PAMELA DUNCAN & RICHARD GARLAND IN CORMAN'S 'ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS'

<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/AVvXsEiAbZnGg5D824A505E4szq3DtzfvK09UP0d-0QZy7BdCdcx92qOHnolI0WBsPD2yCsi204j2cf5AUjwoiQhQ9OydbpmchYe2G1GPZ3kD13e04r-9LYEor4nQIkKge8YQaszONTmAtXCANP3R2tSysBHIW3jDcdsEs_TkRyEaI4nVL-KhudnTyF7wQfK5AjP/s1794/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%205.53.45%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbZnGg5D824A505E4szq3DtzfvK09UP0d-0QZy7BdCdcx92qOHnolI0WBsPD2yCsi204j2cf5AUjwoiQhQ9OydbpmchYe2G1GPZ3kD13e04r-9LYEor4nQIkKge8YQaszONTmAtXCANP3R2tSysBHIW3jDcdsEs_TkRyEaI4nVL-KhudnTyF7wQfK5AjP/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%205.53.45%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1957 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's a shame Roger Corman's remote island thriller ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS winds up so convoluted because leads Richard Garland and Pamela Duncan have an intriguing presence and story-line, investigating strange behavior of crabs on an island where two former colleagues vanished...<br><br>The problem is that Corman goes the THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD route by loading too many characters, including future GILLIGAN'S ISLAND professor Russell Johnson with Ed Nelson and more than half a dozen others: so when ghostly voices begin calling out from beyond, transforming nuclear-era science-fiction into a kind of slow-burn horror, there are way too many cooks to concentrate on how any single actor/actress can actually matter. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

creature, fifties, horror, pamela duncan, richard garland, roger corman, russell johnson, science-fiction

PAMELA DUNCAN & RICHARD GARLAND IN CORMAN'S 'ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS'

Year: 1957 Rating: ** It's a shame Roger Corman's remote island thriller ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS winds up so convoluted because ...

BEVERLY GARLAND NURSING ROGER CORMAN'S 'NOT OF THIS EARTH'

<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/AVvXsEgJXftNAIqJbd9a_-aTAMUJZBJwD2HHv-Uhyphenhyphen-KCl2xupGZrz_aiwCQvlgV9LMh5zntI36aUxH3fTBeMFiYt2Fpn8I6iGl9-6PzFzl6E9OPlfckXz13PLJXw8-NIaKYVyux6VV8C-738cvjkDQE5e6ov5FL1FOa9liknq1Wb4bv5DfTf9YgG_Xg6YEBK4oYd/s1694/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1694" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXftNAIqJbd9a_-aTAMUJZBJwD2HHv-Uhyphenhyphen-KCl2xupGZrz_aiwCQvlgV9LMh5zntI36aUxH3fTBeMFiYt2Fpn8I6iGl9-6PzFzl6E9OPlfckXz13PLJXw8-NIaKYVyux6VV8C-738cvjkDQE5e6ov5FL1FOa9liknq1Wb4bv5DfTf9YgG_Xg6YEBK4oYd/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NOT OF THIS EARTH Year: 1957 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's underrated NOT OF THIS EARTH is a hybrid of science-fiction... a man wearing sunglasses gathering blood for his dying planet... and horror: particularly since this alien stealthily stalks and kills like a vampire... <br><br>In that, veteran actor Paul Birch is the perfect fit, especially given his crisp monotone narration, making EARTH his own story... with help from young loser Jonathan Haze as his driver/housekeeper, and the lead ingenue who not only winds up being this film's final girl, but has enough intriguing stuff to do leading up...</p><p><span></span></p>

beverly garland, dick miller, exploitation, fifties, gail ganley, horror, jonathan haze. william roerick, morgan jones, paul birch, roger corman, science-fiction, thriller

BEVERLY GARLAND NURSING ROGER CORMAN'S 'NOT OF THIS EARTH'

Title: NOT OF THIS EARTH Year: 1957 Rating: ****1/2 Roger Corman's underrated NOT OF THIS EARTH is a hybrid of science-fiction... a man ...

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN DYING FOR 'HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE'

