Commander USA's Groovie Movies is a hosted movie showcase that ran weekend afternoons on the USA Network

USA Network

USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...

. The show premiered January 5, 1985, and ran through 1989

1989 in television

For the American TV schedule, see: 1989–90 United States network television schedule.The year 1989 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1989.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...

. It was hosted by Jim Hendricks

Jim Hendricks

Jim Hendricks is an American actor and former disc jockey best known for his role as movie host Commander USA on USA Network's Commander USA's Groovie Movies that ran from 1985 to 1989....

 as "Commander USA" (Soaring super hero! Legion of Decency - Retired), a wacky but slightly seedy blue-collar comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 superhero

Superhero

A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...

 who occasionally displayed powers such as "microwave vision" (usually to prepare a mid-movie meal of fish or eggs).

The show originally ran double feature

Double feature

The double feature, also known as a double bill, was a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatre managers would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which one feature film and various short subject reels would be shown.The double feature, also known as...

s of horror and science fiction movies on Saturday afternoons, then later a single feature on Sunday afternoons. Later movies on the show tended to be Mexican wrestling

Lucha libre

Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries, for a form of professional wrestling that has developed within those countries...

 films or heavily edited violent films from Japan.

The Commander's show originated from a secret headquarters located under a New Jersey

New Jersey

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 shopping mall. The Commander was almost always enthusiastic about the films he showed, whether is was a "gem" like Inframan, Blood Beast Horror, or any other number of Grade-Z celluloid oddities. The Commander was often joined on the program by either his agent (Barry Kluger) or "Lefty", a hand puppet

Hand puppet

A hand puppet is a type of puppet that is controlled by the leg or face that occupies the interior of the puppet. Glove puppets are a variation of hand puppets...

 created by drawing a face on his right hand with cigar ash. Over the course of a show, Lefty's face would inevitably get smeared or washed off, but the Commander would always redraw it with his unlit cigar.

In 1988, Eclectic Publishing published Commander USA's World of Horror, a 32-page magazine which was intended to be published bi-monthly, but only one issue was ever released.

Brief clips from the show are visible in the films The Color of Money

The Color of Money

The Color of Money is a 1986 film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis....

and Scrooged

Scrooged

Scrooged is a 1988 American comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue...

.

In all, more than 200 episodes were produced but are unlikely to ever air again because of the complexities in securing rights for the films involved.

Movies shown

• The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
• Alligator
  Alligator (film)
  Alligator is a 1980 monster movie, directed by Lewis Teague with a screenplay by John Sayles. It stars Robert Forster, Robin Riker, and Michael V. Gazzo...
  
  
• The Alligator People
  The Alligator People
  The Alligator People is a 1959 science fiction horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth.-Plot:After she is administered the drug pentothal by psychiatrists Dr. Erik Lorimer and Dr. Wayne McGregor, nurse Jane Marvin recalls a series events from her forgotten past when she was known as Joyce...
  
  
• Alone in the Dark
  Alone in the Dark (1982 film)
  Alone in the Dark is a 1982 slasher film directed by Jack Sholder. It was the director's debut film and was the first motion picture to be released by New Line Cinema. The film's tagline is: "They're out... for blood! Don't let them find you--"-Plot:...
  
  
• An American Werewolf in London
  An American Werewolf in London
  An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 British-American horror film, written and directed by John Landis. It stars David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne....
  
  
• Andy Warhol's Dracula aka Blood for Dracula
  Blood for Dracula
  Blood for Dracula is a 1974 film directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol and Andrew Braunsberg. It stars Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, and Arno Juerging...
  
  
• Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
• The Aztec Mummy
• Bedlam
  Bedlam (film)
  Bedlam is a film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, and was the last in a series of stylish B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.-Plot:Set in 1761 London, England, the film...
  
  
• Black Carrion
• The Black Cat
• Blood and Roses
  Blood and Roses
  Blood and Roses is a 1960 vampire film directed by Roger Vadim based upon the novella Carmilla by Irish writer Joseph Sheridan le Fanu...
  
  
• Bloodbath at the House of Death
  Bloodbath at the House of Death
  Bloodbath at the House of Death is a 1983 comedy horror film starring the British comedian Kenny Everett and featuring Vincent Price. It is an over-the-top spoof loosely inspired by The Amityville Horror and other horror films from the same period....
  
  
• The Blood Beast Terror
  The Blood Beast Terror
  The Blood Beast Terror is a 1968 British horror film released by Tigon. It was known in the United States under the title The Vampire-Beast Craves Blood.-Story:A series of grisly murders is occurring in the English countryside...
  
