Indestructible Man (1956)
I have to say it, I love this movie. Not just for Lon Chaney but for the whole realistic approach to making the movie adopted by director Jack Pollexfen. Shooting in the real grimy, mean streets of downtown L.A. not…
Flight to Mars (1951)
Four men and a lady blast off for the red planet Mars in this lean-budgeted but likable little yarn. The explorers find a thriving civilization of completely humanoid Matians. The leaders of the Martian government act friendly, but they secretly…
Indestructible Man (1956)
I have to say it, I love this movie. Not just for Lon Chaney but for the whole realistic approach to making the movie adopted by director Jack Pollexfen. Shooting in the real grimy, mean streets of downtown L.A. not…
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
The fourth film of Hammer’s awesome Frankenstein series, legendary director Terence Fisher’s “Frankenstein Created Woman” of 1967 is another creepy and excellent Hammer gem, and my personal favorite film in the series. Movies like this are reason enough to admire…
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
What makes The Mummy’s Ghost the best of the sequels(if not exactly by much) is that it is the only one that tried to do something different. Even if the basic plot is still very flawed and formulaic, The Mummy’s…
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
IKARIE XB-1 is one of the most compelling science fiction films ever made. Filmed in very Cold War era Czecheslovokia and rarely seen in North America in it’s complete widescreen form, this is a movie that was so ahead of…
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Surprisingly, King Kong’s second Japanese outing, 1967’s King Kong Escapes is a much more enjoyable affair. A co-production with Rankin-Bass to cash in on the success of their animated King Kong TV series, it plays at times like a feature-length…
Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)
A large asteroid falls on earth and from that emerges a group of aliens who try to take over the ancient world by bringing an evil witch back to life. The story is, like some many of these films, incidental…
Donovan’s Brain (1953)
Donovan’s Brain is one of the better known and highly respected science fiction films of the fifties, and it’s plain to see why. The scant special-effects requirements, serious tone, high-profile cast, and human-interest driven plot would have put it in…
THX 1138 (1971)
THX 1138, as we all probably know, was the first official film of George Lucas. It was made largely while he was still a film student, and it was actually produced by Francis Ford Coppola. For a first film, it…