Subgenre Sampler
Monster Mash: 142 Films to Buy & Rent
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott
- An exceptional, well–directed 1950's B–movie in which a race of monster–like aliens try to conquer Earth by taking over a…
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…