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AKA Gli occhi freddi della paura. Desperate Moments. Los fríos ojos del miedo.
"I'll kill you."
Peter (Gianni Garko), a solicitor, has brought Anna (Giovanna Ralli) to his uncle's house, only to find Quill (Julian Mateos), and a dead body waiting for them. Quill takes them hostage, but its not them he's after but Peter's corrupt uncle Judge Flower (Fernando Rey). But what is he after?
The tension ramps up when policeman Arthur Welt (Frank Wolff) turns up with some papers from the Judge. The action is slow in coming as the main participants argue, threaten and cajole each other, but it develops into a tense hostage thriller, rather than a straight up Giallo, where no-one is what they seem.
AKA El buque maldito. Ghost Ships of the Blind Dead. Horror of the Zombies. La noche del buque maldito. Ship of Zombies. The Blind Dead 3. Zombie Flesh Eater.
"Those who have seen it up close never return."
A publicity stunt to promote a motor boat goes wrong when the two models aboard encounter a seemingly deserted galleon and subsequently disappear. A search party, (including Jack Taylor and Maria Perschy) is sent to look for them but end up in trouble when they locate the ship and find it manned by undead, knights Templar intent on sucking their blood.
The third part of the Blind Dead series has a stupendously stupid premise where the zombie crusaders decide to take to the high seas and become sailors. The idea that an advertising agency would promote a boat by stranding two women in it just hints a the ludicrousness of the plot. Would you buy a boat that doesn't seem to work? But that aside this takes far too long to get going, and the slow, creepy atmosphere it tries to maintain just doesn't work for me. One for people who love low low budget and plotted films where scantily clad women wander about a lot oblivious to the obvious danger.
"He seems to recognize you Doctor."
Igor (Bela Lugosi) manages to retrieve the monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) from a pit of sulfur that had engulfed him many years earlier, and takes him to the son of Baron Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke), who is a renowned brain surgeon. Igor pleads with Frankenstein to help him and the monster. Frankenstein's solution is to replace the monsters murderous brain with a fresh, wholesome model. But this being a horror things soon go wrong.
The law of diminishing returns applies here, whilst not being a bad film, it hardly lives up to the previous efforts. This looks good, but although the actors give it their all, there is just too many plot holes to live up to the classic tale.
"This man is kept alive artificially, he has no heart...here is his heart for which he has no further use."
Dr John Pierre (Vincent Ball) is convicted of malpractice when one of his patients dies and sentenced to an insane asylum run by the brutal Dr Callistratus (Donald Wolfit). When his conviction is overturned Callistratus tells the authorities that he died trying to escape. In reality he has him working on some gruesome experiments and a cure for a rare blood disease that Callistratus suffers from. But then Pierre's fiance (Barbara Shelley) turns up to find out more about her husband's death.
A vivid gothic horror that tries to mimic the Hammer house style, but suffers from not really knowing what it wants the villain to be, a vampire or a Frankenstein type mad scientist.
"I'm glad that the skull has been stolen and I advise you to leave it alone."
Dr. Maitland (Peter Cushing), a rich researcher into demonology is offered the skull of the Marquis De Sade by Marco (Patrick Wymark), a disreputable salesman. His friend and fellow collector Sir Matthew Phillips (Christopher Lee) tells him it is quite genuine as it was stolen from him, but far from wanting it back he tries to persuade Maitland to have nothing to do with the skull, believing it to be possessed. Maitland ignores his friends warnings, something he will live to regret once he gains possession of the skull.
Anything with Lee and Cushing in is usually worth a watch, and this is no exception. Not the greatest horror that they were involved in, but it has its moments as the skull inflicts its sadistic way with all those that come into contact with it.
AKA Blood on His Lips. The Sun Demon.
"No more wandering at night my boy, and no more drinking!"
An atomic scientist, Dr. Gilbert McKenna (Robert Clarke), is involved in an nuclear accident, but doctors are baffled that he seems to have no symptoms of radiation poisoning. But McKenna's luck runs out when he his left in the sun during his recovery, as he transform into a hideous monster. The doctors realise that every time he is in direct sunlight he is turned by the sun into a monster obsessed with finding a mate. Then one night McKenna falls for a lounge singer, he must then choose between his new life as a man eating monster, or his love of busty singers - which will he choose?
A low budget atomic horror, that manages to be fun and funny at the same time. You'll be entertained by it, whilst at the same time laughing at the premise, and the lamentable acting. A must see for fans of 50's sci-fi monster movies.
"There isn't anything human with a reach that wide!"
Several women are murdered in Paris, and the police have no suspect, until they accuse Rene the knife thrower (Paul Richards), after his assistant is killed. But he's proved innocent so the police turn their attention to Professor Dupin (Steve Forrest), who decides to prove his innocence and that the killer may be something altogether stronger and more agile than a man could ever be. Enter Dr. Marais (Karl Malden) the head of the Paris zoo, to give his opinion that a beast of some kind may be involved.
The wonderful use of colour brings a touch of lightness to this rather limp tale, that was originally shot and shown in 3-d, and features some suitably in your face direction.
AKA Gli occhi freddi della paura. Desperate Moments. Los fríos ojos del miedo. 
