With the ending of World War II, and the entering of the atomic age, the popularity of science fiction had reached an almost fever pitch with audiences clamouring to see the latest startling visions of the future, from flying cars to visits to alien worlds, and Hollywood was not about to disappoint them and thus…
Tag: space adventure
The Angry Red Planet (1959) – Review
Since H.G. Wells penned the classic tale of the War of the Worlds back in 1897 the planet Mars has continually been seen as a threat to the planet Earth, either by launching invasions or attacking astronaut interlopers, and this idea had really come to the fore by the end of the 1950s with a…
Missile to the Moon (1958) – Review
Back in 1969, NASA spent roughly $28 billion dollars to send men to the Moon, that’s $280 billion dollars once adjusted for inflation, but for Hollywood to achieve the “same” result it costs considerably less and in the case of some studios even less then what you’d pay for a used car, which resulted in…
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) – Review
If a plot consisting of a group of astronauts landing on an alien world that soon find themselves being stalked through their ship by a strange creature sounds a little familiar it’s because Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter of the Ridley Scott science fiction classic Alien, was clearly a fan of this low-budget 50s entry in…
Forbidden Planet (1956) – Review
When it comes to adaptations of a body of work William Shakespeare is easily one of the most adapted authors in history, from Laurence Olivier to Kenneth Branagh his plays has been handled by some of the great, but my personal favourite interpretations of his work would be that of MGM’s science fiction classic Forbidden…