Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Giant Claw

The Giant Claw

Actors: Morris Ankrum , Edgar Barrier , Robert Shayne , Clark Howat , Jeff Morrow , Morgan Jones , Mara Corday , Louis Merrill , Frank Griffin
Director: Fred F. Sears
IMDB Rate: 3 out of 10 (947 votes)
Plot Summary:When electronics engineer Mitch MacAfee spots a UFO as big as a battleship, from his plane, the Air Force scrambles planes to investigate. However, nothing shows up on radar, and one of the jets is lost during the action. MacAfee is regarded as a dangerous crackpot until other incidents and disappearances convince the authorities that the threat is real. Some believe it is a French-Canadian folk legend come to life, but it turns out to be an extraterrestrial giant bird composed of anti-matter whose disregard for human life and architecture threatens the world.

Terror Is a Man

Terror Is a Man

Actors: Greta Thyssen , Francis Lederer , Richard Derr , Peyton Keesee , Oscar Keesee , Flory Carlos , Lilia Duran
Director: Gerardo de Leon
IMDB Rate: 5 out of 10 (197 votes)
Plot Summary:William Fitzgerald finds himself shipwrecked on an island whose native inhabitants have recently fled. His civilized host, the secretive Dr. Charles Girard, explains that they were superstitiously fearful of his scientific work. Now the only people on the island are the castaway, the scientist, his voluptuous wife, his sleazy assistant, his beautiful native servant and her young son. But there may be one more man on the island its all a matter of philosophy and semantics. It seems Dr. Girard is surgically transforming a panther into a human being. The trouble is, the creature is not above killing members of the species he has recently joined.

The Gamma People

The Gamma People

Actors: Leslie Phillips , Rosalie Crutchley , Philip Leaver , Martin Miller , Paul Douglas , Paul Hardtmuth , Walter Rilla , Leonard Sachs , Eva Bartok , Olaf Pooley , Michael Caridia , Jocelyn Lane , St. John Stuart , Pauline Drewett
Director: John Gilling
IMDB Rate: 4.8 out of 10 (73 votes)
Plot Summary:An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

12 Days of Terror

12 Days of Terror

Actors: John Rhys-Davies , Colin Stinton , Jamie Bartlett , Jenna Harrison , Paul Ditchfield , Patrick Lyster , Adrian Galley , Colin Egglesfield , Craig Geldenhuys , Mark Dexter , Glen Biderman-Pam , Daniel Kriel , Roger Dwyer , David Jeffery , Nigel Sweet
Director: Jack Sholder
IMDB Rate: 5.5 out of 10 (489 votes)
Plot Summary:July of 1916 was a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War in Europe. But beachgoers in New Jersey are threatened by a even greater terror a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Starting July 1st and lasting over a period of 12 days, the unidentified shark kills four people and seriously injures a fifth before the attacks stop, and threatens New Jerseys thriving tourist industry. Based on true events, and one of the inspirations behind Peter Benchleys Jaws.

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

Actors: James Anderson , John Eldredge , Gloria Talbott , Alan Dexter , Ty Hardin , Peter Baldwin , Tom Tryon , Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom , Ken Lynch , Jean Carson , Robert Ivers , Jack Orrison , Chuck Wassil , Steve London
Director: Gene Fowler Jr.
IMDB Rate: 6.3 out of 10 (957 votes)
Plot Summary:Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husbands odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.

From Hell It Came

From Hell It Came

Actors: Gregg Palmer , Robert Swan , John McNamara , Suzanne Ridgeway , Grace Mathews , Tod Andrews , Linda Watkins , Chester Hayes , Mark Sheeler , Baynes Barron , Lenmana Guerin , Tina Carver , Tani Marsh , Lee Rhodes
Director: Dan Milner
IMDB Rate: 2.4 out of 10 (453 votes)
Plot Summary:A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.

Donovan

Donovan

Actors: Gene Evans , Steve Brodie , James Anderson , Lew Ayres , Tom Powers , Harlan Warde , Michael Colgan , Lisa Howard , Peter Adams , Shimen Ruskin , Nancy Davis , Victor Sutherland
Director: Felix E. Feist
IMDB Rate: 5.9 out of 10 (463 votes)
Plot Summary:Yet another version of Curt Siodmaks novel about an honest scientist who keeps the brain of a ruthless dead millionaire (Donovan) alive in a tank. Donovan manages to impose his powerful will on the scientist, and uses him to murder his enemies.