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Theme: Films of 1957

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

9 August 200124 October 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Alien Monster

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry, Frank Puglia, …
Category: Science Fiction

The 27th Day (1957)

19 January 201612 May 2025

Rating: ★★★

Aliens Give Selected People Doomsday Capsules

Director: William Asher
Actors: Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, Stefan Schnabel, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

4 September 200031 January 2024

Rating: ★★★

Search for the Yeti

Director: Val Guest
Actors: Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Robert Brown
Category: Horror

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

10 August 20104 August 2019

Rating: ★★½

Atomically Mutated Giant

Director: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor, …
Category: Science Fiction

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

21 January 20142 April 2024

Rating: ★★★

Giant Atomically Mutated Crabs

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Richard Garland, Russell Johnson, Pamela Duncan, Leslie Bradley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Beginning of the End (1957)

4 January 20148 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Giant Atomic Grasshoppers

Director: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Thomas B. Henry, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Black Scorpion (1957)

3 September 200024 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Giant Scorpions

Director: Edward Ludwig
Actors: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas
Category: Science Fiction

Blood of Dracula (1957)

18 January 200119 May 2021

Rating: ★★

Teenage Vampire

Director: Herbert L. Strock
Actors: Sandra Harrison, Mary Adams, Malcolm Atterbury, Thomas B. Henry, …
Category: Horror

The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)

11 November 20004 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Possession by Evil Alien Brain

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Werner Erhard, Thomas B. Henry, …
Category: Science Fiction

Cat Girl (1957)

27 September 201617 October 2024

Rating: ★★½

Human-Feline Transformation

Director: Alfred Shaughnessy
Actors: Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Jack May
Category: Horror

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

6 June 200013 July 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Hammer Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Robert Urquhart, Hazel Court, …
Category: Horror

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)

29 November 201819 October 2021

Rating: ★

Revived Aztec Mummy

Director: Rafael Portillo
Actors: Ramon Gay, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Crox Alvarado, Rosita Arenas, …
Category: Horror

The Cyclops (1957)

26 November 20155 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Atomically Mutated Giant

Director: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr, James Craig, Tom Drake
Category: Science Fiction

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

4 August 200024 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Giant Insect

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Craig Stevens, Alix Talton, William Hopper, Donald Randolph
Category: Science Fiction

From Hell It Came (1957)

11 December 20123 August 2023

Rating: 0­

Classic Bad Movie/Possessed Tree

Director: Dan Milner
Actors: Tod Andrews, John McNamara, Linda Watkins, Gregg Palmer
Category: Horror

The Giant Claw (1957)

10 September 201425 August 2020

Rating: ★

Giant Alien Bird

Director: Fred F. Sears
Actors: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Edgar Barrier, …
Category: Science Fiction

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

19 April 200110 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Teenage Frankenstein Monster

Director: Herbert L. Strock
Actors: Whit Bissell, Gary Conway, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
Category: Horror

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

19 January 200025 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Teenage Werewolf

Director: Gene Fowler Jr
Actors: Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime, Barney Phillips, …
Category: Horror

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

17 April 200325 October 2023

Rating: ★★★★★

Miniaturised Man

Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, William Schallert, Paul Langton
Category: Science Fiction

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

18 June 199917 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Teens vs Alien Invaders

Director: Edward L. Cahn
Actors: Steve Terrell, Frank Gorshin, Gloria Castillo, Lyn Osborn, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Invisible Boy (1957)

29 May 200316 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Robbie the Robot Film

Director: Herman Hoffman
Actors: Richard Eyer, Harold J. Stone, Robert H. Harris
Category: Science Fiction

Kronos (1957)

1 February 20223 May 2024

Rating: ★★★

Alien Energy-Devouring Machine

Director: Kurt Neumann
Actors: Jeff Morrow, John Emery, George O'Hanlon, Morris Ankrum
Category: Science Fiction

The Land Unknown (1957)

2 August 20014 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Prehistoric Lost World

Director: Virgil Vogel
Actors: Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, Henry Brandon, William Reynolds, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Man Without a Body (1957)

