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Sinister Cinema's CUSTOMER APPRECIATION SALE returns! Now through Monday, October 2nd, buy ANY SEVEN DVD or book titles from anywhere on the Sinister Cinema website for only $59, postpaid...

(1960, Upgraded 12/29/20) Peter Van Eyck, Gerte Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a Posh hotel that is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. Van Eyk plays the rich American who...

(1973, Upgraded 11/14/21) Sue Lyon, Christoper Mitchum, Jean Sorel, Ramon Pons, Charly Bravo, Alfredo Alba. This Euro sci-fi chiller is set in the future. After witnessing the disposal of a dead body, an outcast gang member is forced to take part in a weird mind-control experiment in a secret laboratory. There, a beautiful nurse prepares him for...

(1977, Upgraded 4/15/22) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux.  A great fantasy-horror film.  A woman leaves her husband one stormy night.  She drives on a lonely road, but when her windshield breaks she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  The woman spends the night, but next morning she finds no trace of her hosts.  Finding her car repaired, she tries to leave but soon realizes it’s impossible...

(1980, Upgraded 2/25/23) Ian McCulloch, Louise Marlo, Marino Mase, Siegfried Rauch. What a hoot! This Alien rip-off starts with an eerie ship pulling into NY harbor. On board is a cargo of green pulsating eggs. The eggs explode and cause a green acid to get into...

(1977, Upgraded 7/11/22) Tim Brinton, Gregory Munroe, Carol Hazell.  In the middle of a world ecological disaster and the start of a new ice-age, the world is told that the space race and the cold war between the U.S. and Russia are fake.  Both countries are secretly planning the assembly of a Mars colony. It also seems the Apollo moon landings were only a cloak shielding what’s really happening on the moon...

(1948, Upgraded 10/1/21) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist—Turhan Bey.  It's a great scene.  She soon becomes involved with his mystic practices, but is he...

(1959, Upgraded 11/5/21) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. One of our best selling 50's sci-fi B classics. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. He breaks into military installations and banks, stealing radioactive materials and money. The film's climax features a struggle between Griffith and Kennedy in a lab where an atomic explosion is...

(1962, Upgraded 3/10/23) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Coastal villages live in dread of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil." It turns out that the creature is a product of man, not...

(1961, Upgraded 12/2/21) Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard, Russ Bender. A juvenile delinquent swears revenge on all those who helped send his wacko brother to the gas chamber. He and his sleazy girlfriend decide to bump them off one at a time...

(1943, Monogram, Upgraded 12/12/21) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Louise Currie, Minerva Urecal. During a series of bizarre experiments, mad scientist Belai literally goes ape--turning into a half man/half ape monstrosity that needs Human spinal fluid to return to any semblance of normalcy.  His quest for it leads him and his pet ape on a terrifying...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Ray Corrigan, Philo McCullough. Boris plays a "well-intentioned" mad scientist trying to find a cure for paralysis.  Unfortunately, his research depends on spinal fluid taken from living (soon to be dead) humans.  But when an escaped gorilla crashes into his lab...

(1969, aka DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN, Upgraded 12/30/20) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes.  Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out...

(1957, Upgraded 12/22/22) Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. A gang of crooks hold a pair of hostages at by in a mountatin cabin when a spaceship lands nearby. The entire group finds themselves threatened by a mysterious...

(1955, Upgraded 5/3/22) Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Leonard Williams, Philip Dale. An atomic accident, in combination with bullets fired by would-be assassins, puts the mind of a famous scientist seven and a half seconds into the future. One startling scene has the victim...

(1958, UPGRADED) Ken Utsui, Utako Mitsuya, Kan Hayashi. Ludicrous but lovable. It’s Starman against an alien beast in the depths of space. Watch a total disregard for science as characters walk on space platforms without...

(1959, Upgraded 11/28/22) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. Radiation has caused ordinary leeches to mutate into giant monsters. They threaten the folks in a small bayou town. Vickers is at her sleaziest, sexiest best as the local storekeepers unfaithful wife. She and her lover are caught by her husband and driven into the swamp where the monsters...

(1962, Upgraded 12/28/20) Howard Vernon, Conrado San Martin, Perla Cristal, Diana Lorys. Considered by many to be director Jess Franco's best film. A mad doctor stalks the foggy back-streets in search of young girls, whom he...

