(1948) Roger Livesay, Petula (Downtown) Clark, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, David Hutcheson, directed by Peter Ustinov.  A most enjoyable British fantasy about a magic stone that makes the soul and personality of a pompous British father change places with his schoolboy son...

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.  

LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS (1956) Marion Michael, Hardy Kruger.  A topless, beautiful white jungle girl is discovered in the wilds of Africa living with a native tribe.  PLUS:  UNNATURAL (1952) Eric Von Stroheim, Hildegarde Neff, Karl Boehm.  The weird story of an evil scientist who creates a beautiful femme fatale via artificial insemination...

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1959) Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels, Marilyn Hanold. UNCUT! Ludicrous sleazy schlock at its absolute best. A severed head, a mad scientist, a gross looking monster, two battling strippers... Plus: JACK THE RIPPER (1959) Lee Paterson, Eddie Byrne, Ewen Solon. “Jack” commits a series of gruesome slayings

THE HYPERBOLOID OF ENGINEER GARIN (1965,  Anamorphic) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Mikhail Astangov, Vsevolod Safonov. Garin is a mad inventor who creates a death ray of fantastic power.  He is bound and determined to conquer the Earth, committing many atrocities with...  SUIPERARGO AND THE FACELESS GIANTS (1966, Anamorphic) Ken Wood, Guy Madison, Diana Lorys. For all students of Santo movies, here's something you don't want to miss: a European, superhero, masked wrestler. Our hero is pitted against a madman and his army of zombie-like robots... 

WARNING FROM SPACE (1956) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki.  A spaceship full of starfish-shaped aliens has come to Earth to warn of impending destruction from a giant meteor.  However, because of their horrifying appearance the aliens decide to...  ROAD TO THE STARS (1957) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this film has some very interesting stuff about the  soviet space program.  However, in the second half, the film turns to pure science fiction, with many great outer space scenes...

LADY VAMPIRE (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi. The main vampire is actually a guy (with a dwarf servant).  He goes about dressed in a snappy suit, hat, and sun glasses.  He can be seen in a mirror, and is only turned into a vampire under the light... EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto. It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of...

SEVEN GOLDEN MEN (1965, Anamorphic) Philippe Leroy, Rossana Podesta, Gastone Moschin, Maurice Poli, Gabrieli Tinti. One of the best intrigue/caper movies ever! Delightful is the perfect word to describe this film that is full of sci-fi gimmicks, plot twists, slick and not-so-slick criminals... 002—OPERATION MOON (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...

THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (1958) Lubor Tokos, Hugh Downs, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr.  The evil Count Artigas kidnaps a scientist and his assistant... WHAT A WHOPPER (1958, Anamorphic) Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley.  This is a cool adventure-comedy with a nice touch of sci-fi at the film’s climax.  A struggling writer thinks he’s hit the jackpot when...

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Kurt Rackelman.   A space expedition is launched to the planet Venus.  There they find the planet and its former inhabitants completely destroyed by atomic war... THE AMPHIBIAN MAN (1962) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Shoreline villages live in fear of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil," who terrorizes the coast.  It turns out that the creature is not only the product of man (and not of nature), but the result of...

THE DEVILMAN STORY (1967, Anamorphic) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys, Bill Vanders.  Madison is a journalist searching for a kidnapped brain surgeon. His search takes him to a secret lab run by the silver-masked villain, Devilman, who intends to rule the world. FLASHMAN (1967, Anamorphic) Paul Stevens, Claudie Lange, John Heston, Anne Williams. Flashman is so campy it nearly defies description.  Flashman is actually a spoiled British Royal who wears one of the cheapest looking “superhero” getups ever created...  

M (1951) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Raymond Burr, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie.  A well-done remake of the ’31 Lorre classic.  A mad killer is murdering small kids (this time in L.A.). The cops are combing the underworld, looking for the maniac. MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE (1951) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes, Dora Bryan. Although this was officially a “Mother Riley” film, the real star here is Bela, who brings to his part an intensity not seen since his early ‘30s films. Worth it for him alone. Bela plots to dominate the world with an army of robots.

ALICE, OR THE LAST ESCAPADE (1977, Anamorphic) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux, Francois Perrot. A woman drives through the night on a lonely road.  After a breakdown, she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (1976, Anamorphic) Florinda Balkon, Klaus Kinski, John Karlsen, Peter McEnery. An astronaut is purposely left on the moon as part of a bizarre experiment... 

THE AMAZING MR. X (1948) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist. ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1947) Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two soldiers are captured by strange warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis.  It is ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who surrounds herself with the mummies of past lovers... 

THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (1960, Anamorphic) Peter Van Eyck, Gert 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, which is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. THEY STOLE THE BOMB (1961) Eugenia Balaure, Haralambie Boros, Emil Botta, Horia Caciulescu, Florin Piersic.  This is perhaps the most offbeat sci-fi film ever made. It starts with a man accidentally walking into an atomic test area.  He is nabbed by a squad of men dressed like spacemen...

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. PLUS:  BLOOD MANIA (1970) Vicki Peters, Peter Carpenter, Maria De Aragon. The plot is pretty simple, a maniacal nympho-maniac wants to speed along her daddy’s demise. Why? So she can use the inheritance money to...

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN, English Subs) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This is a really cool outer space movie with lots of battle scenes and alien spaceships battling against the desperate forces of Earth.  PLUS: CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne. In widescreen from a great 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  

JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT (1961 aka THE LOST KINGDOM, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Riviere, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  Lost aviators find the entrance to Atlantis at a nuclear blast site in the desert.  PLUS:  TERROR OF THE MAD DOCTOR (1962, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Senta Berger.  A nice remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 classic.