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CLICK HERE 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...

 (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...

(1916) Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Matt Moore, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton.  NEW MUSIC SCORE! This, the first filmed version of the Verne classic, portrays Captain Nemo as an opium-smoking, ousted Indian (India) prince.  His goal, outside of sinking many ships, is very personal...

(1927) Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran, David Butler.   One of the truly great silent films. Farrell, as Chico, is a Paris sewer worker who falls in with Diane (Gaynor), a prostitute in reputation only, but still a target of the French police.  Chico saves her...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Age-Old Kingdom” by Captain A. E. “Sinbad” Dingle is the 56^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Secret civilizations, jungle cruises, rescue attempts, and fierce battles…none of these were on Burton Kedgwick’s to-do list when he agreed to be Professor Marriott’s ship captain...

(1945) Bernard Blier, Sophie Desmarets, Jacques Pills, Jean Davy, Louis Salou, Ginette Baudin.  This isn’t a good movie, it’s a great movie—one of the best mysteries we’ve released in a long, long time. Blier is the rookie detective assigned to the murder-by-strangling cases of two young women.  The only clue he has is that the killer is always heard softly singing a current hit tune before he strikes...

(1964) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Rey, Gloria Paul, George Hilton, Dakar, Rosalba Neri.  Those wacky Italians are at it again, this time against the evil Goldginger, who plans world domination by brainwashing important world leaders and starting a war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.  Photographers Franco and Ciccio stumble into this accidentally and are kidnapped...

(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....

(1960) Heinz Drache, Ingrid van Bergen, Benno Sterzenbach, Ina Duscha, Ludwig Linkmann, Klaus Kinski.  Drache, who is an agent from the “Special Branch” is assigned the job of finding and catching “The Executioner,” a monstrous killer who lops the heads off his victims, then packages them up and leaves them strewn about the English countryside for unsuspecting citizens to discover...

(1970, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mikhail Pugovkin, Tatyana Klyuyeva, Georgiy Millyar, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Lidiya Korolyova.  A magical underworld king demands that the Czar give up his only son upon his 18^th birthday.  The Czar attempts to fool the king with some tomfoolery involving identity-switching between his son and a “commoner.”  Complications arise when the daughter of the king...

(1961) Tor Johnson, Douglas Meller, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Tony Cardoza, Conrad Brooks; written and directed by Coleman Francis.  One of the best "bad" movies of all time, now in its original 1.85 widescreen format for the first time. Tor is a Russian scientist caught in a nuclear blast while running from spies. The radiation transforms him...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “The Big Fix” by whodunit veteran Mel Colton. It’s a tale about desperate guys and double-crossing dolls. There was a big payoff due—$100,000 for a crooked racing fix that only Blair Savage could collect, because the bet had been made in his name... The second tale in this double novel is Nelson S. Bond’s thundering thriller, “Death Holds the Stirrups.” Thundering down the racetrack at a breakneck speed, fresh out of apprenticeship, jockey Jerry McGhee thought he was winning his race; but as he booted the horse forward, and with the finish line in sight, his filly suddenly reared up, sending him falling not only to the ground but into a whole heap of trouble...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Blood on the Moon” by pulp magazine veteran Dwight V. Swain starts of this thrilling double novel. From the outside the Hideaway Club was exactly like one would expect: a sleazy joint full of crooks, criminals, and con artists. The neon lights and cheap décor tried to hide its seedy underbelly... Dwight V. Swain is back again for the second novel, “Murder for Madame.” When a married man still makes passes at the ladies, any trouble that develops should be both expected and deserved...

(1935) Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin, Atholl Fleming.  Master sleuth Bulldog Drummond pulls into a gas station where his car is sabotaged by crooks.  Minutes later he crashes into Hulbert’s vehicle.  In the hospital, the injured Drummond asks Hulbert to temporarily masquerade as him...

(1929) William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks. As early talkies go, this is a pretty good whodunit, with gorgeous silent star Brooks as a shrewd nightclub singer known as “the Canary.”  She has a bad habit of blackmailing her acquaintances...

