See also the Big Broadcast (1932) with Bing Crosby.
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939 - B/W) - Karloff would do this again and before. Typical 30s/40s mad science fluff.
The Body Disappears (1941 - B/W) - Sporadically appealing invisible comedy.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941- b/w) - Sentimental comedy remade as the almost workable Heaven can Wait (1978- rewatch).
Night Monster (1942 -B/W) - Tedious old dark house seriousness.
Ghost Ship(1942 - B/W) - Lewton thing that has to resort to voiceover for creepiness, or people think it'llbe like the Long Voyage Home.
The Seventh Victim (1943 - B/W) - Lewton is overrated. This is a proto-slasher that really wants to be Hitchcock. If DePalma was in the 40s..
I Love A Mystery (1945 -B/W) - Tonally off radio mystery adap. Sequels The Devil's Mask (1946) andThe Unknown (1946 - B/W) are much the same, noirish Scooby Doos.
Bedlam (1946- B/W) - Hokey Lewton-Karloff period suspenser.
THE FLYING SERPENT (1946 - B/W) - George Zucco and a wild parrot.PRC fluff.
UnknownIsland (1948) - Colour poverty row thing with an ape-man/"sloth" and a dinosaur.
Rocketship X-M (1950 - B/W) - Lloyd Bridges stars in a shonky cash-in on Destination Moon, with added melodrama and tinted-orange desert.
Destination Moon (1950) - Though in colour, this early George Pal effort hasn't aged well. The highlight is Woody Woodpecker.
Conquest of Space (1953) is more of the same.
Five (1951 - B/W) - I appreciate the effort,but this post-apocalyptic five-hander would work better in half an hour.
Superman and the Mole Men (1951- B/W) - Not my thing. Serial-like pilot for the TV series.
Mr. Drake's Duck (1951 - B/W) - Manic nonsense with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Jon Pertwee (billed over Wilfrid Hyde-White) doing his silly yokel voice in one of his meaty sidekick roles, when he tried to be a film star.
Lost Continent (1951 - B/W) - Another rubbishy lost world film, with Cesar Romero and a rocketship in a land tinted green.
Flight to Mars (1951) - Nothing that hasn't been seen before or since, surprisingly lush, in color, when Cameron Mitchell wasn't the sign of a semi-amateur production.
The Whip Hand (1951 - B/W) - Commie-fighting western.
Invasion USA (1952 - B/W) - More anti-commie war dreariness with Dan O'Herlihy.
BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA (1952 - B/W) - Cruddy slapstick with a Martin and Lewis tribute in the jungle.
Untamed Women (1952 - B/W) - One Million Years B.C.rehashing post-apocalyptica.
The Magnetic Monster (1953 - B/W) - Noisy Ivan Tors military nonsense.
Killer Ape (1953 - B/W) - Racist comic strip jungle trash with Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim.
Mesa of Lost Women (1953 - B/W) - More jungle shite.
Phantom from Space (1954 - B/W) - Forgettable alien larks.
The Neanderthal Man (1953- B/W) - Mediocre Cave-western with Frida Kahlo mutants.
Project Moonbase (1953) - More faux-scientific crud.
The Atomic Kid (1954 - B/W) - Idiotic Mickey Rooney military comedy for Republic, written by Blake Edwards.
Target Earth (1954 - B/W) - Living room drudgery. Not to be confused with the even worse mockumentary UFO: Target Earth (1974).
Riders to the Stars (1954) - Color Ivan Tors educational adventure, directed by and starring Richard Carlson, plus young pre-Brit TV grot Dawn Addams.
Devil Girl from Mars (1954 - B/W) - Being a film set in Scotland, John Laurie pops up. Not a good film by any means, but with its kinky subtext, oddly hypnotic.
Stranger from Venus (1954 - B/W) - A more tedious version of the above,gender-switched, with Pat Neal and Helmut Dantine as a bargain-bin Klaatu.
Tobor the Great (1954) - Tiresome sub-CFF kiddy folderol involving a robot and a rocket.
The Rocket Man (1954 - B/W) - Dopey CFF/Disney-ish kidcom by Lenny Bruce!
Revenge of the Creature (1955- B/W)/The Creature Walks Among Us (1956 - B/W) - Cheap cash-ins.
