You have to admire a 1950s sci-fi/horror film that boasts the tagline “Based on Scientific Fact!” in a story about atomic resurrected zombies. That kind of marketing has balls. In this outing, producer Sam Katzman blends film noir, horror and science fiction with somewhat expected results. Let’s sit back and take a look at Creature…
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Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) – Review
What can you do if your science fiction film doesn’t quite have the budget to pull off a proper alien invasion? Easy, just shift the tone into the arena of comedy so that the audience is laughing “with you” instead of at the cheesy special effects on display. This is exactly what happened with Edward…
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…