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…
Tag: science fiction
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…
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) – Review
The atomic age not only brought the destructive power of the atomic bomb to the world it also unleashed the power of Hollywood’s ability to take anything new, and what it didn’t completely understand, and turn it into something it could make a quick buck out of, and this ingenuity would bring the world everything…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) – Review
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…