<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/AVvXsEhq4I8k5CK3AOweYVE7FW8r7uXAbkAj3PV_CVfQ022A-Y9oLwKQtPzsmqVXuRfqVWgfpjjisd8JJMaOEo-BOZoSysZfEsZaXxuYv6VXoJePUEKEdd15ZD3wIq9G-4XFIrJfor_Z0ZT7nX2PDhZUHAXY0tgzrNO5sC-nizWiLvpnqEZioE3G8ENodLG_zO4p/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.53.34%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4I8k5CK3AOweYVE7FW8r7uXAbkAj3PV_CVfQ022A-Y9oLwKQtPzsmqVXuRfqVWgfpjjisd8JJMaOEo-BOZoSysZfEsZaXxuYv6VXoJePUEKEdd15ZD3wIq9G-4XFIrJfor_Z0ZT7nX2PDhZUHAXY0tgzrNO5sC-nizWiLvpnqEZioE3G8ENodLG_zO4p/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.53.34%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE/ EL JOROBADO DE LA MORGUE Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From Dracula to The Werewolf, Paul Naschy played every single classic monster in Spanish b-horrors, and in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE he's actually more Igor than Quasimoto, serving a creature-creating mad scientist/Dr. Frankenstein-type by fetching body-parts, and eventually kidnapping doomed girls from a mental hospital...<br /><br />But by this time the movie feels like its own choppy trailer... as the set-up's the most important, with María Elena Arpón returning to a medieval cavern like the previous years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/01/blinddead.html">TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD</a>... only here she's dead-on-arrival, and the gloomy locale's converted into a working bubbling-beaker laboratory... <br /></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/AVvXsEghFt6OiBqfiaYwRSvTv0HwuGfe2P7dM4be8-2MffQWjIPE_iAfJYwD3Uuwq6YQ9NmhhqTdNRe3ZOfav9U98oYqAehgm2DPzDF_Vu5JeWOwWAHUAs6QExV6zz6R9K2hAeLreGWkix3HjPERAGv50WRovrgQAZ_VDe1qszfH0YxAk3FbogbgJ0cwKAgv9cae/s2084/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.10.56%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="2084" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFt6OiBqfiaYwRSvTv0HwuGfe2P7dM4be8-2MffQWjIPE_iAfJYwD3Uuwq6YQ9NmhhqTdNRe3ZOfav9U98oYqAehgm2DPzDF_Vu5JeWOwWAHUAs6QExV6zz6R9K2hAeLreGWkix3HjPERAGv50WRovrgQAZ_VDe1qszfH0YxAk3FbogbgJ0cwKAgv9cae/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.10.56%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy and Alberto Dalbés </u><u>in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But Paschy's Wolfgang Gotho only does the mad doctor's nefarious bidding with the promise of reviving childhood friend Arpón... which never occurs since she's only in the catapulting first act, lying there, dying gorgeously...<br /><br />Enter another lovely ingenue in Rosanna Yanni, the only kind nurse to the titular hunchback, fitfully ambiguous and yet, with a kind of TV-movie aesthetic combined with a 1970's Hammer-vibe, his countenance is far more vulnerable than formidable — and ultimately, more monstrosity (beyond the last-minute creature) is needed. </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/AVvXsEgifgVFw1VCM1SGVi-rtCazLxs2KTlaBCpLrC16hDb6s3PHcphntAGhBWuVqcADVgy07oazbguX43IkWe6enBQQcX8K6mnfAoYJL99fJ1iYSnyPIGVdzNlbRJpFfdGHOInvaxz3FhZB75vzxkgAYDr2RTO1NfzlyhOqRlGB6IMCIGZJ3TxgHBP6dzFyD1AY/s1744/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.23%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifgVFw1VCM1SGVi-rtCazLxs2KTlaBCpLrC16hDb6s3PHcphntAGhBWuVqcADVgy07oazbguX43IkWe6enBQQcX8K6mnfAoYJL99fJ1iYSnyPIGVdzNlbRJpFfdGHOInvaxz3FhZB75vzxkgAYDr2RTO1NfzlyhOqRlGB6IMCIGZJ3TxgHBP6dzFyD1AY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.23%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjWEV0htAf1_WWRjNBFaB7rQc1O1skzVsgyi2FP8JygCvO4XKOxu-6NQ043GEe3h5Oq_A7Mndm4audsuES6VuCbRftC0wlpRSm7EOWQDf41BebfnVc1dpKNyT4Th-bl8kILKNu7zLVL5FaPzh8bU1bsXOjCR7T7EvYHX4RNM66SqtEdxRmc-EXsPTmB9lmq/s1746/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.32%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWEV0htAf1_WWRjNBFaB7rQc1O1skzVsgyi2FP8JygCvO4XKOxu-6NQ043GEe3h5Oq_A7Mndm4audsuES6VuCbRftC0wlpRSm7EOWQDf41BebfnVc1dpKNyT4Th-bl8kILKNu7zLVL5FaPzh8bU1bsXOjCR7T7EvYHX4RNM66SqtEdxRmc-EXsPTmB9lmq/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.32%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEi4xOHg3ERfsRP4EJZQxo0wvej8ZaQf0NRjGeo-bsiAGcFf9ANS4X9H_J0UKDvO6RVFXo-Inq4WGPLWrikrCezAndLm3Oc8wBq6dcRh92CyY1vywHJcEBfvBFsAt0_3AtpzHsRgD6HDuL7evWXtdygUgdkkXl1zk3j5xn6xKrWixVmn3YxX8iy-F5feebQ4/s1746/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xOHg3ERfsRP4EJZQxo0wvej8ZaQf0NRjGeo-bsiAGcFf9ANS4X9H_J0UKDvO6RVFXo-Inq4WGPLWrikrCezAndLm3Oc8wBq6dcRh92CyY1vywHJcEBfvBFsAt0_3AtpzHsRgD6HDuL7evWXtdygUgdkkXl1zk3j5xn6xKrWixVmn3YxX8iy-F5feebQ4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.12.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhX7AmfZqGd2WowwfxUMgvRj4UlLplB2s5WSA_RtyYkJapi3JL6W1HVCm-5r4hyDLD5u32iIdRpb_va-Uct4Yb3kkYXc2rdadZdwxWTbb-jdmwpH0Uh2YaXOaRpLz-6ejJ4v6XLFaKGQnQIZ-UdaZT-GAspBxX5bJzTjLBi1OMlPmMlteaOkm6IjxAKuqq9/s1734/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.22%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7AmfZqGd2WowwfxUMgvRj4UlLplB2s5WSA_RtyYkJapi3JL6W1HVCm-5r4hyDLD5u32iIdRpb_va-Uct4Yb3kkYXc2rdadZdwxWTbb-jdmwpH0Uh2YaXOaRpLz-6ejJ4v6XLFaKGQnQIZ-UdaZT-GAspBxX5bJzTjLBi1OMlPmMlteaOkm6IjxAKuqq9/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.13.22%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE with Paul