Author Archive: Retro

Christopher Lee and Mel Ferrer star in this classic tale of a pianist whose hands are ruined in a plane crash. The hands of a condemned murderer are grafted onto his and he becomes obsessed and feels they will murder again. Basil Sydney and Donald Wolfit co-star. (Aka The Hands of Orlac)

Failed scientist captures a Yeti during an excursion to the Himalayas and decides to bring it back to Los Angeles. Dir. W. Lee Wilder

Frustrated artist goes insane band begins to kill off Manhattan residents with a carpenter’s drill. Directorial debut of famed director Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”)

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress

Lugosi plays a mad scientist trying to devise a race of atomic-powered supermen. Written and Produced by Edward D. Wood, Jr. Dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.

Based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic, this story concerns a young girl who becomes obsessed with a portrait of a now deceased relative. Eventually, the spirit of the oval portrait begins to take over the girl’s soul.

Lugosi is a chemist whose backstabbing business partners cheat him out of some profits. To get even, he develops a race of mutant bats, training them to attack wearers of a certain chemical, which he mixes into a shaving cream. Dir. Jean Yarbrough

Bela Lugosi is a coffin-sleeping scientist who needs food for his robot. Arthur Lucan reprises his role in this the last of the Old Mother Riley series.