  
• The Blood of Nostradamus
• Blood Song
  Blood Song
  Blood Song is a 1982 horror film directed by Robert Angus and Alan J. Levi and starring Frankie Avalon.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Bloody Vampire
• The Boogeyman
  The Boogeyman (1980 film)
  The Boogeyman is a 1980 horror film directed by Ulli Lommel. It was followed by Boogeyman 2, and Return of the Boogeyman.-Plot:As children, Willy and Lacey watch their mother with her lover and are punished for it...
  
  
• The Brainiac
  The Brainiac
  The Brainiac is a 1962 Mexican horror film directed by Chano Urueta and written by Federico Curiel, Adolfo López Portillo and Antonio Orellana. The film stars Abel Salazar and Germán Robles.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• The Brute Man
  The Brute Man
  The Brute Man is a 1946 American horror thriller film starring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against the people he holds responsible for the disfigurement of his face. Directed by Jean Yarbrough, the film features Tom Neal and Jan Wiley as a married pair of friends the...
  
  
• Bug
  Bug (1975 film)
  Bug is a 1975 American horror film starring Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, and Richard Gilliland. It was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by William Castle and Thomas Page, from Page's 1973 novel The Hephaestus Plague...
  
  
• Captain Kronos,Vampire Hunter
• Cat People
• Cave of the Living Dead
• The Children
  The Children (1980 film)
  The Children is a 1980 low budget horror film, written and produced by Carlton J. Albright. The movie is about five children in a small town who, thanks to a yellow toxic cloud, are transformed into bloodless zombies with black fingernails who microwave every living thing they put their hands on...
  
  
• Child's Play
• C.H.U.D.
  C.H.U.D.
  C.H.U.D. is a 1984 American horror film produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography and William Bilowit as production designer. The cast includes Daniel Stern and John Heard. It was followed in 1989 by C.H.U.D. II: Bud the...
  
  
• The Clonus Horror
• The Contraption
• The Corvini Inheritance
• Countess Dracula
  Countess Dracula
  Countess Dracula is a 1971 Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory. It is in many ways atypical of Hammer's canon, attempting to broaden Hammer's output from Dracula and Frankenstein sequels....
  
  
• The Crawling Eye aka The Trollenberg Terror
  The Trollenberg Terror
  The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV UK television programme and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye, Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye...
  
  
• The Creature Wasn't Nice
  The Creature Wasn't Nice
  The Creature Wasn't Nice is a 1983 U.S. motion picture written and directed by Bruce Kimmel. The movie is a comedy farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. It stars Leslie Nielsen in a role similar to those in the farical comedies Airplane and Naked Gun...
  
  aka Spaceship or Naked Space
• Cry Wolf
• The Curse of Frankenstein
• Curse of Nostradamas
• Curse of the Aztec Mummy
• The Curse of the Cat People
  The Curse of the Cat People
  The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton. This film, which was then-film editor Robert Wise's first directing credit, is the sequel to Cat People and has many of the same characters...
  
  
• The Curse of the Crying Woman
• Curse of the Doll People
• Curse of the Vampire
• Dance of the Dwarfs
• Dark Forces aka Harlequin
  Harlequin (film)
  Harlequin, known as Dark Forces in the USA, is a 1980 Australian film starring Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings and Broderick Crawford...
  
  
• The Day Mars Invaded Earth
  The Day Mars Invaded Earth
  The Day Mars Invaded Earth is a science fiction film, made by API, released in 1963 by Twentieth Century Fox and directed and produced by Maury Dexter...
  
  
• The Deadly Mantis
  The Deadly Mantis
  The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International Pictures. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, and Pat Conway...
  
  
• The Death Kiss
  The Death Kiss
  The Death Kiss is a mystery film starring David Manners as a crusading studio writer, Adrienne Ames as an actress, Bela Lugosi as a studio manager, and Edward Van Sloan as a film director. The comedy thriller features three leading players from the previous year's Dracula , and was the first film...
  
  
• Death Valley
• Demonoid
• The Devil Bat
  The Devil Bat
  The Devil Bat is a black-and-white comedy-horror movie which was produced by Producers Releasing Corporation and directed by Jean Yarbrough...
  
  
• The Devil Bat's Daughter
• The Devil's Gift
• The Devil's Nightmare
• Devil Times Five
• Doctor of Doom
• Dracula
  Dracula (1931 film)
  Dracula is a 1931 vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L...
  
  
• Dracula's Dog
• Exorcism at Midnight
• Fiend Without a Face
  Fiend Without a Face
  Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by Arthur Crabtree. It tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible life-form that steals human brains and spinal columns...
  
