blast while running from spies. The radiation transforms him...