Back for Spring, 2025 through Tuesday, May 6th, it's Sinister Cinema's BIG SPENDER SALE. Buy 25 titles from the Sinister website for only $159, postpaid.  That works out to just over $6 per title.  Cool!  This includes all DVDs and all books...and they’re all just 25 for 159 bucks!  Sale ends Monday, December 2nd, 2024. So don't delay, simply...

THE $98 SPECIAL—Back for Spring and Summer!  Now through Monday, August 25th of 2025, grab ANY TWELVE (12) TITLES FOR ONLY 98 DOLLARS POSTPAID.  Simply add this to your cart and take advantage of this great special—our most popular sale ever...

THE SUPER 6 SALE is available now!  Simply add this product to your cart to take advantage of this great sale. Buy any 5 titles from our website catalog and receive the 6th title absolutely free. Remember, this sale applies to all titles in our website catalog. WE WILL ADJUST YOUR FINAL TOTAL!  Don't worry about the total on your invoice during checkout, we will adjust your total on our end and you will only be charged the sale price. We will also pick your most expensive title(s) to be your free title(s). 

(Upgraded 5/21/24) THE KILLER SHREWS (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) James Best, Ingrid Goulde, Gordon Mclendon, Ken Curtis. "The shrews devour everything…flesh, bones, marrow…everything.” THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.  A gigantic lizard is running amok!

(Upgraded 5/31/24)   NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman.  We thought it would be very appropriate to have one of the greatest horror films of all time on our bi-centennial double feature.  A great, great film. SATANIK (1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Julio Pena, Madge Kabopka, Umberto Raho, Armando Calvo. A hideously ugly woman drinks a potion for beauty. Her scheme eventually backfires though, as the potion loses potency and she transforms into an ugly monster... 

(Upgraded 5/21/24) CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961, Anamorphic) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Morland, Edward Wain.  Another of Roger Corman's horror comedies.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real.   PLUS:  DEVIL’S PARTNER (1958, Anamorphic) Edwin Nelson, Edgar Buchannon, Jean Allison, Richard Crane.  A strange man comes to a small desert town and brings along satanic rites, evil spells and death!  

(Upgraded 5/27/24) ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959, Anamorphic) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959, Anamorphic) Dick Miller, Barbara Morris, Antony Carbone, Ed Nelson, Judy Bamber. A truly great “cult” film.

(Upgraded 6/1/23) ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1962, Anamorphic) Rick Von Nutter, Archie Savage. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961, Anamorphic) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. A gigantic force field on a runaway space station threatens Earth.

(Upgraded 5/24/24) THE WASP WOMAN (1959, Anamorphic) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Extremely well done, low budget drive-in sci-fi. Plus:  BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959, Anamorphic) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are being killed off by a horrible monster that lives in a nearby cave.

BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1965) Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Louisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker, Rita Klein.  A photographer and his gorgeous models find a seemingly deserted castle for a photo-shoot.  However, it’s inhabited by a lunatic who traps the girls in the dungeon... TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE (1965) Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, Richard Garret, Marilyn Mitchell. A man is murdered by his wife and associates. He vows to return from the grave for revenge...

(Upgraded 5/25/24) BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1959, Anamorphic) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, Vladimir Solokoff, directed By Edgar G. Ulmer. A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier.  Plus: THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1959, Anamorphic) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. 

(Upgraded 5/24/24)THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1957, Anamorphic) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates.  No classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film.  The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world.  TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1957, Anamorphic) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor.  Thrill-seeking teenagers take a boat ride out to a strange island.  To their horror, they’re captured by a lady mad doctor who uses nerve gas to turn a people into mindless slaves...  

(1933-1964) Here's a bundle of FIVE terrific films, all with a holiday or family theme to them—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS (1941); PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK (1935); THE PHANTOM WAGON (1939); THE WANDERING JEW (1933); SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964)  See more...

SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY (1965, Anamorphic) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, sleazy, exploitation-crime films that poured out of the 1960s... THE DEFILERS (1965, Anamorphic) Byron Mabe, Jerome Eden, Mai Jansson.  This seedy, grungy David Friedman film is about a couple of hoodlums who kidnap a young girl...

MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE (1966) Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Adelson, Hal Warren.  This film is worshipped by bad film lovers everywhere. A family on vacation stops at a creepy house for directions... BLOOD THIRST (1965, Anamorphic Edition) Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson, Vic Silayan, Vic Diaz. Winston is a special U.S. agent who comes to Manila to help a homicide detective solve a series of grotesque murders...

THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (1958) Lubor Tokos, Hugh Downs, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr.  The evil Count Artigas kidnaps a scientist and his assistant... WHAT A WHOPPER (1958, Anamorphic) Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley.  This is a cool adventure-comedy with a nice touch of sci-fi at the film’s climax.  A struggling writer thinks he’s hit the jackpot when...

THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969, Anamorphic) Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown, Cristina Galbo, Mary Maude. This creepy Euro-thriller is centered in a French boarding school for wayward young women. Palmer is the over-the-top head mistress who runs the joint... THE WITCHMAKER (1969 Anamorphic) Anthony Eisley, Thordis Brandt, Alvy Moore, Shelby Grant. Moore takes a research group deep into a misty southern bayou to probe suspected paranormal events.  The area is rife with witchcraft murders...

STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller.  A hooded maniac is on the loose and murdering numerous innocent and not-so-innocent people inside a gloomy, dark, dank, creepy old English castle... THE RACETRACK MURDERS (1964, Anamorphic) Hansjorg Felmy, Ann Smyrner, Hans Nielson, Walter Rilla, Wolfgang Lukschy, Heinz Engelmann, Helmut Lohner. Mystery at the track! A well-known thoroughbred is slain in a mysterious manner...

GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mark Forest, José Greci, Giuliano Gemma, Erno Crisa, Paul Muller. Our hero helps a small kingdom (that is forced to make a yearly tribute of 30 young virgins to the Kingdom of Babylon) fight for its freedom... HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS (1964, Anamorphic) Mark Forest, Jose Greci, Ken Clark, Grazia Maria Spina. In this loose follow-up to Hercules against the Barbarians, Forest finds himself in the fight of his life against the three sons of Genghis Khan.

SEVEN GOLDEN MEN (1965, Anamorphic) Philippe Leroy, Rossana Podesta, Gastone Moschin, Maurice Poli, Gabrieli Tinti. One of the best intrigue/caper movies ever! Delightful is the perfect word to describe this film that is full of sci-fi gimmicks, plot twists, slick and not-so-slick criminals... 002—OPERATION MOON (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mónica Randall.  Franco and Ciccio (the Martin and Lewis of Italy) are actually pretty funny.  They have a certain shtick that works. The boys are sent into space to imitate a pair of lost Soviet spacemen...

THE HORRIBLE SEXY VAMPIRE (1971, Anamorphic) Wal Davis, Barta Barri, Anastasio Campoy, Susan Carvasal.  In spite of its lurid title, this is a pretty good movie, similar in some ways to The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.  A horrible series of killings, committed over a period of seven days... CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (1970, Anamorphic) Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Burt Young, Kaly Mills. A real guilty pleasure—a film so crappy that it’s very enjoyable; and it’s just filled with ‘70s drive-in schlock. There’s a psycho-killer roaming the midway at Coney Island...

HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (1973, Anamorphic) Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Alberto Dalbes, Maria Perschy.  Paul’s a ghastly hunchback with low intelligence. His only pal, a young lady, dies!  When a couple of guys dump her corpse into an acid vat, Paul goes nuts... HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB (1973, Anamorphic) Paul Naschy, Vic Winner, Emma Cohen, Helga Line. In Medieval France, a warlock has his head cut off. His wife is tortured and slain.  But...voila!  Paul's spirit returns to modern times...

