Author Archive: Retro

To avoid the threat of nuclear war, scientists build a drilling vehicle and voyage to the center of the earth. Thousands of miles underground, they begin to lose crewmembers at an alarming rate. Dir. Terry O. Morse

A masked killer prowls the beaches of Argentina, injecting beautiful girls with heroin, and then using weird organ music to make them his zombie slaves.

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

A stage hand is knocked out and has a dream of becoming monarch of a Graustarkian kingdom, rife with court intrigue, an assassination plot and operetta-style musical numbers.

Several people are involved in a bus crash, and we turn back time to see how they came to be there. Dir. Jean Renoir.

Dir. Roman Polanski.A small and frail barefoot slave, portrayed by Polanski, plays the flute and beats the drum to entertain his master who endlessly sits on his rocking chair in his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps wildly, wipes his master’s brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun and holds a urinal for him.

British crime drama about insurance fraud.

Historical epic about Genghis Khan’s invasion of Europe.