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…
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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…
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…