Written by Frank R. Saletri Directed by William A. Levey Starring John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson, Andrea King, Nick Bolin Released 1973 RT 87 min. Home Video Severin Films (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 3 (out of 10) Thinking it would be as entertaining as Blacula (1972), I’ve wanted to watch Blackenstein aka The Black Frankenstein (1973) for some…

Written by Wes Craven Directed by Wes Craven Starring Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, Richard Towers, Cynthia Carr Released August 30, 1972 RT 84 min. Home Video Arrow Video (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10) Of the early 1970s films from future horror masters, Wes Craven’s The Last House on…

Written by Lee Frost and Wes Bishop Directed by Jack Starrett Starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong Released June 27, 1975 RT 88 min. Home Video Shout! Factory (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) If you mixed two parts Smokey & the Bandit with one part Rosemary’s Baby, and added just…

Written by Anthony Hinds Directed by Peter Sasdy Starring Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden, Peter Sallis, Anthony Higgins, Isla Blair, John Carson, Martin Jarvis, Ralph Bates, Roy Kinnear, Michael Ripper Released May 7, 1970 (UK), June 7, 1970 (US) RT 91 min. Home Video Warner Brothers (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Off a dirt road…

Written by Alan Ormsby Directed by Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby Starring Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson, Robert Warner, Marian Waldman, Pat Orr Released March 6, 1974 (San Francisco) RT 84 min. Home Video Kino Lorber (Blu-ray)  Note: playing this month on Comet TV Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Alan Ormsby began his career in feature films working…

Written by Claudio Bernabei, Aristide Massaccesi, Romano Scandariato Directed by Aristide Massaccesi Starring Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski, Angela Bo, Sergio Dorla, Attilio Dottesio, Marco Mariani, Luciano Rossi, Giacomo Rossi Stuart Released July 11, 1973 (Italy) RT 92 min. Home Video Arrow Video (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Knowing absolutely nothing about it, I popped Death Smiles…

Written by Hiroshi Nagano, Ei Ogawa Directed by Michio Yamamoto Starring Kayo Matsuo, Akira Nakao, Atsuo Nakamura, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yoko Minakuze Released July 4, 1970 (Japan) RT 71 min. Home Video Arrow Video (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) It’s strange to hear thunder crashing behind the familiar Toho logo at the beginning of The Vampire Doll (1970),…

Written by Raymond Christodoulou, Robin Clarke Based on stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes Directed by Kevin Connor Starring Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton, Donald Pleasence, David Warner, Ian Ogilvy, Lesley-Anne Down Released November 7, 1975 (United States) RT 97 min. Home Video Warner Archive Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Although it was the final anthology…

Written by Max Ehrlich, based on his novel Directed by J. Lee Thompson Starring Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O’Neill, Margot Kidder Released April 25, 1975 (New York City) RT 105 min. Home Video Coming on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Classics on May 29, 2018 Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Here’s one of the things wrong with the United States.…

Written by Eddie Romero, Jerome Small Directed by Eddie Romero Starring John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin, Charles Maculay, Pam Grier Released June, 1972 RT 81 min. Home Video VCI Entertainment (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Can a home video release magically transform a bad movie into a good one? Maybe not, but it can…