(1959, Upgraded 9/21/21) Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, John Sutton, Gavin Gordon, Elaine Edwards. A mad killer known as "The Bat" is on the prowl in an old, Gothic mansion filled with terrified people. Great fun as the fiend...

(1969, Upgraded 10/20/21) Adrianne Larussa, Tomas Milian, Georges Wilson, Mavie. Beatrice Cenci is the daughter of a mentally twisted nobleman who keeps her locked up in the castle dungeon. He sexually abuses her regularly.  However, Beatrice and her stepmother conspire to...

(1952, Upgraded 11/8/21) Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Sanders. Bela looks pretty bad, and was probably at the height of his drug addiction as he portrays a mad scientist who injects an American crooner with a serum that transforms him into an ape. Still great to see Bela stalking...

(1970, Upgraded 10/29/21) Viveca Lindfors, Renaud Verley, Alfredo Mayo, Maribel Martin. After being locked away for years, a man comes back to seek his bizarre revenge on his aunt and her three daughters who had him falsely institutionalized as a...

(1963, Upgraded 10/26/21) Joachim Fuchsberger, Grit Bottscher, Charles Boetnier, Werner Peters, Dieter Borsche, Eddi Arent. A mad criminal is on the loose! Witnesses describe a black-hooded figure whom they have seen disappearing into a ruined Abbey tower. A number of people from a British nobleman's estate storm this ancient abbey, which is supposed to be filled with...

(1958) Toshio Hosokawa, Yuriko Ejima, Takashi Wada, Ryuzaburo Nakamura.   A great Japanese supernatural chiller.  In a modern day setting, a couple moves into an aging mansion.  The wife is soon haunted by the ghost of a horrible old hag, whose ghostly visits bring the wife closer to death... 

(1942, Upgraded 10/14/21) Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay, Robert Frazer. A series of grisly murders is committed by a crazed, Nazi plastic surgeon who seeks revenge against a Jap spy ring...

(1961, Upgraded 5/12/22) Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Bernard Blier, Pierre Blanchar.  Blanchar is a Nazi war criminal who lives in a magnificent old castle.  He gathers a number of his old allies for nefarious purposes...

(1943, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Charles Middleton, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass. Zucco is the manager of a mysterious inn filled with terror and murder...

(1960, aka THE MASK OF SATAN, Upgraded12/20/20) Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, directed by Mario Bava.  Considered by many to be one of the greatest horror films ever made.  An ancient witch and her hideous servant come back from the grave to fulfill an ancient curse... 

(1965, Upgraded 10/25/21) Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson, Vic Silayan, Katherine Henryk, Vic Diaz. A schlocky but fun horror thriller set in the Philippines. Winston is a special agent from Manhatten who travels to Manila to help a local homicide detective solve a series of grotesque murders. They are being committed by a really cool-looking monster.  What no one knows is that the bad guys are part of a blood cult that...

(1965, Upgraded 4/28/23) Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Louisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker, Rita Klein.  A photographer and his gorgeous models find a seemingly deserted castle for a photo-shoot.  However, it’s inhabited by a lunatic who traps the girls in the dungeon and begins conducting medieval tortures on them... 

(1974, Upgraded 10/20/21) Paul Naschy, Dianna Lorys, Maria Perschy, Eva Leon. Paul is an ex-convict who’s troubled by dreams of strangling women. He’s hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three bizarre sisters.  Before long, a serial killer is...

(1965, Upgraded 11/15/22) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Serge Reggiani. A beautiful woman (Laforet) is traveling by train when a stranger—who is obviously hiding from someone on board—entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes. What she doesn’t know is that the jewels are fakes and actually contain a virus powerful enough to destroy...

(1944, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) John Carradine, Jean Parker, Ludwig Stossel, Nils Aster. A parsian artist paints youg girls' portraits, then brutally strangles them. Carradine is at the top of his game in this top-notch PRC production. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer...

(1942, Monogram, Upgraded 10/28/21) Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, Dave O'Brien, Wheeler Oakman. This was definitely better than most of Bela's Monogram quickies. Zombies and murder highlight this story about a mad professor who uses a bowery mission as the front fro his criminal activities. Check out who's living, (or maybe we should say, 'not living') in the basement...

(1959, Upgraded 11/7/21) Herb (Jason) Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont, Bruce Brighton. TOTALLY UNCUT! Ludicrous black and white, sleazy schlock at its absolute best. A severed head, a gross looking monster, two battling strippers, a mad scientist, all blended together in...

