Author Archive: Retro

To attain immortality, a count must kill 13 virgins, but is drawn, quartered and beheaded for his crimes before he can finish. 35 years later, his servant pieces him back together for one last shot at eternal life. Director Reinl’s wife, the yummy Karin Dor (You Only Live Twice) plays the 13th Virgin. English dubbed. Dir. Harald Reinl

A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves “The Inseparables.”

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter’s.

An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.

In 1870s Transylvania, scientist Dr. Callistratus is put to death by villagers who wrongly believe he’s a vampire. However, his horribly disfigured henchman, Carl is on hand to orchestrate a life-saving heart transplant.

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.

Poor but happy young couple receive money from a wealthy relative, and realize their dream to take a trip around the world, but wind up less happy than before. Written by Alfred Hitchcock. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

A frightening doomsday drama about an alien organism with the potential to destroy all living things.