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Panic in the Year Zero, starring Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon

Panic in the Year Zero

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Panic in the Year Zero (1962), starring Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon

Synopsis of Panic in the Year Zero

In Panic in the Year Zero, Los Angeles is demolished by a nuclear attack.  Looting and robbing run rampant. Seeking shelter from the chaos, a family hides out in an isolated fishing cabin.  Only to find that the chief danger comes from a band of violent, crazed juvenile delinquents.

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The Time Travelers

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The Time Travelers (1964) starring Merry Anders, Preston Foster, Philip Carey, John Hoyt, Steve Franken

Synopsis of The Time Travelers

In The Time Travelers, four scientists step through a time portal, travels 107 years into the future and find a barren underground post-nuclear war world where a handful of “normal humans” are being attacked by mutants.

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Mission To Mars

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Mission To Mars (2000), starring Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O’Connell, Don Cheadle, directed by Brian de Palma Editorial review of Mission to Mars courtesy… Read More »Mission To Mars

Alligator People

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The Alligator People (1959) starring Beverly Garland, Richard Crane, Lon Chaney Jr.

Synopsis of The Alligator People

In The Alligator People, a newlywed husband abandons his young wife (Beverly Garland) on their wedding day. Distraught, she traces him to his ancestral home in the bayous of Louisiana, where, amid the swamps and deadly undergrowth, she discovers a terrible secret. Her husband was saved from death by an experimental medical procedure involving serum derived from alligators and now he’s developing horrifying side-effects. She’ll face any danger to help him but soon discovers her love may not be enough.

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Marooned 1969

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Marooned (1969) starring  Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman

Synopsis of Marooned

Marooned is a gripping, yet starkly realistic, portrayal of three astronauts on an extended special mission who find themselves unable to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. As the oxygen supply diminishes, the stranded astronauts must face the inevitability of death.

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) starring Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding

Synopsis of It! The Terror from Beyond Space

When his crew is brutally murdered on a Mars expedition, Commander Carruthers becomes the prime suspect. Taken into custody and facing a court-martial back on Earth, he discovers that the real killer is a grotesque monster.  “It” has stowed aboard the earthbound ship. But the indestructible creature had already begun a harrowing in-flight rampage, knocking off the members of the crew, one by one. Now, as the spaceship heads home toward a panic-stricken Earth, the remaining crew must find some way to stop the unstoppable…”It! The Terror from Beyond Space”

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The Amazing Transparent Man

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The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) starring Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith, Marguerite Chapman, Ivan Triesault

Synopsis of The Amazing Transparent Man

A scientist’s discovery of using radiation to cause invisibility is used by an unscrupulous military man to create an army of invisible men.  But he needs more radioactive material, and “recruits” an untrustworthy convict … to become the amazing transparent man!

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Return of the Swamp Thing

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The Return of the Swamp Thing (1989), starring Dick Durock, Louis Jordan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas

Synopsis of The Return of the Swamp Thing

 Return of the Swamp Thing begins with Abigail Arcane (Heather Locklear) traveling to the Florida swamps to find out the truth about her mother’s death. Once there, she confronts her evil stepfather Dr. Arcane (Louis Jourdan), who had been resurrected after his death in the first film. In an attempt to stave off the effects of aging, Dr. Arcane, assisted by Dr. Lana Zurrell (Sarah Douglas), combines genes from various swamp animals and human beings, creating an army of monsters known as Un-Men. Dr. Arcane tries to use his stepdaughter Abby in his genetic experiments until she is rescued by Swamp Thing (Dick Durock). He’s a scientist previously transformed into a humanoid plant creature after a confrontation with the doctor. Abby and the Swamp Thing fall in love, with the doctor’s minions searching for them.

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Swamp Thing

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Swamp Thing Deep in Floridas Everglades a brilliant scientist has developed a secret formula that could end world hunger. However, someone is plotting to steal the serum for his own selfish desires. Looting the lab and kidnapping a sexy government agent, the madman douses the scientist with the secret chemicals and leaves him for dead in the swamp. Mutated by his own formula, the scientist is transformed into a half human/half plant hybrid who will is determined to rescue the woman and defeat the villain.

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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, starring Ray Milland, Don Rickles, Diana Van der Vlis, by Roger Corman

Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, is a different science fiction/horror movie, in several ways. It has the well-worn theme of a scientist delving too deeply into things that man wasn’t meant to know.  

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