Do you like movies where a super helpful narrator tells you exactly what you're seeing on screen, despite you not actually needing any of his help to understand the ridiculous plot? No? Too bad, because you're getting it here. Italy, 2000 years after the destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Mount Vesuvius. A worker digs … Continue reading Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
Yeah, we're talking a low budget 1950s indie film today. In short, it's our wheelhouse, baby! Livestock are being mutilated in a small town in the mountains of California. Unfortunately, a man has just been murdered, and the hard headed sheriff thinks geologist Wayne Brooks did the deed. Meanwhile archaeologist Dr. Frederick Cleveland has just … Continue reading Giant from the Unknown (1958)
I Bury the Living is such an amazing title for a movie. Seriously, take a moment and just bask in how awesome that title is. Now, imagine you had power over life and death. As in, you can decide who lives and dies, simply by performing some small action that was completely unintentional on your … Continue reading I Bury the Living (1958)
This film combines aspects of a 1950s B-movie film noir with science fiction horror and stars Lon Chaney, Jr....though he only has a couple of lines. Apparently he underwent throat surgery around the time of the film and was therefore unable to speak during most of filming. So instead of having him speak, the movie focuses on closeups of his eyes … Continue reading Indestructible Man (1956)
Hahahaha, oh wow. This was...well it was something all right. A regular Gila monster is let loose on a miniature landscape, drunk driving and alcoholism are used repeatedly for comic effect, a singing mechanic wunderkind gets on his way to success, and apparently the town is riddled with toxic salts that makes everyone put their … Continue reading The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Such a cool movie poster. Such a terrible movie. According to this Roger Corman film, the secret to time travel is through hypnosis and Satanism. Basically a psychic discovers that through hypnosis, he can send a soul back in time to previous lives. Unfortunately when he does this to a prostitute, she gets stuck and … Continue reading The Undead (1957)
William Castle gave me another mid-1950s awful horror delight with this one. A doctor in a small town has just learned his daughter was kidnapped and buried alive! Can he rescue her in five hours before she runs out of air and suffocates? Unfortunately, while the film starts with a great premise, as time whittles … Continue reading Macabre (1958)
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