(1941, Monogram, Upgraded 12/4/21) Dick Purcell, John Archer, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, Joan Woodbury, Guy Usher. Believe it or not, this film was actually nominated for an academy award. Yep, that's right. Best scoring for a dramatic picture. It was a new category in 1941. Zombies run amok on a jungle island when Archer and Purcell's plane has been forced down.  The island is, of course, is...

(1969) Janine Reynaud, Adrian Hoven, Rosanna Yani, directed by Jesus Franco.  One of Franco's more off-beat efforts.  On a lonely Caribbean island a mad scientist conducts experiments aimed at creating a new race of super humans...

(1957, aka Ninjutsu Gozen-Jiai) Koji Arima, Sentarô Fushimi, Masao Hori. This supernatural thriller is about two feuding clans in ancient Japan.  Complicating things is a child who is taken hostage by one of the families.  In the film’s exciting climax, both families are represented by their top Ninja warriors.  The Ninja’s have a wide variety of uncanny powers, including invisibility and teleportation.  Also on hand are numerous horrific creatures...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joseph Cotten, Sarah Bay, Paul Muller, Mickey Hargitay, Riccardo Pizzuti, Herbert Fux.  Dr. Frankenstein (Cotten) is at it again, creating a horrendous monster in his lab. The monster then kills his creator, escapes, and proceeds to ravage the countryside. After her father’s death, Frankenstein's daughter (played most seductively by Bay) creates a monster of her own to satisfy her...

(1958) Anita Björk, Annalisa Ericson, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Sven Lindberg.  This is a largely forgotten horror-mystery-chiller from Sweden—and it’s a good one.  A woman is seen wandering about outside a gloomy country manor in the dark of the night.  She screams and meets her doom!...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Virna Lisi, Pia Lindstrom, Pier Anchisi, Valentina Cortese, Philippe Leroy.  This is a great psychological horror film, though some might classify it as a giallo thriller.  Baldwin travels to a lonely Italian village looking for a beautiful woman.  Shortly after his arrival he is told that she has committed suicide.  But there's more to her death than meets the eye...

(1959, aka VAMPIRE MAN, upgraded 12/5/24) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi.   One of the earliest Japanese horror films with a modern setting.  A young woman is celebrating her birthday.  Her boyfriend tells of a mysterious woman who lurks about the grounds.  The woman turns out to be the girl’s mother, who disappeared years before but hasn’t aged a day!  In the meantime watch out for the snappily dressed vampire man with the huge fangs!

(1957, Upgraded 11/21/23) Andre Bjerke, Bjorg Engh, Henki Kolstad, Henny Moan. A group of friends travel to a secluded cabin deep in the forest. The ghost of a peg-legged man is supposed to haunt a nearby lake and that...

LAKE OF THE ZOMBIES (1981) Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Anouchka, Pierre-Marie Edcourrou.  This bizarre Euro-horror chiller takes place In a tiny French village.  The local citizens are horrified when the bodies of German soldiers, killed by the Resistance during World War II, become zombified and come back from the dead...

(1964, Upgraded 12/28/20) Vincent Price, Franca Bettola, Emma Daniell. Top notch science fiction. A plague has killed off most of the earth's population and Price is the sole survivor. The other inhabitants are mutant vampires that...

(1960-1972) Williams Bates, Karin Field, Fawn Silver. When Legend of Horror came out in 1972, it incorporated a short South American version of “The Telltale Heart” along with about forty minutes of new footage with American actors, expanding the original Poe storyline significantly.  There’s one really cool scene with zombies in a graveyard!  

(1975) Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis., Ullmann plays Leonor, a beautiful woman who dies at the beginning of the film.  Upon her death her widower (Piccoli) instantly remarries—literally on the same day.  But ten years and two sons later, Piccoli still yearns for his dead first wife.  He’s eventually shown a way (at heavy cost) to bring her back from the dead...