Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Toho decided to throw a block party for monsters in Tokyo, and invited every creature they could get to sign on to do the flick. Their three biggest mega stars are featured: the lovable giant fire-breathing lizard Godzilla, the supersonic…
Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
Lee Frost was a capable and half-way decent director and cinematographer, I guess. He has a catalog of work from the 60s and 70s, such titles (and such titles I’ve yet to see the movies of) that includes Zero in…
Tobor the Great (1954)
Kindly Professor Arnold Nordstrom (the excellent Taylor Holmes) and humane, no-nonsense Dr. Ralph Harrison (a lively and engaging performance by Charles Drake) create a robot called Tobor (Lew Smith in a cool metallic suit) who can feel human emotions and…
Bury Me An Angel (1972)
Fans of outlaw biker films heads up. Those who dig the revenge genre gather round. If you enjoyed Plan 9 From Outer Space this… wait a minute, where did everyone go?! Well it begins with an overlong scene of 30…
The Atomic Man (1955)
Ken Hughes directed five feature films and two short films in 1955, and this is one of the features. It is a superior B picture with the female B star, Faith Domergue, she of the big soulful brown eyes. The…
A Bullet for the General (1966)
The movie centers on a Yankee (Lou Castel) who joins forces with an outlaw band (leader is Chuncho well played by Gian Mª Volonte and his hoodlum performed by Klaus Kinski) during the Mexican revolutionary war by time of the…
Drive-ins Down Under
Open-air cinemas pop up all around Sydney, Australia as their summer rolls on (the reverse from us). Open air movies are hugely popular and it brings to mind that Australia was an early adopter of the drive-in theatre. Australia’s first…
2069: A Sex Odyssey (1974)
If you are looking for an erotic masterpiece this isn’t it. If you’re looking for a comedic masterpiece this isn’t it. If you’re looking for something hardcore this isn’t it. That being said if you are looking for an example…
World Without End (1956)
The first 15 minutes or so, the viewer is shown a rocket traveling from Martian orbit which subsequently takes off suddenly at a fantastic undefined velocity. The special effects imply that it is going through some sort of convulsion or…
Godzilla Vs The Thing (1964)
“Godzilla vs. Mothra” (1964) has been known for a very long time as probably the best Godzilla film, in many circles even over the first one, and rightfully so. All the elements were probably at their best for this film…
Frogs (1972)
“Frogs” is set in Florida around a prominent southern family whose patriarch Jason Crockett (Millan) is polluting the island he owns. In the mean time a naturalist/photographer Pickett Smith (Elliot) is taking pictures of the area, just from a shot…
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Hammer’s last Frankenstein outing is one of their best; despite the great sadness that went in its production (inherent in the film’s overall effect but thankfully not swamped by it), the film emerges as a pretty solid and well-crafted chiller…
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
“Monolith Monsters” was unique in that it took a different approach to 1950’s sci-fi. There were no alien monsters. Atomic radiation didn’t spawn them. You couldn’t just blast them with guns. There weren’t any miracle chemicals or devices needed, just…
The Outlaw (1943)
The classic Howard Hughes film which was censored and suppressed for years simply because of the ample cleavage of Jane Russell (if only those censors saw the films we have today…-grin- I’d pay to see *those* expressions;) it was completed…
Outlaw Riders (1971)
OUTLAW RIDERS starts promisingly with then-trendy split-screen effects behind the opening credits—and a better-than-expected title theme song by Michael Lynch that rocks pretty hard in a Steppenwolf-ish vein—as biker gang leader Waco, played by Memphis Mafia honcho Bryan “Sonny” West…
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
In a joint US/UK/USSR effort to send a man into space USAF pilot John McLaren, Paul Hubschmid, is chosen to go aboard the X/Z Atomic Rocket on a trip around the moon and back. As the X/Z approaches the moon…
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
I actually enjoy this film a great deal and have watched it several times. Not because it’s a great film by any means, but just because there is something hugely enjoyable about it. It starts off well with the closing…
Basket Case (1982)
BASKET CASE is, for what it is, superb. That’s not to say it is technically proficient or boasts particularly good performances from its actors. But it’s intelligent, creepy and viciously horrific. A young man, Duane, enters a seedy Times Square…
Reptilicus (1961)
Reptilicus starts on a mountain somewhere in Lapland where some miners searching for copper dig up a large chunk of flesh & blood, Professor Otto Martens (Asbjorn Andersen) & Dr. Peter Dalby (Povl Woldike) from the University of Copenhagen are…
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
. In comparison to many of its low budget contemporaries, the writing in SNMD is positively Shakespearian. The film has some semblance of a plot, the jokes are actually funny and the action is well paced. Most surprisingly, the film…