Author Archive: Retro

An ex-vaudeville actor is the assistant to a doctor with Frankenstein aspirations. After murdering the doctor, the would-be actor finds it necessary to assume the identity of the dead physician. Edgar Allen Poe’s THE BLACK CAT is written into the storyline. All those nasty things people really wanted to see in the deadening 1930s: child birth, heroin addiction, eyeballs popping out of cats’ heads.

Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she’s disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.

A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.

Two kinky female roommates have odd habits. One is a hooker who beats up and robs her customers after she has sex with them. The other one takes money from men to perform stripteases for them at her place. One day she and a customer, Mr. Gregory, drop some LSD together and he begins to tell her a story that makes the girls realize this time they may have more on their hands than they bargained for

Teen couple decide to get married against their parents’ wishes, and subsequently get involved with gangsters and drugs. Produced by O’Dale Ireland. Dir. O’Dale Ireland

Mae Miller wants the finer things in life, luxuries that she feels her husband, a doctor, cannot provide for her. She begins to gamble in order to ring in spending money for herself, but winds up deep in debt. To pay her dues, she is reduced to the shame of selling herself.

Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women–along with the help of two men–plot an escape. (Josiah Howard, “Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.”)