It's the year 1990 and scientists receive a distress call from an alien spaceship that has crash-landed on Mars. Dr Farraday (Rathbone) decides to send a team of astronauts, including Allan Brenner (Saxon) and Paul Grant (Hopper), on a rescue mission. On the planet, they discover just one survivor. This green-skinned alien is brought aboard, but when one man is attacked and drained of his blood, the survivors are soon racing home, before they too become victim to the bloodsucker.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Planet of Blood
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learning something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach.
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Destination Inner Space
Strange goings on at the site of an experimental underwater laboratory as a mysterious object of unknown origin is detected in the area. A group of researchers investigate and come face to face with the object, a large automated extraterrestrial probe. They board the craft and discover a small object at first considered to be some sort of instrument package, which they take back to the lab for closer inspection. It is then that events take a turn for the worse.
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The Wild Wild Planet
A deranged scientist is using his employer's top-secret bio-laboratory to engage in clandestine eugenics experiments. When he starts kidnapping leading citizens for use in his twisted tests, it's up to rogue cop Mike Halstead to come to the rescue of all and sundry, including his lady friend Connie, who is also being held captive by the madman.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Attack of the Killer Mushrooms
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...
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Masters of Horror - Sounds Like
Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.
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Masters of Horror - Pro-Life
Directed by John Carpenter - Determined to "rescue" his pregnant daughter from an abortion clinic, a religious fanatic and his sons plan a violent firearm assault just as the doctors suspect her pregnancy might not be of this world.
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Masters of Horror - Valerie on the Stairs
Taken from a Clive Barker original screen story, tells the tale of a novelist who discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity in this sexually-charged tale of terror.
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Masters of Horror - The Screwfly Solution
When a virus overcomes the male population of the United States and turns them into murderous psychopaths, a mother and daughter escape across a country where their safety is in question.
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Masters of Horror - Pelts
Directed by Dario Argento - A sleazy, desperate fur trader who haunts a local strip club, gets his hands on some priceless raccoon furs that might be more than just priceless but cursed.
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Masters of Horror - The Black Cat
The Black Cat, set in 1840 Philadelphia, has the great writer Edgar Allan Poe, struggling with alcoholism, writers block, as well as being out of ideas, short on cash, and tormented by his wife Virginia's black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.
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Hood of Horror
A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.
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Night of the Comet
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
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Eegah!
While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by a seven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, she returns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them and the rest of Palm Springs,
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Zontar - The thing from Venus
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to help solve man's problems.
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Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory
It's a werewolf and he is in a girls dormitory.
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Teenage Zombies
A female scientist goes bonkers with nerve gas that turns local teens into zombie slaves. This could been the precursor to ecstasy. This may be a crazy, goofy flick, but it’s still funny.
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The Snow Creature
Legends of a prehistoric creature, the link between man and beast, send American scientists on an expedition through the Himalayas. Their search for the Yeti leads them on a crazy path through the mountains as the ice beast sets brutal traps to slow his pursuers down. During a tense showdown deep within a cave, the team is able to capture one of the beasts. When the Yeti is brought back to Los Angeles, the enraged monster breaks free. Striking from the concealment of the sewers, the beast unleashes his fury on the city and starts kicking some serious ass. Acts of menace and destruction multiply as the police attempt to jack the creature.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
All the Kind Strangers
All The Kind Strangers 1974 AKA Evil in the Swamp Starring Stacey Keach and Samantha Eggar A couple traveling through a backwoods area are held by a group of orphans who want them to become their parents. Unfortunately, the kids have a habit of killing adults who refuse that particular honor.
Most Reviews says this film sucks big time - You be the judge.
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The Brother from another Planet
A Brother From Another Planet 1984 Joe Morton stars in this dramatic sci-fi comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as "The Brother," an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing "Another Planet," has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor.
Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in Harlem. The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like any other black man, except that he is mute and - although other characters in the film never see them - his feet each have three large toes. The Brother has telekinetic powers but, unable to speak, he struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, including a stint in the Job Corps at a video arcade in Manhattan.
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Daughter of Horror
Made in 1955 a.k.a. Dementia, a narrator takes us deep into the mind of an insane woman awakening from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. Without dialog we follow her through the skid-row night and encounters with an abusive husband; a wino; a pimp and the rich man he panders for; a flashback to her traumatic childhood; violence; pursuit through dark streets; dementia. Filmed in film-noir style throughout; only the narrator speaks.
