TORMENTED (1960) Richard Carlson, Julia Redding, Lugene Sanders.  Carlson plays a husband-to-be who's haunted by the ghost of his large breasted ex-girlfriend whom he allowed to fall to her death from atop a lighthouse.  PLUS:  HANDS OF A STRANGER (1962) James Stapleton, Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey.  A dead murderer's hands are grafted to a pianist who has lost his own hands in an accident...

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.  

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...

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...

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...

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...

KILL BABY KILL (1966) Erica Blanc, Max Lawrence, Fabienne Dali, directed by Mario Bava.  The ghost of a young girl takes revenge on the villagers who caused her death.  Swirling mists, cobwebbed rooms, black cats, shadowy figures…it’s an incredible film that you really don't want to miss.  PLUS:  FANGS OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Anita Eckberg, Julian Ugarte, John Hamilton, Adrianna Ambesi. Anita inherits a castle but finds it infested with vampires!    

WHAT! (1963) Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Daliah Lavi, Harriet White, directed by Mario Bava.  The setting is a sinister castle.  Lee is a sadistic noble who whips the wife of his brother.  Chris is later found dead, but his ghost comes back to haunt the castle.  PLUS:  TERROR IN THE CRYPT (1963) Christopher Lee, Ursula Davis, Jose Campos.  Lee is Count Karnstein, living with his daughter in a crumbling castle.  Decades earlier, a witch put a death curse on their family.  

LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS (1956) Marion Michael, Hardy Kruger.  A topless, beautiful white jungle girl is discovered in the wilds of Africa living with a native tribe.  PLUS:  UNNATURAL (1952) Eric Von Stroheim, Hildegarde Neff, Karl Boehm.  The weird story of an evil scientist who creates a beautiful femme fatale via artificial insemination...

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.

SAMSON AND THE 7 MIRACLES OF THE WORLD (1961) Gordon Scott, Yoko Tani. Considered by many to be one of the great sword and sandal pictures of the 1960s. Samson fights against a murdering horde of Tartar warriors while trying to save the life of a beautiful Chinese princess... VULCAN, SON OF JUPITER (1962, Anamorphic) Rod "Flash" Ilush, Bella Cortez, Liliana Zagra, Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell.  Another beautiful upgrade of one of our most popular S&S titles.  There are lots of horror and fantasy elements here—Ancient gods, lizard-like monsters, and strange underground creatures...

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 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. 

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.  

GIANT OF MARATHON (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen, Upgraded 2/29/24) Steve Reeves, Mylene Demonget, Ivo Garrani.  Directed by Jacques Tourneur.  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, Anamorphic Widescreen) Roland Carey, Massimo Girotti, Ziva Rodann. A fine retelling of the Jason and the Golden Fleece tale...

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

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

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.