(1949) Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi, Den Obinata. A forgotten horror/sci-fi classic!  Considered by some historians as the first Japanese sci-fi film, though the sci-fi elements are, admittedly, somewhat slight.  A young woman becomes the prime suspect in a murder mystery. Her gal pal and boyfriend set out to prove her innocence.  They soon end up in a forlorn, out of the way house filled with mystery and dread...

(1969) Adrienne Larussa, Rossano Brazi, Nino Castelnuovo, Idelma Carlo.  A wonderful, almost forgotten giallo classic.  Larussa (Beatrice Cenci) is tops as a gorgeous, wealthy young heiress who is tricked by her lover (a really slimy no-good so and so) into having sex inside a seedy brothel.  After she is caught in a police raid (as arranged by her lover for purposes of blackmail) she’s tossed into a mental institution by her family so that all concerned can be spared the “scandal.”  However, when she finally gets out of the booby-hatch—look out!  

(1966, Upgraded 3/15/20) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr, Derrick De Marney. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments with matter transmission from place to place by means of a...

RETURN OF CHANDU (1934) Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba; CITY OF LOST MEN (1935) Kane Richmond, Bill Boyd; ISLAND CAPTIVES (1937) Eddie Nugent, Joan Barclay; TARZAN’S REVENGE (1938) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

THE PORTRAIT (1948) Otomar Krejca, Ljuba Skorepová, Karel Dostal.   Dostal plays the personification of evil, a quintessential example of what we loved in actors like Lugosi, Karloff, Lorre, and others.  Knowing he is dying, he hires an artist to paint his portrait.  He wants the spirit of his black-hearted soul to be captured on canvas so that his spirit might live on after death...

(1974) Lynne Miller, Stuart Wilson, Angela Thorne, Matthew Pollock, John Boxer.  A pretty Edwardian girl finds herself inside a mysterious house acting as the new governess for an odd young boy.  She begins to see visions of ghostly images, some seemingly from different periods of time.  What does it all mean?  Are they ghosts or something far more sinister...?  

THE PIT (1962) Brian Peck, Burt Letts, Dave Lloyd.  A grim retelling of Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” like you never seen before.  This  is perhaps the most horrific of any filmed version of the Poe classic with many shocks.  If you’re looking for a happy ending, forget it! The masterful B&W photography is atmospheric and terrifying down to the final seconds...  

(1939) Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey, Louis Jovet, Jean Mercanton, Robert Le Vigan.  The spirits of those who die at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve are condemned to drive the “Death Cart” for an entire year.  This horse-drawn cart is what takes human souls to meet their maker, and the cart’s creaky sound is heard by those who are about to die...

(1937, aka SONG AT MIDNIGHT—UPGRADED) Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jim, Chau-shui Yee. An acting troupe is scheduled to come to a small Chinese town. A phantom-type character who inhabits a deserted theater sings his mournful song in the night.  When the acting troupe arrives, they use the theater for their new opera production. The Phantom then exerts his strange influence over...

(1934) Carlos Villatoro, Marta Roel, Enrique Del Campo, Paco Martinez, Victorio Blanco.  Three friends get lost in a forest in the middle of the night (a very dark and creepy night).  They’re found by a monk who takes them to his ancient monastery for shelter.  However, when they arrive at the crumbling building, strange horrific things begin to happen...

(1963) Hans Söhnker, Peter Vogel, Helga Sommerfeld, Werner Peters.  A fine chiller from the pen of bryan Edgar Wallace. A strip club is the setting for a Scotland Yard investigation of murders committed by a hooded killer in a skull mask, usually in the vicinity of...

(1939) Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Regis Toomey, Edward Van Sloan. For all of you Lugosi fans who don't like sitting through 12-chapter serials, here's the feature version of the classic Unive

(1939, Universal) Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Regis Toomey, Edward Van Sloan.  12 Chapters.  A mad scintist plots to take over the civilized world. He uses invisibility and a giant robot to carry out...

(1974, Upgraded 7/11/22) Mimsy Farmer, Mario Scaccia, Maurizio Bonuglia, Donna Jordan. A very obscure and very well made psychological horror film with Farmer playing a mentally disturbed woman who is dangerously close...