(1948, aka THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART) Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Aubrey Woods.  Tod's up to his maniacal tricks again in this grisly bodysnatching tale.  Tod makes money selling corpses to a med- school.  When demand grows, he decides to murder people for their bodies.  Slaughter is delightfully wicked and really gets his...

(1971) Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven, Richard Hurndall, Susan Jameson.  Basically another retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Lee plays a Nineteenth Century psychologist who discovers a new formula that erases human inhibitions.  At first he intends to use his patients as guinea pigs...

(1975, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Alex Cord, Dame Judith Anderson, Michael Craig, Joseph Furst, Tony Bonner.   At a sinister old inn, the elderly owners have a habit of bumping off their guests in grisly fashion...

(1960) Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne, Sam Kydd, Derek Aylward.  Pretty Patricia Dainton inherits her aunt’s estate, which includes a valuable but haunted mansion.  Wright is her low-life, hack-writer husband who prefers the sexually charming Dorne (who admittedly is extremely HOT).  He plots to do away with her and inherit everything...

 (1934) Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins, Henry Victor.  Curzon is great as the suave yet crazed doctor who has devised a formula that puts people into a death-like trance so he can then claim their life...

(1968, aka THE BRIDE FROM HADES) Kôjirô Hongô, Miyoko Akaza, Mayumi Ogawa, Akira Nishimura.  This is one of the most haunting Japanese horror films you will ever see—engaging, gripping, and absolutely chilling.  During the Obon festival of the dead, a samurai is visited by two beautiful women, one of whom he falls deeply in love with.  During the next few nights he comes to discover that his new lover and her older companion are ghosts...

(1937, aka SONG AT MIDNIGHT—UPGRADED) Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jim, Chau-shui Yee. An acting troupe is scheduled to come to a small Chinese town. A phantom-type character who inhabits a deserted theater sings his mournful song in the night.  When the acting troupe arrives, they use the theater for their new opera production. The Phantom then exerts his strange influence over...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Mase, Sybil Danning.  Two sisters vie for the inheritance of a creepy, old family castle.  There are a series of diabolical killings committed by a dark haired woman in a red cloak,  who laughs maniacally at her victims.  Is the maniac...

(1967) Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney, Claude Smith.  Brennen plays a gorgeous young blonde (but a total bitch) who is lured by the excitement of the carnival business.  So she leaves her waitress job at a greasy spoon and joins up with a local carnival.  She soon meets all kinds of sordid characters, including the bizarre, physically deformed players of the carnival's freak show...

SOLITAIRE (1951) Margaret Field, Gertrude Michael, directed by Frank Wisbar.  A young actress finds a strange woman playing solitaire in her apartment.  What are the sinister, supernatural implications of this?  At first she is angry, then a feeling of unexplainable fear begins to set in.  Wisbar directs with flare as Field and Michael go toe to toe...

(1974, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Jennifer Billingsley, John Considine, Judith McConnell, Tani Guthrie.  The setting is Manila, where pretty young girls are kidnapped off the streets.  They are thrown into a cave deep in the wilds of the Philippines where they await their terrible fate...

(1971) Iain Gregory, Lesley-Anne Down, Peter Barkworth, Geoffrey Russell.  A teenage school girl is raped on her way home.  Years later, she and her newlywed husband move into a new house in the country.  They soon begin to realize the house is haunted...

 (1976) Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry, Charles Kay, Edward Hardwicke, Charles Keating.   There’s a werewolf afoot in a sinister old castle!  It all centers around the surviving admirers of an aging countess (wonderfully played by Whitelaw) who have gathered in her isolated castle to pay their respects.  However, it doesn’t take them long to realize that they will never be permitted to leave—alive...

(1969) Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentova, Blanka Waleska.   If you like Witchfinder General you’ll love this film.  It’s a grim, horrific dramatization of the witch tribunals of the 1600s.  You’ll cringe as overzealous clergymen bring innocent women in front of tribunals, force them to confess to acts of witchcraft, then subject them to...

(1961) Johnny Cash, Cay Forester, Donald Woods, Ronnie Howard, Pamela Mason.  Cash plays a vile, hardboiled hood, hired to hold a bank president’s wife (Forester) hostage while the bank is being robbed.  Held at gunpoint in her own home, she is put through hell by Cash...

(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall.  Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England.  Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...

(1943) Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devere, Albert Remy, Germaine Kerjean.  Rollin plays a long lost member of the “Groupi” family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin.  Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred...

(1961) Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare.  A college student falls to his death from his window when he encounters an intruder in his room...