MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET

Can't get a date for Saturday night? "Cinema Insomnia" is an affordable alternative. On this limited-edition DVD, Mr. Lobo presents "Monster From A Prehistoric Planet," along with monster movie trailers, vintage TV commercials, drive-in snack bar ads, a salute to Japan's "Playmate" magazine and more bigtime hands-above-the-covers retro low-budget late-late-night TV fun. Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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CREATURE

Mr. Lobo spoofs Alien and Alien knockoffs, Presents trailers from Forbiddden Planet and Alien, and interviews hollywoods most favorite corpse.

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GIGANTIS: THE FIRE MONSTER

You're not dreaming - "Cinema Insomnia" is available on yet another special limited edition DVD. In this third episode, Mr. Lobo presents the rarely seen original sequel to Toho's King Of The Monsters - "Gigantis: The Fire Monster," along with monster movie trailers, vintage TV commercials, drive-in snack bar ads, a rare interview with the Fire Monster himself and a whole mess of retro low-budget late-late-night TV fun. Now only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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PRINCE OF SPACE

You've seen "Mystery Science Theatre's" take on this bizarre Japanese Superhero Adventure - now, see it without those annoying shadow puppets in the lower right corner. "Cinema Insomnia" presents another limited-edition DVD. In this 25th episode, Mr. Lobo presents "Prince Of Space," the collapsed serial masquerading as a movie, along with monster movie trailers, vintage TV commercials, drive-in snack bar ads, a promo with the Phantom of Krankor singing his greatest hits - and the usual mess of retro low-budget late-late-night TV fun. Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS

Mr. Lobo learns the true meaning of Misunderstood Movies with this infamous horror host holiday staple and features some great toy commercials. Get the "Dropo" on this hilarious episode!

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HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

William Castle has whipped out his gimmick again and Vincent Price isnot afraid to use it! Great halloween special featuring the debut of the Cinema Insomnia anthem "Watching TV"sung by Ron Dante of "The Archies"! Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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LAST MAN ON EARTH

Mr. Lobo find himself stranded alone on an unkind planet with only this italian made film adaption of Matheson's "I am Legend" to keep him company. Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

No, it's not about Mr. Lobo's honeymoon - this is the original low-budget Halloween classic about rampaging brain-eaters from beyond the grave. Part Of Mr. Lobo's Shloktober Slumberfest! Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE

An arrogant young surgeon scours strip clubs to find the perfect body for his wife's severed head - kept alive in a roasting pan! Bitter and telepathic, she communicates with the medical mistake behind the laboratory door and plots revenge. The drive-in cult classic presented in Blood-O-Vision (you can get your special Blood-O-Vision Glasses from us). Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN

Mr. Lobo broadcasts live from the Runik 2 space station! Japanese kids in short pants and Sonny Chiba, as prancing superhero Space Chief, battle with bullet headed arch welders from the water planet. See Starman and Prince Of Space for nearly identical adventures! Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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CARNIVAL OF SOULS

Part of Mr. Lobo's Shloktober Slumberfest! Herk Harvey directs the dear-caught-in-the-headlights Candace Hilligoss, who can't escape from the "man". An inspiration for Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan (among too many others). You'll gasp, you'll cringe, you'll wonder why it wasn't condensed into a half-hour episode of The Twilight Zone. Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS

The truth is encoded here - on this special edition "Cinema Insomnia" DVD. In this tenth episode, Mr. Lobo (with a little help from Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, providing the narration) presents the made-for-TV movie based on "Chariots Of The Gods" - along with sci-fi movie trailers, vintage TV commercials, drive-in snack bar ads, a terribly cute interview with "Deep Space Nine" star Chase Masterson and the usual mess of retro low-budget late-late-night TV fun. Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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BIGFOOT: Mysterious Monster

As Peter graves putters around the woods in this Sun Shick Classic Crockumentary, Mr. Lobo goes from Loch Ness to Area 51 and scores exclusive interviews with Bigfoot's hair stylist, Bigfoot's prom date and Bigfoot's 5th grade teacher.

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STARCRASH

Mr. Lobo has a showdown with Louisiana Klingons and travels to distant worlds with Europes Sci-Fi hostess Astonaughty to save the last remaining print of this Star Wars/ Barbarella rip off, starring David Hasslehoff and Caroline Munroe.

