IT'S BACK!  Sinister Cinema's BIG SPENDER SALE. Buy 25 titles from the Sinister website for only $159, postpaid.  That works out to just over $6 per title.  Cool!  This includes all DVDs and all books...and they’re all just 25 for 159 bucks!  Sale ends Monday, October 2nd, 2023. So don't delay, simply...

Sinister Cinema's CUSTOMER APPRECIATION SALE returns! Now through Monday, October 2nd, buy ANY SEVEN DVD or book titles from anywhere on the Sinister Cinema website for only $59, postpaid...

(1960, Upgraded 12/29/20) Peter Van Eyck, Gerte Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a Posh hotel that is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. Van Eyk plays the rich American who...

(1973, Upgraded 11/14/21) Sue Lyon, Christoper Mitchum, Jean Sorel, Ramon Pons, Charly Bravo, Alfredo Alba. This Euro sci-fi chiller is set in the future. After witnessing the disposal of a dead body, an outcast gang member is forced to take part in a weird mind-control experiment in a secret laboratory. There, a beautiful nurse prepares him for...

(1977, Upgraded 4/15/22) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux.  A great fantasy-horror film.  A woman leaves her husband one stormy night.  She drives on a lonely road, but when her windshield breaks she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  The woman spends the night, but next morning she finds no trace of her hosts.  Finding her car repaired, she tries to leave but soon realizes it’s impossible...

(1980, Upgraded 2/25/23) Ian McCulloch, Louise Marlo, Marino Mase, Siegfried Rauch. What a hoot! This Alien rip-off starts with an eerie ship pulling into NY harbor. On board is a cargo of green pulsating eggs. The eggs explode and cause a green acid to get into...

(1977, Upgraded 7/11/22) Tim Brinton, Gregory Munroe, Carol Hazell.  In the middle of a world ecological disaster and the start of a new ice-age, the world is told that the space race and the cold war between the U.S. and Russia are fake.  Both countries are secretly planning the assembly of a Mars colony. It also seems the Apollo moon landings were only a cloak shielding what’s really happening on the moon...

(1948, Upgraded 10/1/21) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist—Turhan Bey.  It's a great scene.  She soon becomes involved with his mystic practices, but is he...

(1959, Upgraded 11/5/21) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. One of our best selling 50's sci-fi B classics. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. He breaks into military installations and banks, stealing radioactive materials and money. The film's climax features a struggle between Griffith and Kennedy in a lab where an atomic explosion is...

(1962, Upgraded 3/10/23) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Coastal villages live in dread of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil." It turns out that the creature is a product of man, not...

(1961, Upgraded 12/2/21) Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard, Russ Bender. A juvenile delinquent swears revenge on all those who helped send his wacko brother to the gas chamber. He and his sleazy girlfriend decide to bump them off one at a time...

(1943, Monogram, Upgraded 12/12/21) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Louise Currie, Minerva Urecal. During a series of bizarre experiments, mad scientist Belai literally goes ape--turning into a half man/half ape monstrosity that needs Human spinal fluid to return to any semblance of normalcy.  His quest for it leads him and his pet ape on a terrifying...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Ray Corrigan, Philo McCullough. Boris plays a "well-intentioned" mad scientist trying to find a cure for paralysis.  Unfortunately, his research depends on spinal fluid taken from living (soon to be dead) humans.  But when an escaped gorilla crashes into his lab...

(1969, aka DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN, Upgraded 12/30/20) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes.  Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out...

(1957, Upgraded 12/22/22) Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. A gang of crooks hold a pair of hostages at by in a mountatin cabin when a spaceship lands nearby. The entire group finds themselves threatened by a mysterious...

(1955, Upgraded 5/3/22) Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Leonard Williams, Philip Dale. An atomic accident, in combination with bullets fired by would-be assassins, puts the mind of a famous scientist seven and a half seconds into the future. One startling scene has the victim...

(1958, UPGRADED) Ken Utsui, Utako Mitsuya, Kan Hayashi. Ludicrous but lovable. It’s Starman against an alien beast in the depths of space. Watch a total disregard for science as characters walk on space platforms without...

(1959, Upgraded 11/28/22) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. Radiation has caused ordinary leeches to mutate into giant monsters. They threaten the folks in a small bayou town. Vickers is at her sleaziest, sexiest best as the local storekeepers unfaithful wife. She and her lover are caught by her husband and driven into the swamp where the monsters...

(1962, Upgraded 12/28/20) Howard Vernon, Conrado San Martin, Perla Cristal, Diana Lorys. Considered by many to be director Jess Franco's best film. A mad doctor stalks the foggy back-streets in search of young girls, whom he...

