Edgar Rice Burroughs always provided a lot of fodder for the big screen, his imagination as wild and untamed as the situations he envisioned and The Land That Time Forgot is just […]
They Had Discovered… – The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
A Land Before Time – One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Unbeknownst to many, Hammer Films was not a one trick pony. On occasion, Hammer did tend to make films that were not of the horror genre and One Million Years B.C. is […]
Think Twice Before You Cheat – Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Size-changing films were nothing new in the 1950’s, most of them done by a man named Bert I. Gordon. This film, directed by Nathan H. Juran and written by Mark Hanna, follows […]
Do Not Fall Into the Grasp of… – The Giant Claw (1957)
More than anything else, this movie is known for its incredibly bad special effects, the creation of a creature so bad that even Roger Corman would turn away in shame. When you […]
Trapped in the… – Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Though cinema was not exactly new in 1961, it was not any cheaper either and a way to keep costs down was to either recycle footage from various sources or to film […]
Yul Brynner is… – The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
By the end of his film career, Yul Brynner was still a force to behold and The Ultimate Warrior was a movie perfectly suited to his talents. Here, Brynner plays the strong, […]
Aliens, the Devil and the Good Professor – Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
After a skeleton is unearthed during an excavation to extend a train passage, Professor Quatermass just so happens to get involved and once more finds himself dealing with a possible alien invasion […]
They Walk Among Us – Quatermass 2: Enemy from Space (1957)
Where the first Quatermass film found the good professor in demand for his skills, this second picture finds him essentially being laughed at. No longer is Professor Quatermass the go-to guy, even […]
Just Another Day’s Work – The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
While many might say it was The Curse of Frankenstein that really started things off for Hammer or even the Horror of Dracula, many would argue it was Val Guest and Nigel […]
From Within the Earth Comes… – X the Unknown (1956)
On a training exercise, a group of soldiers who are checking for radiation come across a large source of it down in a giant sandpit. After something within the earth causes an […]
The Telltale Mind 