(1963, upgraded 5/27/24) Mark Forest, Marilu Tolo, Elisabeth Fanty, Robert Hundar, Giuseppe Addobbati. Poseidon (aka Maciste) finds himself fighting for his life against a ruthless Caesar of Tome.  Later he is also pitted against a weird...

(1967 aka THE BODY IN CENTRAL PARK, Upgraded 12/13/22) - George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Richard Munch, Helga Anders. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter. There’s a terrific scene where...

(1961) Ed Fury, Christina Gajoni, Mario Scaccia, Moira Orsei. Returning from war, Ursus learns his fiancée, Attea, has been taken to a mysterious island ruled by a pagan goddess. The mysterious tribe that lives there has a nasty habit of...

(1962, aka CONQUEROR OF CORINTH, Upgraded 3/3/24) Jacques Sernas, Genevieve Grad, John Drew Barrymore, Gianna Maria Canale, Gordon Mitchell. Fine sword & sandal fare with Sernas as a Roman official sent to Greece to prevent war between...

(1961, aka HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD, Upgraded 12/31/20) Reg Park, Christopher Lee, George Ardisson, Leonora Ruffo, dir. by Mario Bava. A classic fantasy. Hercules searches Hades for a magic stone that will cure an ailing princess. The film’s climax...

(1961, Upgraded 3/3/24) Brad Harris, Gloria Milland, Fernando Rey, Barbara Carroll. Goliath is headed toward home to take the place of his dead king. The kingdom’s regent wants him dead! He faces assassins, Amazons, a killer Gorilla, sea monsters, gladiators, giants...

(1964, Upgraded 3/22/24) Mark Forest, Jose Greci, Ken Clark, Grazia Maria Spina. In this loose follow-up to Hercules against the Barbarians, Forest finds himself in the fight of his life against the three sons of Genghis Khan...

(1961, Upgraded 10/26/21) Brad Harris, Walter Reeves, Mara Berni, Brigitte Corey, Alan Steel.  Samson attempts to restore a queen to her rightful throne. Lots of typical exciting peplum action.  Harris is great in the title role with Steel also thrown in...

(1964, Upgraded 12/9/20) Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin, Laura Efrikian. This time Hercules finds himself in Atlantis fighting dragons, an army of identical men, and an evil queen. Made by the same folks as HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD, this too is...

(1960, Upgraded 2/29/24) Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Massimo Girotti, Luciano Marin, directed by Riccardo Freda.  A vivid, most enjoyable retelling of the Jason and the Golden Fleece legend.  Watch for some cool-looking monsters, beautiful, but evil women, and sword-wielding warriors in this top adventure epic.  Some cool action scenes compliment a very moody and atmospheric production...

(1966, Upgraded 12/16/22) George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Walter Rilla, Heinz Weiss, Helga Schlack. Here’s another good entry into Nader’s “G-man Jerry Cotton” series. A delivery truck from the U.S. Mint is hijacked...

(1965, aka OPERATION HURRICAN: FRIDAY NOON, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal, Helga Schlack, Helmut Fornbacher, Philippe Guégan. This is the first Jerry Cotton movie and it's a pretty good one.  Jerry’s after a gang of crooks who pose as a musical band as a front for their nefarious schemes.  They pull off numerous heist and eventually plan to blow up a school full...

(1966, Upgraded 12/16/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Horst Frank, Dominique Wilms. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It’s a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see...

(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...

(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...

(1962, Upgraded 10-19-21) Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom. A fine epic—overlooked for years. Crain, as Nefertite, is desired by Purdom, who is imprisoned by an evil high priest, played brilliantly by Price.  She weds the Pharaoh and after his death...

(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...

(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...