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Two rare science fiction movies and one that isn't rare enough.

~ Flight that Disappeared (1961) must have puzzled the hell out of audiences with it's story about a commercial flight that went into the future, didn't actually land anywhere, and then came back. Bizarre, eh? ?:

~ Ditto for The Electronic Monster (1957 England), whose story includes no monster (electronic or otherwise), just a mad doctor at a clinic, performing nutty experiments of people's minds. Not too exciting, eh? Rolling Eyes

~ And finally we have From Hell It Came - (1957), a movie that begs to be told where to go. (Okay, that joke is too obvious . . . ) Rolling Eyes

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Flight that Disappeared (1961)

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An airliner is shifted into another dimension so that several scientists among the passengers can be put on trial by "future generations" for endangering Earth with the new super-bomb they've developed.

United Artist didn't budget enough money to give this interesting concept a fair chance. The cast includes Paula Raymond (Beast from 20,000 Fathoms), Craig Hill, Dayton Lummis, and Nancy Hale. Directed by Reginald LeBorg.

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The Electronic Monster (1957 England)



The title is misleading. This is not a nuts-and-bolts story about a rampaging robot or an evil computer. It's a strange, surrealistic tale in which Rod Cameron plays an insurance investigator who goes to a mental institution to look into the death of an actress. He learns that the patients are being subjected to bizarre experiments: electronically induced hallucinations that range from dancing women to scenes of torture.

The clinic is being run by a Nazi-like mad doctor who hypnotizes his patients and "records" their dreams. Then he reshapes the dreams into strange sexual nightmares and murder-inducing hallucinations which he feeds back into the patients' brains, forcing them to act out the fantasies.

The original concept is ambitious, but the screenplay is too timid to make much use of it. The electronic props are fairly impressive. The original story, called "Escapement", is by Charles Eric Maine. The score includes weird electronic music by Soundrama. Directed by Montgomery Tully.

[Original title: "Escapement". Also released as: "Zex"]
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From Hell It Came - (1957)



The movie that begs to be told where to go.

A South Sea Island native is killed by the tribal chief because he disobeyed a royal command which prohibits contact between the natives and any outsiders — which, in this case, is a scientific team that comes to the island.

A strange tree grows up from his grave . . . with a nightmare face! The scientists put the monster tree on an operating table and stimulate its heart (a tree with a heart?). The tree starts walking around the island in search of the enemies of the dead native.

A vague reference to atomic bombs is thrown in as an explanation for the walking tree, just to satisfy those nit-picky intellectuals in the audience who question such things. Surprisingly, the walking tree was designed by veteran monster maker Paul Blaisdell. Directed by Dan Miller.

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