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JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT (1961 aka THE LOST KINGDOM, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Riviere, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  Lost aviators find the entrance to Atlantis at a nuclear blast site in the desert.  PLUS:  TERROR OF THE MAD DOCTOR (1962, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Senta Berger.  A nice remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 classic. 

BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS (1967) Ricardo Bauleo, Susana Beltrán, Gloria Prat, Walter Kliche. A girl with a secret lover weds a man she doesn’t love.  But her secret lover is actually a vampire!  PLUS: SHE FREAK (1967) Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney. A low-life, gorgeous blonde leaves her waitress job and joins the carnival and makes enemies of carnival's freak show.  Similar to Freaks.    

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN, English Subs) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This is a really cool outer space movie with lots of battle scenes and alien spaceships battling against the desperate forces of Earth.  PLUS: CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne. In widescreen from a great 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. PLUS:  BLOOD MANIA (1970) Vicki Peters, Peter Carpenter, Maria De Aragon. The plot is pretty simple, a maniacal nympho-maniac wants to speed along her daddy’s demise. Why? So she can use the inheritance money to...

GHOST CAT OF OTAMA POND (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Namiji Matsuura, Shôzaburô Date, Noriko Kitazawa.  An engaged couple walks home through the woods after missing their bus.  They come upon an eerie pond.  A strange black cat then appears and they follow it to the ruins of an eerie mansion. PLUS: BLACK CAT MANSION (1958, Anamorphic Widescreen) Toshio Hosokawa, Yuriko Ejima, Takashi Wada.  A couple moves into an aging mansion.  The wife is soon haunted by the ghost of...

EXORCISM (1975) Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy, María Kosty, Mercedes Molina. A satanic cult is on the loose in the English countryside.  They stage a series of gruesome crimes that baffle the local authorities.  PLUS:  BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL (1974) 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...

CARRY ON SCREAMING (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Harry Corbett, Jim Dale. This is a fine British horror comedy much in the same vein as The Addams Family and The Munsters. The evil Dr Watt is abducting young ladies and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores! PLUS: MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY (1965) Vic McGee, James Raison, Dave Hewitt.  Teenage girls invade a 'haunted house' to find a mad doctor conducting weird experiments.  

KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster. Terrific action drama about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime, which leads him south of the border.  PLUS:  BOMBAY WATERFRONT (1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Christopher Lee. Bentley is tops as the writer-turned-detective, Paul Temple. In this film, he tries to unmask a killer known as “the Marquis.”

FEAR NO MORE (1961) Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding.  Powers is the beautiful young ex-psychiatric patient who travels by train from L.A. to S.F.  She soon finds herself accused of murder when a corpst is found in her compartment. PLUS:  SHIP OF THE DEAD (1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid.  A GREAT movie. A taut story of love, crime, hardship, hopelessness, and betrayal.  Buckholz is tops as a human castoff, in international limbo because of a lost passport.  

SEVEN BLOOD-STAINED ORCHIDS (1972, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Antonio Sabato, Uschi Glass, Rossella Falk. A black-gloved killer is on the loose, leaving crescent moon medallions at the scene of his killings. PLUS:  HORROR EXPRESS (1972, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalis.  An ancient monster is found frozen in a glacier by Lee and his excavation team.  It’s being shipped back to civilization on board the Trans-Siberian express when it returns to life and...

THE CHASE (1946, United Artists) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan. Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as overdressed psychos. PLUS:  SHOCK (1946, Fox) Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore. A woman goes into catatonic shock after seeing a brutal murder. When she comes to, she discovers her doctor is the killer!

HORROR MANIACS (1948, aka THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART) Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn.  Tod's up to his maniacal tricks again in this grisly bodysnatching tale.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey. This engrossing British chiller is based on the classic horror tale by W.W. Jacobs. A man comes into possession of a withered, but magical paw of a dead monkey. From this paw he is bestowed three wishes...

(1960) Peter Van Eyck, Gerte Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a Posh hotel filled with...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is by Hugo Award nominee, Rog Phillips, “A Man Named Mars.”  Could a sinister plan be stopped by a pair of nobodies?  Bryan Berry’s “Mission to Marakee” is our second novel.  Death to all scientists was the motto!  Ray Carver was an ordinary solider, displaced after the nuclear war...

(1962) Terry-Thomas, Alex Nicol, Honor Blackman.  An oil geologist arrives at the London airport.  He is very ill—he has small pox!  This sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for any other contagious people.  The World Health Organization’s top investigator, Terry-Thomas, is put on the case...

(1913) Crissie Bell, E. Holman Clark, Hubert Willis.  Britain's first full-length sci-fi film.  A Martian having offended his ruler is exiled to Earth with the mission to change the heart of a selfish man.  Based on a highly popular stage play, Message to Mars features futuristically clad Martians, thought transference, instant space travel, mind control...

