Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction: 1571 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Days of Pompeii / City of Metropolis (1959-1961)
- Dir. Mario Bonnard, Umberto Scarpelli
Feat. Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey
- Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s:
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Directed by Mario Bonnard –…
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959)
- Feat. John Newland
- Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
Teenagers from Outer Space (the Gargon Terror) (1959)
- Dir. Tom Graeff
Feat. David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant
- Perhaps the ropiest of the ‘TEENAGE…’ 50s drive–ins, with two aliens visiting Earth as teens, one ‘good’, the…
Twilight Zone, The (Original TV Series) (1959-1964)
- Dir. Robert Parrish, Jack Smight, John Brahm
Feat. Agnes Moorehead, Ed Wynn, Jack Warden…
- Iconic and influential cult TV series with self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the unexpected and mysterious,…
Astounding She-Monster, The (1958)
- Dir. Ronnie Ashcroft
Feat. Robert Clarke
- Cheap drive–in fodder has a deadly female alien crash–land near the hideout of a band of kidnappers. Some fun to be had with the cheesy…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…
- One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Blob, The (1958)
- Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Steve McQueen
- Steve McQueen's first film sees him as a teenager trying to save his home town from a hostile hunk of red protoplasm. Camp fun as only the 50's could…
Brain Eaters, The (1958)
- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Cornelius Keefe…
- Shoestring drive–in fare about brain creatures from the Earth's core that go about turning humans into mindless zombies.
First Man Into Space (1958)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi
- A test pilot disobeys orders and takes his experimental ship higher than man has ever been before, but not without suffering a bizarre and horrible…
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.