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THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) James Best, Ingrid Goulde, Gordon Mclendon, Ken Curtis. "The shrew devours everything…flesh, bones, marrow…everything.” THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.

INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS (1974) Norman Kelley, Tanna Hunter, Bruce Detrick. Young women are brutally slain in an out-of-the-way valley.  Behind the crimes is a modern band of bloodthirsty druids seeking a rare blood type that will resurrect their queen in time for a ritualistic blood feast.  SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (1974) Alan Brock, Jennifer Stock, Tawm Ellis.  What’s the dark, grisly secret of the murdering white yeti?  A group of college students finds out when they venture to a mysterious island...  

ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie’s an alien mad scientist whose mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in an invasion.  PLUS:  MISSION STARDUST (1968) Lang Jeffries, John Karlsen, Essy Persson. A space hero, backed by a team of astronauts, heads to the moon to rescue a blonde alien babe who seeks the aid of a blood scientist to help save her dying race...

THE GHOST (1963) Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin.  In this grand sequel to Horrible Dr. Hichcock.  Barbara is haunted by the ghost of her murdered husband.  Plus:  DEAD EYES OF LONDON (1961) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karen Baal, Klaus Kinski.  One of the best German Edgar Wallace horror films of the early '60s; a remake of Lugosi's The Human Monster 

DESTINATION SPACE (1959) Harry Townes, John Agar, Cecil Kellaway, Witney Blake. Townes and Agar are the chiefs of a giant space station spinning through the heavens. Plus:  TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN (1959) Robert Burton, Barbara Wilson, Stan Gester.  Scientists investigate the landing of an Alien spaceship in Lapland

THE DEVIL’S NIGHTMARE (1971) Erika Blanc, Jean Servais, Daniel Emilfork.  Tourists spend the night in a sinister castle.  Another guest arrives, a beautiful woman who’s really a succubus!  Plus:  LONG HAIR OF DEATH (1964) Barbara Steele, Robert Rains.  A woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive.  Her curse brings her back from the dead

CASTLE OF FU MANCHU (1972) Christopher Lee, Maria Perschy, Richard Greene.  Fu Manchu has a super weapon that can freeze oceans—and ships. He plans to blackmail the world; his first big target is the Black Sea

GAMMERA THE INVINCIBLE (1966) Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Diane Findlay.  A giant fire-breathing turtle-like dinosaur ravages Japan.  Plus:  LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) Vincent Price, Franca Bettola, Emma Daniell.  A plague has killed off most of the earth's population and Price is the sole survivor

WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1970) Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Patty Shepard.  An ancient witch is revived.  She turns a girl into a vampire who then goes on a terror spree.  Plus:  CURSE OF THE DEVIL (1973) Paul Naschy, Fabiola Falcon.  Paul is turned into a snarling beast by a group of female devil worshippers

MESA OF LOST WOMEN (1952) Allan Nixon, Jackie Coogan.  A group of peoples being held captive by a moron with a gun, crash land on a desert mesa where a mad scientist is experimenting with giant spiders.  Plus:  CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON (1953)  Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Victor Jory.  One of the granddaddies of ‘50s camp sci-fi

TEENAGE BAD GIRL (1957) Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms.  Anna just can't seem to 'straighten out' her delinquent daughter.  Her path eventually leads to crime, rebellion, death, and redemption.  Plus:  TEENAGE WOLFPACK (1957) Henry Bookholt, Karen Baal.  A tense, tough story of teenage gangs committing acts of robbery, violence, and murder

DEATH IS NIMBLE, DEATH IS QUICK  (1967) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris.  Tony and Brad protect a lady who’s a kidnap target in this thriller that features sci-fi, ancient temples, martial arts, big explosions, etc.  Plus:  SO DARLING, SO DEADLY (1967) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris.  The boys protect a scientist and his amazing power beam that can destroy targets 300 miles away

WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON (1973) Dean Stockwell, Biff McGuire, Jane House, Michael Dunn. An old fashioned, schlocky grade B werewolf movie! The President’s press secretary (Stockwell) is on a trip thro

HERCULES AND THE PRINCESS OF TROY (1965) Gordon Scott, Paul Stevens. One of the best spectacle films we offer—really. Scott is very good as Hercules in this wonderful color fantasy. A giant sea dra

SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER (1971) Jeffrey Chase, Jennifer Harvey, Agostino Belli. A hideously disfigured killer (who gets uglier every full moon) terrorizes a village. Meanwhile, a beautiful woman an

JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY (1958) Debra Padget, Paul Christian, Walter Reyer, directed by Fritz Lang. BLACK SUNDAY (1960) Barbara Steele, John Richardson

THE MUMMY’S REVENGE (1973) Paul Naschy, Jack Taylor, Maria Silva, Helga Line. An evil pharaoh and his queen slash the throats of young girls and drink their blood. Plus: VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES (1972) Paul Naschy, Vic Winner. This is one of the more graphic and brutal of the Paul Naschy films to come out of the ‘70s

BELL FROM HELL (1970) Viveca Lindfors, Renaud Verley. After being locked away for years, a man comes back to seek his bizarre revenge on his aunt and her three daughters.  MURDER MANSION (1972) Andre Resino, Analia Gade, Evelyn Stewart. A young couple, lost in the fog, stumble upon an eerie cemetery next to a sinister mansion

THIS REBEL BREED (1959 aka BLACK REBELS) Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Dyan Cannon. Blacks take on whites and whites take on Hispanics in this very entertaining teenage thriller.  THE REBEL SET (1959) Gregg Palmer, Edward Platt, Don Sullivan. Interesting beatnik film that shows the atmosphere and flavor of the late ‘50s beatnik clubs

STRANGE VENGEANCE OF ROSALIE (1973) WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON (1973)

CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, directed by Riccardo Freda. A large, living radioactive mass is found in a subterranean pool near Mayan ruins.  Plus: THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton. The chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum who slowly transforms into a horrible, two-headed monster

MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN (1960) THE DANCE OF DEATH (1960)

JUDEX (1963) Channing Pollock, Edith Scob. THE BRAIN (1962) Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Lee

MARK OF THE DEVIL (1969) Herbert Lom, Udo Kier. GURU, THE MAD MONK (1970) Neil Flanagan, Jacqueline Webb

GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON (1960) Mark Forest, Broderick Crawford. FURY OF ACHILLES (1962) Gordon Mitchell

WITCH KILLER OF BLACKMOOR (1970) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell, Howard Vernon. Lee is superb as an evil judge who condemns citizens to be burned as witches. Vernon is terrific as his twisted

RETURN OF DR. MABUSE (1961) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Frobe and Barker play detectives on the trail of Dr. Mabuse. A number of mysterious murders

WAR OF THE INSECTS (1966, aka GENOCIDE) Yusuke Kawazu, Emi Shindo, Kathy Moran. It’s man against bugs in this cool sci-fi shocker. A plane carrying an atomic bomb is attacked by a new strain of killer

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman. McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer. She plays a servant girl forced into exile because of her strange

BURKE AND HARE (1971) Harry Andrews, Yutte Stensgaard, Glyn Edwards, Kerry Nesbitt. This terrific body-snatching thriller is a grisly horror film, yet also a marvelous, sexy black comedy. The best Burke and Hare

THE LORELEY’S GRASP (1972) Tony Kendall, Helga Line, Loretta Tovar. You’ve got a lovely woman who, at times, transforms into an ancient monster. This beast is a scary, snarling lizard-type monster that rips

HORROR HOTEL (1960) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Valentine Dyall, Patricia Jessel. Classic horror as a witch lures victims into a New England village for blood sacrifices.   Plus: THE HEAD (1959) Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke. A serum that keeps severed portions of the human body alive is used by a mad doctor on its own inventors decapitated head

I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy. Pure, lovable, low-budget schlock. A playboy writer and his publisher fly to a mysterious Caribbean island where they

HORROR OF BLACKWOOD CASTLE (1968) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Baal inherits a mysterious old castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. That’s when bodies start

DOCTOR ORLOFF’S MONSTER 1964, aka SECRET OF DR. ORLOF) Jose Rubio, Perla Cristal. This is the second in the "Dr. Orlof" series about the good doctor and his latest monstrosity: a human robot that is

THE BLUE PANTHER (1965) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner. A lady is traveling by train when a stranger entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes

