pirates of blood river (1962)

Hammer decided they would branch out into pirate adventure films...the only snag being they didn't have a boat. So welcome to a small sub-genre of land locked pirate films!
The plot revolves around pirates hunting for treasure in a village of Huguenot refugees. Christopher Lee is suitably menacing as the pirate captain Le Roche in this romp.
Seemingly this was the only Hammer film that went from a provisional X certificate to a U cert when the censors saw it!

frankenstein meets the werewolf (1943)

aka Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
A classic Universal horror bringing together two of their great monsters. Lon Chaney Jr is cursed to become a Werewolf, and in trying to find a cure, or death! He search leads him to stumble upon Frankenstein's monster (Bela Lugosi). Chaney wants to die, but the monster wants to live. Who will come out on top in this clash, and what will the villagers do? This movie trots along nicely, even having time to stop for a musical number before the big finish.

the night caller (1965)

aka Blood Beast from Outer Space. Bloodbeast from Outer Space. Night Caller from Outer Space.
Starts as your typical sci-fi, with a mystery object spotted over London. It lands and is being investigated by Ministry of Defense scientists when
mysterious things start to happen, and an inhuman presence makes itself felt before escaping. Subsequently the film flips into a detective noir, as young women start disappearing, and the scientists and police both try to hunt a mysterious killer down.
A gem of a film that showcases the fact that a low budget does not necessarily mean a low rent film.

satan's slave (1976)

aka Evil Heritage.
Starts promisingly with a satanic sacrifice, but quickly descends into an overly talky thriller, interspersed with short sharp sadistic tortures, mostly visited upon naked women. Whilst the gore is well done, the interminable wait and over verbose exposition dampened the whole experience for me. A mix of sex, death, sadism, satanism, resurrection and madness, all at a tortuously slow pace.

maniac (1963)

Taking violent revenge for his daughter Annette's rape sees Georges incarcerated in an insane asylum. A few years later an American stumbles on, and decides to stay in a village, in part due to his attraction to Annette. A tug of love ensues between the daughter and her mother, for the American. Further intrigue happens when Georges escapes.
Set in the Camargue, it conveys a sense of the heat and dust, but soon loses it's way, and the initial promise dissolves into little more than a pot boiler.

nude on the moon (1961)

aka Girls on the Moon. Moon Dolls. Nature Girls on the Moon. Nature on the Moon. Nudes on the Moon.
Two scientists manage to build and fly a rocket to the moon and find it looking remarkably like Florida and populated by topless women. So more topless on the moon than nude! The reason for this film is to show topless women to a sex starved America in the early 60's, so remarkably pointless and boring today, unless watching for the unintentional laughs, of which there are many.

the most terrible time in my life (1994)

aka Waga jinsei saiaku no toki.
Maiku Hama is a private detective in Yokohama who comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother, but becomes embroiled in an escalating gang war.
Filmed as a stylish film noir, quirky characters add a level of humour to the dark and sometimes violent storyline.