The Beast With A Million Eyes (1955 - B/W)/The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955) /Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954 - B/W)- The same shade of undersea Corman dreariness.
Tarantula (1955 - B/W) - I am not a fan, even though Leo G. Carroll gives his heart and soul.
The Day the World Ended (1955- B/W) - Unexciting Corman melodramatics.
Bride of the Monster (1955 - B/W)/Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959 - B/W) - I admire Ed Wood, but I don't get him.
Timeslip (1955 - B/W) - Typically dreary 50s UK thriller with radioactivity thrown in.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) - Shite proto-Valley of Gwangi.
Creature with the Atom Brain (1956 - B/W) - Bad zombie-gangster film.
King Dinosaur (1956 - B/W) - Shonky garden-shot giant reptiles folderol by Bert I. Gordon.
Indestructible Man (1956- B/W) Sleazy,unlikeable Lon Chaney thriller.
World Without End (1956) - The other adaptation of he Time Machine with Rod Taylor. Chintzy colour space-saga. The ludicrous Queen of Outer Space (1958) is at least in the same universe.
Not Of This Earth (1957 - B/W) - Typically simultaneously energetic yet dreary early Corman. See also The Last Woman on Earth (1959) and The Wasp Woman (1959 - B/W),The Undead (1956 - B/W, actually that's a fun medieval fantasy, maybe Corman's best of this era) and Voodoo Woman (1957 - B/W).
From Hell It Came (1957 -B/W) - Fun monster-tree, but a jungle slog.
Missile to the Moon (1958 - B/W) - An even worse Cat-Women of the Moon.
The Lost Missile (1958 - B/W) - I somewhat fancy Robert Loggia, but this military-themed war scare flick is a pile of irradiated dung.
Invisible Invaders (1959- B/W) - Dreary 50s proto-zombie apocalypse.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1959 - B/W) - Almost a self-parody without jokes. The highlight is the gruesome end. Too noirish for my liking.
The Incredible Petrified World (1959 - B/W) - Dreadful excuse to reuse stock footage.
CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS (1960 - B/W) - Even worse than one can imagine, and this is from the director of the legendarily awful Robot Monster (1953 - B/W).
The Atomic Submarine (1960- B/W) - Basic two-star naval mission with a giant squid, but compared to the above, decent.
See also AlexGordon's other undersea dirge The Underwater City (1962), so bad it was erroneously released in b/w.
Man in the Moon (1960- B/W) -Less a space comedy, more a slightly-sexy comedy that hasn't aged.
12 to the Moon (1960 - B/W) - Unengrossing melodramatics.
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960 - B/W) - Misleading advertising.
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962 - B/W) - Dreadful but indescribably strange Vincent Price sorta-adventure. Has only one yellowfaced character, an ageing dwarf courtesan.
Invasion Of The Star Creatures (1962 - B/W) Duff, dull, sub-Bilko comedy.
The Slime People (1963 - B/W) - Literally unwatchable.
The Crawling Hand (1963 - B/W) - Not to be confused with The Creeping Terror (1964 - B/W), but the same (lack of) quality.
Alphaville (1965 - B/W) - A load of lazy bollocks.
Lightning Bolt (1966) -Anthony Eisley, a decent lead playing an arsehole tries to stop a Spanish Leo McKern and his army of poundshop provo Diaboliks in this charmless Margheriti Eurospy.
Sins of the Fleshapoids (1966) - Proto-Waters amateurishness.
Agent 505: Death Trap Beirut (1966) -The araldite Frederick Stafford plays another intolerable arsehole spy in this shonky You Only Live Twice precursor.
Around the World Under the Sea (1966) -More tiresome underwater slowness from Ivan Tors. Has Shirley Eaton in her post-Bond sojourn, alongside the terrible "we-really-want-to-be-British"spy film The Scorpio Letters (1967).
Stereo (1969- B/W) - Cronenberg arseholery.
Latitude Zero (1969)- Finally saw this. The most inventive kaiju? Probably. Though still bogged down in silly, absurdist nonsense. Has supposedly Victorian tech that is not steampunk but very mod.
On the Comet (1970) - Some beautiful Zeman material, but sadly it mostly bores.
THX1138 (1971) - George Lucas' 1984 fanfilm. Finds its footing too late.
Punishment Park (1971) - It feels like a World in Action, so it convinces. But not enjoyable.
