Sinister Cinema

Hylton plays a pretty British lass who takes over a lonely, oceanside pub and boarding house. Much to her surprise, she discovers her inn is being used by a smuggling ring as a storage house for their contraband. Complicating things even further, she finds herself falling for one of the smugglers! An in-the-ocean fistfight is featured at the film's rousing climax. From 35mm

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.

Gordon Scott, Geneveive Grad, Michael Lane. The tyrant of Babylon, Balthasar, rules Assyria with an iron fist, oppressing and sacrificing his people to the goddess, Istar. The rightful heir to the throne Gordon leads a group of slaves in an attempt to over throw this bloodthirsty ruler and his evil followers. Another great Scott vehicle. Color, 16mm.

Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Jack Mulhall. An outstanding crime melodrama with Lon as a convict hiding out in Chinatown. He assumes the identity of a cripple in order to track down the businessman who framed him 15 years earlier. He discovers his daughter has fallen in love the businessman's son. Music score. From 16mm.

Harry is a taxi driver who finds an odd contraption on the back seat of his cab that renders him invisible. He soon uses it to gain wealth and fame. Watch for the scene at the racetrack where Harry scores a fortune. His servant, though, has other ideas, stealing the device and robbing a major bank. The climactic chase seen is great fun, with a cool twist ending. Piel made three sci-fi films in the '30s. This was the first. With English subs. 35mm.

This exceptional sci-fi film is filled with satire, comedy, and socially provocative moments. A factory worker's corpse is found in a culvert. At the autopsy, the body miraculously comes back to life! An alien named Omicron has taken control and slowly starts to learn his body's functions. Some of these scenes will make you howl! His presence on Earth is to study humans and determine an invasion plan. Omicron longs for his home planet, but his requests to return home are denied. To learn about...

This is one of the most underrated British horror films of the 1970s, complete with a wonderful cast. Hardy plays the head of an asylum who has inherited an eerie old mansion from a deceased patient a patient who murdered his wife and kids on the premises! Legend has it that there is a hidden fortune somewhere in the walls of the house. Also searching for the loot, though, is Lee the mysterious local doctor along with his beautiful sister, played to the hilt by Collins. Both are wonderful in...

A young couple arrives at a mysterious old mansion. They are greeted by the mansion's only occupant, the housekeeper, who is dedicated to the dead mistress of the house. What does he know about the dark secrets held within the sinister walls? That night the couple is slain by a murdering ghost! Other guests that follow seem to be in line for the same, horrible fate. Subtitled in English. From 16mm.

There's a werewolf afoot in a sinister old castle! It all centers around the surviving admirers of an aging countess (wonderfully played by Whitelaw) who have gathered in her isolated castle to pay their respects. However, it doesn't take them long to realize that they will never be permitted to leave alive! There are scores to settle from the past and a vicious lycanthrope is out for revenge. And furthermore night is beginning to fall. The climax of this short British made-for-TV feature...

What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is it's sooo enjoyable. A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident. He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia, leaving another driver and his girlfriend unconscious. He falls in with a traveling preacher and takes up a new life as a reverend. Trouble rears its ugly head, though, when his former sexpot girlfriend (now an ex-con) and her crooked boyfriend come looking for blackmail. The wedding...

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...

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.