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, Anamorphic Widescreen) Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie Helene Breillat.  Dracula takes a mortal woman to bear his son. WEREWOLF WOMAN (1976, Anamorphic 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...