(1965, Upgraded 7/14/22) Stéphane Fey, François Vibert, Marie Laforêt, Reine Courtois, Michael Lonsdale.  In a small 1800s Massachusetts town, a student of theology becomes fascinated with a dilapidated old country mansion.  He soon learns the place is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman, whose father was responsible for her death...

(1969, upgraded 12/19/23) Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi.  A fantastic film!  The setting is 1925.  After breaking out of an asylum for the insane, a medical student finds that he’s a dead-ringer for an heir to a fortune.  Assuming the heir’s identity, he soon makes his way to a sinister island ruled by a web-fingered mad scientist and his minions of malformed men and women. Many moments of terror and torture... 

(1976, Upgraded 7/12/22) Patrick Magee, Madge Ryan, Michael Kitchen, Gerald James, Bill Dean.  A grand, literate tale about werewolves and lycanthropy.  Patrick Magee’s performance in What Big Eyes is one of the finest acting jobs by an actor in a horror film that you'll ever see.  He is AMAZING.  An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers that pet shop owner Magee has been receiving and conducting bizarre experiments on wolves...

(1959, aka VAMPIRE MAN, upgraded 12/5/24) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi.   One of the earliest Japanese horror films with a modern setting.  A young woman is celebrating her birthday.  Her boyfriend tells of a mysterious woman who lurks about the grounds.  The woman turns out to be the girl’s mother, who disappeared years before but hasn’t aged a day!  In the meantime watch out for the snappily dressed vampire man with the huge fangs!

(1948, aka THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART) Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Aubrey Woods.  Tod's up to his maniacal tricks again in this grisly bodysnatching tale.  Tod makes money selling corpses to a med- school.  When demand grows, he decides to murder people for their bodies.  Slaughter is delightfully wicked and really gets his...

(1944, Upgraded 4/8/21) Buster Crabbe, Julie London, Barton MacLane, Fifi D'Orsay, Ray Corrigan, Herbert Rawlinson. Buster comes to darkest jungle country searching for a hidden cache of embezzeled money.  What he discovers is a female plane crash survivor and her monstrous pet gorilla...

(1951, Upgraded 2/28/21) Lon Chaney, Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh, Gisela Werbisek.  The setting is a steamy jungle estate where a deadly love triangle has evolved between Burr, Payton, and Cavanagh.  Things start to spiral out of control when a voodoo priestess puts a curse on Burr, which slowly makes him lust for the jungle and transforms him into...

(1966, Updated 12/30/20) Lon Chaney, Carol Ohmart, Jill Banner, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Sid Haig, Mantan Moreland. Perversely delightful, often hilarious, and downright horrifying. Chaney is the household master of an eerie mansion full of regressive psychos. Mantan Moreland's famous window-slice-and-dice opening scene gives you a grim but humous taste of what's coming...

(1959, Upgraded 8/27/21) Tom Pittman, Virginia Aldridge, Malcom Atterbury, Howard Veidt. Gritty teenage crime drama about a smart, but geeky high school kid who makes the mistake of falling for a pretty face. He does homework for a good-looking...

(1933, UPGRADED 9/16/21) Boris Karloff, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Hyson, Ernest Thesiger, Sir Cedric Hardewicke, Sir Ralph Richardson. This is the one of the true horror masterpieces of British cinema of the 1930s. Karloff has great fun as a dead Egyptologist who returns from the grave to seek vengeance on those who defiled his tomb. Much of the action takes place in a...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND—UPGRADED 9/17/21) Bois Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder,  Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Ray Corrigan, Philo McCullough. Boris plays a "well-intentioned" mad scientist trying to find a cure for paralysis.  Unfortunately, his research depends on spinal fluid taken from living (soon to be dead) humans.  But when an escaped gorilla crashes into his lab...

(1963, Updated 4/28/22) Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze. Jack’s a wandering soldier who traces a ghostly lady to the castle of a mysterious baron played by you-know-who. Strange, supernatural things begin to happen...

(1932, World Wide, Upgraded 12/12/21) David Manners, Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Adrienne Ames, Vince Barnett. A big time movie star is shot dead (the gun was supposed to have blanks) right in front of the cameras after receiving an on screen kiss.  Van Sloan is the director who continues to give directions to the corpse, thinking all along his actor is simply lying down on the job!  Manners is the studio writer who...

(1934, Upgraded 10/15/21) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, E. Alyn Warren, Lotus Long, Robert Emmett O'Connor. No classic, but critics have been unkind to this film that contains one of Bela's meatier villian roles. He has some priceless dialogue as he plays a madman seeking the...

(1939, Upgraded 4-9-21) The Ritz Brothers, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Anita Louise, Patsy Kelly, Edward Norris. A good horror comedy with the Ritz Brothers after the mad killer, "the gorilla," who has been...

(1939, Upgraded 8/1/21) Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Wilfred Walter, Edmon Ryan, Alexander Field. One of the best shockers of the '30's. Bela gleefully murders people and then throws them out his window onto the mud flats of the Thames--all so he can get their life insurance money.  His cover is an eeire home for the blind next to the mud flats of the murky...

(1941, Upgraded 4/21/21) Bela Lugosi, John McGuire, Polly Ann Young, Betty Compson. The reappearance of a man's "thought to be dead" wife turns him into a crazed killer.  She peers in the windows of Bela's estate and when he sees her it sets him off into a hypnotic state.  He then shambles about the house killing...