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(Upgraded 5/21/24) THE KILLER SHREWS (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) James Best, Ingrid Goulde, Gordon Mclendon, Ken Curtis. "The shrews devour everything…flesh, bones, marrow…everything.” THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.  A gigantic lizard is running amok!

(Upgraded 5/21/24) CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961, Anamorphic) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Morland, Edward Wain.  Another of Roger Corman's horror comedies.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real.   PLUS:  DEVIL’S PARTNER (1958, Anamorphic) Edwin Nelson, Edgar Buchannon, Jean Allison, Richard Crane.  A strange man comes to a small desert town and brings along satanic rites, evil spells and death!  

(Upgraded 5/27/24) ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959, Anamorphic) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959, Anamorphic) Dick Miller, Barbara Morris, Antony Carbone, Ed Nelson, Judy Bamber. A truly great “cult” film.

(Upgraded 6/1/23) ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1962, Anamorphic) Rick Von Nutter, Archie Savage. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961, Anamorphic) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. A gigantic force field on a runaway space station threatens Earth.

(Upgraded 5/24/24) THE WASP WOMAN (1959, Anamorphic) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Extremely well done, low budget drive-in sci-fi. Plus:  BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959, Anamorphic) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are being killed off by a horrible monster that lives in a nearby cave.

(Upgraded 5/25/24) BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1959, Anamorphic) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, Vladimir Solokoff, directed By Edgar G. Ulmer. A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier.  Plus: THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1959, Anamorphic) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. 

(Upgraded 5/24/24)THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1957, Anamorphic) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates.  No classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film.  The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world.  TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1957, Anamorphic) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor.  Thrill-seeking teenagers take a boat ride out to a strange island.  To their horror, they’re captured by a lady mad doctor who uses nerve gas to turn a people into mindless slaves...  

(1941-1966) Here's a bundle of SIX fantastic classics, all featuring mad scientists and other science created monstrosities—and all for just $49 postpaid!  You get:  ISLAND OF TERROR (1966) THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) THE MANSTER (1959) BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1959) MONSTROSITY (1963) THE DEVIL BAT (1941) See more...

(1959-1962) Here's a bundle of SIX terrific films, all with a Space Opera theme to them—and all for just $49 postpaid!  You get:  BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961); FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1960); THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961); ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1960); DESTINATION SPACE (1959); BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN (1962)  See more...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mónica Randall.  Franco and Ciccio (the Martin and Lewis of Italy) are actually pretty funny.  They have a certain shtick that works. The boys are sent into space to imitate a pair of lost Soviet spacemen...

(1960, Upgraded 12/29/20) Peter Van Eyck, Gerte Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a Posh hotel that is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. Van Eyk plays the rich American who...

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1916) Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Matt Moore, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton.  NEW MUSIC SCORE! This, the first filmed version of the Verne classic, portrays Captain Nemo as an opium-smoking, ousted Indian (India) prince.  His goal, outside of sinking many ships, is very personal...

(1963 aka MECHTE NAVSTRECHU) Larisa Gordeichik, Boris Borisyonok, Otar Koberidze, Peeter Kard.  After receiving radio waves from our solar system, the inhabitants of planet Centuria send out a starship toward Earth.  Dues to technical problems, though, their starship is forced to land on Mars...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is by Hugo Award nominee, Rog Phillips, “A Man Named Mars.”  Could a sinister plan be stopped by a pair of nobodies?  Bryan Berry’s “Mission to Marakee” is our second novel.  Death to all scientists was the motto!  Ray Carver was an ordinary solider, displaced after the nuclear war...

(1913) Crissie Bell, E. Holman Clark, Hubert Willis.  Britain's first full-length sci-fi film.  A Martian having offended his ruler is exiled to Earth with the mission to change the heart of a selfish man.  Based on a highly popular stage play, Message to Mars features futuristically clad Martians, thought transference, instant space travel, mind control...

(1918) Gunnar Tolnaes, Zanny Peterson, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blutecher. A splendid silent classic about man’s first trip to Mars. A sea captain and an aging scientist build a spaceship and set out

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two thought-provoking sci-fi thrillers.  The first is Richard Ashby’s “Act of God”  They sought the eradication of death!  Allen Kim Lang is the author of our second novel, “The Chemically Pure Warriors.”  Tiny germs meant big problems...

