I like films those kinds of films from the era you're reviewing, Psi-Fi. I look forward to watching some of them. Keep the reviews coming!

Moving up a couple of decades from the last one...




Crime flick about a detective agency comprised of 3 women, hired by the head of a criminal gang to find out who's behind a series of attacks and robberies targeting his organization. Sort of a ripoff of a Pam Grier flick combined with 'Charlies Angels.' Lousy script, lousy acting, mediocre (at best) directing, and ridiculously cartoonish fight scenes comprised of the type of kung fu fighting which was popular in a lot of action movies at that time. Disappointing to say the least. The poster is by far the best thing about this movie.

Action/war film about a commanding officer assigned to replace the well-liked commanding officer of a Navy underwater demolition team, who died in combat. The new commander starts out with a strict no-nonsense approach which the men under his command see as being too rigid and impersonal. He eventually relaxes his demeanor and proves himself to be a selfless leader, earning the respect of the rest of his men and the crew aboard the ship they are assigned to.

B&W British sci-fi flick from the 50's. A spaceship crash-lands in Scotland after colliding with a plane. The sole inhabitant of the spaceship emerges soon afterwards, looking like a cross between a vampire and a dominatrix. The martian visits the inhabitants of a nearby inn and announces that Mars is running out of men capable of procreation, and, as a female Martian, she has come from the planet Mars to look for suitable males to bring back to Mars for breeding.

Ridiculous but entertaining enough to watch to the end. The poster shows 3 spaceships but there's only 1 in the movie, and the robot-creature shown in the poster looks far more menacing and interesting than the one that actually appears in the film. A 3 star movie with a 5 star poster.

B&W mystery-thriller about a wealthy ex-con living in a mansion with his daughter on a secluded island. While there, he plots revenge on his associates responsible for his imprisonment and the murder of his wife. He sends out invitations to his intended victims, asking them to visit him on his island and enticing them with the prospect of finding a hidden fortune located there.

As a fan of movies so good they're bad, this sounds every bit as enjoyable as Mars Needs Women. I'll have to check it out.

One of my favorites, it never gets old.

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^ Any movie I've ever seen, that Ray Harryhausen was involved in, has been worth watching.


And as long as I'm here...




B&W sci-fi thriller about an unusual object which appears on the viewer of a scientist's telescope, enters the Earth's atmosphere, and crashes into the ocean off the coast of Mexico. A large robotic machine eventually emerges from the ocean and runs amok, sucking up electrical energy from power plants, while on its way to a stockpile of nuclear weapons in America.

War-action flick told in flashback style. The Commander of aircraft operations on an aircraft carrier in the Korean war, reminisces about his time serving as Fighter Squadron Commander on the same carrier during WWII, while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. A good bit of actual combat footage from WWII is added to the movie, but it's blended into the action quite well and doesn't interfere with the story or vibe like it sometimes does in other war films which use that same technique.

I'm shooting blanks!

B&W sci-fi/monster flick about a rocket carrying a payload of wasps into space for an experiment, which malfunctions and veers off course and crashes in a remote area of Africa. Several of the wasps survive the crash and mutate due to being overexposed to cosmic radiation during the flight. They grow to an enormous size and begin to terrorize the wildlife and the local natives. The two scientists in charge of the space experiment, find out about reports of giant monsters wreaking havoc in central Africa, and decide to travel there to investigate.

This was one of those films that seems to drag on longer than the running time. It clocks in at 71 minutes, but it seemed to be twice as long as it actually was. Much of the film is spent showing the scientists and their entourage, trekking through the African bush, plains, and jungle, which just made the movie drag on.

Nothing says “low budget” like having a bunch of people walk around a lot. Still, I have a fondness for grade B 50’s sci-fi flicks featuring giant animals or insects, so I might view that one sometime.

How do you see most of these older movies you’ve been posting about, Psi-Fi? I know YouTube has a lot of these older movies.

Yes, I've been watching most of them on YouTube. Once in a while I'll come across one somewhere else, that isn't on YouTube, but usually I find them there.

Sci-fi adventure into the world of "inner space" below the waves. An underwater "city" made up of several airtight structures, is constructed and anchored to the sea floor, to conduct an experiment to see if humans can live underwater in such an environment. The acting wasn't bad but the special effects were ridiculous and the story just plodded along without much of interest happening for the most part until the action picked up a bit during the last few minutes of the film.

B&W horror/sci-fi film about a scientist who develops an apparatus and procedure to resuscitate people who have recently died. His first experiment using the device and procedure on a living human volunteer, is interrupted by the local police, who charge him with murder.

Late 1950's crime-thriller about a Deputy Sheriff in a small town, on the edge of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, trying to solve a mysterious murder in the town. The film had the look and feel of an Alfred Hitchcock movie from that era, which gave it a typical Hitchcock vibe, but he wasn't involved in the film as far as I know.

Horror film about mysterious deaths occurring in a small European village. The victims are all found with two puncture marks on their necks and are drained of their blood. Rumors of vampires spread through the village while the local constable tries to find clues to solve the murders, which he suspects are the work of a homicidal lunatic. The plot has a couple of unexplained holes in it, which occur later in the film, but they don't ruin the film as far as horror flicks go.

