• Night of the Living Dead

    Zombies will eat your face

  • Do you remember the 2007 American post-apocalyptic action thriller movie 'I am Legend' starring Will Smith? Well you may be surprised to learn that it was a REMAKE of the 1964 film 'The Last Man on Earth'. Both are based on the same novel 'I am Legend' by Richard Matheson and share much of the same plot and storyline. 'The Last Man on Earth' was filmed in Rome, with scenes being completed at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released in the United States by American International Pictures. Original release date: March 8, 1964

    PlotIt is 1968, and Dr. Robert Morgan lives in a world where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned them into undead, vampiric creatures that cannot stand sunlight, fear mirrors, and are repelled by garlic. They would kill Morgan if they could, but they are weak and unintelligent. Every day Morgan carries out the same routine: he wakes up, marks another day on the calendar, gathers his weapons, and then goes hunting for vampires, killing as many as he can and then burning the bodies to prevent them from coming back. At night, he locks himself inside his house.A flashback sequence explains that, three years earlier, Morgan's wife Virginia and daughter Kathy had succumbed to the plague before it was widely known by the public that the dead would return to life. Instead of taking his wife to the same public burn pit used to dispose of his daughter's corpse, Morgan buried her without the knowledge of the authorities. When his wife returned to his home and attacked him, Morgan became aware of the need to kill the plague victims with a wooden stake. Morgan hypothesizes that he is immune to the bacteria from a bite by an infected vampire bat when he was stationed in Panama, which may have introduced a diluted form of the plague into his blood.One day, a dog appears in the neighborhood. Desperate for companionship, Morgan chases after the dog but does not catch it. Sometime later the dog appears, wounded, at Morgan's doorstep. He takes the dog into his home and treats its wounds, looking forward to having company for the first time in three years. He quickly discovers, however, that it, too, has become infected with the plague. Morgan is seen burying the dog, which he has impaled with a wooden stake. Morgan sinks further into depression and loneliness.Directed bySidney Salkow and Ubaldo B. RagonaProduced byRobert L. LippertCastVincent Price as Dr. Robert MorganFranca Bettoia as Ruth CollinsCarolyn De Fonseca dubbed for Franca Bettoia's voice in the English release of the film. She was uncredited.Emma Danieli as Virginia MorganGiacomo Rossi Stuart as Ben CortmanUmberto Raho (billed as Umberto Rau) as Dr. Mercer

  • House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American campy supernatural horror film directed by William Castle. The film was written by Robb White and stars Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart. Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to the house for a 'haunted house' party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000. As the night progresses, the guests are trapped within the house with an assortment of terrors. Original release date: February 17, 1959

    The film uses many props used in carnival haunted houses to generate fear and terror. Directed by William CastleProduced by William Castle and Robb WhiteWritten by Robb WhiteCastVincent Price as Frederick LorenCarol Ohmart as Annabelle LorenRichard Long as Lance SchroederAlan Marshal as Dr. David TrentCarolyn Craig as Nora ManningElisha Cook Jr. as Watson Pritchard (credited as Elisha Cook)Julie Mitchum as Ruth BridgersLeona Anderson as Mrs. SlydesHoward Hoffman as Jonas Slydes

  • The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die or The Brain That Couldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title The Black Door but was not theatrically released until May 3, 1962, when it was released under its new title as a double feature with Invasion of the Star Creatures.

    The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means to keep human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, and also keeps a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet.The specific plot device of a mad doctor who discovers a way to keep a human head alive had been used in fiction earlier (such as Professor Dowell's Head from 1925), as well as other variants on this theme.Directed by:Joseph GreenCast:Jason Evers as Dr. Bill CortnerVirginia Leith as Jan ComptonLeslie Daniel as KurtAdele Lamont as Doris PowellBonnie Sharie as blonde stripperPaula Maurice as brunette stripperMarilyn Hanold as Peggy HowardBruce Brighton as Dr. CortnerEddie Carmel as monsterOriginal release date: May 3, 1962

  • Horror Express (Spanish: Pánico en el Transiberiano, lit. 'Panic on the Trans-Siberian') is a 1972 science fiction horror film directed by Eugenio Martín, and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, with Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Julio Peña, George Rigaud and Ángel del Pozo in supporting roles, and Telly Savalas in a guest appearance. Set in 1906, its plot follows the various passengers of a Europe-bound train on the Trans-Siberian Railway that is stalked by a primitive humanoid creature brought onboard by an anthropologist.  Original release date: September 30, 1972.

    In 1906, Professor Sir Alexander Saxton, a renowned British anthropologist, is returning to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Express from Shanghai to Moscow. With him is a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature that he discovered in a cave in Manchuria. He hopes it is a missing link in human evolution. Doctor Wells, Saxton's friendly rival and Geological Society colleague, is also on board but travelling separately. Before the train departs Shanghai, a thief is found dead on the platform. His eyes are completely white, without irises or pupils, and a bystander initially mistakes him for a blind man. The Polish Count Marion Petrovski and his wife, Countess Irina, are also waiting to board the train with their spiritual advisor, an Eastern Orthodox monk named Father Pujardov, who proclaims the contents of the crate to be evil. Saxton furiously dismisses this as superstition. Saxton's eagerness to keep his scientific find secret arouses the suspicion of Wells, who bribes a porter to investigate the crate. The porter is killed by the defrosted humanoid within. It then escapes the crate by picking the lock, giving it free rein on the train...