A SWINGIN’ SUMMER (1965) James Stacy, William Wellman, Jr., Raquel Welch, Quinn O’Hara. Welch’s first movie! A group of ambitious teens take over a resort and try to turn it into a “hot spot.” They

DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER (1972) Klaus Kinski, Ewa Aulin, Angela Bo, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart. A supernatural film about a crazed man who utilizes ancient Incan formulas to raise the dead for purposes of

BEATRICE CENCI (1969 Adrianne Larussa, Tomas Milian, Georges Wilson, Mavie. Beatrice Cenci is the daughter of a mentally twisted nobleman who keeps her locked up in the castle dungeon. He sexually

THE MIGHTY URSUS (1961) Ed Fury, Christina Gajoni, Mario Scaccia. Ursus learns that his fiancée, Attea, has been taken to an eerie island ruled by a evil pagan goddess. The strange tribe living there

S.O.S. PACIFIC (1959) Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Eva Bartok, Pier Angeli. Eddie’s BEST film. Eddie’s a tough sailor being flown to the mainland for trial. Also aboard is the snake who

AT MIDNIGHT I’LL TAKE YOUR SOUL (1964) Jose Marins, Nivaldo Lima, Valeria Vasquez. An engaging horror film about a maniacal gravedigger who is greatly feared by the local villagers. He murders a number

LABYRINTH (1959) Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Nicole Badal, Amedeo Nazarri, Hannah Wieder. Labyrinth is a bizarre, brilliant film about a group of mental misfits in an out-of-this-world sanatorium

THE NEXT VICTIM (1971) Considered a landmark giallo film. An ambassador's sleazy wife discovers that either her husband, her ex-lover, or her current lover might actually be a sadistic slasher who has

THE MONSTROUS DR. CRIMEN (1953) Jose Maria Linares-Rivas, Miroslava, Carlos Nivarro, Fernando Wagnerl.  A classic South-of-the-Border horror film.  PLUS:  DAUGHTER OF HORROR (1955) Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Angelo Rossitto, Narr. by Ed McMahon. A bizarre film about a wandering girl who falls into a strange series of events

DARK PLACES (1973) Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Robert Hardy.  Hardy plays the head of an asylum who has inherited an eerie old mansion from a deceased patient—a patient who murdered his wife and kids on the premises!  PLUS:  HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES (1973) Andrew Prine, Patty Shepard, Mark Damon.  Prine and Damon are two archaeologists on a scientific dig when they discover a vampire cemetery with live blood-sucking monsters.

GIANT OF MARATHON (1960) Steve Reeves, Mylene Demonget, Ivo Garrani.  This classic epic was directed by Jacques Tourneur of Val Lewton fame.  Reeves plays a courageous Greek hero whose muscle-bound heroics are a source of deadly frustration for the invading Persians.  PLUS:  GIANTS OF THESSALY (1960) Roland Carey, Massimo Girotti, Ziva Rodann,  Luciano Marin. A fine retelling of the Jason and the Golden Fleece tale.

THE NUDE VAMPIRE (1969) Olivier Martin, Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline Cartier.  A beautiful vampire woman gets involved with a playboy whose father is experimenting with artificial youth.  PLUS:  DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie is an alien scientist whose race is set to invade Earth.  His mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in the invasion.  His grisly lineup is amazing:  Frankenstein, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Mummy. 

INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957) Junko Kanoi. Ryuji Shinagawa, Shozo Southern, Ghastly murders are being committed.  The one similarity is that an odd buzzing sound is heard before each murder.  The killer is actually a man who shrinks to the size of a fly.  PLUS:  SPACEMEN OVER TOKYO (1956) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki, Bin Yagisawa, Shozo Nanbu.  A spaceship full of starfish aliens visits Earth to warn of impending global destruction.  Aka Warning from Space.  

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE (1967) Grant Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, Bobby Van, Mala Powers. A spaceship hurtles toward Venus.  Its crew is soon horrified as they see the Earth destroyed by a nuclear holocaust on their telescreen.  PLUS:  THE DESTRUCTORS (1967) Richad Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara.  Interesting sci-fi and espionage.  Spies are after "laser rubies," which can power killer laser beams.  

THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Jane Hylton, Terri Zimmern. This was first released on DI Combo #2 many years ago along with Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus.  Sadly, we lost Dr. Faustus to the GATT copyright restoration.  But we always felt The Manster should have another DI partner, so here it is, the chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist.  PLUS:  THE SCREAMING SKULL (1958) John Hudson, Peggy Webber.  It's another great AIP horror film about a woman who is terrorized by the vision of her husband's first wife's skull.  

PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK (1976) Paul Naschy, Alberto deMendoza, Teresa Gimpera, Maria Perschy.  A Leon Klimovsky apocalyptic sci-fi thriller about a group of capitalists and military men who hold a seedy party in an old castle when nuclear war breaks out.  PLUS:  HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976) Francesco Marciano, Lino Capulacchio, Gianni Cavina. An art restorer comes to a village to restore a fresco painted by a strange artist. He soon senses a creepiness to the villagers—as though they are hiding something.  In Italian with English subtitles.

TERROR CIRCUS (1974) Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni.  Prine is a twisted psycho who captures girls and terrorizes them in his barn.  They are his animal act and he is the ringmaster, whipping and torturing them with zeal.  There’s a cool, gross-looking monster in a shed.  PLUS:  THE SEVERED ARM (1973, R-Rated, 91 min.) Deborah Walley, Paul Carr, Marvin Kaplan.  Six stranded climbers amputate and eat the arm of one of their group.  Years later, the other group members begin to meet horrible violent deaths.  

THE STRANGER (1973) Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Lew Ayres, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger.  After a mishap in space Corbett finds himself in a strange hospital where no one can give him any answers.  PLUS  CROWHAVEN FARM (1970) Hope Lange, Paul Burke, John Carradine, Lloyd Bochner. Lange and hubby inherit a strange old farm.  She soon sees visions of ancient settlers doing weird things with rocks and wooden doors...

DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL (1937/1960) Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggiotti.  A sprawling epic about the Carthage-Roman war. Lots of cool sword & sandal intrigue with big, awesome, battle scenes.  PLUS:  HERCULES AGAIN MACISTE IN THE VALE OF WOE (1961) Kirk Morris, Frank Gordon, Bice Valori, Liana Orfei.  In this wacky sword and sandal movie, a couple of boxing promoters use a time machine to travel back to ancient times...

GARDEN OF THE DEAD (1972) Phil Kenneally, Duncan McLeod.  Chain gang convicts make the mistake of sniffing a new, experimental formaldehyde to get high.  They then try to escape and are shot dead by the guards.  After they're buried, they crawl out of their graves to seek a bloodthirsty revenge.  PLUS:  ENTER THE DEVIL (1972) Irene Kelly, Josh Bryant.  People are disappearing in the desert near the Texas border.  A brave (and beautiful) occult expert comes to a lonely town and finds a Penitentes-style devil-cult...

RIP VAN WYK (1960) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney.  This movie is actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys meets a mysterious man who feeds him a potion causing him to fall asleep and hurtle 100 years through time.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, unfamiliar, modern world.  PLUS:  THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED (1958) Paul Hubschmid, Ivo Garrani. A rocket lifts off for the moon. The rocket (containing lots of atomic matter) smashes into an asteroid, which in turn shatters into an avalanche of deadly rocks and space debris...

RETURN OF THE WITCH (1952) Mirja Mane, Toivo Makela. An ancient witch’s body is unearthed. A stake is pulled from her rotted corpse.  Soon a beautiful naked girl is found in the witch’s grave.  Villagers are sure it’s the witch returned to life.  PLUS:  GEISHA GIRL (1952) William Andrews, Martha Hyer, Archer MacDonald.  A mad scientist develops explosive pills more powerful than A-bombs!  He shocks the world by vaporizing a Pacific island!  Plans of world conquest are thwarted though, when the pills fall into the hands of two wacky GIs...

LEGEND OF HORROR (1972) Williams Bates, Karin Field, Fawn Silver. When Legend of Horror came out in 1972, it incorporated a 1960 South American version of “The Telltale Heart” along with about forty minutes of new footage with American actors, expanding the original Poe story significantly.  There’s one cool scene with zombies in a graveyard!  PLUS:  THE DRACULA SAGA (1972) Tina Sainz, Tony Isbert.  The last heir to the Draculas (who is pregnant) arrives at the castle of the infamous Count.  Soon her husband is having flings with the Count’s “brides!” This movie has lots of sharp teeth and flowing blood...

