It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Jul 28, 2002Alien Body Snatchers
The first alien body snatchers film. With Jack Arnold's eerily haunted landscapes and a memorably literate Ray Bradbury script, this is one of the classic SF films of the era
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Jan 5, 2000Prehistoric Monster
A classic 1950s monster movie where an expedition up the Amazon discovers a Gill Man. Here an average story is propelled into the memorable by Jack Arnold's moody direction. Two sequels followed.
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Feb 23, 2001The Creature from the Black Lagoon Sequel
The first sequel to The Creature from the Black Lagoon where The Creature is brought back to civilisation. Director Jack Arnold again creates sympathy and pathos for the monster
Tarantula (1955)
May 31, 2001Giant Spider
Them! had created the 1950s fad for giant atomically enlarged insects. Here Jack Arnold, one of the most celebrated genre directors of the 1950s, makes a giant spider film and much better than most of the era's other giant bug films
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Apr 17, 2003Miniaturised Man
One of the greatest of all 1950s SF films in which average man Grant Williams begins to shrink in size, a film that becomes as much an effects tour-de-force as it is an existential allegory about a man in an alien universe
Monster on the Campus (1958)
Mar 9, 2003Scientist Reverts to a Caveman
One of Jack Arnold's lesser films, a Jekyll and Hyde story where a scientist finds himself reveting to a caveman after scraping his hand on a prehistoric coelacanth
The Space Children (1958)
May 24, 2009Alien Invasion
One of the less remembered films from Jack Arnold who directed a number of 1950s SF classics in which the children of rocket engineers are used by an alien force to sabotage a space launch. Not one of Arnold's greats but still a modestly effective work.
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Feb 2, 1999The World's Smallest Country Invades the USA
Peter Sellers comedy where the smallest country in the world invades the USA and ends up accidentally winning
Hello Down There (1969)
Aug 30, 2023Underwater Habitat Comedy
Director Jack Arnold was one of the great voices of 1950s SF cinema. Here he turns to making a none-too-funny comedy set in an underwater habitat. Featuring a teenage Richard Dreyfuss