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CLICK ABOVE to find out more about Sinister Cinema's ENORMOUS Comic Book Collection (Ignore invalid price below, call for individual prices).  Sinister Cinema owner Greg Luce has decided to sell his entire collection, spanning back more than 60 years...

(1960-1963) Here's a bundle of FIVE chilling Edgar Wallace classics, all filled with monstrous madmen and sinister characters—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  DOOR WITH THE SEVEN LOCKS (1962); THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE (1960); THE STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963); THE BLACK ABBOT (1963); and THE AVENGER (1960)  See more...

(1957-1971) Here's a bundle of FIVE rock 'em sock 'em monster brawl classics, all filled with monstrous boogeymen and sinister fiends—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969); GAMERA VS. THE DEVIL BEAST GUIRON (1969); THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957); WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1970); and HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (1973)  See more...

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pino Colizzi, Lauren Madison, Paul Janning, Annie Stuart, Lauren Madison, Sergio Rossi.   What a cool little Euro-chiller this turned out to be!  Members of a criminal organization are camped out in a gloomy, forlorn old mansion in the middle of a creepy forest...

(1953) Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Tissier, Albert Dinan, Peter van Eyck.  Here’s an adventure-intrigue-science fiction thriller that most fans never even knew exited—with Von Stroheim no less!  A Foreign Legion officer is killed in southern Morocco after witnessing a secret experiment involving a fantastic new death ray...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

1943, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal.  During a series of weird experiments, Bela transforms into an ape man!  He needs spinal fluid to return to normal.  Bela uses a killer ape to stalk his victims.  SPECIAL NOTE FROM GREG LUCE, OWNER OF SINISTER CINEMA:  Looking back, Sinister Cinema has had this title out literally for decades....

(1930) Dorothy Boyd, Nigel Bruce, Audrey Carten, David Hawthorne, Frank Lawton.  This early British talkie, while a bit stiff, features a great cast, with Smith turning in an especially fine performance.  A murder occurs mid-way into the film, but it’s a mystery to the folks on screen...

(1929) Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  A pretty girl goes on a date with a young male artist.  When he gets her to his apartment he tries to rape her.  She kills him in self-defense...  Bonus Feature: THE FLYING SCOTSMAN (1929) Moore Marriott, Pauline Johnson, Ray Milland.  Milland (who was only 21 at the time) plays a fireman stoking the flames on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh...

(1929, Goldwyn) Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Joan Bennett.  This is an amazing early talkie; it looks and plays much more like a late ‘30s film than something from 1929.  WW1 vet Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond longs for excitement after returning to a boring post-war existence. His wish is granted when a young woman enlists his aid in freeing her uncle from a suspicious nursing home...

(1959) Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Mark Eden, Gerald Flood. This is a very grim tale about a group of British POWs, held by the communist forces in North Korea during the Korean war of the 1950s.  It deals with a small prison encampment...

CASTLE OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. A Euro-horror classic about a writer who accepts a bet that he'll be alive in the morning after spending the night in a haunted castle. Top notch, supernatural horror as Barbara portrays a tortured...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1965) Milo O'shea, Christine Hargreaves, Patsy Rowlands, Desmond Jordan, Bernard Kay. O’shea is wonderful as an eccentric plant geneticist who cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby.  Things start to get out of hand when his plants begin to develop into Chlorophyll-fueled monstrosities...

(1963, Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen) Lucy Kelly, Annabelle Lee, George Edgely, Max Anderson.  One of our favorite exploitation films.  A busty sex kitten makes her move on her old Uncle Shug, who showers her with money in return for “favors.”  There’s just one hitch...

(1929, MGM) Condemned! Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Louis Wolheim, Dudley Digges, William Elmer.  Colman, a suave thief, is sentenced to a stretch at Devil's Island.... Madame X.  Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Sidney Toler. A disgraced woman is forcibly parted from her young son...

