(1977, Upgraded 11/1/21) Fabio Testi, Ivan Desny Christine Kaufmann, Jack Taylor. The third of Dallamano's trilogy of “schoolgirls in peril” is a good one. A teenage girl’s mutilated body is found. Testi, as a handsome inspector, investigates. Suspected are three girls who have their own secret...

(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...

(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...

(1969, Upgraded 11/4/21) Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown, Cristina Galbo, Mary Maude. This creepy Euro-thriller is centered in a French boarding school for wayward young women. Palmer is the over-the-top head mistress who runs the joint. Sexual escapades abound within its walls. Then the girls start vanishing one by one...

(1969, Upgraded 1/7/20) Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Gaby Fuchs, Reggie Nalder. Lom stars as a sadistic witch finder judge in 18th century Austria. His justice is sadistic, brutal, and mostly against women. This film has a large...

(1972, Upgraded 12/28/22) Bonnie Bedelia, Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe. Howard picks up a young, quirky (and very pretty) vagabond woman in the desert. She tricks him into taking her to her desert shack where she breaks his leg with the blunt end of an axe! After that it’s very much like the Cathy Bates-James Caan relationship from Stephen King’s "Misery." In fact, the story is so...

(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...

(1968, Updated 7/12/22) Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge, Nora Gordon. Based on the classic M. R. James tale.  A grouchy college professor, who thinks that anything “supernatural” must have a logical explanation, goes on vacation to a lonely coastal village.  When an old whistle is found on the beach one day...

(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...

(1959, Upgraded 10/17/21) David Love, Dawn Anderson, Bryan Grant, Harvey Dunn, King Moody. If you look at this as a professional Hollywood production, this picture leaves something to be desired. However if you look at it as an amateur film, (which it actually originally was, it's amazingly well done. A group of marauding teenage aliens plans to use earth as the breeding ground for...

(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...

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Sheila Noonan, Allen Windsor, George Skaff. By no means a classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film. The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world that's guarded by a murderous...

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Paul Pepper, Steve Conte, Brianne Murphy, Jay Hawk, Nan Green. A bunch of teenage kids land on an island filled with scientific terrors and zombies!  Nerve gas is used by the lady mad scientist (who inhabits the island) to turn some of the teenagers into mindless zombie slaves...

(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...

(1955, Upgraded 12/31/20) Kent Taylor, Kathy Downs, Michael Whalen, Helene Stanton This early AIP thriller (still known as American Releasing Corporation) was originally double billed with THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED. A crazed scientist unleashes a horrible, radioactive monster from the deep that menaces a small coastal village...

(1935, Upgraded 3/21/21) Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardewicke, Edward Chapman, Margaretta Scott, Sophie Stewart. The screens adaptation of H. G. Wells futuristic tales of man's survival after a series of wars and catastrophes. Final segment involving "the space gun" is...

THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (1939, upgraded 3/29/23) Erich Von Stroheim, Claude Dauphin, Madeleine Sologne, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Henri Guisol.  In one of the best sc-fi films of the 1930s, Von Stroheim plays a wealthy financier who has funded the experiments of a scientist played by Dauphin, who has perfected a machine that can predict the exact date of your death...

(1952, Upgraded 11/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes. Bela went abroad for this wacky British horror comedy and it was the last time he was seen on screen in his Dracula cape.  There's a bit of an espionage plot, which results in the kidnapping of Mercedes at the film's beginning.  However, the real star of the show here isn't Lucan as Mother Riley, but Lugosi as a maniac who...