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The Unknown Terror
Three explorers search for a lost fiancé in West Indian caves inhabited by fungus monsters created by a mad scientist in Regal’s 1957 low-budget effort. Good visuals and an original idea, but the script is a mess. 4/10 Read more
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I Got the “Journalist of the Year” Award
This is very off-topic, but I just wanted to share an update from my day job with my regular readers. Yesterday I was awarded the Topelius Award, given annually to the journalist of the year within Finland’s 6% Swedish language minority. Read more
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The 27th Day
An alien tests humanity by giving five people the means of killing all humans on Earth. The intriguing premise of Columbia’s 1957 film quickly regresses into red scare histrionics. 4/10 Read more
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The Cyclops
Susan Winters finds her lost husband in a remote Mexican vally, now radioactively mutated into a giant monster. The first in Bert I. Gordon’s trilogy of giant bald monsters. 4/10 Read more
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20 Million Miles to Earth
US astronauts bring back a creature from Venus to Italy, where it breaks loose, grows and runs amok in Rome. Ray Harryhausen’s memorable monster elevates this poorly written 1957 programmer. 6/10 Read more
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Super Giant
A superhero from a distant planet is sent to Japan to stop villains who plan to conquer the world with nuclear bombs. Shintoho’s Super Giant is cheap and silly, but introduced Japan’s first live-action superhero. 4/10 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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