The blending of science fiction and horror has led to some truly great moments in cinema – from Universal’s Frankenstein to the giant ants in Them! the genre has had some amazing offerings – but in 1958 director Arthur Crabtree unleashed on the world a particularly remarkable entry, a film that dealt with an invisible…
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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) – Review
This era in cinema saw many threats against mankind from a rampaging atomic awoken dinosaur in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms to rampaging atomic dinosaur in Gojira – you may detect a theme –we’ve seen numerous attacks on “civilization” by irradiated monsters but with the movie we are looking at today, not so much, let’s…
The Cyclops (1957) – Review
In Greek mythology the cyclops were known for creating Zeus’s thunderbolt, giving Odysseus a hard time and even helping overthrow the Titans, but the film we will be looking at today has absolutely nothing to those events or Greek mythology in general, instead, writer/producer/director Bert I. Gordon delivered a low-budget atomic age monster movie, making…