(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...