(1968) Sevda Ferdag, Irfan Atasoy, Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci.  Oh joy…another Turkish comic book superhero movie!  Featured here is “Spy Smasher,” who looks kind of like “the Phantom” or one of those other old Marvel or DC heroes.  As you would expect in a grade-Z delight like this, there’s a plethora of action:  fist fights, gun battles, chases, etc.  It’s all REALLY schlocky...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The City of Desire” by Juanita Savage is the 50^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  When Nora Warwick was born, her father Professor Desmond Warwick would never forgive her for not being a boy...

(1951) Jôji Oka, Sumiko Hidaka, Chieko Seki, Tatsuo Saitô, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Shirô Kanemitsu, Toshiaki Konoe.  This is a really obscure Japanese horror movie—and most enjoyable, especially the second half of the film.  Claws of Iron (AKA Tetsu no Tsume) is a fine supernatural chiller about a WW2 vet whose blood is contaminated by the blood of a strange ape-like creature...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “Dangerous to Know” by whodunit regular James P. Duff. Frank Heggen’s involvement in the whole deadly mix-up began harmlessly enough with a very simple automobile collision. But that little scrape changed from a ho-hum incident to a ripening case of murder with amazing speed… The second fine tale in this doubl novel is Steve Ward’s sultry thriller, “Odds Against Linda.” When Peter Conrad brought his beautiful new bride back to San Francisco, he found a most unusual reception committee waiting patiently for him. It consisted of two roughneck characters along with the long, gray, metallic gun barrels...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karen Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy, Eddi Arent, Ady Berber, Anneli Sauli, Klaus Kinski.  This special 2-disc edition gives you both the English language American release version, as well as the original German language edition with English subtitles.  Wealthy men, whose lives are all heavily insured, are being bumped off one by one, their bodies being dropped into the Thames...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel kicks off with a terrific Milton Ozaki tale, “The Deadly Lover.” She was just too beautiful to die! But die she did—the victim of a ruthless killer who struck by night. A killer smart enough to lure the lovely young girl to a lonely park, smart enough to strangle the life from her shapely body, smart enough to leave no traces... The second tale in this double novel is a great thriller by Robert Moore Williams, “Murder is so Final.” In the early hours of the morning, as the traffic began to pile up and humidity increased, the male citizens of St. Louis performed their usual routines. They dressed, showered and shaved, made breakfast and coffee, read the paper, and if they were lucky, kissed the Missus’ goodbye...

(1953) Gordon Jackson, Barbara Murray, Pamela Alan, Jane Aird, Sam Kyd. The setting is an all-girls school.  A teacher is found lying in a wooded area next to the school—choked to death with a scarf.  Murray, one of the first on the scene, is shocked to find that the scarf is hers!...

(1955) Eddie Constantine, Maria Frau, François Perrot, R.J. Chauffard, Roger Hanin, Luisa Rivelli, Nadine Tallier, Florence Landon.  This elusive Lemmy Caution intrigue thriller is now available with English subtitles.  Lemmy (Eddie) infiltrates a gang of crooks that has kidnapped a scientist who has plans for a revolutionary device that can manufacture diamonds...

(1934) Georg Alexander, Camilla Horn, Gerda Maurus, Theo Lingen, Fritz Odemar, Jakob Tietke.  We never thought we’d refer to an Edgar Wallace film as being “delightful,” but this one most assuredly is.  Yet it’s got all the usual Wallace crime trappings with sinister characters and plot twists.  Camilla Horn, as Jenny, heads to London to meet (and hopefully marry) her cousin Harry (Georg Alexander), who is also the financial adviser overseeing her fortune...

(1941, PRC) Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, John Miljan, Wynne Gibson.  Here’s a PRC crime film that hasn’t been around that much.  Gibson guns down a cop who’s raiding her boss Miljan’s gambling joint.  Her boyfriend, also a cop, grabs the gun but...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Eye of the God” by B. G. Aston is the 52^nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It seemed to make no sense.  Young Englishman Bill Rankin’s classmate, Terrence Sullivan, was like any other future-graduate on the pathway to success.  But when a local pal nearly drowned...