(1943) Willy Castello, Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson.  This is one of those lovable “crime doesn’t pay” exploitation films, with convicted and about-to-be-executed criminal Castello (Lucky Lombardo) telling the sordid tales of his past...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kirk Morris, Luciana Gilli, Piero Lulli, Andrea Scotti, Hélène Chanel, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa. Mysterious "phantom invaders" are raiding villages in the desert for gold. Morris is a shipwrecked warrior who falls in love with a princess, whose entourage is traveling across the desert.  When the princess is kidnapped by the “phantoms,” Morris and his companion trudge across the desert in hopes of rescuing her...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Rosalba Neri, Philippe Hersent.  The Roman Senate is bitterly divided between the patricians and the plebeians. Alberto Lupo plays a traitorous senator who conspires against a handsome and powerful Roman warrior, played by Gordon Scott...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Diana Sorel, Nicholas Ney, Inés Morales, Loreta Tovar, Beatriz Elorrieta, Jose Villasante.  At last, a nice quality anamorphic release of the English version of this obscure Euro-vampire film.  The patriarch of a wellborn Spanish family has come down with a strange blood disease...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah Zulfikar, Mahmoud El Meligy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim.  We haven’t viewed that many Egyptian horror films, but this is absolutely the best one we’ve seen so far.  A lawyer is summoned to an antiquated palace/mansion that’s known by locals to be not just haunted, but cursed as well.  Even his coach driver will not go too near the place...

(1954) Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Robert Berri.  Eddie, as Lemmy Caution, hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has been watching.  Later, he finds the other agent murdered...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Lawford, Ira von Fürstenberg, Georges Géret, Maria Grazia Buccella, Horst Frank, Werner Peters, Wolfgang Preiss.  One of the most enjoyable Eurospy films we’ve seen in a long time.  Géret is excellent as a French pickpocket who inadvertently steals some highly classified papers that belong to the U.S...

(1929, RKO) Rod La Rocque, Rita La Roy, Charles Byer, Ed Brady, Harry Semels.  La Rocque is a greased-back-hair rogue of a pirate who has sailed his stolen yacht into a port where he encounters a pretty American singer in an oceanfront honky-tonk.  The singer is already the subject of the affections of a jealous American, who soon finds himself in La Rocque’s clutches...

(1929, MGM) Desert Nights. This was John Gilbert’s last silent picture, and it’s a good one.  He plays the somewhat roguish manager of a South African diamond company.  A couple of thieves, posing as English aristocrats kidnap him... Speedway. William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane, John Miljan.  Grand fun as Haines and Torrence vie for best driver at the Indianapolis Speedway...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Per Oscarsson, Gio Petré, Tor Isedal, Ilsa Prawitz, Bengt Ecklund, directed by Arne Mattsson.  The setting is a closed department store.  The lonely night watchman develops an attraction to one of the store's female mannequins. His fixation becomes greater and greater...

(1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joaquín Cordero, Sonia Furió, Noé Murayama, Aurora Clavel, Luz María Aguilar, Carlos Agostí. This south-of-the-border gem is a remarkable blend of supernatural horror and espionage elements.  It actually looks and plays more like an American-made film.  It’s also the sequel to Dr. Satan (1965) and has Cordero reprising his role.  Dr. Satan is summoned by his master, “Devil King” to destroy Lucifer’s servant...

Armchair fiction presents deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. John Martin Leahy’s “Draconda” is a science fiction classic right out of the pages of Weird Tales magazine. The secrets of the universe have captivated scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. However, Henry Quainfan was determined to solve these secrets...

I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964, Anamorphic) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy.  A playboy writer flies to a remote island filled with strange goings-on, hoping for the inspiration to a new book. He finds a mad scientist experimenting on natives, eventually turning them into raving zombies...THE MONSTER FROM THE SURF (1964, Anamorphic) Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Arnold Lessing, Elaine DuPont. Teens are slain on the beach by a big, hulking monster from an ocean cave. This is truly one of the goofiest monster movies you'll ever see with one of the most...