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Horror of the Zombies
Another 70's nightmare.
Horror of the Zombies 1974 The Blind Dead are all at sea, but unfortunately so is the plot, in this third installment of DeOssorio's "Blind Dead" series. Undead Templar Knights of this film are adrift aboard an ancient Spanish galleon which rolls out of the ghostly fog to attack a small experimental motor cruiser being driven by a couple of fashion models who are trying to pull off a publicity stunt to promote the new boat.
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Manos Hands of Fate
Manos, The Hand Of Fate. It's 1966. A family on vacation in the desert takes a wrong turn and ends up in an old dark house run by the creepy Torgo, who says he takes care of the place while The Master is away. As night falls the family is menaced by The Master and his wives, a supernatural cult that worships the evil deity known as Manos.
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Werewolf Woman
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
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Frankenstein's Daughter
Here, the original Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, Oliver Frankenstein, now living in Los Angeles, creates a female version of the Monster from a sweet teenage girl, Trudy who then goes on a killing rampage.
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A Thief in the Night
This is especially for all the atheists out there - you know who you are.
The film deals with Patty, a young woman who knows and has heard the Christian gospel but dismisses it. She and her friends are too busy living life to care. Everything seems to go smoothly. She has friends and a happy marriage. What more could she want?
One morning she wakes up to discover that her husband, a Christian, and millions of others have disappeared.
Often described as the second most embarrassing film ever made.
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It's Alive
This is so crap it is utterly brilliant.
In this sci-fi film a loony farmer finds a prehistoric monster hiding in a cavern on his land. To feed his newest critter, the farmer kidnaps three people. The three desperately try to escape and finally, one of them succeeds.
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Equinox
More 70's mayhem.
Four university students go on a picnic to meet with a professor needing their help only to and encounter a creepy forest ranger and a crazy old man. The professor is a scientist who had found a mysterious book bound in human skin and when he had read/interpreted its weird symbols it released monsters from hell. The students hang on to the book, but are then chased by monsters, and the devil himself disguised as a park ranger.
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The Devil's Messenger
In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
Starring Lon Chaney Jr as the Devil - A rare classic.
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The Dark Eyes of London
What a fantastic title for a film, wouldn't you agree?.
Starring Bela Lugosi this film features a series of strange deaths that takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family and they all have a link to a life insurance company run by the mysterious Dr. Orloff.
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The Brain Machine
Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong. When an escapee from the project takes off with a file revealing the illegal test, he is murdered and the grey matter hit’s the fan.
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Drive In Massacre
Two dim-witted police detectives try to catch a serial killer stalking a rural California drive-in theater and randomly killing people with a sword.
Please try and forget that you saw it here first.
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Slashed Dreams
God help us - It's Slashed Dreams.
College students Robert and Jenny, travel to the Northern California wilderness to find old friend Michael (Robert Englund), who's dropped out of sight. They arrive at his remote cabin, and while waiting an awfully long time for him to actually make an appearance, Jenny is raped by two local yokels in the now-familiar "Deliverance" tradition.
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Time Travelers
More unbearable 70's kitsch B-Movie pain.
Two guys head back in time to find a cure for a raging disease in 1975
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War of the Robots
This film looks like a Kylie Minogue pop video.
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims. This really campy stuff worthy of sharing with a good online friend.
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Captain Midnight
Captain Midnight was a daring, jut-jawed war hero who led a mysterious government group known as the Secret Squadron. Midnight, his comic sidekick Icky, and the rest of the Squadron traveled around the globe stomping out evil.
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Captain Video
Oh dear.. If Captain Midnight wasn't bad enough, now we have Captain Video and his Video Rangers.
I really don't quite know what to say - it's a 50's scifi kids show - make the rest up for yourself.
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Assignment Outer Space
In the 21st century Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station. Tension mounts between Peterson and the station commander, who believes he is in the way, but has orders to leave him alone. Errant spaceship Alpha Two enters the solar system and its photon generators are radiating enough heat to destroy Earth as it approaches. It falls to Peterson to try to figure out a way to enter the spaceship, disarm the generators, and escape before suffocating.
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Laser Mission
More tacky 80's B-Movie ghastliness.
Mercenary Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him. A recently stolen giant diamond could be used together with Braun's knowledge to construct a laser cannon which could bring power over the whole world. Who will succeed: CIA or KGB - or none of them?