(1934) Leslie Banks. Anne Grey, Carol Goodner, Frank Cellier, Frances L. Sullivan.  Don’t let the non-descript title fool you, this is one tough, mean-spirited thriller about insurance fraud and murder.  Banks is marvelous as a slick talking fire insurance investigator who falls in with a gang of arsonists...

(1929) Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Bud Geary, Roscoe Carnes. For an early sound/silent film, this is really a pretty good movie; in fact it’s a lot of fun.  Six pals go through the Naval Academy to earn their pilot's wings. One by one, the group is whittled down to just two...

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(1952) Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe, Thora Hird, John Horseley.  Walsh is a college lad who shatters his father’s dreams when he is basically expelled from Oxford University for being a bit of an upstart...

 (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Spencer Teakle, Felicity Young, Martin Benson, Hugh Latimer, Dorinda Stevens, Dawn Brooks.  A couple of burglars (one old, one young) crack the safe in a jewelry shop, but just as they’re making their getaway they’re attacked by rival gangsters.  The young one manages to escape...

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen) Maria Perschy, Jack Taylor, Bárbara Rey, Carlos Lemos. A couple of good-looking models are adrift in their speedboat out in the middle of the ocean.  It’s all supposed to be part of a publicity stunt.  Then suddenly a mysterious fog begins to roll in.  Out of nowhere an ancient ghost galleon (filled with Templar Zombies) appear...

(1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Dirch Passer, Kirsten Walther, Axel Strøbye, Preben Kaas.  This film has been remade many times in Britain and other Euro nations.  In this version, made in Denmark, a group of people are again stranded in a forlorn train station, which according to train conductor is “haunted.”  Things take a turn for the mysterious when the conductor falls to the floor, dead...

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Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Golden Centipede” by Louise Gerard is the 54^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Settled aboard a steamer heading to the west coast of Africa, the enthusiastic ornithologist, Major the Hon. Tracy Sinclair, had his mind on hunting...

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Alan Tarlton, Howarth Wood, Morea Soutter.  Two brothers lead settlers into perilous jungle country.  Their primary purpose is to find an ancient elephant lair, which—hopefully—will be rich with ivory...

(1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Robinson, Valentine Dyall, Lockwood West.  Bentley is the Toff, a “Saint” style detective who falls upon a sinister plot while on a train.  It seems that a criminal known as “the Hammer” is looking to steal a secret formula for a new lightweight metal alloy that’s tougher than steel...

(1949) Regina Linnanheimo, William Markus, Åke Lindman, Annie Mörk, Rauha Rentola, Heikki Savolainen.  This is a terrific Finnish action-drama film about two brothers: the eldest serious and dull, the youngest wild and full of life.  Their family is ruled with an iron hand by their aging, petulant mother.  Both men fall for the same girl.  When the youngest is framed for murder...

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen) Bill Greer, Deedy Peters, Lynne Marta, Jim Dean, Tony Reese, Dorothy Green. What we’ve got here is a good old-fashioned, American-made drive-in horror schlockfest that undoubtedly would have made guys chuckle with delight as their girlfriends squirmed in their car seats. The opening scene has a couple of teenage lovers making out in their car when suddenly…a monster pops up...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ian Carmichael, Curt Jürgens, Janet Munro, George Pravda, Kieron Moore, Hugh Griffith.  Carmichael plays a rather naive Cambridge astrophysicist who visits an old Russian pal (a former chess champion) who’s playing exhibition matches against many different players at once.  After the games, the Russian accidentally(?) leaves his chess box with Carmichael, who finds...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Frank Latimore, Hans Nielsen, Renate Ewert, Gisela Uhlen, Claus Biederstaedt, Ady Berber.  Newspaper reporter Fuchsberger arrives at work moments before a man named Kovacs is ushered into his office.  When he enters the room, Kovacs is dead—murdered...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “The House of Murders” by longtime mystery pulp magazine veteran D. L. Champion is the first story in this double novel. The Thorpe family was one of the most respectable and wealthy families in all of New York. But behind a seven-foot fence (and the pack of killer hounds that encircled it) lay the ancient house... This double novel’s second tale is a fast-moving thriller by Lawrence G. Blochmann. His novel, “Pursuit,” is about Timothy Shawn, the head of the great Shawn Detective Agency, who dangled the biggest piece of change before the sleepy eyes of Edward T. Mitchell that the former All American halfback had ever seen...

