(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova, Mikhail Kuznetsov. This is an amazing mad scientist film laced with espionage and intrigue.  Garin is a mad inventor who has created (with stolen plans) an apparatus called the Hyperboloid.  It is a death ray of unparalleled destructive power...

(1963, Upgraded 12/29/20) Zdenek Stepanek, Dana Medricka, Radovan Lukavsky. This special edition two-disc set contains the anamorphic widescreen foreign language version with English subtitles, and the flat screen American release version dubbed in English.  A spaceship full of explorers shoots across the galaxy toward a distant star. One of the film’s highlights is when they encounter...

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Sheila Noonan, Allen Windsor, George Skaff. By no means a 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 that's guarded by a murderous...

(1956) Lon Chaney, Casey Adams, Marian Carr, Robert Shayne.  A 1950s sci-fi standard that we all grew up with. Lon plays an executed killer brought back to life by research scientists, headed by Robert Shayne.  When he realizes he has been brought back from the dead and that his doctors are, essentially, his new captors, he shows his gratitude by killing them!  He then goes on a rampage seeking revenge against those who helped send him to the chair...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Richard Tooker's "Inland Deep, Illustrated Edition" is the eighteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Clues from the forgotten past led them to an unknown world of terror.  A footprint had been found; a footprint only part human...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel “Into the Green Prism” by A. Hyatt Verrill.  The second novel is “Wanderers of the Wolf Moon” by Nelson S. Bond.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.

(1952, Upgraded 11/17/23) Peggie Castle, Gerald Mohr, Dan O'Herlihy, Noel Neill. The U.S. is being invaded! Unknown enemy troops pour over the borders. Bombs are dropping on major cities and installations, including an H-bomb on...

(1962 aka THE INVISIBLE HORROR) Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Wolfgang Preiss. This could very well be the best of the German Mabuse films of the '60's. Our maniacal doctor is plotting against humanity once again,

(1957, Upgraded, 4/29/24) Ryuji Shinagawa, Shozo Southern, Junko Kano, Tsurumi Joji. What a cool movie! A series of ghastly murders is being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound...

(1983) Pip Donaghy, David Gwillim, Lila Kaye, Ron Pember, Merelina Kendall.  This six-part, two-disc mini-series is a vivid retelling of the classic H. G. Wells story and probably comes the closest to the Wells original than any other screen version.  Donaghy is superb as Griffin, the man destined to go mad because of his own fantastic discovery...

(1949) Chizuru Kitagawa, Takiko Muzunoei, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Tsuyoshi Sugiyama.  A scientist uses a strange formula to become invisible.  The formula has an adverse effect on his mind.  Thrown into the mix are jewel thieves who want the formula to help them steal a priceless diamond.  The invisibility special effects are excellent...

 (1970) Enver Özer, Feri Cansel, Süleyman Turan, Orçun Alkan, Altan Günbay.  A wonderfully awful, grade-Z Turkish superhero film, whose badness is so enticing you’ll find yourself watching it all the way through in one sitting—and you’ll be amazed at yourself for doing it...

(1966, Upgraded 12/30/20) Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne, directed by Terrence Fisher. Things go terribly wrong in an isolated island research lab and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters are created. The island is cut off from the mainland, and it's only a matter of time before the creatures...

(1967) Cameron Mitchell, Elisa Montes, George Martin, Kay Fischer. Mitchell is the evil Baron von Weser, who has a grim collection of carnivorous plants. When a group of people vacation on his island...