A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Dick Miller. It teaches the important lesson that beatniks should not drink their hair tonic.

The plot begins on August 10th in a California drive-in theatre, and concerns a killer on the loose, with the victims beheaded with a large sword. Two police are sent to investigate the killings, and question the owner of the drive in and his “assistant”, and a local peeping Tom, before going undercover to catch the killer themselves.

Rated R

This film is pretty scary so it’s NOT FOR KIDS. Arch Hall Jr. plays a psychotic killer who traps three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game who have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by the bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.

Right from a 1972 drive-in, Die Sister Die is a classic in the genre of bad drive-in movies.  A man hires a nurse to take care of his nasty sister, but he really wants to embroil the nurse in a plot to kill off the nasty sister.

A glowing object which seems to be a meteor careens toward the earth. A young man that sees it is narrowly missed by it as it flounders completely unlike a meteorite over his car heading back towards the sky and then into the forest ahead of him. A couple hears a noise in their basement and goes down to see what it is they are surprised and cheesily wrestled to the ground by the Green Monster Known as the Galaxy Invader.

The Last Woman on Earth is a 1960 American science-fiction film produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth. The screenplay is by Robert Towne, who also appears in the film billed as “Edward Wain”. The music was composed and conducted by Ronald Stein.

Dr. Malthus, resurrects his once hanged and now immortal grandfather and discovers his secret to eternal youth requires human blood. Soon a trail of dead beauties has the police frustrated. After all, the young doctor is a respected professional. Meanwhile, the grandfather plots to take over the doctor’s practice and also his identity and reanimate more corpses.

The story involves an American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan (Jeff Bridges) who becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go (James Mason), an oriental organized crime mastermind.
They conspire to blackmail an Americam weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Gos organization for resale to the highest bidder.

Enter The Dolphin, an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, tasked with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.

Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her.

Silent Night, Bloody Night is a low-budget 1974 horror film directed by Theodore Gershuny. It stars Patrick O’Neal and cult actress Mary Woronov in leading roles, with John Carradine in a supporting performance. It was filmed in 1972 but was not released until 1974. Lloyd Kaufman was an associate producer. Rated R.

A voodoo death cult worships an evil priest named Damballa. Captain Labesh arrives and wants to crack down on the cult and the drunken local police force that has turned a blind eye to the cults activities.

Unrated but about R

Killers from Space is a 1954 Science Fiction Films where Peter Graves (Mission Impossible) fights some evil conquerors from the planet Venus. The venutians look just like we humans except they wear painted ping pong balls over their eyes. One of the things that I found was funny was the number of times Peter Graves girlfriend says “Doug”. She must say “Doug” three or four dozen times. We got it alright, the guys name is “Doug”!

Manos was written, directed and produced by Harold P. Warren, a fertilizer salesman from El Paso, Texas. Warren also starred in the film. A vacationing family is trapped at a lodge maintained by a polygamous pagan cult. It ranks among the best movies ever made by a fertilizer salesman.

The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate young florist’s assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of which had worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humour and elements of spoof.The Little Shop of Horrors was shot in two days utilizing sets that had been left standing from a previous production on a budget of $30,000.

Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 cult film directed by Roger Corman from a screenplay by Charles B. Griffith. It is a comedy film spoofing the “sea monsters” genre. It can be considered a part of two different “trilogies”, either as the third in a Corman-Griffith comedy trilogy consisting of this film and the dark comedies, A Bucket of Blood and The Little Shop of Horrors, or a part of Corman’s “Puerto Rico trilogy,” also consisting of Last Woman on Earth and Battle of Blood Island. Fred Katz’s musical score for this film was originally written for A Bucket of Blood and was also used in The Little Shop of Horrors as well.

Bloody Pit of Horror (Original Italian title: Il Boia Scarlatto) is a 1965 Italian gothic horror movie about an Italian castle owner who is possessed by an evil spirit of its sado-masochistic past when a group of models come to use his property for a special photo shoot. The models soon find themselves victims of his special brand of torture. This is a pretty good example of a 1965 psycho-sexual horror film made in Italy. This is UK banned and USA unrated, but I’d call it Not for kids. It probably shouldn’t be viewed by anyone, but it is pretty strange…. even though there’s not any real nudity or language in it. The credits claim it was filmed in Psychovision and that’s about right.

EEGAH!.

If you think you’ve seen some weird movies here on Retrovision Internet TV. Why don’t you try this one on for size?. This is the quintessential 1950s midnight movie. Goofy 1950s teenagers find a cave man. Guess who he is? You’ll see.

Wait until you hear the song “Vicki”. It’s a classic.

Wow skippy…..

Eegah! (also known as Eegah! The Name Written in Blood) is a 1962 film starring Arch Hall Sr. as Robert Miller, Arch Hall Jr. as Tom Nelson, Richard Kiel (who portrayed the character Jaws in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker) as Eegah, and Marilyn Manning as Roxy Miller.

Dr. Abel invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When Dr. Abel dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor’s head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment. That is to take a hunchbacked nurse and give her a stripper babe body.

The founder and owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot), is disturbed when her firm’s sales begin to drop after it becomes apparent to her customer base that she is aging. Scientist Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) has been able to extract enzymes from the royal jelly of the queen wasp that can reverse the aging process.

Frankenstein’s Daughter, released theatrically December 15, 1958, was the third of four drive-in classics crafted by producer Marc Frederic and director Richard Cunha in their late-’50s moviemaking heyday. In it, the original Doctor Frankenstein’s grandson repeats his grandfather’s grisly experiments.

Peter Falk in one of his earliest film roles Falk plays Nico, the leader of a beatnik gang. Lots of bongos bongoing and beatniks reciting poetry while dealing drugs and feeding people ground glass for kicks. Can you dig it baby? We’re all doomed anyway man! Their gonna drop the bomb baby! Better get with it man!

USA unrated, but I’m calling it Rated R.

While boating (and possibly water-skiing), a quartet of teens, Reg (Don Sullivan), Skip (Paul Pepper), Julie (Mitzie Albertson), and Pam (Brianne Murphy), accidentally discover an island run by a mad scientist named Doctor Myra who intends to turn everyone in the United States into a zombie. The teenagers become trapped on the island, and are temporarily imprisoned in cages. They are freed when other teenagers arrive with the sheriff (who turns out to be in league with Doctor Myra). A complicated fight scene serves as the climax, in which a de-zombified gorilla arrives just in time to attack Dr. Myra’s henchmen and allow the teens to escape. When they are safely back on the mainland, it is implied that the teens will receive a reward for discovering the island, and will have an audience with the President of the United States.