Files tagged with Sci-fi

Bride of the Monster
1955 - 68 mins

An Ed Wood classic starring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist trying to use the power of the atom to make mild-mannered mortals into beings with super-human strength. The acting may be wooden, the script woeful and the special effects laugh-inducing, but that's what makes films like this such fun to watch. »

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Embryo (Created to Kill)
1976 - 104 mins

Rock Hudson, post his Doris Day heyday, plays a ... well, a scientist whose sanity is a little bit open to question (isn't it high time scientists complained about the way Hollywood has always stereotyped them?). He starts off giving the gift of life to a puppy whose mother he's just run over and swiftly moves on to a Mengele-like experiement on a human foetus. It doesn't tak a rocket scientist to predict the tearful consequences. »

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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Chapter 1: The Purple Death )
1940 - 18 mins

Handsome leading man Buster Crabbe, "The King of the Serials," stars as blond space hero, Flash Gordon, in one of the most action-packed serials ever filmed. In FLASH GORDON Conquers the Universe, Flash and his crew must stop Ming the Merciless from destroying the earth and imposing his diabolical dictatorship upon the entire universe. »

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens)
1964 - 81 mins

Putting the kitsch into Christmas, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 sci-fi flick for all the family. It easily puts contemporary Christmas movies like Bad Santa into a new perspective - yes, even forty years ago they were making bad Christmas films. Plus ca change. The basic plot involves the bearded bringer of festive cheer being shanghaied by a bunch of Martians, whose kids just wanna have fun. »

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Killers From Space
1954 - 71 mins

The Killers from Space is a very low-budget sci-fi where a group of aliens, with ping-pong balls for eyes, raise an atomic scientist (played by Peter Graves) from the dead after a plane crash in order to have him spy on Earth and carry out acts of sabotage for them. Killers from Space often, justifiably, appears on lists of the worst movies of all time. »

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Starfish
2004 - 87 mins

Starfish follows the lives of three people who have been sleepwalking their way through life - until now. Jack has lost his cushy job as a computer programmer; Stanley's sci-fi novel remains unpublished and he has to get a 'real' job; and Ella drifts from party to party unable to deal with a death in the family. »

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Things to Come
1936 - 92 mins

Things to Come is a 1936 British Science-Fiction film written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come. The film is notable for predicting World War II and the devastation of strategic bombing on civilian populations. Christopher Frayling of the British Film Institute calls Things to Come "a landmark in cinematic design." »

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Atom Age Vampire (L'erede di Satana)
1963 - 70 mins

Atom Age Vampire is a much less stylish variant on Franjus classic Les Yeux Sans Visage. The 1963 Italian horror/science fiction film is directed by Anton Giulio Majano and stars Alberto Lupo. When a singer is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment which can restore her beauty by injecting her with the glands of a murdered woman. »

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Bride of a Gorilla
1951 - 70 mins

Bride of the Gorilla is a 1951 B-movie film directed by Curt Siodmak and starring Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr. and Barbara Payton. Jungle action and voodoo terror in the African tropics, as doctor Raymond Burr marries beautiful Barbara Payton, only to find himself the victim of a man-beast's curse. »

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Indestructible Man
1956 - 70 mins

300,000 Volts of Horror! indestructible Man tells the story of Butcher Benton (Lon Chaney), a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who dies in the gas chamber and is inadvertently revived by a lone-wolf cancer researcher who claims his body from the prison and subjects it to further massive jolts of electricity. »

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The Killer Shrews
1959 - 69 mins

The Killer Shrews is a 1959 science-fiction movie directed by Ray Kellogg. Boat Captain Thorne Sherman and his sidekick, Rook Griswold arrive to deliver supplies to a remote and isolated island, inhabited by a scientist, his daughter and his aides. Sherman soon learns that the scientist and company have created out-of-control, flesh-eating, monstrous giant shrews. A hurricane hits and all the stranded humans become either meals for or meal-targets for the shrews. »

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