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Director: Edgar G. Ulmer    More Info
Starring: Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Carmel Daniel, Edward Erwin, Jonathan Ledford, Norman Smith, Patrick Cranshaw

 Paul Krenner (James Griffith) sets out to develop a process to make men invisible in order to make an invisible army that he can market. To this end, he forces Dr. Peter Ulof (Ivan Triesault) to make it happen. But, Paul needs more radium to complete his experiment and, with the help of his girlfriend Laura (Marguerite Chapman), busts Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy) out of jail to steal the necessary radium after being made invisible. But Joey has other plans upon becoming invisible. A real "cheapie," but it's fun to watch.

Director: Kurt Maetzig    More Info
Starring: Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, Michail N. Postnikow, Kurt Rackelmann, Gunther Simon, Tang Hua-Ta, Lucyna Winnicka

 An expedition from Earth to Venus sets out to uncover the mystery behind magnetic spots discovered in a construction project at which an alien spaceship crashed years ago.

Director: Roger Corman    More Info
Starring: Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne

 Following a nuclear disaster, three scuba divers–Evelyn (Betsy Jones-Moreland), her husband Harold (Anthony Carbone), and their friend Martin (Robert Towne)–rise to the surface off Puerto Rico and fear that they are the only survivors left on Earth. Even more problems rise to the fore when Martin takes an interest in Evelyn, and the two men try to seduce her believing that she is the "last woman on Earth."

Director: Roger Corman    More Info
Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Leola Wendorff, Lynn Storey, Wally Campo, John Herman Shaner

 When flower shop worker Seymour (Jonathan Haze) cuts his finger, the blood vitalizes his bloodthirsty Venus flytrap-like plant. Seymour becomes a slave to the plant and must perform murders to supply the needed blood while the plant brings business into the flower shop. Grossly funny and cheap, but it is lots of fun. Highlight: pain-loving Wilbur Force (Jack Nicholson) goes to the dentist.

Director: George Pal    More Info
Starring: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, Doris Lloyd, Paul Frees, Bob Barran, Josephine Powell

 Around 1900, a scientist, H. George Wells (Rod Taylor), invents a time machine that can transport him through the fourth dimension of time. He travels into the year 807,701 where he discovers a VERY foreign world filled with the meek Elois who are hiding from the brutal Morlocks. Wells battles the Morlocks to regain his stolen time machine and rescues the beautiful Weena (Yvette Mimieux). From the H.G. Wells story.

Director: Wolf Rilla    More Info
Starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael C. Gwynne, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon, Richard Warner, Thomas Heathcote, Jenny Laird

 Twelve children are born the same night in a British village. Strangely, they seem to display no emotions, and all look alike. They are very bright and have telekinetic powers. Gordon Zellaby's (George Sanders) wife Anthea (Barbara Shelley) has given birth to one of the babies, and, a few years later, Gordon educates them but becomes skeptical when he finds that they make people do strange things. Finally, Gordon sets out to destroy the children but loses his own life in the process.

Director: Antonio Margheriti    More Info
Starring: Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini, Maya Brent, Jacqueline Derval, Carlo D'Angelo, Carol Danell, Renzo Palmer, Giuliano Gemma, Joe Pollini

 A planet-like object is hurtling toward Earth, and scientists try to figure out how to stop it from colliding with our planet. But wait! Flying Saucers have been launched from the object and engage Earth's forces. It turns out that the object came from a dead planet where a master computer now rules. How can we possibly win?

Director: Val Guest    More Info
Starring: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden, Reginald Beckwith, Gene Anderson, Arthur Christiansen, Austin Trevor, Renee Asherson

 The worst fears of the Cold War are realized when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union detonate nuclear devices at the same time. This causes the Earth to get knocked out of orbit, and it starts a spiral toward the sun. What's a person to do? Not a bad flick; overall well directed and acted.

Director: William Witney    More Info
Starring: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, Richard Harrison, Vito Scotti, Wally Campo, David Frankham, Ken Terrell, Peter Besbas

 Adapted from two Jules Verne novels, this is the story of Robur (Vincent Price) who created a machine to destroy military equipment. Strock (Charles Bronson) is working overtime to prevent any more damage from Robur's attacks.

