(1967) Paul Stevens, Claudie Lange, John Heston. Every so often we come across a movie that is so bad it nearly defies description.  Flashman is one of those movies.  Flashman is actually a spoiled British Royal who doesn’t have any superpowers or gadgetry whatsoever—so what’s the point of the costume?  There are lots of villains running around, including a mafiosa type guy who kills a scientist for his invisibility formula, then robs banks while he’s invisible... 

(1940, Updated 3/21/25) Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne. Frank Shannon.  It's Flash against Ming again as the Purple Death threatens the Earth.  This horrible, Earth-threatening disease is believed to be the evil machination of that dastardly scoundrel...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is an unusual tale of time travel, “First Through Time” by Rex Gordon.  The second novel is a great Milton Lesser tale, “Through a Glass Darkly.”  Was he a man—or a robot?  Gilbert wasn’t completely sure what he was.  All he knew was...

(1962, Upgraded 12/30/20) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Ignacy Machowski, Kurt Rackelman.   A big, international space expedition is launched after the discovery of an ancient alien artifact.  Their expedition...land on and explore the planet Venus, which is believed to be the artifact's place of origin...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that space opera class, “The Fire People” by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings.  It was a fiery invasion from another planet!  No one could have suspected that Earth was in mortal danger...

THE FINAL WAR—Widescreen Edition (1960) Tatsuo Umemiya, Yoshiko Mita, Yayoi Furusato.  This is a sci-fi nuclear destruction film that fans have been clamoring to see for years.  And though no English subtitles currently exist, the storyline here isn’t all that hard to follow, even if it is in Japanese only. The scenes of nuclear destruction are pretty well done for the time...

FILIBUS (1915) Cristina Ruspoli, Mario Mariani, Giovanni Spano, Filippo Vallino.  Great early silent super-criminal film with sci-fi elements.  Ruspoli is the sinister sky pirate, Filibus, who pulls off amazing robberies with her super-science airship. When she’s pursued by top-of-the-line detective Mariani, she initiates a  series of...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Faster Than Light” written by a great author from the golden age of science fiction, Harl Vincent. This exciting space opera tale is the sequel to Vincent’s “Venus Liberated.” After high adventures on Venus, Ralph and Margaret Prescott had settled into a mundane life on Earth. This double novel combo’s second tale is Amazing Stories editor Raymond A. Palmer’s “The Test Tube Girl.” As World War II came to a close, humanity had yet to realize that its demise was already set in stone....

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  A.Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss and Other Fantastic Tales" is the seventeenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  After weeks of toiling through treacherous country, Nicholas Graydon and his partners found themselves lost in the Peruvian wilderness on a hunt for lost Incan treasure...

(1958) Lubor Tokos, Hugh Downs, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr.  This is easily the best quality DVD edition of this fabulous science fiction film on the market.  The evil Count Artigas kidnaps the scientist Professor Roch and his assistant.  Artigas takes them to his headquarters inside an enormous volcano, far off at sea.  The machines the professor creates are incredible.  His heavy water experiments soon provide...

(1932) Conrad Veldt, Jill Esmond, Leslie Fenton. Right out of Amazing Stories. A gigantic floating platform is built in the mid-Atlantic for use as a oceanic airport. However, its destruction seems imminent...

(1932) Hans Alber, Sybille Schmitz, Peter Lorre, Paul Hartman.  Great sci-fi about a giant floating platform built in the mid-Atlantic as a refueling stopover for trans-Atlantic flights.  Unfortunately there are plans afoot to stop this daring project.  Albers is the great flier in the center of it all, who falls for the beautiful daughter of the man who built the platform.  Sabotage and intrigue soon... 

(1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto, Terumi Hoshi. What’s not to like?  It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of Marpetians... 

(1916) This is a truly remarkable early silent science fiction classic. A massive comet approaches Earth. It narrowly misses our planet, but causes enormous upheaval, including massive rioting and a