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Written by Harold Hoffman
Directed by Larry Buchanan
Run Time: 80 minutes
Bravely reviewed by Karl Hoegle
Reviewer’s note: With a paltry $20,000 budget, AIP gave the stalwart Buchanan a title that was already registered (In the Year 2889) and a copy of Roger Corman’s 1955 “The Day […]
Other Titles: (Giant Space Monster: Guilala
(宇宙大怪獣:ギララ)
Director: Kazui Nihonmatsu
Producer: Wataru Nakajima
Screenplay:
Eibi Motomochi
Moriyoshi Ishida
Kazui Nihonmatsu
SFX: Hiroshi Ikeda
Art Direction: Shigemori Shigeta
Music: Taku Izumi
CAST:
Toshiya Wazaki – Captain Sano
Peggy Neal – Lisa
Itoko Harada – Michiko
Eiji Okada – Dr. Kato
Franz Gruber – […]
Directed by Roberto Mauri
Written by Roberto Mauri and Walter Brandi
Run Time: 82 minutes
Tagline: From the forest came the terror of…
Other Titles: King of Kong Island
"I can hardly wait to find out if there really is a sacred monkey."
– Diane […]
Directed by Umberto Scarpelli
Written by Gino Stafford, Sabatino Cuiffini, Oreste Palella, Amabrogio Moltaeni, Umberto Scarpelli, and Emimmo Salvi (whew!)
Run Time: 92 minutes
Tagline: See! The Dwarfs of Death! See! The City Destroyed by Cataclysm! See! Women Who Live Forever! [NOTE: There are no women who live forever […]
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Bill Finger and Ivan Reiner
Run Time: 90 min
Tagline: "The Green Slime is coming!"
Other Titles: Death and the Green Slime, Gamma #3 Big Military Space Operation (Japan)
Classic quote: Doctor Lisa Benson looking over a bloody, smoking, charred […]
Written and Directed by Larry Buchanan (based on the story "Being" by Richard Matheson)
Run Time: 80 minutes
Tagline: Trapped In a Cave of Terror!
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Directed by Dave Bradley
Written by Steve Bennett, Peter Miles
Run Time: 91 minutes
Tagline: The most incredible plot to conquer the world!
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Directed by Ishiro Honda
Run Time: 89 minutes
Tagline: Discover the incredible world of tomorrow…15 miles straight down at LATITUDE ZERO!
The sci-fi world of the late 60’s saw a number of weird Anglo-Japanese mutations spring to life, like the terrifying space-born menace, The Green Slime. And just as wondrously, […]
Directed by Noriaki Yuasa
Run Time: 82 minutes
Other Titles: "Gamera vs. Guiron", "Gamera vs. the Devil-Beast Guiron"
Yes, he’s back.
Everybody’s favorite giant, flying, fire-breathing, child protecting, space turtle: Gamera. Created by the wild minds at Daiei Studios in an effort to cash in on Toho’s successful Godzilla […]
Directed by Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa, Koreyoshi Akasakai
Written by Ichiro Miyagawa
Tagline: “When evil Space Nazis from the Sapphire Galaxy seek to destroy the earth, only a Japanese man of steel in white tights can save us!” (OK, I made that up. I couldn’t find an official tagline.)
Run Time: […]
Written and Directed by Jerry Warren
Tagline: Her thrills rip forth in wide wild adventure!
Run Time: 102 min
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Directed by Robert Hutton
Tagline: “Up from the bowels of the Earth!”
Running time: 76 min
Other titles: “Tomorrow You Die”
As the tag line states: “Up from the bowels of the Earth!”…Indeed.
This lovely little slime-ball of a film was directed by actor Robert Hutton (who coincidentally stars […]
Directed by David Quaid
Written by Paul Jacobson
Tagline: “Blast off for Mars… with Santa and a pair of Earth kids!”
Run Time: 81 min
Other titles: "Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens "
Just the title is enough to make my tooth fillings ache. I picture a hairy-armed […]
Directed by Clark L. Paylow
Written by Lewis Simeon and G.J. Zinnerman
Run Time: 71 min
OK, first, sorry for the fuzzy screen shots. Some of these movies I review are from a long time ago, and the pictures are not always of the best quality. Having said that, […]
Written and directed by Sidney W. Pink
Tagline: “A prehistoric beast born 50 million years out of time!”
Run Time: 81 min
To give you an idea of just how bad this movie is, consider that the film’s American distributor, the infamous American International Pictures (AIP) (who would distribute anything as […]
Written and Directed by Bill Rebane / Herschell Gordon Lewis
Tagline: “An Anstronaut Went Up — ‘Guess What’ Came Down!”
Run Time: 69 min
Other titles: "Terror at Halfday"
What do you get when renowned B-movie schlock-meister Bill Rebane (Director of The Giant Spider Invasion) runs out of […]
Written and directed by Hal Warren
Tagline: "It’s beyond your imagination!"e
Run Time: 74 min
Other titles: "The Lodge of Sins"e
Necking kids:"Awww…we aint doing nothing…"Sheriff:"Well, whatever it is you’re not doing, go don’t do it somewhere else."
No. I did not misquote that second line. That’s as clever […]
Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler
Tagline: "SEE: the dancing girls of the carnival murdered by the incredible night creatures of the midway! SEE: the hunchback of the midway fight a duel of death with the mixed up zombies! SEE: the world’s first monster musical!"
Run Time: 82 min
Other Titles: […]
Written and Directed by Fritz Bottger
Tagline: "Shock upon shock! Terror upon terror!"
Run Time: 77 min
Other Titles: "Ein Toter hing im Netz"
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Directed by Robert Gaffney
Tagline: “Warning! Beware their stare!”
Run Time: 79 minutes
Other titles: “Mars Attacks Puerto Rico”
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster is low-budget, bottom of the barrel drive-in theater filler. Despite its enticingly lurid title, the film is listless, lazy, and should be avoided.
From the […]
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