(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...

(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...

(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...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam, George Curzon, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A married couple, vacationing in Switzerland, becomes aware of an assassination plot. Before they can inform the police, though, their daughter is kidnapped to keep them quiet.  Things end up in a strange London church that's being used as a...

(1946) Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale.  Robinson is excellent as the soft-spoken investigator, Mr. Wilson of the War Crimes Commission.  He is searching for the notorious Franz Kindler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, who is hiding, incognito, in plain sight.  Robinson releases one of Kindler's former cronies in an effort to track down his target, but he is murdered before he...

(1956, Upgraded 3/21/21) Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Marika Lekaki, Giannis Argyris.  This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue.  A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He somewhat reluctantly rules the local underworld until...

(1965, aka MANHATTAN NIGHT OF MURDER, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Monika Grimm, Peter Kuiper, Silva Solar. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Their specialty is extorting money from small business owners.  Things get out of hand, though, when they murder one of the merchants.  The only witness is...

(1932, Upgraded 8/18/21) Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten, Miles Malleson. Wontner's third Sherlock Holmes film.  A beautiful but troubled young woman comes to Sherlock Holmes asking for protection from an escaped killer.  Also at play is a missing treasure. Things take a turn for the worse when...

(1964, Upgraded 10/27/21) Hildegarde Kneff, Gotz George, Klaus Kinski, Richard Munch, Carl Lange. The nephew of a murdered millionaire decides to track down his uncle's killer. He faces many life-threatening dangers as he tries to break into the inner circle of the sinister criminal "The Tortoise." Although not officially...

(1957, Upgraded 12/20/21) Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Lee Patterson, Vincent Winters, Robert Ayres, Alan Gifford, Sean Connery. A banker's son is accidently locked in an air-tight vault that's not set to open again for over 60 hours. The problem is that the boy has, at most, ten hours of oxygen left.  It's a life-and-death race against time to save the boy's life in this great British thriller...

(1960, Upgraded 11/10/21) Lurene Tuttle, Tris Coffin, Myrna Dell, Nelson Leigh, Don Grady, Victor Lundin, Paul Dubov, Eric Morris, Byron Foulger. Tuttle plays the sadistic, killer "mommy" who leads her murdering pack of bestial sons through a series of robberies and murders. Also featured are well-known criminals like Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and Alvin Karpis.  The gang's activities are...

(1945, Upgraded 10/15/21) James Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers. Edgar Ulmer's best PRC next to Detour. A boy dreams his dad dies and his mom becomes prey to a con-man, and it all comes true! A well-crafted thriller that...