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Terror in the Midnight Sun
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate. Just as they discover that the meteor is actually a spaceship, a hideous monster destroys their plane and kills the soldier guarding it. As the geologist (along with his figure skater girlfriend) are trying to ski to safety, the monster attacks again and kidnaps the helpless woman. What is this creature, and can it be stopped?
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Mama Dracula
A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she is running into major problems in finding one.
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The Cold
This is a true 70's B-Movie Bomb - Don't be put off by the kitsch Music and Intro.
A chilling classic about a group of nine people invited to a secluded mansion by three millionaires for the sole purpose of playing a game of fear, in which each will win a $100,000.00 prize for not crumbling under the pressure.
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Messiah of Evil
A young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) moves back home to find out what happened to her estranged father, an artist, However as she arrives in the California beach house she runs into some decidedly odd behavior, Her father is gone but the house is full of his paintings. Things get completely crazy as the moon turns red, with the townspeople turning into flesh-eating ghouls and the dead coming back to life as the Messiah of Evil, a former minister turned cannibal and Satan worshipper, rises from the darkness to claim the town.
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The She Beast
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
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The Eye Creatures
The Eye Creatures land on earth. The U.S. Air Force spies on some teens making out in the woods, then tries to prevent word of the Eye Creatures landing from leaking out. A couple of teens figure everything out and prevent the Eye Creatures from taking over by shining their headlights on them...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.
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Way Out - Dissolve to Black
Bonnie Draco's first acting job is a spooky one: she goes to work at a TV studio at night. Bonnie rehearses a scene with Paul, Harry and a murderer. But George the director tells Bonnie she must stay after hours to rehearse more.
Everything dissolves to black. Bonnie now witnesses a real killing with a different Paul, Harry and murderer. Now, the murderer pursues Bonnie, and there is another dissolve to black. Next morning, when the cast and crew arrive, there is no sign of Bonnie.
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Way Out - Death Wish
George decides to kill his wife. Just as we hear his thoughts... "What do you do with the body?"... Mr. Petard puts a sign in the window, "Let us dispose of the body." Inside, George talks to Mr. Petard, who is an eloquent elderly gentleman who has a giant, bald-headed assistant named Charon. When George finds out they killed Mrs. Harrison and they will dispose of her body, George thinks he's got it made... but how wrong could he be?
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Way Out -The Croaker
Mr. Rana is a strange man who has moved into the neighborhood. He gets pestered by a rascally kid named Jeremy Keeler who does stuff like letting pet dogs loose, so he can get a reward from their owners for their return. Mr. Rana raises frogs, and makes an offer that Jeremy cannot refuse...
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Way Out - I Heard You Calling
Freda Mansfield (an American, age 38) is checking out of a London hotel; she is planning on eloping with her British lover George Frobisher (age 43, who already has a wife, Monica, and kids) and they are going to New York City together. But Freda keeps getting mysterious phone calls from some strange woman, who says that Freda will never run away with George-- Freda is going with he
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Way Out - William and Mary
William never got along with his wife Mary; he was a cheapskate and was mean to her. When William dies, Mary is at home drinking and dancing. William's brain (and the attached eyeball) are coming home to Mary. But William's days of mistreating his wife are over; now she has the upper hand. To prove her point, she blows some cigarette smoke into the brain jar, making William's eyeball squint.
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The Atomic Brain (1964)
Mrs. March, sadistic, selfish, and rich, uses her aging gigolo boyfriend and renegade scientist Otto Frank, whose illegal experiments she is subsidizing in her Gothic mansion, in a plan to transplant her brain into the body of a young woman. Three foreign domestics: Mexican Anita, British Bea, and Austrian Nina, are hired. Frank's mysterious and unexplained use of radiation can inexplicably transplant brains without surgery. After he puts a cat's brain into Anita and she literally scratches out Bea's eye, Nina becomes the prospective receptacle for Mrs. March's aging but still active libido.
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Night of The Blood Beast
An astronaut returns from space... dead. The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The revival of the dead astronaut, the death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity.
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The Head (1959)
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
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Grave of the Vampire
In the 17th century, Charles and Sarah Croyden were vampires hunted by the Church of England. In 1846, Sarah Croyden was burned as a vampire in Salem, Mass. In the late 1930's, Caleb Croft, murderer and rapist, was accidentally electrocuted in Boston. Three years later he rises from his grave.
