(1943) Willy Castello, Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson.  This is one of those lovable “crime doesn’t pay” exploitation films, with convicted and about-to-be-executed criminal Castello (Lucky Lombardo) telling the sordid tales of his past...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kevin Scott, Jennifer Laird, Alan Wylie, Barbara Ward, John Burke.   Laird plays a delivery girl who stops by a sleaze-photographer’s office in the middle of one of his nudie sessions...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pino Colizzi, Lauren Madison, Paul Janning, Annie Stuart, Lauren Madison, Sergio Rossi.   What a cool little Euro-chiller this turned out to be!  Members of a criminal organization are camped out in a gloomy, forlorn old mansion in the middle of a creepy forest...

AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee. From Amicus’ peak production period, ‘The Studio That Dripped Blood’ adapted the gothic horror novel Fengriffen into an insane 18th Century saga of heaving bosoms, graphic dismemberment, and supernatural...

1943, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal.  During a series of weird experiments, Bela transforms into an ape man!  He needs spinal fluid to return to normal.  Bela uses a killer ape to stalk his victims.  SPECIAL NOTE FROM GREG LUCE, OWNER OF SINISTER CINEMA:  Looking back, Sinister Cinema has had this title out literally for decades....

THE BLOOD DRINKERS—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964) Ronald Remy, Amalia Fuentes, Eddie Fernandez, Eva Montes, Celia Rodriguez.  Five years after TERROR IS A MAN became the first international horror hit from the Philippines, producer Cirio Santiago and director Gerry de Leon (BRIDES OF BLOOD) delivered Hemisphere’s next landmark shocker, THE BLOOD DRINKERS, with...

BRAIN OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1971) Kent Taylor, Grant Williams, Regina Carrol, John Bloom, Reed Hadley, Angelo Rossitto, Zandor Vorkov. By 1971, drive-ins across America were clamoring for a new BLOOD ISLAND movie. But Hemisphere instead turned to writer/producer/distributor Sam Sherman (SATAN’S SADISTS) and director Al Adamson (BLOOD OF DRACULA’S CASTLE) to deliver a comparable saga of gruesome... 

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...

(1951) Jôji Oka, Sumiko Hidaka, Chieko Seki, Tatsuo Saitô, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Shirô Kanemitsu, Toshiaki Konoe.  This is a really obscure Japanese horror movie—and most enjoyable, especially the second half of the film.  Claws of Iron (AKA Tetsu no Tsume) is a fine supernatural chiller about a WW2 vet whose blood is contaminated by the blood of a strange ape-like creature...

CURSE OF THE VAMPIRES—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1966) Amalia Fuentes, Romeo Vasquez, Eddie Garcia, Johnny Monteiro.  In this pseudo-sequel to his masterpiece THE BLOOD DRINKERS, director Gerry de Leon (TERROR IS A MAN, BRIDES OF BLOOD) delves even deeper into themes of lust, guilt, faith and redemption within an aristocratic family cursed by vampirism. But this time, he adds rich gothic dollops of torture, incest, carnal...

 (1910-1928) Augustus Phillips, Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller; Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter.  Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein was the first filmed version of the famed Mary Shelley story and we present it with a vintage orchestral music score for the very first time... In West of Zanzibar, Chaney is superb as the twisted magician who seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him...

(1920) Pat O’Malley, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery, J. Barney Sherry.  A forgotten silent horror-science fiction gem resurfaces!  O’Malley is a green reporter who is caught in the middle of a plot to sabotage his newspaper.  Who is the traitor...

(1930, 1940) Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton; Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Spencer Williams.  Disc one features INGAGI, a notorious docu-drama of Forgotten Horrors fame.  An expedition enters the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe...  Disc two features SON OF INGAGI, which is a sequel in name only.  It’s a full-blooded horror film about a lady mad scientist and her killer ape-man

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

(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...

MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1969, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy, Alicia Alonzo, Ronaldo Valdez.   In perhaps the most infamous film in the BLOOD ISLAND franchise, co-directors Eddie Romero and Gerry de Leon upped the already over-the-top nudity, violence, schlocky monster havoc and unmatched...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Jan Ekström, Per Wahlöö, Arne Mattsson (also directed), Elsa Prawitz, Erik Hell..  A crusty old millionaire, who acts like a total tyrant, is despised and hated by everyone close to him.  This eventually leads to some terrifying moments of murder and mayhem in a spooky old mansion...

(1941) Mantan Moreland, F. E. Miller, Maceo B. Sheffield, Marguerite Whitten.  This obscure horror-comedy is great fun and Moreland has some great bits.  Mantan inherits a hotel, but upon arrival discovers he’s on the hook for a huge mortgage payment, which, if not paid off, will cause him to lose the hotel.  However, hidden somewhere in the hotel is a cache of loot...