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…
Tag: science fiction
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…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958) – Review
As a production house, American International Pictures was mostly known for quick and cheap films that would capitalize on a current fad or the latest popular movie, often with plots centring around teenagers as they were a key demographic to the studio, and when Universal Pictures had great success with their adaptation of Richard Matheson’s…
War of the Colossal Beast (1958) – Review
Producer Bert I. Gordon was never one to let a good idea die – or a bad idea for that matter – so after the mild success of his film The Amazing Colossal Man it stood to reason that a sequel would be a foregone conclusion, of course, there was the small problem of the…