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bulldog drummond escapes (1937)

aka Bulldog Drummond Saves a Lady.
"It begins..."
Captain Drummond (Ray Milland) is taken prisoner when he tries to protect a beautiful heiress (Heather Angel) from a crook after her money.
Entertaining romp, with Milland playing Drummond as a adolescent, adding humour, that the rest of the series lacked.

the snow creature (1954)

"You mean the abominable snowman, the phantom of the Himalayas."
American botanist Dr Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) goes on an expedition to the Himalayas, stumbles across a Yeti, which he capture's. Returning to Los Angeles, the Yeti escapes, and the hunt is on to detain the illegal immigrant.
Run of the mill creature feature, that makes not a lick of sense, but then that is where the fun is to be had.

new town killers (2008)

"Aye, I'm in."
Teenager Sean Macdonald (James Anthony Pearson) lives with his flaky sister Alice Kelly (Liz White). Until he finds out that Alice owes £12,000 to some dangerous gangsters. A glimmer of hope comes from a job offer from two men. They offer him the twelve thousand to play hide and seek for twelve hours, but once he accepts he finds out that one (Dougray Scott) is a killer, and the game becomes deadly...
Decent thriller, that takes the basic premise of The Most Dangerous Game, and moves the location to modern day Edinburgh.

the Batwoman (1968)

aka La Mujer Murcielago.
"My revenge will be terrible! Terrible!"
Batwoman (Maura Monti) has to battle a mad scientist (Roberto Cañedo) who is trying to create a race of amphibious men, killing Mexican wrestlers to harvest their glands.
If female Mexican wrestlers solving crimes in bikini's is your thing, then boy do I have a film for you!

madame death (1969)

aka la senora muerte.The Death Woman. Mrs Death.
"To survive you must kill!"
A mad scientist (John Carradine) teams with the evil and disfigured Marlene (Regina Torné) in an attempt to make her look beautiful again, and to restore her dead husband's life. To do so they set about kidnapping and operating on young women.
Torné makes for a great femme fatale, the film concentrating on her torment, but Carradine's presence tilts the film off kilter, moving it from a proto Giallo, into a 50's drive-in horror, making the film seem more like two separate projects mashed together.

the video dead (1987)

aka Zombie - Bloody Demons.
"Whatever it is, its already been paid for by the sender."
A remote house in the woods takes delivery of a crate, with a TV inside. A Tv that plays nothing but zombie movies, including one's that manage to exit the tv! Three months later, the house is sold to an unsuspecting family, and the son finds a tv and decides to watch some programmes...
Campy horror-comedy, that is more than the sum of its parts.