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[Bud Brewster]

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I’ve never seen the three movies below and probably never will.

If I’m right about their quality, then the time I spent NOT watching them was certainly time well spent — no matter what I was doing.
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Die, Monster, Die! (1965 England)



Nick Adams comes to visit his college girlfriend (Suzan Farmer) at her Gothic English mansion in the countryside. But he knows something odd is going on because her father (Boris Karloff) is hostile, her mother (Freda Jackson) is dying from some strange disease, the butler keels over while serving dinner, and all the local folks hate the family.

Eventually Nick discovers that Karloff is using fragments of a radioactive meteorite to create strange plants in the greenhouse. But the radioactivity is turning everybody into monsters, starting with the servants, then Karloff's wife, and finally Boris himself.

The monster makeup is fairly good, except for Karloff's in the climax, when he gets a mega-dose of radiation that turns his hands and face metallic silver (actually a stuntman wears the makeup). Director Daniel Haller knew it looked bad, so he superimposed a hazy glow. Filmed in color and wide-screen format. Adapted from an H. P. Lovecraft story ("The Color Out of Space").
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Dimension 5 (1966)

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Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Christopher Pike from the "Star Trek" episode "The Cage/Menagerie") plays secret agent Justine Power.

He and France Nuyen (the younger-than-spring-time girl in "South Pacific") are equipped with time machines on their belts which enable them to skip back and forth in time a few weeks while they battle Chinese villains who plan to blow up Los Angles with an A-bomb.

If that's doesn't peak your interest, how 'bout that fact that it also stars Harold Sakata ("Goldfinger's" Oddjob), Donald Woods, Linda Ho, and David Chon.

Directed by Franklin Adreon.
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Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961 England)



Another strange horror/sci-fi film from Britain.

Kieron Moore ("Crack in the World", "Day of the Triffids", "Satellite in the Sky") plays a demented doctor who returns to his Cornish hometown to set up a laboratory in an abandoned mine and conduct experiments which involve the revival of famous dead people by implanting healthy hearts in their dead bodies (?).

This is definitely not what you'd call "hard science fiction".

The hearts are obtained from murdered hobos whom the doctor abducts locally. Hazel Court ("Devil Girl from Mars" and several notable Hammer films) is a young widow with whom the doctor falls in love.

When she rejects him, the doctor magnanimously revives the lady's dead husband (Paul Stockman), who promptly goes looking for Miss Court. But the year-old corpse only succeeds in terrifying his poor widow.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)