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The Mansion of the Ghost Cat (1958)

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa

Genres: Drama | Horror

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Release Date: 13 July 1958 (Japan)

Also Known As: Black Cat Mansion

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZ3MYyGXfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZAKN5PvU8
https://vshare.eu/7zeystvzm2dp.htm

Follow-up to Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" about the walking dead, It opens in a cemetery. Criswell, the "real" medium, rises from his coffin to tell us of "monsters to be despised." Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) is a phony medium aided by Valda Hansen, a bogus ghost, and big Tor Johnson, wearing rags and horrible scar makeup as Lobo. The doctor swindles people by pretending to contact dead relatives, but then accidentally succeeds in reviving a bunch of corpses that bury him alive! Sat unreleased for 23 years because Wood couldn't pay the lab bill! Followed by "Sinister Urge" in 1961 (Wood's last film).

https://ulozto.net/!8t3FEAYXu/night-of-the-ghouls-eng-dabing-horor-usa-1959-sk-titulky-mp4

In a snowball fight between schoolboys the handsome Dargelos hits the chest of Paul, who drops unconscious to the ground. Paul has a deep affection for Dargelos, and later denies that there was a stone in the snowball that hit him. Back home Paul's sister Elisabeth takes care of him. The teenage siblings live together in one room, where they have developed several private games. Paul's schoolmate Gérard is secretly enamored of Elisabeth, and often stays with them. When Elisabeth introduces her new friend Agathe to Paul, he recognizes that she resembles Dargelos strongly, and immediately falls in love with her. Elisabeth marries a rich young American Jew, Michael, but he dies in a car accident the day after the wedding. Elisabeth inherits his big apartment with 18 rooms and a gallery, and the four friends move into it. Paul sleeps in the gallery, where he builds a replica of the siblings' old room. Both Paul and Agathe are secretly enamored of the other. When each of them reveals this ...
http://veehd.com/video/4893762_Les-Enfants-Terribles-1950-HDTVRIP-The-Strange-Ones--The-Terrible-Children-Jean-Pierre-Melville

After securing a major victory on the battlefield, Taketoti Washizu and one of his commanders, Yoshiaki Miki, find themselves lost in the maze-like Spider's Web forest. They come across a spirit-like seer who tells them of their future: both have been promoted because of their victory that day; Washizu will someday be the Great Lord of the Spider's Web castle while Miki's son will someday rule as Great Lord as well. When they arrive at the castle, they learn that the first part of the prophecy is correct. Washizu has no desire to become Great Lord but his ambitious wife urges him to reconsider. When the current Great Lord makes a surprise visit to his garrison outpost, Washizu is again promoted to commander of his vanguard but his wife reminds him of the danger that comes with the position. As pressure mounts, Wahizu takes action leading to its inevitable conclusion.
https://archive.org/details/ThroneOfBlood

While sailing with Princess Parisa to Baghdad to their wedding, Sinbad finds the Colossa Island and anchors his vessel to get supplies for the starving crew. Sinbad and his men help the magician Sokurah to escape from a Cyclops that attacks them, and Sokurah uses a magic lamp with a boy jinni to help them; however, their boat sinks and he loses the lamp. Sokurah offers a small fortune to Sinbad to return to Colossa, but he does not accept and heads to Baghdad. The citizens and the Caliph of Baghdad are celebrating the peace with Chandra, and they offer a feast to the Sultan of Chandra. Sakurah requests a ship and crew to return to Colossa but the Caliph refuses to jeopardize his countrymen. However, the treacherous magician shrinks the princess and when the desperate Sinbad seeks him out, he tells that he needs to return to Colossa to get the ingredient necessary for the magic potion. But Sinbad has only his friend Harufa to travel with him, and he decides to enlist a doubtful crew in...
https://ulozto.net/!N1j3dNnr201d/the-7-th-voyage-of-sinbad-1958-en-hd-720-avi

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend. The minister's wife, Judith, is moved by Dick's actions and mistakenly interprets them as an expression of love for her. In spite of his protestations she finds herself romantically attracted to him. Brought before British commander General Burgoyne, Dudgeon displays his willingness to die for his principles. At the last minute Dick is saved from ministerial pursuits to become a revolutionary leader.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TAsUja_mRfMVF4QjhkRW52dG8/view?usp=sharing

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim. That night he is awakened by the approach of an Indian, his lips sewed together with string, and wielding a curare-tipped bamboo knife.
https://ulozto.net/!xqsFCKUKp/the-four-skulls-of-jonathan-drake-1959-by-club-life-rar

