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…

Written by Kyuzo Kobayashi, Susumu Takaku Directed by Hajime Sato Starring Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato, Eizo Kitamura, Hideo Ko, Kathy Horan, Yuko Kusunoki, Kazuo Kato, Hiroyuki Nishimoto Released August 14, 1968 (Japan) RT 84 min. Home Video The Criterion Collection (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 9 (out of 10) TCM televised Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) fairly regularly during the…

Written by Ki-duk Kim, Run-sung Set Directed by Ki-duk Kim Starring Yeong-il Oh, Jeong-im Nam, Sun-jae Lee, Moon Kang, Kwang Ho Lee Released August 13, 1967 (South Korea) RT 80 min. Home Video Kino Lorber (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Yongary, Monster of the Deep (1967) is South Korea’s entry into the daikaiju (large strange…

Written by Cesar Amigo Directed by Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero Starring Kent Taylor, Beverly Powers, John Ahsley, Eva Darren, Mario Montenegro Released May 29, 1968 (Lima, OH) RT 97 min. Home Video Alpha New Cinema (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10)The poster for Brides of Blood (1968) promises a lot of sensational things and, in a rare…

Written by Jesus Franco Directed by Jesus Franco Starring Conrado San Martin, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Perla Cristal, Ricardo Valle Released May 14, 1962 (Madrid) RT 90 min. Home Video Redemption (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) The history of The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) is a little confusing to me without conducting more in-depth research…

Written by Allison Louise Downe Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis Starring William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton, Scott H. Hall Released July 6, 1963 (Peoria, IL) RT 67 min. Home Video Arrow Video Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) In a 1987 archival interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis on Arrow Video’s latest release of Blood…

Written by Sergio Corbucci and Ennio De Concini and Eliana De Sabata Directed by Mario Bava Starring Leticia Roman, John Saxon, Valentina Cortese, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Dante DiPaolo Released Feb. 14, 1963 (Italy), May 20, 1964 (United States) RT 86 min. (Italy), 92 min. (United States) Home Video Anchor Bay (DVD), Shudder (streaming) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of…

Written by Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko Based on the story by Nikolay Gogol Directed by Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov Starring Leonid Kuravlyov Released November 27, 1967 (Soviet Union) RT 77 min. Home Video Diamont (DVD) Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) “Viy is a colossal creation of the imagination of simple folk.  The tale itself…