Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections. In “Classic Mad Scientist Tales from the Pulps, Volume One” you get a startling collection of vintage tales about the the “bad side” of pulp magazine scientists!...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections. In “Classic Super Scientist Tales from the Pulps” you get an amazing collection of vintage tales about the “genius” of pulp magazine scientists...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1930, Columbia) Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Boris Karloff, Constance Cummings, DeWitt Jennings.  Huston is brilliant as a hard-nosed prison warden.  His daughter, Cummings, falls in love with a floundering inmate played by Holmes. To complicate matters, Holmes witnesses the murder of another inmate who was killed for being a squealer...

(1960, aka La Llorona) María Elena Marqués, Eduardo Fajardo, Luz María Aguilar, Mauricio Garcés.  A married couple is warned by the wife’s father that their son will die before his fifth birthday because of an ancient curse...

(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...

(1930, Columbia) Buck Jones, Miriam Seegar, Charles Morton.  There’s great resentment in town on the part of the local cattlemen.  Their herds are running out of water while the sheepherders have all water they need.  Buck, as sheriff, tries to keep the two sides at bay...

(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...

(1937, aka GLUBOKIY REYD) Konstantin Bartashevich, Nikolay Belyaev, Aleksandr Cheban.  Russia is attacked by a neighboring country that’s never identified.  The invaders bomb a Soviet town. In response, the Soviets counterstrike enemy targets...

(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...