Author Archive: Retro

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. Young anthropologist researches folklore of the royal family and the curse of the king.

Neighborhood residents are terrorized by a series of murders that seem to be centered around the parishioners of a Catholic church.
Chilling movie about murders taking place in and around a Catholic church and around one family. Who is the killer? It’s not who you think and the ending will shock you. Everyone does a good job and good direction and also good creepy music. Recommended. Brook Shields’ first movie.

A disturbed young taxidermist exhumes his recently deceased girlfriend, brings her body to his family villa and proceeds to embalm her corpse, with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together.

In this British adventure, two gentlemen are assigned to stop an impending revolt on the treacherous Khyber mountain pass in India. En route they are waylaid by an angry rebel band. The film is also titled Fury of the Khybers.

In this comedy/drama, a young American soldier desperately wants to lose his virginity before he’s shipped off to Vietnam. He meets a friendly young woman who appears willing to help him solve his “problem.” But there’s something she hasn’t told him …

An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

Documentary-like look at the young sun-king. English subtitles. COLOR. Dir. Roberto Rossellini.

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.