(1929) Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin, Arthur Pusey, Gerald Rawlinson. This forgotten British old dark house thriller would have been a perfect fit for one of the Forgotten Horrors books.  The setting is a creepy mansion filled with secret passageways, trap doors, snake pits, sliding floors, and secret rooms...

(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...

(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...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections.  "Allison V. Harding, the Forgotten Queen of Horror” features some of the best horror tales of the 1940s and 1950s.  Who was Allison V. Harding?  Not much is known about her personal life, but the one thing we do know is that you almost couldn’t pick up an issue of Weird Tales from 1943 through 1950 and not come across one of her stories...

(1952, Upgraded 11/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes. Bela went abroad for this wacky British horror comedy and it was the last time he was seen on screen in his Dracula cape.  There's a bit of an espionage plot, which results in the kidnapping of Mercedes at the film's beginning.  However, the real star of the show here isn't Lucan as Mother Riley, but Lugosi as a maniac who...

(1969) José Luis López Vázquez, John Steiner, Amparo Soler Leal, Antonio Casas.  A respected peddler, who works between two villages, suffers from seizures during which he becomes—in his mind—a werewolf.  When four women disappear, the villagers become suspicious.  Vazquez gives a wonderful performance as a man tortured by the beast within him.  Like all good werewolf movies, there’s a climax where the villagers hunt down the beast...  

(1922) Max Shreck, Alexander Granich. Horror filmshistorian Don Willis considers this just about the greatest horror film ever made. This truly terrifying tale of vampires is the earliest version of...

(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...

(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...

(1932, aka GEHEIMNIS DES BLAUEN ZIMMERS) Theodor Loos, Else Elster, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Wolfgang Staudte, Peter Wolff, Oskar Sima.  This fine German old dark house chiller actually pre-dates the classic 1933 Universal film of the same name.  So it’s apparent the Universal version was actually a remake.  We all know the story: horrible murders occur in a “haunted” room in a mysterious chateau riddled with mysterious characters and secret passageways...

(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?  

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections.  Here it is…part one of the greatest collection of H. P. Lovecraft works ever put together, "H. P. Lovecraft, the Ultimate Illustrated Weird Tales Collection."  This incredible collection features the very best horror tales of H. P. Lovecraft, complete with their Weird Tales illustrations and publishing dates...  

(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...

(1976) Bernard Horsfall, Clive Swift, Glyn Houston, Thorley Walters, Simon Oates.  This is a great British made-for-TV feature.  A has-been actor lowers himself to playing a monster in a horror movie.  The monster is known as “the Dummy” and the costume is ridiculous.  However, when the man who stole the actor’s wife shows up on set, the actor starts believing he really is a terrifying monster... 

(1974) Twiggy, Michael Witney, Dirk Benedict, Eugen Roche, John Vernon, Michael Conrad.  Twiggy and her husband (Witney) are victims of near death experiences.  Even worse, they are horrified when they discover they are in the cross-hairs of a maniac who, in his madness, leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." 

(1968) Guillermo De Córdova, Roberto Maurano, Carmin O'Neal.  After a cataleptic seizure, a man is buried alive.  This has all been planned, though, by his disloyal wife and the man’s doctor!  After crawling out of his grave, the man seeks revenge.  He also seeks sex with a variety of women!  

(1965) John Lupton, Narda Onyx, Cal Bolder. Now in widescreen; transferred from a great print.  Jesse and his pal, running from the law, hide out in Frankenstein's granddaughter’s castle.  Big mistake! She then turns his pal into a new Frankenstein monster.  Onyx is delightfully over-the-top as the baroness.  "You are...Igor!"  The lab scenes are a hoot...

(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...