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...

(1961) 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...  

THE GHOST OF CHIBUSA ENOKI  (1958) 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...

(1967) Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyoko Mikage, Hiroshi Nawa, Tatsuo Matsumura.  In ancient Japan, a treasonous underling overthrows his master.  He buries his former boss, alive, inside a wall.  When he takes after the wife, she drowns herself in a nearby swamp along with her cat, thus cursing the swamp for all time...

(1960) Namiji Matsuura, Shôzaburô Date, Noriko Kitazawa, Akira Nakamura, Hiroshi Shingûji.  A young man and his bride-to-be are walking at night through a wooded area after missing the bus.  They find themselves at an eerie pond.  When they try to leave they seem to go around in circles.  However, when a strange black cat appears, they follow it to the ruins of a ghostly mansion.  Then a horrific ghost appears and...

(1960) German Robles, Julio Aleman, Domingo Soler, Jack Taylor. A vampire seeks new fresh blood as he terrorizes Mexico...

(1972) Phil Kenneally, Duncan McLeod, Susan Charney, John Dullaghan. They don't make 'em like this anymore.  Garden of the Dead is a wonderful piece of drive-in schlock that, if you don't take it to seriously, leaves you with a big smile on your face.  The story is rather unique...

(1967, upgraded 4/1/24) Tamio Kawachi, Yuji Okada, Yôko Yamamoto.  An expedition journeys to a remote island in the South Pacific.  There they find natives who worship a mysterious god named Gappa. After an earthquake opens an under-earth cavern, a monstrous egg is discovered, which gives birth to a giant baby reptile...  

(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...

(1973) Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Boris Lugosi, SOUTH PACIFIC star Brazzi plays the infamous Baron who's up to his usual, evil experiments. Dunn is his dwarf assistant who spies on skinny dipping girls.

(1981) Robert Clarke, John Carradine, Cameron Mitchell, Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie, directed by Jerry Warren.  This is perhaps the most non-sensical movie you will ever see.  Clarke and his pals’ hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island that just happens to be run by a descendent (kind of) of Dr. Frankenstein, who (of course!) is carrying on mad experiments...

(1965) John Hackett, Conrad Parkham, Ana Corita. An incredibly rare ghost thriller. The lone survivor of a blown out WWII bunker at Corregidor returns to the Philippines twenty years later. There he finds hi

(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...