Author Archive: Retro

A scientist creates a beautiful “perfect woman”, but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her.

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.

Dying millionaire leaves his relatives explicit instructions that his loot is to be buried with him, or he’ll come back to haunt them. Based on “The Door With Seven Locks” by Edgar Wallace. Dir. Norman Lee

Five women who were once members of a secret club are invited to a reunion at a remote castle in California. There they are trapped by an evil man on the edge of madness.

A handicapped woman believes her husband is out to kill her. She ends up dead, but returns to haunt him. AKA: DOMINIQUE IS DEAD; THE AVENGING SPIRIT.

A jazz pianist’s ex-lover refuses to let go, leading to haunting experiences after she falls to her death.

Feed Me, Seymour!! A nebbish raises a bloodthirsty plant that grows and grows and grows on a diet of human flesh. Nicholson is hilarious as a masochistic dental patient. Produced and Directed by Roger Corman…in three days & two nights! Dir. Roger Corman.

Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his savage tastes in India during his father’s missionary work there. Cushing fears that his son will escape to prey upon the effete guests at his rural English estate during a cross-country auto race.

Dir. Conreid Veidt. One of the biggest classics of all-time. Classic silent about a carnival based hypnotist and sleepwalking girl snatcher. Influential cinematic masterpiece as a magician hypnotizes a sleepwalker to carry out his murderous doings. English titles.