LADY VAMPIRE (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi. The main vampire is actually a guy (with a dwarf servant).  He goes about dressed in a snappy suit, hat, and sun glasses.  He can be seen in a mirror, and is only turned into a vampire under the light... EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto. It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of...

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Anitra Ford.  One of the most underrated horror films of the 1970s. A young woman comes to an out-of-the-way California coastal town searching for her... INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond.  Another blatantly schlocky ‘70s drive-in gem.  Men are dying in a small California town from having too much sex.  Government agent William Smith investigates after a scientist is...from 35mm.

WARNING FROM SPACE (1956) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki.  A spaceship full of starfish-shaped aliens has come to Earth to warn of impending destruction from a giant meteor.  However, because of their horrifying appearance the aliens decide to...  ROAD TO THE STARS (1957) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this film has some very interesting stuff about the  soviet space program.  However, in the second half, the film turns to pure science fiction, with many great outer space scenes...

DR. JEKYLL VS. THE WEREWOLF (1971, Anamorphic Widescreen) Paul Naschy, Jack Taylor, Shirley Corrigan, Mirta Miller, directed by León Klimovsky.  Paul is back in his perpetual role as the werewolf—Waldemar Daninsky.  Early in the film, he rescues a beautiful woman from bandits... THE FEAST OF SATAN (1971 Anamorphic Widescreen) Krista Nell, Espartaco Santoni, Teresa Gimpera, Julio Pena. A lady arrives at a coastal village where her sister—now missing—has last been seen. The police investigate but she decides to snoop around a little herself...

THE HYPERBOLOID OF ENGINEER GARIN (1965,  Anamorphic) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Mikhail Astangov, Vsevolod Safonov. Garin is a mad inventor who creates a death ray of fantastic power.  He is bound and determined to conquer the Earth, committing many atrocities with...  SUIPERARGO AND THE FACELESS GIANTS (1966, Anamorphic) Ken Wood, Guy Madison, Diana Lorys. For all students of Santo movies, here's something you don't want to miss: a European, superhero, masked wrestler. Our hero is pitted against a madman and his army of zombie-like robots... 

THE SNAKE WOMAN (1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Elsie Harker, Geoffrey Denton.  A crazed scientist injects his wife with a cobra venom formula to cure her mental illness; but it has a horrid effect on the woman’s unborn child...  THE ANATOMIST (1961) Alastair Sim, George Cole, Michael Ripper, Jill Bennett, David Kelly. Another retelling of the horrible exploits of the world's most famous body snatchers: Burke and Hare... 

THE GHOST’S ROYALTY (1965) Stéphane Fey, François Vibert, Marie Laforêt, Reine Courtois.  In a small 1800s Massachusetts town, a student of theology becomes fascinated with a dilapidated old country mansion.  He soon learns the place is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman...  BLOODY PLEASURE (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Alberto Candeau, Eduardo Muñoz, Ricardo Bauleo, Gloria Pratt.  A masked maniac prowls the beaches of Argentina.  He captures beautiful girls, takes them back to his lair, and injects them with dope. This is when things get very weird. He then plays some freaky-sounding organ music to turn them into his zombie slaves...

FIRE MONSTERS AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Reg Lewis, Margaret Lee, Luciano Marin. Before they changed his name to Maxxus for a Son of Hercules film, this movie was about Maciste, who stumbles upon two warring tribes: Sun worshipers and Moon worshipers...  THE CENTURION (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Jacques Sernas, Genevieve Grad, John Drew Barrymore, Gianna Maria Canalel. Fine sword & sandal fare with Sernas as a Roman official sent to Greece to prevent war between Rome and Corinth. He finds himself at odds with...

