(1968) Robert Eddison, Patience Collier, Lucy Fleming, Dudley Sutton, John Welsh. This gothic chiller starts with a terrific scene: on a dark stormy night, a scream is heard in the tower room of a v

(1969, aka Secret Chronicles of the Ghost-Cat) Kojiro Hongo, Naomi Kobayashi, Mitsuyo Kamei, Ikuko Mori. A brilliant Japanese vengeful ghost story. An evil lord covets the sister of a blind monk. W

(1970) Hope Lange, Paul Burke, John Carradine, Lloyd Bochner. Lange and her hubby inherit a farm—Crowhaven Farm. But there is something strange about the aging country estate. Lange sees visions of

(1971) Stephen Boyd, Marrissa Mell. In what had to be one of the most bizarre roles of his career, Boyd plays a well-to-do landowner who is haunted by the grisly spectre of his dead mother, whom he mu

(1971) Virna Lisi, Helmut Berger, Charles Aznavor, Edith Scob. Berger has a sadistic role as a seductive playboy-type who gets a twisted satisfaction out of debasing his wives. His first wife jumps t

(1973) Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone, Suzie Hamilton. An American-made horror pic that defies description. A whacked out kid mows down his dad with a tractor and somehow mana

(1974) Alberto Dalbes, Evelyne Scott, William Berger, Lina Romay, directed by Jesus Franco. This grim Euro chiller takes place largely in a Louisiana castle. Inside its walls, folks are slowly being...

(1978) Narr. by Sid Paul. Using ”actual” clips, this film explores haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, etc. The footage is laden with lurid narration. The producers obviously loved the whole UFO fad, becau

(1962, Upgraded 12/28/20) Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Montgomery Glenn, Harriet Medin. This film is truly one of the best Italian horror films of the 1960s, wonderfully atmospheric with a terrific music score.  Barbara's the wife of a demented, necrophiliac physician who’s enthralled by the corpses of beautiful women and haunted by the spectre of his first wife, who died... 

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...

(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...

(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...

(1953) Atif Kaptan, Annie Ball, Cahit Irgat, Ayfer Feray. This obscure Turkish horror film marked the first screen appearance of Dracula with actual fangs. The film pretty much follows the usual Stoker plotline.  The Harker character comes on business to Dracula’s castle.  Instead of going to London, the Count heads to Istanbul.  The opening castle scenes are quite well-done with gothic sets and nice atmosphere. 

(1958, Updated 11-6-24) Toshio Hosokawa, Yuriko Ejima, Takashi Wada, Ryuzaburo Nakamura.   A great Japanese supernatural chiller.  In a modern day setting, a couple moves into an aging mansion.  The wife is soon haunted by the ghost of a horrible old hag, whose ghostly visits bring the wife closer to death... 

(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!  

(1961, Updated 11-14-24) 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...  

(1962) Jean Sorel, Heinz Drache, Gotz George, Margot Trooger, Werner Peters.  A hypnotist is murdered in his dressing room!  His ventriloquist dummy seemingly watches the crime being committed. A boxer and part-time delivery boy is blamed for the crime.  Soon another murder occurs!  Was the killer human…or was it the dummy.  

(1966) Jean Sorel, Lisa Gastoni, Edmund Purdom, Ilari Occhini.  Critics have been a little too unkind to this remake of the 1928 Conrad Veidt classic.  It’s actually a fairly decent Euro-thriller.  Sorel plays a boy who is kidnapped by gypsies.  They mutilate his face into a sardonic, always-grinning atrocity.