Author Archive: Retro

A Bolivian rebel-force leader attempts to survive in the mountains as he must escape from governmental military troops.

Triple XXX. A failed music hall performer inherits a brothel when his aunt dies. He takes over the running of the business and falls in love with its star attraction, beautiful prostitute Virginia.

The descendants of a witch hunting family and their close friends are stalked and killed by a mysterious entity.

Astronauts crash on Mars, meet its Wizard and stumble into a few bizarre creatures. AKA: WIZARD OF MARS

A recovering alcoholic learns from a detective that a gruesome murder had been committed in her house.

Exploitation drama about trucker’s daughter caught in crime and romance.

A woman is pursued by criminals over a stolen inheritance.

A ghost story set around the time of the Mexican Revolution, THE SCAPULAR concerns an old woman on her deathbed who tells the priest giving her last rites of the strange and powerful influence a religious medal had on her four sons. It’s told mostly in flashback and the fog-bound atmospherics “Golden Age” cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa provides in abundance makes it look like we’re observing the otherworldly goings-ons through the mists of time. If using black & white was a deliberate choice for this 1968 flick, it was a stoke of genius. 

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.