Author Archive: Retro

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.

A black tribal prince was entombed alive 3,000 years ago for loving another man’s woman. His lust for revenge re-animates his mummified corpse and unleashes him on the modern world, leaving a trail of decapitated victims.

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.