Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Narda Onyx, John Lupton, Estelita Rodriguez, Cal Bolder, Jim Davis, Steven Geray, Nestor Paiva. Description: The companion to "Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula," this western-horror hybrid is possibly more outlandish, but every bit as much fun in its cornball way. On the lam from a marshal, the legendary outlaw and his dim-witted sidekick stumble upon Dr. Frankenstein's grandchild, who turns the dumb cowpoke into a monster. Produced by Carroll Case. Written by Carl Hittleman. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 88 mins. Item #2610 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher, Donald Kerr, Yolande Mallott. Description: Far and away the best of Bela Lugosi's starring vehicles for Hollywood's smallest studio, PRC. Lugosi plays a chemist whose backstabbing business partners cheat him out of profits. To get even, he develops a race of mutant bats, training them to attack those dosed a certain chemical, which he mixes into shaving lotion. Produced by Jack Gallagher. Written by John Thomas Neville. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 69 mins. Item #2629 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Ray Kellogg. Cast: James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis ("Gunsmoke"'s Festus), Gordon McLendon, Baruch Lumet (father of Sidney), Alfredo DeSoto. Description: Scientist searching for an answer to over-population creates a serum with an interesting side effect: it causes shrews to grow to killer size. Produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon. Written by Jay Simms. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 70 mins. Item #1916 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: W. Lee Wilder. Cast: Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay, Steve Pendleton, Frank Gerstle, John Merrick. Description: Billy Wilder's less prolific—and less talented—brother directed this microbudgeted sci-fi epic, a staple of '60s TV and a nostalgic favorite of many fans who grew up in that era. Silly-looking aliens (with ping-pong ball eyeballs), intent on dominating the Earth, re-animate an atomic scientist, killed in a plane crash, forcing him to perform acts of espionage. Written by William Raynor. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 71 mins. Item #2628 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, John Archer, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Guy Usher. Description: Great fun from Monogram Pictures, with supporting player Mantan Moreland overshadowing nominal leads John Archer and Dick Purcell. During World War II, a group of adventurers are blown off course and crash land on an island where a mad doctor is experimenting with zombies in an attempt to gather war intelligence. Produced by Lindsley Parsons. Written by Edmond Kelso. Academy Award nominee for Best Score. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 67 mins. Item #1948 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Sidney Salkow. Cast: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoja, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Tony Cerevi, Christi Courtland. Description: Richard Matheson's terrifying novel, "I Am Legend," comes to the screen in this often crude but vivid Italian-American co-production. Through flashbacks, we are shown how the population of the earth succumbed to a mysterious plague. Scientist Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is immune thanks to a rare Central American jungle virus he contracted years ago. Unfortunately for him, the plague's effects do not end with the victim's death; at sunset they come back to life, thirsting for blood and flesh. Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff. Written by William Leicester, Furio M. Menotti and Matheson (as Logan Swanson). English dubbed. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 86 mins. Item #1415 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Roger Corman. Cast: Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne (as Edward Wain). Description: It's just another lazy day for Harold, Martin and Evelyn, as they spend the day scuba diving. Once they dive below the water's surface however, a freak atmospheric disturbance depletes the earth's oxygen supply just long enough to suffocate the planet's entire population. When they resurface, they discover they are the only people left alive. Produced by Roger Corman. Robert Towne's (writer of "The Last Detail", "Chinatown", "Mission: Impossible") screenwriting and acting debut. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 71 mins. Item #2649 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Enrique Carreras and Bill Davies. Cast: Ben Daniels, Karin Field, Steven Serrador, Wayne Lundy, William Bates, Fawn Silver. Description: A Mexican film version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," shot in a lush black-and-white style reminiscent of classic Hollywood movies. Two prisoners escape, one a peculiar old man. How peculiar is he? In flashbacks we see him kill a crippled boy and a deformed clock-maker due to his hate for human imperfection and the sound of beating hearts. Ending is in COLOR. Produced by Enrique Torres Tudela. English Dubbed. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 75 mins. Item #4800 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Roger Corman. Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Dick Miller, Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson, Myrtle Vail, Wally Campo, Jack Warford, Merri Welles, Charles B. Griffith. Description: Produced and directed on the fly by Roger Corman (reportedly in two days and one night), this meagerly budgeted film showed more imagination than energy than most of its more expensive contemporaries. A nebbish raises a bloodthirsty plant that grows and grows and grows on a diet of human flesh. Jack Nicholson is hilarious as a masochistic dental patient. Written by Charles B. Griffith and subsequently turned into a Broadway musical (which was itself adapted for the movies). Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 70 mins. Item #3081 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Thomas Bentley. Cast: Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Leslie Perrins. Description: An obscure but extremely well-done British melodrama with horror overtones. Mad doctor devises unique way to earn his fortune: he kills people, gets a bundle in insurance money, then revives his victims. Everything goes as planned until Scotland Yard starts snooping around. Produced by Walter C. Mycroft. Written by Frank Miller, based on the play by Wallace Geoffrey. