Sinister Cinema

A girl comes home from an orphanage to live with her parents. Also living in the house are a nanny and older sister, both of whom dislike her. Soon the house is filled with supernatural terror as the jealous older sister (who can change into a snake-like creature!) stops at nothing to kill her younger sibling, all the while aided by a silver-haired hag. There are tense moments of terror in this modern-day-setting Japanese horror film. Several dream sequences are filled to the brim with...

McClure and his Coast Guard helicopter pal come upon a shipwreck in an area known as "the Devil's Triangle." When McClure is lowered to the ship he finds dead bodies all over the place. The only survivor is a beautiful blonde (Kim Novak), who's in a confused state of mind. Unfortunately, a cable snaps on the helicopter's rescue basket and McClure and Novak are stuck on the boat until the chopper can return. She tells a grisly tale of what happened. Little does McClure suspect that the evil...

One of the most remarkable films we've seen in 30 years of business. An archaeological team unearths the body of an ancient witch and pulls a stake from her rotted corpse. Soon a beautiful naked girl is found in the witch's grave. The villagers are sure she is the ancient witch returned to life. She soon sets about bewitching men in the most erotic ways imaginable, without resorting to full-blown sex. The scenes of Mane dancing nude were intended to be mesmerizing and they are! The film's...

One night a village ferryman hears the passenger bell. At the dock, he finds a dark figure waiting to cross the black waters. It's Death, who has come for him. Soon after, young Maria takes over as the new ferryman. One night she gives a ride to a wounded man who is marked for death. But when Death comes she tries to save him. The scene where Maria dances with death is a great moment. She later flees over the dark countryside and hides in a church, but to no avail. With Death at her heals,...

A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. Radiation has caused ordinary leeches to mutate into giant monsters. They threaten the folks in a small bayou town. Vickers is at her sleaziest, sexiest best as the local storekeepers unfaithful wife. She and her lover are caught by her husband and driven into the swamp where the monsters pull them down into the slime. Why did she marry Bruno to begin with? Lots of great rubber-monsters-causing-mayem scenes. Unforgettable. From a beautiful 16mm original...

So bad it's great. Martians travel into the void of outer space on a secret mission to Earth. Their mad scheme? Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him back to Mars! For what purpose? To engage his services for brightening the lives of deprived Martian kids, who really don't have a Santa-type character to give them presents once a year. Okay, so this isn't the greatest movie ever made, but it's still a fairly good family Christmas fantasy that's still liked by the young ones in the household. Film's...

Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England. Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame in a bar. His new adventure gets out of hand, though, when he finds himself mired in a plot involving a gang of murdering diamond thieves. From 16mm.

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...

Hines is haunted by the same dream every night, a dream in which he dies during a massive explosion at a chemical plant. His wife, too, is haunted by similar dreams. And why do they seem to be reliving the same 24 hours, with slight variations, day after day. Watch for the bizarre twist ending. This is a haunting made-for-TV British sci-fi feature based on a fantastic story by one of the great masters of science fiction, Frederik Pohl. Madden is a great as the sinister businessman who has...

An epic Russian fantasy with stunning B&W cinematography, full of adventure and derring do. The sets and special effects are beyond spectacular truly one of the most visually impressive films you will ever see. A pretty lass and a mighty warrior plan to marry. Their plans go awry, though, when she's kidnapped by the merciless Kashchei the Immortal. Determined to rescue her, the warrior treks to Kashchei's kingdom, whose entry point is a set of massive stone jaws in the side of an incredibly...

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 be fooled by some of the IMDB ratings, this is really a pretty good film--fine acting, a very good music score, intelligent script, solid production values, and great lab scenes. Stevens is a determined scientist experimenting with the suspended animation of chimps. Next on the docket humans! He makes the decision to use himself as a guinea pig. Right about the time he goes into deep freeze, though, his wife suddenly ends up dead and he comes under suspicion of murder. Will he wake from...