SAMSON IN THE WAX MUSEUM (1963, 35mm English Edition) Samson, Claudio Brook, Norma Mora.  Kidnappings take place near an eerie wax museum.  One of the victims is a reporter. Inside the museum a mad scientist transforms the victims into...  SIN YOU SINNERS June Colbourne, Dian Lloyd, Derek Murcott, directed by Joe Sarno. An irresistible sleazy B&W chiller. Loyd is a has-been burlesque dancer who gets her hands on an ancient amulet that enables her to project youthfulness...

VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Christina Von Blanc, Britt Nichols, Howard Vernon, directed By Jesus Franco. A gorgeous young lady enters a sinister castle for the reading of a will. Soon she discovers that the folks in the castle are all in fact dead...  DEATH CARRIES TO CANE (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Robert Hoffman, Susan Scott, George Martin  A lady sees a another woman strangled through a telescope but is unable to see the face of the killer.  She enlists the aid of her boyfriend and the two of them start investigating...

THE BLACK ABBOT (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Grit Bottscher, Charles Boetnier, 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...  THE INDIAN SCARF (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski, Corny Collins, Eddi Arent are being strangled one by one. The action centers around the dead man’s creepy, country estate. When a wealthy man dies, the heirs to a dead man’s fortune look forward to inheriting...

ALIEN CONTAMINATION (1981) 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 your skin, causing you to...  WOLFMAN (1979) Earl Owensby, Kristina Reynolds, Sid Rancer.  The film begins with the stabbing death of an old man as he lays in bed—something about a family curse!  The heir to the estate returns home to find he’s now cursed to become a werewolf during the full moon...

COUNT DRACULA’S GREAT LOVE (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Paul Naschy, Vic Winner, Rossana Yanni, Haydee Politoff, Ingrid Garbo.  Four beautiful female travelers unknowingly take shelter Dracula's castle. Look out for the fangs!  The count is soon plunging his teeth into...  THE VAMPIRES’ NIGHT ORGY (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Jack Taylor, Dyanik Zurakowska, José Guardiola, Helga Line. An interesting Spanish horror film about a bus load of tourists who visit a small European town totally inhabited by vampires.  There's an abundance of bare fangs and blood-sucking...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Elnovia” by Geoffrey Faber is the 64^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  They were shipwrecked in the clouds above!  Captain Anthony Flutter, a bright young inventor, was planning a flight to Australia in a brand new flying machine of his own design. The first of its kind, this new ship...

(1930) Gerald du Maurier, Mabel Poulton, Ian Hunter, Gordon Harker, Edna Best.  This film begins with real life footage of a fox hunt—symbolic of what’s coming ahead.  Du Maurier defends the honor of a prostitute and ends up unintentionally killing a plain clothes detective.  He lands in the slammer...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Bruce Bennett, Robert Bray, Tania Velia, Ralphie Rodriguez, Milton Steifel.  Bennett plays a sadistic landowner on a remote island who rules over his subjects with a stinging bullwhip.  His island empire begins to fall apart, though, with the arrival of a stunningly beautiful exotic dancer...

 (1910-1928) Augustus Phillips, Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller; Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter.  Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein was the first filmed version of the famed Mary Shelley story and we present it with a vintage orchestral music score for the very first time... In West of Zanzibar, Chaney is superb as the twisted magician who seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him...

(1957, aka Frankie No Uchûjin) Frankie Sakai, Ichirô Sugai, Tomoko Kô, Ayuko Fujishiro, Tôru Abe.  This incredibly rare Japanese sci-fi film is now available for the first time with English subtitles.  Sakai plays numerous different parts in this grand science fiction comedy.  A professor and his pretty assistant profess to have knowledge of a flying saucer that has visited the Earth...

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(1920) Pat O’Malley, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery, J. Barney Sherry.  A forgotten silent horror-science fiction gem resurfaces!  O’Malley is a green reporter who is caught in the middle of a plot to sabotage his newspaper.  Who is the traitor...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Golden Isle” by Roland Ashford Phillips is the 66^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  What were the secrets of Coffin Island?  It all started with a prison escape.  No one saw him as Costello made good his daring dash for freedom.  No one saw him as he swam to the unusual-looking... 