(1943) Hans Albers, Hermann Speelmans, Käthe Haack, Ferdinand Marian.  Armed with immortality, Munchausen rides horses, hot air balloons and even cannon balls as he travels the world saving beautiful ladies of royalty.  He is aided by his faithful servant who is armed with a fantastic rifle that can hit targets from 100 miles away and a runner who can sprint great distances in seconds... 

(1980, Upgraded 2/25/23) Ian McCulloch, Louise Marlo, Marino Mase, Siegfried Rauch. What a hoot! This Alien rip-off starts with an eerie ship pulling into NY harbor. On board is a cargo of green pulsating eggs. The eggs explode and cause a green acid to get into...

(1989) Daniel Bosch, Marina Giulia Cavalli, Luciano Pigozzi, directed by Antonio Margheritti.  In hopes of getting a scandalous exposé, a lovely ecological activist and her cameraman sneak into a top secret facility where the workmen of a shady corporation are dumping radioactive scrap into the core of a live volcano.  This results in a beam of unchecked energy being shot out into outer space.  What no one expects, though...

(1977, Upgraded 7/11/22) Tim Brinton, Gregory Munroe, Carol Hazell.  In the middle of a world ecological disaster and the start of a new ice-age, the world is told that the space race and the cold war between the U.S. and Russia are fake.  Both countries are secretly planning the assembly of a Mars colony. It also seems the Apollo moon landings were only a cloak shielding what’s really happening on the moon...

(1964) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Rey, Gloria Paul, George Hilton, Dakar, Rosalba Neri.  Those wacky Italians are at it again, this time against the evil Goldginger, who plans world domination by brainwashing important world leaders and starting a war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.  Photographers Franco and Ciccio stumble into this accidentally and are kidnapped...

(1959, Upgraded 11/5/21) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. One of our best selling 50's sci-fi B classics. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. He breaks into military installations and banks, stealing radioactive materials and money. The film's climax features a struggle between Griffith and Kennedy in a lab where an atomic explosion is...

(1962, Upgraded 3/10/23) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Coastal villages live in dread of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil." It turns out that the creature is a product of man, not...

(1932) Harry Piel, Fritz Odemar, Lissy Arna, Annemarie Sorensen, Olga Limburg.  Harry is a taxi driver who finds an odd contraption on the back seat of his cab that renders him invisible.  He soon uses it to gain wealth and fame.  Watch for the scene at the racetrack where Harry scores a fortune.  His servant, though, has other ideas...

(1962) Peter Halliday, Susan Hampshire, Noel Johnson, John Hollis, Mary Morris. Wow! A beautiful alien-created female is kidnapped by a powerful international corporation that possesses a giant super...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

APRIL 1st, 2000 (1952, Updated 4-2-25) Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Judith Holzmeister.  In the year 2000 the world is run by the World Global Union.  Smaller countries are still allowed to have their own puppet governments, but none have total freedom—that is, until Austria’s new President declares his country’s freedom.  But within hours WGU forces are streaking toward Austria...

(1960, aka SPACE MEN) Rick Von Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage.  As far as we know, this is the first time this great space opera film has been available in an anamorphic English language edition.  And it’s just pure science fiction from start to finish...

(1969, Upgraded 12/30/20) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes. Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out this insane scheme.  There are more monsters afoot than you can shake a stick at:  Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy...

(1957, Upgraded 12/22/22) Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. A gang of crooks hold a pair of hostages at by in a mountatin cabin when a spaceship lands nearby. The entire group finds themselves threatened by a mysterious...

(1947) Jean-Pierre Aumont, Maria Montez, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two Legionnaires comb the Sahara for a missing scientist.  They are captured by strange desert warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis, ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who is surrounded by the golden mummies of past lovers. Aumont is great as the stalwart Legionnaire who crumbles to the sexual power of Montez...

(1962) Susanne Loret, Alberto Lupo. This was constantly re-released on the drive in circuit during the sixties. A mad scientist uses weird, glandular transplants to restore beauty to the horribly scarred f

(1955, Upgraded 5/3/22) Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Leonard Williams, Philip Dale. An atomic accident, in combination with bullets fired by would-be assassins, puts the mind of a famous scientist seven and a half seconds into the future. One startling scene has the victim...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada. Are you ready for this plotline? The high council of the Emerald planet (boy do these guys look ridiculous) is fearful that radiation from atomic tests on Ea

(1958, UPGRADED) Ken Utsui, Utako Mitsuya, Kan Hayashi. Ludicrous but lovable. It’s Starman against an alien beast in the depths of space. Watch a total disregard for science as characters walk on space platforms without...

