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...

GIRL ON THE RUN (1953) Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Charles Bolender, Harry Bannister, Renee De Milo, Edith King, Steve McQueen.  This sordid film-noir exploitation oddity is centered around a trashy burlesque carnival, which of course means lots of skimpily-dressed buxom beauties... THE SCARLET WEB (1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival.  What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be.  Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murder...

BEES IN PARADISE (1944) Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Antoinette Cellier. This may be the only Lost World-Lost Race musical comedy ever made.  It’s amazing this film has escaped the eye of sci-fi and fantasy historians, because in spite of its comedy and musical themes, there’s no doubt of the film’s fantastic cinema elements... TIME FLIES (1944) Evelyn Dall, Tommy Handley, George Moon, Felix Aylmer. This is a marvelous sci-fi comedy about a quirky professor who’s invented a combo spaceship/time machine....

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...

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...

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...

GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mark Forest, José Greci, Giuliano Gemma, Erno Crisa, Paul Muller. Our hero helps a small kingdom (that is forced to make a yearly tribute of 30 young virgins to the Kingdom of Babylon) fight for its freedom... HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS (1964, Anamorphic) Mark Forest, Jose Greci, Ken Clark, Grazia Maria Spina. In this loose follow-up to Hercules against the Barbarians, Forest finds himself in the fight of his life against the three sons of Genghis Khan.

GLADIATORS 7 (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Richard Harrison, Loredana Nusciak, Gerard Tichy, Livio Lorenzon.  A gladiator epic with a dash of humor thrown in.  Framed for helping the escape of several gladiators... WAR GODS OF BABYLON (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Howard Duff, Jocelyn Lane, Luciano Marin, Giancarlo Sbragia.  A powerful king and his naïve younger sibling clash over the affections of a gorgeous peasant woman...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...