Subgenre Sampler
Monster Mash: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
- Viking Women And The Sea Serpent (Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent) (1958)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot
- Roger Corman schlock scraped from the seabed, about a clan of viking women who head out to sea in pursuit of their missing husbands. Soon they are…
- War Of The Colossal Beast (1958)
- Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz
- Colossally inept sequel to the genuinely interesting AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, has the scarred giant discovered looting government food trucks in the…
- 20 Million Miles To Earth (The Beast from Space, aka The Giant Ymir) (1957)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia…
- A superior 1950s 'monster mash' unfolds after the first spaceship to Venus crashes off Italy with a shy, but dangerous Venusian on board. Ray…
- Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…
- Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
- Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956)
- Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason
- Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
- Day the World Ended (1956)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens
- Tight B–movie version of post–nuclear existence from with a small group of survivors battling various mutant creatures and their own…
- Godzilla - King of the Monsters (1956)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda, Terry O. Morse
Feat. Raymond Burr
- The original US version of ‘Godzilla’ which spawned countless remakes and sequels. Raymond Burr plays a reporter investigating various disasters…
- Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956)
- Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor
- Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
- Dir. Ed Wood Jnr.
Feat. Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Bela Lugosi
- Ed Wood's 'masterpiece' is renowned as the worst film ever made, but in truth any film this enjoyable can't be so bad. Zilch production values and…
- Rodan (1956)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata
- GODZILLA spin–off has a small Japanese town undergoing various monstrous threats, starting with caterpillars and ending with flying prehistoric…