Okay, here we have some prime cheese. While this film is not as tacky as most films made in it's time period, it maintains enough bad acting and rampant stupidity to make it fun to watch. It has everything from Atomic Submarines to a tense love interest factor, to (of course) a Giant Octopus. Modern filmmakers could learn a lot of what real horror and sci-fi is from this little number. Hope you enjoy.
Most people think of a B movie as something concocted by the denizens of post WW II Hollywood, so I thought to include this little piece of cheese to prove that other nation's can also be known for the ripe smell of Lingerger (sp) emanating from their TV sets. This movie is a prime example of why it is important to not Film and Drink at the same time. It has some of the most unbelievably tacky scifi hardware ever put into a movie. The writing is funny and it sometimes seems that the writers had just returned from an all night wine tasting festival when they shlocked this one together. I hope you alien robots of undetermined origin with bad taste in sound effects, Zombified (Is that even a real word?) dead people with light bulbs for eyes, and some of the most fake screaming you ever heard. Enjoy the flick and try not to laugh too hard. :)
Well, just when you thought no movie would ever exceed the cheese factor of Plan 9 from Outer Space, along comes the Creeping Terror. This movie is the ultimate in Tacky B movies. The story is a bit weak, but the creature (which is made of hair and plastic tubes glued to a dirty shag carpet) has to be seen to be believed.. Its hilarious to watch the scantily clad bikini babe actually have top help the monster eat her. The audio is mostly gone due to an accident before the film was released, and 90% of it is simply a narrator filling in the gaps. Now sit back and enjoy the flick. And make sure you have plenty of cheeze wizz for this one.
Here's another little jewel from the not so golden age of B movies. This one has everything, submarines, flying (or swimming) saucers, cyclopian monsters from space, and of course the overly melodramatic acting one would expect from these movies. Sit back and enjoy!
Late 40 or early 50's Science Fiction. Look close at this movie and you might wonder if "Independence Day" made a couple of years ago might have been a updated version from this movie.
Working for the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized every metal item in the store. Investigating further, they eventually trace the source of the magnetism to a flight carrying scientist Howard Denker, now dying of radiation poisoning, who has carted on board with him a new radioactive element which he has bombarded with alpha particles for 200 hours. The element, dubbed 'serranium' grows geometrically by creating matter out of energy which it absorbs from metallic objects surrounding it. Stewart calculates that if the substance is not destroyed soon that within 24 hours or so it will have grown large enough to throw Earth out of its orbit.
A rogue missile, apparently from outside our solar system, ends up plunging into the Earth's atmosphere -- driven by atomic power, it cruises at an altitude of five miles and a speed of 4,000 miles per hour, generating a temperature of one million degrees in its wake, in a field five miles across, destroying anything and anyone it passes over; most of the planes that try to shoot it down miss and are destroyed, and no missile within range can get near enough to damage it with conventional explosives.
Documentary on Bram Stokers dracula in film from the south bank show series presented by Melvyn Bragg
Another Jack Arnold classic. Movie reviews at http://solsun.blogspot.com/
Saucers over U.S.A. Visitors from outer space
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