Director: Ishiro Honda    More Info
Starring: Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyoko Kagawa, Emi Ito, Yumi Ito, Jerry Ito, Akihiro Tayama, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara

 Tiny (one-foot tall) twins (Emi Ito and Yumi Ito), who have supernatural powers, are abducted from their island by Clark Nelson (Jerry Ito) and taken to Tokyo where they are exploited in a vaudeville show. But, their singing reaches far away to a giant caterpillar, Mothra, that comes to their rescue–destroying Tokyo in the process.

Director: Cy Endfield    More Info
Starring: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert, Dan Jackson, Harry Monty

 Jule's Verne's sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is enhanced by the musical score and Ray Harryhausen's special effects. Set during the Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon, crash-land in the sea, and are washed ashore on a South Pacific island. They quickly realize that the island contains giant plants and creatures, and they are confronted by pirates. They even meet Capt. Nemo (Herbert Lom) of the "Nautilus" from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and learn of his plan to feed the world's population, thus ending wars.

Director: William Marshall    More Info
Starring: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Dolores Faith, Francis X. Bushman, Richard Weber, Al Jarvis, Dick Haynes, Mel Curtis, Richard Kiel

 An astronaut, Captain Frank Chapman (Dean Fredericks), is sent to discover the cause of two missing missions when problems cause a forced landing on an asteroid. When he breathes the atmosphere, he shrinks to six inches and finds that the asteroid is populated by like-sized people. He helps defeat the terrible monsters out to feast on them, and then, again breathing oxygen, he is able to fly away.

Director: Harald Reinl    More Info
Starring: Gert Frobe, Lex Barker, Daliah Lavi, Wolfgang Preiss, Fausto Tozzi, Werner Peters, Rudolf Forster, Rudolf Fernau, Joachim Mock, Laura Solari

 The diabolical Dr. Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss) is back in this first of several non-Fritz Lang directed Dr. Mabuse films. Thought dead, Mabuse returns to sabotage a nuclear plant. Inspector Lohmann (Gert Frobe), with the help of U.S. agent Joe Como (Lex Barker), is again on the trail as Mabuse's zombie-like henchmen leave a trail of murders.

Director: Irwin Allen    More Info
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon, Regis Toomey, John Litel, Howard McNear

 Great special effects highlight this colorful sci-fi film about the shakedown cruise of the U.S.S. Seaview. The submarine's designer, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon), is aboard, and, when a giant fire in the sky is spotted, Harriman, without permission, takes on the mission to knock out the fire that he believes threatens to destroy Earth. This decision causes conflict between Nelson and the Seaview's captain, Commander Lee Crane (Robert Sterling), as well as suspicions of psychiatrist Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine) who questions Nelson's sanity. To make matters worse, there appears to be a saboteur aboard the Seaview.

Director: Joseph Green    More Info
Starring: Jason Evers, Adele Lamont, Leslie Daniels, Virginia Leith, Paula Maurice, Bonnie Sharie, Marilyn Hanold, Bruce Brighton, Arny Freeman, Fred Martin

 Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) has experimented with using electric shock to restore life to those who have recently died. After Bill causes a car accident in which his girlfriend Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) is killed, he saves her head in order to find the perfect body for it. She begs him to let her die, but he ignores her pleas. Meanwhile, her head now has telepathic powers, and, by story's end, she will use those powers to prevent Bill from murdering the woman (Adele Lamont) whom he has chosen to replace Jan's body.

Director: Steve Sekely    More Info
Starring: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns, Ewan Roberts, Alison Leggett, Janina Faye, Geoffrey Matthews, Gilgi Hauser

 A meteor shower blinds all who look at it, but Bill Masen (Howard Keel) is spared. The shower also brought alien spores that quickly took hold on Earth, growing into huge, fast-spreading, carnivorous plants, and the blind people are easy targets. Bill searches for others who still have sight in order to save the Earth. Meanwhile, a couple (Janette Scott and Kieron Moore) works in a lighthouse on a scientific solution.

