(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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 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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

 (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...

(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...

(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...