(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Faith Domergue, John Ireland, John Carradine, Carole Wells, Jerry Strickler. We like this film!  Cheap and schlocky but sooo much fun.  Domergue, even middle-aged, is a truly beautiful woman and gives a great performance as an aging actress caught up in a cheap horror film production being filmed in an actual haunted house...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories from the late 1920s.  In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “Hunting for Hidden Gold,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves listening to an old miner’s story about hidden loot during a violent snowstorm.  Before you know it the boys are looking for a hidden stash of gold...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Immortal Athalia” by Harry F. Haley is the 53^rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  While prospecting for rubber in the Peruvian lowlands of South America, Wilder MacDonald, soldier-of-fortune and adventure extraordinaire, made a curious discovery...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “In the Beginning” by Alan Sullivan is the 55^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Prehistoric creatures still roamed the earth!...

(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri, Cliff Osmond, Anna Aries, Wright King.  Another blatantly schlocky ‘70s drive-in gem.  Men are dying in a small California town from having too much sex.  Watch for the town hall scene when the town officials tell the men they must completely abstain from sex!...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Isle of Forgotten People” by Thompson Cross is the 49^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Here at Armchair Fiction we take pride in our extensive library of LWLR tales....

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Eddie Constantine, Perrette Pradier, Daniel Emilfork, Clément Harari, Jean Galland, Daphné Dayle, Sophie Hardy.  Eddie is once again an FBI agent, this time searching for an escaped (but wounded) criminal mastermind named Gregori, who has pulled off a massive diamond heist...

(1937) Allouard Carny, Henri de la Falaise.  This film was previously thought to be lost and it’s technically (unless you count Chaplin’s Modern Times) the last silent film released in the U.S.  At one time this was thought to have been made as a documentary, but it’s not.  It’s a feature film with a full storyline.  A white adventurer returns to a French outpost deep in the jungles of Indo China...

(1959, Anamorphic Edition) Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc, Luisella Boni, Luciano Marin, Pierre Cressoy.  Riding into danger is a masked vigilante called the Dark Knight.  His advisory is a cruel ruler (played by longtime sword and sandal veteran Serato) who has seized and imprisoned the peaceful ruler of nearby region...

(1942, Warners) Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Jackie Gleason, Roland Drew.  Emerson is a struggling actress who’s almost broke and desperately needs money.  So she agrees to help three crooks in their bank robbery scheme...

(1958) Anita Björk, Annalisa Ericson, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Sven Lindberg.  This is a largely forgotten horror-mystery-chiller from Sweden—and it’s a good one.  A woman is seen wandering about outside a gloomy country manor in the dark of the night.  She screams and meets her doom!...

(1934) Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Hugh Wakefield. Walls is a wealthy Englishman who flies to a foreign country to recoup some stolen loot from a young troublemaker.  He lands smack dab in the middle of a revolution...

(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...

(1968 Anamorphic Widescreen) Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman, Michael Dunn, Lang Jeffries, directed by Robert Siodmak.  Disc One: Kampf um Rom I. It’s not long after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (early 500s AD).  One of the last Roman leaders, Cethegus (Harvey), makes a bid to return Rome to its former greatness.Disc Two: Kampf um Rom II, Der Verrat: Cethegus gets a war started between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantine Empire...

(1965) Anthony Bate, Keith Buckley, Michele Dotrice, David Collings, Tom Criddle.  This remarkable, futuristic made-for-TV sci-fi film takes place in a massive nuclear bunker, built to protect government brass from nuclear war. The bunker has many levels, but Level Seven is the deepest and provides the best protection...

(1928) Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman, Mary Carr, Eugene Pallette.  Here it is, filmdom’s first all-talking picture.  The setting is a Broadway speakeasy.  Landis is a gullible kid from upstate who’s taken in by a couple of crooks, thinking that they’re going to help him...

(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...

(1965) Eddie Constantine, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laura Valenzuela, Luis Dávila.  Eddie’s back with another tongue-in-cheek spy film.  This time he’s a tough (and ultra-cool) American agent who’s on his way to Madrid to extricate a scientist who has fallen into the hands of enemy agents...