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HORROR OF PARTY BEACH

Mr. Lobo invents a hotdog steamer that looks like the ridiculous monster from Del Tenney's horror musical. It can cook an entire pack of hot dogs in it's mouth! Episode Includes trailer for The Incredibly Stange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies and other retro dance party madness.

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BUCKET OF BLOOD

Shot on location at the famous Java Lounge, Mr. Lobo accidently kills beatniks with his bad poetry and grinds them into a new flavored coffee. Brought to you in Blood-O-Vision with gorey trailers galore!

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DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME

Also Known as Dick Tracy meets Boris Karloff. Chester Goulds classic character from the Sunday comics becomes even more 2-D! Trailers from Crime Genre films, 1930's to present and rival host Lady Skankenstein steals the second half of the movie! A "must see" for CI fans!

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BOB WILKINS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

Support your local horror hosts! Mr. Lobo is proud to present the lost Cinema Insomnia Halloween Special from 2002, with special guest Bob Wilkins, the legendary host of Creature Features. Only US$13.13 (that amount already includes the postage and tax)!

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Coffee Mugs

REGULAR SIZE CINEMA INSOMNIA MUG

Espresso yourself! Grown & picked in the finest coffee cup regions of the world, this 8oz. mug is roasted at its peak to lock in that subtle ceramic flavor!

LARGE SIZE CINEMA INSOMNIA MUG

As seen on TV! When this huge 15oz mug is filled with your favorite caffinated beverage, it will help usher in your next all-night monster party and nurse away all your bad-movie hangovers.

The Terror

Director: Roger Corman. Starring Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight. See if you can make sense of this plot. France, 18th century. Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been separated from his regiment.Wandering the coast, he sees a young woman. He tries to ask direction but the woman doesn't answer, doesn't even greet him and he follows her to the sea, where she disappears in rough water. Andre passes out, and is attacked by a bird. He awakes in a house with an old woman who claims to have never seen the woman. After he leaves, he sees her again and when trying to follow her is saved by another man from certain death. He learns that to help the girl, he must go to castle of Baron Van Leppe. When he arrives, Andre sees the woman looking from a window. Baron Van Leppe is old and seems reluctant to let Andre in however. He claims there's no woman in the castle, but shows Andre a painting which does indeed portray her. Andre learns that the woman is the baroness, who died twenty years ago. What is the baron's secret? Does anyone care? Shot with leftover actors and props from Cormans The Raven...clean up crew included Frances Ford Copella and Jack Hill.

51 minutes

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman's 1956 film has been parodied by everyone from Woody Allen to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, but it remains one of the strangest and richest classics of world cinema. Max Von Sydow plays a knight returning from the Crusades to encounter an apocalyptic scenario inspired by the Book of Genesis. He plays chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot), sees a manacled witch, watches a band of flagellants go by--all of it foretelling an inevitable end to life. Unabashedly allegorical and lyrical and existing in a world unto itself, the film is enormously mesmerizing no matter what one thinks of the weighty meanings Bergman has attached to it all.

VoyageTo The Prehistoric Planet

In the year 2020, cosmonaut Marcia (Faith Domergue) orbits the planet Venus while two astronauts and a robot journey on the surface. Professor Hartman (Basil Rathbone) is also on hand to observe the exploration from a distance. The explorers are attacked by prehistoric beasts, and then lose their robot (and nearly their lives!) in a volcanic eruption that engulfs the planet. They conclude that the Venusians were really human beings who destroyed their civilization with nuclear warfare

My Favorite Brunette

Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. There follow confusing but sinister doings in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium, with every plot twist a parody of thriller cliches. What are the villains really after? Can Ronnie beat a framed murder rap?

Captain Kidd

In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats...and Orange Povey, whom Kidd once abandoned on a reef and hoped never to see again. Of course, Kidd's intentions are treacherous. But there's more to gunner Adam Mercy than meets the eye.