A SWINGIN’ AFFAIR (1963, aka REBEL IN THE RING) Bill Wellman, Jr., Arline Judge.  Wellman’s a kid from the poor side of town and a part-time boxer who’s a pledge at a snobby college fraternity.  He makes his money beating up his foes in the ring.  He lives in fear, though, of his fraternity pals finding out about his humble beginnings and his shady profession.  PLUS:  MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN (1964) Chuck Scott, Jeffrey Allen, directed by H.G. Lewis.  A pretty amazing movie.  Not much of a plot really, just lots of hootin’ and hollerin’, feuds, stills, singing, and gory murders...

HYPNOSIS (1962, aka DUMMY OF DEATH) Jean Sorel, Heinz Drache, Gotz George.  A hypnotist is murdered in his dressing room!  His ventriloquist dummy seemingly watches the crime being committed. A boxer and part-time delivery boy is blamed for the crime.  Soon another murder occurs!  Was the killer human…or was it the dummy?  PLUS:  STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963) Karin Dor, Ingmar Zeisberg.  A hooded maniac is loose and he’s murdering numerous people inside a dark, dank, creepy old English castle.  A cool Edgar Wallace chiller...

BLACK DICE (1951) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. Travers is a society dame who is kidnapped by two small-time thugs. LaRue gives the best portrayal of his life as a bigtime gangster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and illicit types. PLUS:  NIGHTBEAT (1947) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Anne Crawford.  In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force.  Ross succeeds; Howard fails.  Howard ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed...

CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE (1976—Full Widescreen, 35mm) Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson.  One of the best drive-in horror movies of the ‘70s.  Plus:  DEVIL KISS (1975, Full Widescreen) Silvia Solar, Olivier Othot, Jose Nieto, Evelyne Scott.  A great Euro-horror thriller about a psychic countess and mad scientist...

ISLAND OF TERROR (1966, Full Widescreen) Edward Judd, Peter Cushing, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne.  Things go terribly wrong in a research lab on an isolated British island and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters is created.  PLUS:  THE PROJECTED MAN (1966, Full Widescreen) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments...

FACE IN THE RAIN (1963) Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti, Massimo Giuliani, Niall MacGinnis.  Calhoun plays a tough American spy on the run in Nazi-occupied Italy.  PLUS:  STOP TRAIN 349 (1963) Sean Flynn, Jose Ferrer, Nicole Courcel.  A marvelous film about an American Army train going from Berlin into the West Zone.  On board is an East German stowaway...

NEUTRON AND THE BLACK MASK (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Armando Silvestre, Rosa Arenas.  Our black-masked atomic super hero takes on a gang of thugs who are conspiring to steal a formula for a neutron explosive.  PLUS:  NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Rosita Arenas.  Our favorite south-of-the-border super hero, Neutron, locks horns again with the insane Dr. Caronte...

WILD ONES ON WHEELS (1962) Francine York, Robert Blair, Edmund Tonini, Ray Dennis Steckler.  A sports car gang murders an ex-con and forces his wife to locate $240,000 he had buried in the desert.  PLUS:  SECRET FILE HOLLYWOOD (1962) Robert Clarke, Francine York, Syd Mason.  Entertaining exploitation schlocker about an ex-detective who digs up dirt for a Hollywood scandal sheet...

FACE OF TERROR (1962) Lisa Gaye, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira.  Scientist Rey takes a young but crazed woman and transforms her disfigured face into a thing of beauty. PLUS:  NO PLACE LIKE HOMICIDE (1961) Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton, Michael Gough. A man shows up at the sinister home of his dead uncle to claim his inheritance...

THE AMAZING WORLD OF GHOSTS (1978) Narr. by Sid Paul. This schlockumentary explores haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, etc.  PLUS:  UFO TARGET EARTH (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 space aliens...

THE BURNING COURT (1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Edith Scob.  This Euro-chiller has a most interesting combination of “old dark house" and “witch’s curse” themes.  PLUS:  THE NIGHT THEY KILLED RASPUTIN (1962) John Drew Barrymore, Edmund Purdom, Gianna Canale.  An atmospheric retelling of the rise and fall of Rasputin, whose seemingly supernatural powers made the czarina his hypnotic slave... 

