Tag: Lou Rusoff

• Aliens Monsters The New Man

  

  It Conquered the World

  The ridiculous monster tends to get all the attention in Roger Corman’s 1956 alien body snatching movie. But with a clever script and good performances from Peter Graves, Lee van Cleef and Beverly Garland, it’s better than its reputation. 6/10 It Conquered the World. 1956, USA. Directed by Roger Corman.…

  September 13, 2022
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  The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

  A treat for so-bad-they’re-good movie fans, this 1955 clunker from ARC/AIP takes place almost exclusively on a California beach where FBI agents hunt movie history’s most incompetent spy and a radioactive sea monster. 1/10

  September 21, 2021
• Apocalypse Dystopia Empty World Futurism Monsters Mutant Post-Apocalypse The New Man

  

  Day the World Ended

  A small group of survivors hole up in a bungalow after a nuclear war, hoping to outlast the fallout and the mutants raging beyond the picket fence. Roger Corman directs the 1955 cheapo efficiently, but it spends too long treading water. 3/10

  September 20, 2021