(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...