the thin man (1934)

After four years away former detective Nick Charles returns to New York with his wife Nora and dog, Asta. Whilst there he's approached by Dorothy Wynant whose father is missing and accused of murder. Nick doesn't want the case but is dragged into it by wife Nora, who thinks it will be an interesting adventure.
A wonderful cast and script, with even the dog delivering on all levels. They very rarely made them like that even in them days!

airplane (1980)

aka Flying High! Kentucky Fried Airplane.
Whilst looking for inspiration for their next comedy the team saw Zero Hour! and a light bulb moment occurred. They bought the film rights and thus was born the spoof to end all spoofs.
Chock full of humour on every level, that rewards repeat viewing as there is always something you missed the first time.

return of the living dead (1985)

"Send more paramedics."

A couple of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally open a barrel filled with toxic gas and a body. They rapidly become sick, whilst the leaked gas seems to reanimate the dead. Their boss hatches a plan to cremate the bodies and get rid of the evidence, but all this does is spread the gas to a nearby cemetery. Unfortunately some punks are having a party there and the living dead quickly start hunting down their favorite food, brains. These zombies are quick and can think, one even uses an ambulance radio to ask that they 'send more paramedics'. A great example of a zombie horror comedy.

dark star (1974)

Dark Star is a space ship on a mission to destroy any unstable planets in the universe. A job the crew have undertaken for over 20 years, and are by now thoroughly bored of. But one day Bomb #20 sustains damage in an asteroid storm and threatens to detonate while still in the ship's bomb bay. The crew attempt to talk the bomb out of this course of action, trying to teach the bomb the rudiments of phenomenology.
A wonderfully comic Sci-fi that started out as a student project.

a chinese ghost story (1987)

aka Sien nui yau wan
Ning Tsai-Shen, is a scholar making a living collecting taxes. Then one night he's forced to sleep in a haunted temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yan, and a young woman, who he falls in love with. Unfortunately, she's a ghost, and promised by a hideous tree spirit in marriage to another demon.
A true one off that blends martial arts, comedy and horror into a roller coaster of a film, producing one of the very best of Hong Kong cinema.

flesh for frankenstein (1973)

aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Andy Warhol's Young Frankenstein. Carne per Frankenstein. De la chair pour Frankenstein. Frankenstein. Il Mostro è in tavola barone Frankenstein. The Devil and Dr. Frankenstein. The Frankenstein Experiment. Up Frankenstein.
Udo Kier is the Baron dreaming of creating a Serbian super-race piece by piece! He has already created the perfect woman, now all he needs to do is create the perfect man, and get them to procreate.
Morrissey tries to push the boundaries with his study into humour, class and gore. The Baron's sex scene with his female creations innards, is wonderfully over the top, and produces one of the finest lines of dialogue you will ever hear in a film. A fine example of campy schlock horror, that was originally shot in 3-D.

the horror of frankenstein (1970)

Ralph Bates is Victor Frankenstein, a descendant of the infamous, Baron Von Frankenstein, who follows in the Barons footsteps creating his own monster.
Instead of straight up Gothic horror, hammer decided to re-work the genre creating a more comic drama, with tongue firmly in it's cheek. Some don't take to the comedy elements, but I rather like this twist to the tale, and some of the characters such as Dennis Price's graverobber, add an extra dimension to the film.