(1939) 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...

(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...

(1962) Lisa Gaye, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira, Gerard Tichy.  In widescreen on DVD video for the first time.  A schlocky but fun blend of horror and sci-fi.  A scientist develops a drug that eradicates scar tissue.  He takes a woman and transforms her disfigured face into a thing of beauty. Unknown to him, she is a wanted psycho!  

(1966) Denholm Elliot, David Buck, Susannah York, Mary Miller, Dudley Jones, Olive MacGreevy, Bernard Archard. This British TV movie of the Poe classic is short and sweet, but very well done with Ell

(1932) Jean Galland, Thomy Bourdelle, Tania Fedor, Georges Rigaud.  Fantomas, a hooded killer, is loose in an old chateau on a stormy night.  Guests suspect something is amiss.  When a call is made to the police, the wire is cut.  The wind howls

(1947) Marcel Herrand, Simone Signoret, Alexandre Rignault, Paul Amiot, André Le Gall, Yves Deniaud,   A big thumbs up for this great film!  It’s filled with a ton of cool stuff—death rays, mad scientists, cool lab scenes, creepy underground catacombs, mysterious mansions, and more.  Fantomas, long thought to be dead, returns to terrorize Paris, demanding a...

(1949) Maurice Teynac, Aimé Clariond, Alexandre Rignault, Yves Furet, Marcelle Chantal, Nora Costes,  Robert Arnous, Berthe Bovy. Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas has died, but a tidal wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the monstrous maniac being back from the dead. Inspector Juve and his reporter pal Fandor set out to discover the truth. Is Fantomas still alive?...

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...

(1931) René Lefèvre, Rosine Deréan, Harry Baur, Robert Le Vigan, Marc Dantzer, Georges Péclet.  Although this is only marginally a horror film, it is a very interesting thriller about a group of five men visiting Morocco.  When one of them attempts to rip the veil off a Muslim woman, they are all cursed to die before the next full moon by a local sorcerer.  To their horror, they all begin to die, one by one...

(1969) José Luis López Vázquez, John Steiner, Amparo Soler Leal, Antonio Casas.  A respected peddler, who works between two villages, suffers from seizures during which he becomes—in his mind—a werewolf.  When four women disappear, the villagers become suspicious.  Vazquez gives a wonderful performance as a man tortured by the beast within him.  Like all good werewolf movies, there’s a climax where the villagers hunt down the beast...  

(1965) John Hackett, Conrad Parkham, Ana Corita. An incredibly rare ghost thriller. The lone survivor of a blown out WWII bunker at Corregidor returns to the Philippines twenty years later. There he finds hi