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This is not a test -
Late one night on a rural road in the western US, a policeman sets up a roadblock and begins stopping all traffic. When several cars and a big truck have stopped, he tells everyone why: a nuclear attack on the US appears to be underway, and since they have the truck there, their best chance at survival is to use it as a bomb shelter. Time is short and tensions in the small group quickly rise.
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Moon of the Wolf
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
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God told me to kill
A rash of mass murders in NYC has the detective stumped. When asked why, all the perpetrators say "God told me to," then kill themselves.
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House on the edge of the park (BE WARNED)
Warning - This is not for the faint hearted - Mature audiences only.
This almost hardcore thriller is one of the most brutal horror exploitation flicks you'll ever see. Made in 1979, when shock and slash was a common theme, the line of decency may well have been crossed. I rarely give warnings or ratings, but in this case, be totally warned - this truly is a shocker - dont flame me afterwards!
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The Impossible Kid
Weng-Weng stars as the 2’9" super secret agent, code named 00 out to track down a gang of international terrorists who are on the run with a fortune in ransom money. Plenty of kick ass midget/little people action that will kill you with laughter. This crap is crazy cool!
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Suspense! - Man in the House
" A Man in the House" is one of many Suspense episodes that revolve around a relative, who is both an invalid and a terrible burden. In this story, a daughter has sacrificed her own happiness to care for her elderly mother.
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The Astral Factor
A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who testified against him at his trial. Robert Foxworth plays the police lieutenant assigned to protect them, and to catch the invisible strangler.
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Track of the Moon Beast
Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.
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Tales of Tomorrow - Lost Planet
During the live telecast of Tales of Tomorrow, the show is interrupted by a ghost image of a man plotting to kill his wife. The show's cast and crew have no idea where the signal is coming from or how to stop the impending murder! A startling live television broadcast reminiscent of Orson Welles' famed War of the Worlds hoax.
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Tales of Tomorrow - A child is crying
A four-year-old child is asked to help save the nation.
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Tales of Tomorrow - Frankenstein
This is a live TV production of Frankenstein from the anthology series Tales of Tomorrow. Apparently Lon Chaney Jr. (playing the monster) didn’t know that it wasn't a rehearsal, so instead of smashing the props as planned, he just put them down. This is great golden age television.
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Tales of Tomorrow - The Evil Within
A scientist's wife takes a truth serum - with Rod Steiger.
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Tales of Tomorrow - The Great Silence
An alien has a substance that causes people to lose their ability to speak.
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Tales of Tomorrow - Seeing Eye Surgeon
Strange glasses enable a doctor to see the future.
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Tales of Tomorrow - Another Chance
Small-time crook Leslie Nielsen gets an opportunity to change his identity and relive the last seven years of his life, but will history repeat itself
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Tales of Tomorrow - The Horn
An episode of the live broadcast show, Tales of Tomorrow, in which a scientist invents a horn that calls sinister forces.
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The Slayer
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
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The Crooked Circle (1932)
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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Quatermass and the Pit
Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded German bomb from World War II. Missile expert Colonel Breen is brought in to investigate, accompanied by Professor Bernard Quartermass. When the interior of the "missile" is exposed, a dead locust-like creature that resembles the devil is found. It is determined by Quartermass that these "locusts" are evil Martians who altered the brains of our simian ancestors to eventually lay claim to the Earth. When Quartermass's suspicion that the missile can reactivate the dormant evil in humans is confirmed, all hell breaks loose.
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The Wolfman
The Wolf Man is a classic horror about a man who returns home to his father after his brothers death, while staying with his father and trying to make amends with him he meets an array of new people and he seems to like it. But things take a turn for the worst when he is bitten by a werewolf and becomes one himself.
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Tormented
On an island community off of California, Tom Stewart is preparing to marry the woman he loves. His plans are threatened by his old girlfriend, Vi, who shows up secretly. During a confrontation at the top of the island's lighthouse, the railing breaks and Vi falls. Tom has a chance to save her but doesn't. Tom's relief at Vi's accident soon fades when her vengeful spirit begins showing up wherever he goes...
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The Mad Monster (1941)
Dr. Cameron has succeeded in his experiments with a serum which will turn a man into a wolf-like monster, and is ready to avenge himself on the men who caused his professional failure. He uses it on his gardener Petro and one after the other is killed by his creation. His daughter, Lenora, grows suspicious and confides with newspaper reporter
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Phantom from 10000 leagues
An unusual radioactive rock on the sea bottom mutates the ocean life into a horrible monster. When charred, radioactive bodies begin to drift ashore a scientist and government agent investigate the phenomenon, and it's connection to a local marine biology professor.
