(1959 aka THE SPLIT, Upgraded 11/25/22) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley. The well-done, chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist. He finds himself slowly transforming into a horrible, two-headed monster.  The moment where he first sees an human eye coming out of his shoulder is unforgettable.  Nakamura gives...

(1938) Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton.. Ming goes to Mars! That's right, and Flash Gordon is there to stop his maniacal plans. Feature version of "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars." Great fun.

(1934) Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Franck, Siegfried Schürenberg. A millionaire has plans for an army of robots to do the perilous jobs of human workers. In his lab he has a scientist ta

Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg was a regular contributor to Ace’s Double Novel series.  Starting in 1957 through the mid-1960s, Bob saw a dozen of his novels (plus a short story collection) published in the Ace Double format.  In this, the first of two Armchair Fiction “Masters of Science Fiction” volumes covering these works, you get three of Bob’s best early Ace novels...

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...

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...

Three more science fiction classics from Robert Silverberg.  One of the most notable contributers to Ace Books’ science fiction double novel series of the 1950s and 1960s was Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, who graced Ace’s pages with a dozen novels over a seven-year period,1957-1964... 

MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953) Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Charles Victor, Ernest Thesiger.  In this unique fantasy, Holloway plays an aging actor who hates television and what it’s done to his stage career.  When he carelessly dies in a stage accident, the devil gives him a chance to return to the living...

(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...

(1962, Upgraded 10/14/21) Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Keen. Heavy-duty sci-fi about strange sensory deprivation experiments. Bogarde, in a somber, thoughtful role, tries to prove his experiments will help serve as a form of...

91958, Upgraded 11/7/21) Richard Travis, Kathy Downs, K. T. Stevens, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook, Michael Whalen. A lovable drive-in turkey. Somewhat similar to CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON, but a few different plot twists are thrown in, including monstrous lunar rock men that threaten...

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...