THE DEATHHEAD VIRGIN (1974) Jock Gaynor, Diane Mc Bain, Larry Ward, Vic Diaz.  Gaynor’s a treasure hunter who finds a big haul—a sunken ship in the Pacific.  However, the ship is guarded by the vengeful spirit of an ancient princess. PLUS: EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW (1974) Stella Carnacina, Chris Avram, Lucretia Love.  A beautiful woman purchases an ancient statue.   In a shocking scene, it comes to life and rapes her.  She then becomes possessed and is taken to a convent where an exorcism priest is brought in to free her...

THE MURDER CLINIC (1966, WIDESCREEN) Williams Berger, Barbara Wilson, Mary Young. Dr. Vance owns a clinic for the mentally ill located in a gloomy forest.  Unfortunately, there’s a hooded killer on the grounds, slashing people to death with a straight razor. PLUS:  THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS (1966) Joan Stapleton, Robert Gregory, Wes Morland.  An Old West horror film about a female vampire who has a passion for unsuspecting cowboys and soon takes revenge on the four thugs who murdered her husband in cold blood...

MINOTAUR, WILD BEAST OF CRETE (1960, WIDESCREEN) Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo.  King Minos sacrifices the “required” number of virgins to the monstrous Minotaur.  But as his wife is dying, she confesses that their daughter has a twin hidden away to avoid giving her to the Minotaur.  PLUS:  A LUST FOR DYING (1960, WIDESCREEN) Annette Stroyberg, Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer. This retelling of Lefanu’s classic vampire tale, Carmilla, is a good one.  Carmilla’s obsession with her friend’s engagement leads her into the darkness of a female vampire’s tomb...

THE MAGIC SERPENT (1966, WIDESCREEN) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by a treacherous lord and his sorcerer.  Years later, an epic battle ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  PLUS:  THE WITCH (1966) Richard Johnson, Rossanna Schiaffino, Sarah Ferrati.  A young historian is brought to a magnificent palatial estate to assemble the largely erotic memoirs of a deceased general.  There he falls in love with a beautiful witch... 

STAR ODYSSEY (1977) Yanti Somer, Gianni Garko, Malisa Longo, Chris Avran.  An alien mastermind has picked Earth for annihilation.  Earth sends a fleet of starships to fight against the super robots from this far-off galaxy.  Lots of pitched space battles with plenty of action.  PLUS:  PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1977) Harvey Shain, Mary Aplleseth, Max Thayer, Derna Wylde. A lost spaceship lands on a mysterious planet filled with rampaging prehistoric monsters.  The crew members have to stave off these giant lizards until they are rescued...

HOT MONEY GIRL (1959) Eddie Constantine, Christopher Lee, Dawn Addams.  Constantine and Addams hatch a plot to recover a parcel of priceless jewels from behind the iron curtain.  Their quest takes them to an old convent that’s now a German police barracks. Lots of tense moments as they break through security lines. PLUS:  THE UNSTOPPABLE MAN (1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett.  Mitchell is a tycoon whose son is kidnapped.  There’s a huge ransom demand and the cops tell Mitchell to let them handle it.  Mitchell, though, takes matters into his own hands.  There’s a bit of sci-fi as Mitchell defends himself with a futuristic, hand-held flame projector...

THE HEADLESS EYES (1971) Bo Brundin, Ramon Gordon, Kelly Swartz.  A down-on-his luck artist gets more than he bargained for in a failed robbery attempt—an eye gouged out with a spoon!  With his eye hanging out and dangling by the nerve, he screams into the night!  He then goes nuts and turns to killing women and cutting their eyes out.  PLUS:  THE GHASTLY ONES (1968) Veronica Radburn, Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, directed by Andy Milligan.  Three couples spend the night in a creepy Victorian house in order to claim their inheritance.  Before long, they start dying horribly at the hand of a knife-and-pitchfork-wielding psycho who wants their inheritance...

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman.  McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer.  Reed is a carnival boxer who falls under her spell and ends up hideously scarred from her jagged fingernails.  Soon, young men turn up slain.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey, Eric Micklewood.  A man obtains a dead monkey’s magical paw.  He is bestowed three wishes. His first wish is to be debt-free.  The wish is granted, but the price is his son’s life.  The next wish is for the son to be returned to life—but the price is truly horrible...

