Author Archive: Retro

Psychiatrist revives a dead werewolf and keeps him locked in a dungeon as a guinea pig for her mind control experiments. A wild werewolf vs. werewoman climax! Dir. Jos‚ Mar¡a Zabalza.

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. Dir. Jesus Franco’s 1970 VAMPYROS LESBOS (inexplicably titled above “El Signo del vampiro”) is the masterpiece of all Euro-exploitation genres. You can swoon over the Greenaway lighting in SUSPIRIA; you can thrill to the comic-book metaphysics of THE BEYOND; a few solitary freaks might smack their chops over CANNIBAL FEROX. But Franco’s fever-dreamy Z movie, a dusted-out collage of St. Tropez glamour, poisonous softcore sex, platter-party lounge music gone Satanic, and more crazy zooms than the entire body of martial-arts movies combined.

Based on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Two prisoners escape, one a peculiar old man. How peculiar is he? In flashbacks we see him kill a crippled boy and a deformed clock-maker because of his hate for human imperfection and the sound of beating hearts. Ending is in COLOR. Dir. Enrique Carreras

A bumbling scientist works on a cure for the common cold but the serum he develops makes him invisible.

A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.

An evil ruler uses witchcraft and evil spirits to keep his subjects in line, but the his reign of terror prompts the people to revolt.

Angelo is a man with a disfigurement in form of a slash across his mouth. While he deals with this, he falls for a beautiful girl named Dea.