(1952, Upgraded 11/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes. Bela went abroad for this wacky British horror comedy and it was the last time he was seen on screen in his Dracula cape.  There's a bit of an espionage plot, which results in the kidnapping of Mercedes at the film's beginning.  However, the real star of the show here isn't Lucan as Mother Riley, but Lugosi as a maniac who...

(1947, Updated 11/8/21) Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, Douglas Fowley, Angelo Rossito. One of the more novel concepts in the history of horror films, the entire story is told by the spirit of a dead lady who's body is lying on a cold slab in the morgue.  A creepy old mansion is the scene where a girl is literally scared to death...

(1944) Bela Lugosi, Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot, Blanche Yurka. A creepy mansion with an astronomical observatory is the setting for this comedy horror chiller. Bela plays a sinister butler serving everyone coffee. Is that brew Bela is serving...

(1943, Upgraded 11/11/21) Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Bobby Jordan, Wheeler Oakman, Frank Moran. The East Side Kids find themselves taking on a Nazi spy ring (headed by Bela) inside the cozy confines of a "haunted house."  Bela's spy headquarters are in the cellar.  Little do the neighbors suspect that there is a Nazi propaganda unit inside—they just think the house is haunted...

(1939, Upgraded 11/11/21) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair, Harry Terry. If you've never seen a Slaughter film before, this is the one to start with. There's a monster, a mad killer, and a crazed scientist experimenting with the reanimation of the dead.  The victims often see the face of a misshapen monster leering in their windows, momments before they...

(1926) Jack Pickford, Louise Fazenda, Eddie Cribbon. One of the great silent horror films. A maniacal killer dressed in a weird, bat-like costume terrorizes a group of people in a shuddery, spooky old house r

(1938) George Curzon. Many of Tod's horror melodramas were played with a tongue in cheek approach. However, that's not the case here. This thriller pits a master detective fron Baker street against th

(1937, Upgraded 11/11/21) Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman. One of Tod's best! The mad killer known as “the Spinebreaker" is on the loose and terrorizing London with a series of gruesome killings. Tod once again threatens the beautiful, innocent Marjorie Taylor.  Can Scotland Yard catch the...

TICKET OF LEAVE MAN (1937) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor.  Warwick, in a role he often played more than once in Slaughter horror films, plays an innocent man wrongfully sent to jail so that leering Tod can have his way with Warwick’s fiancé, played by the beautiful Marjorie Taylor.  There’s also a mad killer about known as "the Tiger..."  

(1936, Upgraded 10/27/21) Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Lister, Eve Lister, D.J. Williams. Tod's most famous film. Two maniacs murder for profit, hack up the bodies, and then sell thim in meat pies. Sounds appetizing, doesn't it. The scenes of Todd dumping his victims from his barber chair, backwards through a secret floor panel into his musty basement below really packed a jolt back in 1936.  Quite grisly even by...

(1973) William Berger, Montserrat Prous, Edmund Purdom, Loreta Tovar, Directed by Jesus Franco.  This is one of Franco’s Dr. Orloff series and it’s odd not to see Howard Vernon running about.  The plot involves a wheelchair-bound young woman who’s surrounded by horrific thrills and chills...

(1935, Upgraded 10/29/21) Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet. Our print features the original British "Maria Martin" opening titles. This film features Tod at his lecherous best.  It's the ultimate story of a sweet, innocent girl gone bad. Her naiveté leads her into Tod's evil clutches which in turn lead her to death's doorstep...

(1969, Upgraded 12/30/20) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes. Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out this insane scheme.  There are more monsters afoot than you can shake a stick at:  Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy...

(1913) King Baggot, Jane Gail, Matt Snyder. The first Universal horror film! The classic Stevenson tale about a doctor who tries to separate the good and evil found in all men. Baggot, who was a...

(1942, Upgraded 10/14/21) Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay, Robert Frazer. A series of grisly murders is committed by a crazed, Nazi plastic surgeon who seeks revenge against a Jap spy ring...

(1927) Laura La Plante, directed by Paul Leni. One of the best old dark house horror movies ever. It's about a maniac...

(1926) Francis X Bushman, Jr., Kathryn McGuire. This was a very obscure film. It was made one year before CAT & THE CANARY, and it has just about every old dark house cliché imaginable. A somber, g