The 1957 science fiction film Kronos, directed by Kurt Neumann and produced by Regal Films, is a surprisingly thoughtful film at a time when atomic monsters and Cold War paranoia dominated the […]
Seeking Life – Kronos (1957)
Just A Little Experiment – Beginning of the End (1957)
Bert I. Gordon, master of all things big and small, would deliver a fun little film about giant, irradiated locusts in 1957 to no acclaim. It is not hard to wonder why, […]
Working Together – Flight to Mars (1951)
In 1951, Monogram would release Flight to Mars – essentially an episode of Star Trek before Star Trek was even a thing. That is not a slight in any way either as […]
Rustling a Bit of Love – The Moonlighter (1953)
A moonlighter is a man that ropes cattle by moonlight, usually other people’s cattle and thus making said moonlighter a criminal. Such is the case in this film starring Barbara Stanwyck and […]
Don’t Dream It’s Over… – Invaders From Mars (1953)
A young boy by the name of David wakes up one night and notices a flying saucer land not too far away and the next morning, his dad goes to investigate. That […]
Out of the Mists of Time, a… – Giant From the Unknown (1958)
After seeing films grace the big screen with giant spiders, giant ants, giant men and giant women, what could one possibly follow them up with? There seems to be only one logical […]
He Knew Exactly… – How to Make a Monster (1958)
After creating a teenage werewolf and a teenage Frankenstein, it only made sense to create another picture and bring the two monsters together. So it is that How to Make a Monster […]
He Became the… – Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
Most Dangerous Man Alive is one of those atomic age, science-fiction movies that were quite popular during the fifties and though you would think that they would run out of things to […]
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 […]
The Telltale Mind 