(1911) Marguerite Snow, James Cruz, William C. Cooper. This is the first filmed version of the H. Rider Haggard classic about a lost civilization and the secret of immortality. Silent with music scor

(1966, Upgraded 1/1/21) Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, John Karlson, Mel Welles.  Villagers hunt down and drown an 18th century witch.  Centuries later, Barb and her hubby vacation in the area.  Their car crashes into the lake at the very spot that the witch was killed.  Instead of Barb emerging from the murky waters...

(1967) Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney, Claude Smith.  Brennen plays a gorgeous young blonde (but a total bitch) who is lured by the excitement of the carnival business.  So she leaves her waitress job at a greasy spoon and joins up with a local carnival.  She soon meets all kinds of sordid characters, including the bizarre, physically deformed players of the carnival's freak show...

(1929) Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin, Arthur Pusey, Gerald Rawlinson. This forgotten British old dark house thriller would have been a perfect fit for one of the Forgotten Horrors books.  The setting is a creepy mansion filled with secret passageways, trap doors, snake pits, sliding floors, and secret rooms...

(1972) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine. On Christmas Eve Lawyer John Carter (O'Neal), with mistress in tow,  arrives to a small Massacussets town where he is charged with selling a home inherited by Jeffrey Butler (Patterson). When O'neal and his mistress go missing that very night, Patterson sets out to...

(1963, Upgraded 3/14/24) June Colbourne, Dian Lloyd, Derek Murcott, Beverly Nazarow, directed by Joe Sarno. An irresistible sleazy B&W sleazy chiller. Loyd is a has-been burlesque dancer who gets her hands on an ancient amulet that enables her to...

(2025) Greg Luce, directed by Jack Perez.  If you had told me back in 1984 when I first started Sinister Cinema that someday (39 years later) a well-known Hollywood director would come along and make a documentary about my little video company, I probably would have laughed out loud. But one day in 2023, out of the blue, I was contacted by film director Jack Perez about just such a project...

(1973) William Berger, Montserrat Prous, Edmund Purdom, Loreta Tovar, Directed by Jesus Franco.  This is one of Franco’s Dr. Orloff series and it’s odd not to see Howard Vernon running about.  The plot involves a wheelchair-bound young woman who’s surrounded by horrific thrills and chills...

Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler. This Italian vampire film is about bloodsuckers in search of new victims while a 'Van Helsing' type remains in hot pursuit. Pre-credit sequence is terrific. From 16mm.

(1980) Patrick Magee, Per Oscarsson, Brendan Price, Marilù Tolo, Curt Jurgens.  This dark, scary tale is set in 1815 as a young Brit tours Europe seeking to win a fortune at the roulette tables.  However, his attention soon shifts to a beautiful French countess, who invites him to her castle.  Romance grows in his heart for her.  But when people start dying horrifically, the young Brit realizes he has fallen into a terrifyingly situation... 

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Allan Edwall, Lars Ekborg, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Heinz Hopf, Elsa Prawitz.  This psychological horror thriller has been described as a “Giallo film shot in Sweden.”  The central action takes place on board a speeding train, where numerous gruesome killings take place...

(1972) Rosalba Neri, Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Hiram Keller, Dana Ghia.  After a her mother's “suicide” a lovely teenage girl shows up at her mother’s Italian villa, only to discover that her widowed stepfather is having a sexual fling with an ultra-sexy photographer, played by that Italian sex bomb, Rosalba Neri. The two illicit lovers plan to do away with the pretty adolescent...

THE SNAKE GIRL AND THE SILVER-HAIRED WITCH—Widescreen Ed.  (1968, upgraded 7/18/22) Yuko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachie Matsui, Mayumi Takahashi.  A girl comes home from an orphanage to live with her parents.  Also living in the house are a nanny and older sister, both of whom dislike her.  Soon the house is filled with supernatural terror as...