Author Archive: Retro

A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother’s death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.

After her sister dies of an apparent suicide, a young woman enrolls in her sister’s private school to investiage what really happened.

A woman accused of being a witch vows a curse of death upon her accusers.

A luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before.

A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.

A crazed scientist needs primates to conduct experiments to prove his own theory of evolution, so he organizes an expedition into the jungles of Borneo to capture the animals he needs.

Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for De Lange by dismissing his expressionistic cubist work as “tripe” and later gloating about it in his column, the distraught artist goes to the river to drown himself. There he discovers the half-drowned body of the notorious serial killer, the Creeper, and takes him back to his studio to recover. Feeling empowered by the friendship of the acromegalic sociopath, De Lange tasks him with murdering the critics who have pilloried him in print. When successful commercial artist Steve Morrow is wrongly suspected of the crimes, his art critic girlfriend Joan Medford decides to follow her instinct about a mysterious bust De Lange has covered up and snoops around his studio.

In the near future, a non-conformist architect becomes obsessed with the building of a transatlantic underwater tunnel from England to America. Dir. Maurice Elvey

A brilliant surgeon keeps the severed head of his financee alive after car accident. The head develops a loathing for her former lover. Famous so-bad-it’s-good film.