Back in 1969, NASA spent roughly $28 billion dollars to send men to the Moon, that’s $280 billion dollars once adjusted for inflation, but for Hollywood to achieve the “same” result it costs considerably less and in the case of some studios even less then what you’d pay for a used car, which resulted in…
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) – Review
If a plot consisting of a group of astronauts landing on an alien world that soon find themselves being stalked through their ship by a strange creature sounds a little familiar it’s because Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter of the Ridley Scott science fiction classic Alien, was clearly a fan of this low-budget 50s entry in…
World Without End (1956) – Review
Science fiction films of the 1950s wonderfully illustrated the dangers of trips into outer space but in 1956 Allied Artists brought to the screen a movie that took that basic concept and put a little spin on it by making the coming home aspect of the journey the real jeopardy. Filmed in Cinemascope World Without…
Forbidden Planet (1956) – Review
When it comes to adaptations of a body of work William Shakespeare is easily one of the most adapted authors in history, from Laurence Olivier to Kenneth Branagh his plays has been handled by some of the great, but my personal favourite interpretations of his work would be that of MGM’s science fiction classic Forbidden…
Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956) – Review
Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space has been often labelled “The Worst Movie Ever Made” but that wasn’t until after it had wrestled that title away from 1956’s Fire Maidens of Outer Space a British entry into the realm of science fiction cinema that consisted mostly of scantily clad women, cardboard sets and an…