Scarlet Pimpernel

"That damned elusive Pimpernel" finds a dashing embodiment in Leslie Howard, who has the steel to be an action hero and the wit to hide behind his alter ego: a British fop. Based on Baroness Orczy's novel, the story focuses on the efforts of this British dandy to aid members of the French aristocracy in escaping the guillotines of the French revolution. He also romances Merle Oberon, a beauty forgotten by recent generations, and engages in a wonderfully wicked duel of wits with the humorless enforcer for the French Republicans (Raymond Massey). If somewhat short on swashbuckling, it's long on the kind of costume drama that Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do. Remade in 1982 for television, in an equally engaging version starring Anthony Andrews.

Scarlet Street

Psycho crime drama. Director: Fritz Lang. Starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea.
1 hour, 35 minutes

Sundown

Dangerous! Intriguing! Fascinating! Gene Tierney plays beautiful native girl who assists British troops in Africa during WWII. A grand adventure, gorgeously photographed, and adapted from Barre Lyndon's book.

The Day The Earth Caught Fire

Despite its melodramatic title, which carried on a '50s doomsday naming convention, this taut 1961 English science fiction thriller offers an object lesson in the power of story over special effects. When both the Soviets and the West detonate nuclear tests simultaneously, the seismic double whammy jolts the earth off its axis and onto a new orbit sending it fatally closer to the sun--a fate that writer-director-producer Val Guest views from the street-level perspective of its principal characters, rather than an off-world vantage point. The street in question, however, is London's Fleet Street, the venerable hub of its newspaper and tabloid publishers, and the hard-nosed reporters growing realization that their number is up carries its own stark punch. Edward Judd is Peter Stenning, a rugged, appropriately grim reporter, Leo McKern is tough but compassionate editor Bill Maguire, and Janet Munro is Stenning's love interest, in an elfin, sexy turn that's a striking contrast to her best-known turn in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People. With an effects arsenal that consists largely of a spray bottle to apply beads of "sweat," Guest and his small but crack cast are surprisingly effective, and the cold war plot hook still works, thanks to its uncomfortable proximity to more contemporary environmental terrors.

Godzilla vs The Smog Monster

From Earth's thick and growing pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedrah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage to life in Japan and to the rest of the world. Originally called Gojira tai Hedora before the US version of the film was released in 1972. This is the first film in the series since Mosura tai Gojira (1964) to have a strong social message attached to it. Filled with cool hip songs and cool hip young people having a good time. It is also the first Godzilla movie in which Godzilla demonstrates his ability to fly by firing his atomic breath towards the ground and propelling himself backwards.

The Day Time Ended

Charles Band produces this yarn about a ranch family who is plagued by warps in time and space. Nearly incomprensible. Stars Jim Davis of Dallas fame and a bunch of nobody's. Some great 1970's stop motion animation but that's about it. Really. Please buy it, anyway.

Demons

Lamberto Bava, son of the Italian horror legend and giallo godfather Mario Bava, teamed up with modern master Dario Argento (cowriter and producer) for this slick gorefest, a triumph of style and special effects over movie logic. Set in a refurbished German movie palace, our hapless soon-to-be victims arrive for a sneak preview of a horror movie only to see the gore unfold in the audience, as well as onscreen. While the exposition remains murky, one patron finds that an infected cut leads to a gooey transformation, and every one of her victims follows suit until the snaggle-toothed monsters outnumber the humans. The survivors, trapped in the tomb of a theater, must fend off attacks à la George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Borrowing liberally from films such as Dawn of the Dead and The Tingler, Demons also anticipates Scream in its cinema-savvy references, not to mention its undeniably Neve Campbell-ish heroine. The blaring heavy-metal-hard-rock soundtrack and the carnival horror-house atmosphere helps remind us that this is all just stupid fun. Despite the overwhelming body count, excessive gore, and rivers of green demon pus, the cartoonishly grotesque killings avoid the sadistic edge of many Italian horror films. By the climax of the film the premise is long forgotten in a ghoul apocalypse, but who's watching this for the story anyway?

Wasp Woman

THE WASP WOMAN A Beautiful Woman by Day—A Lusting Queen Wasp by Night! [ Roger Corman, king of the cult classics, produced and directed this low-budget fear-fest, and even makes an uncredited cameo appearance as a doctor in one of the hospital scenes. Susan Cabot (Sorority Girl) plays Janice Starlin, whose cosmetics company has started to lose sales, because its marketing relies on her own once-impressive but now aging beauty. The eccentric Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) develops an enzyme extract from royal wasp jelly, which rejuvenates Janice, with one tiny little side effect: it turns her into a monster!

