(1969, Updated 4-17-25) 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...  

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1931) René Lefèvre, Rosine Deréan, Harry Baur, Robert Le Vigan, Marc Dantzer, Georges Péclet.  Although this is only marginally a horror film, it is a very interesting thriller about a group of five men visiting Morocco.  When one of them attempts to rip the veil off a Muslim woman, they are all cursed to die before the next full moon by a local sorcerer.  To their horror, they all begin to die, one by one...

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...  

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...

(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." 

(1974, Updated 4-8-25) Mark Burns, Shirley Anne Field, David Oxley, Margaret Inglis, Dia Sydown.   Better than its reviews indicate.  A mad scientist conducts weird experiments in an old gothic mansion.  Can the human soul be preserved after death?  His “sane” brother and aging mother live under the same roof.  But when the brother brings his fiancé home, mom strongly protests—what sinister secrets is she hiding?  Before long dead bodies are piling up in and around the mansion.  A fiend is on the loose!  Great twist ending.  Color, 35mm. 

(1968, Updated 4-22-25) Shiho Fujimura, Akira Ishihama, Machiko Hasegawa, Taketoshi Naito, Mizuho Suzuki.  This is an incredible Japanese horror film.  A highly skilled sculptor, along with his youthful apprentice, are pitted against the powers of a beautiful but wicked ghost, “The Snow Woman,” whom they encounter during a raging snow storm in a small hut...

(1932, aka THE LODGER) Ivor Norvello, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins, Barbara Everest, A.W. Baskcomb.  A strange man comes to an English couple’s house and secures lodgings.  The landlords’ daughter soon takes a fancy to him.  But when suspicion falls on him as being a mad killer with a penchant for cutting young girls’ throats, things start to get creepy...

(1971, Anamorphic Widescreen) Wal Davis, Barta Barri, Anastasio Campoy, Susan Carvasal, Victor Davis.  In spite of its rather lurid title, this is really a pretty good movie, similar in some ways to The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.  A horrible series of killings, committed over a period of seven days, has been happening once every 28 years since the 1800s.  A baron-turned-vampire is...

(1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joaquín Cordero, Sonia Furió, Noé Murayama, Aurora Clavel, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos Agostí. This south-of-the-border gem is a remarkable blend of supernatural horror and espionage elements.  It actually looks and plays more like an American-made film.  It’s also the sequel to Dr. Satan (1965) and has Cordero reprising his role.  Dr. Satan is summoned by his master, “Devil King” to destroy Lucifer’s servant...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sheldon Pearson, Cindy Ellis, Penelope, Ann Grant, Holly Saunders.  This disturbing psychological horror/exploitation thriller is about a modern-day writer who’s obsessed with the Marquis De Sade.  Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he begins to live out De Sade's violent sexual fantasies...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gracita Morales, José Vázquez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Trini Alonso, Goyo Lebrero.  Pablo and Luisita, a young married couple, take a job in Germany working as servants in the castle of the mysterious Baron de Rosenthal. After a few days they come to realize that their employer is not your normal run-of-the mill baron and that they’re actually working for a vampire...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah Zulfikar, Mahmoud El Meligy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim.  We haven’t viewed that many Egyptian horror films, but this is absolutely the best one we’ve seen so far.  A lawyer is summoned to an antiquated palace/mansion that’s known by locals to be not just haunted, but cursed as well.  Even his coach driver will not go too near the place...