ALIAS JOHN PRESTON (1956) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox.  Lee, tormented by bizarre, murderous dreams about a woman from his past, eventually transforms into a Jekyll and Hyde type with an urge to kill.  Knox is the psychological counsellor who tries who suspects something's amiss.  PLUS:  FRIGHT (1956) Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Dean Almquist.  This eerie film had a most unusual premise: a lady thinks she’s the reincarnation of an ancient prince’s elicit lover.  At the same time, a killer turns out to be the reincarnation of the prince!  Fleming Is the who tries to figure it all out—and solve some murders to boot!  

DEADLY RECORD (1959) Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley, Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley, Geoffrey Keen, John Paul.   This gritty little thriller has airline pilot Patterson returning home to discover his wife has apparently left for a trip.  A little later when the police pay him a visit regarding a car accident Patterson and the police are shocked to discover his wife’s dead body, murdered in her studio...  

(1961) William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green.  Near an old, derserted bombsite, a young child discovers a man lying unconscious.  When the boy awakens him, the man discovers he can’t remember anything from the past three weeks!  Adding to all the mystery, he finds out that his wife’s private detective has been murdered and that his company’s safe has been opened and emptied...

(1961) Terrance Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diana Clare, Felicity Young.  When a reporter’s brother falls to his death from a Cambridge college window, he makes his way from the United States back to England to find out exactly what happened.  Was it suicide?  The reporter thinks not and sets out to not only prove it was murder, but to bring the killer to justice...

(1959) Ken Takakura, Kenji Imai.  This is a terrific film about a mad killer on an airliner.  The film’s initial exposition is great as we get to know all the various passengers who are boarding the plane. The killer, who has just murdered three people, then boards with a gun in hidden in his pocket (no security screening back then).  When one of the passengers discovers his identity, the killer holds the plane at bay (in flight) and threatens to kill anyone who refuses to obey him...

(1939) Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly, Richard Gofe, Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton.  Kendall plays a down and out, unemployed family man who’s behind on his rent and has his gas cut off by his landlord.  Desperate to make ends meet, he comes up with an incredible ruse.  He creates a non-existant alter-ego, “Mr. Davis,” and begins an elaborate con-game that becomes wildly successful...

STAR ODYSSEY (1977) Sharon Baker, Chris Avran.  An alien mastermind has picked Earth for annihilation.  Earth sends a fleet of starships to fight against the super robots from this far-off galaxy.  Lots of pitched space battles with plenty of action.  PLUS:  PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1977) Harvey Shain, Mary Aplleseth, Max Thayer, Derna Wylde. A lost spaceship lands on a mysterious planet filled with rampaging prehistoric monsters.  The crew members have to stave off these giant lizards until they are rescued...

(1938) Evelyn Venable, Craig Reynolds, Reed Hadley, John Kelly. A woman is shocked when she discovers her husband is the head of a truck-hijacking ring. When he forces her to drive their getaway car, she finds herself wanted by the police, too. An OK Monogram crime thriller with an engaging script...

(1952) Mesiha Yelda, Turan Seyfioglu, Cahit Irgat.  This epic Turkish action thriller starts off with the main hero (Seyfioglu) meeting up with  Genghis Khan, whom he helps in his battle against an adversarial warlord.   The Khan is grateful for this (he saves the Khan’s life) and wants Seyfioglu’s allegiance, offering him a spot as one of his top lieutenants.  But Seyfioglu refuses and wanders through a series of swashbuckling adventures...

(1958) Boris Buzancic, Djurdja Ivezic, Antun Vrdoljak, Vanja Drach.  This highly unique thriller centers around two vehicles—a bus and a truck—that are speeding towards each other along a wet, narrow two-lane highway on a stormy night.  Right from the start we learn that the two vehicles will eventually collide because of the actions of a reckless driver.  It’s even pointed out which seats will spell death for their occupants...

(1940) Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt, Charles Oliver, Gordon McLeod.  Radford and Wayne reprise their Lady Vanishes roles as Charters and Caldicott, a couple of well-seasoned yet naïve British world travelers.  By the random act of ordering certain items off a menu, they find themselves the unwitting carriers of a phonograph record filled secret Nazi info.  Of course the Nazis try everything possible to eliminate them...  

(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne.  Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway.  The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him.  Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...

(1964) Robert Lamoureux, Robin Maugham, Allen Swift.  This is a “Mondo” type of film that chronicles modern day slave trade during the 1960s.  It’s centered mainly in Arabian and African countries that were under heavy Muslim rule. Much of the filming was done in public places using hidden cameras and crewmembers.  There are numerous scenes of violence, nudity, and even sex...

This is the second of two Horror Gems collections celebrating the classic works of Weird Tales, the Best of 1923, Part Two, Otis Adelbert Kline and others.  With so many great tales to cull from the annals of Weird Tales’ inaugural year, there was just no way they could all be contained in one volume, so we’ve collected more of those delectable 1923 fright stories to help you lose plenty of sleep at night...  

(1963) Tommy Holden, Arch Hall, Sr., Marilyn Manning, Carolyn Walker,Nancy Czar, directed by James Landis.  One of the campiest films we’ve released in a long time.  It’s an Arch Hall Fairway International film so keep your expectations for low and you won’t be disappointed.  The plot is simple:  a small-town geek becomes a fantastically successful door-to-door bra salesman and helps keep the company from going broke...

(1940) Cheryl Walker, Harold Daniels, Julian Madison, Phyllis Barry, Bobby Watson.  One of the better exploitation films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.  It shows what happens to young gals short on cash.  A young girl needs money for her dying mom and ends up as a “model” for a sculpture called, “Spirit of Youth.”  Later she gets smashed and let’s a sleazy playboy have his way with her... 

(1935, Reliable) Richard Talmadge, Thelma White, Robert Frazer, Mildred Harris, Robert Walker, George Chesebro.  A wild Talmadge action film involving a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.  Watch for the rooftop race with the crooks at the film’s harrowing climax...

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES (1963) Ray Stecker, Carolyn Brandt, Brett O'Hara.  Ray’s a drifter who’s drawn to an eerie sideshow where he's hypnotized by a gypsy and turned into a murdering zombie.  Hidden in cages are other zombies whose faces have been disfigured with acid by the gypsy and her hunchback.  PLUS:  THE THRILL KILLERS (1965) Ray Steckler, Brick Bardo, Herb Robins, Liz Renay, Carolyn Brandt.  A nail-biting story of a psycho  who kills to satisfy his perverse hatred toward all people.  Also on the loose is his loony tunes brother and his ax-wielding buddies...