(1959, Upgraded 11/28/22) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. Radiation has caused ordinary leeches to mutate into giant monsters. They threaten the folks in a small bayou town. Vickers is at her sleaziest, sexiest best as the local storekeepers unfaithful wife. She and her lover are caught by her husband and driven into the swamp where the monsters...

(1970, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mikhail Pugovkin, Tatyana Klyuyeva, Georgiy Millyar, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Lidiya Korolyova.  A magical underworld king demands that the Czar give up his only son upon his 18^th birthday.  The Czar attempts to fool the king with some tomfoolery involving identity-switching between his son and a “commoner.”  Complications arise when the daughter of the king...

(1940, Updated 4-11-25) Vlasta Burian, Antonin Mikulic, Meda Valentová.  A fine fantasy-comedy (7.1 on IMDB) with a tiny touch of horror.  There are many plot elements: clandestine marriages, secret children, castle ghosts, hush-hush love affairs, etc.—all woven together by great script-writing, resulting in many uproarious moments.  The scene where the town doctor visits the Baron’s castle...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The lead off novel is a space opera gem, Wood Jackson’s “The Bat-men of Mars.  It was time to reach beyond our nearest neighbor in the sky...to Mars!, Our second novel is by veteran sci-fi author, Henry Hasse: “He Who Shrank.”  The professor’s belief that our enormous universe is just a plethora of tiny atoms didn’t...

(1962, aka NEBO ZOVYOT) Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Gurgen Tonunts. Two rival countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars. Some great outer space scenes with really hilarious-looking monsters doing battle against...

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS—Special 2-Disc Anamorphic Edition (1961) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This two-disc special edition features a beautiful anamorphic widescreen English language edition on one disc, with the foreign-language anamorphic widescreen edition (with English subtitles) on the other.  The plot is simple but fun: Earth may be destroyed by a runaway planet controlled by a giant computer...

(1965) Ralph Seeley, Dick Welsbacher, Marc Clark, Nelson Strong, Suzanne Farrar.  These are the kind of films we love—low, low budget affairs filled with schlocky acting, inane dialogue, pitiful special effects, yet are unexplainably enjoyable.  A couple of overzealous archaeologists dig up...

(1961) Tor Johnson, Douglas Meller, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Tony Cardoza, Conrad Brooks; written and directed by Coleman Francis.  One of the best "bad" movies of all time, now in its original 1.85 widescreen format for the first time. Tor is a Russian scientist caught in a nuclear blast while running from spies. The radiation transforms him...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two engrossing sci-fi thrillers.  The first is Robert Silverberg’s and Randall Garrett’s great tale, “The Beast With Seven Tails.”  There was a roaring surf, a beautiful sun, and a monster from space! Laurence Manning is the author of our second novel, “The Wreck of the Asteroid.”  A crew of space explorers finds themselves stranded on our neighbor in space, Mars... 

(1944) Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Antoinette Cellier, Max Bacon, Joy Shelton. This appears to be the only Lost World-Lost Race musical comedy ever made.  We find it amazing that this film has escaped the eye of sci-fi and fantasy film historians for decades, because in spite of its primary musical and comedy themes, there’s no doubt of the film’s fantastic cinema trappings...

(1953 aka BEYOND THE CURTAIN OF SPACE) Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield. This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his space rangers. Two of Rocky's allies are captured by aliens and brai

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   The lead off novel is William Lemkin’s rousing tale, “Beyond the Stratosphere.”  What goes up does not necessarily come down!  The second novel in this great combo is “Crypt-City of the Deathless One” by heralded science fiction and fantasy writer Henry Kuttner.  Enter the forest of death at your own risk!  Lost in the depth...

(1959) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, directed By Edgar Ulmer.  First time in widescreen DVD video.  A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier in the sky to a plague-ravaged Earth, menaced by mutants.  Lots of sci-fi intrigue with a big revolt at the end of the film...  

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Biddy and the Silver Man,” a fantastic tale by E. K. Jarvis.  The second novel is “Four-Day Planet” by veteran sci-fi author, H. Beam Piper...