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Agar, Rosemarie Stack, Abner Biberman, Andre Narcisse, Jacques Molant.  Agar plays a devil-may-care treasure hunter in this obscure voodoo thriller. He meets up with a beautiful young woman who possesses a golden idol, stolen by her father during a native voodoo ceremony. After obtaining directions and various voodoo charms, he and the girl go in search of the treasure.  They end up on a pagan island and soon find what they’re searching for—a section of the ocean floor covered with skulls and hundreds of idols.  Will the natives let them bring back their loot alive?  Lots of seagoing danger and voodoo thrills.  Listed on IMDB as an adventure-horror film.  The Golden Mistress is presented in its original 1.75 widescreen format.  Nice color, from 16mm.

(1929) William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur; Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young. Here are two solid Philo Vance mysteries for your enjoyment. Disc one:  The Greene Murder Case features a wealthy but disreputable family gathering for its once a year get-together at their spooky ancestral castle... Disc two: In The Bishop Murder Case, the corpse of a man called "Cock Robin" turns up on an archery range with an arrow through his heart...

(1971) Eddie Constantine, Katrin Schaake, Uschi Obermaier, Rainer Langhans, Hannes Fuchs.  One of the more unique sci-fi films we’ve come across in a long time.  Now with English subtitles.  A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript, containing information dealing with a possible formula for immortality...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kevin Scott, Jennifer Laird, Alan Wylie, Barbara Ward, John Burke.   Laird plays a delivery girl who stops by a sleaze-photographer’s office in the middle of one of his nudie sessions...

(1929, Universal) Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Alan Tarlton, Howarth Wood, Morea Soutter.  Bickford is the leader of three fleeing bank robbers who come across a woman having a baby in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her baby’s godfathers and makes them promise to bring her baby to its father...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Alan Steel, Wandisa Guida, Daniele Vargas, Livio Lorenzon, Andrea Aureli.  A plot is underway in ancient Rome by the leader of the Praetorian Guard, who wishes for the Emperor’s daughter to marry his foppish son. When the emperor refuses, he ends up a corpse, stabbed by an assassin.  The Praetorian leader then declares himself emperor.  Enter Steel, as Hercules...

(1965 Anamorphic Widescreen) Reg Park, Gia Sandri, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Adriana Ambesi, Gianni Solaro, Luigi Barbini.  Park, in his fifth and final appearance as Hercules, undertakes a journey into the underworld, battling numerous monstrosities as he attempts to rescue his son...

(1951, aka I DIMMA DOLD) Eva Henning, Sonja Wigert, Hjördis Petterson, Sven Lindberg, Georg Rydeberg, Erik Strandmark, Dagmar Ebbesen.  This Euro film noir opens with a bang—Henning shoots her philandering husband with three rapidly fired slugs from a pistol.  She flees the scene, driving madly through the fog as she reflects on her husband and their past...

(1929, Paramount) Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell, Donald Meek, Alan Brooks, Nellie Savage.  Robinson leads a group of con artists who use a phony lady psychic to scam wealthy but gullible socialites...

Armchair Fiction presents the best in classic horror stories. "Horror Gems, Volume Nineteen" features Francis Flagg and others. Armchair Fiction is back at it again with another chilling collection of “Horror Gems” to scare your socks off...

(1932) Jerry Verno, Anthony Holles, Edgar Norfolk, Philip Durant, Sybil Grove Verno plays a bemused office clerk who has grand ideas about his future.  He’s caught play acting in front of his boss’s mirror and is loudly reprimanded.  Concurrently, a convicted jewel thief is released from prison and tailed by the police in the hope of him leading them to a cache of stolen pearls...

