June 1990,
Ashton-under-Lyme, Manchester

“Manchester? That’s North London, isn’t it?”
— Phoebe Legere

Miss Legere, star of the Toxic Avenger sequels, wasn’t a guest at Black Sunday 3, tho’ whether she wasn’t invited or was wandering around London looking for it is not known. Making ‘Back to the Future 3’ look positively slow, Malcolm and Dave put the next show on the road just 3 months after BS2. Thanks to the GPO, however, I only found out three WEEKS beforehand. No matter, the tickets were bought (I must be the only ‘zine editor who actually PAYS!) and we sat and drank in a nearby pub, meeting all the people we’d not seen since last time. When we got in, the place was mostly empty, probably due to the relatively short notice given to most people, which meant a pleasing amount of space to sprawl out in.

We began with ‘The Boneyard‘, a world premiere, and quite possibly the last time anyone will see it at the cinema. Spam-in-a-morgue, with rabid grannies (well, a rabid granny – Phyllis Diller, of all people!), rabid kiddies and a rabid, fifteen-foot high poodle. Tacky and not quite unwatchable. ‘Bride of the Re-Animator’ followed, now called ‘Re-Animator 2’ (see TC5 – improved slightly on a second viewing).

I confess to having slept through ‘Black Rainbow‘; but those that watched it enjoyed it. So far no running order had been given (as it turned out we never did get one), which left us annoyingly uncertain when to snooze so as to be wide awake for the best films. I woke up for most of ‘Halloween 5‘ and liked it far more than I expected to. The final 30 minutes with Michael stalking his young niece are very tense, thanks to Danielle Harris as said 8-year old girl. I’m a little worried about her – she’s either one hell of an actress or is now totally traumatised! Otherwise, standard fare, slightly lacking in the flesh department (teenage female). The first half ended with ‘Never Cry Devil‘, the first Society clone I’ve seen, had a boy convinced that his history teacher was a Satanist – the teacher and his retarded brother (nicely played by Michael J. Pollard) were a lot more interesting than the plyboard hero & heroine. The film was unremarkably average save some unsubtle editing – it seemed that the BBFC provided a list of frames to remove and the company removed them, regardless of how rough the result looked.

Overall, a disappointing first half. None of the new films would merit a second look from me, with the possible exception of ‘Halloween 5’, though at 1.75 a shot they were passable. For me, the second half didn’t get off to a much better start… I missed half the promo reel for ‘Revenge of Billy the Kid‘, because the promised interval was halved in length while I was out! What I saw of the promo looked interesting, however. ‘Communion‘, based on the ‘true story’ by Whitley Streiber, opened the second half and took too long to get to the I-was-kidnapped-by-aliens bits. I remain unimpressed with his tale.

Six films in, still nothing memorable – fortunately, this was all about to change. Next up was ‘Basket Case 2‘, a worthy successor to one of the classic low-budget films of all time. Hennenlotter places his hero Duane (played again by Kevin van Heytenrynck) and Belial, his mutant half-brother (in the literal sense!) in a sanctuary for freaks and then throws in a muck-raking journalist in order to get things going. Surprisingly passed uncut by the BBFC+, it is a stream of vicious inventiveness from beginning to (typically twisted) end.

After much fanfare, David Bryan announced one of their star films; ‘Miracle Mile‘. Mass audience response: “Miracle what?”. Despite having no ‘names’ connected with it (save a Tangerine Dream soundtrack), being gore-free and only borderline genre, it was almost unanimously voted THE hit of the festival. After a quiet opening, it becomes an astonishingly powerful film about… well, I suggest the less you know about it the greater the impact it’ll have, so avoid the reviews but SEE IT. No film in the past dozen years has had me closer to tears. Bloody brilliant and worth the cost of the weekend on it’s own. Following this anything would have been a let-down, so it was surprising that ‘Fear‘, another world premiere, was still well worth watching. It stars Ally Sheedy as a psychic who helps the police track down serial killers – things go fine until she comes across a psychotic psychic. Some lovely set pieces but spoiled for me by a weak ending.

