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The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Bodies start piling up at the small town of Piedras Blancas when the lighthouse keeper neglects to feed the local gill-man hiding in the caves. This silly but charming 1959 independent production is a love letter to the monster movies of old. 4/10 Read more
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Monsters and Moon Landings: the Lost Filipino Sci-Fi Films
The Philippines was a major producer of sci-fi movies in the 50s, but few of the films have ever been seen by modern film scholars and fans, since most of them have been lost, and few have aired on TV. Here we take a look at the six first, lost, Pinoy SF movies. Read more
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Moonwolf
A German-Finnish collaboration of the Sputnik era, this 1959 effort is light on science fiction and heavy on romance and wildlife as it unfolds the story of a scientist and his pet wolf – the latter destined to be shot into space. Beautiful Arctic footage isn’t enough to counterbalance the trite drama. 3/10 Read more
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Behemoth the Sea Monster
A radioactive dinosaur stomps London in this British-American 1959 co-production. Writer/director Eugène Lourié all but presents a carbon copy of his previous hit The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Willis O’Brien’s stop-motion work is rushed and sloppy. It’s not terrible, but by the numbers. 4/10 Read more
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Rihlah ela el-Qamar
Ismail Yassin sits on the controls of a rocket and lands on the moon where he is met by a robot, a scientist and scantily clad dancing women. If not for Yassin’s incessant shouting and mugging, Egypt’s first space film from 1959 might have been a decent SF spoof. 3/10 Read more
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I Was a Sputnik of the Sun
In a near future, Soviet scientists are trying to figure out how to send a manned mission around the sun, but are thwarted by deadly “dead zones” in space. Made by documentarians, this minor 1959 effort uneasily straddles the gap between edutainment and SF drama. Visually neat, but lifeless. 3/10 Read more
Bela Lugosi Bert I. Gordon Boris Karloff Brigitte Helm Charles Gemora Crash Corrigan Curt Siodmak Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Eiji Tsuburaya Frankenstein Georges Melies George Worthing Yates George Zucco H.G. Wells Haruo Nakajima Invisible Man Irving Block Ishiro Honda Jack Arnold Jack Pierce Jack Rabin Jimmy Sangster John Carradine John P. Fulton Jules Verne Lionel Atwill Lon Chaney Jr. Mary Shelley Morris Ankrum Paul Blaisdell Paul Frees Richard Carlson Richard Denning Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Shayne Roger Corman Sam Katzman Segundo de Chomon Top Lists Top Silents Walter R. Booth Whit Bissell William Alland William Schallert Willis O'Brien
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