Author Archive: Retro

After fifty mail-order brides are kidnapped by bandits, the blind gunfighter hired to escort them heads into Mexico in pursuit.

A scientist’s experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.

An evil desert bandit kidnaps the son of a sultan and raises him as his own. It turns out that the son has magic powers and is invincible. Years later, as a young man, he falls in love with a woman and is preparing to raid a village–when he finds out that the woman is actually his brother’s fiance and the village belongs to his real father.

A group of men and women travel to a Carribean resort to discover themselves sexually but unfortunately one of them has also discovered that they like to murder people too.

The life story of Napoleon, from his days as a soldier in the French army to his exile to the island of Elba.

A photojournalist traveling through the Pyrenees on assignment with a beautiful writer stays overnight at an ancient Spanish castle, only to hear that the adjoining mountain is occupied by a coven of witches.

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage. He is Shito: he brings to life a woman who was abused by her husband, two swordsmen who want to prove their skill, and a young man yearning for love. Shito leads them in attacks on people powerless in the face of such spirits. It’s up to Jubei, the son of one of the resurrected swordsmen, to seek out a maker of swords who can fashion him with a weapon that will kill the undead. Showdowns loom.

Mexican revolutionary controls town and falls for the daughter of an aristocrat.

Son of a veteran actor brought down by alcoholism tries to help his father get back on his feet. Dir. Julien Duvivier.