Author Archive: Retro

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.

A resurrected Lee seeks revenge on Barker and Dor after luring them to his castle they are mentally and physically tortured. Based on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum.” AKA: CASTLE OF THE WALKING DEAD

An evil spirit Possesses the corpse of a diseased man. It must absorb the life energy of the living, in order for the corpse to not rot away. It moves to the suburbs, where, a neighbor begins to suspect something isn’t right.

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for “experiments.” Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother’s suspicions merely a red herring?

Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.

A magician travels to a mysterious ilsand, Lemuri, to battle a cult of evil.