(1972, Upgraded 12/28/22) Bonnie Bedelia, Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe. Howard picks up a young, quirky (and very pretty) vagabond woman in the desert. She tricks him into taking her to her desert shack where she breaks his leg with the blunt end of an axe! After that it’s very much like the Cathy Bates-James Caan relationship from Stephen King’s "Misery." In fact, the story is so...

(1966, Upgraded 12/1/21, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Charles Regnier, Ady Berber, Kai Fischer, Ellen Schwiers, Hans Reiser, Christa Linder, Birgit Bergen. Five people have stolen a priceless, legendary emerald from a religious temple. One of them is slain by an unknown killer. The police search desperately for...

(1963, Upgraded 12/30/22) Victor Buono, Diane Sayer, Ellen Corby, David McLean, Davey Davison, Russ Bender. There's a mad killer on the loose in the form of an overweight lab technician. His victims are the nurses who attend his over-possessive mother. Buono, fresh off his success in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, is uncomfortably over-realistic in his role as the demented killer.  There are some pretty grim...

THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE (1935) Anton Walbrook, Dorothea Wieck, Theodor Loos, Erich Fiedler. A magnificent horror-fantasy film!  The setting is Prague in the 1860s.  Walbrook plays Balduin, a handsome young student.  Into his life walks a beautiful singer named Julia. But hovering over her life is the sinister Dr. Carpis, a Satan-like figure who’s more of a human shadow than a flesh-and-blood being...

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...

(1934) Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell, Thomas Shenton, James Fleck.  This British obscurity has been a much sought-after horror film by fans for decades.  It offers a fairly engaging rendition of the classic Poe story.  This film was released stateside as Bucket of Blood...

(1974, Upgraded 11/17/21) Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni, Gyl Roland. Prine is a human beast who kidnaps women and terrorizes them in his old barn. They are his animal act and he is their ringmaster. There’s even a cool, gross-looking monster in a shed who gets out and reeks havoc...

(1965) Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, Richard Garret, Marilyn Mitchell. A man is murdered by his wife and associates. He vows to return from the grave for revenge. He does, sending plague infested zombies...

TERROR IS A MAN—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Francis Lederer, Richard Derr, Greta Thyssen, Oscar Keesee.  In 1959, American producer Kane Lynn teamed with Filipino filmmakers Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon to make a grisly thriller billed as ”a unique experience in motion picture terror!” Its global success would soon transform...

(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... 

(1962, Upgraded 12/28/20) Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Senta Berger. Nice remake of Lang's ‘33 classic, "CRIMES OF DR. MABUSE," perhaps even better. The head of an asylum is hypnotically controlled by Dr. Mabuse. The evil doctor has him carry out...

(1963, Updated 4/28/22) Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze. Jack’s a wandering soldier who traces a ghostly lady to the castle of a mysterious baron played by you-know-who. Strange, supernatural things begin to happen...