(1937) Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan.  One of Hay’s best comedies, featuring lots of laughs all interwoven with criminal conspiracy thrills and some occasional elements of horror.  Hay is the new stationmaster at a lonely railway station (complete with laundry hanging across the tracks).  The locals believe the nearby train tunnel is the frequent haunt of a mysterious ghost who supposedly resides up the hill in a haunted windmill...

(1944) Bela Lugosi, Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot, Blanche Yurka. A creepy mansion with an astronomical observatory is the setting for this comedy horror chiller. Bela plays a sinister butler serving everyone coffee. Is that brew Bela is serving...

ONE MINUTE BEFORE DEATH (1972) Wanda Hendrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie.  This movie is often mistaken as an alternate title for The Oval Portrait, but it’s not.  It’s an entirely different film, shot by the same production unit.  Family relatives (we won’t say which) conspire to murder a rich widow (Hendrix) by putting her into a catatonic state and burying her alive...

(1967) Jack Hawkins, Rachael Gurney, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Henry Beltran.  If you like creepy ghost stories, this British made-for-TV feature is a must.  Hawkins’ returns home from a long trip to find his son traumatized by the haunting cries of a child he hears calling to him in the night from the strange ruins next to their estate.  

(1936 & 1932) Here are two 1930s horror oddities for the price of one, dressed up like a drive-in double feature, complete with an old time intermission clock.  OUANGA (1936) Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton, Sheldon Leonard.  This setting is zombie-infested Haiti...

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... 

(1982) Buster Larsen, Jørgen Kiil, Agneta Ekmanner, Peter Steen.  An older guy has an affair his new wife's daughter. The daughter, as you would expect in a Giallo-style chiller, ends of dead.  A mortuary worker (who underhandedly sells used coffins and pries rings off the fingers of corpses) figures out what’s going on and begins a blackmail...

(1968, aka THE BRIDE FROM HADES) Kôjirô Hongô, Miyoko Akaza, Mayumi Ogawa, Akira Nishimura.  This is one of the most haunting Japanese horror films you will ever see—engaging, gripping, and absolutely chilling.  During the Obon festival of the dead, a samurai is visited by two beautiful women, one of whom he falls deeply in love with.  During the next few nights he comes to discover that his new lover and her older companion are ghosts...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

Albert Prejean, Sandra Milovonov, Georges Vaultier. A Rene Clair fantasy. A man goes to the lonely estate of the mysterious Dr. Renault, whose strange experiments release the man's spirit from his b

(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...

(1935) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Margetson, Shirley Grey, Edmund Willard, Dennis Hoey.  Bela signs on to the Mary Celeste, seeking revenge on the first mate, who shanghaied him years before and threw him to the sharks, resulting in the loss of his arm.  They encounter a violent storm at sea and soon the crew is being murdered off...

(1939, Upgraded 12/21/23) 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...