Author Archive: Retro

The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.

A man invites a group of people to a holiday on his island castle, but his real intentions are to kill them all.

Evil professor turns dead criminals into zombies who commit crimes at his bidding. Dir. Wallace Fox. A college professor transforms kills his criminal followers and buries them in the basement. A junky doctor revives them as zombies willing to do his evil bidding.

An evil, sadistic count lives in a waterfront castle with his insane family members. One day the survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore near the castle and finds himself a captive there.

Bela Lugosi is a nice gent. A good doctor who is recently widowed. When his wife turns up not quite dead, he experiences the uncontrolable urge to strangle people under her hypnotic suggestion

In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.

A black tribal prince was entombed alive 3,000 years ago for loving another man’s woman. His lust for revenge re-animates his mummified corpse and unleashes him on the modern world, leaving a trail of decapitated victims.

Two low-life punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everyone hostage and subject them to various forms of torture and mayhem.

The story of Sweeney Todd! Psycho barber makes a deal to provide the filling for a baker’s meat pies–just try to guess what kind of meat he uses! Written by George King. Dir. George King