(1936) Tom Walls, Ralph Lynne, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James, Marita Hunt.  Here’s a comedy-laced old dark house thriller that few horror film fans know about.  Walls is a retired police inspector who tracks a gang of art thieves to a sinister old abbey that’s surrounded by high stone walls and from which the gang operates without the owner’s knowledge...

(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...

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....

(1934) Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia.  The setting is an old Gothic monastery.  Inside its dank walls a monk named Javier encounters another monk, with whom he was an acquaintance to long ago, Javier suddenly turns violent and tries to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix...

(1936 & 1932) Here are two 1930s horror oddities for the price of one, dressed up like a drive-in double feature, complete with an old time intermission clock.  OUANGA (1936) Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton, Sheldon Leonard.  This setting is zombie-infested Haiti...

(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...

(1963) Aram Katcher, Lisa McDonald, Brad Trumbull, James V. Christy.  This is a really grimy, shocking, crime-horror thriller, the likes of which we’ve seldom ever seen.  Katcher, who’s not that good of an actor yet is perfect for this film, plays one of the most terrifyingly ruthless villains imaginable...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Lon Chaney, John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry, Vic McGee.  If you’ve ever seen this film, you know how wonderfully awful it is.  It’s kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel imitation of Twice Told Tales or Tales of Terror—it’s got the same overall look and feel (they even borrow footage from several Corman Poe films). There are five different macabre tales...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Allan Edwall, Lars Ekborg, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Heinz Hopf, Elsa Prawitz.  This psychological horror thriller has been described as a “Giallo film shot in Sweden.”  The central action takes place on board a speeding train, where numerous gruesome killings take place...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) José Antonio Amor, Daniela Giordano, Nuria Torray, Teresa Gimpera, Osvaldo Genazzani.  A handsome young widower remarries.  With his new wife in tow, he returns to his aging family castle.  Inside its mysterious walls, the widower’s first wife died under weird circumstances...

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen) Bill Greer, Deedy Peters, Lynne Marta, Jim Dean, Tony Reese, Dorothy Green. What we’ve got here is a good old-fashioned, American-made drive-in horror schlockfest that undoubtedly would have made guys chuckle with delight as their girlfriends squirmed in their car seats. The opening scene has a couple of teenage lovers making out in their car when suddenly…a monster pops up...

(1982) Buster Larsen, Jørgen Kiil, Agneta Ekmanner, Peter Steen.  An older guy has an affair his new wife's daughter. The daughter, as you would expect in a Giallo-style chiller, ends of dead.  A mortuary worker (who underhandedly sells used coffins and pries rings off the fingers of corpses) figures out what’s going on and begins a blackmail...

 (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...

(1929) Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O. P. Heggie, William Austin.  During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge...

(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

(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...

(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...