Author Archive: Retro

A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle to shoot some sexy covers for horror novels. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.

To promote his latest work a playwright hires an actor to dress up as a ghost and crash a high society party. The plan backfires when a real spectre appears and begins knocking off the guests. Dir. Frank R. Strayer

A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed “The Half-Moon Killer” by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.

A man is turned into a “catlike” killer by means of a serum invented by a crazed scientist.

Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns–without his soul.

Struggling artist sells his soul to the devil when he buys a severed hand that once belonged to a monk. He winds up getting all of his worldly desires and then gives them back in order to save his soul.

After a bitter breakup with his girlfriend, a photojournalist takes an assignment to an area in the Pyrenees Mountains. On his way, he meets a beautiful writer whom he convinces to join him. They stop at an ancient hotel and hear rumors that the mountain area is haunted by a coven of witches, but proceed there anyway.

A young coed (Nan Barlow) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood. He originally cam from that village so he also recommends she stay at the “Raven’s Inn,” run by a Mrs. Newlis. She gets to the village and notices some weird happenings, but things begin to happen in earnest when she finds herself “marked” for sacrifice by the undead coven of witches. It seems that the innkeeper is actually the undead spirit of Elizabeth Selwyn, and the “guests” at the inn are the other witches who have come to celebrate the sacrifice on Candalmas Eve. As one of them said when Nan (Venetia Stevenson) walked away, “HE will be PLEASED.”

Lieutenant in Napoleon’s army follows a lovely young girl into a creepy castle inhabited by a crazy baron. Produced by Roger Corman in three days! Dir. Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill