Author Archive: Retro

Two low-life punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everyone hostage and subject them to various forms of torture and mayhem.

The story of Sweeney Todd! Psycho barber makes a deal to provide the filling for a baker’s meat pies–just try to guess what kind of meat he uses! Written by George King. Dir. George King

An obsessed researcher takes a boat of convicts into the ocean in order to perform horrific experiments. Not too surprisingly, the prisoners soon rebel against this fate and lead a mutiny in order to take over the ship in this dark thriller.

Dir. Roger Corman’s satire set in Cuba right after the revolution. Refugees are aided in their escape from the revolution by a man who murders them for their money and blames it on a sea monster

A madman seeks revenge by setting an army of walking corpses to stalk the streets of London.

Dir. Roger Corman. Flaming passions against a background of weird adventure! Scarlet Women Out to Get Every Thrill They Could Steal!A plucky police woman infiltrates a group of hardened female criminals who are planning to break jail and retrieve their loot of diamonds from its swampy hiding place. Complications arise when the women abduct Connors and begin fighting each other.

Brilliant, crazy surgeon (Stroheim) develops a powerful sedative which produces a death-like state. When the man who stole Stroheim’s girlfriend is admitted to the Emergency Room, it’s a grand opportunity to test the serum, and get a little revenge. Written and Produced by John H. Auer. Based on Poe’s “The Premature Burial”. Dir. John H. Auer

Teenagers Reg, Skip, Julie and Pam go out for an afternoon of water skiing on a nice day. They come ashore on an island that is being used as a testing center for a scientist and agents from “an eastern power.” They seek to turn the people of the United States into easily controlled zombie like creatures. The agents steal Reg’s boat, stranding the teens on the island. The four friends are then held captive in cages able only to speculate on their fate. Though they have already been testing the formula on convicts and drunks, the enemy scientist and agents plan to conduct final tests on the teens before they use it on the rest of America. Meanwhile, two of their friends, whom the captives had planned to meet later, search for their missing friends. After a series of suspicious encounters, they urge the corrupt sheriff to search the island where their friends are [...]