(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...

RITES, BLACK MAGIC, AND SECRET ORGIES—Widescreen Ed. (1973) Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raul Lovecchio, Krista Barrymore, Max Dorian.  A group of lustful vampires are harboring the body of a witch (who has a big hole in her chest!) in their castle cellar.  They need of virgin blood to fully bring her back to life.  A party of tourists arrive and things soon get very...

DEATH DIVE (1974, aka SUBMARINE OF HORROR aka FER DE LANCE) David Janssen, Hope Lange, Jason Evers.  Remember the film Snakes on a Plane from a few years ago?  Well this movie goes back even further and could just as easily be called, “Snakes on a Submarine.”  A crewman on a huge submarine has smuggled aboard a big container of deadly snakes, which escape and start putting the bite on everyone...

THE OVAL PORTRAIT (1973) Wanda Hentrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie, Barney O’Sullivan, Maray Ayres.  This Civil War period piece horror film starts with a mother and daughter arriving at a mysterious mansion for the reading of a will.  It’s a dark, creepy night.  The daughter sees a ghostly image upon arrival and soon becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead cousin, whose picture hangs on a mansion wall... 

DEATH BY INVITATION—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition (1971) Shelby Leverington, Aaron Phillips, Norman Parker.  This film opens in olden times with a young woman being dragged into a grimy building and condemned as a witch.  She is later killed by the villagers.  Leverington plays both the witch from the past and a beautiful young gal from present day who is possessed by...

DRACULA IN PAKISTAN (1967) Yasmeen Shaukat, Deeba Begum.  In this, Pakistan’s first horror film, Hammer’s Horror of Dracula was remade.  And even though there are many sequences that have nothing to do with its Hammer counterpart, there are many sequences that are obvious facsimiles...

THE GHOSTS OF KASANE SWAMP (1957) Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa, Tetsurô Tanba.  A blind Japnese masseur visits a samurai warrior to ask for the return of a loan. The samurai, arrogant and cruel, slays him in anger.  Later, his servant dumps the masseur’s body in a dreadful swamp.  Howeve,r the masseur’s ghost soon returns to haunt the samurai...

HAUNTED PALACE (1949) Shaw Desmond, Helene Coomey. This featurette is a ghost story vignette. Plus:  WHO KILLED DOC ROBBIN? (1948) Virginia Grey, George Zucco, Don Castle.  Zucco is his sinister self again in this entertaining chiller about a killer ape who terrorizes a gang of kids in a haunted mansion...

THE MAGIC CURSE—Widescreen Edition (1975) Jason Pai Piao, Pinky de Leon, Lung Chan, Chia-Bee Tan.  After learning that his uncle has vanished somewhere inside the steamy Borneo jungle, a young man hurries to the scene to rescue him.  To his horror, he soon finds himself assailed by a gang of zombie cannibals, whose high priest has complete control...

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...

THE FERRYMAN (1974) Jeremy Brett, Natasha Parry, Geoffrey Chater, Lesly Dunlop, Andy Bradford.  This is a cool 50-minute TV feature about a horror novelist and his wife who go to a house in the country for a short holiday. To their horror, they soon realize that one of his horror novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a...

When Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories in 1926, he included the works of the great H. G. Wells.  Gernsback reprinted many of Wells’ best science fiction short stories.  So in this collection, in the exact chronological order in which they appeared, is the complete run of the Amazing Stories-H. G. Wells science fiction short story legacy, all with their wonderful original illustrations...

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...  

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...

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 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...

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...

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...