cult film freak: june joceyln

Written by James M. Tate / 10/06/2025 / No comments / bert i. gordon , cult , exploitation , fifties , horror , jack kosslyn , john agar , john hoyt , june joceyln , june kenney , ken miller , science-fiction

JUNE KENNEY AND JOHN AGAR IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjErLIp6miW_2uL0Mcb_TE_fmb_7Azuu3FHjMgIbxrOgTyjo1dUXG5ulDkgeZ3qplmF_zzSIu5KxyjECOvc4HVOynsJKC4krhQVpbwXR6qHzJpVp2i7Cyjh_I_0_sjxooVla0yUjXVeqEo98TGYhNFoOOL70CSYbLSTJ91BsOSfZS9HLNaukNbhWYNjRt4/s1160/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%209.01.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjErLIp6miW_2uL0Mcb_TE_fmb_7Azuu3FHjMgIbxrOgTyjo1dUXG5ulDkgeZ3qplmF_zzSIu5KxyjECOvc4HVOynsJKC4krhQVpbwXR6qHzJpVp2i7Cyjh_I_0_sjxooVla0yUjXVeqEo98TGYhNFoOOL70CSYbLSTJ91BsOSfZS9HLNaukNbhWYNjRt4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%209.01.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>June Kenney in Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF DOLLS and <i>literally</i> as dollmaker John Hoyt places real people, from strangers to former employees to, as tiny hero  John Agar goes, an employee's fiance, into sealed packages, and all with one thing in common...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Their last mistake was entering the dollmarker's backroom where a sci-fi genre laser-cannon awaits; and although director Bert I. Gordon — aptly nicknamed Mr. Big since his forte was either extra large/small protagonists in a normal sized world — is known as being campy and silly, he can tell a pretty decent story, and this is one of his best, save for that vapid title since they're NOT Puppets and never attack anyone, being totally harmless as the best sequence has the passive ensemble realizing they're all stuck together in a world that consists of a huge dial-up telephone and a phonograph... </p><p><span></span></p>

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JUNE KENNEY AND JOHN AGAR IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'

June Kenney in Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: **** A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF D...

JUNE KENNEY STARRING IN BERT I. GORDON'S 'EARTH VS THE SPIDER'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfXRb4lO7PAIMyWvlY8oMK20ZKJP0zBRsUromh27DIHtrgWDuBhiq76Q1YMvQuw0XflpIw5amtEPZPG6v0GUVzYM4Ul84pTwjdIWO6cU2ZVa2ZZUHZFZT5mfZ-j5Yen6FzngNFCpIfsV4-HROjdMUE4aCYJ2xiZ9EyCcul4mTc83KXLhMxbemsrw7OYjM/s2296/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%203.47.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfXRb4lO7PAIMyWvlY8oMK20ZKJP0zBRsUromh27DIHtrgWDuBhiq76Q1YMvQuw0XflpIw5amtEPZPG6v0GUVzYM4Ul84pTwjdIWO6cU2ZVa2ZZUHZFZT5mfZ-j5Yen6FzngNFCpIfsV4-HROjdMUE4aCYJ2xiZ9EyCcul4mTc83KXLhMxbemsrw7OYjM/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-06%20at%203.47.39%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: EARTH VS THE SPIDER Year: 1958 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Bert I. Gordon excelled in camp cinema where small things turn huge, from rats to ants and before that was EARTH VS THE SPIDER, which is actually a <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/09/TARANTULAlland.html">TARANTULA</a>, obviously inspired by the 1955 Jack Arnold classic that took place in a very rural location where the superimposed Aaraneae creeps around mostly at nighttime, adding to the suspense...<br><br>Herein it's mostly a daytime crawler... starting out in a catacomb-filled cavern resembling another planet... initially discovered by young high school couple Eugene Perrson and Gordon's regular ingenue June Kenney, an A-looking starlet known for B-movie programmers...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JUNE KENNEY STARRING IN BERT I. GORDON'S 'EARTH VS THE SPIDER'

Title: EARTH VS THE SPIDER Year: 1958 Rating: *** Bert I. Gordon excelled in camp cinema where small things turn huge, from rats to ants and...

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