Author Archive: Retro

Ed Byrnes of 77 Sunset Strip and veteran actor Gilbert Roland star in this spaghetti western spoof of the early Clint Eastwood westerns. Edd Byrnes is the Eastwood type hero, Gilbert Roland is a much less subdued version of the Eli Wallach character. Three dangerous men are after a hidden fortune, lots of double-crosses and it moves fast. Lots of action and gunplay. (Aka Any Gun Can Play).

Brilliant historical drama centering on Russian painter who gets involved with a peasant uprising. Second part in COLOR. English subtitles. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

The story of Anthony Blunt, the “fourth man” in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.

Vampire’s girlfriend needs a heart transplant, so he takes his hunchbacked ogre and goes after her sister to get a compatable organ. English dubbed. Dir. Gerardo de Leon

Follows a well-to-do publisher and family man who begins to receive severed body parts in the mail two years after his mistress committed suicide. Along with one of these bloody parcels is a letter of blackmail from the dead woman’s former lesbian lover, who seeks vengeance.

A stripper on a flight to Las Vegas has a stopover in a small Texas airport. She gets taken hostage by two Cuban gangsters on the run from the cops, witnesses one thug kill the other and is chased across the desert by the killer, stopping only for some skinny-dipping.

A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group planning to build a resort hotel land on the island and discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters created by the aliens in an attempt to conquer the world.