IT'S BACK!  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, October 2nd, 2023. So don't delay, simply...

Sinister Cinema's CUSTOMER APPRECIATION SALE returns! Now through Monday, October 2nd, buy ANY SEVEN DVD or book titles from anywhere on the Sinister Cinema website for only $59, postpaid...

(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...

DEMENTIA 13 (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee, Bart Patton.  A choice chiller set in an eerie mansion with ax murders a-plenty.  A scheming widow plans to snag her late husband’s inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding killer... THE TERROR (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze. Jack’s a wandering soldier who traces a ghostly lady to the castle of a mysterious baron played by Boris. Strange, supernatural things begin to happen...

SATAN’S TRIANGLE (1975) Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Jim Davis.  McClure and his Coast Guard helicopter pal come upon a shipwreck in an area called “Devil’s Triangle.”  When McClure is lowered to the ship he finds corpses galore... INN OF THE DAMNED (1975, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Alex Cord, Dame Judith Anderson, Michael Craig, Joseph Furst, Tony Bonner.   At a sinister old inn, the elderly owners have a habit of bumping off their guests in grisly fashion...

GLADIATORS 7 (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Richard Harrison, Loredana Nusciak, Gerard Tichy, Livio Lorenzon.  A gladiator epic with a dash of humor thrown in.  Framed for helping the escape of several gladiators... WAR GODS OF BABYLON (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Howard Duff, Jocelyn Lane, Luciano Marin, Giancarlo Sbragia.  A powerful king and his naïve younger sibling clash over the affections of a gorgeous peasant woman...

INVISIBLE CREATURE (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne, Sam Kydd, Derek Aylward.  Pretty Patricia Dainton inherits her aunt’s estate, which includes a valuable but haunted mansion... UNCLE WAS A VAMPIRE (1959, 35mm English Anamorphic Ed.) (1959) Christopher Lee, Renato Rascel, Susanne Loret. Lee comes to visit his nephew (Rascel) in the hopes of finding some new female blood...

PSYCHO CIRCUS (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski.  A botched heist ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer. The shooter is given the chance to give the boss his share... RAT FINK (1966. Anamorphic Widescreen) Schuyler Hayden, Hal Bokar, Warrene Ott, Judy Hughes.  A great film!  Hayden is a ruthless rock singer wannabe who takes what he wants, unafraid to stamp out anybody who gets in his way...

DAY OF THE NIGHTMARE (1965, Anamorphic Wides.) John Ireland, Beverly Bains, Cliff Fields, Elena Verdugo, John Hart. A real unsung psycho-horror gem.  A woman seemingly returns from the grave to take revenge upon her enemies... THE SEVENTH GRAVE (1965, Anamorphic) Stéphania Nelli, Bruna Baini, Nando Angelini, Armando Guarnieri.  A collection of heirs gather for the reading of Sir Robert Thorne's will in a forlorn Scottish castle, which is reportedly haunted and also the hiding place of a lost treasure...

A NIGHT OF THE DEVILS (1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera. This is a grim, superbly made Euro-horror film, much in flashback.  Garco’s car breaks down as he’s driving through the dark countryside. He seeks help from a strange family... SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (1972 Anamorphic Widescreen) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, John Carradine, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren. O’Neal inherits a mansion that was once a mental institution owned by his late grandfather...

INQUISITION (1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Juan Gallardo.  Paul is a 16th century witch hunting judge.  He falls in love with the daughter of a warlock whom he sentenced to death.  She makes a pact with Satan and soon Naschy finds... CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS (1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ronald Tanet, Maureen Ridley, Wayne Mack. A GI returning from war becomes a hermit.  He moves into a shack out in a swamp. Believing the GI has a hidden stash of money, thieves sneak into his shack and murder him...

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) 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 AMPHIBIAN MAN (1962) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Shoreline villages live in fear of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil," who terrorizes the coast.  It turns out that the creature is not only the product of man (and not of nature), but the result of...

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier. The setting is London during the Jack the Ripper killing spree.  Palance plays a reserved research pathologist who takes up lodgings in a sitting room with a spooky attic room for his "experiments...”  THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries. This B-quickie has both sci-fi and horror elements.  Hanley is a fierce young reporter who tackles the story of a hooded black rider who is seen (on a motorcycle) near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...

ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1962) Rick Von Nutter, Archie Savage. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman. An enjoyable, underrated sci-fi 'B' opus about an astronaut who's stranded on an invisible

BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) 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, Anamorphic Widescreen) 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...

(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...

(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) Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell, Leontine Snell. One of the rarest of all '60's sci-fi films. An alien spaceship from the planet Hydra lands on Earth and kidnaps a group of humans. Hibernating robots, al

(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

(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

(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) 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...