  
• The Fifth Floor
• The Flying Serpent
  The Flying Serpent
  The Flying Serpent is a 1946 American film directed by Sam Newfield.The film is also known as Killer with Wings .- Cast :*George Zucco as Prof. Andrew Forbes*Ralph Lewis as Richard Thorpe*Hope Kramer as Mary Forbes...
  
  
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell is a 1974 British horror film from Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, and David Prowse...
  
  
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
  Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
  Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is a British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions from 1969. The cast includes Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. The film is the fifth in a series of Hammer films centering on Dr...
  
  
• Fräulein Doktor
  Fräulein Doktor
  Fräulein Doktor is a First World War drama filmed in 1968 and released in 1969. It was a European co-production, starring Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine, James Booth, Giancarlo Giannini and Nigel Green. It was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by Alberto Lattuada, with a music...
  
  
• Friday the 13th
• Friday the 13th Part 2
  Friday the 13th Part 2
  Friday the 13th Part II is a 1981 slasher film directed by Steve Miner, who also directed its sequel, Friday the 13th Part III and several other popular horror films. A sequel to Friday the 13th , it is the second film in the Friday the 13th film series. It was a moderate box-office hit, opening on...
  
  
• Friday the 13th Part III
• Funeral Home
  Funeral home
  A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families. These services may include aprepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral....
  
  
• Genii of Darkness
• The Great Alligator
• God Told Me To
  God Told Me To
  God Told Me To is a 1976 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen...
  
  
• Hands of the Ripper
  Hands of the Ripper
  Hands of the Ripper is a 1971 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy for Hammer Film Productions.-Plot:It is set in London in Edwardian times, and stars Angharad Rees as Anna, a vulnerable young woman who is exploited by her guardian , a medium, and haunted by the subconscious memory of her...
  
  
• Hangar 18
  Hangar 18 (film)
  Hangar 18 is a 1980 science fiction film that was released to capitalize on the UFO interest of the era. The film itself carries ties to Area 51, as well as ufology. Although it flopped , it tantalized those who saw government cover-ups of UFOs...
  
  
• The Hearse
  The Hearse
  The Hearse is a 1980 horror movie starring Trish Van Devere and Joseph Cotten.- Plot :Jane Hardy arrives in the town of Blackford to stay in an old house left to her by a late aunt...
  
  
• Hercules in New York
  Hercules in New York
  Hercules in New York is a 1969 fantasy adventure film. It is known for being the first feature film to star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was about 22 years old when the film was produced...
  
  
• Horror of Dracula
  Dracula (1958 film)
  Dracula, also known as Horror of Dracula in the United States, is a 1958 British horror film. It is the first in the series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Carol Marsh, Melissa Stribling and...
  
  
• Horror of the Blood Monsters
• Horror of the Zombies
• Horror Planet aka Inseminoid
  Inseminoid
  Inseminoid is a British film of science fiction and horror released in 1981. Norman J. Warren's eighth motion picture, the plot of Inseminoid concerns a group of future scientists excavating the ruins of an ancient civilisation on a distant planet...
  
  
• House of Psychotic Women
• House of the Long Shadows
  House of the Long Shadows
  House of the Long Shadows is a horror-parody film directed by Pete Walker. The screenplay by Michael Armstrong is based on the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers. The original music score is composed by Richard Harvey....
  
  
• House of 1,000 Dolls
• The House Where Evil Dwells
  The House Where Evil Dwells
  The House Where Evil Dwells is a 1982 American/Japanese horror film that stars Edward Albert, Susan George and Doug McClure about an American family that moves into a reputed haunted house in the hills of Japan. It was directed by Kevin Connor and produced by Martin B. Cohen...
  
  
• I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a 1958 science fiction film, directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and starring Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott....
  
  
• I Walked with a Zombie
  I Walked with a Zombie
  I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur. It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures; the first was the very successful Cat People, also directed by Tourneur...
  
  
• Inframan
• In Search of Dracula
• Invasion of the Vampires
• Island Claws
• Island Monster
• It's Alive
• J. D.'s Revenge
• Laserblast
  Laserblast
  Laserblast is a 1978 American science fiction film about an unhappy teenage loner who discovers an alien laser cannon and goes on a murderous rampage, seeking revenge against those who he feels have wronged him. The low-budget film was directed by Michael Rae and produced by Charles Band, who is...
  
  
• The Late Nancy Irving
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 low budget American horror film, directed by John D. Hancock, and starring Zohra Lampert in the title role. The film focuses on a recently institutionalized woman who has various nightmarish experiences after moving to an old farmhouse on a Connecticut island...
  
