Gamera vs. Viras (1968)

Gamera vs. Viras (1968)

Gamera is just wandering around in outer space, which is something he does now, when he runs into hostile aliens in a collection of beach balls. He destroys the balls after they have radioed home for reinforcements. On Earth, two Kennys, one Japanese and one American, are at some kind of international boy scout camp.

Valley of the Dragons (1961)

Valley of the Dragons (1961)

French officer Hector Servadac (Cesare Danova) and Irish soldier of fortune Michael Denning (Sean McClory) are about to duel to the death when a comet sweeps them up. On it’s last trip around the sun the comet had picked up prehistoric animals, leaving the two modern men in a world of stock footage and hot

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968)

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968)

The Monsignor of the region visits Dracula’s castle to perform an exorcism so that the frightened villagers will stop avoiding the church. He sees they are upset about a dead maiden hanging from the bell tower. I would be too since she was killed and bitten while Dracula (Christopher Lee) was frozen, but let’s not

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

Divorced and exceptionally drab Robert Bridgestone (Kirwin Mathews) gets a weekend with his thirteen-going-on-six-year-old son, Richie (Scott Sealey) in a forest cabin. Their timing is bad when a passing werewolf starts shaking Richie; why is he shaking Richie? Dad intervenes which results in a dead werewolf and a bitten father. Dad never noticed that it

Godzilla Resurgence [Shin Godzilla] (2016)

Godzilla Resurgence [Shin Godzilla] (2016)

In a rebooted universe where Godzilla has never existed before, an unknown disaster occurs in the bay and the Japanese government springs into action to talk, and meet, and make sure that protocol is followed. When the disaster turns out to be a giant mutating monster, the government immediately talks some more, and meets some

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to Musgrave Manor to look into an attempted murder. The wealthy Musgrave family has allowed part of their mansion to be used as a convalescence home for injured soldiers, so living on the property are multiple family members, servants, soldiers, and the medical staff. Soon, in

Mummy Maniac (2007)

Mummy Maniac (2007)

Some guy wearing a cop uniform and speaking in a monotone brings an unknown and reasonably attractive 20ish actress—who isn’t really bothering to pretend to be anyone—into a small dark bathroom and then pretends to kill her and wraps her head with a few strips of gauze. Then he does it again. And then again.

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Unpleasant, alcoholic Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral business he’s taken over from his wife’s father (Boris Karloff). To dig up business, he and his employee, Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre), murder elderly members of the town. When their landlord (Basil Rathbone) comes for a year’s back rent, Trumbull decides he is next. The major

Alraune (1952)

Alraune (1952)

Years ago, Professor ten Brinker (Erick von Stroheim) artificially inseminated a prostitute with the sperm of a hanged murderer in order to test his theories on heredity. He figured that by using the dregs of society, it would be easier to spot their degenerate traits when they are passed down, and besides, evil people are

The Virgin Spring (1960)

The Virgin Spring (1960)

Töre (Max von Sydow) is a pious man and master of a medieval farm. His wife Märeta delves into the fanatical, burning herself so she can feel Christ’s pain, but she dotes on their teenage daughter Karin (Birgitta Pettersson). The spoiled Karin is generally good natured, but thinks mainly of herself, and uses her beauty

The Crying Woman {La Llorona} (1933)

The Crying Woman {La Llorona} (1933)

After a man dies at night from the cry of a woman, Don Fernando (Paco Martínez) tells his nephew Dr. Ricardo de Acuna (Ramón Pereda) of the great danger his child is in. All the first born sons of the family die when they are four years old. He claims this is due to a

Maniac (1934)

Maniac (1934)

Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter) is a mad scientist. Make that a wacky scientist. He yells and leaps around and yells some more. He’s also working on serum for raising the dead. Helping him, due to a combination of debt and blackmail, is Don Maxwell (William Woods), a vaudeville performer with top makeup skills who