(1959, Upgraded 9/21/21) Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, John Sutton, Gavin Gordon, Elaine Edwards. A mad killer known as "The Bat" is on the prowl in an old, Gothic mansion filled with terrified people. Great fun as the fiend...

(1969, Upgraded 10/20/21) Adrianne Larussa, Tomas Milian, Georges Wilson, Mavie. Beatrice Cenci is the daughter of a mentally twisted nobleman who keeps her locked up in the castle dungeon. He sexually abuses her regularly.  However, Beatrice and her stepmother conspire to...

(1952, Upgraded 11/8/21) Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Sanders. Bela looks pretty bad, and was probably at the height of his drug addiction as he portrays a mad scientist who injects an American crooner with a serum that transforms him into an ape. Still great to see Bela stalking...

(1970, Upgraded 10/29/21) Viveca Lindfors, Renaud Verley, Alfredo Mayo, Maribel Martin. After being locked away for years, a man comes back to seek his bizarre revenge on his aunt and her three daughters who had him falsely institutionalized as a...

(1963, Upgraded 10/26/21) Joachim Fuchsberger, Grit Bottscher, Charles Boetnier, Werner Peters, Dieter Borsche, Eddi Arent. A mad criminal is on the loose! Witnesses describe a black-hooded figure whom they have seen disappearing into a ruined Abbey tower. A number of people from a British nobleman's estate storm this ancient abbey, which is supposed to be filled with...

(1958) Toshio Hosokawa, Yuriko Ejima, Takashi Wada, Ryuzaburo Nakamura.   A great Japanese supernatural chiller.  In a modern day setting, a couple moves into an aging mansion.  The wife is soon haunted by the ghost of a horrible old hag, whose ghostly visits bring the wife closer to death... 

(1942, Upgraded 10/14/21) Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay, Robert Frazer. A series of grisly murders is committed by a crazed, Nazi plastic surgeon who seeks revenge against a Jap spy ring...

(1961, Upgraded 5/12/22) Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Bernard Blier, Pierre Blanchar.  Blanchar is a Nazi war criminal who lives in a magnificent old castle.  He gathers a number of his old allies for nefarious purposes...

(1943, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Charles Middleton, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass. Zucco is the manager of a mysterious inn filled with terror and murder...

(1960, aka THE MASK OF SATAN, Upgraded12/20/20) Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, directed by Mario Bava.  Considered by many to be one of the greatest horror films ever made.  An ancient witch and her hideous servant come back from the grave to fulfill an ancient curse... 

(1965, Upgraded 10/25/21) Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson, Vic Silayan, Katherine Henryk, Vic Diaz. A schlocky but fun horror thriller set in the Philippines. Winston is a special agent from Manhatten who travels to Manila to help a local homicide detective solve a series of grotesque murders. They are being committed by a really cool-looking monster.  What no one knows is that the bad guys are part of a blood cult that...

(1965, Upgraded 4/28/23) Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Louisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker, Rita Klein.  A photographer and his gorgeous models find a seemingly deserted castle for a photo-shoot.  However, it’s inhabited by a lunatic who traps the girls in the dungeon and begins conducting medieval tortures on them... 

(1974, Upgraded 10/20/21) Paul Naschy, Dianna Lorys, Maria Perschy, Eva Leon. Paul is an ex-convict who’s troubled by dreams of strangling women. He’s hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three bizarre sisters.  Before long, a serial killer is...

(1965, Upgraded 11/15/22) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Serge Reggiani. A beautiful woman (Laforet) is traveling by train when a stranger—who is obviously hiding from someone on board—entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes. What she doesn’t know is that the jewels are fakes and actually contain a virus powerful enough to destroy...

(1944, PRC, Upgraded 12/5/21) John Carradine, Jean Parker, Ludwig Stossel, Nils Aster. A parsian artist paints youg girls' portraits, then brutally strangles them. Carradine is at the top of his game in this top-notch PRC production. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer...

(1942, Monogram, Upgraded 10/28/21) Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, Dave O'Brien, Wheeler Oakman. This was definitely better than most of Bela's Monogram quickies. Zombies and murder highlight this story about a mad professor who uses a bowery mission as the front fro his criminal activities. Check out who's living, (or maybe we should say, 'not living') in the basement...

(1959, Upgraded 11/7/21) Herb (Jason) Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont, Bruce Brighton. TOTALLY UNCUT! Ludicrous black and white, sleazy schlock at its absolute best. A severed head, a gross looking monster, two battling strippers, a mad scientist, all blended together in...