THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X Production: UK, 1958 Director: Gilbert Gunn US release title: Cosmic Monsters Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
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TIDAL WAVE
NIPPON CHINBOTSU (“Japan Is Sinking”) Production: Japan, 1973 Director: Moritani Shiro US release title: Tidal Wave Category: Disaster/Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
SHE DEMONS
SHE DEMONS Production: USA, 1958 Director: Richard E. Cunha Category: Horror/Science Fiction One of the first in the cycle of “Nazi-SF’ movies that surfaced in the 50s and 60s, concerning a deranged SS war criminal on a remote island who turns a group of bikini-clad females into disfigured monsters in Continue Reading
PLANETA BUR
PLANETA BUR (“Storm Planet”) Production: Soviet Union, 1961 Director: Pavel Klushantsev Category: Science Fiction With Planeta Bur, depicting a space trip to the planet Venus, Pavel Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary special effects techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless. In doing so he virtually redefined the science fiction genre, Continue Reading
SPACE IS THE PLACE
SPACE IS THE PLACE Production: USA, 1974 Director: John Coney Category: Avant-Jazz/Black Power An incredible vehicle for the psychedelic talents of Sun Ra, the radical space-age free-jazz philosopher. Performance footage of his amazing Intergalactic Solar Arkestra is inserted into a plot that mixes a 1950s SF aesthetic with revolutionary politics and elements of Continue Reading
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH Production: USA, 1963 Director: Maury Dexter Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE Production: UK, 1958 Director: Arthur Crabtree Category: Science Fiction From “The Thought Monster”, a 1930s pulp magazine story by Amelia Reynolds Long, this is a twisted tale of creatures made from human thought, who assume the form of a disembodied cerebellum after sucking out the brains of screaming victims. Continue Reading
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS Production: UK, 1963 Director: Steve Sekely Category: Science Fiction Posted by Tomb Star
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN Production: UK, 1969-70 Director: Gordon Hessler Category: Horror/Science Fiction/Crime The best of an interesting series of horror films directed by Hessler in the late ’60s/early ’70s, Scream And Scream Again was scripted by Christopher Wicking, author of Hammer’s stand-out Demons Of The Mind amongst others, from the Peter Saxon Continue Reading
TURKEY SHOOT
TURKEY SHOOT Production: Australia, 1982 Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Category: Science Fiction/Gore A slightly futuristic, gory twist on The Most Dangerous Game, in which political prisoners of a totalitarian regime are held and physically abused at a brutal detention camp. The “turkey shoot” is a regular event held at the camp; selected Continue Reading