(1934) Hans Albers, Brigitte Helm, Michael Bohnen, Ernst Kachow, Friedrich Kaybler.  This is a great early sci-fi thriller.  Albers (The Man Who was Sherlock Holmes) is terrific as the lone survivor of lab experiment for creating gold that was sabotaged by Bohnen, a power-mad industrialist.  Much later Bohnen persuades Albers to help him with his own gold experiments in a massive laboratory deep beneath the ocean—a laboratory filled with gigantic equipment and generators...

(1961, Updated 11-14-24) Yoshiko Fujishiro, Sentarô Fushimi, Jûshirô Konoe, Yumiko Marhara.  A demented samurai warrior seeks to reunite with his estranged wife who left him because of his murderous ways.  Complications arise, though, with the appearance of a revenge-seeking ghost!  This is a lavish chiller with many fine scenes...  

(1958-1975, Updated 03-21-25) Bob Clymire, Jan Swihart, Bill Simonsen, Dennis Kottmeier, Ruth Ann Mannella.  This film has a weird history.  Most of it is a movie made in 1958 (some say 1963) that sat unreleased for many years. It was called Teenagers Battle the Thing. In 1975 they shot some new introductory footage and it was released as Curse of Bigfoot.  

(1962, Updated 03-25-25) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Aubery Morris, Stewart Guidotti, Caroline Blakiston. Two scientific journalists board a nuclear submarine.  They soon find themselves immersed in an incredible adventure when the submarine is hijacked and taken to a secret underwater city called Aegiria.  

(1974) Nick Pakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Phil Erickson.  This ‘70s oddity is about an electronics pro who spends  his time searching for evidence of aliens from space.  He soon picks up eerie signals he believes are emanating from an alien spaceship.  

(1956)  Eddie Constantine, Juliette Greco.  A war veteran’s adopted daughter is kidnapped by a man looking for his missing granddaughter.  The missing girl was an employee for a perfume factory that smuggles drugs...

(1962, Upgraded 8/23/21)  Arch Hall, Jr., Richard Kiel, Marilyn Manning, Arch Hall, Sr.  Hilarious schlock about a couple of teenagers who tangle with an actual caveman living in the desert.  Junior saves the day when Manning is kidnapped by the beast.  He rescues her and after they escape from caveman's desert cave...

(1968) Emil Horvath, Magda Vasarykova, Frantisek Filipovsky.  The fourth of Karel Zeman’s Verne films is a voyage into fantastic visual wizardry.  Adapted from Verne’s Hector Servadac, it recounts how a massive chunk of Earth becomes a comet, soaring across space with all of the area’s populace still on it...

(1969) Janine Reynaud, Adrian Hoven, Rosanna Yani, directed by Jesus Franco.  One of Franco's more off-beat efforts.  On a lonely Caribbean island a mad scientist conducts experiments aimed at creating a new race of super humans...

(1960) Jean Thielment , Jean Tissier, Danielle Godet, Ivan Desny.  A fast-moving espionage thriller about two top secret agents who find themselves in a desperate race against time for the possession of valuable secret documents.  Sudden death waits around every corner...

(1967) Jack Hawkins, Rachael Gurney, Mark Dignam, John Laurie, Henry Beltran.  If you like creepy ghost stories, this British made-for-TV feature is a must.  Hawkins’ returns home from a long trip to find his son traumatized by the haunting cries of a child he hears calling to him in the night from the strange ruins next to their estate.