ALL SCI-FI

This is one of four "mad doctor" movies he did for Columbia between 1936 and 1940, all cheaply made but intriguing for their futuristic premise, artificial hearts, blood transfusions, cryoge ...

I haven't seen this in years, but I remember trying to stay awake well before the mid-point.

The plot is a hodge podge of familiar A&C material, especially when the gangsters show up.

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Michael Gough deserved the Bela Lugosi Flamboyant Award for his many off the wall screen performances.

The Tony Award winning actor had a long and prosperous career on the London and Broadway stag ...

The Abbott and Costello movies in the forties were slickly produced, mildly amusing b-films with forgettable musical numbers by the romantic leads stuffed between the comedy routines.

As mentioned, ...

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A young medical student, intrigued with the idea of scientifically creating a perfect human, fashions a warped parody of a man and pays the price when the creature e ...

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An evil doctor uses a troubled teenager in an experiment in regression that turns him into a ferocious beast.

I Was a Teenage Werewolf is the most famous of the ...

I saw this in '59 and was really impressed by the idea of someone walking through solid objects.

Robert Lansing, one of my favorite "cold" actors holds the movie together. He is a major p ...

Best of the post-apocalyptic films that include the ludicrous Teenage Caveman, Corman's The Day the World Ended, Captive Women (1952) and any number of others.

Ray Milland was not a great actor, de ...

Just wondering if the vibrations or electrical circuits in the helicopter accidentally matched the signals the Aliens would have sent to wake Kronos?

It would have started the invasion earlier tha ...

I saw this back in '61, after which it seemed to fall off the planet. It was about the time I purchased the Classic Comic edition of Verne's novel.

Wasn't too impressed with the film then and felt ...

YouTube is a gold mine for movie fans and fanatics. Like Gord, I have captured hundreds of films and short subjects from the Silent Era to the 21st Century.

Sometimes it is just a matter of dumb l ...

17 Oaks,

You can find the movie on Warner Bros DVD, along with Satellite in the Sky, a minor but interesting sci-fi romp from 1956. It's in color (a real surprise) and stars Shakespearean actor Sir ...

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I saw this in ’64 on a double bill with some forgettable muscle man picture and didn’t like a frame of it. Avoided the movie for decades while Heston made The Om ...

With the exception of Whale's original, I was never a fan of the Invisible Man series.

The 1933 film used up all the good ideas. There are only so many things you can do with an invisible man, rev ...

I was not a little surprised to see Russ Morgan's name on the RKO Theatre where It Came From Outer Space was playing.

Morgan was born a few miles from my hometown and appeared in our local theatre ...