Gerard Tichy plays a somewhat round-the-bend European count. His face is horribly disfigured, which in a film like this is a reflection of his warped personality. Tichy's daughter Joan Hills fears that dad will do her harm, in order to fulfill an ancient family ritual. She's right: Hills wakes up one day to find that Tichy has buried her alive. The Spanish/Italian The Blancheville Monster is also known as Horror. Hal Erickson, Rovi
William "One Shot" Beaudine's companion piece to the equally nonsensical Billy the Kid vs. Dracula represents a memorable closing to the eccentric "Z"-movie auteur's amusing body of work. The hare-brained concept finds the legendary outlaw Jesse James (John Lupton) stumbling into the decrepit lair of Maria Frankenstein (Narda Onyx) -- not the daughter but the granddaughter of the infamous monster-making Baron. Maria is, of course, following in Grandpa's footsteps by creating a creature of her own, transplanting the dormant but still-intact brain of Frankenstein's original monster into the body of one of James' cohorts. The lumbering, homicidal monster -- imaginatively dubbed "Igor" -- begins terrorizing townsfolk until the inevitable showdown between living and undead gunslingers. Though not as flamboyantly awful as its predecessor (mainly due to the absence of John Carradine), this is still worth a look for trash-movie completists. Cavett Binion, Rovi
Man in the Attic is a sweat-stained remake of the oft-filmed Mary Belloc Lowndes suspense story -The Lodger. Jack Palance plays a mild, secretive pathologist who rents an attic apartment in the heart of London. Palance falls in love with dancer Constance Smith, daughter of the landlady, but she doesn't seem interested. Meanwhile, several unsolved murders of women have been committed on the fogbound London streets--and all of the victims are showgirls. Unlike Hitchcock's 1926 version of The Lodger, the most likely suspect is indeed the "Jack the Ripper" character hunted by the police. The only surprise in Man in the Attic is that the London bobbies didn't arrest Jack Palance on sight long before the movie started. Hal Erickson, Rovi
A chance for revenge brings a hit man out of retirement in this crime drama directed by genre specialist Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson). Sal Leonardi is a well-connected American Mafioso who, while vacationing in Naples, visits a racetrack and is persuaded by good natured tout Angelo (Massimo Raniei) to put his money on a long shot. While Angelo sometimes works around the odds at the track by putting front-running horses off their stride with a pellet gun, in this case Angelo's horse wins without outside interference and pays off big. But after Sal collects his winnings, he's spotted by Gennare Gallo (Giancarlo Sbragia), a local mob boss who holds a grudge against Sal's partners; guns are drawn, Sal and his bodyguards are killed, while Angelo, who is also a police informant, is stripped of his winnings. Back in New York, Leonardi's partners are eager to even the score against Gallo, and hey approach Peter Marciani (Yul Brynner), a former hired killer who retired after the traumatic murder of his brother. Peter is persuaded to assassinate Gallo when he learns that the Italian mobster was behind the murder of his brother; Peter flies to Napes and finds an ally in Angelo, but he soon learns that there's more to this story than he's been led to believe. Originally released in Italy as Con La Rabbia Agli Occhi, Death Rage was screened in the UK under the more literal translation Anger In His Eyes; the film also co-stars Martin Balsam as a police detective investigating the Leonardi killings. Mark Deming, Rovi
- Genre: Horror
- Category Crime Thriller, Alien Film, Adventure Drama, Giallo, Creature Film, Disaster Film, Crime Drama, Detective Film, Costume Horror
- Theme: Wrongly Committed, Mythical Creatures, Musician's Life, Haunted By the Past, Evil Aliens, Demonic Possession, Crime Sprees, Disfigured Criminals
- Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
- Language: Spanish, Italian, English, Japanese
- Release Date: August 30, 2005
- Lead Actor: Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Joseph Cotten
