(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...

1971 aka VAMPIROS LESBOS) Soledad Miranda, Ewa Strömberg, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, directed by Jesus Franco.  Strömberg plays a lawyer lured to a strange island owned by Miranda, who is a lesbian vampire and the heir to the estate of Count Dracula.  Price plays a demented doctor seeking to become a vampire himself, while Muller is the vampire expert...

(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...

(1932, Upgraded 12/22/23) Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhofer, Harald Paulsen, Blandine Ebinger Wegener plays a mad scientist who murders his bitchy wife and walls her up in a basement. After fleeing from the police

 (1934) Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins, Henry Victor.  Curzon is great as the suave yet crazed doctor who has devised a formula that puts people into a death-like trance so he can then claim their life...

(1970, WIDESCREEN EDITION) Józef Duriasz, Edmund Fetting, Gustaw Lutkiewicz.  A pastor/professor comes to a remote estate in the forlorn mountains of 19^th Century Lithuania to study books on folklore and other ancient tomes.  The estate is owned by a mysterious young duke and his insane mother, the latter of whom was attacked by a wild bear nine months before the duke was born.  There are whispered rumors about the duke’s true bloodline...