HIGH SCHOOL CAESAR (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Ashley, Lowell Brown, Judy Nugent, Steve Stevens, Gary Vinson, Daria Massey. Ashley plays Matt Stevens, a rich teenager who, because of his wealth, found himself shunned at school.  So he sets up a high school protection racket that leads to all kinds of fun problems for school officials... DATE BAIT (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gary Clarke, Marlo Ryan. Boy meets girl. Love, lust, and trouble follow. Two teenagers are determined to marry, but find themselves at odds with a jealous teenage thug, as well as their parents. What'll they do?...

SAMSON AND THE 7 MIRACLES OF THE WORLD (1961) Gordon Scott, Yoko Tani. Considered by many to be one of the great sword and sandal pictures of the 1960s. Samson fights against a murdering horde of Tartar warriors while trying to save the life of a beautiful Chinese princess... VULCAN, SON OF JUPITER (1962, Anamorphic) Rod "Flash" Ilush, Bella Cortez, Liliana Zagra, Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell.  Another beautiful upgrade of one of our most popular S&S titles.  There are lots of horror and fantasy elements here—Ancient gods, lizard-like monsters, and strange underground creatures...

(1960-1963) Here's a bundle of FIVE chilling Edgar Wallace classics, all filled with monstrous madmen and sinister characters—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  DOOR WITH THE SEVEN LOCKS (1962); THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE (1960); THE STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963); THE BLACK ABBOT (1963); and THE AVENGER (1960)  See more...

(1957-1971) Here's a bundle of FIVE rock 'em sock 'em monster brawl classics, all filled with monstrous boogeymen and sinister fiends—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969); GAMERA VS. THE DEVIL BEAST GUIRON (1969); THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957); WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1970); and HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (1973)  See more...

(1941-1966) Here's a bundle of SIX fantastic classics, all featuring mad scientists and other science created monstrosities—and all for just $49 postpaid!  You get:  ISLAND OF TERROR (1966) THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) THE MANSTER (1959) BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1959) MONSTROSITY (1963) THE DEVIL BAT (1941) See more...

(1959-1962) Here's a bundle of SIX terrific films, all with a Space Opera theme to them—and all for just $49 postpaid!  You get:  BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961); FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1960); THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961); ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1960); DESTINATION SPACE (1959); BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN (1962)  See more...

GIRL ON THE RUN (1953) Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Charles Bolender, Harry Bannister, Renee De Milo, Edith King, Steve McQueen.  This sordid film-noir exploitation oddity is centered around a trashy burlesque carnival, which of course means lots of skimpily-dressed buxom beauties... THE SCARLET WEB (1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival.  What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be.  Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murder...

BEES IN PARADISE (1944) Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Antoinette Cellier. This may be the only Lost World-Lost Race musical comedy ever made.  It’s amazing this film has escaped the eye of sci-fi and fantasy historians, because in spite of its comedy and musical themes, there’s no doubt of the film’s fantastic cinema elements... TIME FLIES (1944) Evelyn Dall, Tommy Handley, George Moon, Felix Aylmer. This is a marvelous sci-fi comedy about a quirky professor who’s invented a combo spaceship/time machine....

(1960-1970) Here's a bundle of FIVE chilling classics, all with a witchcraft theme to them—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  HORROR HOTEL (1960); BLACK SUNDAY (1960); BLOOD DEMON (1967); MARK OF THE DEVIL (1969); WITCH KILLER OF BLACKMOOR (1970)  See more...

(1931) Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke.  This great two-disc set features the rare English-language UK edition, which includes additional footage actually shot in the UK and added to the film.  And yes…Lorre did dub his own voice for the English version.  Also included in this two-disc set is the original German language edition with brand new English subtitles...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mónica Randall.  Franco and Ciccio (the Martin and Lewis of Italy) are actually pretty funny.  They have a certain shtick that works. The boys are sent into space to imitate a pair of lost Soviet spacemen...

