Archive for January, 2011

  • My first clue should have been the title. I don’t mean the part about this dude being called Tobor and that it is “robot” spelled backwards. The goofy old fart...

    Tobor the Great (1954)

    My first clue should have been the title. I don’t mean the part about this dude being called Tobor and that it is “robot” spelled backwards. The goofy old fart…

  • It’s the last day of 1899 and George Wells is demonstrating his miniature time machine. George squanders the opportunity to send one of his obnoxious friends back into the Stone...

    The Time Machine (1960)

    It’s the last day of 1899 and George Wells is demonstrating his miniature time machine. George squanders the opportunity to send one of his obnoxious friends back into the Stone…

  • Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter is in charge of making sure that the people who are driving on a remote stretch of mountain road at four in the morning are stopped...

    This Is Not a Test (1962)

    Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter is in charge of making sure that the people who are driving on a remote stretch of mountain road at four in the morning are stopped…

  • I know it’s difficult to imagine ants growing suddenly huge and quite unfriendly. After all, we spent our childhoods alternately raising them in those cool little ant farms and setting...

    Them! (1954)

    I know it’s difficult to imagine ants growing suddenly huge and quite unfriendly. After all, we spent our childhoods alternately raising them in those cool little ant farms and setting…

  • When I first heard that there was a movie called Terror from the Year 5000, my mind went into hyperdrive at the possibilities!

    Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)

    When I first heard that there was a movie called Terror from the Year 5000, my mind went into hyperdrive at the possibilities!

  • So horrible on every level, it’s the sort of movie that leaves you sputtering in a laughable attempt to describe precisely what was so awful about it all.

    Tentacles (1977)

    So horrible on every level, it’s the sort of movie that leaves you sputtering in a laughable attempt to describe precisely what was so awful about it all.

  • This was a great movie. When it was The Conqueror Worm.

    Cry of the Banshee (1970)

    This was a great movie. When it was The Conqueror Worm.

  • Someone is stalking the distinctly inbred-looking ladies of Huntington, West Virginia leaving them laying in a heap, choked out with a stocking, and a big red “X” tattooed on their...

    Teen-Age Strangler (1964)

    Someone is stalking the distinctly inbred-looking ladies of Huntington, West Virginia leaving them laying in a heap, choked out with a stocking, and a big red “X” tattooed on their…

  • Small time tale about a small time hood manipulated by his girlfriend (or “deb” in the movie’s parlance) who has dreams of achieving the big time in 1960s New York...

    Teenage Gang Debs (1966)

    Small time tale about a small time hood manipulated by his girlfriend (or “deb” in the movie’s parlance) who has dreams of achieving the big time in 1960s New York…

  • For its first fifteen or twenty minutes, Target Earth plays like an episode of The Twilight Zone as two people wander around a deserted city wondering why everyone has left....

    Target Earth (1954)

    For its first fifteen or twenty minutes, Target Earth plays like an episode of The Twilight Zone as two people wander around a deserted city wondering why everyone has left….