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Alakazam the Great! poster
Movie

A monkey king who learns the secrets of magic goes on a spree and causes no end of aggravation for the gods, who finally imprison him. In order to make up for all the trouble he's caused, he is sent on a mission to accompany a prince who is the son of the gods on a journey through a land filled with dangers, monsters, cannibals and demons.

Alakazam the Great!

Aug 1960

House of Usher poster
Movie

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

House of Usher

Jun 1960

The Raven poster
Movie

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

The Raven

Jan 1963

The Masque of the Red Death poster
Movie

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

The Masque of the Red Death

Jun 1964

The Haunted Palace poster
Movie

A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.

The Haunted Palace

Aug 1963

Tales of Terror poster
Movie

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

Tales of Terror

Jul 1962

The Pit and the Pendulum poster
Movie

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Aug 1961

Beach Party poster
Movie

Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.

Beach Party

Aug 1963

Die, Monster, Die! poster
Movie

A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.

Die, Monster, Die!

Oct 1965

The Young Racers poster
Movie

A former race car driver-turned-writer attempts to expose a ruthless, womanizing Grand Prix racer. A film constructed around footage shot of actual Grand Prix races in Europe.

The Young Racers

Jan 1963

Muscle Beach Party poster
Movie

Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.

Muscle Beach Party

Mar 1964

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes poster
Movie

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Jul 1963

A Bucket of Blood poster
Movie

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A Bucket of Blood

Oct 1959

Attack of the Puppet People poster
Movie

A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

Attack of the Puppet People

Apr 1958

The Comedy of Terrors poster
Movie

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

The Comedy of Terrors

Jan 1964

Ski Party poster
Movie

Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider tips on how the president of the ski club manages to attract so many girls as a way to make amends to their girlfriends. Alongside this relatively simple endeavor are ice-skating polar bears, love triangles, musical numbers, and quick-switching in and out of drag to achieve the goal of discovering what went wrong in the boys' romantic lives.

Ski Party

Jun 1965

Beach Blanket Bingo poster
Movie

In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.

Beach Blanket Bingo

Apr 1965

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow poster
Movie

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

Jul 1959

Invasion of the Star Creatures poster
Movie

Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and their leaders, the 7-foot space sirens Prof. Tanga and Dr. Puna. This lavishly low-budget sci-fi romp has the bodacious aliens planning to overrun Earth with their vege-men army, but first they want the G.I.s to explain the meaning of love.

Invasion of the Star Creatures

May 1962

Lost Battalion poster
Movie

In the Philippines during World War II, a girl is rescued from bandits by a guerrilla fighter.

Lost Battalion

May 1962

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