(1960, Upgraded 12/29/20) Peter Van Eyck, Gerte Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a Posh hotel that is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. Van Eyk plays the rich American who...

(1965) Thomas Alder, Peter Carsten, Chitra Ratana, Horst Frank. Here's a neat piece of intrigue laced with bizarre and exotic settings, including an ancient lost city filled with ancient stone idols and cru

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1916) Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Matt Moore, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton.  NEW MUSIC SCORE! This, the first filmed version of the Verne classic, portrays Captain Nemo as an opium-smoking, ousted Indian (India) prince.  His goal, outside of sinking many ships, is very personal...

(1937, Grand Nat.) James Ellison, Terry Walker, Morgan Hill, Arthur Lake. An Army drill instructor bets that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer. However, he gets int

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pino Colizzi, Lauren Madison, Paul Janning, Annie Stuart, Lauren Madison, Sergio Rossi.   What a cool little Euro-chiller this turned out to be!  Members of a criminal organization are camped out in a gloomy, forlorn old mansion in the middle of a creepy forest...

(1962) Brad Harris, Susan Paget, Mara Lane, Jany Clair. A treacherous Roman noble commits crimes, then blames Christians. Harris and his pals pose as gladiators and try to infiltrate the enemy. However, t

(1927) Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran, David Butler.   One of the truly great silent films. Farrell, as Chico, is a Paris sewer worker who falls in with Diane (Gaynor), a prostitute in reputation only, but still a target of the French police.  Chico saves her...

(1973, Upgraded 11/14/21) Sue Lyon, Christoper Mitchum, Jean Sorel, Ramon Pons, Charly Bravo, Alfredo Alba. This Euro sci-fi chiller is set in the future. After witnessing the disposal of a dead body, an outcast gang member is forced to take part in a weird mind-control experiment in a secret laboratory. There, a beautiful nurse prepares him for...

A DEVILISH MURDER—Widescreen Edition (1965, Upgraded 11-22-24) Ye-chun Lee, Do Geum Bung, Ae-ran Jeong, Bin-hwa Lee, Kung-won Nam.  The cat-like creature-ghost of a beautiful woman terrorizes a family in their neighborhood home.  It turns out the creature is the ghost of the man’s dead wife, who was murdered by his own mother and jealous cousin... 

(1963 aka MECHTE NAVSTRECHU) Larisa Gordeichik, Boris Borisyonok, Otar Koberidze, Peeter Kard.  After receiving radio waves from our solar system, the inhabitants of planet Centuria send out a starship toward Earth.  Dues to technical problems, though, their starship is forced to land on Mars...

(1949) Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham, John Le Mesurier, Ian Fleming, directed by John Gilling. Riscoe charms everyone’s socks off in this smooth murder thriller. She takes in a new boa

(1962) Terry-Thomas, Alex Nicol, Honor Blackman.  An oil geologist arrives at the London airport.  He is very ill—he has small pox!  This sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for any other contagious people.  The World Health Organization’s top investigator, Terry-Thomas, is put on the case...

(1913) Crissie Bell, E. Holman Clark, Hubert Willis.  Britain's first full-length sci-fi film.  A Martian having offended his ruler is exiled to Earth with the mission to change the heart of a selfish man.  Based on a highly popular stage play, Message to Mars features futuristically clad Martians, thought transference, instant space travel, mind control...

A PLACE OF ONE’S OWN (1945) James Mason, Dennis Price, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Ernest Thesiger.  In this often chilling ghost story, Mason and his wife (and their beautiful young companion, Lockwood) move into an eerie old mansion that’s been vacant for forty years.  Strange things begin to happen: voices are heard from nowhere, pianos playing in the night, etc.  It’s soon obvious that the ghost of a murdered woman is afoot...

(1967) Hae Hwang, Ae-ran Jeong, Mi-ae Kang, Do Kum-Bong, No-shik Park.  This Asian chiller has all kinds of grisly stuff:  Acid thrown in the face, eyes being gouged out, the horror of drug addition, vengeful ghosts, etc.  The plot is pretty simple, a former geisha girl takes her life because she’s essentially lost her husband to the wanton lure of a servant girl.  But like in any good Asian ghost story, revenge is a must!  So...

