(1972) Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera, Teresa Gimpera.  Wow.  This is a grim, superbly made Euro-horror film, much of it told in flashback.  Garco’s car breaks down as he’s driving through the darkened countryside. He seeks help from a strange family.  Their father insists he spend the night.  He soon learns they have a mysterious secret and live in fear of horrid wurdulak, who wishes to kill them all and transform them into the same kind of horrible creatures...  

(1973) Erika Blanc, Anton Diffring, Percy Hoven, Reggie Nalder, Lukas Ammann.  A tribunal targets “witches” and “heretics,” who are then tortured and murdered. Blanc gives a bravura performance as a noblewoman who opposes the nefarious witch-hunting ways of Nalder.  She’s soon accused of being a witch herself...

(1976, Upgraded 6/26/21) Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson.  Oone of the best drive-in movies of the ‘70s. Low budget? Yes. But they really made the most of it.  Two college kids come to a backwater town doing research on a “bigfoot” type creature that’s known to inhabit a gloomy nearby swamp.  Before long they find themselves caught in a sequence of chilling events, culminating with a head-to-head confrontation with the terrifying creature...

(1977, Upgraded 4/15/22) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux.  A great fantasy-horror film.  A woman leaves her husband one stormy night.  She drives on a lonely road, but when her windshield breaks she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  The woman spends the night, but next morning she finds no trace of her hosts.  Finding her car repaired, she tries to leave but soon realizes it’s impossible...

(1936) Harry Baur, Roger Karl, Charles Dorat, Germaine Aussey, Ferdinand Hart, Jany Holt.  It is a time of great persecution of the Jews by the Emperor (marvelously played by Baur) in Prague.  A rabbi has promised that the Golem—whose body is now hidden and dormant—will return for justice if things reach a breaking point...

(1979, Upgraded 7/16/22) Jan Francis, Iain Cuthbertson, Bernard Gallagher, Joanna Dunham, Edward Petherbridge.  Based on the classic M.R. James horror story.  A man is walking his dog when he is confronted with a supernatural horror that sends him stumbling and screaming into and open field.  The authorities find him dead, nearly every bone in his body broken...

(1970) Robin Ward, Kathleen Sawyer, Austin Willis, Sean Sullivan, Ty Haller.  Dr. Frankenstein on Campus is a true grindhouse/drive-in meisterwerk containing the most lovable elements of ‘70s horror & rebellious youth schlock. Ward plays Viktor Frankenstein, a Frankenstein descendent who’s attending college in the U.S.  With encouragement from his professor, Viktor develops a wireless brain control device...

(1972) Jean Gibson, Uschi Digrd, Bob Makay, Patrick Scott, Marious Mazmanian, Susan Wescott.  In what can only be described as a true Grindhouse horror classic, a monster roams about the woods, terrorizing any number of absolutely gorgeous babes in assorted degrees of nudity... 

(1969, aka SCREAMS IN THE NIGHT, upgraded 4/15/22) Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Luciano Pigozzi, Helga Anders, Claudio Camaso, directed by Antonio Margheriti.  What a great Euro-horror film this is!  Five people travel by car through a howling storm.  After getting stuck, they make their way on foot through the rain to a nearby forgotten, shunned inn.  It is occupied by a strange man and his wizened, clairvoyant mother...

THE SPOOK TRAIN (1939, Upgraded 8-21-25) Sara Heyblom, Lies de Wind, Chris Baay, Adolphe Engers, Louis Borel.  A group of travelers are stranded for a creepy night’s stay at a deserted train station, which according to the grizzled stationmaster, is haunted.  Things take a turn for the mysterious when the stationmaster later drops to the floor—dead, purportedly from the “curse” of the ghost train...

A PLACE OF ONE’S OWN (1945) James Mason, Dennis Price, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Ernest Thesiger.  In this often chilling ghost story, Mason and his wife (and their beautiful young companion, Lockwood) move into an eerie old mansion that’s been vacant for forty years.  Strange things begin to happen: voices are heard from nowhere, pianos playing in the night, etc.  It’s soon obvious that the ghost of a murdered woman is afoot...

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...

A DEVILISH MURDER—Widescreen Edition (1965, Upgraded 11-22-24) Ye-chun Lee, Do Geum Bung, Ae-ran Jeong, Bin-hwa Lee, Kung-won Nam.  The cat-like creature-ghost of a beautiful woman terrorizes a family in their neighborhood home.  It turns out the creature is the ghost of the man’s dead wife, who was murdered by his own mother and jealous cousin... 

BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS (1967) Ricardo Bauleo, Susana Beltrán, Gloria Prat, Walter Kliche.  A girl is going to marry a man she doesn’t love (her parents have arranged it) but in reality she has a secret lover.  What she doesn’t know is that her lover is actually a vicious vampire...

THE SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH—Widescreen Ed.  (1968, upgraded 7/18/22) Yuko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachie Matsui, Mayumi Takahashi.  A girl comes home from an orphanage to live with her parents.  Also living in the house are a nanny and older sister, both of whom dislike her.  Soon the house is filled with supernatural terror as...

WINTER OF THE WITCH (1969) Hermione Gingold, Anna Strasberg, Roger Morgan, Jack Manning, narrated by Burgess Meredith.  In this critically acclaimed film, the life of a gnarly old witch is disrupted by the unannounced arrival of a boy and his mother. Their presence makes life hell for her and forces her to struggle with the realities of the modern world...

THE SUICIDE CLUB (1970) Alan Dobie, Bernard Archard, Hildegard Neil, David Collings, Eric Woofe.  Dobie is great as a Bohemian prince who discovers a secret club where desperate men agree to draw cards to see not only who will die (the ace of spades), but also who will kill him (the ace of clubs).  Dobie, of course, seeks to end the club. He and his attendant soon become members.  Unfortunately, they find themselves squarely behind the ace of spades...

MOON AND MIDNIGHT—Widescreen Edition (1970, aka MIDI MINUIT) Sylvie Fennec, Béatrice Arnac, Daniel Emilfork, Jacques Portet.  Fennec plays Helene the “normal” girl who’s infatuated with a decidedly twisted young man who has occasion to put on clawed gloves and go after the local citizens.  There are all kinds of strange characters and surreal situations in this bizarre French horror film...