Howard Vernon – MRQE

Le Silence de la mer

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany. That is, until he visits Paris and discovers what is really going on…

Black Jack

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law’s closing in.

Le Rocher d’Acapulco

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Aullido del diablo, El

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hector Doriani (Paul Naschy) is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow of his dead twin brother, Alex Doriani, once a famous star of horror movies. Alexs young son, Adrian, now lives with Hector in an isolated mansion in the countryside. To keep alive the memory of his father, the boy imagines himself visited by the spirit of the dead man, incarnated in a series of classic horror characters from the past. Eric, Alexs former butler, now also works for Hector. His main role is to locate and bring to the mansion a series of women who are paid large sums of money by Hector to take part in various sadistic sex games. To complicate matters even further, the games always seem to end with the women getting slaughtered in various gruesome ways by a black gloved, masked killer. Also on hand is horror diva Caroline Munro, as Hectors housekeeper and cook, who is being pursued by a local priest with whom she once had a much-regretted affair.

Der Tod des Empedokles

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

Revenge in the House of Usher

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he’s spiraling into madness.

Docteur Jekyll et les femmes

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery

Le Lac des morts vivants

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

La Comtesse perverse

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

Week-ends maléfiques du Comte Zaroff, Les

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Boris Zaroff is a modern businessman who is haunted by his past — his father was the notorious Count Zaroff of The Most Dangerous Game fame. Consequently, Boris is subject to hallucinations and all-too-real social lapses which normally involve sadistic harm to beautiful naked young women. His butler is sworn to indoctrinating him into the evils of the family line, and their castle’s torture dungeon proves quite useful in this regard. However, Boris is periodically lured away from his destiny by the romantic apparition of the deceased countess who previously owned the castle.