Sinister Cinema

This Special 2-Disc Edition gives you both the Anamorphic Italian version with English subtitles, as well as the Anamorphic American version in English. A classic Italian horror film about a mad scientist who captures young women and drains their blood, thereby helping to rejuvenate an aging, evil duchess. Directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava. Considered the grand-daddy of all Italian horror films that followed in the 1960s.

This short made-for-TV British feature is only loosely based on the classic short story of the same title by M.R. James, but it is extremely eerie and chilling, just like you'd expect from an M.R. James work. A man is walking his dog when he is confronted with a supernatural horror that sends him stumbling and screaming into and open field. The authorities find him dead, nearly every bone in his body broken. Later, a beautiful young television producer is passed a slip of paper (slipped into...

1971, aka THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH This film is considered by many to be a landmark giallo film. An ambassador's promiscuous wife discovers that either her husband, her ex-lover, or her current lover might actually be a sadistic slasher who has been brutally slaying women in the area. The scene of the maniac killing a prostitute in a car is most disturbing. Grim, but stylishly done. Nice color, widescreen, from 35mm.

Ed Perry, Andy Stewart, Bruce Hunter. Two rival countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars. Some great outer space scenes with really hilarious-looking monsters doing battle against each other. In color, too. From 16mm.

Bobby Van, Grant Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, Denny Miller, Mala Powers. The year is 1975. A spaceship is launched from the Earth on a mission to Venus. As it streaks through space, its passengers are horrified to learn that Earth has been destroyed by a nuclear holocaust they witness it on their telescreen. The Red Chinese have destroyed the planet with a nuclear doomsday device! They then devise a plan to save what's left of the human race. An interesting and equally obscure American sci-fi...

As far as we know, Fritz Lang's Journey to the Lost City has not been seen in an anamorphic format since its Colorscope release by AIP in 1960. The film was originally culled from two separate movies, The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) and its sequel, The Indian Tomb. In this great 2-disc edition, you get both films in their anamorphic widescreen format. Most of us know the story: Hubschmid is an architect who has come to the far-off city of Eschnapur to do work for a Maharajah (Walter Reyer). He...

Don't stay at this inn if your a good-looking lady who shows even the slightest propensity toward men. The two crazy-sister inkeepers will have their way with you. A grisly film in which murder victims are hidden in large container of cooking wine. This chilling, Spanish horror film is highly recommended.

Nadja Tiller, Peter Van Eyck, Nicole Badal, Amedeo Nazarri, Hannah Wieder. A brilliant piece of filmmaking about a group of mental misfits in a way-out-of-this-world sanatorium. Tiller is an alcoholic poet battling madness. Van Eyck, also an alcoholic, is the handsome artist who befriends her. Wieder, however, almost steals the show as the sex kitten nymphomaniac who is also suicidal. There are many bits of brilliance in this outstanding film. Wow! Our absolute highest recommendation! 16mm ...

This French crime-drama is simply brilliant. Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police. He's picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who's returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child. The car crashes and the millionaire is killed his body washed away in a stream. Fresnay survives, though, saved by a doctor (Ledoux) who knows Fresnay's identity but coerces him into taking the millionaire's identity....

Jacques Sernas, Genevieve Grad, John Drew Barrymore, Gianna Maria Canale, Gordon Mitchell. Fine sword & sandal fare with Sernas as a Roman official sent to Greece to prevent war between Rome and Corinth. He finds himself at odds with Barrymore's group of freedom fighters. Lots of cool battle scenes. Great color, widescreen, 35mm.

Nothing like a fun, schlocky American-made werewolf movie set in the Deep South and that's what this is. The werewolf makeup isn't exactly Jack Pierce, but it's still pretty cool. The film begins in a rustic old mansion with the stabbing death of an old man as he lays in his death bed something about a family curse! The young heir to the estate returns home, but soon finds he has also inherited a family curse that will turn him into a werewolf on the next full moon! Before you know it,...

Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls. Things get nutty when some of the girls die mysteriously. A hunchback killer is on the loose! Scotland Yard is called. More murders occur, the screams of the victims being silenced by the sound of a church organ. Good creepy fun. Color, 16mm.