Sinister Cinema

A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!

Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, Richard Garret, Marilyn Mitchell. A man is murdered by his wife and associates. He vows to return from the grave for revenge. He does, sending plague infested zombies from the grave after the guilty ones. From 35mm.

This is the second in the "Dr. Orlof" series about the good doctor and his latest monstrosity. The storyline features a beautiful young woman who travels to the forlorn castle of her mysterious uncle. The uncle is working on a decidedly sinister experiment. To her horror, she soon meets up with his "zombie," who is controlled by ultra-sonic radio waves! Great fun. The only thing missing is Howard Vernon. Aka "The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll" & "The Secret of Dr. Orloff." Anamorphic widescreen,...

Ed Fury, Christina Gajoni, Mario Scaccia, Moira Orsei. Returning from war, Ursus learns his fiancee, Attea, has been taken to a mysterious island ruled by a pagan goddess. The mysterious tribe that lives there has a nasty habit of sacrificing virgins, which, of course, doesn't say much for Ursus' and Attea's sex life. Regardless, Ursus and an extremely beautiful, blind slave girl set out to find Attea and free her from her evil captors. Great color, widescreen, 16mm.

Chuck Scott, Adam Sorg, directed by Hershell Gordon Lewis. This is a pretty amazing movie. Not much of a plot really, just lots of hootin and hollerin, feuds, stills, singing, and gory murders. The scene where Scotts wife runs off into the woods with the local pug ugly sherill is pretty hysterical. A true study in backwoods southerners and hillbillies of the 1960s. Crude and cheap, but fascinating in its own way. Color, 35mm.

Andre de Toth, Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg. Palance plays the son of Genghis Khan, while Ekberg is the lady he lusts for. An elaborate spectacle piece with lots of excitement and plenty of pitched battles. Color, 16mm.

Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans. A well made, poverty row, old dark house chiller with plenty of atmosphere. A young man inherits an eerie mansion that's filled with mystery and terror. From 16mm.

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...

This made-for-TV Brit sci-fi film is absolutely riveting. A strange tramp collapses near the home of a doctor, who himself has been suffering from bad dreams. In his nightmares he repeatedly sees someone resembling the tramp. The tramp is admitted to the hospital, clutching a small, decaying finger bone. He also appears to have survived some strange radioactive disease and speaks in a remarkably twisted form of English. Later, the doctor suffers from a freak accident that causes him to lose...

SPECIAL ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN EDITON: The setting is London in the late 1880s. The monstrous killer, Jack the Ripper, is on the prowl, killing women left and right. Palance is the mysterious stranger who rents the gloomy attic room of a Victorian house run by Frances (Aunt Bee) Bavier. He needs the reclusivity of the room for his "experiments." Every time there is a new Ripper killing, Bavier begins to suspect more and more that her new lodger is actually Jack the Ripper himself. Things become...

This is a pretty good British B thriller. A couple of sailors come ashore in London looking for a good time and a few laughs before returning to their ship. Their shore leave gets really exciting, though, when one of them fatally stabs a man during a bar fight. Before you know it they've swiped a houseboat and the three women on board (now hostages) as they try to elude the police.

This R-rated Mondo movie has a ton of bizarre stuff, some of which will really make you wince. You've got outer space footage; an exorcism; real-life voodoo rites; levitation, etc. One horrifying scene shows a barehanded cancer surgery with no anesthetic! Another bloody moment shows a brain tumor removal! There's also a dental procedure that will make you cringe.