What if James Dean’s character from Rebel Without a Cause had been bitten by a werewolf? That was the basic premise behind American International Pictures’ horror “gem” which kicked off a brief-lived series of “teenage monster” movies that would end with Herbert L. Strock’s How to Make a Monster, but the first in this brief…
Tag: science fiction
Beginning of the End (1957) – Review
How will our world come to its inevitable end? Will it be from an asteroid similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs? Could a manmade plague wipe out all of humanity? Or will our end come from gigantic rampaging mutant locusts? In 1957 Republic Pictures and producer/director Bert I. Gordon would bring to fruition…
The Night the World Exploded (1957) – Review
Disaster films and science fiction are two genres that go well together, like ham and eggs one with a little more destruction, and this is because if a particular disaster isn’t something as simple as a towering building on fire or a rogue wave swamping an ocean liner, then it would be up to scientists…
Werewolf of London (1935) – Review
When one thinks of Universal Pictures and werewolves images of Lon Chaney Jr. stalking Evelyn Ankers through the dark European woods is probably what first comes to mind and with that particular werewolf becoming one of the star players in the Universal Monsters franchise that is quite reasonable, but years before Jack Pierce was gluing…
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) – Review
The idea group of explorers entering a strange land only to discover that it’s inhabited by some sort of monster is as old as the genre itself, with RKO’s 1933 classic King Kong being the standard-bearer for such a story, but in 1954 Universal Pictures decided to add a final star in their line-up of…