In the history of cinema there have been quite a few “less-than-impressive” monsters to grace the big screen, from the lumbering tree monster in From Hell It Came to the giant locusts in The Beginning of the End, but in 1957 producer Sam Katzman topped them all with his offering of The Giant Claw, a…
Tag: Earth vs the Flying Saucers
Invisible Invaders (1959) – Review
Alien invasions have been a staple of science fiction since H.G. Wells first penned his classic novel War of the Worlds but bringing such tales to the big screen comes at a cost, and not all studios can provide the budget to properly depict such events, enter Premium Pictures and their budgetary solution of “What…
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) – Review
Considered by many to be “The worst film ever made” Ed Wood’s B-movie classic wouldn’t even crack the top ten if you took into account the thousands of crap films that have come out over the intervening years – looking at you Tommy Wiseau – but what is it that made this particular “bad film”…
The 27th Day (1957) – Review
Science fiction films with invading aliens are easily one of the more popular entries throughout the 1950s but in William Asher’s The 27th Day we get aliens who take an interesting tactic when it comes to teaching Earthlings a lesson or two and setting up a “benevolent” colonization.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) – Review
Hollywood loves a good alien invasion story – the George Pal adaptation of War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs the Flying Saucers are classic examples of this – but with Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers we don’t see any national monuments being blasted by rayguns or fleets of alien spacecraft…