Santo vs The Vampire Women

It's a supernatural smackdown when a cult of vampire women goes from shriveled to sexy! Gorgeous Queen Zorina gives the girls a goblet of freshly-drained blood and plans on joining her husband in Hell, so the Vampire Babes need a new leader

A Christmas Carol

This is the desert-island choice of the many versions of A Christmas Carol, with a magnificent, full-bodied portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge by Alastair Sim that leaves everyone else in the dust. Lean and direct, this film's version of the story wastes no time trying to impress viewers with the magical nature of the spirits' visitations. Director Brian Desmond Hurst keeps the focus on Scrooge's life story, beautifully simplifying and underscoring the theme of lost women with a haunting musical refrain from the folk song "Barbara Allen." Sim's commitment to the role is at times astonishing; his Scrooge's Christmas-morning ecstasy is a marvel of giddy technique. Watch for Patrick Macnee (Steed in The Avengers) as the young Jacob Marley--the actor made his screen debut in this 1951 production.

She-Creature

Chester Morris stars as a hypnotist, who awakens a prehistoric monster that lives in the repressed past life memories of a beautiful girl. Paul Blysdale's super low budget monster design steals the show. Was done on Cinema Insomnia when it was thought to be in the public domain. He is the legitamate release.

First Spaceship on Venus

In a utopian future of universal peace and brotherhood--1985 to be specific--a mysterious artifact found in Siberia is discovered to be a message from Venus. While the recording is studied, an international team of scientists is rocketed off to make contact with the mysterious planet. It takes the film some time to get going (worldwide harmony makes for a beautiful future but pallid drama when everyone gets along so nicely), but things begin to cook once they land on the misty wasteland of Venus. Swarms of metal bugs hop from glassy mutant trees and bubbling black mud oozes after our astronaut heroes, but no Venusians can be found amidst the geodesic architecture and buzzing power plants. What they discover instead is a terrifying conspiracy wrapped in an anti-war parable. Based on a novel by Polish science fiction legend Stanislaw Lem (whose work also inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris), this German science fiction adventure is a visual treat, from the sleek, grand, silver spaceship and a funky purple Venus landscape of alien ruins and crystalline bubbles.

Nighmare in Blood

The streets of San Francisco run red when a horror convention comes to town, bringing with it a most unusual guest of honor: Malakai, a mysterious cult actor who#s also a real life bloodsucker! With his two henchmen, the reincarnations of bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, the fanged menace perplexes Bay Area police, leaving all hope in the hands of mystery novelist Seabrook, amateur sleuth Scotty, fashion designer Cindy, comic book expert Gary, and Nazi hunter Ben-Halik. The intrepid vampire hunters track the fiend to his secret lair beneath a movie theater, where diabolical experiments have enabled Malakai to tamper with life and death itself! Featuring Kerwin Mathews (7th Voyage of Sinbad) and directed by horror guru John Stanley, this tongue- in-cheek monster mash will have you clutching your armrests in fright!

Day of the Triffids

The Triffids are coming! The Triffids are killing! A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind. This chaos results in the escape of some Triffids: experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people.

Plan Nine From Outer Space

You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. Now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places-we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. Can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space? Can your head stand the idea of aliens invading the earth by raising the dead to get them to attack the living? If so, this is the horror thriller for you!

Hardware Wars

A parody of Star Wars, presented in the form of a movie preview. Young Fluke Starbucker, under the tutelage of Auggie "Ben" Doggie, learns to master the power of the Force, while teaming up with Ham Salad to rescue Princess Anne-Droid and aid her fight against the evil Empire.

Frankenstein vs The Creature From Blood Cove

Near an isolated beach on the California coast, in a laboratory of horror three renegade scientists have resurrected Frankenstein's long-dead monster. . . the legendary, indestructible corpse has come back to life yet again! At the same time, they've biogenetically engineered a half-man, half-fish abomination, intending to use both brutes as weapons in the worldwide fight against terrorism. However, disaster strikes when the chemical brainwashing used to control the terrifying beasts fails - instead of stopping terror, these invincible fiends spread terror! The horror begins when the amphibious beast claims its first victims - gorgeous models and their crew shooting a glamorous photo spread on the beach! Rescued and held hostage by the scientists, the survivors of the grisly rampage must find a way to escape both their mad captors and the rampaging monsters, and warn the world of the horrific danger!