To finish off, they gave us the second surprise film. A cunning double bluff – showing the trailer earlier on – fooled everyone so no-one really guessed it would be ‘Frankenhooker‘, the other new Hennenlotter film. More sleaze as you’d expect from the man. ‘Frankenhooker’ is about a guy who decides to rebuild his girlfriend, after she has an accident with a lawnmower, using local hookers to supply the missing pieces. Tongue totally in cheek, we have sex, violence, drug abuse, surgery and exploding bimbos. Lovely.

That’s as much of a review as the deadline permits – very much a festival of two halves, Saint. If the second half had been like the first, I’d be very wary of returning – however, if all the films had been as good as the last four, it would have been the best weekend I’ve had in a long time. The organisation is improving each time (although a running order would have helped!) and they’re beginning to worry the organisers of (the hideously priced) Shock Around the Clock, which has to be a good sign. Roll on BS4, and go see ‘Miracle Mile’!!

In the 80-odd years since the cinema began, roughly 3,000 films have had at least some significant scenes set inside penitentiaries, reform schools or good old-fashioned jails. Though not all of these centre on female characters, bad girls have long been a staple of B-movie production. Why do film-makers have a fascination with this genre?

Firstly, they’re cheap to make – not many genres allow you to get a quantity discount on the costumes. Sets are also easily obtainable, a few old prefabs and a couple of rolls of barbed wire are all that’s needed. Secondly, the moral tone of them ( and few exist where the naughty bimbo doesn’t repent by the end ) allows them to get past the censors more easily than movies with an ambiguous moral stance. Thirdly, and possibly most importantly, it’s a good excuse for a lot of T & A.

The earliest candidate yet tracked down for the title of First Female Felon Film is ‘Ladies of the Big House’, made in 1931 where the heroine ends up in jail after getting set-up when she Just Says No to a gangster. The 1950’s saw any number of teenager-in-trouble movies, but few actually spent much of their running time behind bars; ‘Untamed Youth’ and the original ‘Reform School Girl’ (both 1957) are two that did, though in the former, prison was rather like summer camp, even down to Eddie Cochran being there to play the odd guitar solo. The next burst arrived in the 1970’s when Roger Corman’s New World Pictures were at the fore-front of things, with a battery of films nearly all of which can have their titles re-created by perming any two from ‘Women’, ‘Heat’, ‘Cages’ and ‘Chained’, then adding an appropriate preposition to taste. Few were shot in the States, partly to save money, partly (no doubt) to avoid law-suits from the American Correction Association. Tom de Simone, a name that should be familiar to regular readers, has become the Master of Misbehaviour, for films like ‘The Concrete Jungle’ (1982), a film once described as “a movie of staggering ineptitude”. I can give it no higher praise than that.

Although often highly similar in plot (thin), characters (stereotypes) and raison d’etre (though inclined slightly more to violence than nudity) men-in-prison films have never had the same appeal for me. Despite ‘Prison’ and ‘Ghosts of the Civil Dead’ both being good films, they’re a little too restrained and, well, SERIOUS to be in the same league as ‘Reform School Girls’, a film well documented in a previous issue (TC2). And the more exploitationary ones haven’t a great deal to interest me…

This point of seriousness is something that does divide the female side of the genre as well. On one side you have deep, social comment such as ‘Scrubbers’; at the other end of the rainbow you have Fred Olen Ray’s ‘Prison Ship Star Slammer’, the most ludicrous sci-fi film I’ve ever seen, which used items from films as diverse as “Logan’s Run” and ‘Flashdance’ – in between, you have a full range of serious disguised as exploitation (‘Caged Heat’ directed by Jonathan Demme, who went on to do ‘Stop Making Sense’ and also New Order’s ‘The Perfect Kiss’; they had another of their promos, ‘Touched by the Hand of God’, directed by Kathryn Bigelow of ‘Near Dark’ fame who has not, as far as I know, had anything to do with any women-in-prison films) and exploitation pretending to be serious. The best way to tell the difference is to look at the characters; if there’s no doubt about ‘goodies’ and ‘baddies’, you’re almost certain to be watching an exploitation film.

