(1975) Erik Stern, Kay Neer, Jeremiah Beecher, Robin Sherwood.  This is a pretty bizarre American-made drive-in oddity.  Definitely rated "R" for nudity and violence.  The Love Butcher is the perverse story of dual-personality maniac named Caleb and Lester.  Caleb is a bald gardener with big honkin' glasses who's been pushed around all his life.  However, on occasion he...

(1972, Upgraded 12/30/20) Tony Kendall, Helga Line, Loretta Tovar.  A lovely woman, at times, turns into a mythical monster.  This beast is scary—a snarling lizard-type monster that rips apart victims with great ferocity.  The setting is a remote girls’ school filled with bikini-clad babes.  Kendall is the security man hired to protect the girls from...

(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Barbara Steele, George Ardisson, Halina Zalewska, Robert Rains. A woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive. Her curse brings her back from the dead for revenge. Ardisson really gets it in the end!  Barbara's seldom looked more beautiful. Lots of great moments, especially the...

(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...  

 (1934) Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins, Henry Victor.  Curzon is great as the suave yet crazed doctor who has devised a formula that puts people into a death-like trance so he can then claim their life...

(1932, Upgraded 12/22/23) Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhofer, Harald Paulsen, Blandine Ebinger Wegener plays a mad scientist who murders his bitchy wife and walls her up in a basement. After fleeing from the police

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) Jonathan Haze, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson. One of the better video copies around--transferred from a nice 16mm original print.  Probably the best movie ever made in less than three days. A cult classic about a wimpy nursery worker who breeds a man-eating

(1950) Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, June Elvin, David Greene, Lesley Osmond, Stewart Rome.  Jewel and Warriss were a British comedy team (as well as first cousins) dating back to the early ‘30s.  In this film they play a couple of bungling detectives hired to clear the son of a British colonel, who’s landed in jail on murder charges.  The boys set out to find the real killer...

(1975) Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis., Ullmann plays Leonor, a beautiful woman who dies at the beginning of the film.  Upon her death her widower (Piccoli) instantly remarries—literally on the same day.  But ten years and two sons later, Piccoli still yearns for his dead first wife.  He’s eventually shown a way (at heavy cost) to bring her back from the dead...

(1960-1972) Williams Bates, Karin Field, Fawn Silver. When Legend of Horror came out in 1972, it incorporated a short South American version of “The Telltale Heart” along with about forty minutes of new footage with American actors, expanding the original Poe storyline significantly.  There’s one really cool scene with zombies in a graveyard!  

(1972) Lucia Bose, Espartaco Santoni, Ewa Aulin. A well-done variation of the Countess of Bathory legend. The evil countess regularly bathes in the blood of virgins to cling to her fading youth...

LAKE OF THE ZOMBIES (1981) Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Anouchka, Pierre-Marie Edcourrou.  This bizarre Euro-horror chiller takes place In a tiny French village.  The local citizens are horrified when the bodies of German soldiers, killed by the Resistance during World War II, become zombified and come back from the dead...

(1957, Upgraded 11/21/23) Andre Bjerke, Bjorg Engh, Henki Kolstad, Henny Moan. A group of friends travel to a secluded cabin deep in the forest. The ghost of a peg-legged man is supposed to haunt a nearby lake and that...

Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Virna Lisi, Pia Lindstrom, Pier Anchisi, Valentina Cortese, Philippe Leroy.  This is a great psychological horror film, though some might classify it as a giallo thriller.  Baldwin travels to a lonely Italian village looking for a beautiful woman.  Shortly after his arrival he is told that she has committed suicide.  But there's more to her death than meets the eye...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...