A recently married newspaper reporter on his honeymoon, witnesses a man fall from a building to the street below. He quickly calls the story in to his editor, who tells him to cover the story and find out more info on the man, which eventually leads to him discovering a sinister plot involving foreign agents. Various moments of romantic comic relief between the husband and wife are added to the story as it unfolds.

John Carradine was in a LOT of movies, some good, some OK, some awful. Did the man ever refuse an acting job?

Yeah. He certainly was prolific. Bela Lugosi is another actor who was in loads of films (mostly mediocre or awful) and never seemed to refuse any acting job.

A low-budget B&W horror film with an interesting twist. A mentally disturbed young woman awakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room... but was it just a nightmare? The story has a visual film noir style but there's no dialog except from an unseen narrator who occasionally speaks throughout the story while music plays in the background.

An action/crime thriller with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, teaming up as a couple of struggling private detectives who get hired to find an elusive woman. The trail to the woman leads to several murders and a large sum of money missing from a violent bank heist. Reminiscent of the 'I Spy' TV show that they appeared in together, for several seasons, a few years earlier.

B&W crime thriller about a manipulative crime kingpin on death row, breaking out of prison with help from his gang and some fellow prisoners, just before he is about to be executed in the electric chair.

Another vampire movie. This one is about a vampire living as a nightclub owner in a jungle setting. Rather mediocre movie overall. The most interesting part of the story was that the vampire was a nightclub owner and the nightclub was located in a jungle. No ghosts of any type made any appearances at any time during the story.

Low-budget exploitation flick about prostitution. A young pimp puts his girls to work by dropping them off on the side of roads and having them hitch rides with passing men to seduce them. He befriends the impressionable teenage son of a motel owner, to try to convince him to take over the motel so that he can use it as a base to operate his prostitution business out of. Awful script, awful acting, awful directing, and awful editing, makes for an awful movie. In the right hands, this story could've been wildly entertaining, but alas, it was not to be.

Low-budget crime flick about girls gone bad. Bad directing, bad acting, ridiculous script, unintentionally campy. This is the type of movie that probably inspired John Waters to become a film maker (which is a good thing.)

B&W horror flick about voodoo. A wealthy hotel developer hires a celebrity myth-buster to help him look into the disappearance of 3 of his employees who vanished on a surveying trip to an uninhabited island. One of those films where nothing much of interest happens throughout the story until almost the end, and even then it isn't enough to justify the time spent watching.

Tim Farrell! A member of Ed Wood's "stock company", so to speak. I definitely have to see this one!

This one is a bit like 'Frankenstein' with a zombie/robot twist. A wealthy criminal obsessed with revenge, meets an unscrupulous scientist and funds his experiments which produce the ability to reanimate recently deceased people, give them superhuman strength, and manipulate them electronically via remote control.


The late, great, Roky Erickson even wrote a song about it...

Low-budget sci-fi/horror flick about hungry, gigantic, mutant locusts with a taste for human flesh. The locusts grow to enormous proportions after eating plants which were created in an experimental agricultural lab which was using radiation to grow vegetables and fruits into oversized specimens. This one sort of falls into the "so bad it's good" category, but it was just so genuinely bad overall that I couldn't rate it any higher than 2 out of 5 stars. The poster for the movie gets a solid 5/5 stars from me, though.

Crime film about a group of U.S. Treasury agents investigating the finances of a mob boss in order to bring a charge of tax evasion against him. Not the most exciting plot but I thought the movie was well done. I'm puzzled by the title of the flick, though, because nobody actually went undercover at any time during the story.

I’ve seen this one before. It begins with a horny young couple about to go at it on lover’s lane when they’re rudely interrupted by a giant locust. The locusts are in southern Illinois before making their way to Chicago. The local news reports that all 150 people in the town of Ludlow mysteriously vanished (it’s up to the viewer to figure out they were eaten by locusts). That town actually exists in real life. I wonder if the locals were proud of the fact the people of their town were locust food in the film. The film is good for a few laughs, like when the locusts are shown rampaging through a model of a town that’s supposed to be Chicago.

The "special effects" in those old movies, always gives me a good laugh. Usually, the lower the budget, the bigger the laughs.

The working day of several people inside a Manhattan commercial tower are revealed and connected to each other through various events which happen throughout the 9 to 5 daily grind. Some humor, some drama, some sex, a villain, and a surprise darkly humorous ending.

Crime thriller about a broke con man who pitches the idea of a small town bank heist to his well-to-do partner in crime. His partner takes him up on his idea and goes to work putting together a motley crew of dysfunctional criminals to join in and help them pull off the heist. The film ends with a sappy whimper that made me groan in disbelief but up until the last couple of minutes, it was cooking.

Crime film about a nightclub owner who dies in a fiery car wreck and is burned beyond recognition, leaving his nightclub singer wife to run the club. The deceased man's brother arrives in town, unaware of his brother's death a few days prior, and starts befriending his brother's wife at the request of the local police, who suspect she may be involved in a large narcotics operation. The title of the film gives away a key element of the story, so it ended up like I thought it would, but it was still an entertaining crime film.

I never have seen much with Vera Ralston. A lot of people slam her acting. How was she in this film?