Author Archive: Retro

In the 15th century, a young woman is accused of being a witch and committing a murder. She is burned at the stake. Years later, during a plague, she is revived by lightning. She returns to her village to prevent her daughter from marrying the man who actually committed the murder for which she was executed.

A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community.

The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.

A woman searching for her missing sister arrives at a small coastal village, where her sister was last seen. Unknown to her, her arrival has been noted by a crazed scientist, who has designs on her.

Woman dies of terror when shown the death mask of a man she framed. But that’s only the beginning…From a slab in the morgue, the woman tells her story of fear and treachery. Lugosi’s only color feature, brought to you in Glorious Cinecolor. Dir. William Christy Cabanne.

Wealthy investor bets he can spend the night in a creepy wax museum, unaware that his intended son-in-law plans his demise. Dir. George Pearson

Lone survivor of a freighter drifts to a desolate island where a doctor conducting experiments calcualted to turn panther into human being finds him. The creature gets loose causing havoc before its destruction.

A cancer researcher on a remote Caribbean island discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the unfortunate man is forced by his evil employer to create an army of the creatures in order to conquer the world.