  
• The Little Shop of Horrors
  The Little Shop of Horrors
  The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate young florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932...
  
  
• The Living Coffin
• The Living Head
• The Loch Ness Horror
  The Loch Ness Horror
  The Loch Ness Horror is a 1981 independent monster movie directed by Larry Buchanan. The films reception was poor, due to its bad special effects and Scottish stereotypes. The plot revolves around The Loch Ness Monster feeding on unsuspecting swimmers and eventually going on a killing spree...
  
  
• Mako, The Jaws of Death
• The Man and the Monster
• The Man and the Snake
• Mark of the Devil
• Mark of the Vampire
  Mark of the Vampire
  Mark of the Vampire is a 1935 horror film, starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt and directed by Tod Browning...
  
  
• Mausoleum
  Mausoleum (film)
  Mausoleum is a 1982 supernatural horror film directed by Michael Dugan and starring former Playboy Bunny Bobbie Bresee.-Plot:Susan Nomed was ten when her mother died. Now thirty, blonde and beautiful, she is heiress to the family fortune. But for the women of the Nomed family there is another...
  
  
• The Monster Demolisher
• Monster in the Closet
  Monster in the Closet
  Monster in the Closet is a 1986 horror/comedy with a veteran cast, including Howard Duff and John Carradine, as well as The Black Eyed Peas' Stacy Ferguson and Paul Walker in early roles. The film was distributed by Troma Entertainment...
  
  
• My Bloody Valentine
  My Bloody Valentine (film)
  My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1970s...
  
  
• The Pack
  The Pack (1977 film)
  The Pack is a 1977 horror film about a pack of abandoned dogs who turn against humans in Seal Island.-Plot:A pack of feral dogs are attacking the people on Seal Island. One of the islanders, Jerry , must stop them....
  
  
• Panic
• The Pied Piper
  The Pied Piper (1972 film)
  The Pied Piper is a 1972 British-American directed by Jacques Demy and starring Jack Wild, Donald Pleasence and John Hurt and featuring Donovan and Diana Dors. It is loosely based on the legend of the Pied Piper.-Cast:* Donovan ... The Piper...
  
  
• A Polish Vampire in Burbank
• The Possession of Joel Delaney
  The Possession of Joel Delaney
  The Possession of Joel Delaney is a 1972 horror film starring Shirley MacLaine and Perry King, and directed by Waris Hussein. It is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Ramona Stewart....
  
  
• The Premonition
• Psychophobia
• The Psychotronic Man
  The Psychotronic Man
  The Psychotronic Man is a low budget science fiction cult film that opened in Chicago April 23, 1980 at the Carnegie Theatre. It was directed by Jack M. Sell and written, produced and starred Peter G. Spelson. This film is considered noteworthy for three distinct reasons. The first is that the...
  
  
• One Dark Night
  One Dark Night
  One Dark Night is an American horror film starring Meg Tilly and E.G. Daily. It was released in theaters in 1983 but was filmed two years earlier. It was released by Comworld Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  
• Q, the Winged Serpent
  Q (film)
  Q is a 1982 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree.-Plot:...
  
  
• Rabid
  Rabid
  Rabid is a 1977 horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. It features Marilyn Chambers in the lead role, supported by Frank Moore, Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver and Robert A...
  
  
• The Return of the Vampire
  The Return of the Vampire
  The Return of the Vampire is a horror film released in 1944 by Columbia Pictures. It is in black and white, and describes an Englishwoman's two encounters with a vampire...
  
  
• The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
  The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
  The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy is a 1958 Mexican film directed by Rafael Portillo, starring Ramón Gay and Rosa Arenas. It blends elements of science fiction and horror...
  
  
• Samson vs. the Vampire Woman
• Samson in the Wax Museum
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American musical film. Its soundtrack, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by The Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of their albums, 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club...
  
  
• Satanik
  Satanik
  Satanik is an Italian noir comic book created in December 1964 by Max Bunker and Magnus , also the authors of the popular series Kriminal and Alan Ford.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Scalpel
• Scared to Death
  Scared to Death
  Scared to Death is a horror film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Bela Lugosi. It was filmed in Cinecolor, is one of only three color pictures Lugosi made, and the only one he starred in...
  
  
• Simon, King of the Witches
• Slugs
  Slugs (film)
  Slugs, muerte viscosa is a 1988 American horror film based on the novel Slugs by Shaun Hutson. It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded....
  
  
• The Space Children
  The Space Children
  The Space Children is a 1958 film directed by Jack Arnold. The movie was mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1998 during season 9....
  