The Incredible Invasion (1971) - Awful, faux-German Mexican steampunk Karloff necrophilia.
Watched the five Superbug films (1971, (1972, (1973, (1975, (1979) - Germany's answer to the Herbie films, about a computerised Beetle. Silly, sporadically charming, with a robo-spider toolkit and a lead called James Bondi.
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971) -Dreadful videotaped medical thriller.
Garden of the Dead (1972) - Amateurish rubbish involving cowboys, graves, zombies and fog.
The Dracula Saga (1972) - Typically nonsensical monster rally from Spain. What it lacks in Paul Naschy, it makes up in with Narciso Ibanez Menta, a cyclops and delusions of grandeur.
Schlock (1973) - John Landis' debut is enthusiastic but just not especially entertaining. Good ape work.
2069 - A Sex Odyssey (1973) - Snowbound/Chromakeyed sex awfulness.
Who? (1973)- Utterly ridiculous cyborg-spy-in-a-metal-mask nonsense.
Flesh Gordon (1974) - Not just not worth it for the stop-motion, but rendered useless by De Laurentiis, Hodges and co.
Dr. Black, Mr.Hyde (-1975) - The one laugh is the Pieces-like kung fu interlude. Bernie Casey gives it his all, but it is amateurish.
Percy's Progress (1975) - The all-star sequel nobody asked for.Bernard Falk and Dame Edna Everage (newly knighted) appear as themselves (so this is in the Bazza-Howling-Gremlins-Captain Invincible-Walter Paisley-Looney Tuniverse). Vincent Price is a Greek tycoon.
Fantastic Comedy (1975) - Romanian Come Back, Mrs. Noah.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - Oh fuck off. Ironic that Richard O'Brien, singing about Flash Gordon, would ultimately be in Flash Gordon. But not even Charles Gray can save this.
The Bionic Boy (1977) - Amateurish Filipino cash-in.
Spider-Man (1978)/Spider-Man Strikes Back (1979)- Below-average TV folderol packaged to cinemas.
Deathsport (1978) - Mostly ropey, but enough world-building and interesting touches (David Carradine's mum being this Anakin Skywalker-type legendary hero murdered by Richard Lynch) and interesting action not to make it worthless.
Americathon (1979) - A cluttered, all-star dystopian comedy. Elvis Costello, MeatLoaf and the BeachBoys contribute. Chief Dan George plays America's richest man, head of NIKE - National Indian Knitting Enterprises, Fred Willard starts his run of rubbish comedies, and Richard O'Sullivan USA himself, John Ritter is the absurdly young president, and Harvey Korman is a bigender sitcom star.
Ratataplan (1979) - A surrealist, charming, irritating Italian thing from actor/former Mr. Rossi animator Maurizio Nichetti. Very Vision On. Features a Giorgio White.
Space Firebird 2772 (1980) - Nicely done anime, similar to Space Battleship Yamato (1977). But anime has never appealed much.
La Dinastio Dracula (1980)- Sub-Naschy Mexican horror.
The Bushido Blade (1981) - Bland unexciting Yorkshire TV-Rankin/Bass-Toho coproduced Samurai film. Yorkshire/Tyne-Tees are probably why there's a minstrel show in it.
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) - Dreary, pervy timeslip fantasy set in a Quatermass Conclusion-type future.
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) - Dreadful, cheap non-event, basically Goodnight Sweetheart in reverse. Amazing video art, though that I stared many times at my uncle's house.
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (1984) - Wig action for Pleasence.
Iceman (1984) - I remember my mum switching onto this,and thinking it silly. I kind of agree, though the ending is moving and brilliantly staged though contusing.
Ghostriders (1987) - Regional produced Texan horror-western. Not good, releasedby Prism. Looks shot on video. Weirdly co-stars a childhood friend of my dad.
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) - VeryTV-ish but perfectly nice Bradbury adap.
Car Wash (1976)- An amiable but not exactly rib-tickling comedy, that for non-American audiences, is merely a vehicle for a theme song.
BeatStreet (1984)- Again a valuable document of a time in African-American society, but not a great film. Basically a revue.
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)- Odd Winner-Ayckbourn comedy. Delightfully strange Anthony Hopkins, but a weird beige atmosphere befitting the late 80s film industry.
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