THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) James Best, Ingrid Goulde, Gordon Mclendon, Ken Curtis. "The shrew devours everything…flesh, bones, marrow…everything.” THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.

CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Morland, Edward Wain.  This is another of Roger Corman's horror comedies.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real.  Morland and Carbone are perfect in their roles (Betsy is as cute as a bug. PLUS:  DEVIL’S PARTNER (1958) Edwin Nelson, Edgar Buchannon, Jean Allison, Richard Crane.  A strange man comes to claim his inheritance in a small desert town and brings along with him satanic rites, evil spells and death!  He also has occasion to change himself into various wild animals when killing off his enemies...  

ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) Dick Miller, Barbara Morris, Antony Carbone. A truly great “cult” film.

ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1962) Rick Von Nutter, Archie Savage. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman. An enjoyable, underrated sci-fi 'B' opus about an astronaut who's stranded on an invisible

THE WASP WOMAN (1959) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Well done, low budget sci-fi. BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are killed off by a horrible

THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1959) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. Plus: BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1959) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, Vladimir Solokoff, directed By Edgar G. Ulmer. A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier

ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie’s an alien mad scientist whose mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in an invasion.  PLUS:  MISSION STARDUST (1968) Lang Jeffries, John Karlsen, Essy Persson. A space hero, backed by a team of astronauts, heads to the moon to rescue a blonde alien babe who seeks the aid of a blood scientist to help save her dying race...

CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, directed by Riccardo Freda. A large, living radioactive mass is found in a subterranean pool near Mayan ruins.  Plus: THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton. The chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum who slowly transforms into a horrible, two-headed monster

RETURN OF DR. MABUSE (1961) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Frobe and Barker play detectives on the trail of Dr. Mabuse. A number of mysterious murders

RIP VAN WYK (1960) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney.  This movie is actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys meets a mysterious man who feeds him a potion causing him to fall asleep and hurtle 100 years through time.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, unfamiliar, modern world.  PLUS:  THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED (1958) Paul Hubschmid, Ivo Garrani. A rocket lifts off for the moon. The rocket (containing lots of atomic matter) smashes into an asteroid, which in turn shatters into an avalanche of deadly rocks and space debris...

HORROR HOTEL (1960) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Valentine Dyall, Patricia Jessel. Classic horror as a witch lures victims into a New England village for blood sacrifices.   Plus: THE HEAD (1959) Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke. A serum that keeps severed portions of the human body alive is used by a mad doctor on its own inventors decapitated head

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories, complete with many original illustrations.  Here it is, the lucky 13^th Horror Gems collection, featuring ten tasty terrors to make you tremble.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles...

THE BLUE PANTHER (1965) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner. A lady is traveling by train when a stranger entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes

S.O.S. PACIFIC (1959) Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Eva Bartok, Pier Angeli. Eddie’s BEST film. Eddie’s a tough sailor being flown to the mainland for trial. Also aboard is the snake who

THE NEXT VICTIM (1971) Considered a landmark giallo film. An ambassador's sleazy wife discovers that either her husband, her ex-lover, or her current lover might actually be a sadistic slasher who has