(1951, Upgraded 2/28/21) Lon Chaney, Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh, Gisela Werbisek.  The setting is a steamy jungle estate where a deadly love triangle has evolved between Burr, Payton, and Cavanagh.  Things start to spiral out of control when a voodoo priestess puts a curse on Burr, which slowly makes him lust for the jungle and transforms him into...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Holmes Herbert, Leonard Mudie. Boris has grotesque makeup on once again. This time he portrays Valdar, a Nazi spy trying to sabotage the war effort in England.  The beautiful Margaret Lindsay is also a spy but does she work for...

(1969, Upgraded 12/14/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Heidy Bohlen, Miha Baloh, Michaela May, Herbert Fux.  An FBI agent is killed by the mob after making off with five million in gold bars in a robbery gone bad. Agent Jerry Cotton is called in to...

(1959 Upgraded 12/30/20) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gerard Herter, Gay Pearl, directed by Riccardo Freda. A living, man-devouring radioactive mass is discovered in a subterranean pool near ancient Mayan ruins...

(1973, aka IT HAPPENED AT NIGHTMARE INN, Upgraded 11/10/20) Judy Geeson, Aurora Bautista, Esperanza Roy, Victor Alcazar, Lone Flemming.  R-Rated 87 minute version.  A grisly film in which murder victims are hidden in large container of cooking wine...

(1962, Herts-Lion, Upgraded 11/21/21) Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger, Stan Levitt, Frances Feist, Art Ellison. An absolute MUST-SEE clut classic film!  The lone survivor of car wreck is haunted by a ghostly personage. Who is he, and why is he following her? Seldom have the elements of sight and sound come together in such a horrifying way...

(1962, Upgraded 8/18/22) Joachim Berger, Karin Dor, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Antonio Casas, Fernando Sancho, Roberto Rey, Werner Peters, Carl Lange. Small poison gas balls mean certain death in this well-made, stylish Krimi Euro-thriller.  These pellets of death are used by a mad genius to gain revenge against...

(1966, Upgraded 5/12/21) Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Harry Corbett, Jim Dale, Angela Douglas. This is a fine British horror comedy much in the same vein as The Addams Family and The Munsters. The evil Dr Watt is abducting young ladies and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, a clueless detective from Scotland Yard is put on the case...

(1939, Upgraded 11/16/21) Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer, George Merritt, Ronald Shiner.  This is a fine old dark house thriller with all the usual elements:  The head of an old English family seems to have some dread secret.  His servants even seem furtive in nature.  Then there's the doctor whose...

(1979, Upgraded 7/16/22) Jan Francis, Iain Cuthbertson, Bernard Gallagher, Joanna Dunham, Edward Petherbridge.  Based on the classic M.R. James horror story.  A man is walking his dog when he is confronted with a supernatural horror that sends him stumbling and screaming into and open field.  The authorities find him dead, nearly every bone in his body broken...

(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. An excellent horror film about a writer who accepts a bet that he'll be alive in the morning after spending the night in a haunted castle. Top notch, supernatural horror as Barbara...

(1968, Upgraded 3/5/23) Howard Vernon, Adrian Hoven, Janine Reynaud, Michel Lemoine. A garish, yet moody European horror chiller. After his daughter is brutally murdered, a crazed surgeon vows to resurrect her from the dead. He begins killing innocent victims and purging their bodies of vital organs in his mad scientist attempt to...

(1964, Upgraded 12/31/20) Christopher Lee, Philippe Leroy, Gaia Germani, Donald Sutherland, Mirko Valentin. A troupe of entertainers finds themselves in peril as guests in Lee's mysterious old castle. This top-notch euro-horror film was also Sutherland's first film...

(1963, upgraded 4/18/22) Christopher Lee, George Ardisson, Bella Cortez, Lilli Parker.  This is probably Chris Lee’s most obscure horror film.  Three young Italian hoods and their girlfriends break into a remote castle looking for kicks.  The six of them drink and dance and act in a very rowdy manner.  Then enters the castle’s owner, a strange, white-haired man (Lee) who asks them to find a missing girl somewhere within the walls of his castle.  Little do they know that Lee is actually a Mephistoles-like character in disguise...  

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1942, Upgraded 4/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Tris Coffin, Luana Walters, Elizabeth Russell, Angelo Rossito, Frank Moran. A slick horror opus about a crazed doctor's attempt to rejuvenate his aging, sickly wife. He kidnaps young brides for his experiments...

