A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig “Mr. Mumps” from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts (Pat Cardi) goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him—the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor (Mr. Griggs) & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff. In the end he gets the jock’s girlfriend for himself but his happiness is short-lived as the potion turns him into a monster hunted by the towns lame police Lieutenant—Bosman. Starring Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, and Rosie Holotik. Yea, high school pretty much sucks.
Also known as The Clairvoyant and taken from a book by that name and made in England. Claude Raines is Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader and a fake psychic, suddenly has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them …until he realizes he has them in the presence of Christine, attractive daughter of a publisher, who makes Rene, his equally lovely wife, wretchedly jealous. But worse trouble comes to Maximus when he’s accused of causing a disaster he predicted. His predictions start coming true with tragic consequences. Starring Claude Rains, Fay Wray, and Mary Clare. One of the lost horror movies of the 1930s, with Fay “King Kong” Wray.
In 1905, an English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one. Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas. This is not a train to be on! Is it a bigfoot or an alien?
Also known as Assignment Terror. Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer Earth by preying on man’s superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein’s monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff. Starring Michael Rennie of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Karin Dor, and Craig Hill. An Italian horror movie with all the monsters you could possibly want… wait, where are the Mole Men?
Gangster Alexander Ward, his girl friend, Gypsy Boulet, and two henchmen come to Deadwood, South Dakota with the idea of stealing some gold bars. They enlist the aid of a local ski instructor, Gil Jackson, and plan to use him as a guide out of the territory after the robbery. However, a blizzard forces them to take refuge in Jackson’s cabin, where Gypsy lowers the inside temperature by giving the cold shoulder to Ward, her former sweetie until she saw Jackson. Ward plans to kill Jackson after they have no further use of him, so he doesn’t care. But they had used an explosion in a cave to serve as a distraction during the heist, and this explosion had irritated a giant spider that lived there and, sure enough, all hands have to seek refuge in the cave from the fury of the storm. Starring Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, and Frank Wolff. Those Hobbits battled giant spiders. Well, one shouldn’t hide in caves like that, mainly because bigfoot is probably there…
Maciste, the son of Hercules, arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city’s queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can’t follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the “world above.” Starring Mark Forest, Moira Orfei, and Paul Wynter. It is time for Hercules to enter the underground world! Mole Men—Yikes!
After receiving word about a mysterious skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter visit the man who has it and grab the skull as they escape a shack the gargoyles have attacked. Once they do so, they, as well as the town, are besieged by a colony of gargoyles living in some nearby caverns. Who can stop these flying devils? Shown on television in 1972 and in theaters in Europe, it was the most-watched television movie of all time! Starring Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, and Scott Glenn. Look out Mothman!
A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community. This monster is essentially bigfoot. When government experiments go wrong and bigfoot is created, things can get pretty screwed up. Starring John Agar, Carol Gilley, and Ralph Baker Jr. You know it’s a bad movie if John Agar is in it. An early bigfoot movie in all of its glory!
Eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren and his 4th wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house on Haunted Hill for a “haunted House” party. Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors. Starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, and Richard Long. A great haunted house movie with Vincent Price that is a lot of fun!
Rick Turner is engaged of Donna Trent and is having nightmares with a beautiful blonde woman dancing in the sky. One night, he is mysteriously driven to a doll shop, and in the next morning he returns to the place with Donna. He finds a doll that resembles his fiancé, but the owner Francis Lamont delivers another doll to him, with the face of the woman of his dreams, Bianca Milan. Rick looks for Bianca and is seduced and convinced by her to join a sect that worships the diabolic Camba, while the health of Donna is threatened by Francis and Bianca. Starring Linda Christian, Robert Alda, and Ariadne Welter. Best not to go into those weird doll shops… a creepy, sexy horror movie.
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent’s activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives. Starring Arline Judge, John ‘Dusty’ King, and Mantan Moreland. A great safari-gorilla film of the 40s!
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword. Staring John F. Goff, Steve Vincent, and Douglas Gudbye. You will never want to go to a drive-in again! Warning: The red stuff on your hot dog may not be ketchup!
En route to a show in Singapore, a troupe of beautiful dancers are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster with three fangs and a passion for strangling. Starring Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, and Alexander D’Arcy.
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Meanwhile, the house’s owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities, and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but he is killed before he can retrieve the money. Thus the lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities. Starring Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, and Gavin Gordon. A great 50s haunted house movie!
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen. Starring Bela Lugosi, John Archer, and Wanda McKay. A strange retro-zombie-thriller!
