(1966, Upgraded 3/15/20) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr, Derrick De Marney. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments with matter transmission from place to place by means of a...

(1958) Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell. An unusual hull resembling an unexploded bomb is found in an English building site containing weird, insect-like creatures with faces like gargoyles. Inexplicable incidents occur and it's discovered that strange...

(1953, Upgraded 11/6/21) Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly, Duncan Lamont. These are the only two surviving episodes of the famed British six-part mini-series. Professor Quatermass and his Experimental Rocket Group send a man into space. When the spacecraft returns to Earth they find, inexplicably, that only one of the crewmen is still on board...

(1955, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone. This is the original 6-part teleseries that was the follow-up to the earlier teleseries, The Quatermass Experiment (1953). There is something very wrong with a huge chemical factory out in the wilds of rural England. An alien horror is...

(1949) Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi, Den Obinata. A forgotten horror/sci-fi classic!  Considered by some historians as the first Japanese sci-fi film, though the sci-fi elements are, admittedly, somewhat slight.  A young woman becomes the prime suspect in a murder mystery. Her gal pal and boyfriend set out to prove her innocence.  They soon end up in a forlorn, out of the way house filled with mystery and dread...

(1961 aka THE PHANTOM MEETS THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE, Upgraded 12/30/20) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE. Forbe and Barker play detectives on the trail of the maniacal Mabuse who plots...

RIP VAN WYK (1960, aka RIP VAN WINKLE) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney, Willem Loots.  This movie has little to do with the Rip Van Winkle story.  It’s actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys hurtles 100 years into the future.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, modern world.  The film gives a very interesting perspective about how someone from the past would react to all things modern—automobiles, radios, TVs, clothing, etc...

(1960) Peter Cushing, Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Thorley Walters, Ian Bannen, Donald Pleasence.  Cushing’s research lab has created a super virus that cures bubonic plague, but the government fears it might be used for germ-warfare...

ROAD TO THE STARS (1957, Updated 3-19-25) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark man-into-space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this short 50-minute feature is mainly about the soviet space program, focusing on scientific contributions of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and other famous soviet scientists.  However, in the second half, the film turns into a science fiction film, with many great outer space scenes...

(1936, Upgraded 3/18/25) Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton. The first screen version about Flash Gordon and his adventures on the planet Mongo. This is the film that really made Buster Crabbe a big star.  There is a plethora of... 

(1959, aka The Day the Earth Froze) Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Andris Osins, Ada Voytsik. A superb Finnish fantasy epic about an evil witch who steals the sun and causes just about everything on the Earth to freeze. Also featured are magic harps, fields of snakes, a wizard, and a...

(1964, Upgraded 11/23/22) John Call, Pia Zadora, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles. So bad it's great.  Martians travel into the void of outer space on a secret mission to Earth.  Their mad scheme?  Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him back to Mars!  For what purpose?  To engage his services for...

(1963) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Stewart Guidotti, Denis Goacher, Richard Coleman, Delena Kidd.  A sequel to the earlier sci-fi mini-series “City Beneath the Sea,” again taking place in the undersea city of Aegira.  A journalist goes to the ocean floor to look for a rare metal known as “Phenicium,” which—as it turns out—is pretty vital for outer space research...

(1956) Sergey Stolyarov, Igor Vladimirov, Sergei Golovanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vakhtang Ninua, Sergey Komarov.  This grand Russian sci-fi color epic is about a futuristic submarine’s desperate undersea search for a lost Soviet vessel, which was destroyed and sunk under very mysterious circumstances...

(1969) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Karlis Sebris.  It’s a post-apocalyptic world in which mankind has been decimated by an unknown plague.  Cities are on fire; millions have died.  A young couple is detained by the government and sequestered into a beach house to conceive a child in an effort to save mankind. They are soon visited by strange riders and a massive whale dies on their beach...