The Strange World of Planet X (1958), aka Cosmic Monsters, aka The Cosmic Monster, belongs to that sometimes-odd sub-genre of mid-century...

After descending through a thick fog in Antarctica and landing a damaged helicopter in a crater where the temperature is 91 degrees, one...

Author, Phil Hardy (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies), marks Roger Corman’s Attack of the Crab Monsters as a high point for...

In addition to Universal, Roger Corman, Dean of the Poe films, made his mark on the man-monster genre. His contributions were mostly in...

Robot Monster (1953) is one of those supposedly awful sci-fi movies that I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch. However, when...

In the Movie Archaeologists bonus feature on Criterion’s beautiful new Blu-ray edition of The War of the Worlds (1953), Craig Barron and...

In his on-air introduction of The Hitch-Hiker (1953) on TCM, Ben Mankiewicz shared the kind of perceptions about the film that I wish I...

At least I found two brief references to Destination Inner Space (1966) in my vintage monster movie reference books. I found none for...

Besides wanting to watch it ever since I read its synopsis, I was encouraged when TCM host Ben Mankiewicz spoke highly of The World, The...

From time immemorial the Earth has been bombarded by objects from outer space, bits and pieces of the universe piercing our atmosphere in...

The fundamental requirement for enjoying an atomic age horror/sci-fi film is suspension of disbelief. It’s not usually difficult for me...

At 63 minutes, the theatrical version of The Wasp Woman (1959) is perfectly efficient with its storytelling, and that story is perfectly...

There’s no reason I should have any fondness for Teenage Zombies (1959), a movie that, perhaps not surprisingly, does not feature any...

A large part of The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1958), I’m guessing about two-thirds of it, is told in flashback, which makes sense...

There’s an exception to every rule. While I consider myself a purist and almost always prefer my foreign horror in its original,...

The Flame Barrier (1958) offers a simple, yet intriguing sci-fi concept, but the minutes between the points the plot is established and...

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...

The problem with invisible man movies, as I’ve said before, is that no one seems to take advantage of the power invisibility potentially...

Another low budget movie that I've neglected to watch is now another low budget movie that I adore! Oh, The Hideous Sun Demon (1958),...

Day the World Ended (1955), the fourth film directed by Roger Corman and his first genre film, has some clever ideas and, for the low...