A fine example of the pseudo-serious is the utterly appalling ‘Red Heat’. No, not the Arnold Schwarzenegger one, this had Linda Blair as an American in an East German prison whose boyfriend mounts a rescue mission from the West. Sylvia Kristel was on the staff and the film was remarkable only for it’s total lack of redeeming qualities to make it worth watching. Unfortunately, this was the first bad bimbo pic I ever saw and it did just as impressive a job at putting me off the genre as seeing ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ when I was 15 did for horror films. It was not until a triple bill of ‘Caged Heat’, ‘Jackson County Jail’ and ‘Reform School Girls’ at the Scala that I realised the breadth of the genre. The second mentioned is something of an anachronism as it’s really a WOMAN-in-prison film. Yvette Mimieux has one of those weekends when everything goes wrong and ends up in jail. It contains a scene where she is raped by a guard, which is one of the most unpleasant such assaults I’ve seen. Exactly how it should be.

It’s interesting to note the self-cannibalism that goes on – certain scenes and incidents from ‘Caged Heat’ appear, almost frame for frame, in ‘Reform School Girls’. The line between homage and plagiarism is very thin. Similarities to the girls-school film also mean it’s possible to consider one as a sub-genre of the other. Both have women without men, uniforms and a large number of opportunities for shower scenes. This is more marked in some films than others – ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, which oozes repression and sexuality from every frame, is clearly more closely related than ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’.

At the other extreme, we have the concentration camp sub-genre, the reductio ad absurdum of the prison movie where nothing is left except the violence and the sex. Films like ‘Love Camp 7’, ‘SS Experiment Camp’ and ‘Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS’ could almost be considered liberal, in a warped way, since they’re about the only place where the sexes get to mix, more or less freely. These are unwatchable affairs with heavy sadistic tendencies, ‘Ilsa’ being salvaged, at least partly, by Dyanne Thorne’s manic over-acting. Unsurprisingly, these have come in for a fair share of flak from regulatory authorities for a variety of obvious reasons – on the other hand, ‘normal’ naughty nymphette movies usually escape via the moral and inconsistently illogical loop-hole that considers violence by women on women to be more acceptable than violence by men on women. Run that by me again, will you?

As we head into the 90’s, the market for all these films shows no signs of diminishing – any halfway decent video shop will stock several chicks-in-chains pics, though whether you’ll find them on the adult, action/adventure, comedy or horror shelves depends on the whim of the owner. Admittedly, you might rent a ‘Red Heat’, but on the other hand, you might get a ‘Prison Ship Star Slammer’ or some similarly surreal epic, with sex, violence and humour. What more could you possibly want from a film?

A sudden influx of American ‘zines this quarter; it’s interesting to reflect upon the differences in both style and content, though perhaps six isn’t really a representative sample! ‘Gore Gazette’ *101 demonstrates these differences admirably, being a small (7 sides A4. $2), no-nonsense ‘zine with an off-centre sense of humour. Not for overly sensitive liberal wimps, I enjoy it.

Taking GO’s attitude to it’s obvious, if somewhat ludicrous extreme, we have ‘Chunk Blower’ *0 and ‘A Taste of Bile’ *8. both hailing from good of Waco, Texas. Both revel in deliberate offensiveness: the tatter (8 AS for an IRC) says of Linnea Quigley. “Someone ought to rape/murder this bitch”, while the former (12 1/2 A5, ???) has “Next time your parents, boss, cops. etc give you shit about drugs, just tell them: l don’t do drugs, I just sell them to elementary school brats for see. – AToB is the better written and layed out. tho’ CB openly acknowledges it’s deficiencies!