(1972, Upgraded 12/29/20) Paul Naschy, Vic Winner, Rossana Yanni, Haydee Politoff, Ingrid Garbo.  Four beautiful female travelers unknowingly take shelter Dracula's castle. Look out for the fangs!  The count is soon plunging his teeth into the necks...

(1940, Upgraded 10/28/21) Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Geoffrey Wardwell, Hillary Eaves. Many consider this to be Tod's best film. It's sooo gothic and fill with rich macabre goings-on.  Tod's a maniac (of course) who falsely claims an inheritance in a mysterious mansion after bumping off the rightful heir. There's also a pregnant girlfriend he has to contend with:  "I'll make you a bride...a bride of death! heh, heh, heh!" Todd has great fun as he...

(1937, Upgraded 11/11/21) Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman. One of Tod's best! The mad killer known as “the Spinebreaker" is on the loose and terrorizing London with a series of gruesome killings. Tod once again threatens the beautiful, innocent Marjorie Taylor.  Can Scotland Yard catch the...

(1960, Upgraded 10/15/21) Renate Ewert, Klauss Wussow, Eddi Arent, Karl-Georg Saebisch, Thomas Alder, Edith Mill. A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to...

(1973, Upgraded 12/28/20) Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcon, Vidal Molina, Elsa Zabala. In this, Paul's seventh lycanthropic opus, he's turned into a snarling beast by a group of female devil worshippers who are descendants of an ancient witch who was...

(1972, Upgraded 12/12/21) Ultra Violet, Marland Proctor, Don Carrara, Claudia Dean, B.G. Fisher, Margo Dean, Lee Byers. Nothing like a good old cheaply made American horror film. A headless horseman ravages the countryside! He brings horror and death to...

(1964, Updated 10/25/21) Harold Lieb, Judith Dornys, Rudolf Forster, Werner Peters, Klaus Kinski, Vera Tschechowa, Eddi Arent. The aged owner of an old gambling casino dies, making a young girl heir to his amassed fortune that lies hidden in a secret tomb. Shady underworld members become the victims of both greed and the dread secret of the...

(1973, Updated 8/25/2022) Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Robert Hardy, Jane Birkin, Jean Marsh, directed by Don Sharp. This is one of the most underrated British horror films of the 1970s, complete with a wonderful cast.  Hardy plays the head of an asylum who has...

(1960, Upgraded 8/27/21) Gary Clarke, Marlo Ryan. Dick Gering, Carol Dawne. Boy meets girl. Love, lust, and trouble follow. Two teenagers are determined to marry, but find themselves at odds with a jealous teenage thug, as well as their parents...

(1948, Upgraded 11/9/21) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman, George Thorpe, Barry Morse. McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer. She plays a servant girl forced to leave her village because of her strange power over local men. She takes up residence with a family in a distant village near the moors. Reed is a carnival boxer who falls under her spell. He ends up with a hideously scarred face from her jagged...

(1955, Upgraded 4/21/21) Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Angelo Rossitto, Narrated by Ed McMahon. A strange, fascinating film about a wandering girl who falls into a strange series of events that culminates with her sawing off the hand of the man she...

(1971, Upgraded 12/2/20) Delphine Seyrig, John Karlan, Danielle Quimet, Andrea Rau. An excellent piece of lesbian vampire erotica. A 16th century European countess, who bathed in the blood of virgins, comes to life in modern times. She and her lesbian vampire lover stay at a posh European hotel where they...

(1943, Upgraded 9/16/21) George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Dwight Frye. This is Zucco's only film where he plays an actual monster. He has two roles, a good brother and a bad brother. The bad brother just happens to be a bloodthirsty vampire that...

(1971, Upgraded 11/1/21) Hansjorg Felmy, Uschi Glas, Werner Peters, Gunther Stoll.  When an Australian woman arrives in London, she discovers her sister is involved with a ruthess heroin smuggling gang. Complicating matters is that the gang itself is being targeted by an unknown assailant who shoots his victims dead with a bullet in the head...

(1968, Upgraded 12/12/22) George Nader. Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Solar, Carl Mohner. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist. Jerry is able to make off with the loot himself—12 million bucks!  Watch for a...