Director: B. Narayan Rao

Country: Singapore

Language: Malay

Release Date: 8 April 1997 (Singapore)

An elderly man who practices spiritual medicine adopts a girl he finds in the woods. On this deathbed, he makes her promise to destroy his book of medicine but the girl breaks her promise and uses the book to cure herself of her physical defects. However, the spell backfires and turns her into a vampire (pontianak).
https://youtu.be/T7Q03AvOAS8

Tobor the Great (a.k.a. Tobor) is a 1954 American black-and-white science fiction film from Republic Pictures, produced by Richard Goldstone, directed by Lee Sholem, that stars Charles Drake, Karin Booth, and Billy Chapin. The film was written by Carl Dudley and Philip MacDonald.

The storyline involves Dr. Ralph Harrison, who resigns his government post in protest against the inhumane treatment being inflicted upon spaceship pilots. His colleague, Professor Nordstrom, develops an alternative: a robot that he names "Tobor" (the reverse anagram of "robot"), which soon becomes a friend and playmate to Harrison's young son, "Gadge". Tobor is stolen by enemy agents, and only the two scientists' and Gadge's psychic link with the robot can save it from being reprogrammed and used for evil purposes against the USA.

https://youtu.be/yq3KEGR480w

Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjkxwfdr0kg

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Country: USA

Language: English

Release Date: 16 June 1950 (USA)

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
http://veehd.com/video/4947010_Father-of-the-Bride-1950

The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler, Ned Land, join an US expedition which attempts to unravel the mystery.

https://estream.to/4j0n4v2g0x9j

The promotion announced that this film was released in "Hypnovision" which gives an idea of the story. A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotises his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.
https://archive.org/details/MonsterMovieNightS8E2HorrorOfTheBlackMuseum

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAVyj8-BJ0

Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, twenty years after she married his brother (Cavanagh) instead and subsequently passed away during childbirth. Maletroit is determined to have his revenge: the brother has been stowed away in the dungeon for two decades, while he's convinced his disreputable house guest will make a suitably hellish husband for his niece. As luck would have it, the young couple manage to fall in love, and with the help of manservant Voltan (Karloff), they try to make their escape, but not before a final confrontation with Maletroit in the dungeon's crushing deathtrap.
http://veehd.com/video/4891634_The-Strange-Door-1951

Phantom from Space (1953)

An alien being with the power of invisibility lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by government authorities.

http://archive.org/download/Phantom_From_Space/Phantom_From_Space.ogv

Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 9 October 1953 (Australia)

Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?

http://veehd.com/video/4858645_White-Witch-Doctor-1953-Ultimate-Classics-Collection

On the tropical island of Wongo, a tribe of beautiful women discover that the other side of the island is inhabited by a tribe of handsome men. They also discover that a tribe of evil ape men live on the island, too, and the ape men are planning a raid on the tribe in order to capture mates.
https://youtu.be/ujCMPgD5gLg
https://ulozto.net/!JplbTB0tYUWX/the-wild-women-of-wongo-1958-en-hd-720-avi

Teenagers Reg, Skip, Julie and Pam go out for an afternoon of water skiing on a nice day. They come ashore on an island that is being used as a testing center for a scientist and agents from "an eastern power." They seek to turn the people of the United States into easily controlled zombie like creatures. The agents steal Reg's boat, stranding the teens on the island. The four friends are then held captive in cages able only to speculate on their fate. Though they have already been testing the formula on convicts and drunks, the enemy scientist and agents plan to conduct final tests on the teens before they use it on the rest of America. Meanwhile, two of their friends, whom the captives had planned to meet later, search for their missing friends. After a series of suspicious encounters, they urge the corrupt sheriff to search the island where their friends are trapped.
https://archive.org/details/Teenage_Zombies
https://archive.org/details/JerryWarrensTeenageZombies1959
https://archive.org/details/JerryWarensEenageZombiesakaTeenageTorture-1959Movietrailer

Club Mondo Bizzarre

The Mansion of the Ghost Cat (1958)

Night of the Ghouls (1959)

Les Enfants Terribles (1950)

Throne of Blood (1957)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

The Devil's Disciple (1959)

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)

The Curse Of Pontianak (1958)

Tobor the Great (1954)

At War with the Army (1950)

Father of the Bride (1950)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

Suddenly (1954)

The Strange Door (1951)

Phantom from Space (1953)

White Witch Doctor (1953)

The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

Teenage Zombies (1959)

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