(1959) Pavel Makhotin, Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgiy Shamshurin, Anatoliy Shamshurin. A young man stumbles onto a secret cache of video tapes showing an unknown cosmonaut in space flight.  Years later, and now a young scientist, a huge surprise awaits him when the tapes are reexamined...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sheldon Pearson, Cindy Ellis, Penelope, Ann Grant, Holly Saunders.  This disturbing psychological horror/exploitation thriller is about a modern-day writer who’s obsessed with the Marquis De Sade.  Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he begins to live out De Sade's violent sexual fantasies...

(1930, 1940) Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton; Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Spencer Williams.  Disc one features INGAGI, a notorious docu-drama of Forgotten Horrors fame.  An expedition enters the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe...  Disc two features SON OF INGAGI, which is a sequel in name only.  It’s a full-blooded horror film about a lady mad scientist and her killer ape-man

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Essy Persson, Erik Schumann, Helga Anders, Margot Trooger, Karin Field.  A young, misguided couple tries to rob a jewelry store. When their plan goes south, a policeman ends up dead...

 (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Ingmar Zeisberg, Paul Klinger, Judith Dornys, Friedrich Joloff.  The utterly imposing Dartmoor prison is surrounded on all sides by perilous swamps.  Yet a dozen prisoners have escaped in recent years—none of whom have ever been seen again...

(1938-1940) Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Maris Wrixon, Evelyn Brent, Dorothy Tree, Henry Hall, Charles Trowbridge.  A must for Karloff fans.  You get all five of Boris’ Mr. Wong films, plus his final Monogram outing, The Ape, on two dual-layer DVD discs.  With the success of the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto series over at 20^th Century Fox during the 1930s, Monogram decided to take the plunge into an Oriental detective series...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

(1969) George Cole, Peter Halliday, June Barry, Lillias Walker, Stanley Meadows.  In the future an incredible system has been created that allows a person to die, but pass his soul onto someone else, thus enabling one to potentially live forever...

(1950) Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, June Elvin, David Greene, Lesley Osmond, Stewart Rome.  Jewel and Warriss were a British comedy team (as well as first cousins) dating back to the early ‘30s.  In this film they play a couple of bungling detectives hired to clear the son of a British colonel, who’s landed in jail on murder charges.  The boys set out to find the real killer...

(1929, United Artists, MGM) The Locked Door, Barbara Stanwyck, Rod La Rocque, William Boyd, Betty Bronson. Barbara’s first talkie.  Out on a wild party boat filled with booze and unsavory types, Barbara falls for a decadent sleazebag played by La Rocque... Voice of the City, Robert Ames, Willard Mack, Sylvia Field, John Miljan.  This MGM crime quickie is about an escaped prisoner who’s really innocent...

(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...

(1975, Anamorphic Widescreen) Michel Lemoine, Nathalie Zeiger, Howard Vernon, Joëlle Coeur, Martine Azencott.  This is a sequel to The Most Dangerous Game.  Lemoine plays the descendant of the original Count Zaroff (played in 1933 by Leslie Banks).  This Zaroff is far more sadistic than his aristocratic relative...

(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...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Maracot Deep” by Arthur Conan Coyle is the 60th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, coming complete with over two dozen original illustrations and graphics. It was a trip into the unknown they would never forget...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Jan Ekström, Per Wahlöö, Arne Mattsson (also directed), Elsa Prawitz, Erik Hell..  A crusty old millionaire, who acts like a total tyrant, is despised and hated by everyone close to him.  This eventually leads to some terrifying moments of murder and mayhem in a spooky old mansion...

(1941) Mantan Moreland, F. E. Miller, Maceo B. Sheffield, Marguerite Whitten.  This obscure horror-comedy is great fun and Moreland has some great bits.  Mantan inherits a hotel, but upon arrival discovers he’s on the hook for a huge mortgage payment, which, if not paid off, will cause him to lose the hotel.  However, hidden somewhere in the hotel is a cache of loot...

