(1959, aka VAMPIRE MAN, upgraded 12/5/24) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi.   One of the earliest Japanese horror films with a modern setting.  A young woman is celebrating her birthday.  Her boyfriend tells of a mysterious woman who lurks about the grounds.  The woman turns out to be the girl’s mother, who disappeared years before but hasn’t aged a day!  In the meantime watch out for the snappily dressed vampire man with the huge fangs!

(1964, Upgraded 12/28/20) Vincent Price, Franca Bettola, Emma Daniell. Top notch science fiction. A plague has killed off most of the earth's population and Price is the sole survivor. The other inhabitants are mutant vampires that...

(1959 aka THE SPLIT, Upgraded 11/25/22) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley. The well-done, chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist. He finds himself slowly transforming into a horrible, two-headed monster.  The moment where he first sees an human eye coming out of his shoulder is unforgettable.  Nakamura gives...

(1962, Upgraded 10/14/21) Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Keen. Heavy-duty sci-fi about strange sensory deprivation experiments. Bogarde, in a somber, thoughtful role, tries to prove his experiments will help serve as a form of...

91958, Upgraded 11/7/21) Richard Travis, Kathy Downs, K. T. Stevens, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook, Michael Whalen. A lovable drive-in turkey. Somewhat similar to CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON, but a few different plot twists are thrown in, including monstrous lunar rock men that threaten...

(1963 aka THE ATOMIC BRAIN, Upgraded 10/17/21) Frank Gerstle, Marjorie Eaton, Judy Bamber, Erika Peters, Frank Fowler. Unbelievable! One of the greatest schlockfests of the 1960s. A mad scientist is hired by a millionaire spinster to transplant her brain into the body of a young girl...

(1965, Upgraded 7/11/22) Terrance Morgan, Jessica Dunning, Joseph O’Conor, Hannah Gordon, George Pastell.  An excellent B&W made-for-TV Brit feature.  The Earth has blown up!  No one knows why or how—it just happened.  One lonely Earth survivor (Morgan) is a nomadic tinker on Mars.  He spurns the love of a Martian woman in favor of shipping out to a colony on Venus, hoping to build a better life.  But things are not what he...

(1960, Upgraded 1/12/23) Peter Williams, Harold Goldblatt, Gerald Flood, Gillian Ferguson. A seven-part mini-series about a trip to the moon and all the dangers involved.  It’s good old fashioned space opera, even if the special effects are a bit crude.  It starts with four scientists taking off for the moon.  A second rocket, an auto-piloted supply ship, is to follow.  However, when the auto pilot goes awry on the supply ship, it must be manually flown or the explorers will die in space...

(1960, Upgraded 1/19/23) George Coulouris, Gerald Flood, Pamela Barney, Hester Cameron. A routine trip to the moon is sabotaged by a fanatical author who believes in life on Mars. After taking over the spaceship, he

PATHFINDERS TO VENUS (1961, Upgraded 1/19/23) Gerald Flood, George Colouris, Pamela Barney, Graydon Gould, Hester Cameron.  Returning from their trip to Mars, the crew of MR4 intercept a distress signal from Captain Wilson, a U.S astronaut, and must change course for Venus to attempt a space rescue. But through the space periscope, Brown sees what appears to be a city on the planet’s surface...

(1955, Upgraded 12/31/20) Kent Taylor, Kathy Downs, Michael Whalen, Helene Stanton This early AIP thriller (still known as American Releasing Corporation) was originally double billed with THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED. A crazed scientist unleashes a horrible, radioactive monster from the deep that menaces a small coastal village...

(1953) Ted Cooper, Noreen Nash. No classic, but this is a good, underrated little 'B' sci-fi opus about a group of people that find themselves pitted against an alien from outer space in the confines of a lonely observatory...

(1950, updated 5/14/24) Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Johann Peturrson, Judy Landon, John Merrick. Prehistoric babes battle giants and dragons during ancient times. Nixon is captured by the drop-dead gorgeous Luez and her tribe of cave babe beauties, who eventually realize the importance of having a good man around.  The best scene is where Nixon battles an enormous...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...