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...  

(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 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...

(1936) Tom Walls, Ralph Lynne, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James, Marita Hunt.  Here’s a comedy-laced old dark house thriller that few horror film fans know about.  Walls is a retired police inspector who tracks a gang of art thieves to a sinister old abbey that’s surrounded by high stone walls and from which the gang operates without the owner’s knowledge...

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...

(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...

(1970) Lawrence Montaigne, Jo Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Plumb, Frank Cuva, John Vincent.  Women are being bumped off by a mad killer who wears a nylon over his distorted face, while strangling them with the other nylon.  The killer’s psychiatrist, who’s cheating on his wife, decides to use hypnosis to induce the killer to get rid of his wife for him...

(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!  

(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...

(1947, Upgraded 1/10/23) Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Allene Roberts, Julie London, Rory Calhoun, Judith Anderson, Ona Munson. A great film with a great cast. What's the forbidden past of the secret house hidden away in the haunted woods? The scene in the "haunted woods" is very... 

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Mase, Sybil Danning.  Two sisters vie for the inheritance of a creepy, old family castle.  There are a series of diabolical killings committed by a dark haired woman in a red cloak,  who laughs maniacally at her victims.  Is the maniac...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Lon Chaney, John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry, Vic McGee.  If you’ve ever seen this film, you know how wonderfully awful it is.  It’s kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel imitation of Twice Told Tales or Tales of Terror—it’s got the same overall look and feel (they even borrow footage from several Corman Poe films). There are five different macabre tales...