Naschy<br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_e3DDKc9GJ8lC84_29bKSeAUjjEY7DwSnzPcpcAHr3kvBitCoDTPLvwOnVwU1-5yBmomzOr5ktXbX64TXuTZZEIlGvaTYE35-yhyphenhyphendYmyaaclfSFJUIX4ceI9X6jsNeYjoQzbACbcGUU4PSojNmMPv4d7CddKm2vvD_9VQ16z17EQXlDYuTkVTVlJ42-8/s1684/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1684" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_e3DDKc9GJ8lC84_29bKSeAUjjEY7DwSnzPcpcAHr3kvBitCoDTPLvwOnVwU1-5yBmomzOr5ktXbX64TXuTZZEIlGvaTYE35-yhyphenhyphendYmyaaclfSFJUIX4ceI9X6jsNeYjoQzbACbcGUU4PSojNmMPv4d7CddKm2vvD_9VQ16z17EQXlDYuTkVTVlJ42-8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.24%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy </u><u>in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEj9T3YCSz5pM7n2rCPt2ScRYhsoCTviQaqMRfDZ0Mz1LxfrQTVIKN5y6KyfnDL031CPX2kDPZR-K60ewnp8DeM2G6wBxaP5oIJdRexaagKt5g5vk6OdC40HXe_fGr0kAjKHLqwnJ24TcFCgm7amw7cNtTr4QEuRwigUWblYw3PK4lo7DydzFCjegFhPL1wf/s1718/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.36%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1718" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9T3YCSz5pM7n2rCPt2ScRYhsoCTviQaqMRfDZ0Mz1LxfrQTVIKN5y6KyfnDL031CPX2kDPZR-K60ewnp8DeM2G6wBxaP5oIJdRexaagKt5g5vk6OdC40HXe_fGr0kAjKHLqwnJ24TcFCgm7amw7cNtTr4QEuRwigUWblYw3PK4lo7DydzFCjegFhPL1wf/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.36%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhA5PHS_oeuPjJ8MbUxDAcre52ECJsQhEznGmeXp3jAfJiivmRvrPobaSmDd126XDzE1Yvbix_XaTiZG0KzvA1_ucv4SxmGxSzJ7zb9WY1SeMdSJ44WIUOoqc6RcXy1uyIqrjh9S8DT5VRNgmtc95NI8lBePccQgXrNT3drLywYgJfk7Pw311CIkWtK_Ee6/s1692/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5PHS_oeuPjJ8MbUxDAcre52ECJsQhEznGmeXp3jAfJiivmRvrPobaSmDd126XDzE1Yvbix_XaTiZG0KzvA1_ucv4SxmGxSzJ7zb9WY1SeMdSJ44WIUOoqc6RcXy1uyIqrjh9S8DT5VRNgmtc95NI8lBePccQgXrNT3drLywYgJfk7Pw311CIkWtK_Ee6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.14.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maria Perschy in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjht3YifqZd1IsgTRv6bvWKoqLeQxv_QbQ6A_wCdpt3MHbuYxZOSYeD7Y3cxQcnn3xPRYvZpJssC5atPKMJogTFRQp0HDEuS6lErz2mKB1UekcsHTIdD9GGKv6z7E0rNlddxQtYc46XkDaSq5psDORM_7g6HcN4ma9whufJWB3dYukxWHvpFQU-V3QemAxA/s1706/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjht3YifqZd1IsgTRv6bvWKoqLeQxv_QbQ6A_wCdpt3MHbuYxZOSYeD7Y3cxQcnn3xPRYvZpJssC5atPKMJogTFRQp0HDEuS6lErz2mKB1UekcsHTIdD9GGKv6z7E0rNlddxQtYc46XkDaSq5psDORM_7g6HcN4ma9whufJWB3dYukxWHvpFQU-V3QemAxA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.34%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rosanna Yanni in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEgLsNXWNyhBirX4XO77JfRThcHxQMDjdfoZNeRzzUt-punAQukwubpBstfGuvXsveC60ZUcFzaHHvEtHXL-ZxpDf_UKCnt6Ebm4uAF47atK-qu1MU6igQ3ptltoxaXfrIiXeVzcOkpFjh1ObpVe5sXdPgJfTCDxP3IGE3CBx1r5HToLZ4ITVkDJzfBAcRiv/s1670/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.55%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="1670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsNXWNyhBirX4XO77JfRThcHxQMDjdfoZNeRzzUt-punAQukwubpBstfGuvXsveC60ZUcFzaHHvEtHXL-ZxpDf_UKCnt6Ebm4uAF47atK-qu1MU6igQ3ptltoxaXfrIiXeVzcOkpFjh1ObpVe5sXdPgJfTCDxP3IGE3CBx1r5HToLZ4ITVkDJzfBAcRiv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.15.55%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEia3i_iofPBli1zsWCrMwnzKQiDR8T5rO9BuUWvPVt_PpRK0tT7xwDyj1Qe9NePLc_BSsC9kNYGhNvzM27SvUjiXHYTFmFpehYKY20bLsQ9PG682H-Eq0o01fD2uam_3SUtO9tbKk46b9bg0oDosS-xfeHb2i2pzymvOshDlGBZdhe6W7dW7nXsHc2C1JKX/s1620/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3i_iofPBli1zsWCrMwnzKQiDR8T5rO9BuUWvPVt_PpRK0tT7xwDyj1Qe9NePLc_BSsC9kNYGhNvzM27SvUjiXHYTFmFpehYKY20bLsQ9PG682H-Eq0o01fD2uam_3SUtO9tbKk46b9bg0oDosS-xfeHb2i2pzymvOshDlGBZdhe6W7dW7nXsHc2C1JKX/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.03%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Naschy in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhDif8_3Sxeb2mc8YxjTJuucfIGzTkBzagYfOXMACvHCzdMqGH9QbSYk0IUtqdtJjtOmgy4tX9vehAmBYWKLKMga_PRlAd9VXq6VYpJum1vv1eZvIRtkR3Gt4bCqK0K72jNhcUqLB7zAKvmqZdkAxzQ-1asS79Tt9IuhpXd52L5QVbK4szD9veDbFmwAY4T/s1702/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.12%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDif8_3Sxeb2mc8YxjTJuucfIGzTkBzagYfOXMACvHCzdMqGH9QbSYk0IUtqdtJjtOmgy4tX9vehAmBYWKLKMga_PRlAd9VXq6VYpJum1vv1eZvIRtkR3Gt4bCqK0K72jNhcUqLB7zAKvmqZdkAxzQ-1asS79Tt9IuhpXd52L5QVbK4szD9veDbFmwAY4T/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.12%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE </u><u> with </u><u>Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEj2nNoudmo-j8ljsCv5_2HKeupENBIVqQ2XMMnQ4XaNyPI_HiWPv_QBpatBbMuzF_lWgTpMhpSSHIsvn0BuDG_mKg8dQqXVOaM-DoxMtD2jxhgiJ_DPoT0qZECLMwKfPWbEW6BGcAmVVJvDFIhKwLmQ8iE8uJZpeKm2SlbKDW1ndx7z2soRn0Gl5OV5mHyc/s1724/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.20%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nNoudmo-j8ljsCv5_2HKeupENBIVqQ2XMMnQ4XaNyPI_HiWPv_QBpatBbMuzF_lWgTpMhpSSHIsvn0BuDG_mKg8dQqXVOaM-DoxMtD2jxhgiJ_DPoT0qZECLMwKfPWbEW6BGcAmVVJvDFIhKwLmQ8iE8uJZpeKm2SlbKDW1ndx7z2soRn0Gl5OV5mHyc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.20%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE </u><u> with </u><u>Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjMcbfQj7egzDJ-b5CXw8bf-5yBanzxTlEQvkMfO_PMouo5cdsiPUVhDsOmnBIJpQLM2x8ZeOyQwDSFFDCjl5itp7mv69POB4ZXB5QN6UQFVJw_-mgT-hYMwDWx-k79QMEgMN5OY7-IUKAHsjXgzxNrYLIoxWewYuq339jZWA01oFKI5HO59ax1ObGZz1LK/s1744/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.29%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcbfQj7egzDJ-b5CXw8bf-5yBanzxTlEQvkMfO_PMouo5cdsiPUVhDsOmnBIJpQLM2x8ZeOyQwDSFFDCjl5itp7mv69POB4ZXB5QN6UQFVJw_-mgT-hYMwDWx-k79QMEgMN5OY7-IUKAHsjXgzxNrYLIoxWewYuq339jZWA01oFKI5HO59ax1ObGZz1LK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-14%20at%209.16.29%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE with </u><u>Paul Naschy</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

