(1939, Upgraded 4/7/21) Sergei Stolyarov, V. Sorogozhskaya, Georgi Millyar. This is a wonderful, epic fantasy with strong horror overtones. Three brothers—all Russian peasants—let their arrows fly, in search of brides. Each arrow lands at the home of their bride-to-be. The youngest brother, Ivanushka, finds that his arrow has landed on a massive lily pad inhabited by a very large frog. However, the frog soon turns into...

(1973, aka CHRISTINA, PRINCESS OF EROTICISM, Upgraded 12/31/20) Christina Von Blanc, Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Howard Vernon, Paul Muller, Jesus Franco, Rosa Palomar, directed By Jesus Franco. A gorgeous young lady enters a sinister castle for the reading of a willl. She soon discovers that...

(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...

(1962, Upgraded 12/28/20) Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Montgomery Glenn, Harriet Medin. This film is truly one of the best Italian horror films of the 1960s, wonderfully atmospheric with a terrific music score.  Barbara's the wife of a demented, necrophiliac physician who’s enthralled by the corpses of beautiful women and haunted by the spectre of his first wife, who died... 

(1958, Updated 11-6-24) 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... 

(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...  

(1965, , Updated 03-20-25) Barbara Nelli, Paul Muller, Erika Blanc, Gordon Mitchell, Michel Forain. This is a great B&W supernatural Euro-horror film, much in the spirit of three other Italian chillers:  Castle of Blood, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, and Nightmare Castle.  In fact, the only thing missing is Barbara Steele.  The setting is an eerie castle-mansion, complete with torture dungeon and graveyard...

(1976, Upgraded 6/26/21) Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson.  Oone of the best drive-in movies of the ‘70s. Low budget? Yes. But they really made the most of it.  Two college kids come to a backwater town doing research on a “bigfoot” type creature that’s known to inhabit a gloomy nearby swamp.  Before long they find themselves caught in a sequence of chilling events, culminating with a head-to-head confrontation with the terrifying creature...

(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...

(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...

(1969, aka SCREAMS IN THE NIGHT, upgraded 4/15/22) Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Luciano Pigozzi, Helga Anders, Claudio Camaso, directed by Antonio Margheriti.  What a great Euro-horror film this is!  Five people travel by car through a howling storm.  After getting stuck, they make their way on foot through the rain to a nearby forgotten, shunned inn.  It is occupied by a strange man and his wizened, clairvoyant mother...

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...

THE WOLF OF THE MALVENEURS (1943, Upgraded 7/16/22) Pierre Renoir, Madeleine Sologne, Michel Marsay. Renoir plays Reginald Malveneur, a research scientist and the last of his bloodline—a bloodline that legend says is infected by werewolfry.  He conducts experiments in the dungeon lab of his crumbling chateau in hopes of finding a “cell rejuvenation” cure for his ailing wife...

(1939, Upgraded 12/21/23) Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey, Louis Jovet, Jean Mercanton, Robert Le Vigan.  The spirits of those who die at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve are condemned to drive the “Death Cart” for an entire year.  This horse-drawn cart is what takes human souls to meet their maker, and the cart’s creaky sound is heard by those who are about to die...

(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...

(1969, upgraded 12/19/23) Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi.  A fantastic film!  The setting is 1925.  After breaking out of an asylum for the insane, a medical student finds that he’s a dead-ringer for an heir to a fortune.  Assuming the heir’s identity, he soon makes his way to a sinister island ruled by a web-fingered mad scientist and his minions of malformed men and women. Many moments of terror and torture... 

(1976, Upgraded 7/12/22) Patrick Magee, Madge Ryan, Michael Kitchen, Gerald James, Bill Dean.  A grand, literate tale about werewolves and lycanthropy.  Patrick Magee’s performance in What Big Eyes is one of the finest acting jobs by an actor in a horror film that you'll ever see.  He is AMAZING.  An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers that pet shop owner Magee has been receiving and conducting bizarre experiments on wolves...

(1959, aka VAMPIRE MAN, upgraded 12/5/24) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi.   One of the earliest Japanese horror films with a modern setting.  A young woman is celebrating her birthday.  Her boyfriend tells of a mysterious woman who lurks about the grounds.  The woman turns out to be the girl’s mother, who disappeared years before but hasn’t aged a day!  In the meantime watch out for the snappily dressed vampire man with the huge fangs!