THE BIG MESS (1971) Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Sigi Graue, Henrike Fürst.  One of the more unique sci-fi films we’ve ever released.  The setting is deep space in the year 2034.  Space operations are run by greedy corporations. Two not so bright astronauts leave a trail of shady deals, outer space smuggling, and spaceship wrecking...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Jack Williamson and Miles Breuer’s “The Birth of a New Republic” is a grand adventure of interplanetary pioneering.   The moon was an inhospitable place. It had virulently hot days and the nights saw the temperature fall well below zero.  There were also strange, often-dangerous creatures found on the...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel is a “can’t-put-it-down” gem by Erik Fennel, “Black Priestess of Varda.”  The second novel is “Barton’s Island” by sci-fi vet, Harl Vincent.  Could his scientific revolution succeed?  Jerome Carter had everything he could ever want—and more money and power than any one man should be allowed...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great illustrated edition of that space opera classic, “The Black Star Passes” by one of the early masters of science fiction, John W. Campbell.  It was three against the stars!  A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… 

(1937) Ralph Byrd, Herbert Rawlinson, Joan Barclay, Lloyd Hughes. A young inventor and a famed Scotland Yard detective fight against a cloaked madman with a claw hand known as "The Scorpion". At stake is...

(1965, Upgraded 11/15/22) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Serge Reggiani. A beautiful woman (Laforet) is traveling by train when a stranger—who is obviously hiding from someone on board—entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes. What she doesn’t know is that the jewels are fakes and actually contain a virus powerful enough to destroy...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  William Hope Hodgson's "The Boats of the Glen Carrig" is the twenty-first installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  An early classic of adventure and horror!  It is one of the strangest sea-faring horror tales ever told and was admired greatly by horror fiction legend, H. P. Lovecraft.

(1937) Charles Farrell, Margaret Vyner, Danny Green, Fritz Kortner. What a find! A great mix of sci-fi and espionage elements. A reporter is murdered who was about to uncover a plot against an upcoming wo

(1956) Tony Quinn, Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan, Harry Fowler.  An eccentric scientist creates a new explosive device that uses sound (in this case, the sound of Big Ben striking the hour) as a detonator.  He places an explosive charge, along with a miniature version of his new detonator device, into several ordinary pens.  Unfortunately, one of his pens falls into the hands of drug dealers.  What follows is an intricate tale of crime and intrigue with many twists and turns...  

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) James Best, Barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney.  At a secret government research facility, some weird experiments are happening.  But, unknown to the scientists, there’s a plot afoot...

(1959, Upgraded 11/7/21) Herb (Jason) Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont, Bruce Brighton. TOTALLY UNCUT! Ludicrous black and white, sleazy schlock at its absolute best. A severed head, a gross looking monster, two battling strippers, a mad scientist, all blended together in...

(1955) Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson. A little bit of editing could do wonders for this 'bad' classic from Ed Wood. In spite of the cardboard sets, inane dialogue, and atrocious acting, there seems to be something...

(1959 Upgraded 12/30/20) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gerard Herter, Gay Pearl, directed by Riccardo Freda. A living, man-devouring radioactive mass is discovered in a subterranean pool near ancient Mayan ruins...

(1968) Sevda Ferdag, Irfan Atasoy, Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci.  Oh joy…another Turkish comic book superhero movie!  Featured here is “Spy Smasher,” who looks kind of like “the Phantom” or one of those other old Marvel or DC heroes.  As you would expect in a grade-Z delight like this, there’s a plethora of action:  fist fights, gun battles, chases, etc.  It’s all REALLY schlocky...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two great sci-fi adventures.  The first is Emmett McDowell’s “Citadel of the Green Death.”  The second novel is Dwight V. Swain’s “Drummers of Daugavo.” Both are terrific tales...

(1962, Updated 03-25-25) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Aubery Morris, Stewart Guidotti, Caroline Blakiston. Two scientific journalists board a nuclear submarine.  They soon find themselves immersed in an incredible adventure when the submarine is hijacked and taken to a secret underwater city called Aegiria.  

(1935) Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Ben Field, Mary Clare, Jane Baxter, Felix Aylmer.  Rains is brilliant as a sideshow mind reader whose powers turn out to be real. Soon he is making a plethora of accurate predictions—deaths, accidents, horse racing results, etc.  However, he is unable to control his prophecies until he...

