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- Sorcerers, The (1967)
- Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy…
- An aging couple conduct secret experiments in vicarious mind–control, living out perverse scenarios through young and unwitting victims.…
- X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Don Rickles, John Hoyt…
- Furrow–browed scientist Ray Milland discovers the ability to see through matters, and takes advantage with card games and ladies etc., but…
- Amazing Transparent Man, The (1960)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman
- Underrated, though still fairly tacky mad–scientist caper in which Douglas Kennedy turns a convict invisible so he can steal uranium for…
- Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
- Fly, The (1958)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
- Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
- Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
- A man suffers a humiliatingly gradual size–reduction after exposure to radiation. A class act, compellingly told through water–tight…
- Indestructible Man (1956)
- Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney
- Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
- Tarantula! (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…
- One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
- Them! (1954)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn
- Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
- Quatermass Experiment, The (TV Series) (1953)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean
- The seminal serial (in six parts) by award–winning writer Nigel Kneale that laid the foundations of British Sci–Fi TV..
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