Author Archive: Retro

Bela Lugosi is a coffin-sleeping scientist who needs food for his robot. Arthur Lucan reprises his role in this the last of the Old Mother Riley series.

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women. His unexplained ability to turn into a hideous monster helps with this problem but does nothing to win her love. The doctor’s woes multiply as the police and the girl’s boyfriend begin to close in on him. Memorable, jazzy score by Armando Traviolji. Dir. Anton Giulio Majano

A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.

ABC-TV pilot about a writer, Andy Stuart, teaming up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.

Isolated Grecian villagers set off an explosion in a cave, disturbing an ancient, invisible predator. English dubbed. Dir. Jos? Antonio Nieves Conde

High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.

Mad doctor devises a unique way to earn his fortune: he kills people, gets a bundle in insurance money, then revives his victims. Everything goes as planned until Scotland Yard starts snooping around. Dir. Thomas Bentley

They’re coming to get you, Barbara! Seven people from various backgrounds are trapped in an isolated farmhouse, and must fight for their lives against hordes of flesh-eating zombies, as well as each other’s personalities. The classic that defined a genre. Written by George A. Romero. Dir. George A. Romero

Two women plot the murder of an unsuspecting husband, but he turns the tables on them.