At the other end of the spectrum is ‘Scareaphanalia’ 87 (8 AS, $1), which is sober, sane & well written, with a lot of inside info, as you’d expect from a F*ng*r*a employee (tho’ a nice bloke despite this!) and a chat with Frank Henenlotter, ‘Basket Case 2’ director. *88 has a good list of American ‘zines to help me use up the dollars left over from the NY trip. Also on the suaver side is ‘It’s Only A Movie’ *I (32 A4ish. $4??), with a column by Joe Bob Briggs. an interview with John Menaughton and pieces on The Cramps. comics. Argent() and some comedy group called Monty Python… Finally, there’s ‘Murder Can be Fun’, which I invested a fistful of dollars in. *11 (32 A5. $2) digs up some forgotten American accidents (the Great Boston Molasses Flood) and earlier issues cover similar topics: death. destruction and Karen “She’s skinny, she’s sexy, she’s dead’ Carpenter. Worth a look.

British ‘zines are a little scarce, but regular as clockwork appears ‘Strange Adventures’ – *14-16 12,16.16 A4. 95p) do their best to cover everything in the fantasy genre from SF to ‘Field of Dreams’ and is a damn good try. tho’ it’s tendency to LIE HEINOUSLY about TC should be discounted! The forthcoming *17 includes a piece on ‘Twinkle’: at least that’s what I assume Tony means by comics since he has a distressing inability to count to 48. Go on, support the innumerate!! Sheer Filth’ •8 (32 A5, 75p) proves again that real ‘zines don’t need page numbers with a large chunk on Cicciolina, David Friedman. Coil and many reviews of things you probably don’t want to know about. The ‘Racconti Sensuale’ review includes phrases like ‘compositions and bizarre setups allow people and objects to blend into organic entities veritable glowing with delighted sexuality’. Er. yes… ‘Creeping Unknown’ *13 slithered onto the door-mat, having lost it’s staples on the way. In it’s 36 AS pages (75p). there’s news, competitions + a lot of reviews – almost made me want to rent ‘The Abyss’. Almost. Last, but not least is ‘Green Goblin’ (20 A5, 50p + postage). * 13 is different to * 12, consisting of 2 short stories (one SF. one sword-and-sorcery-humour) + a letter column, all of which I enjoyed reading. –

‘Black’ *5 (16 A4, $1.50) is undoubtedly fl clearest layout of any ‘zine this quarter and Mikael’s unique English is a bonus! Reviews and a couple of rants about life & Sweden. ‘Fanzines’ (28 A4, 2.00), originally done as a college project, which reviews in depth 20 odd hottor ‘zines. Perhaps trying too hard to avoid insulting anyone. it’s still interesting and you’ll even learn about the origins of TC! It’s a limited edition, so… ‘My Pants are Made of Welded Steel’ *1 (20 A4, 30p) deals mostly with music, but plans to widen out. Great title, shows promise beneath an occasionally rough-edged look. Finally, received this morning, another new ‘zine: ‘Subterrene’ *1 (20 A4, 60p) – clear layout covering a lot of familiar ground so far but we’ll see how things develop: certainly no worse than TCO!

• Black – Mikael Bomark, Aspv. 28. 14141 Huddinge. SWEDEN
• Chunk Blower – Jason Beck, 3737 Campus Dr.. Apt. 203. Waco, TX 76705. USA
• Creeping Unknown – Nick. do 33 Maltby Road, Mansfield, Notts. N018 3BN
• Fanzines – Paul Mallinson, 12 Daneshill Road, Leicester. LE3 6AL.
• Gore Gazette – do Sullivan, 469 Hazel St, Clifton, NJ 0701 I. USA
• Green Goblin – John Breakwell, 170 Caversham Road. Reading. RG I 8AZ
• It’s Only A Movie – PO Box 14683, Chicago, Illinois 60614-0683. USA
• Murder Can Be Fun – John Man-, Box 640111, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
• My Pants are Made… – Simon Owen, Fieldside House, London Road, Blewbury, Oxon. OX11 9NY
• Scareaphanalia – Michael Gingold, 55 Nordica Drive. Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. USA
• Sheer Filth – David Flint. 39 Holly Street. Offerton, Stockport. SKI 4DP.
• Strange Adventures – Tony Lee. 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight, P030 3AJ
• Subterrene – Anthony Cawood. 6 Daleside Avenue. Pudsey, Leeds. LS28 81-1D
• A Taste of Bile – PO Box 7150, Waco, TX 76714, USA

Best excuse of 1990:

Daniel Cox – “I have been on location in Cuba as technical advisor for the snuff movie ‘Kinkarver’ or as it is known by its UK release title ‘The Kinski Lookalike Murders’ and please do not suspect me of exaggeration. [ Who, me? I did meet Dennis Neilsen at a party, prior to his arrest of course…(expect he had other things on his mind at that time, such as “did I turn the oven offr…the party did take place and is not a figment of my imagination”.

