Conducting weird scientific experiments, mad scientist Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors. Starring Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, and Wallace Ford. Is it a gorilla, bigfoot or a mad scientist? A great retro-bigfoot-ape-man film!
En route to a show in Singapore, a troupe of beautiful dancers are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster with three fangs and a passion for strangling. Starring Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, and Alexander D’Arcy.
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Meanwhile, the house’s owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities, and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but he is killed before he can retrieve the money. Thus the lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities. Starring Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, and Gavin Gordon. A great 50s haunted house movie!
In the year 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land. Staring Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, and Marc Shannon. Sherlock Holmes goes to outer space!
In a story-line very similar to Raiders of the Lost Ark, American agent Secret Service Agent Rex Bennett (Rod Cameron), along with British reporter Janet Blake (Joan Marsh) and Chief of Police Captain Pierre LaSalle (Duncan Renaldo) attempt to thwart the Nazis from obtaining a sacred Arab religious artifact that will unite all the Arabs and they will serve the Third Reich. In order to do this Nazi agent Baron von Rommler (Lionel Royce) captures and impersonates Sultan Abou Ben Ali (also Lionel Royce), leader of all the Arabs. One of the most action-packed of all the serials and the inspiration for the most-watched film of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Nabonga-1944. Starring Buster Crabbe with Julie London in her first film role, is the story of young Ray Gorman who travels to Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father’s bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful ‘white witch’ Doreen, daughter of the now long-dead embezzler. Gorman finds his goal difficult to accomplish as not only does Doreen, guarded by a huge, ferocious gorilla, not want to give up the money, but greedy guide Carl Hurst has followed Gorman’s trail, intent on getting the money himself by any means necessary. A great jungle-girl-lost city-gorilla movie!
A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang, for help. After a series of tragic motor accidents, it becomes apparent that a giant Gila monster is roaming the area depleting the town of its citizens and visitors, including two hot-rodding teens, and planning to attend the BIG record-hop party. Starring Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, and Lisa Simone. First there was a giant tarantula and now this! What next, a giant blob?
Mesa of Lost Women-1953. A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom. Starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, and Richard Travis. One of those “so bad, its good” Mexican monster movies. Stay away from this mesa!
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given a truth serum, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them. Starring Peter Graves, James Seay, and Steve Pendleton. The classic flying saucer movie of the 50s with the star of Mission Impossible!
Creepy little movie concerning a highborn Louisiana family with a dark secret. After a local girl is found mutilated in a nearby bayou, local sheriff (Janssen) must use all his detective skills to solve the crime. His investigation leads him to an old flame (Rush) and her aristocratic brother (Dillman) who are both keen for the culprit to be caught, but for different reasons. Everyone’s a suspect including the local medical examiner, who can’t seem to determine the cause of death, while the paranormal activity leads to more mysterious victims. Starring David Janssen, Barbara Rush, and Bradford Dillman. One of the best werewolf movies of the 1970s!
A civilization of gorgeous cavewomen abduct men for mating purposes. One of their victims is Engor, who seems to be smarter than the rest of the men. He discovers fire, battles a monstrous giant and attempts to win the hand of the prehistoric queen. Starring Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, and Joan Shawlee.
Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers’ family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Starring Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, and Dave O’Brien. Maybe the Devil Bat is really a Chupacabra!
Diamond mine owner Mark Harper hires pilot Steve Blake (Leif Erickson) and his pal Hoppy Owens (Frank Jenks)to search for a hidden jungle village from which the natives have made trouble for his mine operations. They crash near the village and discover that Meelah (Gale Sherwood), a white girl brought up by the natives after her parents had been killed for their property by Harper, is the head of the village. Returning to the mine, Harper, already suspicious of what they may have learned and jealous of the attention his wife, Connie Harper (Veda Ann Borg), is paying to Steve, has them jailed, while he leads an expedition against the village and Meelah. A lost retro-jungle girl movie from the 30s!
Some fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When the word gets out of a mysterious bigfoot-type creature, two college researchers come to the small town to study and hopefully discover what the beast is. Their research from some farmers help the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous swamp ape—or bigfoot. Starring Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, and Dennis Fimple. One of the great bigfoot/swamp ape movies of the 70s! Boggy Creek look out!
Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief’s sarong-clad daughter Nona, and a mad scientist named Dr. Zabor who is conducting experiments in evolution. Seeing Duke as a threat, a jealous Dr. Zabor plans to literally make a monkey out of Duke, for he too loves Nona. Sammy tries to help his pal, with unexpected results. Starring Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo and Charlita. A goofy gorilla-bigfoot movie from the 50s!
Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a bigfoot in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine! Starring George Nader, Gregory Moffett, and Claudia Barretta. The ultimate in the Bigfoot is a Space Alien theory. Get out your ray-guns—here comes bigfoot in a space helmet!
The mad scientist Dr. Cameron has succeeded in his experiments with a serum that will turn a man into a wolf-like monster, and is ready to avenge himself on the men who caused his professional failure. He uses it on his gardener Petro and one after the other is killed by his creation. His daughter, Lenora, grows suspicious and confides with newspaper reporter Tom Gregory. Starring Johnny Downs, George Zucco, and Anne Nagel. Is it a man-made bigfoot? A great retro-horror movie from the 40s!
Forbidden Jungle-1950. Tom Burton, a great-white-hunter and safari leader, is hired to take an expedition deep into the African jungle to search for a white boy lost in a plane crash years before, and who has been rumored to be living among the wild animals. Starring Don C. Harvey, Forrest Taylor, and Alyce Louis. A great jungle girl gorilla-bigfoot movie from the early 50s!
A serial in 12 chapters based on the popular 1930s comic strip by Alex Raymond. Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance. An exciting retro-serial full of pith helmets, gorillas, women in trouble and cliff-hanger action! Grant Withers stars as Jungle Jim, and Henry Brandon played the villainous Cobra. Betty Jane Rhodes is the gorgeous woman on safari.
