Dangerous Youth (1957)
A British rock and roll movie? Sure, why not. Tough gang leader and wannabee rock star Dave Wyman (“Mr. Moonlight” Frankie Vaughan) escapes the Liverpool slums — five years before The Beatles would release “Love Me Do” — for military service. Somehow, someway, it turns out that the army life is the life for him. But […]
Rock All Night (1957)
Based on a 25-minute television episode of The Jane Wyman Theatre from 1955 called “Little Guy” and part of a double bill with Drag Strip Girl, this is a Roger Corman attempt at capturing the feeling of rock and roll for the big screen. In that version, Dane Clark starred. It was one of the first […]
La Maldición de la Momia Azteca (1957)
K. Gordon Murray seems like the perfect person — if Jerry Warren wasn’t going to do it — to bring this movie to the U.S. as The Curse of the Aztec Mummy. None of the voices seem like they fit the characters — which if you know the world of Murray’s films — makes perfect sense. […]
La Momia Azteca (1957)
Across three movies all shot at the same time, Popoca the Aztec Mummy wreaked havoc across Mexico before his adventures were remixed by — you guessed it — Jerry Warren and retitled Attack of the Mayan Mummy. His version ends with the mummy killed by a car off-camera in one of the most anti-climactic scenes I’ve […]
El Pantano de las Animas (1957)
A small Mexican village is dealing with not just the death of a man, but the fact that his body has disappeared too. Now, his brother and a cowboy detective friend (Gaston Santos, who played the same role of a cowboy against the unknown in The Living Coffin, Los Diablos del Terror, La Flecha Envenenada and El Potro Salvaje) head […]
El Idolo Viviente (1957)
Rene Cardona directed the original version of this film before it was retitled as The Living Idol and had scenes added by Albert Lewin, who was once a producer at Paramount. It’s a very Val Lewton-esque film and could very easily convince you that it’s an all-American movie outside of the casting. There is one American star […]
Ladrón de Cadáveres (1957)
This movie actually played in the U.S. as a bad translation — but one more apt to get people into the theaters perhaps thinking they were seeing another film — The Body Snatcher. It was inspired Universal’s Frankenstein and was an attempt to take as much of that film as possible while avoiding any potential lawsuit. Between […]
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Man of a Thousand Faces is an opportunity for James Cagney, a screen legend in his own right, to pay tribute to one of cinema’s greatest icons, the irreplaceable silent cinema legend Lon Chaney. For all his talent and success, Chaney’s life was plagued by heartache. This movie covers every step of the actor’s career, […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11 Option 2: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
DAY 11. THE OLD WAY. Watch a classic from 1959 or before. Herman Cohen started his climb up the show business ladder from the lowest rung, working as a gofer and usher at Detroit’s Dexter Theater at the tender age of 12. By 18, he’d be the manager. His career would take him from being […]
Night of the Demon (1957)
Night of the Demon was a movie that scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. That iconic shot of the demon from the end was always in books about horror and issues of Famous Monsters. I’d always hide my eyes from it while still being fascinated. Little did I know that the […]
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