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The Phantom Planet
The mysterious appearance of an unknown planet brings miniature people, giant monsters, beautiful women and undaunted heroes to the screen. The self-contained planet "Rheton" has the ability to move in and out of galaxies to escape their enemies. Earth sends an astronaut team to investigate, which discovers miniature people. One astronaut survives to help them fight off monsters and Solorite attacks.
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Destroy all planets
A group of aliens from another planet head for Earth with the intentions of conquering it. Their first ship is destroyed in transit by the giant flying turtle Gamera. A second ship makes it to Earth and captures two Boy Scouts and holds them captive so that Gamera will not attack them. The aliens then implant a remote control device into the monster's neck and use the great turtle to attack Tokyo. The boys then come up with a plan to foul up the remote control device to the point where Gamera does the opposite of what he is ordered to. As a result Gamera destroys the aliens ship, but then has to contend with their giant squid like leader Viras.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Necrotic
A 1976 indie low budget horror film that garnered cult followings on NYC late night cable TV. Synopsis: a runaway girl and biker boyfriend cross the fatal path of a psychotic doctor who, enraged by the unfaithfulness of his wife (whom he murdered), injects female patients with Curare, a lethal, narcotic muscle paralyzer. The morbid M.D. holds the runaway girl captive for a tryst between she, he and his wife's corpse.
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Lemora: A childs tale of the Supernatural
A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.
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The Devil's Nightmare
The Devil's Nightmare tells the story of a group of tourists who get lost during a trip. They meet a man alongside the road who gives them directions, but it is too late to catch the ferry boat which they would need to ride to get there. They are then directed to an old castle which offers room and board to some visitors. A succubus also comes to stay at the castle and proceeds to seduce each tourist according to their own personal weakness then kills them, using their sin against them. Each tourist is a different of the seven deadly sins.
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Horror Express
An English anthropologist (Christopher Lee) has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one.
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How awful about Allan
After a fire which killed his father and scarred his sister, a guilt-ridden victim of psychosomatic blindness is released from a mental hospital and goes back home to stay with his estranged sister. However, it appears that someone is out for revenge and wants to drive him crazy
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Revenge of Dr.X
A mad scientist uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures.
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The Grandmother
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother. Short, surreal, and David Lynch's third film. It's a bit weird but you can see where Eraserhead came from.
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Crimes of the future
An early and rare David Cronenberg movie.
A journalist, intriguingly named Adrian Tripod, investigates the deaths of nearly all adult women on Earth. Tripod discovers the deaths may be caused by poisonous cosmetics manufactured by a corporation that's also involved in managing an international juvenile prostitution network.
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The Cube
A man awakens inside a white cube, covered in a four-by-four grid. He has no memory of how he got there and there seems no way out. But as time passes, panels open temporarily to admit an intruder or onlooker. How cn he escape this minimalist nightmare?
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The Lost Continent
This film starts out like the Love Boat on acid, as a cast of varied characters, with various issues, take Captain Eric Porter's leaky cargo ship to escape their troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and our heroes find themselves trapped on an island of man-eating seaweed, populated by giant monster crabs and some Spanish conquistadors who think the Inquisition is still on. Features songs and music by '60s "cool group", the Peddlers.
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Skidoo
Tripped out 60's Acid Comedy with an all star cast.
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
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The Beast from 20,000 fathoms
There's an Elson in this one.
As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast.
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The Magnetic Monster
Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized every metal item in the store. Investigating further, they eventually trace the source of the magnetism to an airborn flight carrying scientist Howard Denker, now dying of radiation poisoning, who has carted on board with him a new radioactive element which he has bombarded with alpha particles for 200 hours. The element, dubbed 'serranium' grows geometrically by creating matter out of energy which it absorbs from metallic objects surrounding it. Stewart calculates that if the substance is not destroyed soon that within 24 hours or so it will have grown large enough to throw Earth out of its orbit.
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It came from beneath the sea
After an encounter at sea with an unknown underwater creature, a naval commander works with two scientists to identify it. The creature they are dealing with is a giant, radioactive octopus that has left its normal feeding grounds in search of new sources of replenishment. As the creature attacks San Francisco, the Navy tries to trap it at the Golden Gate Bridge but it manages to enter the Bar area leading to a final confrontation with a submarine.