  
• Stranglehold
• Student Bodies
  Student Bodies
  Student Bodies is a 1981 comedy film written and directed by Mickey Rose, with an uncredited Michael Ritchie co-directing. The film stars Kristen Ritter, Matthew Goldsby, and Cullen Chambers....
  
  
• Swamp of the Lost Monster
• Tales That Witness Madness
  Tales That Witness Madness
  Tales That Witness Madness is a 1973 British horror film produced by Norman Priggen, directed by veteran horror director Freddie Francis, and written by actress Jennifer Jayne....
  
  
• Taste the Blood of Dracula
  Taste the Blood of Dracula
  Taste the Blood of Dracula is a British horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions and released in 1970. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, and was directed by Peter Sasdy...
  
  
• Tattoo
• The Terror
• They Still Call Me Bruce
  They Still Call Me Bruce
  They Still Call Me Bruce is a 1987 comedy action film starring Johnny Yune. The film is a sequel to the 1982 film They Call Me Bruce?.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Three in the Attic
  Three in the Attic
  Three in the Attic is a 1968 movie, starring Christopher Jones and Yvette Mimieux, with Judy Pace and Maggie Thrett. Nan Martin, John Beck, and Eve McVeagh appear in supporting roles.-Premise:...
  
  
• Trick or Treats
• Toxic Zombies
  Toxic Zombies
  Toxic Zombies, also known as Bloodeaters and Forest of Fear, is a 1980 horror film. The film was directed by Charles McCrann, who also acted in the film...
  
  
• Undersea Kingdom
  Undersea Kingdom
  Undersea Kingdom is a Republic Pictures film serial released in response to Universal's Flash Gordon. It was the second of the sixty-six serials made by Republic...
  
  
• The Unseen
  The Unseen (1982 film)
  -Plot:After a hotel reservation mix up, two sisters Karen and Jennifer, and their friend Vicki Thompson, meet friendly, but shady Ernest Keller. Ernest convinces the women into accepting an invitation for a cheap room at his large farmhouse where his wife Virginia also lives. Once there, Jennifer...
  
  
• Up in the Cellar
• The Vampire
• The Vampire Bat
  The Vampire Bat
  The Vampire Bat is an American horror movie starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye.-Plot outline:When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr...
  
  
• Vampire Circus
  Vampire Circus
  Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film directed by Robert Young for Hammer Film Productions. It stars Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins . The story concerns a travelling carnival whose vampiric artistes prey on the children of a 19th-century Austrian village...
  
  
• The Vampire's Coffin
• Venom
  Venom (1981 film)
  Venom is a 1981 horror film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson and Sarah Miles.-Plot:A maid , a psychotic chauffer and an international terrorist attempt to kidnap a wealthy ten-year-old boy from his elegant London townhouse...
  
  
• War of the Colossal Beast
  War of the Colossal Beast
  War of the Colossal Beast is a 1958 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and produced by Carmel Productions and distributed by American International Pictures. It continued the storyline of the 1957 movie The Amazing Colossal Man, although it was not marketed as a direct...
  
  
• What?
• What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  The soundtrack album to What's Up Tiger Lily? was released in 1966. It contains music by The Lovin' Spoonful. It was re-released on CD along with You're a Big Boy Now, the Spoonful's soundtrack for the 1966 Francis Ford Coppola film. It reached No...
  
  
• Witchfire
• The Witchmaker
• The Witch's Mirror
• The Woman Who Came Back
  The Woman Who Came Back
  Woman Who Came Back is a 1945 film about an offbeat woman who becomes convinced that she's a witch, a conclusion which eventually leads to mass hysteria in the town to which she has recently returned. The eerily atmospheric movie was directed by Walter Colmes.-Cast:*John Loder as Dr. Matt...
  
  
• World of the Vampires
• Zombies on Broadway
  Zombies on Broadway
  Zombies on Broadway is an American Comedy-horror film released in 1945.-Plot summary:The duo of Jerry Miles and Mike Strager are employed as Broadway press agents. Miles and Strager's latest idea is to hire a genuine zombie for the opening of a new nightclub...
  
  
• Zorro's Black Whip
  Zorro's Black Whip
  Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 Republic Pictures film serial starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the popular 1940 20th Century-Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro and Republic was unable to use the character himself, but still wanted to capitalize on it. However, and despite the title,...
  
  

Quotes

• "Holy cats!"
• "Keep your nose in the wind... and your tail to yourself..."
• "Always a Brideshead, never revisited."
• "Suffering catfish!"
• "Sure!"

External links

• Fan site
• Fan site with clips
• Fan site
• Commander USA introduces "A Polish Vampire in Burbank"