body count, maría elena arpón, maria perschy, monster, paul naschy, rosanna yanni, science-fiction, seventies, spanish, spanish horror

MARÍA ELENA APRÓN DYING FOR 'HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE'

María Elena Arpón in HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE/ EL JOROBADO DE LA MORGUE Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 From Dracula to The Werewolf, Paul Naschy p...

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE RIDING 'HORROR EXPRESS'

<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/AVvXsEiAVKl-t9sIBucE82vHgdG3WR35-2WzQi7goMrM-aotKZergo-_YWaTUNIeGmhhkLVUe341AGgmRhzFwCsE0nf9HZr4oVE4RVdWytz_eE4nXNXb2s_thEiquHdZmRF0Q7cDMrVKFziaXcDY-GJavigInQUm28XRf3dOLMuMsbbFSk33M_jyVVm8AwQi6I2E/s2002/1%20he.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="2002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVKl-t9sIBucE82vHgdG3WR35-2WzQi7goMrM-aotKZergo-_YWaTUNIeGmhhkLVUe341AGgmRhzFwCsE0nf9HZr4oVE4RVdWytz_eE4nXNXb2s_thEiquHdZmRF0Q7cDMrVKFziaXcDY-GJavigInQUm28XRf3dOLMuMsbbFSk33M_jyVVm8AwQi6I2E/s16000/1%20he.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS/PÁNICO EN EL TRANSIBERIANO Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and John Carpenter's remake THE THING is HORROR EXPRESS, initially seeming like another period-piece Hammer film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing — when it's really a low-budget Spanish studio's adaptation of John W. Campbell's THING-based short story <i>Who Goes There?</i></p><p></p><p>Beginning with Lee's brooding archeologist, having discovered a man-ape fossil that he cages into the titular snowbound train... joined by Cushing's affable surgeon, part of the crowded coach including beautiful countess Silvia Tortosa; psychotic monk Alberto de Mendoza; seductive stowaway Helga Liné; Miss Marples-style snoop Alice Reinheart; and Julio Peña as the intense onboard lawman who, with a lean build and brooding mustache, looks way too similar to Christopher Lee... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, alberto de mendoza, body count, christopher lee, faith clift, helga liné, julio peña, peter cushing, science-fiction, seventies, silvia tortosa, spanish horror, telly savalas, train

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE RIDING 'HORROR EXPRESS'

Helga Liné painted into HORROR EXPRESS/PÁNICO EN EL TRANSIBERIANO Year: 1972 Rating: **** In-between the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WOR...

ANNE FRANCIS & LESLIE NIELSEN IN THE CLASSIC 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'

<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/AVvXsEjMNSBv-fVfTZKWvAQNvPDopAW_0ZdNq2kLhLM1VT_pEfp9UFI7A_WiH9W4Z0K4AvAcGKU0E73m0kJPl6jsL0BVlnblhyphenhyphen58PJnycOSKL5hIc-P4Z14Vr_thOuGXS70GxMECbbGv8IEGRfRSRQCRR_lRs8UWAfjrmilsnGzITKEV_DcUgHxGopzUKhm-Aefi/s802/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-02%20at%208.34.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNSBv-fVfTZKWvAQNvPDopAW_0ZdNq2kLhLM1VT_pEfp9UFI7A_WiH9W4Z0K4AvAcGKU0E73m0kJPl6jsL0BVlnblhyphenhyphen58PJnycOSKL5hIc-P4Z14Vr_thOuGXS70GxMECbbGv8IEGRfRSRQCRR_lRs8UWAfjrmilsnGzITKEV_DcUgHxGopzUKhm-Aefi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-02%20at%208.34.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of beaming people for STAR TREK, also including a crew of human explorers slowly learning that their investigative situation is dire, even deadly, but Disney's THE BLACK HOLE is basically a remake...<br><br>Both involving an old scientist and a giant sidekick robot... who remained on the titular planet, once inhabited by brilliant aliens: while his entire crew vanished on the way home, providing the search/mission for Leslie Nielson's spaceship to explore the same place that he's warned not to land on... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne francis, earl holliman, fifties, jack kelly, james drury, leslie nielsen, richard anderson, robert dix, science-fiction, walter pidgeon, warren stevens

ANNE FRANCIS & LESLIE NIELSEN IN THE CLASSIC 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'

Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of bea...