- Supporting Actor: Angel del Pozo, Christine Newby, Donna Leigh Drake, E.J. Andre, Grant Taylor, Heather L. Bailey, James Yagi, Jeffrey S. Delman, John Nelson, Kathy Fleg, Masao Kusakari, Michael Berlinger, Patrick McCord, Ralph Bertrand, Rondell Sheridan, Sara (Rosalba Neri) Bay, Walter Abel, William Fawcett, Rosa Turich, Robert Trimboli, Robert Alda, Philip Bruns, Paul Muller, Patrick O'Neal, Nicoletta Elmi, Michael DuPont, Mary Woronov, Leif Wennerstrom, Kiran Shah, Kim Tillesley, Julio Pena, Judy Carmichael, Jose Marco, Jose Canalejas, John Carradine, Jim Nocell, Herbert Anderson, Haniet White, Fran Lopate, Cec Linder, Caroline Carrigan, Bruno Ve Sota, Bert Convy, Barbara Seldon, Arthur Hansel, Ariadne Welter, Alfredo Mayo, Alex Gottlieb, Neil Hamilton, Bennie Robinson, Bryant Tausek, Cal Bolder, Carlo Kechler, Chris Chappell, Claudia Jennings, Claudio Brook, Dean Lawrie, Ellen Sherman, Francine Kessler, James Craig, John Bachelder, John Lupton, Jorge Rigaud, Julissa, Lesley Sank, Linda Christian, Lisa Cain, Martin Lasalle, Michele Mars, Nuria Gimeno, Paul Carr, Peter Baldwin, Phyllis Craig, Quintin Bulnes, Rafael Bertrand, Reginald Price Anderson, Renaud Verley, Ron Bush, Rosalba Neri, Sherry Boucher, Silvia Tortosa, Suzanne Vaucher, Tony Hiles, Umberto Raho, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Israel, Vicente Roca, Tongolele, Steven Geray, Raymond Barnes, Peter Vere-Jones, Oded Carmi, Narda Onyx, Mickey Hargitay, Michael Gooch, Mark Pickard, Mark Jackson, Maribel Martin, Lester Matthews, Leonard Elliott, Leigh Kilton, Helga Liné, Laurie Yarrall, Ken Hammon, Jose Jaspe, John Herman Shaner, Joe Blasco, Jim Davis, Harvey Pierce, Gregorio Sala, Felipe Turich, Costa Botes, Christine Betzner, Chase Cordell, Charles East, Carlos East, Beth Belty, Barta Barry, Barbara Steele, Arthur Franz, Anne Redfern, Alice Reinheart, Alberto de Mendoza, Sonny Chiba, Jack Palance, Dick Miller, Scott Valentine, Brandon Maggart, David Hemmings, Michael Greer, Paul Lukather, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Jackson, May Britt, Lesley Donaldson, Jack Betts, Fred Holbert, Richard Boone, Alex D'Arcy, Joan Harvey, Barboura Morris, Nicole Picard, Barbara Lord, Chuck Connors, Daria Nicolodi, Diane Hull, Julian Sands, Kay Hawtry, Marianna Hill, Aldo Ray, Mike Minett, Theodore Bikel, Constance Smith, Scott McKay, Cathryn de Prume, Cameron Mitchell, Byron Palmer, Peter Falk, Peggy Maurer, Gabriele Lavia, Anthony Carbone, Natasha Richardson, Pete O'Herne, James Stapleton, Stephanie Faulkner, Barry Morse, Joy Bang, Glenn Ford, Joe Jamrog, Clara Calamai, Terry Potter, Ted Otis, Myriam Cyr, Frances Bavier, Dean Garbett, Robert Christie, Melissa Leo, Anitra Ford, William Gray Espy, Julian Burton, Rhys Williams, Susan Nohr, Ed Nelson, Michael Mesmer, Howard I. Smith, Peter Friedman, Craig Smith, Stuart Gillard, Stephen E. Miller, Macha Meril, Royal Dano, Timothy Spall, Harvey Atkin, Sean McClory, Elisha Cook Jr., Matt Mitler, John Brinkley, Andreas Wisniewski, Ray Barry, Ben Hammer, Olivia Hussey, Anne Collins, Doug Wren, Robert Osterloh, Glauco Mauri, Alec Mango, Michael Rye, Russ Bender, George Kennedy, Eros Pagni, Leslie E. Bradley, Alf Humphreys, Matt Moore, Sam Gray, Kendall Jackson, Judy Bamber, George Sperdakos, Elaine Martone, Giuliana Calandra, Brian de Persia, Dexter Fletcher, Doris Petrie, Kevin Hannon, Ronald Taylor, Myrtle Domerel, George Sawava, Ellen McElduff, Pascal King, Ken Drake, Michael Zenon, Glenn Vernon, Les Rubie, Harry Cording, Tom Hickey, Timothy Rule, Barry J. Gordon, Isao Natsuki, Jhean Burton, Linda Coggin, Ken Ogata, Lillian Bond, Lynn Bernay, Casper Roos, Lisa Daniels, Sally Kellerman, Kristine Landon-Smith, Edward James Olmos, Cyril Delevanti, Henry Silva, Isabel Jewell, Irish McCalla, Bo Svenson, Yumi Takigawa, Robert Vaughn
- Director: A.M. Frank, Abel Ferrara, Albert Band, Alberto De Martino, Claudio Guerin Hill, Eddy Matalon, Ernst R. von Theumer, Fritz Bottger, Hugo Fregonese, Jack Hill, Johnny Legend, Joseph Mazzuca, Julian Roffman, Peter Jackson, Riccardo Freda, Richard Ashe, Roger Corman, William Fruet, William J. Hole Jr., Willard Huyck, Theodore Gershuny, Bill Rebane, James Polakof, Juan Ibañez, Kenneth G. Crane, Kinji Fukasaku, Lewis Jackson, Newt Arnold, Raul Artigot, Robert O'Neil, Robert Wiene, William Beaudine, Anthony M. Dawson, George Eastman, Gordon Hessler, Herb Freed, Jeffrey S. Delman, Jonathan Morken, Ken Russell, Marc B. Ray, Eugenio Martín, Percival Rubens, Robert Hughes, Robert L. Burrill, Sharron Miller, Alfonso Brescia, Dario Argento, Juan López Moctezuma, Denis Heroux, Gloria Katz, Luis Enrique Vergara, Mel Welles, Ray Danton, Steven Kuether, Stuart Segall, Tonino Ricci