(1973, aka CHRISTINA, PRINCESS OF EROTICISM) Christina Von Blanc, Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Howard Vernon, Paul Muller, Jesus Franco, Rosa Palomar, directed By Jesus Franco. A gorgeous young lady enters a sinister castle for the reading of a willl. She soon discovers that...

(1943) Hans Albers, Hermann Speelmans, Käthe Haack, Ferdinand Marian.  Armed with immortality, Munchausen rides horses, hot air balloons and even cannon balls as he travels the world saving beautiful ladies of royalty.  He is aided by his faithful servant who is armed with a fantastic rifle that can hit targets from 100 miles away and a runner who can sprint great distances in seconds... 

(1935) Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Käthe Gold, Fita Benkhoff.  Jupiter, looking down from Mt. Olympus, falls for an Earth woman, Alkmene, whose husband is the mighty Theban soldier, Amphitryon.  With only a day left before the return of the Theban Army, Jupiter and Mercury come to Thebes disguised as Amphitryon and his drunken pal, Sosias.  They explain that they have returned from war a day early, which gives them a whole night to work their charms on their unsuspecting wives...

(1966) Barbara Steele, Anthony Steffen, Claudio Gora.  Recently upgraded! In French with English subtitles. Barb has a dual role in this excellent horror film about a girl possessed by the spirit of a statue. Her strong performance helps to...

(1954) Giuli Chokhonelidze, Konstantin Russu, Nodar Shashigoglu, directed by Sergei Parajanov.  A young shepherd is given a magic woodwind instrument to help him conquer his foes.  This movie is filled with dark fantasy and has its fair share of creepy moments.  Look for evil wizards, storm demons—even flying sheep...!  

(1958) Isabelle Corey, Anthony Steffen, Irène Tunc, Ivo Garrani.  This is the story of Antigone, a ruler obsessed with the building of a sacred temple. Standing in the way are dissatisfied multitudes and an outbreak of plague.  He takes aim at the local Christians in a manner reminiscent of Demetrius and the Gladiators.  Steffan is Demetrio, a sculptor whose love for a beautiful slave girl (Corey) brings him loads of trouble...

(1969, aka DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) 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...

(1947) Jean-Pierre Aumont, Maria Montez, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two Legionnaires comb the Sahara for a missing scientist.  They are captured by strange desert warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis, ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who is surrounded by the golden mummies of past lovers. Aumont is great as the stalwart Legionnaire who crumbles to the sexual power of Montez...

(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...

(1962) 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...

(1940) Vlasta Burian, Antonin Mikulic, Meda Valentová.  A fine fantasy-comedy (7.1 on IMDB) with a tiny touch of horror.  There are many plot elements: clandestine marriages, secret children, castle ghosts, hush-hush love affairs, etc.—all woven together by great script-writing, resulting in many uproarious moments.  The scene where the town doctor visits the Baron’s castle...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The lead off novel is a space opera gem, Wood Jackson’s “The Bat-men of Mars.  It was time to reach beyond our nearest neighbor in the sky...to Mars!, Our second novel is by veteran sci-fi author, Henry Hasse: “He Who Shrank.”  The professor’s belief that our enormous universe is just a plethora of tiny atoms didn’t...

(1959) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo, Richard Sinatra. a gang of criminals hides out in a mountain cabin only to find themselves being killed off one by one at the hands of a horribel monster that happens to reside...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two engrossing sci-fi thrillers.  The first is Robert Silverberg’s and Randall Garrett’s great tale, “The Beast With Seven Tails.”  There was a roaring surf, a beautiful sun, and a monster from space! Laurence Manning is the author of our second novel, “The Wreck of the Asteroid.”  A crew of space explorers finds themselves stranded on our neighbor in space, Mars... 

(1947,Republic) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Andy Devine, John McGuire, Dave Sharpe. In Color and Uncut! Roy is an investigator who is joined by Dale (a western novel writer) in a search for border smugglers. Also assisting Roy is a jovial county sheriff played by Andy Devine. Several Mexican nationals have been murdered on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border.  The atrocities have all happened in and around a silver mine run...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   The lead off novel is William Lemkin’s rousing tale, “Beyond the Stratosphere.”  What goes up does not necessarily come down!  The second novel in this great combo is “Crypt-City of the Deathless One” by heralded science fiction and fantasy writer Henry Kuttner.  Enter the forest of death at your own risk!  Lost in the depth...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Jack Williamson and Miles Breuer’s “The Birth of a New Republic” is a grand adventure of interplanetary pioneering.   The moon was an inhospitable place. It had virulently hot days and the nights saw the temperature fall well below zero.  There were also strange, often-dangerous creatures found on the...

(1962) Mel Ferrer, Yvonne Furneaux, Leticia Roman, Lorella De Luca, Jean Claudio.   Ferrer is the hero in this sprawling sword and sandal epic.  He spends much of his screen time trifling with the lovely Furneaux, while his not so nice brother joins forces with notorious Tartar warriors who launch a ruthless invasion. There is a wealth of cool action scenes in this film and you won’t be bored...

(1960, aka THE MASK OF SATAN) 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...