It Conquered the World (1956)

“The Wild and Wicked” (1956)

Also known, and probably better knows as The Flesh Merchant. The usual story about a girl coming to the big city, and ending up as a hooker. Before it was cool.

Horror/B-Movie Roundup, Disembodied Head Edition

A roundup of what I’ve watched, read or listened to lately: Thankfully, no Exorcist remake is coming. (H/T Horror-Movies.ca!) Projection Booth #144 on “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” (1962). I loved the part of the episode that one commenter dismissed as “psychobabble” about this film being a reflection of the male Id of that era, how the legacy of

Movie Poster Collection: Serials and Obscurities of Frank Adreon

We last found Frank Adreon when he brought us the Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders serial in 1953. Adreon (1902-79), toiled long and hard at Republic Studios’ serial factory, and then brought us a number of overwrought dramas in a variety of genres which are now fairly obscure. Here is a sample:

Movie Poster Collection: Eva Bartok Melodramas!

This fetching young woman is the late Hungarian actress, Eva Bartok (1927-98), who had a 16-year career in front of the camera between 1950-66. We saw her last in Spaceways (1953). Bartok may have had a child by way of Frank Sinatra from an affair in 1956, but other than that bit of gossip, she’s more-or-less forgotten

Movie Poster Collection: The Sci-Fi of Willie Wilder

Wilhelm (“Willie”) Wilder, who lived from 1904-82, was an interesting director mainly known for his eight film noirs and for being the estranged, older brother of Billy Wilder. Willie also left an interesting sci-fi legacy which I’ve tried to capture the outlines of here. We first bumped into his Phantom From Space when we looked at

10 Awesome Drive-In Movies

Originally posted on Anti-Film School:
Today, a little over three hundred drive-in movie theaters remain sprinkled throughout the United States. This means that many Americans are not lucky enough to have a drive-in movie theater close by their home. In the drive-in’s heyday, small production companies would release B-movies tailor-made for the drive-in audience. There…

Playgirls and the Vampire: My Gateway Drug to Forgotten Horror

Now here’s a classic film, we should see more of: 1960’s The Playgirls and the Vampire, is an early Italian exploitation/horror gem that is notable mainly for showing several attractive young Italian women running in terror through a castle in their see-through nighties. Blogger B2 claims it was the first Italian horror film to mix horror and nudity.

Rodan (1956)

Originally posted on Anti-Film School:
by Steve Habrat In 1954, Japanese production company Toho Studios sparked a giant monster craze with their brooding epic Godzilla. While there was plenty of emphasis on stomping and smashing, Godzilla also took time to focus on a likable group of a characters, and dared to reflect upon a nation…

Liane, Jungle Goddess (Full Movie, 1956)

Marion Michael (playing Liane) was famous for the rest of her life on the strength of her role here as a 16-year-old girl.  She died in 2007 at age 66.