HELENA CARTER HEADLINES THE ORIGINAL 'INVADERS FROM MARS'

<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/AVvXsEikqGdU9nwlb7CN906x_x4XIijftbjcB0U28ZBJRJxknHxRS0Daalpyv2vCiMLkIyBxX-SlDBhp03OIGDYdUmVyJHFQDWEISsU-nYT1gfgU0FvzPR4FIRNEcUkR0NVeBbFMi18d01oKMwRZQLe7uEtWua5dfHkxv64S_4oEBzPKj-BninZawPCSwFTaZINH/s2088/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%208.02.14%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="2088" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqGdU9nwlb7CN906x_x4XIijftbjcB0U28ZBJRJxknHxRS0Daalpyv2vCiMLkIyBxX-SlDBhp03OIGDYdUmVyJHFQDWEISsU-nYT1gfgU0FvzPR4FIRNEcUkR0NVeBbFMi18d01oKMwRZQLe7uEtWua5dfHkxv64S_4oEBzPKj-BninZawPCSwFTaZINH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-27%20at%208.02.14%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Helena Carter and Jimmy Hunt in INVADERS FROM MARS Year: 1953 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With sparsely minimalist yet highly stylized interiors ranging from a police station to an astronomical observatory along with deliberately over-scored, melodramatic human closeups, the most complicated set from INVADERS FROM MARS is the most familiar in the 1950's: a Norman Rockwell-style suburban-rural home where the leading character, a pulp-reading young boy... only child to affable dream parents... witnesses a spaceship landing outside his window... <br><br>An iconic view duplicated for the 1980's remake: a rocky-stairwell/hill leading to a sudden crest, where the boy witnesses his father throwing a General over: becoming one of many locals sucked into the same sand-hole the initial spaceship vanished into, and that initially only the kid... played by wide-eyed boy-next-door Jimmy Hunt... had seen...</p><p><span></span></p>

arthur franz, bert freed, fifties, helena carter, hillary brooke, janine perreau, leif erickson, milburn stone, morris ankrum, science-fiction, thriller

HELENA CARTER HEADLINES THE ORIGINAL 'INVADERS FROM MARS'

Helena Carter and Jimmy Hunt in INVADERS FROM MARS Year: 1953 Rating: *** With sparsely minimalist yet highly stylized interiors ranging fro...

ERNEST SCHOEDSACK SHRINKS 'DR. CYCLOPS' WITH ALBERT DEKKER

<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/AVvXsEg1Jo9lUq-xqocSa4_gyLhj5RPRiTiD5bVNBOEFn2O6iOVGysUoRH7xtJxckpE5ldxmCQ8I-zF7ej78KVAIcH45CTNz0UAZdnewbk-qHfkPPoh1Kls-EI5CBh4CLMeeL2vBAjpPHLBBTsF32Ll2AWxVolW6ffCjMAHXeNVhsWCRyuRx3FA365Jvk_lU4PmC/s1646/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-25%20at%201.20.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1646" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Jo9lUq-xqocSa4_gyLhj5RPRiTiD5bVNBOEFn2O6iOVGysUoRH7xtJxckpE5ldxmCQ8I-zF7ej78KVAIcH45CTNz0UAZdnewbk-qHfkPPoh1Kls-EI5CBh4CLMeeL2vBAjpPHLBBTsF32Ll2AWxVolW6ffCjMAHXeNVhsWCRyuRx3FA365Jvk_lU4PmC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-25%20at%201.20.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: DR. CYCLOPS Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Merian C. Cooper, the executive producer and co-director of KING KONG, considered Ernest B. Schoedsack his "cameraman" when he was really not only co-director, but, while Cooper oversaw the special effects, much of the human element from performances to overall character-movement is all his own... </p><p></p><p>Deliberately slowing things down for the first science-fiction/horror in color, DR. CYCLOPS, that also begins a jungle-traipsing, matte-painted adventure including a gorgeous woman, her handsome boyfriend, a comic relief, a curious doctor, and an eccentric old-timer, all winding up in the compound of Albert Dekker's titular mad scientist...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, charles halton, cult, ernest schoedsack, forties, horror, janice logan, science-fiction, thomas coley

ERNEST SCHOEDSACK SHRINKS 'DR. CYCLOPS' WITH ALBERT DEKKER

Title: DR. CYCLOPS Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 Merian C. Cooper, the executive producer and co-director of KING...

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

<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/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s2794/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQluAMPYhiUtc0yN4v-QBm2A9DxHT3xChZ0v-RrnlCs0d1Dg5-t2Y4qRsx34RjkEqn2fkob6aXvTPW5XAAVimEntudzmACTwJHOQrx9EUguXxPUOy85JxjlegD5VDguEdXmS1Z3hdWdyLaEU6ikNVHK7RvzeQy1ZY9NOQBt_XgROV6M-0Re-szKIBH-QO/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-30%20at%207.51.08%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair and soft voice, is perfect for science-fiction as he passively allows strange things to happen around him... even when vanishing into thin air for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/shrinkwrapup.html">THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN</a>, and, here as a small town cop, he's partnered with a old scientist to figure out how giant monoliths are growing out of the earth...</p><p></p><p>Which eventually look fantastic as they crash into a raging river... but these titular MONOLITH MONSTERS never seem that formidable, and are more dangerous in semi-suspenseful scenes leading up... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

fifties, grant williams, horror, jack arnold, les tremayne, lola albright, paul frees, science-fiction, thriller, troy donahue

LOLA ALBRIGHT & GRANT WILLIAMS IN 'THE MONOLITH MONSTERS'

Lola Albright in THE MONOLITH MONSTERS Year: 1957 Rating: **1/2 Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair a...

CAROLE GRAY & GEORGE BAKER BUZZ THROUGH 'CURSE OF THE FLY'

<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/AVvXsEiv4VZfmJIsp9Cili1phZU2SsxLPuMK89v1r8h6tNmH5Uv__W7S7qkCmWmiSBfuo4-ptH8Ndt5vL_JOi-z1Evs8r0nld0VCkYYs4BLNQrEIuSd5FsrRnzBseYuqZgDiIZdQLOUMbwKzOKXWBSSmZjq9ry73nhyphenhyphenLmUThSk9EquSMy2dBHa7aPmvFK2hV0MUL/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%205.43.18%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4VZfmJIsp9Cili1phZU2SsxLPuMK89v1r8h6tNmH5Uv__W7S7qkCmWmiSBfuo4-ptH8Ndt5vL_JOi-z1Evs8r0nld0VCkYYs4BLNQrEIuSd5FsrRnzBseYuqZgDiIZdQLOUMbwKzOKXWBSSmZjq9ry73nhyphenhyphenLmUThSk9EquSMy2dBHa7aPmvFK2hV0MUL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-09%20at%205.43.18%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carole Gray in CURSE OF THE FLY Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of those cinematic examples of problems you want to have, George Baker's Martin Delambre, grandson of the original FLY David Hedison... whose father and brother are still working on a cure for their son/brother turning into the titular insect... is driving into Toronto, Canada when gorgeous brunette <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray</a>, wearing only sexy undergarments, runs by his vehicle... and within two more scenes they're married... <br><br>In what's more Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA than a horror-genre continuation, most of the screen-time has the new wife feeling spooked and uncomfortable in the enigmatic family manor, that's also a laboratory... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

brian donlevy, british, burt kwouk, carole gray, franchise, george baker, horror, jeremy wilkin, michael graham, science-fiction, sequel, sixties, thriller, yvette rees