(1934, aka THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY) Malcolm Keen, Jane Baxter, Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter, Ernest Thesiger, Viola Keats, directed by Michael Powell.  This is a pretty good whodunit, with lots of suspects to choose from.  A gala social party is being held at the house of a big newspaper publisher.  The publisher (played to hilt by Keen) is a total cad...

(1929) Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O. P. Heggie, William Austin.  During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge...

(1929) Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Harry Cribbon.  This wonderful 2-disc edition includes both a color edition as well as the more common B&W edition of this classic film.  Loosely based on Verne’s famous novel, Barrymore plays Count Dakkar, a scientist and leader of a scientific colony on a remote volcanic island...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Mystery of Cabin Island,” Frank and Joe Hardy head out to spend some time in a cabin on a remote island near their hometown of Bayport. Little do they know that other furtive characters are out to cause them trouble...

(1968) Ingrid Pitt, Keith Larsen, Lucien Pan, Bruno Punzalan, Joaquin Fajardo.  This film has been high on the want lists of Ingrid Pitt fans for years.  While on a trip through a steamy jungle, Ingrid’s artist husband discovers that she’s having an affair with their jungle guide.  He lures them into posing for him in the swirling waters of a jungle river that has been infected...

 (1956, aka Cloak without Dagger) Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer, Allan Cuthbertson, John Heller, Chin Yu, Bill Nagy.  Pretty Mary Mackenzie (who died just ten years later) is a fashion reporter who stumbles upon a murder.  In a manner very worthy of an older Nancy Drew...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mamie Van Doren, June Wilkinson, Ted Knight, Ernesto Macias, Rachel Roman, William Long, Jr.  Knight shines as an overly enthusiastic politician running for a U.S. senate seat.  However, he is taken in by fame and becomes involved with a drop-dead gorgeous British immigrant played by buxom June Wilkinson.  Meanwhile, his unethical campaign manager finds himself in a similar situation...

(1932, aka THE LODGER) Ivor Norvello, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins, Barbara Everest, A.W. Baskcomb.  A strange man comes to an English couple’s house and secures lodgings.  The landlords’ daughter soon takes a fancy to him.  But when suspicion falls on him as being a mad killer with a penchant for cutting young girls’ throats, things start to get creepy...

(1953) Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Dario Moreno, Maurice Ronet.  Eddie plays tough-guy undercover agent Lemmy Caution, who ends up in exotic Casablanca attempting to track down two million in missing loot...

(1936) Tom Walls, Ralph Lynne, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James, Marita Hunt.  Here’s a comedy-laced old dark house thriller that few horror film fans know about.  Walls is a retired police inspector who tracks a gang of art thieves to a sinister old abbey that’s surrounded by high stone walls and from which the gang operates without the owner’s knowledge...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

(1970) Lawrence Montaigne, Jo Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Plumb, Frank Cuva, John Vincent.  Women are being bumped off by a mad killer who wears a nylon over his distorted face, while strangling them with the other nylon.  The killer’s psychiatrist, who’s cheating on his wife, decides to use hypnosis to induce the killer to get rid of his wife for him...

(1962, Anamorphic Edition) Pascale Petit, Gordon Scott, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia.  This sword and sandal opus covers the early life of Cleopatra. It chronicles the power struggles with her brother, her courtiers, her generals, and lastly, the Roman Empire...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton.  Banks has a grand time as the top designer in a British shipyard.  Unfortunately, the yard has run into a slew of downturns and is in big financial trouble.  But Banks has a new ship in mind...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Stewart Granger, Daniela Bianchi, Peter van Eyck, Giulio Bosetti, Manolita Barroso, Beni Deus.  Granger is good as a smooth-talking agent-for-hire, who’s perfectly willing to have an elegant conversation with you and then send a bullet through your torso.  He’s called in to find the killer of a U.S. agent in Morocco. He ends up teamed with a couple of high-minded diplomatic types that seem to get in his way more than help him.  Peter van Eyck is excellent as the hired assassin who’s in Granger’s cross-hairs and wanted in Norway for horrendous past political murders.  There’s a lot of good action in this well-made Eurospy film, but be warned: a LOT of people get bumped off—both good guys and bad guys, so have your Kleenex ready. Great color, dubbed in English, from 35mm.