ALIAS JOHN PRESTON (1956) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox.  Lee, tormented by bizarre, murderous dreams about a woman from his past, eventually transforms into a Jekyll and Hyde type with an urge to kill.  Knox is the psychological counsellor who tries who suspects something's amiss.  PLUS:  FRIGHT (1956) Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Dean Almquist.  This eerie film had a most unusual premise: a lady thinks she’s the reincarnation of an ancient prince’s elicit lover.  At the same time, a killer turns out to be the reincarnation of the prince!  Fleming Is the who tries to figure it all out—and solve some murders to boot!  

DRACULA AND SON (1976, WIDSCREEN) Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie Helene Breillat.  Dracula takes a mortal woman to bear his son. WEREWOLF WOMAN (1976, WIDESCREEN) Annik Borel, Howard Ross, Dagmar Lassander.  A beautiful woman has dreams of becoming a werewolf.  Soon after, she begins having sex with different guys before she rips them to shreds... 

ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (1979, WIDESCREEN) Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Barbara Bach. A prisoner ship sinks in the Caribbean.  The ship’s doctor and a number of prisoners make shore on a jungle island where a madman—with the aid of a mad scientist—changes natives into fish-like monsters. VAMPIRE HOOKERS (1979, WIDESCREEN) John Carradine, Bruce Fairbaim, Trey Wilson, Karen Stride.  Carradine plays an old-age vampire who has a bevy of vampire beauties at his beck and call...

AN ANGEL FOR SATAN (1966, WIDESCREEN, English Subtitles) Barbara Steele, Anthony Steffen. Barb has a kind of dual role in this great horror film about a girl possessed by the spirit of a statue. Barbara's BEST performance. THE TRYGON FACTOR (1966, WIDESCREEN) Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley. This Edgar Wallace (though not credited) thriller features a sinister black-clad murderer in a scary mask...

STAR FORCE (1979) narrated by Sidney Paul.  If you’re a UFO docu-film fan, this is as rare as it gets.  Star Force (not on IMDB) takes you on an extrraordinary excursion through a myriad of strange illustrations, incredible film clips, and eye-popping photos, . THE HUMANOID (1979) Richard Kiel, Barbara Bach, Arthur Kennedy, Massimo Serrato. The ruthless Graal (ala Darth Vader) plots Earth’s conquest.  He enlists a mad scientist who can change humans into...

DR. FRANKENSTEIN ON CAMPUS (1970) Robin Ward, Kathleen Sawyer, Austin Willis.  Ward plays a Frankenstein descendent who develops a wireless brain control device, which he uses to turn one of his college pals into a mindless slave.  THE BODY BENEATH (1970, Widescreen) Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kale.  This Andy Milligan grade-Z gem is all about a clan of vampires that takes over an estate that just happens to be known as... 

SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES (1962) Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler, Graziella Granata, Luigi Batzella, Gena Gimmy.  This Italian vampire film deals with a number of horrible vampires who are seeking fresh victims.   DUNGEON OF HARROW (1962) Russ Harvey, Helen Morgan, William McNulty. Stranded on a lost island in a sinister castle, a man finds himself at odds with an evil count...

NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH (1948) Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Lili Molnar, Hugh McDermott. A top gangster film!  Travers is a dazzling society dame who is kidnapped by two thugs. LaRue is superb as a mobster who owns the Black Dice Club, a classy spot filled with rich suckers, showgirls, and crooks. DOUBLE CONFESSION (1950) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre. Top British noir!  After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover...

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman.  We thought it would be very appropriate to have one of the greatest horror films of all time on our bi-centennial double feature.  A great, great film.  THE HAND OF POWER (1968, aka THE ZOMBIE WALKS) Joachim Fuchsberger, Siw Mattson, Wolfgang Kieling, Pinkas Braun.  A cool German-made Edgar Wallace chiller.  When a laughing corpse comes back to life to kill its heirs, Scotland Yard is called in...

