(Upgraded 5/31/24)   NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman.  We thought it would be very appropriate to have one of the greatest horror films of all time on our bi-centennial double feature.  A great, great film. SATANIK (1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Julio Pena, Madge Kabopka, Umberto Raho, Armando Calvo. A hideously ugly woman drinks a potion for beauty. Her scheme eventually backfires though, as the potion loses potency and she transforms into an ugly monster... 

ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (1979, WIDESCREEN) Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Barbara Bach. A prisoner ship sinks in the Caribbean.  The ship’s doctor and a number of prisoners make shore on a jungle island where a madman—with the aid of a mad scientist—changes natives into fish-like monsters. VAMPIRE HOOKERS (1979, WIDESCREEN) John Carradine, Bruce Fairbaim, Trey Wilson, Karen Stride.  Carradine plays an old-age vampire who has a bevy of vampire beauties at his beck and call...

DR. FRANKENSTEIN ON CAMPUS (1970) Robin Ward, Kathleen Sawyer, Austin Willis.  Ward plays a Frankenstein descendent who develops a wireless brain control device, which he uses to turn one of his college pals into a mindless slave.  THE BODY BENEATH (1970, Widescreen) Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kale.  This Andy Milligan grade-Z gem is all about a clan of vampires that takes over an estate that just happens to be known as... 

(1948, aka THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART) Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Aubrey Woods.  Tod's up to his maniacal tricks again in this grisly bodysnatching tale.  Tod makes money selling corpses to a med- school.  When demand grows, he decides to murder people for their bodies.  Slaughter is delightfully wicked and really gets his...

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. PLUS:  BLOOD MANIA (1970) Vicki Peters, Peter Carpenter, Maria De Aragon. The plot is pretty simple, a maniacal nympho-maniac wants to speed along her daddy’s demise. Why? So she can use the inheritance money to...

SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES (1962) Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler, Graziella Granata, Luigi Batzella, Gena Gimmy.  This Italian vampire film deals with a number of horrible vampires who are seeking fresh victims.   DUNGEON OF HARROW (1962) Russ Harvey, Helen Morgan, William McNulty. Stranded on a lost island in a sinister castle, a man finds himself at odds with an evil count...

TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Caesar Burner, Lone Fleming, Joseph Thelman.  Members of a weird cult are blinded by crows and put to death for sacrificing women. SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT’S EYE (1972, Anamorphic) Jane Birkin, Hiram Kelly, Francoise Christophe, Anton Diffring.  A horrible beast is on the loose!  It slaughters people in a small, remote village in Scotland...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and horror double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is P. F. Costello’s “The Devil Downstairs.” All hell was about to break loose.  Old Scratch, the Prince of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, Lucifer, Satan—THE DEVIL HIMSELF—was nothing like the red, pitchfork-baring imp of lore, but was a putrid beast of green whose small body was covered in gnarled hair.  The second novel is “Invaders from the Dark” by Weird Tales veteran Greye La Spina.  She had the attributes of horror itself:  devilish eyes that glittered like an unholy garnet in the dark...

(1939) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair, Harry Terry. If you've never seen a Slaughter film before, this is the one to start with. There's a monster, a mad killer, and a crazed scientist experimenting with the reanimation of the dead.  The victims often see the face of a misshapen monster leering in their windows, momments before they...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND) Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop, Lyn Harding. Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

(1939) Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams, Wilfred Walter, Edmon Ryan. One of the best shockers of the '30's.  Dr. Orloff, gleefully murders people and throws them into the Thames mud flats—all so he can claim their life insurance...

M (1951) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Raymond Burr, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie.  A well-done remake of the ’31 Lorre classic.  A mad killer is murdering small kids (this time in L.A.). The cops are combing the underworld, looking for the maniac. MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE (1951) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes, Dora Bryan. Although this was officially a “Mother Riley” film, the real star here is Bela, who brings to his part an intensity not seen since his early ‘30s films. Worth it for him alone. Bela plots to dominate the world with an army of robots.

BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS (1967) Ricardo Bauleo, Susana Beltrán, Gloria Prat, Walter Kliche. A girl with a secret lover weds a man she doesn’t love.  But her secret lover is actually a vampire!  PLUS: SHE FREAK (1967) Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney. A low-life, gorgeous blonde leaves her waitress job and joins the carnival and makes enemies of carnival's freak show.  Similar to Freaks.    

THE AMAZING MR. X (1948) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist. ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1947) Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two soldiers are captured by strange warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis.  It is ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who surrounds herself with the mummies of past lovers... 

JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT (1961 aka THE LOST KINGDOM, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Riviere, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  Lost aviators find the entrance to Atlantis at a nuclear blast site in the desert.  PLUS:  TERROR OF THE MAD DOCTOR (1962, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Senta Berger.  A nice remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 classic. 

(1963) Hans Söhnker, Peter Vogel, Helga Sommerfeld, Werner Peters.  A fine chiller from the pen of bryan Edgar Wallace. A strip club is the setting for a Scotland Yard investigation of murders committed by a hooded killer in a skull mask, usually in the vicinity of...

HORROR MANIACS (1948, aka THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART) Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn.  Tod's up to his maniacal tricks again in this grisly bodysnatching tale.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey. This engrossing British chiller is based on the classic horror tale by W.W. Jacobs. A man comes into possession of a withered, but magical paw of a dead monkey. From this paw he is bestowed three wishes...