While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Returning to London, he finds himself turning nightly into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, with the only hope for curing his affliction a rare Asian flower, the Mariphasa. Starring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, and Valerie Hobson. The original werewolf movie. How did that song go?
Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate, they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help. Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Nancy Guild.
An eager scientist tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive. When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier. Starring Jon hall, Evelyn Ankers, and Alan Curtis. This is the last of the Invisible Man movies where Mad Scientists rule supreme.
ramed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from his friend Dr. Frank Griffin, he vanishes mysteriously from prison. Police inspector Sampson realizes that Griffin is the brother of the original Invisible Man and has given Geoffrey the formula to aid his escape. Can Geoffrey elude the police dragnet and track down the real murderer? More importantly, can Griffin discover an antidote before the invisibility formula drives Geoffrey insane? Can you hang an Invisible Man?
A family is driving across the country when they stumble across a mysterious house inhabited by the satyr-man Torgo. When the family decides to stay over at the house, mother Margaret is now the object of desire for Torgo and the owner of the house, The Master: a mysterious figure who dresses in a black robe decorated with red hands. Starring Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, and Diane Adelson. The producer, Harold P. Warren was very active in the theater scene in El Paso, Texas, and he once appeared as a walk-on for the television series Route 66, where he met screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. While chatting with Silliphant in a local coffee shop, Warren claimed that it was not difficult to make a horror film, and he bet Silliphant that he could make an entire film on his own. Warren went on to win the bet and make what is thought to be in the Top Ten Worst Movies ever made. El Paso loves this movie. Cast and crew recall that John Reynolds was on LSD during filming. It explains his confused behavior and incessant twitching in virtually all of his scenes.
A mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist’s body. He revives him, and the terror continues. Starring Rock Madison, Ann Wells, and George Todd. This film was originally a Mexican film directed by Frederic Corte and titled ‘La Marca Del Muerto’ American director Jerry Warren bought the rights, threw in a few new scenes, took out a lot of the dialogue and dubbed the rest in English. You never know what will happen when you execute a mad scientist. A real drive-in movie that was definitely part of a double feature!
The Space Patrol sends Flash’s best friend to investigate a planet where it is reported that mercy is a crime and the weak are exploited. The agent is captured, brainwashed and sent back to murder Flash. Thanks to Dale’s timely intervention, Flash survives the attack, and the pair are sent back to the world to learn how Flash’s friend was tricked into trying to assassinate his friend. Get your ray-guns out to battle across the Universe with Steve Holland as Flash Gordon, Irene Champlin as Dale Arden and Joseph Nash as Dr. Hans Zarkov. This specially made-for-Retro-Drive-In movie includes six episodes of the television series made in Germany: Akim the Terrible, The Lure of Light, Saboteurs From Space, Subworld Revenge, Struggle to the End, and Return of the Androids.
An atomic ray is blasting apart military and key industrial buildings across America. Who is responsible for this nefarious violence? Rocketman Commando Cody is the man for the job…a hero with a jet pack! Stars George Wallace as Cody and also features Roy Barcroft, Clayton Moore and Aline Towne. This movie is an edited version of RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON, one of the best serials ever and the first to bring us the Rocket Man!
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet’s women, it’s up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties. Starring Marilyn Hanold, James Karen and Lou Cutell. Sort of a sequel to Plan 9 From Outer Space, this movie was meant to be a satire but the producers wanted a serious monster movie. Not sure that they got what they wanted.
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune. Starring Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, and Andrea King. Supposedly based on an actual novel, as the credits claim, it has to be filmdom’s sorriest screen adaptation, as this plays like an unfinished film. Lon Chaney and John Carradine probably knew exactly what type of muck they were standing in. Carradine hams his role of family patriarch and Chaney, possibly hired because the plot includes a werewolf, plays a horned Satanist. Originally a television movie it was then screened at some drive-in theaters as Blood of the Man Devil.
Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that’ll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal. Starring Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, and Richard Crane. It has been speculated that bigfoot and yetis are leftover Neanderthals living on the fringes of society. Best not to drink that saber-toothed tiger juice!
A scientist’s experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town. Starring David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Roberto Ricci. Veteran Spaghetti horror actor Warbeck stars as Captain Kirk a detective on the track of a deformed monster. Filmed partially in the UK, Spain and Italy one hopes the monster can do maximum damage. Toxic Avenger, look out!
Dr. Peter Houseman is a brilliant geneticist who is working on a serum which will stop human aging, but his colleagues don’t believe in his work. When his university funding is threatened by his skeptical benefactors, the doctor takes a desperate measure to justify his work. He administers the serum to himself, but the results are unexpected and horrendous. Starring Gene LeBrock, Catherine Baranov, Harry Cason. An Italian horror movie made in Norfolk, Virginia. Go figure.
An alien “policeman” arrives on Earth to apprehend a renegade of his own race who impregnates a woman with a potentially destructive mutant embryo. Starring Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen, and Damian Lee. Wrestler and former governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura stars in this sci-fi cop movie. Jesse went on to have his own conspiracy television series.
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter, Tania Frankenstein and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall’s brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall’s life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor’s daughter. Starring Joseph Cotton, Rosalba Neri, and Paul Muller. The theatrical version of this spaghetti horror movie contained a bit of R-rated skin. It ends abruptly without any credits. Where is Peter Cushing?
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl’s jewels, builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries-old living mummy. Starring Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado. One of those weird, psychotronic Mexican mummy movies where a pile of rags battles a cardboard box robot. One of the great battles of cinematic history.
The evil Dr. Krupp, trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl’s jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels’ location—Xochitl’s tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor’s lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl’s tomb. Starring Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado. One of those weird, psychotronic Mexican mummy movies.
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An intelligence officer working for the United Nations is sent to investigate events surrounding some of the world’s leaders. He discovers a plot by former Nazi scientists who are intending replacing the leaders with brainwashed clones in order to return the Third Reich to power. Starring Robert Vaughn, Merrie Lynn Ross, Keenan Wynn. The Man From Uncle Meets the Nazi Clones? Yikes!
After a botched robbery, a mad doctor performs a head transplant on an injured criminal, which results in him being even more dangerous and murderous than before. Starring Paul Naschy, Silvia Sola, and Olivier Mathot. This Italian film isn’t especially gory, but there’s a fair bit of cheap looking bright crimson blood to keep horror fans happy. Paul Naschy is the king of Spaghetti Horror. Those head transplants are often troublesome…
Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he is horrified to find an underground world of workers who apparently run the machinery that keeps the Utopian world above ground functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder’s father, John Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is called Maria, who espouses the need to join the “hands” – the workers – to the “head” – those in power above – by a mediator who will act as the “heart”. But their nemesis, Rotwang, goes to works towards quashing a proposed uprising, with Maria at the center of their plan. John, unaware that Rotwang has his own agenda, makes plans that include shutting down the machines, with the prospect of unleashing total anarchy both above and below ground. Starring Brigitte Helm and Alfred Abel. The last of the classic silent movies. After this movie, movies had sound.
