Author Archive: Retro

Six of seven tourists in a east European castle overnight are victims of a helper of the devil. Is Satan willing to spare their souls?

A young husband’s sexual fantasies frighten his new wife and cause her to seek advice from Carmilla, a descendent of Mircalla de Karnstein. Carmilla seduces the young bride and forces her to commit gory acts of mutilation.

Dangerous killer known as “The Tiger” fronts a charity which supposedly helps ex-convicts, but in reality, steers them toward more criminal activities. Produced by George King. Dir. George King

Nostradamus, the vampire, boasts of killing the police inspector.

Edward Jekyll tries to prove his father’s experiments valid, but faces betrayal.

Savage’s starring debut as a misunderstood mama’s boy with a homicidal bent.

American reporter assigned to interview a scientist in Tokyo is drugged and injected with an strange elixer. Soon he gets a rash on his shoulder, which develops into something more. Written by George P. Breakston. Dir. George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane

A gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son. First appearance of Marin’s famous character Coffin Joe. Coffin Joe is a funeral agent who terrorizes a small town. He mocks people’s beliefs and is obsessed with the idea of generating the perfect son. He pursues his goal endlessly and cruelly.

Professor “Johnny Longbow” Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.