Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) Edward L. Chan directs this drive-in B-Horror version of The Mummy, this time with a reawakened id of a gladiator who perished during the volcanic destruction of Pompeii while trying to save his aristocratic mistress. Now stone-encrusted, this creature seeks out the reincarnation of his lost love in an … More Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
Gold (1934) Brigitte Helm speaks! For ten minutes, she vamps in a science fiction film about corporate espionage made during the early Nazi period and directed by Karl Hartl. The ghost of the UFA’s great Metropolis lurks everywhere. John Wills (Michael Bohnen) is the villain, a British billionaire driven by greed to control world … More GOLD (1934)
Green Slime (1968) Director’s Kinji Fukasaku’s pop art interiors and space ships are filled not only with grade-B actors, but also with monsters that reproduce wildly into “an army of rubbery-looking goblins.” Their resemblance to R2-D2 remains uncanny. Ivan Reiner wrote and produced this story about a space station, Gamma 3, infected by these alien … More Green Slime (1968)
Island of Lost Souls (1932) 71 Min. Erle C. Kenton directed Philip Wylie’s adaptation of H. G. Welles’ The Island of Dr. Moreau in this Pre-Code horror from Paramount Pictures, in which a man (Richard Arlen), thrown off a ship, finds refuge on an obscure island where a doctor (Charles Laughton) is transforming animals into … More Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Drowned World (1962) By J.G. Ballard. “These are the oldest memories on earth, the time codes carried in every chromosome and gene. Every step we’ve taken in our evolution is a milestone inscribed with organic memories. From the enzymes controlling the carbon-dioxide cycle, to the organization of the brachial plexus and the nerve pathways … More The Drowned World (1962) By J.G. Ballard
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) 138 Min. Nicholas Roeg’s contrapuntal interconnecting stories of an alien (David Bowie) who crashes on earth trying to find water for his dying planet; a story of a disillusioned scientist with ribald sexual activities (Rip Torn) who agrees to work with him; the passionate and disruptive love from … More The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) B&W 3-D. 79 Min. Geologists in the Amazon discover a Devonian skeletal hand that suggests a link between sea and land animals. The expedition is terrorized by the Gill-man, who wants to spawn with the female in the group. According to Biology Life originated from the sea When … More Creature from the Black Lagoon
Night of the Living Dead (1968) The original and much scarier George Romero study of American social breakdown in a group who take refuge in a farmhouse from hordes of attacking zombies. Although their memories are going, they continue picking at each other’s food, assemble in the main lobby and watch whoever … More Poetic Response: Film – “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) 96 Min. George A. Romero
The biggest money-making blockbuster released from Toho Studios, director Ishirō Honda’s film has had a checkered past. The rights to the original “Gojira” were sold to Jewel Enterprises, Inc., where it was chopped up and reedited, with additional footage adding Raymond Burr, for mass marketing at American drive-in … More Poetic Response: “Gojira / Godzilla, King of the Monsters” (1954) 96 Min. – Ishirō Honda – Japan
