(Upgraded 5/24/24) THE WASP WOMAN (1959, Anamorphic) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Extremely well done, low budget drive-in sci-fi. Plus:  BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959, Anamorphic) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are being killed off by a horrible monster that lives in a nearby cave.

(1935, Upgraded 3/21/21) Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardewicke, Edward Chapman, Margaretta Scott, Sophie Stewart. The screens adaptation of H. G. Wells futuristic tales of man's survival after a series of wars and catastrophes. Final segment involving "the space gun" is...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1955, aka TIME SLIP, Upgraded 5/3/22) Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Leonard Williams, Philip Dale. An atomic accident, in combination with bullets fired by would-be assassins, puts the mind of a famous scientist seven and a half seconds into the future. One startling scene has the victim...

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Paul Pepper, Steve Conte, Brianne Murphy, Jay Hawk, Nan Green. A bunch of teenage kids land on an island filled with scientific terrors and zombies!  Nerve gas is used by the lady mad scientist (who inhabits the island) to turn some of the teenagers into mindless zombie slaves...

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Sheila Noonan, Allen Windsor, George Skaff. By no means a classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film. The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world that's guarded by a murderous...

(1958, Upgraded 8/25/21) Edward Kemmer, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer. A fairly well done and definitely very unusual sci-fi thriller about a group of research scientists who are threatened by a murderous...

(1959, upgraded 4/24/23) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred (Anthony) Eisley, Barboura Morris, directed by Roger Corman. An eccentric scientist develops a revolutionary youth-restoring beauty cream for the aging head of a cosmetics firm (Cabot). To her amazement, she finds that when she uses it on herself she becomes 20 years younger in appearance! There's just one little problem—she also finds herself occasionally changing into a horrible...

(1959, Upgraded 10/17/21) David Love, Dawn Anderson, Bryan Grant, Harvey Dunn, King Moody. If you look at this as a professional Hollywood production, this picture leaves something to be desired. However if you look at it as an amateur film, (which it actually originally was, it's amazingly well done. A group of marauding teenage aliens plans to use earth as the breeding ground for...

(1959, Upgraded 11/28/22) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. Radiation has caused ordinary leeches to mutate into giant monsters. They threaten the folks in a small bayou town. Vickers is at her sleaziest, sexiest best as the local storekeepers unfaithful wife. She and her lover are caught by her husband and driven into the swamp where the monsters...

(1959, Upgraded 11/5/21) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. One of our best selling 50's sci-fi B classics. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. He breaks into military installations and banks, stealing radioactive materials and money. The film's climax features a struggle between Griffith and Kennedy in a lab where an atomic explosion is...

(1959, upgraded 8/31/23) Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke, Herlmut Schmid, Christiane Maybach, Michel Simon. Another must-see film! A serum that keeps severed portions of the human body alive is used by a mad doctor on its own inventors decapitated head. Horst Frank, as Dr. Ood, is a total nut-job and gives what is easily one of the best mad scientist portrayals of the 1950s.  The insane purpose of his experiments is to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.  Creepy and atmospheric. A very gothic sci-fi horror film and one that we highly recommended. Please note that our version, which is completely uncut and in English, has the original U.S. Trans-Lux opening and closing titles.  From a beautiful 35mm print.

(1958, Anamorphic, Upgraded 12/29/23) Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson, Patrick Whyte, Fred La Porta, Peter Similuk.  Clarke produced, directed, and starred in this film about a scientist who's exposed to a dangerous radioactive isotope that changes him into a lizard-like monster whenever he's touched by the sun's rays... 

(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...

(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...

(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...