Author Archive: Retro

This cheap Mexican horror film is a remake of Cardona’s Doctor of Doom (1962), spiced with nudity, medical footage, women wrestling, and cheap gore shots. Female masked wrestler Lucy (who looks like the devil) beats the stuffing out of an opponent – a wrestling lady with a red costume like Catwoman. Lucy finally hurls her opponent from the squared circle and knocks her out cold. Although Lucy’s cop boyfriend tries to convince her that it’s all part of the show, Lucy can no longer handle the stress of wrestling. Meanwhile, a mad scientist (Dr. Krellman) attempts to cure his son’s leukemia by doing the first ‘ape-to-human’ heart transplant. He decides to put a gorilla’s heart into the lad and orders his flunky to “prepare the gorilla!”. There is actual footage of a graphic open heart surgery inserted in the ape operation scenes. This of course causes the boy to turn into a big stinky man-ape. [...]

A farmer obsessed with his dead mother becomes a murderer.

Crazy horror/comedy/musical/western has a singing cowpoke riding out against a swamp creature to avenge his father. English dubbed. Dir. Rafael Baled¢n, Stem Segar

A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.

Jacques Cousteau explores Antarctica with his crew.

Italian crime thriller.

Jill is surprised and angry when her computer-genius boyfriend decides to quit his job in a big company for unclear reasons. But when her children disapear mysteriously and seem to have been kidnapped, she wants to know more, and discovers that she may be caught in a DEADLY TRAP…

Glamours gaming capital on the French Riviera is the backdrop for this tongue-in-cheek adventure with Curtis as a brash millionaire who jones forces with British noblman Moore to battle an internation conspiracy in a dangerous game of life and death.