Author Archive: Retro

Idealist quits his dead-end job and goes into business for himself as owner, and sole driver, of a taxi service. He finds out it’s not as easy as it looks. Color. Dir. John Astin.

Surfers are being brutally murdered. Is the culprit a sea monster or just one of the teens’ jealous parents?

After witnessing a man’s death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.

Spies discover that the Red Chinese have built a “doomsday machine” capable of destroying the surface of the Earth, and that they plan to use it within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Project Astra, a manned U.S. space mission to Venus, is in its final hours before launch when it is taken over by the military and nearly half of its all-male crew is replaced by women. The reason for this becomes apparent when, shortly after Astra leaves orbit, the Earth is completely destroyed in a global cataclysm! Is the human race doomed? What dangers and wonders await the crew of the Astra on their journey to Venus?

US Border Patrol agent Frank Cooper is keeping a fine balance between doing his duty and empathizing with illegal Mexican border jumpers in 1970s California.

A phantom horseman who appears every night with a human head tucked under his arm lets it be known that he is searching for eight gunfighters.

A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a “spider goddess” attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.

A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan whereby the barber murders people and the baker makes them into pies to be sold in his shop.