My Friend, Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Marino Girolami is also the Frank Martin who directed Zombie Holocaust and the Franco Martinelli who directed Special Cop in Action and Violent Rome. He’s also the Dario Silvestri who made God Was in the West, Too, at One Time. In this film, Professor Fabius (Raimondo Vianello) has learned how to possess other people. He takes over a […]
The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)
Count Gabor Kernassy (Walter Brandi) lives in a castle surrounded by darkness and a forest, so when an entire group of exotic dancers, their piano player and their manager ends up on his doorstep, it all seems like a buffet. Yet one of those dancers, Vera (Lyla Rocco), is the reincarnation of his long lost […]
THE MOVIES OF AL ADAMSON: Halfway to Hell (1960)
Al Adamson directed his first movie with his father, Victor, and wrote the script with Alan Greedy. His father was also the cowboy actor Denver Dixon. In the days before the Mexican Revolution, the daughter of a wealthy landowner named Maria San Carlos (Caroll Montour) is set to take part in an arranged marriage with […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
Also known as Ein Toter Hing im Netz or A Corpse Hung in the Web, this West German horror film is all about Gary, a nightclub manager who invites several pretty ladies to strip dance in Singapore. They crash land on the way, make it to an island and find a giant spider web. Soon, Gary is […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Also known as Planet of the Dead and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply, this is really the East German/Polish film Milcząca Gwiazda / Der Schweigende Stern, which would mean The Silent Star in English. It’s based on Stanislaw Lew’s 1951 novel The Astronauts. The author — who also was the man behind Solaris — was critical of the final film, saying, “It […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)
Vittorio Sala made the Eurospy film Spy in Your Eye as well as Beach Casanova, Bang You’re Dead and Diamonds Are a Man’s Best Friend. He made this along with the traditional large army of writers, which included Ennio De Concini, Fulvio Fo, Augusto Frassinetti, Giorgio Mordini, Vittorio Nino Novarese and an actual Oscar winner in Ennio […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Assigment Outer Space (1960)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m sorry, I know this already ran during Chiller Theater month, but I was hoping others would be writing. I hope you don’t mind reading this again. Known as Space-Men in Italy, this was Antonio Margheriti’s first full directorial effort. How magical is it that at the same time that this was being […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Craig Edwards is an award-winning blogger as well as a self-proclaimed Media Guy and a consumer of pop culture for a lot of years. He also writes a great blog called Let’s Get Out of Here! Famed low budget director Edgar G. Ulmer helms this science fiction flick which has apparently fallen into […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Assignment: Outer Space (1960)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Assignment: Outer Space was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 24, 1965 at 11:20 p.m. It also aired on May 21, 1966 and June 1, 1968. Known as Space-Men in Italy, this was Antonio Margheriti’s first full directorial effort. How magical is it that at the same time that this was being filmed, […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Atom Age Vampire (1960)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Atom Age Vampire was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 26, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. Seddok, l’erede di Satana was renamed Atom Age Vampire in America. It was directed by Anton Giulio Majano and written by Majano with Gino De Santis and Alberto Bevilacqua. An exotic dancer (Susanne Loret) has her face ruined […]
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