The Giant Gila Monster

A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chopming on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.

Devil Doll

Vorelli is a ventriloquist & hypnotist, with an amazing dummy, Hugo. Vorelli meets and pursues a beautiful heiress (Marianne); he mesmerizes her, and induces a baffling coma. His buxom mistress (Magda) fears he'll dump her for the younger woman, and threatens to expose him. Vorelli tricks Hugo into killing Magda while he's safely elsewhere. Marianne's boyfriend Mark investigates. He discovers another killing in Vorelli's past, of a man called Hugo. The girl wakes from her coma, and announces she will marry the hypnotist. When the triumphant Vorelli tells Hugo his plans for Marianne and a new, female dummy, a final confrontation yields surprising results.

The Killer Shrews

THE KILLER SHREWS They Devour Bones, Flesh, Marrow…Everything. Best known as Deputy Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, Ken Curtis produced and co-stars in this schlock classic about giant shrews that consume their body weight every eight hours. James Best is Thorne Sherman, forced by a hurricane to take refuge on the isolated island of Dr. Marlowe Craigis (Baruch Lumet), whose experiments mutated the hungry critters. Thorne makes a friend in the doctor’s daughter, Ann (Ingrid Goude), and an enemy in his assistant, Jerry Farrell (Curtis)—but they must all work together when the fur starts to fly!

Killers From Space

Combine Cold War paranoia with a pinch of speculative pseudo-science and a dash of radiation anxiety, shake it in a cheap sci-fi tumbler for 70-minutes and you get KILLERS FROM SPACE.
A very young Peter Graves plays the desert scientist studying nuclear blasts and counting the radiation. When his plane crashes after one blast and he's missing for a few days things change. A big, ugly cautery scar over his heart doesn't explain much, either. Of course, nobody believes him when he tells them there's a troop of ping pong ball-eyed aliens living in the caverns in Yucca Flats, poaching our electricity and growing gigantic beetles and rock lizards....

Dark Side of The Sun

Brad Pitt stars in this (yugoslavian?) cheapy about a young American man who has a rare disease that prevents him from ever going out in the sun and is forced to wear a leather gimp outfit and travel to countries with no film unions in search of a cure. He meets a gypsy girl at a mascarade party and yearns to be a part of the daylight world. Hilarous early role for Brad Pitt.

Attack Of The Giant Leaches

It's hard to say whether this is a low-rent Southern Gothic melodrama or a monster movie; it seems that director Bernard Kowalski couldn't make up his mind which genre to pursue. A local poacher turns up in the swamp half-dead with sucker marks all over his body. Soon after, a fat slob bartender (Corman regular Bruno VeSota) finds his hottie of a wife making out with her boyfriend and forces them into the swamp at gunpoint. From there, the two become a leech snack. When more people disappear in the bayou, the local game warden and resident scientist (isn't there always one, regardless of how remote the place is?) take it seriously and discover the monstrous bloodsuckers. Despite the grade-Z trappings of this movie, threadbare plot, and ludicrous monsters, there are still some chilling and effective moments, such as the scene where doomed victims of the leeches are left to watch in horror as their attackers approach in their lair.

Infra-Man

After being frozen for eons, evil Princess Dragonmom surfaces from the depths of the earth. With an army of monsters, and plans for a global takeover, she begins her campaign of terror and destruction. In order to fight the princess, Professor Chang uses a volunteer to create Inframan - an indestructible superhero who is equal parts man and machine. When the evil princess kidnaps the professor's daughter, Inframan must try to save her - and the world - before it's too late. Inframan is filled with kung fu action and 70's sci-fi thrills, with a groovy electronic soundtrack that will take you back to the heyday of wide lapels and tight bell-bottoms!

The Wraith

A small desert town has been harassed for months by a gang of drag racers, but so far no one has done anything to stop them. One day, a ghostly black car shows up, challenging members of the group to race, then killing them one by one. Neither the gang nor the police can catch the car or its driver, but some investigating into the gang's past may reveal just who's behind all this.

Eegah!

While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by a seven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, she returns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them and the rest of Palm Springs, California.