(1918) Gunnar Tolnaes, Zanny Peterson, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blutecher. A splendid silent classic about man’s first trip to Mars. A sea captain and an aging scientist build a spaceship and set out

(1935) Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, John Stuart, Adrienne Ames Walter Rilla, Patric Knowles, Eric Portman, George Zucco.  Kortner is great as the Sultan Abdul Hamid, who rules precariously over the Turkish Empire.  He lives in constant fear of assassination, but his chief of security (Asther) does a good job making his enemies “disappear.”  But he is swept off his feet when a beautiful British stage star comes into his life...

(1936, Universal) John King, Noah Beery, Jr., 13 chapters. Aerial thrills over Mongolia...

(1935, Ajax) Harry Carey, Gertie Messinger, Ted Lorch, Phil Dunham, Fred Toones. Harry rides into Durango only to find himself involved in a battle of wits with a local bad man. He teams up with the

(1934) Joan Lowell. A riotously bad jungle docu-drama. Lowell, a self-styled adventuress, retells her “true” adventures in the wilds of Guatemala. Her overacting is a sight to see, especially in the clima

(1947) Rory Calhoun, Ronda Flemming, Paul Kelly, Alan Napier. FIRST TIME IN COLOR! Two sailors plot to steal goods off their own vessel. They end up shipwrecked on a jungle isle ruled by a madman w

(1964) Guy Madison, Nadia Gray, Rik Battaglia. In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress. She falls in love with the pirate and to

(1951) Jack Hawkins, Dennis Price, Siobhan McKenna, Peter Hammond, Bernard Lee. A fine cast is featured in this cool action thriller. After the end of the Boer War in South African a group of fortune

(1943) Hans Albers, Hermann Speelmans, Käthe Haack, Ferdinand Marian.  Armed with immortality, Munchausen rides horses, hot air balloons and even cannon balls as he travels the world saving beautiful ladies of royalty.  He is aided by his faithful servant who is armed with a fantastic rifle that can hit targets from 100 miles away and a runner who can sprint great distances in seconds... 

(1949) Christabel Leighton-Porter, Stanelli, Michael Hogarth, Ian Colin, Peter Butterworth.  This film is based on “Jane,” a popular comic strip in WWII Britain about the lewd misadventures of a sexy young blonde.  Leighton-Porter, in the title role, plays a burlesque dancer who unknowingly transports a stolen diamond for some conniving jewel thieves...

(1943, Universal) Tom Brown, 13 chapters, Plenty of action and espionage in this long thought to be lost wartime serial.

(1934, Security) Wally Wales, Al Mix, Buffalo Bill, Jr. This ultra rare B western short has Wally and Al being dry-gulched by the very outlaw they’re trailing. Made for pennies by Denver Dixon. ALSO: HE

(1939, Equity) Monty Rawlins, Betty Burgess, Larry Mason. This film is light years away from being a classic B western, but it's sooo campy you just can't help liking it. Yet, it does have some genuinely

(1932, Upgraded 11/24/23) Hugh Williams, Horace Hodges, Gretha Hansen, Ian Fleming. If it wasn't British, this would be in the Forgotten Horrors book. Hugh (Inspector Holt in HUMAN MONSTER) has some valuable jewels stolen.  They're hidden in the back of an old clock in an...

(1965) Heinz Drache, Barbara Rutting, Klaus Kinski, Brigitte Horney, Margot Trooger, Eddi arent. The mad killer, “The Ringer” (aka “Der Hexer”) returns to England. This time to punish criminals who have committed murders under...

(1964) Brad Newman, Eric Douglas. A secret agent seeks a fellow spy in hiding...

