WELCOME TO BLOOD CITY (1976) Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse.  This oddball film is an interesting mixture of both western and sci-fi elements.  Five people wake up and have no idea who they are or where they’re at.  It turns out they’re in some kind of strange western town where people advance in stature through assassination.  It all, of course, turns out to be part of a scientific experiment...

MISSION PHANTOM (1967) Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, Ingrid Schoeller.  If you don’t take this film too seriously, you’ll probably love it.  A shoddy band of “free souls” from a variety of countries and backgrounds are gathered together to pull off what seems to be a clearly "impossible" caper.  This involves breaking into a highly-guarded place with seemingly impenetrable security...

In our third volume of Robert Silverberg Ace Double novels you get “Invaders from Earth,” a great tale about an outer space scam gone horribly wrong.  In “Collision Course,” the discovery of another, more-advanced race shakes the very foundations of humanity.  “The Silent Invaders” throws one man into the middle of a three-pronged conflict threatening Earth...

When Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories in 1926, he included the works of the great H. G. Wells.  Gernsback reprinted many of Wells’ best science fiction short stories.  So in this collection, in the exact chronological order in which they appeared, is the complete run of the Amazing Stories-H. G. Wells science fiction short story legacy, all with their wonderful original illustrations...

THE TUNNEL (1933) Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Le Vigan, Andre Nox.  There’s a big meeting between the world’s fifteen richest industrialists.  A project is launched to build a tunnel from Long Island to Europe.  As the tunnel progresses, its workers are faced with many perils...

(1961) Eugenia Balaure, Haralambie Boros, Emil Botta, Florin Piersic.  This is perhaps the most surrealistic, offbeat sci-fi film ever made.  It starts with a man accidentally walking into a nuclear test area.  He is apprehended by a squad of men dressed like spacemen, all of whom are holding big ray guns.  He is soon released, but later finds himself the recipient of a fantastic, futuristic suitcase nuclear bomb...

SHIKARI (1963) Ajit, Ragini, K.N. Singh, Helen, Madan Puri.  This is the Indian version of King Kong and it's so bad, that it’s a delight.  The plot involves the efforts to capture King Kong by a circus company. The Circus owners and their scientist adviser take off in a big ship to Kong’s island.  The final scene when Kong storms the native village is mesmerizingly bad...

(1973) Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Lloyd Bochner, Robin Ward, Edward Andrews. A giant spaceship known as The Ark, drifts aimlessly through space with the last remnants of humanity in huge Earth-like dome

ONCE IN A NEW MOON (1934) Eliot Makeham, Rene Ray, Morton Selten.  A dead star approaches Earth.  As it passes by, some kind of gravitational pull breaks off a small chunk of the Earth and hurls it into space, where it becomes a new small moon of sorts.  There’s a little coastal town on that chunk, but it takes a while for the villagers to figure out what the hell’s going on...

(1967) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys.  Madison is a journalist who gets involved in the search for a leading brain surgeon, who has mysteriously disappeared.  The search takes him to the African desert where they discover Devilman.  Devilman’s plans are simple: using a new brain-transplanting procedure, he intends to rule the world...

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...

The first disc of this Special Two-DVD Edition contains The Dream Doctor (1936) Julie Suedo Sidney Monckton.  This odd film tells tales of many different characters’ dream experiences and tries to explain them in a paranormal yet scientific way by a woman with strange powers.  The second disc includes A Trip to the Moon (1902) Georges Méliès, Victor André.  This is a short sci-fi classic from early cinema pioneer Méliès.  We've also thrown in trailers and two other short subjects, including Fall of the House of Usher and The Devil's Ball...

(1959) Rushdi Abazah, Edmond Tuima. What you’ve got here is all you’d expect in a B&W ‘50s sci-fi film, similar to Missile to the Moon.  You’ve got a scientist who’s built a moon rocket.  He shoots off toward the moon with two stowaways.  There's a big spaceship and a cool robot.  They land on the moon and find a strange race of beautiful women.  After many horrifying and dangerous situations, they launch back toward Earth...

(1968) Hideaki Nitani, Naoko Kubo.  One of the worst movies ever.  Indeed, at a whopping 1.6, Mighty Jack has the lowest IMDB rating we’ve ever seen. Yet in spite of the bad film hoopla, this movie is filled with mindless fun.  It’s got tons of late ‘60s Toho-style special effects with many minatures of flying submarines, rockets, ray guns, etc. The plot has Mighty Jack (a counter-espionage team) fighting to save Earth from “Q,” an organization hellbent on world domination...

(1977) Sonny Chiba, Jun Etô.  A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan...

(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...

THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR—Widescreen Edition (1966) Daniel Emilfork, Marie-France Boyer, Howard Vernon. This is one of the most unique European sci-fi-intrigue thrillers you will ever see—seriously.  It’s filled with brilliant filmmaking unlike anything you would ever see in other similar films of the era...  

(1959-1962) Here's a bundle of SIX terrific films, all with a Space Opera theme to them—and all for just $49 postpaid!  You get:  BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961); FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1960); THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961); ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1960); DESTINATION SPACE (1959); BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN (1962)  See more...