DAY OF THE NIGHTMARE (1965, Anamorphic Wides.) John Ireland, Beverly Bains, Cliff Fields, Elena Verdugo, John Hart. A real unsung psycho-horror gem.  A woman seemingly returns from the grave to take revenge upon her enemies... THE SEVENTH GRAVE (1965, Anamorphic) Stéphania Nelli, Bruna Baini, Nando Angelini, Armando Guarnieri.  A collection of heirs gather for the reading of Sir Robert Thorne's will in a forlorn Scottish castle, which is reportedly haunted and also the hiding place of a lost treasure...

A NIGHT OF THE DEVILS (1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera. This is a grim, superbly made Euro-horror film, much in flashback.  Garco’s car breaks down as he’s driving through the dark countryside. He seeks help from a strange family... SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (1972 Anamorphic Widescreen) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, John Carradine, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren. O’Neal inherits a mansion that was once a mental institution owned by his late grandfather...

INQUISITION (1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Juan Gallardo.  Paul is a 16th century witch hunting judge.  He falls in love with the daughter of a warlock whom he sentenced to death.  She makes a pact with Satan and soon Naschy finds... CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS (1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ronald Tanet, Maureen Ridley, Wayne Mack. A GI returning from war becomes a hermit.  He moves into a shack out in a swamp. Believing the GI has a hidden stash of money, thieves sneak into his shack and murder him...

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Kurt Rackelman.   A space expedition is launched to the planet Venus.  There they find the planet and its former inhabitants completely destroyed by atomic war... THE AMPHIBIAN MAN (1962) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Shoreline villages live in fear of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil," who terrorizes the coast.  It turns out that the creature is not only the product of man (and not of nature), but the result of...

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier. The setting is London during the Jack the Ripper killing spree.  Palance plays a reserved research pathologist who takes up lodgings in a sitting room with a spooky attic room for his "experiments...”  THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries. This B-quickie has both sci-fi and horror elements.  Hanley is a fierce young reporter who tackles the story of a hooded black rider who is seen (on a motorcycle) near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...

SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY (1965, Anamorphic) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, sleazy, exploitation-crime films that poured out of the 1960s... THE DEFILERS (1965, Anamorphic) Byron Mabe, Jerome Eden, Mai Jansson.  This seedy, grungy David Friedman film is about a couple of hoodlums who kidnap a young girl...

MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE (1966) Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Adelson, Hal Warren.  This film is worshipped by bad film lovers everywhere. A family on vacation stops at a creepy house for directions... BLOOD THIRST (1965, Anamorphic Edition) Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson, Vic Silayan, Vic Diaz. Winston is a special U.S. agent who comes to Manila to help a homicide detective solve a series of grotesque murders...

THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (1958) Lubor Tokos, Hugh Downs, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr.  The evil Count Artigas kidnaps a scientist and his assistant... WHAT A WHOPPER (1958, Anamorphic) Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley.  This is a cool adventure-comedy with a nice touch of sci-fi at the film’s climax.  A struggling writer thinks he’s hit the jackpot when...

THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969, Anamorphic) Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown, Cristina Galbo, Mary Maude. This creepy Euro-thriller is centered in a French boarding school for wayward young women. Palmer is the over-the-top head mistress who runs the joint... THE WITCHMAKER (1969 Anamorphic) Anthony Eisley, Thordis Brandt, Alvy Moore, Shelby Grant. Moore takes a research group deep into a misty southern bayou to probe suspected paranormal events.  The area is rife with witchcraft murders...

STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller.  A hooded maniac is on the loose and murdering numerous innocent and not-so-innocent people inside a gloomy, dark, dank, creepy old English castle... THE RACETRACK MURDERS (1964, Anamorphic) Hansjorg Felmy, Ann Smyrner, Hans Nielson, Walter Rilla, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Engelmann, Helmut Lohner. Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain in a mysterious manner...

SEVEN GOLDEN MEN (1965, Anamorphic) Philippe Leroy, Rossana Podesta, Gastone Moschin, Maurice Poli, Gabrieli Tinti. One of the best intrigue/caper movies ever! Delightful is the perfect word to describe this film that is full of sci-fi gimmicks, plot twists, slick and not-so-slick criminals... 002—OPERATION MOON (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mónica Randall.  Franco and Ciccio (the Martin and Lewis of Italy) are actually pretty funny.  They have a certain shtick that works. The boys are sent into space to imitate a pair of lost Soviet spacemen...

THE HORRIBLE SEXY VAMPIRE (1971, Anamorphic) Wal Davis, Barta Barri, Anastasio Campoy, Susan Carvasal.  In spite of its lurid title, this is 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... CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (1970, Anamorphic) 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...

HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (1973, Anamorphic) Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Alberto Dalbes, Maria Perschy.  Paul’s a ghastly hunchback with low intelligence. His only pal, a young lady, dies!  When a couple of guys dump her corpse into an acid vat, Paul goes nuts... HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (1973, Anamorphic) Paul Naschy, Vic Winner, Emma Cohen, Helga Line. In Medieval France, a warlock has his head cut off. His wife is tortured and slain.  But...voila!  Paul's spirit returns to modern times...

LADY VAMPIRE (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi. The main vampire is actually a guy (with a dwarf servant).  He goes about dressed in a snappy suit, hat, and sun glasses.  He can be seen in a mirror, and is only turned into a vampire under the light... EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto. It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of...

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Anitra Ford.  One of the most underrated horror films of the 1970s. A young woman comes to an out-of-the-way California coastal town searching for her... INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond.  Another blatantly schlocky ‘70s drive-in gem.  Men are dying in a small California town from having too much sex.  Government agent William Smith investigates after a scientist is...from 35mm.

WARNING FROM SPACE (1956) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki.  A spaceship full of starfish-shaped aliens has come to Earth to warn of impending destruction from a giant meteor.  However, because of their horrifying appearance the aliens decide to...  ROAD TO THE STARS (1957) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this film has some very interesting stuff about the  soviet space program.  However, in the second half, the film turns to pure science fiction, with many great outer space scenes...

DR. JEKYLL VS. THE WEREWOLF (1971, Anamorphic Widescreen) Paul Naschy, Jack Taylor, Shirley Corrigan, Mirta Miller, directed by León Klimovsky.  Paul is back in his perpetual role as the werewolf—Waldemar Daninsky.  Early in the film, he rescues a beautiful woman from bandits... THE FEAST OF SATAN (1971 Anamorphic Widescreen) Krista Nell, Espartaco Santoni, Teresa Gimpera, Julio Pena. A lady arrives at a coastal village where her sister—now missing—has last been seen. The police investigate but she decides to snoop around a little herself...

THE HYPERBOLOID OF ENGINEER GARIN (1965,  Anamorphic) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Mikhail Astangov, Vsevolod Safonov. Garin is a mad inventor who creates a death ray of fantastic power.  He is bound and determined to conquer the Earth, committing many atrocities with...  SUIPERARGO AND THE FACELESS GIANTS (1966, Anamorphic) Ken Wood, Guy Madison, Diana Lorys. For all students of Santo movies, here's something you don't want to miss: a European, superhero, masked wrestler. Our hero is pitted against a madman and his army of zombie-like robots...