(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...

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...

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS—Special 2-Disc Anamorphic Edition (1961) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This two-disc special edition features a beautiful anamorphic widescreen English language edition on one disc, with the foreign-language anamorphic widescreen edition (with English subtitles) on the other.  The plot is simple but fun: Earth may be destroyed by a runaway planet controlled by a giant computer...

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...

APRIL 1st, 2000 (1952) Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Judith Holzmeister.  In the year 2000 the world is run by the World Global Union.  Smaller countries are still allowed to have their own puppet governments, but none have total freedom—that is, until Austria’s new President declares his country’s freedom.  But within hours WGU forces are streaking toward Austria...

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...

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...

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...

KILINK IN ISTANBUL (1967) Irfan Atasoy, Pervin Par, Suzan Avci, Muzaffer Tema.  Kilink is this sinister villain in a weird skeleton suit.  He’s brought back from the dead at the beginning of the movie so he can search for a secret formula that will allow him to basically destroy the world and rule over the tatters that are left behind...  

THE STOLEN AIRSHIP (1967, Widescreen Edition) Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Cestmír Randa, Jan Malat, Michal Pospisil.  A marvelous science fiction epic and a group of children who make off with a futuristic airship from a county fair.  They then set out on a series of amazing exploits, all set against some of the most amazing stop-motion animation you will ever see...

RIP VAN WYK (1960, aka RIP VAN WINKLE) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney, Willem Loots.  This movie has little to do with the Rip Van Winkle story.  It’s actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys hurtles 100 years into the future.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, modern world.  The film gives a very interesting perspective about how someone from the past would react to all things modern—automobiles, radios, TVs, clothing, etc...

THE BIG MESS (1971) Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Sigi Graue, Henrike Fürst.  One of the more unique sci-fi films we’ve ever released.  The setting is deep space in the year 2034.  Space operations are run by greedy corporations. Two not so bright astronauts leave a trail of shady deals, outer space smuggling, and spaceship wrecking...

WIND VELOCITY 75 METERS—Widescreen Edition (1963) Ken Utsui, Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Hideo Takamatsu.  Set around the Japanese city of Ginza, this film is a classic disaster movie with a mixture of drama, corporate intrigue, and crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific and Ginza is square in its sights!  

ROAD TO THE STARS (1957) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark man-into-space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this short 50-minute feature is mainly about the soviet space program, focusing on scientific contributions of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and other famous soviet scientists.  However, in the second half, the film turns into a science fiction film, with many great outer space scenes...

PATHFINDERS TO VENUS (1961, Upgraded 1/19/23) Gerald Flood, George Colouris, Pamela Barney, Graydon Gould, Hester Cameron.  Returning from their trip to Mars, the crew of MR4 intercept a distress signal from Captain Wilson, a U.S astronaut, and must change course for Venus to attempt a space rescue. But through the space periscope, Brown sees what appears to be a city on the planet’s surface...

THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (1939) Erich Von Stroheim, Claude Dauphin, Madeleine Sologne, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Henri Guisol.  In one of the best sc-fi films of the 1930s, Von Stroheim plays a wealthy financier who has funded the experiments of a scientist played by Dauphin, who has perfected a machine that can predict the exact date of your death...

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...

(1976) Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner.  A castaway arrives on a strange island with high, rocky cliffs. He stumbles upon a futuristic set of buildings, which are fabulous in design and interior contents.  Upon closer examination he discovers that everything is covered with dust—the buildings have been deserted for many years.  Then strange things start happening...