CAROLE GRAY & GEORGE BAKER BUZZ THROUGH 'CURSE OF THE FLY'

Carole Gray in CURSE OF THE FLY Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 In one of those cinematic examples of problems you want to have, George Baker'...

CAROLE GRAY, EDWARD JUDD & PETER CUSHING 'ISLAND OF TERROR'

<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/AVvXsEj6uUe9AI9XfzyEDX_gG2ajcd1KmfAhTPqFhWGKByuaVX9G3GJvWrmd5a9FeYMQURGXqs8t4Yl7k_n0vFhs_tnRjVsJj-1u4MMI1mTIt6MDyzJF6RGLiRML024OMQwUgvJ9WjaJm7IajIdSZTqaLq-v4Zj46zjHtCO_gKMbPQ4lsVe4NqdLYQzuZGtdZ6_U/s1250/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-06%20at%2011.10.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6uUe9AI9XfzyEDX_gG2ajcd1KmfAhTPqFhWGKByuaVX9G3GJvWrmd5a9FeYMQURGXqs8t4Yl7k_n0vFhs_tnRjVsJj-1u4MMI1mTIt6MDyzJF6RGLiRML024OMQwUgvJ9WjaJm7IajIdSZTqaLq-v4Zj46zjHtCO_gKMbPQ4lsVe4NqdLYQzuZGtdZ6_U/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-06%20at%2011.10.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1966 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b-movies to pair up equally-important male characters, and a gorgeous woman in-between...<br><br>Full-lipped bombshell <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/carole%20gray">Carole Gray's</a> the affable rich girl girlfriend of Edward Judd, the second bone-doctor sought out by the first of three medical experts in British character-actor (and future STAR WARS general) Eddie Byrne, who, after bluntly glib college professor Peter Cushing has no answers, they all seek Judd (for the solution) and Gray (for daddy's helicopter) to head-off for the titular Irish ISLAND...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, carole gray, creature, eddie byrne, edward judd, horror, james caffrey, niall macginnis, peter cushing, science-fiction, shay gorman, sixties, terence fisher

CAROLE GRAY, EDWARD JUDD & PETER CUSHING 'ISLAND OF TERROR'

Year: 1966 Rating: **** Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b...

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

<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/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s1898/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvRhG4IvVt2VIthUQHw8Diq0oZQDK0YPykskeRlEIcQRhooM9tOfhCufnkRKFtMGpZVIyEbWJeYxMwWUGUJccUl-LgVLKH50oj0Bd-Zoui8ihBmf4iiNCHpOmzBQr6bueGOVFEzAmk_-8-JHs5dOg46fu64JJDWHA84KF9hRDOU3HAkomLBeXGoiWBvNn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-05%20at%204.06.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN ONE director from conspiracy-contrived outer-space into the real thing... is more like the galactic working-class origins of ALIEN, looking straight from the same universe with claustrophobic corridors and steely space-station interiors where a matte-painted planet... in this case Jupiter's moon Ion... looms formidably outside...<br><br>Where you could imagine disgruntled ALIEN union-types Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton working... as random likewise miners are mysteriously/violently dying like in a body-count horror flick: either by an unknown head-exploding factor or apparent suicides having to do with possible stir-craziness within the crowded off-white bunkhouse interiors, or the raunchy and pulsating, proto-BLADE RUNNER neon nightclubs...</p><p><span></span></p>

drugs, eighties, frances sternhagen, james b. sikking, john ratzenberger, peter boyle, science-fiction, sean connery, steven berkoff, thriller

SEAN CONNERY LEADS PETER HYAM'S SCI-FI THRILLER 'OUTLAND'

Title: OUTLAND Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Known as a science-fiction version of HIGH NOON, Peter Hyam's OUTLAND... bringing the CAPRICORN...

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ'S PRE-GODZILLA 'THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS'

<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/AVvXsEgOGACTJk9Jb0_uuImDEUb5hVbU3AIZ_tfDcCaYZowkOWV19_SwJ5MqZ0txSh5vqUvoni_CKeHOJe4DFzrF3HT4arE_UqjmxKUaGpRIPX7ksm5S_8iHdlTvfF-l8ml7yJUsjHngy7oRVWXIW46xCifnaNRIRPQEAkBwRcHf2uwYxohtvQOgfgzC5qjr9HCn/s1892/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-22%20at%2012.08.19%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1892" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGACTJk9Jb0_uuImDEUb5hVbU3AIZ_tfDcCaYZowkOWV19_SwJ5MqZ0txSh5vqUvoni_CKeHOJe4DFzrF3HT4arE_UqjmxKUaGpRIPX7ksm5S_8iHdlTvfF-l8ml7yJUsjHngy7oRVWXIW46xCifnaNRIRPQEAkBwRcHf2uwYxohtvQOgfgzC5qjr9HCn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-22%20at%2012.08.19%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Eugène Lourié's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS was what actually inspired Japan's year-later GODZILLA... other than the legendary GOJIRA creature representing American nuclear bombs that destroyed their country (and lost them the war)... making the second radioactive-dinosaur-flick much deeper and far more coherent than this literally groundbreaking predecessor to all sizzling-lizard creature-features... <br><br>At one point, when scientific leads Paul Hubschmid and Paula Raymond wind up in KING KONG-inspired New York City after following the beast (resembling a T-Rex's walking-on-all-fours feisty pet) from the arctic underseas, it never feels like we actually struggled with them throughout any truly adventurous danger within a surprisingly bland monster movie that, other than Ray Harryhausen's terrific 11th hour stop-motion effects, feels like two disconnected stories that never quite meshes into one. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, creature feature, eugène lourié, fifties, horror, kenneth tobey, lee van cleef, monster, paula raymond, science-fiction

EUGÉNE LOURIÈ'S PRE-GODZILLA 'THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS'

Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Eugène Lourié's THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS was what actually inspired Japan's year-later GODZILLA... oth...

