Author Archive: Retro

A scientist brings a mummy back to life, but when it is unwrapped he gets more than he bargained for.
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr.
Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan where they discover a mummified body.
When the mummy is ressurected it turns out to be a werewolf. Lon Chaney, Jr. stars as The Mummy and The Werewolf. A little known horror masterpiece.

The mysterious figure known as the Vampire comes to England to complete experiments in his mad bid to gain control of the world. When the radar-controlled Robot which he had ordered shipped to him is delivered instead to Mother Riley, the Vampire, through radar control, has the Robot transport itself as well as Mother Riley to the proper destination…as the old lady goes into a whirl of side-splitting action in a determined effort to frustrate the plans of the sinister Vampire.

Dir. Fritz Lang. Lang’s last film. A series of peculiar murders occur in a Berlin hotel. Police believe the killer thinks he is a reincarnated Dr. Mabuse.

The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.

A man invites a group of people to a holiday on his island castle, but his real intentions are to kill them all.

Evil professor turns dead criminals into zombies who commit crimes at his bidding. Dir. Wallace Fox. A college professor transforms kills his criminal followers and buries them in the basement. A junky doctor revives them as zombies willing to do his evil bidding.

An evil, sadistic count lives in a waterfront castle with his insane family members. One day the survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore near the castle and finds himself a captive there.

Bela Lugosi is a nice gent. A good doctor who is recently widowed. When his wife turns up not quite dead, he experiences the uncontrolable urge to strangle people under her hypnotic suggestion

In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.