Written by Kaneto Shindo Directed by Kaneto Shindo Starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno Released November 21, 1964 (Japan) RT 103 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection (DVD & Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating =  7 (out of 10) As beautiful as it is terrifying, Onibaba (1964) is as much an experience as it is a narrative film.…

Written by Herbert Reinecker Based on the novel The Blue Hand, by Edgar Wallace (1925) Directed by Alfred Vohrer Starring Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski, Carl Lange, Ilse Steppat, Diana Korner Released April 28, 1967 (West Germany) RT 87 min. Home Video Amazon Prime Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) We’ve all seen comedies spoofing dramatic revelations in movies…

Written by Vy Russell & Sue Dwiggins and Dean Dillman Jr. Directed by Joseph V. Mascelli Starring Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters, Judy Bamber, Lisa Lang Released September, 1963 RT 65 min. Home Video Moth Inc (Blu-ray)  Note: playing this month on Comet TV Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10) Can death be outwitted?  Is the…

Written by Roger Vadim & Pascal Cousin, Louis Malle & Clement Biddle Wood, Federico Fellini & Bernardino Zapponi, Daniel Boulanger Based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe Directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini Starring Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp Released July 23, 1969 (United States) RT 121 min. Home Video Arrow Films Classic Horrors…

Written by Allison Louise Downe Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis Starring Elizabeth Davis, Gretches Wells, Chris Martell, Rodney Bedell, Ronnie Cass Released August 28, 1967 RT 72 min. Home Video Arrow Video Classic Horrors rating =5 (out of 10) If Blood Feast (1963) was a watershed moment for the splatter film, as its director, Herschell Gordon Lewis, states,…

Written by Glenville Mareth Directed by Nicholas Webster Starring John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles, Donna Conforti Premiere November 14, 1964 RT 81 min. Home Video Cobra Entertainment LLC (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10)Yes, it’s commonly considered one of the worst movies ever made; however, at risk of losing all credibility,…

The purpose of Arrow Video’s limited edition box set, Between Night & Dawn is “to shine a light on the broader thematic concerns and auteurist leanings of a skilled craftsman too often pigeonholed within the genre.” However, for a collection of three films made during the period between George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…

Written by Rene Cardona Jr., Rene Cardona Directed by Rene Cardona Starring Jose Elias Moreno, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Armando Silvestre, Norma Lazareno, Agustin Martinez Solares Released February 6, 1969 (Mexico) RT 83 min. Home Video Image Entertainment (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) From what little I could learn on my own about La Horripilante bestia…

Written by Alfredo Salazar Directed by Benito Alazraki Starring Elvira Quintana, Ramon Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintin Bulnes Released April 13, 1961 (Mexico) RT 81 min. Home Video Vci Entertainment (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 4 (out of 10) The story is neither complicated nor unique. When four men witness a human sacrifice in Haiti, and steal the idol…

Written by Jose Mojica Marins, Magda Mei Directed by Jose Mojica Marins Starring Jose Mojica Marins, Magda Mei, Nivaldo Lima, Valeria Vasquez Released November 9, 196r (Brazil) RT 84 min. Home Video Synapse Films (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul was my introduction to the character of “Coffin Joe,” much like it…