Author Archive: Retro

A woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in her relationship with a ghostly, speechless presence who, obviously, doesn’t quite say who he is.

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Morbid playboy becomes obsessed with his deceased, red haired wife, and begins torturing red-headed women in his very own dungeon. English dubbed. Dir. Emilio P. Miraglia

Mad doctor conducts his research on the criminal mind by inviting escaped convicts on his yacht where glandular experiments will be performed against their will. Dir. Victor Halperin

Scientists exploring the ocean become trapped beneath the sea, discovering a network of caves supplied with oxygen by a volcanic vent. Dir. Jerry Warren

Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein’s granddaughter Maria, who proceeds to transform Jesse’s slow-witted pal Hank into a bald zombie, which she names Igor.

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor’s head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.

Sherlock Holmes and Watson travel to the home of their old friend Baskerville who wants Holmes to figure out who stole his prized race horse Silver Blaze and murdered the groom. The primary suspect is the young rider who loves the daughter of Baskerville, but he is innocent. Holmes finds the horse on a neighboring farm and deduces that his old enemy Moriarity is behind the mayhem.

David is the new kid at Central High. The only person he knows is Mark, who runs with the local toughs led by Craig. David keeps his distance, preferring not to join the “club.” He tries to convince the other students not to be pushed around, and intervenes once too often on their behalf. When he directly becomes a victim of Craig and the boys, David orchestrates a plan that causes an attrition problem amongst the members of the clique. Mark worries for his safety, even though he and David were once friends.