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 64 mins. Item #2798 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Sam Newfield. Cast: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Sarah Padden, Glenn Strange, Mae Busch, Slim Whitaker. Description: Low-budget chills from PRC, the runt of the Hollywood litter. Mad scientist George Zucco tries to improve an average World War II-era soldier with injections of wolf's blood, which of course results in a hairy, toothy monster. Lowbrow fun with laughs as well as chills. Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Written by Fred Myton. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 72 mins. Item #2143 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Bert I. Gordon. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary Lockwood, Anne Helm, Vampira (Maila Nurmi). Description: A staple of Saturday-afternoon matinees throughout the '60s, this colorful yarn is among the best fantasy films produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. A young knight sets out on a quest to rescue a princess from an evil sorcerer, battling various mythical beings on the way. Color/B&W: Color. Running Time: 80 mins. Item #2506 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand. Description: Mysterious magician brings his troupe to a small Swedish town, where the resident bigwigs are intent on proving him to be a fraud. Produced by Allan Ekelund. Written by Ingmar Bergman. English dubbed. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 102 mins. Item #1695 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Jerry Warren. Cast: Rock Madison, Virginia Maynor, George Skaff, Tom Maruzzi, Lloyd Nelson, Brianne Murphy. Description: "Hairy Creatures with Human Desires!" screamed the posters for this movie. While leading a Himalayan expedition to find her missing brother, an explorer is kidnapped for breeding purposes by an Abominable Snowman. Produced and directed by Jerry Warren. Written by B. Arthur Cassidy. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 65 mins. Item #3111 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Lyn Harding, Donald Calthrop, Cecil Parker. Description: A little-known horror classic, made in England in 1936. It stars Boris Karloff as a madman who experiments with transferring personalities from one brain to another in his quest for eternal youth. Produced by Michael Balcon. Written by John L. Balderston and Sidney Gilliat, this dandy little film is far more intelligent than the run-of-the-mill fright fest. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 61 mins. Item #2149 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Phil Rosen. Cast: Edward Norris, Marlo Dwyer, Eleanor Lawson, Frederick Burton, Addison Richards, Kenneth (Kenne) Duncan. Description: This off-trail chiller is among the best genre films released by Monogram Pictures. Enterprising doctor restores a young man's life by transplanting an executed criminal's soul into his body. Before long, the young man takes an avid interest in crime. Produced by A.W. Hackel. Written by Joseph Hoffman. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 67 mins. Item #3694 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: John Gilling. Cast: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, Dermot Walsh, Billie Whitelaw, George Woodbridge, Michael Balfour. Description: Yet another variation on the tale of 18th-century graverobbers Burke and Hare, this film was all but forgotten until recently. It now enjoys a better reputation and is, in fact, one of Cushing's best horror vehicles. The respectable Edinburgh physician, Dr. Knox, employs a couple of hoods to supply him with fresh bodies to study. When they can't steal enough bodies, they turn to murder. Produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman. Written by John Gilling and Leo Griffiths. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 87 mins. Item #4344 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Dwain Esper. Cast: Bill Woods, Horace Carpenter, Phyllis Diller (NOT the comedienne!), Ted Edwards, Theo Ramsey. Description: This hilariously awful "alternative classic" could only have come from the twisted mind of roadshow entrepreneur Dwain Esper. Vaudeville performer-turned-lunatic assumes a dead doctor's identity and continues his experiments on dead cats, going crazy in the bargain and unleasing a lunatic killer on the unsuspecting masses. This assumed "educational" film on mental illness is definitely not for the squeamish! Produced by exploitation-film mavericks Dwain Esper and Louis Sonney. Written by Hildegarde Stadie. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 52 mins. Item #3316 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: George Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane. Cast: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley. Description: An American reporter assigned to interview a scientist in Tokyo is drugged and injected with an strange elixir. Soon he gets a rash on his shoulder, which develops into something more...much more! Produced and co-written by George P. Breakston. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 72 mins. Item #3956 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
Director: Mario Bava. Cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Arturo Dominici, Ivo Garrani, Enrico Olivieri, Tino Bianchi. Description: Commonly cited as cinematographer Mario Bava's directorial debut, this film is a beautiful, visual feast, and is thought to be the definitive example of Gothic horror produced by Continental filmmakers. The lovely Barbara Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who, gruesomely executed in the 17th Century, promises retribution against the family of those who killed her. Two centuries later she is resurrected by a loyal servant, and rises from her dank tomb to seek revenge. An immortal classic of the horror genre, very likely the best such film ever made in Italy. Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Massimo De Rita and Lou Rusoff. Co-screenplay and cinematography by Bava. English dubbed. Color/B&W: B&W. Running Time: 85 mins. Item #3926 $14.99Format: VHS Unit
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