ALABAMA’S GHOST (1973, Updated 03-26-25) Christopher Brooks, Peggy Browne, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Steven Kent Browne, Ken Grantham.  A nightclub stage manager stumbles upon a forgotten, secret chamber underneath his nightclub.  Inside is an old magician's belongings.  He tries on the costume and…voila…he becomes "Alabama, King of the Cosmos."  His new identity leads to a lot more than he bargained for...

(1962) Dan Harrison, Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez. A new king to the Golden Throne of the Majii is to be named. The leaders of eight tribes must duel to the death, the winner to be named king. Ali

(1956) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox. A must-see for all Chris Lee fans. He plays a man, tormented by murderous dreams, who eventually becomes a Jekyll and Hyde type. Very rare and very

(1977, Upgraded 4/15/22) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux.  A great fantasy-horror film.  A woman leaves her husband one stormy night.  She drives on a lonely road, but when her windshield breaks she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  The woman spends the night, but next morning she finds no trace of her hosts.  Finding her car repaired, she tries to leave but soon realizes it’s impossible...

(1980, Upgraded 2/25/23) Ian McCulloch, Louise Marlo, Marino Mase, Siegfried Rauch. What a hoot! This Alien rip-off starts with an eerie ship pulling into NY harbor. On board is a cargo of green pulsating eggs. The eggs explode and cause a green acid to get into...

(1989) Daniel Bosch, Marina Giulia Cavalli, Luciano Pigozzi, directed by Antonio Margheritti.  In hopes of getting a scandalous exposé, a lovely ecological activist and her cameraman sneak into a top secret facility where the workmen of a shady corporation are dumping radioactive scrap into the core of a live volcano.  This results in a beam of unchecked energy being shot out into outer space.  What no one expects, though...

THE INTRUDER (1933) Monte Blue. A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT (1933) Lyle Talbot. PICTURE BRIDES (1933) Regis Toomey. THE GAY BUCKAROO (1932) Hoot Gibson. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

A PARISIAN ROMANCE (1932) Lew Cody.  OFFICER 13 (1933) Monte Blue.  ONE YEAR LATER (1933) Russell Hopton.  VANITY FAIR (1932) Myrna Loy.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1962) Lang Jeffries, Rossana Podesta, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Tinti. This is a taut thriller about the cruelty of a Roman Tribune who subjects the citizens in his province to muc

(1945) Bernard Blier, Sophie Desmarets, Jacques Pills, Jean Davy, Louis Salou, Ginette Baudin.  This isn’t a good movie, it’s a great movie—one of the best mysteries we’ve released in a long, long time. Blier is the rookie detective assigned to the murder-by-strangling cases of two young women.  The only clue he has is that the killer is always heard softly singing a current hit tune before he strikes...

(1977, Upgraded 7/11/22) Tim Brinton, Gregory Munroe, Carol Hazell.  In the middle of a world ecological disaster and the start of a new ice-age, the world is told that the space race and the cold war between the U.S. and Russia are fake.  Both countries are secretly planning the assembly of a Mars colony. It also seems the Apollo moon landings were only a cloak shielding what’s really happening on the moon...

(1937, Victory) Herman Brix, Joan Barclay, Monte Blue. Joan steals a precious gem from a couple of loan sharks. Herman gets tangled up in her messy situation. A fun cheapie from Sam Katzman. 16mm.

(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...

(1948, Upgraded 10/1/21) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist—Turhan Bey.  It's a great scene.  She soon becomes involved with his mystic practices, but is he...

(1959, Upgraded 11/5/21) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. One of our best selling 50's sci-fi B classics. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. He breaks into military installations and banks, stealing radioactive materials and money. The film's climax features a struggle between Griffith and Kennedy in a lab where an atomic explosion is...