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

<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/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s1886/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1886" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1G48r4kEzhKfVFyXv8UkDplCXhcaOGMw9igjiCvwuGBg-0zdjkWSj2l75C-iTJ92ibZLv4uWYzByqxzi8wlOHYx7u4DlLpJ41WFbIuARv4hUGyBhilZzRHFgyGDgbzQliafOdmiuNJt_EuFpEIC2B9RmQFa5GueBmgiJ0QjEhPNPEWLLFi-H_wmpSI4-Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%208.37.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly transforming into a WEST SIDE STORY rumble before blasting into a BEACH BLANKET BINGO musical, the camp-driven drive-in HORROR AT PARTY BEACH has flirtatious brunette Marilyn Clarke causing good guy local John Lyon and angry biker Agustin Mayor to fight... </p><p></p><p>She's like Janet Leigh from PSYCHO, seeming like the main character before foreshadowing Crissie Watkins in JAWS, quickly murdered in the water (actually a rocky atoll) by one of the goofiest looking monster-costume-antagonists ever...</p><p><span></span></p>

cult, del tenney, exploitation, horror, music, science-fiction, sixties, slasher, surf, thriller, wayne tippit

DEFENDING THE INFFAMOUS CAMP OF 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH'

Title: THE HORROR OF BLOOD BEACH Year: 1964 Camp Value: ***1/2 Starting out one of those town-crashing 1960's biker flicks, quickly tran...

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

<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/AVvXsEiJdXjtw6jDnSntPxClsOPFAjCjwd7HQZUd9G4Z9N9uUpInxmnXlqv4iNuo8zwZHGbIzKbOKbUBZBiE-qm-gy19TCMZflLCIOx9BjQLSpMUefRA8uQdE0zijAUdLho6nvn7iHYaoEEvAVRiqpnk8mQmMnhvZVrVMi_UU_u2adjlziEawvTGxeiy3UqNMD4P/s1738/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%205.44.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdXjtw6jDnSntPxClsOPFAjCjwd7HQZUd9G4Z9N9uUpInxmnXlqv4iNuo8zwZHGbIzKbOKbUBZBiE-qm-gy19TCMZflLCIOx9BjQLSpMUefRA8uQdE0zijAUdLho6nvn7iHYaoEEvAVRiqpnk8mQmMnhvZVrVMi_UU_u2adjlziEawvTGxeiy3UqNMD4P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-16%20at%205.44.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF THE SATELLITES puts two of his otherwise most intense actors in somewhat innocuous leading roles, thrust into space within the titular rocketship-like satellite where another Corman actor is used to his full potential...</p><p></p><p>Enter one-dimensionally-heroic Dick Miller and Susan Cabot: he was the murderous sociopath from A BUCKET OF BLOOD while she was the ferocious WASP WOMAN, the gun-moll from MACHINE-GUN KELLY and the manipulative SORORITY GIRL... both literally passengers in a vehicle belonging almost completely to tall/swarthy Richard Devon...</p><p><span></span></p>

dick miller, eric sinclair, fifties, jared barclay, michael fox, richard devon, roger corman, science-fiction, susan cabot

RICHARD DEVON ORBITS DICK MILLER IN 'WAR OF THE SATELLITES'

Dick Miller & Richard Devon in WAR OF THE SATELLITES Year: 1958 Rates: **** Roger Corman's cold-war science-fiction thriller WAR OF ...

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>

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'

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>

bert i. gordon, ed kemmer, eugene persson, fifties, gene roth, horror, jack kosslyn, june joceyln, june kenney, sally fraser, science-fiction, troy patterson

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...

TANDRA QUINN WITH PAULA HILL IN 'MESA OF LOST WOMEN'

<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/AVvXsEjFTCrfP5ApCnj2Lu2F2dQIJ05wDNIG_gMRxS68_gHPxbPczkl7GTxtYpVWRjo9lRSsX3r5CAP35t0iO5SpjlyZGW5t3kpKTtrO9rLu08AKjJVSj4RiylyxPGbawhb-8eUEjSEvRcTA0sw6AaOMQo570NDo0WQ4baXVRAbD-HEdqb7Pu69rO54ofbU15h5Z/s1868/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%2012.33.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTCrfP5ApCnj2Lu2F2dQIJ05wDNIG_gMRxS68_gHPxbPczkl7GTxtYpVWRjo9lRSsX3r5CAP35t0iO5SpjlyZGW5t3kpKTtrO9rLu08AKjJVSj4RiylyxPGbawhb-8eUEjSEvRcTA0sw6AaOMQo570NDo0WQ4baXVRAbD-HEdqb7Pu69rO54ofbU15h5Z/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%2012.33.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tandra Quinn in MESA OF LOST WOMAN Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Camp Value: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sometimes really, really bad, really, really low-budget movies almost have to be commended for having been completed at all... and MESA OF LOST WOMEN is one of the very worst, with an annoying soundtrack consisting of a flamenco guitar lunging into those peak dramatic chords that would usually end a song, stuck in a nightmarish never-ending loop... but there's also one of the most effectively gorgeous starlets here, and she should have been used a lot more...<br><br>By the time Tandra Quinn's perfectly-named tarantula-woman Tarantella does a sexy dance to actual flamenco players in a seedy little tavern, there's already been a few plot-lines, and timelines, awkwardly established... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, airplane, fifties, george barrows, harmon stevens, horror, jackie coogan, paula hill, robert knapp, science-fiction, tandra quinn

TANDRA QUINN WITH PAULA HILL IN 'MESA OF LOST WOMEN'

Tandra Quinn in MESA OF LOST WOMAN Year: 1953 Rating: **1/2 Camp Value: ***1/2 Sometimes really, really bad, really, really low-budget movie...

