(1961 aka THE PHANTOM MEETS THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE, Upgraded 12/30/20) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE. Forbe and Barker play detectives on the trail of the maniacal Mabuse who plots...

(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

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1958) Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell. An unusual hull resembling an unexploded bomb is found in an English building site containing weird, insect-like creatures with faces like gargoyles. Inexplicable incidents occur and it's discovered that strange...

(1964, Upgraded 11/23/22) John Call, Pia Zadora, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles. So bad it's great.  Martians travel into the void of outer space on a secret mission to Earth.  Their mad scheme?  Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him back to Mars!  For what purpose?  To engage his services for...

91958, Upgraded 11/7/21) Richard Travis, Kathy Downs, K. T. Stevens, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook, Michael Whalen. A lovable drive-in turkey. Somewhat similar to CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON, but a few different plot twists are thrown in, including monstrous lunar rock men that threaten...

(1953) Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya, Valentina Ushakova, Nikolai Timofeyev. This obscure Soviet sci-fi film (made at the height of the Cold War) is unique because the setting is in the U.S.  Bolduman  plays a scientist whose first allegiance is money, rather than science.  With a big profit motive in mind, he invents a mighty new weapon of mass destruction—a deadly radioactive powder...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

(1983, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kannakis.  Giancarlo and Fred are wandering mercenaries who help the survivors of a post-apocalypse fight off a group of evil homosexual biker dudes...