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Oasis of the Zombies
During World War II, a small German squadron was assigned the task of carrying a shipment of Nazi gold across the African desert. Along the way, the squadron was ambushed by the Allies, and only one American soldier, Robert, survived. Years later, Robert tells his story to a German treasure hunter named Kurt, who promptly murders him. Robert's son, upon learning of his father's death, vows to travel to Africa and find the lost gold himself. While the desert is hazardous enough by itself, the dangers lurking around this oasis are more than any of the treasure hunters ever imagined.
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The Gorgon
Classic Hammer Horror - In early-twentieth-century middle-Europe, villagers are literally becoming petrified. Although the authorities try to hush the matter up it is apparent that at the full moon, Medusa leaves her castle lair and anyone looking on her face is turned to stone. When this fate befalls a visitor, experts from the University of Leipzig arrive to try and get to the bottom of it all.
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Dr Tarr's Torture Dungeon
A mysterious man is sent deep into the forest to investigate the bizarre behavior of the notorious Dr. Tarr. What he stumbles upon is the doctor's torture dungeon, a hellish asylum completely cut off from civilization and presided over by the ultimate madman. Innocent people have been savagely chained, tortured and stuck in glass cages, then forced to take part in gruesome games of ritual slaughter.
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Cosmos War of the Planets
A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an ufo appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. They reach an unknow planet where a giant robot enslaved a whole population of humanoids by taking their psychic energies. The robot's got his eyes on the Earth, too...
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Teenagers from Outer Space
A young alien falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons.
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Battle of the Worlds
A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets.
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Frozen Alive
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. While he is frozen, his wife is murdered, and he becomes the primary suspect.
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Journey to the centre of time
Gruff, hard-nosed new boss Stanton takes over a scientific research company upon the death of his benevolent father. Scientists Manning, Gordon and White, who are very close to a breakthrough in time travel, are told by Stanton they must have results in 24 hours or face a funding cut-off. Trying to push their equipment past its safe operating limit they travel into the far future and distant past, with Stanton along as an accidental participant, unaware that a surprise awaits them as they struggle to return to the present.
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Kronos
Scientists investigate what appears to be a meteorite that crashes into the ocean. After a few days and nights of mysterious lights and noises, a giant machine comes out of the ocean. The machine is the creation of an alien race, that is trying to syphon energy from earth. A true classic, in that it is so different from anything in the time period. To this day, nothing else has come out like it. Great quality in full screen.
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The Earth Dies Screaming
This is British sci-fi at it's best.
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots - great quality full screen.
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Beyond Tomorrow
Melton, Chadwick and O'Brien, rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite two young strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. The two, James and Jean, fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors...until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots; can ghostly O'Brien help the young folks?
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Swamp Women
Swamp Women was the first film ever directed by Roger Corman. The film follows undercover police officer Lee Hampton after she infiltrates a prison, befriends three female convicts, and helps them all escape. In reality, this planned escape is part of a larger plot to find a diamond stash hidden deep within the swamps of Louisiana.
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Indestructible Man
"Butcher" Benton goes to his death in the state prison, cursing the three men who double-crossed him following an armored-car hold-up; "Squeamy" Ellis, Joe Marcelli and Paul Lowe, his attorney and leader of the gang. He vows to return and kill them and dies without revealing the location of the stolen money. Detective Chasen is determined to keep working on the case until the stolen loot is recovered. Benton's body is taken to Professor Bradshaw and his assistant for experimentation, and they manage to restore him to life, making him practically indestructible in the process. He takes off after the three men, getting rid of everybody who stands in his way. He is impervious to police bullets. He kills Ellis and Marcelli, while Lowe seeks police protection. Benton takes to the sewers to recover the hidden loot and the police are powerless to stop him.
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Tales of Frankenstein (rare)
In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife...
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Giant from the unknown
In the 16th century a small band of warriors from the Spanish Ptolemy Firello expedition in California mutinies. Led by one of Firello's lieutenants, a huge, depraved giant of a man known as Vargas, the group heads off into the mountains to search for gold and is never heard from again. Hundreds of years later, a lightning bolt frees Vargas from a state of suspended animation underground and sends him out to terrorize a rural mountain village.
