Tag: Charles Eric Maine

• Future technology Futurism Mind Control The New Man

  

  Escapement

  Ex-Nazis operate a brainwashing dream machine in a psychiatric clinic in this 1958 UK mystery melodrama. Released in the US as The Electronic Monster, it squanders a good idea in a programmatic cloak-and-dagger plot. 3/10

  March 26, 2024
• Conquest of Time Spy-Fi The New Man Time Stasis

  

  Timeslip

  Reporters and police investigate a nuclear scientist living 7.5 seconds ahead of time in this British 1955 quota quickie. Ken Hughes directs solidly and the American stars turn in good performances, but the script fails to live up to its premise. 5/10

  September 8, 2021
• Conquest of Space Future technology Futurism Spy-Fi

  

  Spaceways

  Britain’s first post-war space movie is decidedly Earth-bound, as it follows the personal intrigues of scientists preparing the first orbital space flight. Hammer director Terence Fisher is far from inept, but is thwarted by a meandering script. 3/10

  March 2, 2021