(1945, aka THE BELLMAN) Renée Faure, Roger Pigaut, Madeleine Robinson, Lucien Coëdel, Fernand Ledoux..  With every batch of new releases there’s always a film or two that we absolutely rave about.  Spells is one of those films.  The IMDB description fits it perfectly, listing it as a horror-crime-drama.  Spells is full of latent and overt horror elements, featuring a black devil horse that terrorizes mountain villagers...

(1957) Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Crox Alvarado, América Martín.  This forgotten Mexican horror gem concerns a village that has fallen into a state of panic-stricken horror.  There are ax murders that leave gruesome remains for the villagers to discover.  But there’s more than just an ax-wielding maniac afoot...

 (1960) Ugo Tognazzi, Carlo Croccolo, Raimondo Vianello, Abbe Lane, Hélène Chanel.  What you’ve got here is a pretty well-made Euro horror comedy.  Yes, there are plenty of laughs in this film, but they are blended in with many scary moments, all of which are enhanced by the film’s chillingly gothic B&W photography.  The setting is a school for wayward girls...

(1969) John Carradine, Regina Torné, Miguel Ángel Álvarez, Guillermo Zetina, Andrés García.  The late Dr. Jekyll's daughter returns home to help out her guardian, who also happens to be a mad scientist (Carradine) searching for a formula for eternal youth...  

(1970) Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway, Bernard Hepton, Andy Bradford.  This made-for-TV chiller has the same kind of feel as Christopher Lee’s The Wicker Man. After parting ways with her long term lover, Cropper takes refuge in a lonely country house.  She gets to know the local villagers, who seem friendly at first; yet there seems to be something latently sinister about their...

(1972) Sonia Graham, Patricia Maynard, Edmund Pegge, Vikki Chambers, Steven Jones.  This two-disc set features all six episodes of the classic fantasy-horror mini-series.  A young girl is stuck in her home due to an illness. To pass the time she draws pictures that, amazingly, come to life...

(1973, aka THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED) Andrea Allan, Karl Lanchbury, Maggie Walker, Peter Forbes-Robertson, Judy Matheson.  If you like old dark house chillers this film’s for you.  A fashion model and her thieving boyfriend come across a creepy house deep inside a dark, fog-bound forest...

(1975) Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis., Ullmann plays Leonor, a beautiful woman who dies at the beginning of the film.  Upon her death her widower (Piccoli) instantly remarries—literally on the same day.  But ten years and two sons later, Piccoli still yearns for his dead first wife.  He’s eventually shown a way (at heavy cost) to bring her back from the dead...

(1977) Jeremy Clyde, David Robb, Ania Marson, John Justin, Esmond Knight, Jonathan Hyde.  Two wandering young men meet a strange, beautiful woman at a rustic European inn.  Her name is Dorabella.  One of the men (Clyde) falls in love with her to the point of total enchantment.  The two adventurers follow her from inn to inn, a wake of horror left in her path...

(1979) Earl Owensby, Kristina Reynolds, Sid Rancer, Ed Grady, Richard Dedmon.  Nothing like a fun, schlocky American-made werewolf movie set in the Deep South—and that’s what this is.  The werewolf makeup isn’t exactly Jack Pierce, but it’s still pretty cool.  The film begins in a rustic old mansion with the stabbing death of an old man as he lays in his death bed—something about a family curse...

(1947) Marcel Herrand, Simone Signoret, Alexandre Rignault, Paul Amiot, André Le Gall, Yves Deniaud,   A big thumbs up for this great film!  It’s filled with a ton of cool stuff—death rays, mad scientists, cool lab scenes, creepy underground catacombs, mysterious mansions, and more.  Fantomas, long thought to be dead, returns to terrorize Paris, demanding a...

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Walter Brandi, Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani, Isarco Ravaioli.  The opening scene of this movie is pretty cool—a girl at night by a waterfall, howling dogs, screeching night birds and…you guessed it…a hideous, bloodthirsty vampire.  Things get exciting when...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Annie Alberti, Adriano Micantoni, Marco Mariani, Flora Carosello, Antonio Boccaci.  This is a good old monster in a castle tale.  A couple of young babes wander into a supposedly haunted castle.  No ghosts, but they are done in by a monster with a hideous face.  There's also a young girl haunted by...

(1971, Anamorphic Widescreen) Wal Davis, Barta Barri, Anastasio Campoy, Susan Carvasal, Victor Davis.  In spite of its rather lurid title, this is really a pretty good movie, similar in some ways to The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.  A horrible series of killings, committed over a period of seven days, has been happening once every 28 years since the 1800s.  A baron-turned-vampire is...

(1976) Elizabeth Sellars, Anthony Bate, Colin Bell, Norman Mitchell, written by Nigel Kneale.  A well-made, gritty killer rats chiller!  A suburban couple hears scurryings underneath their floorboards. The wife thinks its rats; the husband scoffs at the idea. Soon the radio reports that instances of a massive...

(1986, Anamorphic Widescreen) Valeria D'Obici, Leonardo Treviglio, Lea Martino, Eliana Miglio, Barbara Scoppa.  A man discovers his wife has been having an affair.  This results in a heated argument. Not much later she’s found deader than a doornail...

(1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams.  The setting is London in the late 1880s.  The monstrous killer, Jack the Ripper, is on the prowl, killing women left and right.  Palance is the mysterious stranger who rents the gloomy attic room of a Victorian house run by Frances (Aunt Bee) Bavier.  He needs the reclusivity of the room for his "experiments."  Every time there is a new Ripper killing, Bavier begins to suspect...

(1972) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine. On Christmas Eve Lawyer John Carter (O'Neal), with mistress in tow,  arrives to a small Massacussets town where he is charged with selling a home inherited by Jeffrey Butler (Patterson). When O'neal and his mistress go missing that very night, Patterson sets out to...