(1950) Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall, Lisa Howard. Cobb is a tough homicide detective who gets involved with a real black widow, a dame who’s willing to kill her husband—and does!  Cobb, blinded by infatuation, wants to turn a blind eye to the situation...

(1928) Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Julius Molnar, Olga Baclanova.  In addition to the original B&W version of this amazing film, you’ll also receive a brand new tinted edition as well.  It looks great, too! Outside of Casablanca, this is probably the role that Veidt is remembered for most.  Veidt, as Gwynplaine, is a side show freak, abused by society and royalty...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories.  In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Missing Chums,” Frank and Joe Hardy give a grand send-off to their two pals, Chet Morton and Biff Hooper, who are departing on an adventurous boat trip along the coast.  Their boat cuts through the waters of Barmet Bay and out into the ocean, even with storm clouds brewing...

(1981) Lucy McGrath, Paul Farrell, Lee Hatherly, Paul Jenden.  On Christmas Eve, a little girl awakens thinking she hears Santa Claus (Father Christmas) entering the house.  What she finds is a weird monster who pleads for her to help defeat an evil witch...

(1952) Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Tod Slaughter, Frank Hawkins. These two episodes are from an obscure Brit detective TV series.  Barr, as Morley, is an ex-police inspector, now in private practice.  He’s called in by two elderly sisters who say that someone is plotting to kill them...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Mystery Message” by T. C. Bridges is the 57^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It was a mad race through a  snake-infested jungle...

(1956) Ivan Pereverzev, Konstantin Bartashevich, Mikhail Astangov, Apollon Yachnitskiy, Danuta Stolyarskaya. An underwater explosion at the bottom of the Pacific wreaks havoc with underwater eco-systems.  The likely cause appears to be radiation and a new element.  Scientists head to the ocean depths to figure out what’s going on...

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Adrian Hoven, Renate Ewert, Hans von Borsody, Jochen Brockmann.  This cool Krimi offering is available with English subtitles for the first time.  Inside a smoky nightclub called “the Green Spider” a beautiful singer finishes her song, then the band takes over, playing a raucous jazzy tune.  Lost in all the noise is the sound of a gunshot...

(1983, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kannakis.  Giancarlo and Fred are wandering mercenaries who help the survivors of a post-apocalypse fight off a group of evil homosexual biker dudes...

(1967) John Agar, Carol Gilley, Bill Thurman, Ralph Baker, Jr., Roger Ready.  We always like to release a few grade-Z classics—and this is definitely one. A top secret government experiment regarding the effects of cosmic rays on animal life meets with unexpected results...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) José Antonio Amor, Daniela Giordano, Nuria Torray, Teresa Gimpera, Osvaldo Genazzani.  A handsome young widower remarries.  With his new wife in tow, he returns to his aging family castle.  Inside its mysterious walls, the widower’s first wife died under weird circumstances...

(1936 & 1932) Here are two 1930s horror oddities for the price of one, dressed up like a drive-in double feature, complete with an old time intermission clock.  OUANGA (1936) Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton, Sheldon Leonard.  This setting is zombie-infested Haiti...

(1982) Buster Larsen, Jørgen Kiil, Agneta Ekmanner, Peter Steen.  An older guy has an affair his new wife's daughter. The daughter, as you would expect in a Giallo-style chiller, ends of dead.  A mortuary worker (who underhandedly sells used coffins and pries rings off the fingers of corpses) figures out what’s going on and begins a blackmail...

(1935) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Margetson, Shirley Grey, Edmund Willard, Dennis Hoey.  Bela signs on to the Mary Celeste, seeking revenge on the first mate, who shanghaied him years before and threw him to the sharks, resulting in the loss of his arm.  They encounter a violent storm at sea and soon the crew is being murdered off...

(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...

