Sinister Cinema

Joe Dallesandro, Rita Fam, Katherine Houghton. A strange man grows odd plants for a wealthy American woman in South America. The plants begin to emit deadly fumes! It seems that all of his previous employers have died mysteriously. What happens to him in the end is very bizarre. Color, 35mm.

Rod Cameron, Horst Frank, Angel Aranda, Luis Duran. One of the first Euro-westerns. Cameron is a tough lawman who battles the Clantons after they interrupt his wedding with a bank heist. The chase leads to the wilds of Mexico. Good Spaghetti. Color, scope, 35mm

Rudolph Klein Rogge, Oskar Beregi, Camilla Spira, Theodor Loos. Directed by Fritz Lang. Another horror classic. Truly one of the best 'mad doctor' movies ever made. This is the supernatural fantasy about the evil Dr. Mabuse, who terrorizes a German city. Not to be missed. From 16mm.

Olivier Martin, Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline Cartier, Ly Lestrong. A beautiful "vampire" woman becomes involved with a playboy whose father is experimenting with artificial youth. As it turns out, a group of vampires is trying to save her from aliens from outer space! This is indeed a very unique erotic Euro-horror film with a thought-provoking story. Rated R for nudity. Recommended. Color, scope, 35mm.

Mitchell Kowal, Wim Hollard, Lili Dawn, Vicki Carlson. In what has to be one of the campiest exploitation films ever made, the police are baffled by a series of hair-fetish murders in which the killer slays his victims and then gives them a haircut. A psychopathologist is brought in to give the police advice much like in GLEN OR GLENDA

Buchholz is released from prison six months early. Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker. Things get sticky when Buchholz discovers his boss's ill-intentions, further complicating matters is a love triangle that evolves between him, a beautiful woman, and his boss. From 35mm.

Vadis' first film as Hercules. Cressoy is a ruthless prince who teams up with an evil but beautiful witch (played by the stunning Moira Orfei). She sends his squad of golden warriors to unleash havoc. Can Hercules stop them? There is a TON of action in this largely forgotten Peplum epic. Watch for the great climax where Hercules is fooled by Orfei's hypnotic powers as his beloved hangs perilously from an ocean cliff. Aka Hercules and the Giant Warriors. Great color, from 35mm.

Rollin plays a long lost member of the "Groupi" family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin. Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred. But when his aunt ends up murdered from a blow on the head and the family fortune has gone missing, all fingers of suspicion point at him. But who is the real killer? This is a marvelous film, much more than just an ordinary...

Karin Dor, Siegfried Lowitz, Harald Leipnitz, Ilse Steppat. The setting is a girls' school where a hooded killer, "the Monk," lashes his victims to death with a whip. Scotland Yard tries to track him down, but more slayings occur before they can find the killer. One of the last black-and-white Wallace chillers. From a top 16mm print.

A young actress finds a strange woman playing solitaire in her apartment. What are the sinister, supernatural implications of this? At first she is angry, then a feeling of unexplainable fear begins to set in. Wisbar directs with flare as Field and Michael go toe to toe with some extremely poignant yet chilling dialogue as Field slowly begins to realize the horrible fate that is now hers. Wow! Brilliant performances highlight this chilling episode from the largely forgotten Royal Playhouse...

This is the original 6-part teleseries that was the follow-up to the earlier teleseries, The Quatermass Experiment (1953). There is something very wrong with a huge chemical factory out in the wilds of rural England. An alien horror is afoot! The scenes in this marvelous teleseries range from thought-provoking to downright terrifying. Wow... A terrific script, is complimented by great, believable performances. British science fiction doesn't get much better than this.

Wolfgang Preiss, Pierre Brice, Dany Carrel. An exhibit of strange female statues in an old windmill turns out to be a bizarre front for a mad scientist who's murdering young girls and using their blood to keep his daughter alive. The statues, needless to say, aren't really what they appear to be. A nightmarish and gruesome film. Need any spare body parts? From 16mm.