(2025) Greg Luce, directed by Jack Perez.  If you had told me back in 1984 when I first started Sinister Cinema that someday (39 years later) a well-known Hollywood director would come along and make a documentary about my little video company, I probably would have laughed out loud. But one day in 2023, out of the blue, I was contacted by film director Jack Perez about just such a project...

(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...

Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler. This Italian vampire film is about bloodsuckers in search of new victims while a 'Van Helsing' type remains in hot pursuit. Pre-credit sequence is terrific. From 16mm.

(1980) Patrick Magee, Per Oscarsson, Brendan Price, Marilù Tolo, Curt Jurgens.  This dark, scary tale is set in 1815 as a young Brit tours Europe seeking to win a fortune at the roulette tables.  However, his attention soon shifts to a beautiful French countess, who invites him to her castle.  Romance grows in his heart for her.  But when people start dying horrifically, the young Brit realizes he has fallen into a terrifyingly situation... 

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Allan Edwall, Lars Ekborg, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Heinz Hopf, Elsa Prawitz.  This psychological horror thriller has been described as a “Giallo film shot in Sweden.”  The central action takes place on board a speeding train, where numerous gruesome killings take place...

(1972) Rosalba Neri, Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Hiram Keller, Dana Ghia.  After a her mother's “suicide” a lovely teenage girl shows up at her mother’s Italian villa, only to discover that her widowed stepfather is having a sexual fling with an ultra-sexy photographer, played by that Italian sex bomb, Rosalba Neri. The two illicit lovers plan to do away with the pretty adolescent...

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...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Elsie Harker, Geoffrey Denton.  A crazed English scientist injects his wife with a cobra venom formula to cure her mental illness. Sadly, it has a horrible effect on the woman’s unborn child, who’s born with cold blood...

(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...

(1967, aka DIARY OF A MADMAN) Tom Troupe.  It's not often you see a psychological horror film that delves into the depths of madness the way this film does.  Sofi begins with a 19^th Century business clerk walking through his village toward home.  Inside his humble dwelling he looks into the camera and begins to tell tales of his every day experiences and his infactuation with a woman named Sofi.  His rantings soon dissolve into self-induced madness and brooding psychological horror...

SOLITAIRE (1951) Margaret Field, Gertrude Michael, directed by Frank Wisbar.  A young actress finds a strange woman playing solitaire in her apartment.  What are the sinister, supernatural implications of this?  At first she is angry, then a feeling of unexplainable fear begins to set in.  Wisbar directs with flare as Field and Michael go toe to toe...

(1976) Pauline Quirke, Geoffrey Bateman, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Goring, Shirley Cheriton.  Quirke is brilliant in her portrayal of a pitiful, frumpy, inhibited teenage checkout girl at a small supermarket.  She has a crush on her manager who despises her and lusts for another female employee.  Then strange things begin happening.  It begins with a can rolling across the market floor, seemingly under its own power...  

(1945, aka THE BELLMAN) Renée Faure, Roger Pigaut, Madeleine Robinson, Lucien Coëdel, Fernand Ledoux..  With every batch of new releases there’s always a film or two that we absolutely rave about.  Spells is one of those films.  The IMDB description fits it perfectly, listing it as a horror-crime-drama.  Spells is full of latent and overt horror elements, featuring a black devil horse that terrorizes mountain villagers...

(1966, Updated 12/30/20) Lon Chaney, Carol Ohmart, Jill Banner, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Sid Haig, Mantan Moreland. Perversely delightful, often hilarious, and downright horrifying. Chaney is the household master of an eerie mansion full of regressive psychos. Mantan Moreland's famous window-slice-and-dice opening scene gives you a grim but humous taste of what's coming...

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...

(1942, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall. Bela has a pseudo vampire role in this story about a creepy old dark house that's invaded by a gang of kids in the dark of the night. Atmospheric. 16mm.