Neilsen used to work for the Manpower Services Commission in Denmark St, just opposite the old Forbidden Planet shop – probably all those nasty books warped his mind. Speaking of warped minds, here’s

Andy Waller – “TC appears to be cleaning up it’s act. judging by the latest edition -it’s becoming far too clean, decent and bloody responsible! It’s rapidly losing it’s crude unrefined personality, it’s borderline origins – TC come home! Screw discretion, commercialism, honour and decency – bring on the sleaze!”

Certainly a problem I’m aware of -the only difficulty is that my life lately has been too clean. decent and bloody responsible! TC reflects this and is thus distressingly sleaze-free – all suggestions and offers of 14-year old nymphomaniacs, large amounts of money and heaps of pharmaceuticals would be welcome.

Which is an easy link to Handy Household Hints. “You have to be careful not to make ergot (lysergic acid) as well as psilocybe”, warns Claire Blarney. That would be a disaster, wouldn’t it? David Thomson asks “Could you please tell me where to avoid getting hold of any psilocybe mycelium? Just to be sure.” – so far, I’ve luckily avoided that pitfall myself. Poor Richard Owen has a problem in the offing – “A friend is very grateful to you for HHH n. He recently spent a lot of time researching at the library in Swansea University but to no avail – unfortunately, I’m the one who’ll have to look after him”.

Mark Stevens – “Please put me on the letters page, I’ve seen Robert de Niro’s left testicle”.

No bother at all, Mark. Next.

Paul Mallinson – “Boo! No mention in the letters page!…Maybe next time. Jim?!”.

Maybe, maybe not. Oh, alright then – go ahead!

EM – “On the whole, I enjoyed the Splatterfest – not because of the films (although ‘Rabid Grannies’ was marvellous), mainly because of the atmosphere and getting the chance to meet all the people I’ve been writing to… Well said on ‘The Comic’…Sure, it was well out of place at the event but all the shouting did was to deny us the chance of seeing their other film on offer which could have been much better”. Every festival has it’s dick-heads – Splatterfest just had more than most it seems.

The Sybil Denning piece was enjoyed/appreciated, tho’ maybe those that didn’t just kept quiet rather than risk the wrath of SD. who naturally pops round to collect her copy in person… Several people spotted that ‘Your Sister is a Werewolf’ is an alternate title for ‘The Howling II’ and Tony Lee adds “you forgot her guest appearance as a prison bitch, beating up Heather Thomas in TV’s ‘The Fall Guy! (No I’m not kidding)”. Not forgot, Tony just haven’t seen – I’m sure it’s pretty unforgettable!

Simon Wood – “TC5 was jolly interesting, with my only gripe being the fact that you got my name wrong in the letters page. Simon Owen? Who he?” [Guilty. m’lud – probably something to do with him residing at Owen Court. I expect.] Tell Stuart Adamson of R.A.D. (letters, TC5) there is another band who would dispute the ‘fastest band on earth’ tag. The Anal C*nts started out by putting out a single (7″) which contains 88 songs and their latest 7″ single has a total of over 5.000 (!!!!) songs on it!!!”.

More one-upmanship comes from Paul Higson –

“I sat alone in a cinema studio for the last day of a two week run of ‘Videodrome’. The usherette didn’t bother coming down with the tray, she just called out ‘Do you want any ices?” from the door”.

The only way we can take this further is to find someone working at a cinema who knows of a showing when no-one turned up!