Director: Sidney W. Pink    More Info
Starring: John Agar, Greta Thyssen, Ann Smyrner, Mimi Heinrich, Carl Ottosen, Ove Sprogoe, Louis Miehe-Renard, Peter Monch, Annie Birgit Garde, Ulla Heinrich

 It's time to check out Uranus in the year 2001, so an expedition led by Capt. Don Graham (John Agar) heads there. Upon landing, they discover a strange world indeed: the past dreams and fears from crew members come to life. It is all controlled by a giant, evil Brain, and the crew will be doomed unless the creature can be destroyed!

Director: Ishiro Honda    More Info
Starring: Michael Keith, James Yagi, Tadao Takashima, Mie Hama, Kenji Sahara, Harry Holcombe, Akihiko Hirata, Yu Fujiki, Ichiro Arishima, Jun Tazaki

 After a submarine collides with an iceberg, and Godzilla is released after being trapped for seven years, the great ape, King Kong, is captured and brought to Japan to fight Godzilla. A battle between the two ensues on Mount Fuji; but, when an earthquake sends Godzilla and Kong plunging into the ocean, only one will survive.

Director: James Neilson    More Info
Starring: Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval, Tommy Kirk, Bob Sweeney, Kent Smith, Simon Scott, Bert Remsen, Nancy Kulp

 In this comedic science-fiction tale from Disney, astronaut Captain Richmond Talbot (Tom Tryon) volunteers to make the first trip to the moon. The mission is hush-hush, and Talbot is being carefully watched by security agents. He meets Lyrae (Dany Saval) who says she is from another planet and that she has come to provide a special coating to safeguard his rocket. When the rocket is launched, Talbot finds that Lyrae is a stowaway, and the two soar off happily on their way to the moon.

Director: Ray Milland    More Info
Starring: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, Joan Freeman, Richard Garland, Richard Bakalyan, Willis Bouchey, O.Z. Whitehead, Hugh Sanders

 Retreating to the hills after the United States suffers a nuclear attack, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family struggle to survive on what is left of the land.

Director: Robert Hutton    More Info
Starring: Robert Hutton, Les Tremayne, Robert Burton, Susan Hart, William Boyce, Judee Morton, John Close, Tracy J. Putnam, Jock Putnam, Blair Robertson

 And now it's time for another of the all-time bad movies. Nuclear testing awakens prehistoric subterranean monsters who then come to the surface in Los Angeles, create a curtain of fog around the city, and force the inhabitants to flee. But our duty scientist figures out a way to stop the fog and save humanity.

Director: Ishiro Honda    More Info
Starring: Tadao Takashima, Yoko Fujiyama, Yu Fujiki, Kenji Sahara, Ken Uehara, Jun Tazaki, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yoshifumi Tajima, Akihiko Hirata, Eisei Amamoto

 Ex-submarine Captain Hachiro Jinguji (Jun Tazaki) ignores pleas for help in tracking down the undersea society, Mu, which has been sucking energy out of Earths's core and causing giant earthquakes. But, now the Mu have kidnapped his daughter (Yoko Fujiyama), and Jinguji sails his air, land, and sea supership into the maze in an attempt to rescue her.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola    More Info
Starring: Edd Perry, Arla Powell, Andy Stewart, Bruce Hunter

 Roger Corman has done it all, and this time he turns the 1959 Russian sci-fi movie "Nebo Zovet" into an American version. Americanized pseudonyms were used for the Russian actors, as well as for Director Francis Ford Coppola (Thomas Colchart), in this so-so effort that tells the story of the race to reach Mars.

Director: Anton Leader    More Info
Starring: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, Patrick Wymark, Martin Miller, Harold Goldblatt, Bessie Love

 Yes, some of the smart alien children from 1960's "Village of the Damned" survived. The six survivors still have their psychic powers and a thirst for both power and revenge. When psychologist Tom Llewellyn (Ian Hendry) and geneticist Dr. David Neville (Alan Badel) investigate, they realize that the children are able to influence people's minds. The children are flown to London, but they escape, hide in a church, and battle the human race.

Director: Basil Dearden    More Info
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Harold Goldblatt, Geoffrey Keen, Terry Palmer, Norman Bird, Roger Delgado

 After a scientist commits suicide, his friend and colleague, Henry (Dirk Bogarde), tries to convince authorities that the man had been brainwashed by a new technique intended to extract secret information. In order to convince doubters, Henry agrees to undergo the revolutionary brainwashing, which has bad consequences. Eerie, but interesting.