The dawn of the atomic age has arrived and anything is possible. With the testing of nuclear weapons in the deserts of North America, the fear of radiation and mutation was ever present in the minds of the general public during the 1950s.
Here in the landmark film from Warner Brothers, ‘Them’ builds on the paranoia of the populous to magnificent effect and spawned a whole new era of monster features. When people start disappearing in the deserts of New Mexico and a young girl is found in a catatonic state the local law enforcement turn to science and the government for help. What is out there and are we witnesses to a biblical prophecy come true? Find out in ‘THEM’.
An amateur astronomer witness, what he seems to believe at first as a meteor stick out in the desert one night. On closer inspection he sees what he thinks is an alien spacecraft along with its terrifying crew, but will anyone believe him?
What did he see? Was it aliens or just a trick of the light? If it were aliens, why are they here and what do the want? Do they mean us harm and if so can anybody stop them? All these questions will be answered and more in this great piece of science fiction by Jack Arnold in ‘It Came from Outer Space’.
A mad man running into a police station, screaming that the world is being taken over and that “They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next!”, is not your everyday occurrence. Dr Miles Bennell is that ‘mad man’ and has seen things that people would not believe, recounts his story to the police.
In this landmark film from 1956, director Don Siegel gives us one of the most well known and best loved sci-fi’s of its time, often copied but never bettered, we bring you Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The walls are bulging and the cells are full in Kim’s Video Dungeon this month. So what horrors await the unfortunate visitors to the depths of Kim’s oubliette? Well, a hoard of Hammer goodies from the vaults of the legendary purveyors of schlock.
Sex changing monsters running amuck in the streets of old London town in Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde to Prisoner war films The Camp on Blood Island and Yesterday’s enemy. Not to forget as well, Kim Newman’s Dungeon Breakout release for June.
There are many other films that have been reviewed by Kim, which can be found in the June issue of Empire Magazine (uk).
As a an eminent resident of the creature features that can be found amongst the B-Movie world, the werewolf has always had a sense truth about it, that deep within anybody there is a beast trying to escape and be free to do what it likes.
Here at ‘Attack from Planet B’ we have come up with our top werewolf films. In this list you won’t find the likes of the great werewolf films from Universal or the likes of ‘American Werewolf in London’, this list is more to do with the unsung but known films of werewolf genre.
So enjoy, discuss, disagree and comment.
During the 30s, 40s and 50s Universal Pictures brought us some of the best monster to grace the silver screen, from the Wolf Man and Frankenstein to Dracula and The Mummy. Here, in their long line of monster movies, they bring us one of their last during that auspicious period, the 1954 ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’.
A scientific expedition searching for fossils in the Amazon discover a prehistoric hand of an unknown creature, which local legend has it, lives in the legendary Black Lagoon. What more can the expedition expect to find and will they survive the Creature from the Black Lagoon?