(1972) Mine Mutlu, Kunt Tulgar, Erol Tas, Erol Gunaydin.  This outlandish Turkish sci-fi action film features “the Copperhead,” a masked hero who fights the evil Dr. Satan.  The doctor has designs on conquering the world with robots and other electronics.  He laughs maniacally throughout the film.  There are many scenes that will make you howl and the Sherlock Holmish sidekick is bad beyond belief.  A wonderfully inept film that never lets up...

(1960) Ichikawa Raizo, Katsu Shintaro, Hasegawa Kazuo, Hongo Kojiro. What a remarkable fantasy-horror-adventure film! A beautiful female demon comes to control the soul of a mighty samurai warrior who has abandoned his wife because she was taken by another warrior. Together—along with a small army of cutthroats—they plan the takeover...

(1941) Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher. Bela's giant murderous bats are on the loose, attacking and killing everone wearing a strange shaving lotion concocted by Bela himself. This is one of those...

(1956) Lilli Palmer, Curt Jurgens, Winnie Markus, Adelheid Seeck, Hans Nielsen. Palmer was 42 and drop dead gorgeous when she made this film.  Her feminine appeal is electric—and it’s supposed to be.  She lures in struggling composer Jurgens into a life completely dominated by her—everything he does, everyone he knows, is closely watched over by her.  She is one wicked dame—shades of Play Misty for Me...

(1975) Silvia Solar, Olivier Othot, Jose Nieto, Evelyne Scott. A great Euro-horror thriller about a psychic countess and mad scientist who conduct occult research in the castle of Count Victor. Working from the cellar...

(1961) Lon Chaney, John Crawford, Karen Kadler.  Lon plays Satan in this trio of horror stories.  He sends his 'messenger' back to Earth with a formula for a 500 megaton nuclear bomb so that everybody can join him in hell.  A bizarre film made up of three eerie episodes from a forgotten TV series called 13 DEMON STREET: A photographer loses his mind over a mysterious girl in the snow, an eons-old woman found frozen in a glacier is the subject of scientists, and a man's death is predicted in his dreams.  From 35mm. 

Armchair fiction presents Frank Aubrey's "The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, Illustrated Edition," our 30th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  HORROR SAT HIGH ATOP MT. RORAIMA!  Who is the mysterious person known only as “Monella?”  Who is he and what is the secret of his shrouded past?  Like all good Lost Race-Lost World novels, “The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” deals with an expedition to a remote corner of the Earth...  

(1970, aka ORLOFF AGAINST THE INVISIBLE MAN) Howard Vernon, Brigitte Carva, Fernando Sancho, Isabel Del Rio. A young doctor is summoned to the castle of Dr. Orlof. There he encounters a deranged woman who claims to be terrorized by an invisible...

(1964) Hugo Blanco, Agnès Spaak, Perla Cristal, Magda MacDonald, Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, José Rubio.  This is the second in the "Dr. Orlof" series about the good doctor and his latest monstrosity.  The storyline features a beautiful young woman who travels to the forlorn castle of her mysterious uncle.  The uncle is working on a decidedly sinister...

(1959) Battah, Omar Sharif, Reyad El Kasabgy, Umar El-Hariri.  A gang of smugglers murders a factory manager.  One of the factory employees is blamed.  Before the cops can grab him he flees across the desert into another country.  It gets even more complicated when his sister back home falls in love with...

(1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto, Terumi Hoshi. What’s not to like?  It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of Marpetians... 

(1975, UPGRADED) 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.  The story centers around a young lady; who unknowingly takes part in a satanic rite and becomes possessed by the spirit of...  

(1932) Hans Alber, Sybille Schmitz, Peter Lorre, Paul Hartman.  Great sci-fi about a giant floating platform built in the mid-Atlantic as a refueling stopover for trans-Atlantic flights.  Unfortunately there are plans afoot to stop this daring project.  Albers is the great flier in the center of it all, who falls for the beautiful daughter of the man who built the platform.  Sabotage and intrigue soon... 

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here’s another excellent murder mystery, “Farewell to Passion,” by that outstanding whodunit author, Day Keene. From the lush bistros of Sunset Strip, Hollywood, to the brooding swamps of backwoods Georgia, Hi Shannon (his honor destroyed by his wife’s unbridled passions and his head hunted by the law and the L. A. syndicate) searches for the one clue and...

(1962) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Kurt Rackelman.   A space expedition is launched to the planet Venus.  There they find the planet and its former inhabitants completely destroyed by atomic war.  The crew faces many horrible dangers including a blob-like monster...  

(1931) René Lefèvre, Rosine Deréan, Harry Baur, Robert Le Vigan, Marc Dantzer, Georges Péclet.  Although this is only marginally a horror film, it is a very interesting thriller about a group of five men visiting Morocco.  When one of them attempts to rip the veil off a Muslim woman, they are all cursed to die before the next full moon by a local sorcerer.  To their horror, they all begin to die, one by one...

(1931) Benita Hume, Peter Hannen, Harold Huth, Walter Armitage.  Hum and Hannen are newlyweds, off on their honeymoon.  Hannen is also an inventor with secret plans.  Little do the newlyweds realize that international crooks are out to steal Hannen's plans, who is soon kidnappedby the bad guys.  However, when they find he’s not in possession of the plans, Hume is left to contend with the conniving, low-down scoundrel Harold Huth...

(1969) José Luis López Vázquez, John Steiner, Amparo Soler Leal, Antonio Casas.  A respected peddler, who works between two villages, suffers from seizures during which he becomes—in his mind—a werewolf.  When four women disappear, the villagers become suspicious.  Vazquez gives a wonderful performance as a man tortured by the beast within him.  Like all good werewolf movies, there’s a climax where the villagers hunt down the beast...