Red Planet Mars (1952)
This old , offbeat and incredible Cold War relic deals with an American scientist discovering that a Radio voice transmission from Mars belongs to God . As the scientific (Peter Graves) and wife (Andrea King) contact Mars by radio and…
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
“The Corrupt Ones” is a Cold War-era adventure story about a chase for the Peking Medallion, which is the key to an ancient Chinese treasure. The stars are Robert Stack and Elke Sommer, but, as is usual in this type…
THE LAST BLITZKRIEG works as it offers something a little different from the usual American WW2 film in terms of plot. The main characters in the movie are actually Nazi soldiers who are disguised as American troops and sent on…
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
This Paramount film has the kind of outlandish plot often found in minor studio cheapies of the same period: Phillip Terry’s sister (Ellen Drew) foolishly falls for a gangster and ends up sold into “white slavery.” Her brother tries to…
Seizure (1974)
Oliver Stone’s feature film debut concerns a horror author named Edmund (played by Dark Shadows’ Jonathon Frid) who is plagued by nightmares. When he and his wife have a bunch of guests up to their isolated house for a relaxing…
Spring Night, Summer Night (1967)
Joseph L. Anderson’s “Spring Night, Summer Night” is another sixties exploitation movie to be rediscovered and restored by Nicolas Winding Refn but this one really is something of a lost classic. Anderson filmed it almost entirely with non-professionals and shot…
Starfish – Coming Soon
Currently screening at various theatres Starfish is about when a mysterious signal from an unknown dimension summons the end of days, it appears as if only Aubrey is left on earth. Trapped in the apartment of her recently deceased best…
1,000 Convicts and a Woman (1971)
American actress Alexandra Hay plays a spoiled, nymphomaniacal British girl, ironically named “Angela”, who returns from four years of boarding school in Boston (which might explain why her accent keeps shifting from British to American)to stay with father at progressive…
Girl in Gold Boots (1968)
efore there was “Showgirls” there was “Girl in Gold Boots”. This film is even worse and worse made. You know, I really think the director took himself seriously when he made this movie. Sad, is it not? But I think…
Save The World….Go See a Movies
As a passionate movie goer I consider myself more than lucky. When I first started going to the movies I had the honor of watching movies in 600 plus seat houses, and often at capacity, it was nothing short of…
Cannonball! (1976)
‘Cannonball’ is one of the least remembered of the short-lived but successful 1970s car race/car crash genre begun by ‘The Gumball Rally’. What really makes this one stand out is that it was directed by the late Paul Bartel (in…
Capone (1975)
There’s some decent names – Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, blink-and-you’ll miss-him John Cassavetes – in this cheap biopic produced by Roger Corman but you can only assume they were on their uppers when it was made because it’s not particularly…
The Sky Calls (1959)
Like most soviet films of the period (and I watched the original version), in has no action whatsoever. The plot is stilted as statues at the People’s Economy Achievements Exhibition in Moscow, and the story drags its feet to no…
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) lives in a trailer park with his mother Jane Rogan (Barbara Bosson) and his younger brother Louis (Chris Hebert). Alex is a handyman that helps his neighbors in small tasks and he is waiting for a…
The Mysterians (1957)
This has some of the highest production values, some of the best FX sequences, the best musical scoring and some of the best acting to be seen in any Kaiju film. Personally, I rate this as 3rd or 4th all-time…
The Time Machine (1960)
In 1960, filmmaker George Pal brought to fruition a visionary concept for a film based on a novel by H.G. Wells, about an inventor who builds a machine that enables him to travel through time, specifically into the future, where…
War of the Satellites (1958)
WAR OF THE SATELLITES is too low budget for it’s subject matter but is still great fun. First of all, you have the great Dick Miller as the lead, a cool score by Walter Greene and pretty good low-budget special…
Konga (1961)
“Konga” is a badly written, acted and directed piece of poverty row exploitation British-style,but you’d have to be utterly cold hearted not to get a lot of fun out of it. The final scenes as the giant ape lays waste…
My World Dies Screaming (1958)
Adding the review because no one seems to have noted that this is a pure Gothic romance story: a relative-less, advocate-less female with what may or may not be mental illness, two men, one of whom is good and the…
Teenage Cave Man (1958)
Conceived in the era of the 1950’s nuclear holocaust scare, TEENAGE CAVEMAN is an inspired (albeit low-budget) reflection of this period’s fears and a worthy attempt by producer/director Roger Corman to present more serious subject matter in the sci-fi genre….