LILIOM (1930) Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, H. B. Warner, Estelle Taylor, Lee Tracy.  A wonderful film!  Farrell is Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at an old-time carnival.  He finds himself torn between the affections of his beautiful, hardnosed boss; and a pretty servant girl...

(1948) Heinz Rühmann, Anneliese Römer, Hans Cossy, Hilde Hildebrand.  A humanoid alien from a distant solar system travels the universe using mental concentration, which is shattered, though, when passing Earth. Landing below, he is immediately targeted by the police...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Our lead off novel is one of grand adventure by one of the early 20th Century’s most heralded authors, Otis Adelbert Kline’s “Lord of the Lamia.”  An ancient and sinister magic lurked in Cairo!  The second novel is one of great conflict and outer space drama, Clinton Constantinescu’s “The War of the Universe.”  There soon came a...

(1966) Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Gothard, Nike Arrighi, Jonathan Hansen.  The setting is in the distant future.  All the physical needs of mankind are provided for by an all-present “Machine,” which controls men’s lives through a vast series of tunnels inside the Earth.  Man’s every need is provided...

THE MAGIC SERPENT—Widescreen Edition (1966) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  A young prince embarks on a quest to avenge the deaths of his parents, as well as a good wizard who had once saved his life.   An epic battle soon ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  This is a beautiful production and there are enough giant monsters to make anyone happy...

(1950) Rade Markovic, Vera Ilic-Djukic, Milivoje Zivanovic, Marko Marinkovic.  Here’s another upper tier Euro-fantasy classic you’ll not soon forget.  It’s filled with incredible sets, wonderful characters, beautiful music, great B&W cinematography, etc.  All in all it’s a delightfully atmospheric film.  The scene is set quickly as a young boy stumbles into a crumbling, snow-covered castle atop a mountain spire, laden with skulls and cobwebs...

(1971) Tom Chadbon, Rob Walker, Robert Oates, Marianne Benet, David Whitman.   A squad of futuristic soldiers wakes up, somehow knowing they need to break into an enemy base.  Their mission is so secret that they have been hypnotically programmed with their instructions and will only recall each step of their undertaking when they hear a pre-arranged cue. Although their plans seem infallible, gradually paranoia begins to...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND) Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop, Lyn Harding. Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Price, Preben Neergaard, Lotte Tarp, Lars Lunøe.  In what is truly the most remarkable science fiction film we’ve released in years, Price plays a seemingly insane millionaire placed in an asylum after dangling a wiggling mouse in front of passersby and screaming crazed questions about the rodent’s physical reality.  In his cell, though, odd items begin to appear...

(1961) Rolf Ludwig, Christine Laszar, Helga Labudda, Micaela Kreißler, Otto Stark, Erik S. Klein.  A time traveler from the future arrives in communist East Germany.  He possesses a fantastic crystal lens that enables him to read people's thoughts and even measure their feelings...

(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...