     

    Directed by

    Eugenio Martín

     

    Produced by

    Bernard Gordon

     

    Cast

    Christopher Lee as Professor Sir Alexander Saxton

    Peter Cushing as Dr. Wells

    Alberto de Mendoza as Father Pujardov (dubbed by Robert Rietti)

    Silvia Tortosa as Countess Irina Petrovski (dubbed by Olive Gregg)

    Julio Peña as Inspector Mirov (dubbed by Roger Delgado)

    George Rigaud as Count Marion Petrovski

    Ángel del Pozo as Yevtushenko

    Telly Savalas as Captain Kazan

    Helga Liné as Natasha (dubbed by Olive Gregg)

    Alice Reinheart as Miss Jones (dubbed by Olive Gregg)

    José Jaspe as Conductor Konev

    Víctor Israel as Baggage Man

    Faith Clift as Miss Bennett

    Juan Olaguivel as the Creature

    Barta Barri as First Telegraphist

    Hiroshi Kitatawa as Grashinski, the Thief

    Vicente Roca as Stationmaster

    José Canalejas as Russian Guard

    José Marco as Vorkin

    Allen Russell as Captain O'Hagan

Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961)

Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a parody of spy, gangster, and monster movies (mostly Creature from the Black Lagoon), concerning a secret agent, XK150 (played by Robert Towne under the pseudonym Edward Wain), who goes under the code name “Sparks Moran” in order to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Renzo Capetto (Antony Carbone), who is trying to transport an exiled Cuban general with an entourage and a large portion of the Cuban treasury out of Cuba. Filmgroup released the film as a double feature with Devil’s Partner.

PLOT

During the Cuban Revolution, deported American gambler and racketeer Renzo Capetto (Anthony Carbone) comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme and uses his yacht to help a group of loyalists headed by General Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Alvarez) escape with Cuba’s national treasury, which they plan to use to stage a counterrevolution.

American secret agent XK150, using the alias Sparks Moran (Robert Towne, credited as Edward Wain), has infiltrated the gang which consists of Capeto’s brazenly felonious blond girlfriend Mary-Belle Monahan (Betsy Jones-Moreland); her deceptively clean-cut younger brother Happy Jack (Robert Bean); and a gullible, good-natured, and homicidal oaf named Pete Peterson Jr. (Beach Dickerson), who constantly does animal impressions.

Unfortunately, despite his other role as the story’s omniscient narrator, Sparks is too much the Maxwell Smart-style bumbler to figure out what is going on because of his own incompetence and his hopeless infatuation with the completely uninterested Mary-Belle, who regards his attempts to rescue her from a life of crime with an amused contempt.

Capetto plans to steal the fortune in gold and then to claim that the mythical “Creature from the Haunted Sea” rose and devoured the loyalists, but it is he and his crew who murder the Cuban soldiers with sharpened, claw-like gardening tools and leave behind “footprints” made with a toilet plunger and a mixture of olive oil and green ink. However, he does not know that there really is a shaggy, pop-eyed sea monster lurking in the very waters where he plans to do the dirty deed and that the creature may make his plan all too easy to pull off.

When the monster’s insatiable hunger upsets his scheme, Capetto decides to sink his boat into 30 feet of water off the shore of a small island and then to retrieve the gold later. Complications ensue when the male members of his gang get romantically involved with the natives, with Pete hooking up with Porcina (Esther Sandoval) and Jack with her pretty daughter Mango (Sonia Noemí González), and local working girl Carmelita (Blanquita Romero) takes an instant liking to Sparks.

Capetto and his gang go scuba diving to attempt to salvage the loot, but the creature picks them all off one by one except for Sparks and Carmelita, and the movie ends with the creature sitting on the undersea treasure and happily picking its teeth. The creature burps and the bubbles roll up with the credits.

CREATORS

Directed by Roger Corman
Written by Charles B. Griffith
Produced by Roger Corman and Charles Hannawalt
Restored by moonflix, LLC

CAST

Antony Carbone as Renzo Capetto
Betsy Jones-Moreland as Mary-Belle Monahan
Robert Towne as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Beach Dickerson as Pete Peterson Jr.
Robert Bean as Happy Jack Monahan
Esther Sandoval as Porcina Perez
Sonia Noemí González as Mango Perez
Edmundo Rivera Álvarez as General Tostada
Terry Nevin as Colonel Cabeza Grande
Fezwick DaPoochie as Turk Sankaycos
Blanquita Romero as Carmelita Rodriguez
Jaclyn Hellman as Agent XK-120

Original release date:
June, 1961

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