Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Jun 12, 2024Zombie Comedy
A Bela Lugosi comedy in which two inept press agents are ordered to obtain a zombie for the opening of a club
Robert E. Kent
The Werewolf (1956)
Aug 17, 2000Atomic Werewolf
A real oddity among the werewolf genre – a film that tries to mix the werewolf up with the 1950s fad for the atomic monster movie in having the transformation brought on by atomically irradiated wolf blood
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Feb 17, 2001Alien Nasty
Although others can be cited, this more than any other is the film that inspired Alien, which in itself seems to have been construed in terms of putting The Thing from Another World aboard a spaceship. A B movie no denying but tight and solidly constructed
Invisible Invaders (1959)
Feb 15, 2001Alien Invaders Possess the Dead
A B budget 1950s alien invasion film that cuts cost by having the invasion represented by stock footage and the resurrected dead in a series of images that prefigure Night of the Living Dead
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Jan 29, 2011Shrunken Head Curse
Someone decided to make a horror film about the practice of shrinking heads conducted by some South American Indian tribes. Despite starting well, this is mostly dull and pedestrian
The Flight That Disappeared (1961)
Jan 31, 2002Abducted Plane/Judgment from the Future
Film in which a plane in whisked outside of space and time and the passengers are placed on trial from the children of the future for their part in designing nuclear weapons
Diary of a Madman (1963)
Sep 15, 2001Possession
Vincent Price is an upstanding 19th Century magistrate who is possessed by a spirit known as The Horla. An interesting treatment of possession themes prior to The Exorcist