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The Astounding She Monster
A pair of crooks (Kenne Duncan and Jeanne Tatum) take over the country house of a geologist (Robert Clarke) and his trusty dog. They have kidnapped an heiress (Marilyn Harvey) where they plan to hold her until the ransom is collected. Soon they hear an explosion in the woods nearby that turns out to be a spaceship containing a sexy blonde alien with a skintight metallic suit, high heels, lipstick, and incredible eyebrows (Shirley Kilpatrick). Don't let her touch you in any way! The plot is advanced by an off-screen narrator.
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Queen of Outer Space
Earth sends a space ship to investigate anomalies near a space station. Upon approach the space station gets destroyed by a mysterious disintegrator ray. The space ship comes under attack by the same ray but miraculously crash lands with no casualties on nearby Venus. The ships crew are startled to fins the planet inhabited by a race of leggy and large breasted women. Sexual innuendo and hilarity ensue. Then Zsa Zsa Gabor saves the "Urse"
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20 million miles to earth
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome forcing the military to take drastic action.
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
J G Ballard - Thirteen to Centaurus
"Thirteen to Centaurus" (1965) episode from BBC science fiction series _Out of the Unknown_. Adapted from a story by J.G. Ballard.
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E M Forster - The Machine Stops
A UK science fiction TV show called Out of the Unknown did an adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1909 techno-dystopia, The Machine Stops.
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Evil Brain from Outer Space
A monstrous evil brain from outer space leads his minions on a crusade to conquer the universe, and unleashes hideous monsters on Earth that spread deadly diseases. Superhero Starman must rescue Earth from the menace of the evil brain while battling armies of monsters the brain sends against him.
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First Spaceship on Venus
1962 Sci Fi - Space A spaceship is sent to Venus to investigate the source of a mysterious message left during the Tunguska blast of 1908.
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Devil Girl from Mars
An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a raygun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
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Day of the Wolves.
Had to post this great example of a B-Movie atrocity.
A group of six thieves selected from different areas are sent a letter that promises them a minimum of $50,000 and includes a plane ticket. The letter instructs them to grow a beard. After being given a blindfolded ride from the airport, they arrive at a ghost town and meet with the boss (Number #1, Jan Murray). All of the "Wolves" are assigned a number, wear identical overalls and instructed never to take off the gloves that they are given. They are only to address eachother by their numbers; in that way, if one is caught, he can't rat-out the others. Number #1 reveals to them that they will take over a town, and clean it out. Using the ghost town for training, they develop their tactics to fleece the town.
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The Blanchville Monster
The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.
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The Wasp Woman - Corman Classic
Susan Cabot stars as the owner of a cosmetics company who starts injecting herself with a substance made from the royal jelly from a queen wasp. She hopes the miracle mixture will make her look young again and it does. Unfortunately, though, the treatment is not without its side effects
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Bloody Pit of Horror
A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle to shoot some sexy covers for horror novels. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.
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A Bucket of Blood - Corman Classic
Walter Paisley, nerdy waiter at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing...
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The Amazing Mr.X
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
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Shock (1946)
Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), a psychiatrist, is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. As she comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He takes her to his sanitarium and urged by his nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan (Lynn Bari), gives Janet an overdose of insulin. But he can't bring himself to murder her in cold blood and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. She refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. He saves Janet's life, but now faces two murder charges.
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George Orwell's 1984 - BBC Classic
BBC Television's live production of George Orwell's "1984". Produced in 1954.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell.
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Su Ra - Space is the place (Rated 18)
Sun Ra -space-age prophet, Pharaonic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With Black Power on the rise, Ra disembarks and proclaims himself "the alter-destiny." He holds a myth-vs reality rap session with black inner-city youth at a rec center, threatening "to chain you up and take you with me, like they did you in Africa" if they resist his plea to go to outer space. He duels at cards with The Overseer, a satanic overlord, with the fate of the black race at stake. Ra wins the right to a world concert, which features great performance footage of the Arkestra. Agents sent by the Overseer attempt to assassinate Ra, but he vanishes, rescues his people, and departs in his spaceship from the exploding planet Earth. This is a truly far-out diabolical 70's badass B-Movie badness...
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Them!
After several people in the New Mexico desert wind up missing or dead, including an F.B.I. agent and most of his family, police Sgt. Ben Peterson teams up with F.B.I. agent Bob Graham to find out what's causing the strange occurrences. They find send a strange print found at one of the crime scenes and it is sent to the Department of Agriculture. Doctor Harold Medford and his daughter Doctor Patricia Medford arrive and ask to be taken to the scene of some of the disappearances. When they get there they are shocked to find gigantic ants, whose mutations were caused by the first atomic bomb explosion nine years earlier. They manage to destroy the nest of ants, but not before two winged queen ants and a couple of drones have hatched and escaped the nest. Now it is a race against time to find the two queen ants before they can establish more nests and hatch more queens.
