Aliens visiting Earth are rarely depicted as your typical friendly neighbours, for every E.T. the Extraterrestrial there are at least a dozen of the nasty Predators variety, but in 1955 we were treated to a group of aliens whose time on our Blue Planet was of a more complicated nature as it had a hidden…
Tag: science fiction
Fantastic Voyage (1966) – Review
When it comes to science fiction films the topic of making something huge is almost a genre unto itself, whether it be radioactively enlarged ants or amazing colossal men there were a lot of movies about things being embiggened but as for making things made small, well, we have Richard Matheson’s powerful novel The Incredible…
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) – Review
The 1970s were a booming time for eco-horror films, with nature attack films exploding across cinemas worldwide, and no bigger subgenre of this was the killer bee movie, which itself grew out of the fear that the South American strain of the African killer bee would invade the States and kill countless Americans, but that…
When Worlds Collide (1951) – Review
The disaster movie has been a staple of cinema for quite some time, with RKO’s 1933 disaster epic Deluge being one of the earliest examples of a genre that is still going on strong today, but in 1951 legendary movie producer George Pal put his stamp on the genre with his film When Worlds Collide,…
Village of the Giants (1965) – Review
What would you get if you mixed the premise of the H.G. Wells story “Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth” with that of the beach party film genre? Now, no one in their right mind would even posit such a question but questionable sanity was never really a concern of producer/writer/director…