Category: Atomic Age
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The Snorkel (1958)
Written by Peter Myers and Jimmy Sangster Directed by Guy Green Starring Peter Van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller US Release Sept. 17, 1958 RT 90 min. Home Video Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. For most of The Snorkel, I felt as…
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Quatermass 2 (1957) aka Enemy from Space
Written by Nigel Kneale and Val Guest Directed by Val Guest Starring Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes US Release Sept. 1957 RT 85 min. Home Video Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. When we last saw Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) at the end…
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X the Unknown (1956)
Written by Jimmy Sangster Directed by Leslie Norman Starring Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley US Release May, 1957 RT 81 min. Home Video Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed. Released in the United States less than a year after…
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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) aka The Creeping Unknown
Written by Richard H. Landau & Val Guest Directed by Val Guest Starring Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth US Release June, 1956 RT 78 min. Home Video Kino Lorber Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed. The opening of The Quatermass Xperiment,…
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Spaceways (1953)
Written by Richard H. Landau, Paul Tabori Directed by Terence Fisher Starring Howard Duff, Eva Bartok US Release Aug. 7, 1953 RT 74 min. Home Video Image Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. If Four Sided Triangle was “nothing but a love story taking place in a…
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Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Written by Terence Fisher Directed by Terence Fisher Starring Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen US Release June 15, 1953 RT 81 min. Home Video Starz/Anchor Bay Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. Until it completely squanders its opportunity for an amazing twist ending, I…
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Written by Edmund H. North Directed by Robert Wise Starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe US Release Sept. 28, 1951 RT 92 min. Home Video 20th Century Fox Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of movie revealed… Although it’s undoubtedly a classic, the plot of The…
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Tales of Tomorrow: “Frankenstein” (1952)
Written by Henry Myers Starring John Newland, Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Alice Moore First Aired Jan. 18, 1952 RT 24 min. Watch On YouTube Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of episode revealed. For a 30-minute live television show from 1952 that now resides in the public…
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The Neanderthal Man (1958)
Written by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen Directed by Ewald Andre Dupont Starring Robert Shayne, Richard Crane, Robert Long, Joyce Terry, Jeannette Quinn US Release June 19, 1953 RT 78 min. Home Video Shout! Factory Classic Horrors rating = 3 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers. At risk of ruining any credibility I’ve…
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The Outer Limits: “I, Robot” (1964)
Written by Robert C. Dennis Directed by Leon Benson Starring Howard Da Silva, Marianna Hill, Leonard Nimoy, Peter Brocco, Ford Rainey First Aired Nov. 14, 1964 RT 51 min. Watch On iTunes Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Warning: review contains plot spoilers; ending of episode revealed. Though not a literal “Frankenstein” story,…
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