Man Beast (1956)
Connie Hayward (Virginia Maynor) and Trevor Hudson (Lloyd Nelson) have gone to the Himalayas and hired a guide named Steve (Tom Maruzzi) and brought along Dr. Erickson (George Wells Lewis) to locate Connie’s missing brother. When they find her brother’s camp, they find it abandoned except for a native guide named Varga (George Skaff). That’s […]
VIDEO ARCHIVES WEEK: Rodan (1956)
VIDEO ARCHIVES NOTES: This movie was discussed on the May 9, 2023 episode of the Video Archives podcast and can be found on their site here. The greatest birthday of my life was when I turned seven in 1979. Sure, I had a roller skating party, but getting a Rodan Shogun Warriors figure that had a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: It Conquered the World (1956)
April 5: Roger Corman’s birthday — Whether he produced or directed the movie, share a movie for Corman’s birthday. It Conquered the World was released by American-International Pictures as a double feature with The She-Creature and has perhaps the goofiest monster ever, The Venusian. It was originally written by Lou Rusoff, who had to leave for […]
AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Bandera Negra (1956)
A Latin teacher named Valentín Mosquera (José María Seoane) wanders through the night, stalking the streets of Madrid and trying to come to terms with the fact that his son Mario will be executed at dawn. This is an indictment of the death penalty as well as the debut of director Amando de Ossorio, this was […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Menace from Deep Space (1956)
Clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones of the Space Rangers was the lead character of a syndicated science fiction series that ran for two seasons from February to November of 1954. Shot in black and white, the show was about Rocky’s adventures as the space policeman for the United Worlds. Flying in his Orbit Jet XV-2 — […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Purple Death from Outer Space (1940, 1956)
Directed by Ford Beebe — who also made a Buck Rodgers serial — and Ray Taylor — who was the director of The Spider’s Web — is the first part of the serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe and Perils from the Planet Mongo completes the storyline. While most movie serials were made for children, the Flash Gordon series […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 25: Gorilla At Large (1954)
25. A Horror Film That Prominently Features A Gorilla Costume. 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, we have a movie. Wait — it’s in 3D? How much do you want to give us, […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: The Black Sleep (1956)
Reginald Le Borg was a banker in Austria and a director in America, making low budget horror at Universal like The Mummy’s Ghost and Weird Woman. Released along with The Creeping Unknown, it was ahead of the Shock Theater package that would ignite a new interest in Universal’s horror movies. It’s also Bela Lugosi’s last movie, although footage of […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: The Wormwood Star (1956)
The artwork in this film was destroyed in a ritual. This is the only record that they were ever here. Harrington said this of the film’s subject, Marjorie Cameron: “Before I made the film I’d heard from Renate that Cameron had spent some time in the desert trying, through magical means, to conceive a child […]
The Wild and the Wicked (1956)
Also known as The Flesh Merchant,Sex Club andDial 5683 for Love, this W. Merle Connell-directed (Untamed Women, Test Tube Babies) frolic tells the sordid tale of Nancy Sheridan, a twenty-something fresh off the bus looking for her sister in Hollywood. Unlike something like The Seventh Victim, where one finds Satan, instead here one finds sin. Sure, she finds her […]
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