From space pioneers to modern day missions, it's a thrilling look at man's quest to conquer space. Starring Harry Townes, John Agar, and Charles Aidman. Good special effects in what was a pilot for an unmade television series. Yes, this is the Rocketmen of the 1950s ready to go into space!
In a community near a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes him. Later, the cuckold Dave Walker finds his slut wife Liz Walker cheating on him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp, and forces them to jump into the water. The leeches take them and shocked Dave is arrested and accused of murder. Two other locals decide to look for the bodies of Liz and Cal to get the prize of US $50.00 per body, and also vanish in the swamp. Finally, game warden Steve Benton organizes a patrol to investigate the caves under the swamp, finding the lethal giant leeches. Starring Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, and Jan Shepard. Something of a cult movie, this is all about swamps gone wrong, terribly wrong.
An atomic explosion awakens Gamera--a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster--from his millions of years of hibernation. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo. Only Plan Z can stop him. Sounds like the last plan they had. Starring Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, and Diane Findlay. A fun Japanese monster movie. It seems that Gamera is more lovable than Godzilla, so take that Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Two Japanese children get into a flying saucer and end up on the other side of the sun where they dream of donuts and milk and a hero turtle. The women there want to eat their brains. Yikes! Originally titled in Japan as Gamera vs Guiron. Starring Christopher Murphy and Edith Hanson. Flying saucers, Gamera and the far side of the Sun, what more could you ask for—Godzilla?
Professor “Johnny Longbow” Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him. Starring Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, and Gregorio Sala. An interesting independent movie made in New Mexico in the mid-70s when you could still do stuff like that. Gotta love movies made in the Land of Enchantment! The Andromeda Strain, look out!
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil! Starring Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, and Junko Ikeuchi. This movie is basically two Japanese movies with their popular Starman superhero of the 1960s edited together. Japanese sci-fi is always fascinating because of the interesting technology that is employed and showcased in their films. It seems to belie the material that maintains the Germans had advanced electrical devices. This is a hilariously dumb movie, none-the-less. Ken Utsui was the heartthrob of Japanese girls in the 1960s, similar to Adam West as Batman in the USA.
An evil genius of unknown identity, calling himself “Dr. Vulcan” plots to conquer the world. He needs to first eliminate, one by one, the members of the Science Associates, an organization of America's greatest scientists. Using the flying jacket and helmet and other inventions provided by Dr. Millard, and aided by magazine reporter and photographer Glenda Thomas Jeff King, as Rocket Man, battles Vulcan and his henchmen through a dozen action-packed serial chapters. Eventually, Vulcan steals Millard's most dangerous invention, a Sonic Decimator, and uses it to flood and then destroy both New York City and the rest of Manhattan Island. Starring Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, Don Haggerty, House Peters, Jr., James Craven, and I. Stanford Jolley. What next—invaders from the Moon? The first of all the great Rocket Men serials! Iron Man, look out!
In the year 2019, two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust. Starring Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, and George Eastman. Yes, this is one of those Italian Mad Max-Road Warrior movies of the early 1980s. This one has Karate veteran Fred Williamson and Spaghetti Western veteran George Eastman. Umm, I think we are out of gas now…
A fleet of UFOs is circling the Earth and a top scientist races to discover their true intentions for the planet. When the UFOs begin an attack the Earth, the scientist finds himself thrown in with a sheriff and his deputies transporting some prisoners to jail. The unlikely group is forced to seek shelter from the alien attack in a nearby cave—not knowing how significant the location is to the alien's plans to dominate planet Earth. Starring Charles Napier, Hoke Howell, and David Homb. Those aliens keep attacking us, what do they think it is, Independence Day? Pretty good special effects here for this Retro-Movie.
This television movie is the combination of a number of Flash Gordon TV shows, made in West Germany, from the early 1950s. Diverging from the storyline of the comics, the series has Flash, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov in the year 3203. As agents of the Galactic Bureau of Investigation, the team travels the galaxy in their ship the Sky Flash, battling cosmic villains under the order of Commander Paul Richards. In this movie, Dr. Zarkoff's request to test his new anti-gravitation device on a remote planet is denied because of the mysterious deaths of a recent scientific expedition. Can Flash Gordon solve this mystery? Starring Steve Holland, Irene Chaplin, and Joseph Nash. Before the Millennium Falcon there was the Sky Flash! No, this is not the Flesh Gordon movie.
An alien civilization, which is facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims. Starship troopers look out! Starring Antonio Sabato, Yanti Somer, and Malisa Longo. One of those Italian sci-fi movies from the late 70s in the wake of the first Star Wars movie.
A contained deadly organism from Mars is being transported via train. Once released, a group of people will have to survive The Alpha Incident. The film starts by revealing that a microorganism from Mars has been brought to Earth and is being delivered by a train. One of the train engineers gets curious and decides to peek where the probe from Mars is being contained. He ends up releasing the diseased organism that can be passed from person by person like a deadly virus through close contact. A small town train station in Moose Point, Wisconsin is expecting the cargo to arrive in the morning, and once it's revealed that the virus was released, a biochemist stuck in the station has to lockdown the entire place leaving everyone in quarantine until they can figure out how dangerous the organism is. Yikes, a Martian virus! Starring Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan, and John F. Goff.
In 1905, an English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one. Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas. This is not a train to be on! Is it a bigfoot or an alien?
Also known as Assignment Terror. Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer Earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff. Starring Michael Rennie of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Karin Dor, and Craig Hill. An Italian horror movie with all the monsters you could possibly want… wait, where are the Mole Men?
After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life. Along the way they encounter pygmy tribes, bands of savage outlaws and a tribe of Amazon women. Starring Michael James, Deborah Moore, and Ken Metcalfe. This is a little-seen Italian Mad Max-Road Warrior movie. Plenty of post-apocalyptic action and Amazon women!
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. However, the "adult" fetus turns into a homicidal psycho and looks for a new formula to prevent her from aging further. Starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd. Looks like genetic experiments and cloning gone wild. Haven’t they learned anything? Maybe Rock Hudson’s last movie. You look it up.
A ship pulls into New York Harbor with no one on board. The police find a cargo full of green pulsating eggs. Upon contact, the eggs explode spreading a green acid like substance that seeps into the skin and explodes. It is later discovered that the eggs are being manufactured in South America by a one-eyed Martian that grew from a tiny seed a former astronaut brought back from a expedition to Mars. Starring Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, and Marino Masé. One of those curious Italian Sci-Fi films that came out after the big success of STAR WARS. This one has one-eyed aliens being manufactured in South America. Yikes!
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids. Someone needs to stop them. Get your ray guns out because it is time to save Earth! Starring Yanti Somer, Gianni Garko, and Malisa Longo. One of several low-budget science fiction entries cranked out in the wake of STAR WARS by the Italians. You could say that it is a spaghetti sci-fi. Got to love those cute robots, look out R2-D2!
Through a series of coincidences, Carrie, Dan and Dr. Hartmann all fall through a teleporter device Hartmann has invented. Transported to a what appears to be a prehistoric world in a parallel universe and unable to find the Doctor, Dan and Carrie must figure out a way to get back home. Before they can do that, however, they must deal with tribes of savage cavemen, as well as brutal warlord named Kleel who has taken a liking to Carrie and seems to be unusually well-supplied with Earth technology. Starring Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, and Bruce Lee’s buddy, John Saxon. Things get tough in these parallel universes… hold on!
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down—in the Slipstream. Filmed in Turkey with all sorts of weird aircraft, this is an imaginative Sci-Fi movie with a different kind of Skywalker. Starring Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton and Kitty Aldridge.