RICHARD EGAN AND CONSTANCE DOWLING BATTLE ROBOTS IN 'GOG'

<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/AVvXsEgmux9ftvVJ7rtpwpfa1vvRUOqyI6Z4f_BxeWXXWO121Ek3u7rTbYs0aFknoCLknnrRvZCslV0dCMZIkFgJ_YoJGtB1vUGYOpO01hyIokUFBVbbYLYyRPEEHA_nXIdiA0O2D5HJVXQMLZsimLIxY_O69hdcMogDxhHpMm_hooDFsJCQxpInlwpCbe3w_iXl/s2136/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%207.54.34%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="2136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmux9ftvVJ7rtpwpfa1vvRUOqyI6Z4f_BxeWXXWO121Ek3u7rTbYs0aFknoCLknnrRvZCslV0dCMZIkFgJ_YoJGtB1vUGYOpO01hyIokUFBVbbYLYyRPEEHA_nXIdiA0O2D5HJVXQMLZsimLIxY_O69hdcMogDxhHpMm_hooDFsJCQxpInlwpCbe3w_iXl/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-04%20at%207.54.34%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Constance Dowling and Richard Egan in GOG </u><u>Year: 1954 Grade: C—</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's nothing cooler than taking a flamethrower to killer robots... unless it's the 1950's, during the peak of the pulpy-magazine-inspired b-movies where GOG plays out like what's referred to as real science-fiction as opposed to fantastical programmers involving laser pistols... <br><br>Herein mostly entailing scientists inside a multi-room laboratory explaining various gadgets and theories on space travel... which would be semi-intriguing if the action weren't at a snail's pace...<span></span></p>

byron kane, constance dowling, fifties, herbert marshall, john wengraf, michael fox, philip van zandt, richard egan, science-fiction, stephen roberts, william schallert

RICHARD EGAN AND CONSTANCE DOWLING BATTLE ROBOTS IN 'GOG'

Constance Dowling and Richard Egan in GOG Year: 1954 Grade: C— There's nothing cooler than taking a flamethrower to killer robots... unl...

CHARLIE SHEEN, SHERILYN FENN & NICK CASSAVETES 'THE WRAITH'

<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/AVvXsEj5NTzHk6YJcLfS1r8Lw8bM-FSVVOLnNKb1zAAkCws1kMKK_PyE3SnJdLprYHaUi4M_b3eraRRpsqU6ymqzTzITCYmcqtSOFmvCcjbuYDfu2FFcVibTRr3zuDsnS2TKj-VDjB7NlZRrUwfOA-rWzM7ep2l-dLhBlq8imoKwUZxnPJxhcktoNnuQH82iqcl2/s1866/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-21%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NTzHk6YJcLfS1r8Lw8bM-FSVVOLnNKb1zAAkCws1kMKK_PyE3SnJdLprYHaUi4M_b3eraRRpsqU6ymqzTzITCYmcqtSOFmvCcjbuYDfu2FFcVibTRr3zuDsnS2TKj-VDjB7NlZRrUwfOA-rWzM7ep2l-dLhBlq8imoKwUZxnPJxhcktoNnuQH82iqcl2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-09-21%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sherilyn Fenn, Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes & Matthew Barry in THE WRAITH Year: 1986 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Right before Oliver Stone flew overseas to begin filming his game-changing PLATOON, he had heard about the kind of b-movie he probably grew up watching... a small town gang of ruffians race cars along winding desert roads... <br><br>All for pink slips to own the losing vehicle, but there's a twist since one black car seems to have come from outer space... and Stone's Vietnam-opus leading man, Charlie Sheen, could have possibly ruined his potential star-power...</p><p><span></span></p>

charlie sheen, clint howard, desert, eighties, exploitation, griffin o'neal, nick cassavetes, randy quaid, science-fiction, sherilyn fenn, small town

CHARLIE SHEEN, SHERILYN FENN & NICK CASSAVETES 'THE WRAITH'

Sherilyn Fenn, Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes & Matthew Barry in THE WRAITH Year: 1986 Rating: *** Right before Oliver Stone flew overse...

KELLI MARONEY IN THE CORMAN PRODUCTION 'CHOPPING MALL'

<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/AVvXsEgnDNB7s1uNMcU-Duksfh0xwDb9fVbKh1Ual66GJ8ABXjoZi6ifpgUrWcrgjc9Raz98Y_-014Hzat8wyQbsakHFa0o49gCXyP0OokUPbsRtn9yRiQAl_3Y5DaWKSSmexZ5C1Wp9wJgyL_IORJJ3YBNhKJBoBZWZBZB59E2wUy38bf1EHYhyphenhypheno0h4hD4AtpB9/s1784/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1784" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDNB7s1uNMcU-Duksfh0xwDb9fVbKh1Ual66GJ8ABXjoZi6ifpgUrWcrgjc9Raz98Y_-014Hzat8wyQbsakHFa0o49gCXyP0OokUPbsRtn9yRiQAl_3Y5DaWKSSmexZ5C1Wp9wJgyL_IORJJ3YBNhKJBoBZWZBZB59E2wUy38bf1EHYhyphenhypheno0h4hD4AtpB9/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CHOPPING MALL Year: 1986 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While a group of people inside a shopping mall are fighting for their lives against murderous aggressors is straight from DAWN OF THE DEAD, director Jim Wynorski's CHOPPING MALL set the stage for ROBOCOP...<br><br>Originally titled KILLBOTS, the plot has law-enforcement machines, including an initial test to show how they work and, instead of becoming surprisingly lethal during a test run, the three robots needed only lightning striking outside to make their wiry-innards possessed, straight out of a mechanical FRANKENSTEIN... </p><span></span>

angela aame, barbara crampton, dick miller, eighties, exploitation, gerrit graham, horror, john terlesky, kelli maroney, mary woronov, paul bartel, roger corman, russell todd, science-fiction, tony o'dell

KELLI MARONEY IN THE CORMAN PRODUCTION 'CHOPPING MALL'

Title: CHOPPING MALL Year: 1986 Rating: **** While a group of people inside a shopping mall are fighting for their lives against murderous a...