(1933-1964) Here's a bundle of FIVE terrific films, all with a holiday or family theme to them—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS (1941); PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK (1935); THE PHANTOM WAGON (1939); THE WANDERING JEW (1933); SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964)  See more...

CASTLE OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. A Euro-horror classic 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 portrays a tortured...

(1950) Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, June Elvin, David Greene, Lesley Osmond, Stewart Rome.  Jewel and Warriss were a British comedy team (as well as first cousins) dating back to the early ‘30s.  In this film they play a couple of bungling detectives hired to clear the son of a British colonel, who’s landed in jail on murder charges.  The boys set out to find the real killer...

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Agar, Rosemarie Stack, Abner Biberman, Andre Narcisse, Jacques Molant.  Agar plays a devil-may-care treasure hunter in this obscure voodoo thriller. He meets up with a beautiful young woman who possesses a golden idol, stolen by her father during a native voodoo ceremony. After obtaining directions and various voodoo charms, he and the girl go in search of the treasure.  They end up on a pagan island and soon find what they’re searching for—a section of the ocean floor covered with skulls and hundreds of idols.  Will the natives let them bring back their loot alive?  Lots of seagoing danger and voodoo thrills.  Listed on IMDB as an adventure-horror film.  The Golden Mistress is presented in its original 1.75 widescreen format.  Nice color, from 16mm.

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Per Oscarsson, Gio Petré, Tor Isedal, Ilsa Prawitz, Bengt Ecklund, directed by Arne Mattsson.  The setting is a closed department store.  The lonely night watchman develops an attraction to one of the store's female mannequins. His fixation becomes greater and greater...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah Zulfikar, Mahmoud El Meligy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim.  We haven’t viewed that many Egyptian horror films, but this is absolutely the best one we’ve seen so far.  A lawyer is summoned to an antiquated palace/mansion that’s known by locals to be not just haunted, but cursed as well.  Even his coach driver will not go too near the place...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gracita Morales, José Vázquez, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Trini Alonso, Goyo Lebrero.  Pablo and Luisita, a young married couple, take a job in Germany working as servants in the castle of the mysterious Baron de Rosenthal. After a few days they come to realize that their employer is not your normal run-of-the mill baron and that they’re actually working for a vampire...

(1975, Anamorphic Widescreen) Michel Lemoine, Nathalie Zeiger, Howard Vernon, Joëlle Coeur, Martine Azencott.  This is a sequel to The Most Dangerous Game.  Lemoine plays the descendant of the original Count Zaroff (played in 1933 by Leslie Banks).  This Zaroff is far more sadistic than his aristocratic relative...

(1972) Rosalba Neri, Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Hiram Keller, Dana Ghia.  After a her mother's “suicide” a lovely teenage girl shows up at her mother’s Italian villa, only to discover that her widowed stepfather is having a sexual fling with an ultra-sexy photographer, played by that Italian sex bomb, Rosalba Neri. The two illicit lovers plan to do away with the pretty adolescent...

(1968) Ingrid Pitt, Keith Larsen, Lucien Pan, Bruno Punzalan, Joaquin Fajardo.  This film has been high on the want lists of Ingrid Pitt fans for years.  While on a trip through a steamy jungle, Ingrid’s artist husband discovers that she’s having an affair with their jungle guide.  He lures them into posing for him in the swirling waters of a jungle river that has been infected...

(1961, Anamorphic Edition) Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Alberto Lupo, Giacomo Furia, Gérard Herter.  Lupo, one of the best villains of the Peplum era, plays another dastardly dictator whose armies attack a nearby kingdom.  The rulers of the besieged capital city place a royal medallion around the neck of their infant son (Ursus) and have him removed from the city.  He ends up being raised by Lions...

(1962, Anamorphic Edition) Pascale Petit, Gordon Scott, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia.  This sword and sandal opus covers the early life of Cleopatra. It chronicles the power struggles with her brother, her courtiers, her generals, and lastly, the Roman Empire...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Alan Steel, Wandisa Guida, Daniele Vargas, Livio Lorenzon, Andrea Aureli.  A plot is underway in ancient Rome by the leader of the Praetorian Guard, who wishes for the Emperor’s daughter to marry his foppish son. When the emperor refuses, he ends up a corpse, stabbed by an assassin.  The Praetorian leader then declares himself emperor.  Enter Steel, as Hercules...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Rosalba Neri, Philippe Hersent.  The Roman Senate is bitterly divided between the patricians and the plebeians. Alberto Lupo plays a traitorous senator who conspires against a handsome and powerful Roman warrior, played by Gordon Scott...

(1965 Anamorphic Widescreen) Reg Park, Gia Sandri, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Adriana Ambesi, Gianni Solaro, Luigi Barbini.  Park, in his fifth and final appearance as Hercules, undertakes a journey into the underworld, battling numerous monstrosities as he attempts to rescue his son...

(1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joaquín Cordero, Sonia Furió, Noé Murayama, Aurora Clavel, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos Agostí. This south-of-the-border gem is a remarkable blend of supernatural horror and espionage elements.  It actually looks and plays more like an American-made film.  It’s also the sequel to Dr. Satan (1965) and has Cordero reprising his role.  Dr. Satan is summoned by his master, “Devil King” to destroy Lucifer’s servant...

(1929, MGM) Roland Young, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead, Claude Fleming, Boris Karloff, John Miljan, Lionel Belmore, Polly Moran, Sōjin Kamiyama.  This early old dark house chiller has a lot of atmospheric moments.  Young is assaulted on a fog-cloaked London street but manages to escape death. But when it’s discovered that several other murder victims that evening were members of his WW1 army regiment...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Diana Sorel, Nicholas Ney, Inés Morales, Loreta Tovar, Beatriz Elorrieta, Jose Villasante.  At last, a nice quality anamorphic release of the English version of this obscure Euro-vampire film.  The patriarch of a wellborn Spanish family has come down with a strange blood disease...