Author Archive: Retro

A monstrous Snowbeast is attacking people at a winter ski resort. With Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan and Clint Walker.

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. Taking an avid interest in her welfare is detective Calvin Carruthers. Taking almost no interest at all, is social worker Harold Mullins who is completely under Mrs. Deere’s thumb. Lots of unpleasant surprises are in store for Ellie, not the least of which is the fact that Mrs. Deere and her handyman are both brutal sadists, who run the orphanage like a concentration camp and the strong possibility that her mother’s hammer-wielding killer is now stalking her.

A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.

Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.

A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.

An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner’s wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.

Adaptation of Connell’s “Most Dangerous Game” has a mad scientist luring teenagers to his island, where he hunts and kills them. How often do you get to see Mike Brady (Reed) in a Horror movie?! Written and Produced by Ralph Brooke. Dir. Ralph Brooke

A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.