(1932, World Wide, Upgraded 12/12/21) David Manners, Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Adrienne Ames, Vince Barnett. A big time movie star is shot dead (the gun was supposed to have blanks) right in front of the cameras after receiving an on screen kiss.  Van Sloan is the director who continues to give directions to the corpse, thinking all along his actor is simply lying down on the job!  Manners is the studio writer who...

(1964, Upgraded 12/29/20) Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Van Eyck, Yvonne Furneaux, Toko Yani. The maniacal Dr. Mabuse threatens the world with a death ray. Van Eyck plays a suave espionage agent.  Plays a lot like...

(1933) Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Samuel S. Hinds. Strange events in Earth’s atmosphere cause super storms and tidal waves. The destruction of NYC is one of the most notable scenes in science fiction film history...

(1936, Upgraded 10/27/21) Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Lister, Eve Lister, D.J. Williams. Tod's most famous film. Two maniacs murder for profit, hack up the bodies, and then sell thim in meat pies. Sounds appetizing, doesn't it. The scenes of Todd dumping his victims from his barber chair, backwards through a secret floor panel into his musty basement below really packed a jolt back in 1936.  Quite grisly even by...

(1945, Upgraded 3/3/21) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan. A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder. Savage is priceless as the female psycho who...

(1941, Upgraded 4/7/21) Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher. Bela's giant murderous bats are on the loose, attacking and killing everone wearing a strange shaving lotion concocted by Bela himself. This is one of those...

(1975, Upgraded 12/31/20) Silvia Solar, Olivier Othot, Jose Nieto, Evelyne Scott. A great Euro-horror thriller about a psychic countess and mad scientist who conduct occult research in the castle of Count Victor. Working from the cellar...

(1965, Upgraded 12/29/20) Howard Vernon, Mabel Karr, Estella Blain, Fernando Monte. The opening sequence of this film will give you a real jolt. The Daughter of a mad scientist seeks revenge against those who spurned his scientific ideas and caused his death. The final scene with the robotic arms...

(1962, Updated 10/25/21) Heinz Drach, Sabine Sesselmann, Eddi Arent, Pinkas Braun, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber. This terrific Wallace chiller is one of the better in the series.  A beautiful woman arrives at a mysterious mansion.  Little does she realize there's a psycho afoot who has built his own torture chamber, which is overstocked with helpless victims.  The killer plans...

(1969) Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Gunther Stoll, Christiane Kruger, Syd Chaplin. Kinski is actually the good guy in this rare Wallace-style Constantin thriller. His lesbian wife dies. She may or may not have been murdered. It’s a real shock though, when he sees her in a porno film made after the time of her supposed death...

(1970, aka ORLOFF AGAINST THE INVISIBLE MAN, Upgraded 12/30/20) Howard Vernon, Brigitte Carva, Fernando Sancho, Isabel Del Rio. A young doctor is summoned to the castle of Dr. Orlof. There he encounters a deranged woman who claims to be terrorized by an invisible...

(1964, Upgraded 12/29/20) Hugo Blanco, Agnès Spaak, Perla Cristal, Magda MacDonald, Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, José Rubio.  This is the second in the "Dr. Orlof" series about the good doctor and his latest monstrosity.  The storyline features a beautiful young woman who travels to the forlorn castle of her mysterious uncle.  The uncle is working on a decidedly sinister...

(1976) Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie Helene Breillat.  Lee, in his last screen performance as Dracula, is fantastic as he swings between serious moments of horror and outright comedy.  Dracula takes a mortal woman to bear his son.  After the son is born, the Count turns mom into a vampire.  However, when she can’t make it back to her coffin before sunrise, the Count finds himself stuck with raising the boy himself, which is not an easy task as the young vampire balks at putting the bite on people...  

(1968, Upgraded 2/19/23, aka REQUIEM FOR A GRINGO) Lang Jeffries, Fernando Sancho, Femi Benussi, Carlos Gaddi. A unique Euro-western with the hero as an astrologist who wears a leopard suit. Sure, there’s a revenge theme, but overall this is a...

(1962, Upgraded 12/1/21) Russ Harvey, Helen Morgan, William McNulty, Michele Buquor, Eunice Grey. Shipwrecked on a lost island, Harvey soon finds himself in a mysterious castle and the captive of an evil count, who lives there with his lunatic family. Great climax features the hero and the heroine coming upon a grisly...

(1962, Upgraded 8/23/21)  Arch Hall, Jr., Richard Kiel, Marilyn Manning, Arch Hall, Sr.  Hilarious schlock about a couple of teenagers who tangle with an actual caveman living in the desert.  Junior saves the day when Manning is kidnapped by the beast.  He rescues her and after they escape from caveman's desert cave...

(1975, Upgraded 10/19/21) Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy, María Kosty, Mercedes Molina. A satanic cult is on the loose in the English countryside.  They stage a series of gruesome crimes that baffle the local authorities.  The story centers around a young lady; who unknowingly takes part in a satanic rite and becomes possessed by the spirit of...  

(1939) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair, Harry Terry. If you've never seen a Slaughter film before, this is the one to start with. There's a monster, a mad killer, and a crazed scientist experimenting with the reanimation of the dead.  The victims often see the face of a misshapen monster leering in their windows, momments before they...

(1939, Upgraded 11/11/21) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair, Harry Terry. If you've never seen a Slaughter film before, this is the one to start with. There's a monster, a mad killer, and a crazed scientist experimenting with the reanimation of the dead.  The victims often see the face of a misshapen monster leering in their windows, momments before they...

(1959, Upgraded 10/15/21) Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent. A young American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue to be found is the mysterious seal of the White Frog. Some of the murder sequences in this film are...

(1962, Upgraded 12/30/20) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Kurt Rackelman.   A space expedition is launched to the planet Venus.  There they find the planet and its former inhabitants completely destroyed by atomic war.  The crew faces many horrible dangers including a blob-like monster...  

UPGRADED 4/27/22 (1976, aka LE ORME aka PRIMAL IMPULSE) Florinda Balkon, Klaus Kinski, John Karlsen, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi. An astronaut is purposely left on the moon as part of a bizarre experiment. Meanwhile a woman on Earth wakes to find that she has no memory of...

(1958, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Ashley, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd, Harold Lloyd Jr, Sandra Knight. Murphy plays a crazed (and extremely arrogant) descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein. He creates a new, hideous female monster using the dead parts of a beautiful girl (and others). Threatened is a group of typical 50's teenagers...

(1955) Myron Healy, Don C. Harvey. Don't confuse this with the earlier Universal serial. An interesting prison-life drama focusing on a breakout attempt inspired by the famous radio series. From 16mm.

(1938 aka THE PHANTOM STRIKES, Upgraded 11/28/21) Sonnie Hale, Wilfred Lawson, Louise Henry. A fairly obscure Edgar Wallace chiller. The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by the police after his life is threatened. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks down and kills him...

(1931, 1941, Upgraded 10/14/21) Arthur Askey, Richard Murdock, Kathleen Harrison, Carole Lynn. What we have here are both versions of the famed British ghost story classic. Hulbert starred in the ’31 version, while Askey...

(1963, Upgraded 12/29/20) Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Elio Jotta, Harriet White. The chilling sequel to HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK. Barbara and her lover plan the murder of her husband, Dr. Hichcock, who somehow miraculously survived his fall off the stairwell in the first film.  They kill him, but is he...

(1943, Upgraded 11/11/21) Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Bobby Jordan, Wheeler Oakman, Frank Moran. The East Side Kids find themselves taking on a Nazi spy ring (headed by Bela) inside the cozy confines of a "haunted house."  Bela's spy headquarters are in the cellar.  Little do the neighbors suspect that there is a Nazi propaganda unit inside—they just think the house is haunted...

(1965, Upgraded 7/14/22) Stéphane Fey, François Vibert, Marie Laforêt, Reine Courtois, Michael Lonsdale.  In a small 1800s Massachusetts town, a student of theology becomes fascinated with a dilapidated old country mansion.  He soon learns the place is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman, whose father was responsible for her death...

(1933, UPGRADED 9/16/21) Boris Karloff, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Hyson, Ernest Thesiger, Sir Cedric Hardewicke, Sir Ralph Richardson. This is the one of the true horror masterpieces of British cinema of the 1930s. Karloff has great fun as a dead Egyptologist who returns from the grave to seek vengeance on those who defiled his tomb. Much of the action takes place in a...

(1958, Upgraded 8/25/21) Edward Kemmer, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer. A fairly well done and definitely very unusual sci-fi thriller about a group of research scientists who are threatened by a murderous...

(1959, Upgraded 12/30/20) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.   A gigantic lizard terrorizes a small Texas community, smashing cars and trains and scarfing up gobs of people.  The train crash scene is memorable, as is the dance hall scene.  Lots of cool hot rods, including one that smashes into...