The physical characteristics of a 1960s low-budget American horror movie are distinct, but similar characteristics of a 1960s low budget Euro-horror film are usually masked by unique style and exotic locations; they somehow just don’t feel as cheap. There are exceptions to every rule, though, and The Embalmer (1965) is one in this instance. The…

When I posted on Facebook that I was watching Death Curse of Tartu (1966), I received comments like, “I irrationally love this movie” and “an interesting flick that’s more entertaining than it should be.” I don’t know that I can be as enthusiastic about it; however, there is something oddly fascinating about this bargain basement…

Creature of Destruction (1967) reminds me an awful lot of a movie released two years earlier, The Beach Girls & the Monster. This is funny, because it’s actually a remake of the 1956 film, The She Creature. I’ve seen the former; the primary difference is that, in its twist ending, we learn the monster is…

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) opens with credits you don’t often see in an “old” movie: a Star Wars-type crawl in which the words roll up toward the top of the screen and become smaller before fading away. Considering the blockbuster film it evokes, this movie is no epic space opera; however, it takes some…

The problem with invisible man movies, as I’ve said before, is that no one seems to take advantage of the power invisibility potentially provides. Be honest, if no one could see you, would you simply play pranks on your friends, or would you at least consider using it in some way to make financial gain?…

It’s been on my watch-list forever and I can’t count the number of times I’ve recorded it on TCM, but then never watched it. Why did Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) prove so elusive to me for so long? Now that I’ve seen it, prompted by the recent death of Carol Lynley on September 3,…

At an hour and 19 minutes, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965) is about 19 minutes too long. It starts out great and I thought I was going to have a new bad movie to love. It runs out of steam, though, and at just past the one-hour mark, it squanders its chance to end on…

For a movie that turns the fog machine so high that it’s hard to distinguish the actors, The Slime People (1963) isn’t concerned with hiding its monsters. The first thing we see, even before the opening credits, is one of them climbing to the surface. It’s a great monster, too! I’m not surprised to read…