Author Archive: Retro

Master Wong and his daughter Wong Koo must get help from the mysterious wanderer Yuk-long when The snake god Choy Ching Sing wants to force Wong Koo to marry him.

Egyptologist insists on being buried with a rare jewel that has resurrection powers. If it’s not in his crypt, he promises he’ll seek revenge. Dir. T. Hayes Hunter

Two police detectives investigate a bizarre series of slasher murders at the local drive-in.

A barbarous fiend with an overpowering lust for blood.

A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.

Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!

Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics’ acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting the Critics’ Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour.

Tales of Frankenstein is an unsold TV pilot filmed in 1958. It was a co-production of Hammer Film Productions and Columbia Pictures. The film is a mixture of elements from both the Hammer and Universal Pictures versions of Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.