THOR AND THE AMAZON WOMEN (1963) Joe Robinson, Suzy Andersen, Harry Baird, Maria Fiore.  Thor takes on a bevy of Amazon women who have been enslaving men throughout the countryside (poor guys).  HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS (1964) Mark Forest, Ken Clark, Gloria Milland. Forest, as Hercules, saves a girl from the stake; bends jail bars to escape; carries huge logs and rocks; and duels before Mongol nobles.  But the best scene is where he battles...

SECRET OF THE RED ORCHID (1962) Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Adrian Hoven, Klaus Kinski.  In a change of pace role, Lee plays a determined FBI agent sent in to help Scotland Yard track down a murdering blackmailer and help bust up their crime syndicate.  PATTERN FOR PLUNDER (1962) Keenan Wynn, Ronald Howard, Mai Zetterling.   What a cool B-movie this is.  A group of WW2 vets seek a fortune in Nazi loot.  Their search leads to an ancient castle nestled by a beach riddled with quicksand...

JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT (1961 aka THE LOST KINGDOM, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Riviere, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  Lost aviators find the entrance to Atlantis at a nuclear blast site in the desert.  PLUS:  TERROR OF THE MAD DOCTOR (1962, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Senta Berger.  A nice remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 classic. 

BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS (1967) Ricardo Bauleo, Susana Beltrán, Gloria Prat, Walter Kliche. A girl with a secret lover weds a man she doesn’t love.  But her secret lover is actually a vampire!  PLUS: SHE FREAK (1967) Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney. A low-life, gorgeous blonde leaves her waitress job and joins the carnival and makes enemies of carnival's freak show.  Similar to Freaks.    

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN, English Subs) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This is a really cool outer space movie with lots of battle scenes and alien spaceships battling against the desperate forces of Earth.  PLUS: CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne. In widescreen from a great 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. PLUS:  BLOOD MANIA (1970) Vicki Peters, Peter Carpenter, Maria De Aragon. The plot is pretty simple, a maniacal nympho-maniac wants to speed along her daddy’s demise. Why? So she can use the inheritance money to...

GHOST CAT OF OTAMA POND (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Namiji Matsuura, Shôzaburô Date, Noriko Kitazawa.  An engaged couple walks home through the woods after missing their bus.  They come upon an eerie pond.  A strange black cat then appears and they follow it to the ruins of an eerie mansion. PLUS: BLACK CAT MANSION (1958, Anamorphic Widescreen) Toshio Hosokawa, Yuriko Ejima, Takashi Wada.  A couple moves into an aging mansion.  The wife is soon haunted by the ghost of...

EXORCISM (1975) Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy, María Kosty, Mercedes Molina. A satanic cult is on the loose in the English countryside.  They stage a series of gruesome crimes that baffle the local authorities.  PLUS:  BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL (1974) Paul Naschy, Dianna Lorys, Maria Perschy, Eva Leon. Paul is an ex-convict who’s troubled by dreams of strangling women. He’s hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three bizarre sisters. Before long, a serial killer is...

CARRY ON SCREAMING (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Harry Corbett, Jim Dale. This is a fine British horror comedy much in the same vein as The Addams Family and The Munsters. The evil Dr Watt is abducting young ladies and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores! PLUS: MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY (1965) Vic McGee, James Raison, Dave Hewitt.  Teenage girls invade a 'haunted house' to find a mad doctor conducting weird experiments.  

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him south of the border.  PLUS:  BOMBAY WATERFRONT (1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Christopher Lee. Bentley is tops as the writer-turned-detective, Paul Temple. In this film, he tries to unmask a killer known as “the Marquis.”

FEAR NO MORE (1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding.  Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from L.A. to S.F.  She soon finds herself accused of murder when a corpst is found in her compartment. PLUS:  SHIP OF THE DEAD (1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid.  A GREAT movie. A taut story of love, crime, hardship, hopelessness, and betrayal.  Buckholz is tops as a human castoff, in international limbo because of a lost passport.  

SEVEN BLOOD-STAINED ORCHIDS (1972, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Antonio Sabato, Uschi Glass, Rossella Falk. A black-gloved killer is on the loose, leaving crescent moon medallions at the scene of his killings. PLUS:  HORROR EXPRESS (1972, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalis.  An ancient monster is found frozen in a glacier by Lee and his excavation team.  It’s being shipped back to civilization on board the Trans-Siberian express when it returns to life and...