Several readers kindly told me about Pop Will Eat Itself and their unofficial World Cup Single. ‘Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina’. I was very disappointed they wimped out and failed to include Ms. Staller when they were on ‘Top of the Pops’ as they claimed they wanted – even the video had a fake Cicciolina and about two stills of her. Far better to watch The Late Show’, which had a piece on an Italian art exhibition where one of the exhibits was a double life-size sculpture of her and the artist making love, surrounded by photos of them. This is Art, so it was alright to show the sort of things the BBFC would frown on… Glyn Williams speculates on the possibilities:

“One can only hope that Maggie. by the next election, is in such desperate straits that she will feel it is necessary to stand on the back of a lorry lifting her skirt and opening her blouse to gain attention”.

Not sure ‘hope’ is the word I’d use, Glyn – it will be interesting to see if Glenda Jackson. a lady not averse to removing her clothes for Ken Russell. tries something similar. When I write 80% of a paragraph, I know it’s time to stop! All letters are read avidly and you will get a reply, though given the time spent watching the World Cup. it might take a while to clear the backlog…

I’m writing this on Christopher Lee’s 68th birthday, May 27th, and I’m trying to find words to sum up the career of a man who has appeared in more films than almost any other actor. Not all of these have been good perhaps, but even in the dullest of these (who mentioned ‘Night of the Big Heat’?) he is always worth watching. He’s a highly versatile actor, capable of playing everything from the Mummy to Sherlock Holmes, via Shakespeare – ‘Hamlet’ (1948) won an Oscar, and was his first film with Peter Cushing.

He is undoubtedly best known for his performances as Dracula, his height (6 ft. 4″) lending him an air of authority few, if any, other actors have been able to bring to the role. In addition to the Hammer versions, beginning with ‘Dracula’ (1958) and generally going downhill in quality until the abysmal ‘Dracula AD 1972’, he also appeared in other vampire films, though these were usually feeble spoofs. He was ‘misled’ into appearing in ‘El Conde Dracula’ by promises it would be the definitive telling of Stoker’s tale – since it was directed by Jess Franco, it will not surprise readers to learn this is not how it turned out…

Outside the horror genre, his appearances have been almost as numerous, especially in more recent years. He was Scaramanga in ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’, and is also well known for his appearances in ‘The Three Musketeers’ and it’s two sequels. At other times, he has played Dr Jekyll, Rasputin & Fu Manchu, but for me his most memorable role was as Lord Summerisle in ‘The Wicker Man’ (1973), which in my opinion is the best non-Hammer British horror film ever made.

In recent years his appearances have become slightly less numerous, leaving him free to pursue his other interests – he is a keen golfer, possessing a low handicap, and is also very fond of cricket. However, he can shortly be seen in ‘Gremlins II’, which means the man will be in the (unique?) position of having starred in films with three of your editor’s idols; Nastassja Kinski (‘To the Devil a Daughter’), Sybil Danning (‘The Howling II’) and now Phoebe Cates.

His latest film, as yet unreleased here, is called ‘The Rainbow Thief’, with Michael Caine. During the filming, it was reported that Lee was called to do a scene where he has a heart attack while bonking some beauty. Lee wanted it changed, in deference to his age, and settled for being tickled into a seizure by eight topless bimbos! Some people have all the luck…

Filmography

So you thought Sybil Danning was busy? I lost count of the following list when it went into three figures; all corrections, additions and amendments would be gratefully received, though note that only commonly encountered alternative titles are included:

• 1947 – Corridor of Mirrors
• 1948 – Hamlet
• 1949 – They Were Not Divided
• 1950 – Prelude of Fame
• 1951 – Valley of the Eagles
• 1952 – The Crimson Pirate
• 1953 – Moulin Rouge
• 1954 – Dark Avenger a.k.a. The Warriors
• 1955 – Private’s Progress
• 1956 – Alias John Preston
  Moby Dick
  Ill Met by Moonlight a.k.a. Night Ambush
  The Battle of the River Plate a.k.a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee
• 1957 – The Traitor
  The Curse of Frankenstein
  Corridors of Blood a.k.a. Doctor from Seven Dials
• 1958 – Dracula a.k.a. Horror of Dracula
• 1959 – A Tale of Two Cities
  The Man Who Could Cheat Death
  The Mummy
  Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
• 1960 – Beat Girl
  City of the Dead
  Taste of Fear a.k.a. Scream of Fear
• 1961 – Hercules in the Haunted Kingdom a.k.a. Hercules in the Centre of the Earth
• 1962 – Hands of Orlac a.k.a. Hands of a Strangler
  The Terror Tongs a.k.a. The Terror of the Tongs
  Uncle Was a Vampire
  Sherlock Holmes & the Deadly Necklace
  The Longest Day
  Pirates of Blood River
  Puzzle of the Red Orchid a.k.a. Secret of the Red Orchid
  Devil’s Daffodil a.k.a. Daffodil Killer
• 1963 – Terror Castle a.k.a. Virgin of Nuremberg
  What a.k.a. Night is the Phantom
  Devil’s Ship Pirates
  Castle of the Living Dead
• 1964 – The Gorgon
• 1965 – Dracula, Prince of Darkness
  Rasputin, the Mad Monk
  Dr. Terror’s House of Horror
  The Skull
  Face of Fu Manchu
  She
• 1966 – Brides of Fu Manchu
• 1967 – Vengeance of Fu Manchu
  Theatre of Death
  Circus of Fear a.k.a. Psycho Circus
  Night of the Big Heat a.k.a. Island of the Burning Damned
  The Devil Rides Out a.k.a. The Devil’s Bride
  Five Golden Dragons
  The Torture Chamber of Dr Sadism
  Curse of the Crimson Altar a.k.a. The Reincarnation a.k.a. about five other titles!
• 1968 – Eve
  The Oblong Box
  Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
  Blood of Fu Manchu a.k.a. Kiss and Tell
• 1969 – Castle of Fu Manchu a.k.a. Torture Chamber of Fu Manchu
  Assignment: Istanbul
  Taste the Blood of Dracula
  Night of the Blood Beast a.k.a. Throne of the Blood Monster
  The Magic Christian
  One More Time
• 1970 – Eugenie: The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion a.k.a. Sade 70
  El Conde Dracula a.k.a. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  The Scars of Dracula
  Scream & Scream Again
  The House That Dripped Blood
  Julius Caesar
  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• 1971 – I, Monster
• 1972 – Dracula AD 1972 a.k.a. Dracula Today
  Hannie Calder
  Dark Places
  Poor Devil (TVM)

• 1973 – The Satanic Rites of Dracula a.k.a. Count Dracula & His Vampire Bride
  Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express a.k.a. Horror Express
  Creeping Flesh
  Nothing But The Night
  Deathline a.k.a. Raw Meat
  The Wicker Man
• 1974 – The Three Musketeers
  The Man with the Golden Gun
• 1975 – Tendre Dracula
  In Search of Dracula
  The Four Musketeers
• 1976 – Dragon’s Murder
  Killer Force
  Mask of Murder
  To the Devil a Daughter
  Revenge of the Dead
  Dracula Pere et Fils
  Meat Cleaver Massacre
  Diagnosis: Murder
• 1977 – Airport ’77
  Starship Invasion a.k.a. Alien Encounter
  End of the World
• 1978 – Return From Witch Mountain
  Caravans
  The Pirate
• 1979 – The Passage
  Arabian Adventure
  1941
  Circle of Iron a.k.a. The Silent Flute
  Bear Island
  Captain America II
• 1981 – The Salamander
  An Eye for an Eye
  Goliath Awaits (TVM)
  Jaguar Lives
• 1982 – Safari 3000
• 1983 – The House of the Long Shadows
  Whispering Death
  The Return of Captain Invincible a.k.a. The Legend in Leotards
• 1984 – Rosebud Hotel
  The Howling II
• 1988 – Murder Story
• 1989 – The Return of the Three Musketeers
• 1990 – Treasure Island
  Gremlins II
  The Rainbow Thief