A mystery-comedy with slight touches of horror, The Phantom in the Red House (original title: El fantasma de la casa roja) has a young woman who works at the Devil’s Inn, a nightclub with themed costumes, named as an heir to a dead millionaire’s fortune — but she and the others concerned must survive a …
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Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as rival scientists — one of whom has made a find of an ancient anthropoid that in fact (a) still has life and (b) is immensely evil — are the chief reasons to watch this horror film, originally titled Pánico en el Transiberiano, largely set upon a train traveling through …
Slow pacing and some confusing storytelling undermine this horror film, originally titled La orgía de los muertos and better known, perhaps, in English as The Hanging Woman. After his uncle’s death, a young man journeys to the avuncular home and along the way discovers the body of a woman hanging in the cemetery, a woman …
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A mad scientist (Gina Romand) descended from Baron Frankenstein, one who has discovered how to make a youth serum and has used it to extend her own life, needs the blood of Santo to devise a stronger serum as the older formula loses its effectiveness. She has her henchmen, whom she also treats with the …
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A silly horror-comedy that perhaps owes a debt to The Fearless Vampire Killers, this movie involves an American actress inheriting a castle and the subsequent depredations of the area by her vampiric ancestor and efforts by her inamorato to protect her, culminating in an outlandish party filled with all sorts of vampires, with Dracula himself …
Regina Torné stars as Marlene, a woman who turns to scientist Dr. Favel (John Carradine) when her husband suffers a heart attack. The mad doctor promises he can save her husband, but only via an experimental treatment, one that has dire side effects for Marlene. She then must take to killing in order to obtain …
A young woman and her friend travel to a remote region for her father’s funeral, but a complicated situation awaits them, and they are soon contending with a supernatural menace, aided by a young man from the local village. The juxtaposition of some comedy with the horror is sometimes rather awkward, but the setting has …
After an opening in which Count Draculstein (Eric del Castillo) is destroyed by sunlight, we shift forward in time to a point when the vampire is returning, according to the warning of his previous foe’s dying widow, and her adult children then become the target of the evil count. Slow but occasionally effective. Mildly recommended. …
This Brazilian horror-comedy takes partial inspiration from The Little Shop of Horrors, as a botanist tries to manage a strange, carnivorous plant, but it soon veers into even odder territory, with a widow running a nightclub with a feature act called “The Seven Vampires.” A mysterious vampire killer is also at work, and a private …
Two sets of bad guys — Dr. Satan (Joaquín Cordero) is one, working for King Devil, and the other is Yei Lin (Noé Murayama), a wizard (but apparently a vampire) working for some unknown power — battle for possession of the formula of Dr. Sorensen (José Luis Llamas), which can be used to transmute base …
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