ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
The first film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Wyott Ordung and written by Bill Danch, making it a notable entry in cult cinema history. It was like remade as Sharktopus. Corman is all about being green. Julie Blair (Anne Kimbell), an American artist on vacation in Mexico, meets marine biologist Steve Dunning (Stuart Wade), […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Island Monster (1954)
Il mostro dell’isola (The Monster of the Island) brought Boris Karloff to Cinecitta Studios to play Don Gaetano, who may speak softly but is also the leader of a gang of black market thieves and drug dealers who have kidnapped Fiorella (Patrizia Remiddi), the daughter of Detective Mario Andreani (Renato Vicario), who has come from […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Target Earth (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Target Earth was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 29 and Saturday, August 8, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, September 14, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. An army of alien soldiers has landed on Earth, and a small group of humans, including Nora King (Kathleen Crowley), who just attempted suicide, is all that’s left in […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Gorilla At Large (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gorilla at Large was on Chiller Theater on Friday, July 6, 1982 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 28, 1982 at 2:00 a.m. in 3D. Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Lee Marvin and Warren Stevens. What a cast! Throw in George Barrows as Goliath, the titular gorilla and man, […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Garden of Eden (1954)
Made at the Lake Como Family Nudist Resort in Lutz, Florida, this is all about J. Randolph Latimore (R. G. Armstrong), his daughter-in-law Susan (Jamie O’Hara) and his granddaughter (Karen Sue Trent) coming to terms with the death of his son and her falling in love with Johnny Patterson (Mickey Knox) as well as the […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Jail Bait (1954)
Also known as Hidden Face, this Ed Wood movie is about Don Gregor (Clancy Malone, director Ed Wood’s grocery delivery person), the rich son of plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor (Herbert Rawlinson). Instead of following his father into medicine, he’s a henchman of gangster Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell) and constantly getting into trouble with the law. […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: The Snow Creature (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I know this ran during Chiller Theater month. Maybe this is why I need more people to write for the site. Maybe you should volunteer, right? Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) is collecting botanical samples in the Himalayas when the wife of his guide Subra (Teru Shimada) is kidnapped. The guide takes over and forces […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Killers from Space (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Apologies. I know this was just part of Chiller Theater month but it’s also on the Mill Creek box set I’m writing about. W. Lee Wilder and Planet Teleplays were just cranking out science fiction movies in the 50s and we’re all the better for it today. Dr. Douglas Martin (Peter Graves) is a […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Crash of the Moons (1954)
Hollingsworth Morse went from the casting department at Paramount Pictures to serving under director George Stevens in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He saw plenty of Europe and helped capture footage of the Battle of Normandy and other significant events of World War II. When he came back to the U.S., he directed plenty of […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Killers from Space (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Killers from Space was first on Chiller Theater on Sunday, December 15, 1963 at 11:10 p.m. It aired six more times on June 5, 1965; November 27, 1965; February 11, 1967; April 12, 1969; May 2, 1970 and July 3, 1971. W. Lee Wilder and Planet Teleplays were just cranking out science fiction movies […]
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