24 October 201826 December 2023

Rating: ★

Nostradamus’s Disembodied Head

Director: Charles Saunders, W. Lee Wilder
Actors: George Coulouris, Robert Hutton, Nadja Regin, Peter Copley, …
Category: Horror

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

12 August 201527 May 2023

Rating: ★★★

Monstrous Alien Rock Formations

Director: John Sherwood
Actors: Grant Williams, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette, Phil Harvey, …
Category: Science Fiction

Monster from Green Hell (1957)

3 February 20162 December 2024

Rating: 0­

Giant Mutated Wasps Amok

Director: Kenneth G. Crane
Actors: Jim Davis, Robert E. Griffin, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Cianelli
Category: Science Fiction

The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

2 April 200230 August 2024

Rating: ★★

Giant Mollusc Amok

Director: Arnold Laven
Actors: Tim Holt, Hans Conreid, Audrey Dalton, Gordon Jones
Category: Science Fiction

The Mysterians (1957)

14 December 200217 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Japanese Alien Invader Film

Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Yumi Shirakawa, …
Category: Science Fiction

Night of the Demon (1957)

4 January 200119 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Occult Curse

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Dana Andrews, Niall MacGinnis, Peggy Cummins, Liam Redmond, …
Category: Horror

Not Of This Earth (1957)

12 April 201728 September 2023

Rating: ★★½

Alien Vampire

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Jonathan Haze, William Roerick, …
Category: Science Fiction

Quatermass 2 (1957)

2 November 201620 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Alien Body Snatchers

Director: Val Guest
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Sydney James, William Franklyn, Charles Lloyd Pack, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Seventh Seal (1957)

20 January 200111 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★★

Death Incarnate

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson, Åke Fridell, …
Category: Fantasy

She Devil (1957)

5 March 20255 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Scientist Creates Femme Fatale

Director: Kurt Neumann
Actors: Mari Blanchard, Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, John Archer
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The Story of Mankind (1957)

18 February 201027 February 2023

Rating: ★

Heavenly Tribunal Judges Human History

Director: Irwin Allen
Actors: Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Groucho Marx, Cedric Hardwicke, …
Category: Fantasy

The Undead (1957)

2 April 20242 April 2024

Rating: ★★★

Hypnotic Regression/Mediaeval Witchery

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Allison Hayes, Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Mel Welles, …
Category: Horror

The Unearthly (1957)

1 April 20132 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist

Director: Brooke L. Peters
Actors: John Carradine, Allison Hayes, Tor Johnson, Myron Healey, …
Category: Horror

The Unknown Terror (1957)

31 January 201918 May 2020

Rating: ★

Mad Scientist in the Jungle

Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Actors: Paul Richards, John Howard, Mala Powers
Category: Horror

The Vampire (1957)

17 November 200030 August 2024

Rating: ★★

Medical Vampire

Director: Paul Landres
Actors: John Beal, Kenneth Tobey, Coleen Gray, Dabbs Greer, …
Category: Horror

I Vampiri (1957)

13 April 201624 September 2024

Rating: ★★★

Italian Gothic

Director: Riccardo Freda
Actors: Gianna Maria Canale, Dario Michaelis, Wandisa Guida, Carlo D'Angelo
Category: Horror

Voodoo Woman (1957)

14 February 20104 June 2025

Rating: ★★½

Mad Scientist Creates Voodoo Monster

Director: Edward L. Cahn
Actors: Marla English, Tom Conway, Mike Connors, Lance Fuller, …
Category: Horror

Womaneater (1957)

7 January 201612 June 2025

Rating: ★½

Mad Scientist Sacrifices Women to a Plant Creature

Director: Charles Saunders
Actors: George Coulouris, Vera Day, Alexander Field
Category: Horror

Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)

21 February 201324 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Zombie Sailors Guard a Treasure

Director: Edward L. Cahn
Actors: Allison Hayes, Gregg Palmer, Marjorie Eaton, Morris Ankrum, …
Category: Horror

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  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
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  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
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