(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) Lon Chaney, John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry, Vic McGee.  If you’ve ever seen this film, you know how wonderfully awful it is.  It’s kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel imitation of Twice Told Tales or Tales of Terror—it’s got the same overall look and feel (they even borrow footage from several Corman Poe films). There are five different macabre tales...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karl-Arne Holmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Mona Malm.  Rider in Blue is part of a series of five detective thrillers directed by the incomparable Arne Mattsson and featuring Holmsten as detective John Hillman.  The plot here is pretty straightforward, while Hillman is tackling an assignment in London, his wife (Ericson) visits an Army riding school...

(1963) Aram Katcher, Lisa McDonald, Brad Trumbull, James V. Christy.  This is a really grimy, shocking, crime-horror thriller, the likes of which we’ve seldom ever seen.  Katcher, who’s not that good of an actor yet is perfect for this film, plays one of the most terrifyingly ruthless villains imaginable...

(1926, 1919) Lon Chaney, Lois Moran, Owen Moore, Henry B. Walthal, directed by Tod Browning.  Not only have we crafted a great new music score for Road to Mandalay, but we’re also offering it in a newly tinted version, as well as the original B&W version.  PLUS: THE MIRACLE MAN (1919) Thomas Meighan, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson...

(1951) John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Rogers.  The Toff was a well-known, upper crust British detective character who appeared in magazines, books, and films, dating back to the early 1930s.  In this, his first motion appearance, he is well-played by John Bentley, who played him in both Toff films.  In this fast-moving mystery, a man walks out of a nightclub onto a darkened street.  Moments later he is knifed in the back...

(1960) Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence, Robert Beatty.  This is a great British crime film.  Morgan gets out of the slammer and sets up what seems to be a legitimate modeling agency.  Back of it all, though, is a blackmail operation...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories.  In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Shore Road Mystery,” Frank and Joe Hardy are baffled by the theft of automobiles along along the Shore Road, a local coastal roadway that runs through their hometown of Bayport.  Even more mysterious is that the stolen cars all seem to disappear without a trace!...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pierre Brice, Heinz Drache, Daliah Lavi, Jana Brejchová, Terence Hill, Anton Diffring, Senta Berger.  Brice plays a secret agent who’s given the job of retrieving a stolen NATO missile control device (the B501) that has fallen into the hands of a criminal syndicate...

(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...

(1953) Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya, Valentina Ushakova, Nikolai Timofeyev. This obscure Soviet sci-fi film (made at the height of the Cold War) is unique because the setting is in the U.S.  Bolduman  plays a scientist whose first allegiance is money, rather than science.  With a big profit motive in mind, he invents a mighty new weapon of mass destruction—a deadly radioactive powder...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Rossana Podestà, Guy Madison, Mario Petri, Giacomo Rossi Stuart.  This lively peplum classic takes place during the time of Julius Caesar's incursion against the Gauls, who have broken their treaty with Rome.  The Gauls are a pretty barbaric bunch and Madison plays a Roman soldier sent in to tame them.  However, in the usual turn of events, he finds himself falling in love...

(1978, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina.  Andress (in her early forties and still gorgeous) stars as a headstrong woman who takes an expedition into the wilds of the Guinean jungle, searching for her missing husband...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Yvonne Furneaux, John Ericson, Renzo Ricci, Gianni Rizzo, Germano Longo.  In this sprawling peplum tale, Furneaux plays the drop-dead gorgeous Semiramis, a vile, scheming member of the King of Assyria’s court. She is an overtly ambitious beauty who doesn’t hesitate...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Allan Edwall, Lars Ekborg, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Heinz Hopf, Elsa Prawitz.  This psychological horror thriller has been described as a “Giallo film shot in Sweden.”  The central action takes place on board a speeding train, where numerous gruesome killings take place...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood, Glynn Edwards, Sam Kydd.  What a cool movie this turned out to be (7.0 on IMDB).  In the opening moments of the film, a blazing car goes crashing over a seaside cliff, plunging into the murky waters below and killing its driver.  The deceased had been insured for 100,000 pounds...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Elsie Harker, Geoffrey Denton.  A crazed English scientist injects his wife with a cobra venom formula to cure her mental illness. Sadly, it has a horrible effect on the woman’s unborn child, who’s born with cold blood...

