In Isle of the Dead, a group of disparate characters is quarantined on a Greek island during the Balkan Wars of 1912. Septicemic plague causes the quarantine, and the group’s only hope is for the hot, dry sirocco winds to kill the fleas that cause it. In addition, one of them suspects another of being the supernatural vorvolaka.
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France, 1640: Cyrano de Bergerac, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian.
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When his crew is brutally murdered on a Mars expedition, Commander Carruthers becomes the prime suspect. Taken into custody and facing a court-martial back on Earth, he discovers that the real killer is a grotesque monster. “It” has stowed aboard the earthbound ship. But the indestructible creature had already begun a harrowing in-flight rampage, knocking off the members of the crew, one by one. Now, as the spaceship heads home toward a panic-stricken Earth, the remaining crew must find some way to stop the unstoppable…”It! The Terror from Beyond Space”
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Waxwork begins with the robbery of a wealthy man who is brutally murdered by being set on fire. Decades later a wax museum opens up in the suburbs. One day the enigmatic owner appears out of nowhere and offers China (Michelle Johnson) and Sarah (Deborah Foreman) a free midnight showing with some of their friends.
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Mario Bava’s horror classic Black Sabbath (original Italian title: “Three Faces of Fear“) is a horror anthology. Boris Karloff hosts the stories, and stars in the most heartbreaking of them. An ex-lover terrorizes a beautiful woman who betrayed him, over the telephone. But he’s been executed … A family becomes a feeding ground when their father returns home wounded after ridding the countryside of a hideous vampire… The unknown haunts a nurse after stealing a ring from the finger of a dead medium!
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When a mysterious canister is uncovered on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a dormant, eons-old monster is released, making lunch of both the explorers who discovered it and the rival corporation’s exploration team, which investigates their disappearance.Read More »Creature, aka. Titan Find
In the vein of thrillers like Predator and An American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers follows a band of soldiers. While on a routine military exercise they must battle deadly, violent beasts preying on their blood.
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In Jaws of Satan, Satan appears in the form of a large cobra in a small town where long ago a family was cursed by a Druid priest.
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Here’s today’s trivia question: What Disney movie costars both colonels from television’s M*A*S*H–that is, Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan)? Heck, that’s easy: 1978’s The Cat from Outer Space, a family comedy about a feline extraterrestrial named Jake (voiced by actor Ronnie Schell, who also plays Sergeant Duffy). Eerily similar to the plot of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, released four years later, Cat finds Jake stuck on Earth and in danger of being trapped here forever if his fellow space kitties can’t rendezvous with him soon.
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In Thank Your Lucky Stars, theater producers (Horton and Sakall) are staging a wartime charity program. However, the production is taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).
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