Author Archive: Retro

Bikinied models are pursued by hooded zombies on board a pleasure yacht. Followed by RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by “famous stamp collector” and millionaire.

The year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmission, notifying of an imminent visit. Alien ship crash lands on Mars, and a rescue team is sent out from Earth. (The plot thickens! 🙂 Eventually a surviving female is located and brought on to the human ship. The female is light green with an amazing hair-do. After some unsuccessful attempts by the human crew to feed her, she is more or less left to herself. (Ominous, is it not?) While most of the crew sleeps, the Alien female hypnotizes the astronaut on guard. When the crew awakens, she is sleeping, and the guard is DEAD! Brief examination shows that the Alien ate his blood. THE QUEEN OF BLOOD! Naturally, there is a lot of blood plasma on the ship, so they feed the alien using that supply. When they are almost home, however, yet another crew member is eaten, a fight [...]

A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.

When inhabitants of a small German town begin dying of blood loss, the town council suspects vampires, in particular, the local misfit who keeps pet bats. Dir. Frank Strayer.

Also known as Alraune and Mandrake, The Unnatural is a kinky science fiction film, elevated by the bravura performance of Erich Von Stroheim. Playing a mad scientist (again?), Von Stroheim artificially inseminates an addled prostitute with the sperm of a vicious murderer. The result of this unholy union grows up to be Hildegarde Neff, who is none too stable herself. Combining the worst traits of both her parents, Neff lures unsuspecting males to premature deaths. Just when Neff is about to consummate her first genuine romance with Karl Bohm, she is killed by Von Stroheim, who has long harbored incestuous feelings for his “foster daughter.” Officially, The Unnatural was adapted by Fritz Rotter from a novel by H. H. Ewers, but one has the impression that Von Stroheim might have dropped a few suggestions of his own here and there.

Inventor designs a TV receiver which can pick up a signal anywhere in the world. When he’s found murdered, an FBI agent must use the invention to find the killer. Dir. Clifford Sanforth

Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work only to learn that Dr. Stephens was murdered by one of the patients and his successor, Dr. Geraldine Masters, is in charge and not very eager to have her working there. Charlotte finds her job hard as the patients torment and harass her at every turn. But that’s only half of it as Charlotte slowly discovers that Dr. Masters is not who she says she is for the whole asylum has been taken over by the patients bent on murder and mayhem, and Masters turns out to be one of them.