(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...

(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...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

 (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...

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...

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. 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...

(1956) Ivan Pereverzev, Konstantin Bartashevich, Mikhail Astangov, Apollon Yachnitskiy, Danuta Stolyarskaya. An underwater explosion at the bottom of the Pacific wreaks havoc with underwater eco-systems.  The likely cause appears to be radiation and a new element.  Scientists head to the ocean depths to figure out what’s going on...

(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...

(1958, Anamorphic, Upgraded 12/29/23) Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson, Patrick Whyte, Fred La Porta, Peter Similuk.  Clarke produced, directed, and starred in this film about a scientist who's exposed to a dangerous radioactive isotope that changes him into a lizard-like monster whenever he's touched by the sun's rays... 

(1965) Anthony Bate, Keith Buckley, Michele Dotrice, David Collings, Tom Criddle.  This remarkable, futuristic made-for-TV sci-fi film takes place in a massive nuclear bunker, built to protect government brass from nuclear war. The bunker has many levels, but Level Seven is the deepest and provides the best protection...

(1953) Ted Cooper, Noreen Nash. No classic, but this is a good, underrated little 'B' sci-fi opus about a group of people that find themselves pitted against an alien from outer space in the confines of a lonely observatory...

(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...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Roberto Camardiel, Siegfried Lowitz, directed by Jesús Franco.  Dr. Mabuse is on the loose again, this time abducting beautiful women in order to subject them to a powerful mind control ray...

(1976) Lisa Harrow, Christian Quadflieg, Pierre Brice, Christiane Krüger, Judy Geeson, Derek Farr.  A wandering planet from deep space drifts into the solar system and is detected by Earth scientists who soon investigate. The planet is called Medusa; its surface is uninhabitable and its people now live in a high-tech underground city. This subterranean society is ruled by women...

(1969, Upgraded 12/11/24) Nobuhiru Kajima, Miyuki Akiyama. Aliens fly two kids to another planet in an effort to lure Gamera into fighting another horrid monster, Guiron. This is one of the most luridly campy Gamera films with...

(1949, Upgraded 11/9/24) Karel Hoger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Natasa Tanska. “Krakatit” is the ultimate explosive, greater than the A-bomb, discovered by a scientist named Prokop. Prokop has hallucinations a

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Paul Pepper, Steve Conte, Brianne Murphy, Jay Hawk, Nan Green. A bunch of teenage kids land on an island filled with scientific terrors and zombies!  Nerve gas is used by the lady mad scientist (who inhabits the island) to turn some of the teenagers into mindless zombie slaves...