(1978) Narr. by Sid Paul. Using ”actual” clips, this film explores haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, etc. The footage is laden with lurid narration. The producers obviously loved the whole UFO fad, becau

VALLEY OF WANTED MEN (1935) Frankie Darro. RED BLOOD OF COURAGE (1935) Kermit Maynard. TOUGH TO HANDLE (1937) Frankie Darro. SWING IT PROFESSOR (1937) Pinky Tomlin. Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

1. THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (1954) 2. HOT ROD GIRL (1956) 3. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) 4. ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959) Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1962, Upgraded 3/10/23) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Coastal villages live in dread of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil." It turns out that the creature is a product of man, not...

(1935) Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Käthe Gold, Fita Benkhoff.  Jupiter, looking down from Mt. Olympus, falls for an Earth woman, Alkmene, whose husband is the mighty Theban soldier, Amphitryon.  With only a day left before the return of the Theban Army, Jupiter and Mercury come to Thebes disguised as Amphitryon and his drunken pal, Sosias.  They explain that they have returned from war a day early, which gives them a whole night to work their charms on their unsuspecting wives...

(1932) Harry Piel, Fritz Odemar, Lissy Arna, Annemarie Sorensen, Olga Limburg.  Harry is a taxi driver who finds an odd contraption on the back seat of his cab that renders him invisible.  He soon uses it to gain wealth and fame.  Watch for the scene at the racetrack where Harry scores a fortune.  His servant, though, has other ideas...

(1961) Alastair Sim, George Cole, Michael Ripper, Jill Bennett. Another retelling of the dastardly exploits of the world's most famous body snatchers: Burke and Hare. This literate British version

(1961, Upgraded 12/2/21) Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard, Russ Bender. A juvenile delinquent swears revenge on all those who helped send his wacko brother to the gas chamber. He and his sleazy girlfriend decide to bump them off one at a time...

(1961) Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Dorian Gray, Franca Valeri. There are seven key witnesses in this GREAT murder thriller that has a touch of wit attached to it. An old woman is

(1960) Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina. A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Story concerns a young girl who comes to prison and experiences the ent

(1954) Giuli Chokhonelidze, Konstantin Russu, Nodar Shashigoglu, directed by Sergei Parajanov.  A young shepherd is given a magic woodwind instrument to help him conquer his foes.  This movie is filled with dark fantasy and has its fair share of creepy moments.  Look for evil wizards, storm demons—even flying sheep...!  

(1962) Peter Halliday, Susan Hampshire, Noel Johnson, John Hollis, Mary Morris. Wow! A beautiful alien-created female is kidnapped by a powerful international corporation that possesses a giant super...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

1943, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal.  During a series of weird experiments, Bela transforms into an ape man!  He needs spinal fluid to return to normal.  Bela uses a killer ape to stalk his victims.  SPECIAL NOTE FROM GREG LUCE, OWNER OF SINISTER CINEMA:  Looking back, Sinister Cinema has had this title out literally for decades....

(1943, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Louise Currie, Minerva Urecal. During a series of bizarre experiments, mad scientist Belai literally goes ape--turning into a half man/half ape monstrosity that needs Human spinal fluid to return to any semblance of normalcy.  His quest for it leads him and his pet ape on a terrifying...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Ray Corrigan, Philo McCullough. Boris plays a "well-intentioned" mad scientist trying to find a cure for paralysis.  Unfortunately, his research depends on spinal fluid taken from living (soon to be dead) humans.  But when an escaped gorilla crashes into his lab...

(1958) Isabelle Corey, Anthony Steffen, Irène Tunc, Ivo Garrani.  This is the story of Antigone, a ruler obsessed with the building of a sacred temple. Standing in the way are dissatisfied multitudes and an outbreak of plague.  He takes aim at the local Christians in a manner reminiscent of Demetrius and the Gladiators.  Steffan is Demetrio, a sculptor whose love for a beautiful slave girl (Corey) brings him loads of trouble...

APRIL 1st, 2000 (1952, Updated 4-2-25) Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Judith Holzmeister.  In the year 2000 the world is run by the World Global Union.  Smaller countries are still allowed to have their own puppet governments, but none have total freedom—that is, until Austria’s new President declares his country’s freedom.  But within hours WGU forces are streaking toward Austria...