(1925, Fox) Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnum, Arthur Morrison, Warner Oland, Fred Kohler.  With Tom Mix as the hero and Warner Oland as the bad guy what more could you want?  Tom, a tough Texas Ranger, sets out to find the killer (guess who) of his sister and to find his long lost niece, who is in Oland’s evil clutches...

Armchair fiction presents deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Scarlet Planet” is an epic sci-fi tale sci-fi author Don Mark Lemon.  In many ways “The Scarlet Planet” is one of the more unusual science fiction tales of the 1930s.  Not simply because it was deemed “completely realistic” by Wonder Stories Quarterly editor Hugo Gernsback, but because of...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. In the grand early days of science fiction pulp magazines there was often a common theme to their stories—an ingenious scientist (often aided by a young disciple) comes up with some revolutionary discovery that drastically changes (usually for the good) mankind’s future...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Caves,” Frank and Joe come to the rescue of a woman who was on her way to see their famous detective father, Fenton Hardy. Her brother has disappeared and she pleads for the detective’s help...

(1956) Sergey Stolyarov, Igor Vladimirov, Sergei Golovanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vakhtang Ninua, Sergey Komarov.  This grand Russian sci-fi color epic is about a futuristic submarine’s desperate undersea search for a lost Soviet vessel, which was destroyed and sunk under very mysterious circumstances...

(1930) Buck Jones, Marguerite De La Motte, Kate Price, Albert J. Smith, Robert McKenzie, Frank Rice, Ben Corbett..  Jones and Rice are a couple of hard-working cowpunchers who end up getting fired from their jobs.  Rice then heads off to a place called “Shadow Ranch.”...

(1931) Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Minnie Rayner, Leslie Perrins, Jane Welsh, Norman McKinnel.  A pretty British girl calls in Dr. Watson for advice—her brother has been cheating in high stakes bridge games.  What’s even worse is that her brother’s activities are also known to the sinister Professor Moriarty, who blackmails him into helping him with his nefarious schemes.  Enter Sherlock Holmes, who dives into the situation to set things right and defeat his wily, longtime nemesis. Wontner may well be the best purveyor of the Holmes character outside of Basil Rathbone.  Norman McKinnel is brilliantly wicked at the film’s climax.  The first of five films starring Wontner as Holmes. From 35mm. 

(1942) Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marchat, Julien CaretteIt, Robert Arnoux, Simone Allain, Auguste Bovério.  A husband and wife scientist team plans a mission into the stratosphere aboard a new-fangled balloon/spacecraft.  When the scientist is injured, his wife proceeds on the journey as planned, along with a bumbling assistant.  However, in mid-flight problems arise...

(1972) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine. On Christmas Eve Lawyer John Carter (O'Neal), with mistress in tow,  arrives to a small Massacussets town where he is charged with selling a home inherited by Jeffrey Butler (Patterson). When O'neal and his mistress go missing that very night, Patterson sets out to...

(2025) Greg Luce, directed by Jack Perez.  If you had told me back in 1984 when I first started Sinister Cinema that someday (39 years later) a well-known Hollywood director would come along and make a documentary about my little video company, I probably would have laughed out loud. But one day in 2023, out of the blue, I was contacted by film director Jack Perez about just such a project...

(1972) Rosalba Neri, Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Hiram Keller, Dana Ghia.  After a her mother's “suicide” a lovely teenage girl shows up at her mother’s Italian villa, only to discover that her widowed stepfather is having a sexual fling with an ultra-sexy photographer, played by that Italian sex bomb, Rosalba Neri. The two illicit lovers plan to do away with the pretty adolescent...