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The Strange World of Planet X (1958) starring Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson

The Strange World of Planet X

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The Strange World of Planet X (1958) aka. Cosmic Monsters, starring Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson

In The Strange World of Planet X (aka. Cosmic Monsters), a small team of scientists are working on a magnetic weapon for the government. But, unwittingly, they’ve released a terror on the planet …

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The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash

The Omega Man [Charlton Heston]

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The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash

In The Omega ManCharlton Heston stars as a scientist who believes he is the only human to survive a worldwide bacteriological war unharmed. He attempts to save humanity by developing a curative serum from his own blood … if he lives long enough.

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The Island of Dr Moreau (1977) starring Michael York, Burt Lancaster, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart

The Island of Dr Moreau [1977]

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The Island of Dr Moreau (1977) starring Michael York, Burt Lancaster, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart

The Island of Dr Moreau begins with a shipwreck. Crewman Andrew Braddock (Michael York) washes up on a mysterious island ruled by the seemingly benevolent Dr. Moreau (Burt Lancaster). Braddock will learn that this “man of science” has been testing a serum on the island animals. A serum that’s able to transform them into near-human beings.

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The Force Awakens (2015) starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

The Force Awakens [Star Wars]

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The Force Awakens (2015) starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

The Force Awakens is the story of a new threat to the galaxy. Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the missing Luke Skywalker.

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The Quartermass Xperiment (1955) starring Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth

The Quartermass Xperiment

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The Quartermass Xperiment (1955) starring Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth

In The Quartermass Xperiment, the only surviving astronaut of Britain’s first manned rocket returns to Earth. But he’s changed, possibly infected, by … something. And it may doom all life on earth.

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They Came From Beyond Space (1967) starring Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne

They Came From Beyond Space

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They Came From Beyond Space (1967) starring Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne

Synopsis of They Came From Beyond Space

They Came From Beyond Space: Scientists go to a field in England to look at the strange formation from a meteor shower. They are taken over by an alien life force and fall ill with an ailment that causes drops of blood to appear all over their bodies.

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Five Million Years to Earth (1967), aka. Quatermass and the Pit, starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley

Quatermass and the Pit

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Quatermass and the Pit (1967) aka Five Million Years to Earth (1967) starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley

Synopsis of Quatermass and the Pit

While digging an extension in the London underground, workers come across skeletal remains. Construction is halted and paleontologist Dr. Matthew Roney’s team take over. They soon find a metal object that they initially think might be a bomb But it turns out to be an alien spacecraft of some kind. Roney’s assistant Barbara Judd and Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir), a rocket specialist who does experimental work for the Ministry of Defence, discover that much of the housing around the site was abandoned by its inhabitants 40 years ago because of strange noises and what was believed to be ghosts. Inside the spacecraft, they find the remnants of insect-like creatures, all now dead. In disturbing the craft, however, they release an invisible force of immense power. …Quatermass and the Pit

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From the Earth to the Moon (1958) starring Joseph Cotton, George Sanders

From the Earth to the Moon

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From the Earth to the Moon (1958) starring Joseph Cotten, George Sanders

Synopsis of From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon (1958) starring Joseph Cotton, George Sanders

Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane’s arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl’s daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile. …From the Earth to the Moon

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