(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff.  Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab.  Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...

(1963) Zdenek Stepanek, Dana Medricka, Radovan Lukavsky. This special edition two-disc set contains the anamorphic widescreen foreign language version with English subtitles, and the flat screen American release version dubbed in English.  A spaceship full of explorers shoots across the galaxy toward a distant star. One of the film’s highlights is when they encounter...

(1949) Brian Donlevy, Ella Rains, Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Helen Walker.  Previously on VHS only, this film noir gem is now on our DVD list for the first time—from a beautiful 35mm print.  Donlevy is a big time businessman, but his wife and her lover are plotting to kill him...

(1956) Lon Chaney, Casey Adams, Marian Carr, Robert Shayne.  A 1950s sci-fi standard that we all grew up with. Lon plays an executed killer brought back to life by research scientists, headed by Robert Shayne.  When he realizes he has been brought back from the dead and that his doctors are, essentially, his new captors, he shows his gratitude by killing them!  He then goes on a rampage seeking revenge against those who helped send him to the chair...

(1935, Universal) Austin Trevor, Gary Marsh, George Hayes, Robert Horton, Brian Buchell.  A visiting French sleuth steps in to help the police solve the “diary murders,” in which each victim is found in possession of a diary page of a dead actress. Before long a murdered corpse is found in a locked room!  This is one of those cool, intricate murder mysteries in a big old mansion filled with red herrings and other furtive types...

(1966) Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne, directed by Terrence Fisher. Things go terribly wrong in an isolated island research lab and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters are created. The island is cut off from the mainland, and it's only a matter of time before the creatures...

(1973) Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, Frank Duncan, Jean Hilton.  A superb six-part Brit mini-series (on two discs).  Johns and Windsor play two modern detectives who set out to reconstruct the various Ripper murders and prove the killer’s identity.  They have their writing board with all the victims’ names on it.  It’s done in a “Dragnet style” police procedural manner, with... 

(1966) Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erica Blanc, Max Lawrence, Fabienne Dali, Piero Lulli.  The ghost of a young girl takes revenge on the villagers who caused her death.  Swirling mists, cobwebbed rooms, black cats, shadowy figures…it’s an incredible film that you really don't want to miss...

(1937)Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, Anna Lee, John Loder. In our opinion this is the best of the many filmed versions of the H. Rider Hagard classic. Some truly spectacular lost world-lost race thrills as Hardwicke (as Allan Quatermain) leads an expedition in search of Lee's father who has wandered across the desert to the far mountains where no one returns from...alive.

1963) Eddie Constantine, Christiane Minazzoli, Robert Manuel, Mischa Auerl.  Here’s an Eddie Constantine film we’ve had sitting, unreleased, for over 25 years.  Better late than never, though, and we don’t think it’s ever before been on home video!  Eddie plays a tough FBI agent in France.  He meets up with a woman whose husband has been knocked off by his business partner.  It seems the partner has been using the firm as a cover for drug trafficking.  

(1959) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi.   This was one of the first Japanese horror films with a modern setting.  A young woman is celebrating her birthday with friends.  Her boyfriend, a journalist, tells of a mysterious woman who is lurking about the grounds.  The woman turns out to be the girl’s mother, who disappeared many years before but hasn’t aged a day.  What is her fantastic secret...?  

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Land of the Lost," our 25th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.   Alone in his hut, a man watched a needle begin its violent course across a moving cylinder. The instrument was a Seismograph and its vigilant attendant, Dr. Martinez, watched in horror. Martinez knew what the cryptic messagemeant—a massive undersea earthquake with monstrous tidal waves just hours away...

1971 aka VAMPIROS LESBOS) Soledad Miranda, Ewa Strömberg, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, directed by Jesus Franco.  Strömberg plays a lawyer lured to a strange island owned by Miranda, who is a lesbian vampire and the heir to the estate of Count Dracula.  Price plays a demented doctor seeking to become a vampire himself, while Muller is the vampire expert...

(1945) Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan, Luisa Rossi, Romano Calo.  After busting out of a Nazi prison train, an American and a British soldier set out across Italy, heading for the Swiss border.  Lots of action, adventure, and intrigue follows as they eventually find themselves leading a group of war refugees toward the border and freedom...  

(1924, Fox) Earle Foxe, Grace Cunard, Gladys Tennyson, Maurice Murphy.  A lost sci-fi classic finally makes it to DVD!  In the future year of 1940, a young man, having been rejected by a girl and gone off to be a hermit in a redwood forest, doesn’t realize that men around the world are dying from a new disease called "Masculitis." By 1950, the dreadful plague has killed every male over the age of fourteen except our hermit hero... 

(1964) Vincent Price, Franca Bettola, Emma Daniell. Top notch science fiction. A plague has killed off most of the earth's population and Price is the sole survivor. The other inhabitants are mutant vampires that...

(1964) Barbara Steele, George Ardisson, Halina Zalewska, Robert Rains. A woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive. Her curse brings her back from the dead for revenge. Ardisson really gets it in the end!  Barbara's seldom looked more beautiful. Lots of great moments, especially the...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Our lead off novel is one of grand adventure by one of the early 20th Century’s most heralded authors, Otis Adelbert Kline’s “Lord of the Lamia.”  An ancient and sinister magic lurked in Cairo!  The second novel is one of great conflict and outer space drama, Clinton Constantinescu’s “The War of the Universe.”  There soon came a...