(1966, Anamorphic Edition) Paul Hubschmid, Karin Dor, Vivi Bach, Rosalba Neri, Nando Gazzolo.  Hubschmid is quite good as “Upperseven,” a master of disguise. He teams up with a CIA operative played by the beautiful Karin Dor, who would become a Bond girl the following year in You Only Live Twice.  Together, the two of them set out to smash a diamond smuggling ring...

(1976) Lisa Harrow, Christian Quadflieg, Pierre Brice, Christiane Krüger, Judy Geeson, Derek Farr.  A wandering planet from deep space drifts into the solar system and is detected by Earth scientists who soon investigate. The planet is called Medusa; its surface is uninhabitable and its people now live in a high-tech underground city. This subterranean society is ruled by women...

(1963, English Language, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller, Ingmar Zeisberg.  Finally, a beautiful widescreen English edition of this classic Krimi horror thriller.  A hooded maniac is on the loose...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sean Flynn, Marie Versini, Alessandra Panaro, Mimmo Palmara, directed by Umberto Lenzi. A group of religious fanatics, the Sikkim rebels, capture a Brit officer and a Viceroy’s daughter. Another Brit officer, played by Flynn, undertakes a daring plan to rescue the two captives...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giuliano Gemma, Jacqueline Sassard, Pedro Armendáriz, Antonella Lualdi, Serge Nubret. This great sword & sandal film is filled with fantastic elements and supernatural creatures, including a cyclops and a gorgon.  Gemma plays Crius, the youngest of the Greek titans, all of whom are imprisoned by the gods.  Freedom for him and his brothers is promised in return for...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel’s first story is Robert Turner’s whodunit thriller, “The Tobacco Auction Murders.” Her last footsteps were shrouded by a screen of smoke! Jake Krane came South in search of his oddly silent wife. Vickie’s last letter had been filled with a mysterious sense of desperation... This double novel’s second tale is “The Sound of Death,” by pulp writer exraordinaire, David Wright O’Brien. When a person enlisted in the service and went to war, those who had families prayed for their safe return. But that wasn’t the case with some...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Treasure Vault of Atlantis” by Olof W. Anderson is the 58^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Would she be trapped in a vault forever?  To modern civilization, the lost world of Atlantis is a continent of myth and legend that...

(1934) Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia.  The setting is an old Gothic monastery.  Inside its dank walls a monk named Javier encounters another monk, with whom he was an acquaintance to long ago, Javier suddenly turns violent and tries to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Unholy Night,” a terror-filled thriller by veteran storyteller Hugh B. Cave, starts off this mystery combo. They called the looming structure on the sea cliff “Fulsom’s Folly,” and accounts pertaining to it (whispered only with dread by the local citizens) were shocking tales...This double novel’s second tale is Robert Colby’s thriller,“Kill Me a Fortune.” For Ross Elliot the summer held no promise. With his teaching duties over until fall, and a nasty breakup behind him, he found himself facing boredom, with three months of lonely time on his hands...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Roberto Camardiel, Siegfried Lowitz, directed by Jesús Franco.  Dr. Mabuse is on the loose again, this time abducting beautiful women in order to subject them to a powerful mind control ray...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. Day Keene starts off this mystery combo with a whodunit gem, “Wake Up to Murder.” Jim Charters was generally a well-liked home-loving type. As a sixty-two-dollar-and-fifty-cents-a-week paralegal, he had earned a reputation of being a straight shooter. That was until he was unceremoniously pink-slipped... This double novel’s second tale is a lively thriller, “Dying Room Only” by Stewart Sterling. Broadway’s smash musical revue had a special added attraction the night Ben Pedley took it in...

 (1966) Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff.  This amazing docu-drama is about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain.  It pulls no punches.  There are scenes of destruction, radiation poisoning, food riots, etc. that will leave a lasting impression...

(1928) Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush.  This silent classic was a big, epic production in its day, with lots of great location shots in the South Seas (an Oscar for Cinematography). Blue gives a grand portrayal of a drunken doctor who has the reputation of a “white god"...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Winged Heels” by S. Andrew Wood is the 51^st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It was a love triangle in a lost kingdom!  Juan Moreno was an adventurous outlaw, a renegade who had big plans...