(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...

(1970) Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Burt Young, Kaly Mills. A real guilty pleasure—a film so crappy that it’s very enjoyable; and it’s just filled with ‘70s drive-in schlock. There’s a psycho-killer roaming the midway at Coney Island! The killer picks out his victims, then slays and dismembers them. It’s not pretty. The local DA investigates, but in spite of the peril he...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1976) Jane Wymark, Simon MacCorkindale, T.P. McKenna, Mark Dignam, Norman Jones.  A young couple relocates out in the British countryside.  They are shocked, though, when they discover a strange mummified animal...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, Anthony Steffen, Claudio Gora, Mario Brega, Ursula Davis. This is the long awaited English Language version. Barbara has a dual role in this classic Euro-chiller, playing an aristocratic beauty who's possessed by some strange power. Her fantastic, often erotic performance helps enhance the dreamily melancholic atmosphere of the house and its grounds, overshadowed by a mysterious...

(1932) Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried, G. A. Martin, Michel Duran, directed by Jean Renoir.  A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads...

(1937) Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings. Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Joyce Kennedy.  This is an excellent Gaumont thriller.  Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France.  During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager.   When the body disappears, Lowe and Cummings are lead on a trail of death and destruction...

(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...

(1946) Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Evile Drain, Guy Favieres.  Romance and Dalban are lovers—she would do anything for him, including a stretch in women’s prison for a crime she didn’t commit.  When an elderly woman is murdered in the neighborhood (for money), suspicion falls Dalban’s way.  Simon, as Dr. Vargas (aka Mr. Hire), has witnessed the crime and has proof of Dalban’s guilt...

(1949) Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd. Dyall plays a bitter ex-con out to gain revenge on his former business partner who framed him.  Then he gets bad medical news—he has only six months to live...

(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...

(1958, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy, Gert Fröbe, Inge Meysel, directed by Frank Wisbar.  Buchholz is released from prison six months early.  Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker.  Things get sticky when...

(1961) Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten, Frank Arvidson, John Harmon, Johnny Carpenter.  What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is—it’s sooo enjoyable.  A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident.  He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia...

(1958) Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder, Katherine Kath.   Johnson went to England to film this story of a military doctor who’s falsely accused of illegal drug dealing...

(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...

(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...