Author Archive: Retro

A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region

Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What’s Floriana’s game and who’s the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.

Mystery novelist foils a mad killer searching for loot in her haunted mansion. Adapted from a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Dir. Crane Wilbur

Creepy story of a young woman who becomes trapped between life & death when she accidentally drives her car off a bridge. A don’t miss Horror classic! Dir. Herk Harvey

A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He’s taken to a mental hospital where he’s outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he’s eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to find his mother has remarried, which sets him off on a murderous rampage.

Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he’s escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way?

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that’s rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.

Mad scientist Lugosi finds volunteers for human experimentation when two men end up stranded on his island.