That bad thing you saw? These are worse!

This was director Ed Wood's attempt at film noir. The opening scene features a police car with nothing written on the doors. It also transforms from a Nash Rambler to a Ford in the space of a jump cut.

In the Spanish countryside, sisters Marta and Veronica run a small hotel. They also murder any guest who doesn't live up to their strict, fundamentalist moral code. Because God. Didn't he also say something about not killing? Well, whatever.

This is a great example of why I watch B movies—or is that, “bee movies?” It's stupid as hell but quite entertaining.

In between the occasional plot point, we're deluged with meaningless dialogue, a lot of which reflects the sexism and rampant misogyny of the 1950s.

I liked this movie until the final scene--a contrived cop-out that ruins what had been an effective psychological thriller.

“Hindus! Tom-toms! Apes! Haunted houses! Say, are you sure this séance wasn't a sleigh ride?” So says Police Inspector Pickens as he investigates a murder at a séance—or as everyone here pronounces it, “SEE-aunts.”

Too much island and not enough spider. Not to mention dialogue like, “There's absolutely no reason yet to fear the worst. Until now, we only know that the plane caught fire and we've lost radio contact.”

The film presents itself in the style of a graphic novel—a bad idea that calls attention to the strong possibility that HELLBINDERS would have worked better in that format.

The best arm-wrestling-cyborg-assassin-with-a-heart-of-gold film ever produced!

The plot, as nearly as I could make out, involves an outer-space gorilla that's running amok in rural Texas. The ape seemingly got there due to a NASA rocket that crashed nearby. I think.

DARK SPIRITS, a soporific attempt at a psychological thriller made in Prague, does not feature the scary-looking monster on the video box. Instead, it features a vacuous blonde named Eva, who starts seeing and hearing weird shit after the murder of her sister, Tereza.

If you like your horror films with no scares and a strongly misogynistic bent, this one's for you!