(1936, FEATURE VERSION) Jack Mulhall, Rex Lease, Mae Busch, Bill Farnum, Robert Frazer. Mystery surrounds a scientist who has discovered a formula for synthetic gold. Look for some cool...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Colossus Conclusion” by the highly underrated science fiction author, S. J. Byrne.  It was a desperate struggle for Earth!  The second novel is “The Mental Assassins” by Hugo-Award-nominated author, Rob Phillips.  He was a dream world hit man...

COUNTERBLAST (1948) Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Nova Pilbeam.  Grim germ warfare sci-fi thriller about an escaped WWII Nazi doctor and his sinister plot to bring the Nazis into world domination.  He murders and then impersonates an Australian doctor so he can work on his devilish plans right in the heart of a small English town.  His objective:  to use a new super-disease against Germany’s enemies...

(1955) Peter Lorre, Barbara Hale, Bill Williams. A top sci-fi rediscovery! Williams and Hale live in an unusual apartment building managed by the strange Lorre. What are the weird machines in his basement?  How does he see behind without turning...

RAY (1924) Charles Martinelli, Louis Pre Fils, Albert Prejean. Dir. by Rene Clair. Classic early sci-fi as a scientist invents a ray that causes Parisians to fall asleep where they stand. A few unaff

(1961, Upgraded 5/15/24) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson, Esther Sandoval.  Now in widescreen from a stunning 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  The monster is kind of goofy-looking, but still more than able to rip you to shreds—which it does to more than one victim!  

(1958-1975, Updated 03-21-25) Bob Clymire, Jan Swihart, Bill Simonsen, Dennis Kottmeier, Ruth Ann Mannella.  This film has a weird history.  Most of it is a movie made in 1958 (some say 1963) that sat unreleased for many years. It was called Teenagers Battle the Thing. In 1975 they shot some new introductory footage and it was released as Curse of Bigfoot.  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Dark Atlantis” by David Craigie is the 33rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  What deadly secrets awaited them in the ocean’s depths?  Professor Jules Frapillion craved adventure as much as his best friend, American adventurer, Rodney Harding, going so far as to create insane contraptions to go where no man had dared...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   “Dark Invasion” by Frederic Kummer is an intrigue-laced tale of an impending invasion.  The second novel, “Mystery Moon,” is by one of the most beloved science fiction authors of the 20th century, Edmond Hamilton.  What was the dreaded secret of Saturn’s moon?  Saturn’s moon, Rhea, was filled...

Armchair Fiction presents fully illustrated extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. “Daughter of Thor” is an exciting adventure classic by one of sci-fi’s most beloved authors, Edmond Hamilton.  This edition’s second novel is “Talents, Incorporated” by another sci-fi wizard, Murray Leinster.  

Special 35mm Edition (1958) Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari, Peter Meersman, Ivo Garrani, Dario Michaelis.  Most of the video copies around of this title are pretty awful, so it’s amazing how much better this Euro-science fiction thriller is when you’ve got decent picture quality.  The movie starts off with a rocket preparing to lift off for the moon...

(1979) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson.  A police inspector comes to a remote mountain hotel to investigate a murder.  Shortly after his arrival a snowslide cut the hotel off from civilization.  The inspector then begins to realize that something far worse than a simple case of murder is afoot—aliens, androids, terrorists, and more...

(1966, Updated 3-18-25) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Ann Smyrner, Dan Vadis.  Tony and Brad protect a lady who’s a kidnap target in this thriller that has a bit of everything:  sci-fi, ancient temples, martial arts, big explosions, jungle thrills, etc...

(1964, Upgraded 12/29/20) Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Van Eyck, Yvonne Furneaux, Yoko Tani. The maniacal Dr. Mabuse threatens the world with a death ray. Van Eyck plays a suave espionage agent.  Plays a lot like...

(1972) Mine Mutlu, Kunt Tulgar, Erol Tas, Erol Gunaydin.  This outlandish Turkish sci-fi action film features “the Copperhead,” a masked hero who fights the evil Dr. Satan.  The doctor has designs on conquering the world with robots and other electronics.  He laughs maniacally throughout the film.  There are many scenes that will make you howl and the Sherlock Holmish sidekick is bad beyond belief.  A wonderfully inept film that never lets up...

(1933) Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Samuel S. Hinds. Strange events in Earth’s atmosphere cause super storms and tidal waves. The destruction of NYC is one of the most notable scenes in science fiction film history...