Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957)
American-International Pictures found their niche in the film industry by catering to the drive-in markets, where films slanted at teens (and actually starring teenagers playing teens — a radical concept at the time)and exploitation markets proved popular. SAUCERMEN, aimed at…
The Shaolin Exterminator (1977)
Something strange goes on at Dragon Town. It starts with a girl killing a traveler trying to cross a bridge. She uses a nonsense weapon called a needle gun. A few more men are killed and everyone speaks of ghosts….
The Land Unknown (1957)
A helicopter with three Navy officers, led by Jock Mahoney, and the requisite woman reporter aboard, Shawn Smith, gets caught in bad weather over Antarctica and must land through a heavy cloud layer to find they are at the bottom…
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
Good girl Jane (Sue England) gets mixed up with bad girl (Molly McCart) and soon both of them are headed to jail even though Jane is innocent. On the way to jail June’s boyfriend (Tommy Cook) kills the cop and…
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Considering that this Fiend Without A Face came about in a decade when sci-fi was generally considered grade-Z clap trap, one would assume that I’d not have anything polite to discuss in regards to this film. Well, then again, maybe…
Sabata (1969)
Lee Van Cleef stars in the first of the Sabata films. Here he plays cat and mouse games with the leaders of a town who have attempted to steal an army payroll. Sabata stops their scheme and then attempts to…
The Sidehackers (1969)
SIDEHACKERS (AKA: FIVE THE HARD WAY) was a break from their usual sci-fi/ horror fodder. But it’s no less bizarre. In the late 60s, biker movies were all the rage. Also in the late 60s, and continuing into the late…
Battle Of The Worlds (1961)
Antonio Margheriti’s Italian Spaghetti Space Operas are some of the most interesting science fiction from the 1960s. Starting with SPACE MEN (or ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE) and culminating with the brilliantly mod GAMMA ONE QUADROLIGY, Margheriti helped to shape the ultimate…
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
The movie’s setting is 2001, when according to the opening monologue, “the planet earth is no longer racked by wars and threats of annihilation. Man has learned to live with himself.” Really? A bit optimistic there! Anyway, the United Nations,…
The Louisiana Hussy (1959)
Brothers Pierre (Robert Richards) and Jacques Guillot (Peter Coe) are partners in trading furs and Spanish Moss—“give ya’ll a couple of bushels of moss for a bucket of that stuff Alice B. cooks with”—and Jacques is hacked off at his…
Hell on Wheels (1967)
Here’s a “no-budget” independent production designed to showcase both the singing and racing skills of good ol’ boy country crooner Marty Robbins. He’s obviously a talented singer, and apparently a passable race car driver. But he should never have attempted…
Not Tonight Henry (1960)
One of the early color near-nudie films and was re-shown often by, mostly, drive-in theatre owners in need of a quick cash fix. They would hang out the “Adults Only” sign, thereby ensuring that every high school and junior high…
Captive Women (1952)
The vaguely titled CAPTIVE WOMEN is set in a post nuclear holocaust world where three warring tribes, “The Norms”, “The Mutates”, and “The Upriver People” battle each other for supremacy in and around the ruins of New York City and…
The Executioner (1974)
EXECUTIONER (1974) is a contemporary crime thriller about a secret band of fighters recruited by a disgraced narcotics detective seeking to stop the flow of drugs into Japan. While diehard fans of the film’s star, Sonny Chiba, are partial to…
Keoma (1976)
A half-breed Indian Keoma returns back to his hometown after fighting in the Civil War, and finds his town is being run by an ex-Confederate soldier Caldwell and his outlaws. He holds power over the town by letting the plague…
Apache Woman (1976)
This Ravioli Western contains noisy action , shootouts , ravage , fighting , a love story , lots of blood and guts and a big deal of gratuitous violence . It deals with Tommy (Al Cliver), an innocent cavalry soldier…
Spook Chasers (1957)
This particular post Gorcey Bowery Boys film is distinguished by having Stanley Clements adopt Leo Gorcey’s gift for the malaprop without the same humor. It also is an attempt to use character actor Percy Helton as the proprietor of a…
Duel (1971)
“Duel” is a 1971 made-for-TV movie directed by a 24-year-old that was filmed in less than two weeks and ended up costing less than $350,000 to make. When I tell people about the plot of the film (a tanker truck…
Man Clam (1962?)
It’s estimated that half of all films ever made have been destroyed or their whereabouts are unknown. All traces of the infamous 1962 monster movie “MANCLAM” were considered lost, until the demolition of an old theatre in central Saskatchewan, Canada…
The Lost World (1960)
Producer/director Irwin Allen had big plans for this one. He also had the big budget needed to craft a truly spectacular remake of the original 1925 classic silent film. And, he rightly felt that a new movie based on Sir…