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Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu. Originally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Munarau's chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker's Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Gappa the Trifibian Terror
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child
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The Strange World of Planet X
At a small, rural British lab, monomaniac Dr. Laird and his staff create ultra-intense magnetic fields. Inexplicably, the apparatus seems to be affecting distant objects, and to be drawing "extra power" from...somewhere. One night, after a "freak" storm, strange and deadly things start happening in Bryerly Woods, and a strange man from "a long way off" appears in the district...concerned about Laird's pulling down disaster from the skies.
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The Snow Creature
Botanist Frank Parrish leads an expedition to the Himalayas to seek out new flora, accompanied by hardboiled news photographer Peter Wells. When their lead guide, Subra, learns his wife has been kidnapped by a Yeti, Parrish disbelieves him, so the sherpas commandeer the expedition at gunpoint and turn it into a search-and-rescue party. To Parrish's surprise, they discover a whole family of Yetis in a cave, and are able to subdue the male and carry it back to civilization, to ship to the USA for study. Subra is forgiven his acts because he was right after all. Wells, meanwhile, phones in the story and Parrish finds his discovery - shipped upright in a meat cooler to maintain its natural environment - detained in the US because Wells' story refers to it as a snowMAN, and a decision must be made whether this is a customs or immigration matter. During this bureaucratic snafu, the creature escapes its containers and disappears into Los Angeles, mysteriously appearing in different parts of the city. Parrish teams up with police Lt. Dunbar to find the creature, which kills anyone who stands in his way...
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The Brain from Planet Arous
A powerful criminal brain from the planet Arous, Gor, assumes the body of scientist Steve March. Thru March he begins to control the world by threatening destruction to any country challenging his domination. Another brain, Val, works with Marchs future wife Sally to defeat Gor. Val explains that Gor will be vulnerable when he is forced to leave March at intervals to re-energize. Gors vulnerable spot, the Fissure of Orlando, is described in a note left by Sally in Steve's lab.
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Demons of Ludlow
A murderous demon lurks inside an antique piano in a picturesque coastal town.
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Hideous Sun Demon
Robert Clarke,legendary science fiction leading man of the 1950s, produced, directed and starred in this Atomic Age chiller about a scientist that turns into a hideous prehistoric creature when exposed to the sun's deadly rays. This is it! The original cult classic, filled with tense radioactive atmosphere, as the Sun Demon stalks his prey while his primordial mating urges go berserk! Modern-day horror screamer filled with murder, monsters, radioactive isotopes and a sizzling blonde babe with gravity-defying assets. Bring your sunglasses and tanning oil because "The Hideous Sun Demon" is on the loose!
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
IT The Terror fom Beyond Space
In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that "it" has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth...
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The Deadly Mantis
The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its way to the warmer latitudes of Washington and New York. A paleontologist works together with military units to try to kill it.
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Labels: classic sci fi
Earth vs The Flying Saucers
While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket to the orbit of Earth for helping the exploration of the outer space in the Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message in their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites had mysteriously felt on Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens that ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days with the intention to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes that last hope of human race against the hostile aliens.
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Labels: classic sci fi
Project Moonbase
In the not-too-distant future of 1970, the United States is considering building bases on the Moon, and send a female colonel and two men to investigate. One of the men turns out to be a foreign spy, and the entire operation--and the future of the free world--is in danger.
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Labels: classic sci fi
The Night of the Demon
Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse.
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Labels: classic horror movie
Tarantula!
When a tarantula which has been injected with a special nutrient formula escapes from a scientist's laboratory, it grows into a 100-foot beast that menaces the Arizona countryside.
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Labels: classic horror movie
Journey to the Seventh Planet
A U.N. space expedition to the planet Uranus discovers a bizarre world right out of their own heads, featuring places and people the crew members recall from childhood. It's all part of a fantasy created by the planet's master, a giant, pulsating brain that can also turn their worst thoughts into reality.
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Labels: classic sci fi
The Mole People
Archaeologists stumble upon a race of albinos living under the earth. They are afraid of light of any kind and keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slaves.
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Labels: classic sci fi
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