This well-made, suspenseful, made-for-TV movie – presented as part of The ABC Movie of the Week – stars Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy as Commander Phillip Kettenring,…
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In 2116, Ray Peterson (the wonderfully-named Rik Van Nutter), a reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station.…
A beautiful female extraterrestrial (Shirley Kilpatrick) – dressed in a skintight metallic suit with high heels, lipstick, and jet-propelled eyebrows – lands in the Sierra…
Convicted killer Roger Sands (Frank Ashmore) studies the paranormal while he is incarcerated in the California State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, gains supernatural powers…
A mad scientist sets out to gather the human parts necessary to create a race of mindless killers. The (so-called) plot has something to do…
Set in the near future (1981!), the Americans are about to complete their first mission to Mars. The atmosphere is electric as millions of viewers…
While visiting the isolated and bleak mist-shrouded Dunsmoor Asylum for “the incurably insane”, earnest young psychiatrist Dr Martin (Robert Powell) learns the bizarre and disturbing…
In the Italian countryside, a clinic for mentally unstable but wealthy women is terrorised by a maniac with a fetish for medieval weaponry. Psychiatrist Dr…
Shot in Louisville, Kentucky on a budget of just $50,000, Asylum of Satan was director William Girdler’s first feature film, made when he was 24…
A father, involved in murder and other vile activities, introduces his sons to a life of crime. This peculiar movie, based on an actual family…
This sci-fi thriller follows a Victorian-era expedition headed by American explorer David Innes (Doug McClure) and fidgety British scientist Dr Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) beneath…
Atlantic City is a sweet and flaky movie about an assortment of down-and-outs. Lou (Burt Lancaster) is an ageing numbers runner living on the fringe of…
A Greek fisherman named Demetrios (Sal Ponti, billed here as Anthony Hall)rescues a woman who turns out to be the Princess of Atlantis (Joyce Taylor).…
The seven-year-old son of leading nuclear physicist Frank Addison (Gene Barry in his big-screen debut) from Los Alamos, New Mexico (the “Atomic City” of the…
An unidentified man is shot and thrown into the River Thames. He is rescued and rushed to the hospital where, during surgery, his heart stops…
In the distant future of 1968 (!) many ships and planes are crossing the North pole to transport passengers and cargo. But lately, several ships…
Z Special Force – also known as the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) – was a secret Australian Special Forces reconnaissance and sabotage unit during World…
Though it’s barely a competent example of low-budget 1950s sci-fi, this poverty-row cheapie, directed by Nathan Hertz (better known as Nathan Juran), has become a…
A group of scientists gather on a deserted Pacific island to study the effects of nuclear fallout. The group is uneasy since a similar group…
In a Florida community, a local trapper sees a couple of giant monsters in the swamp, but nobody believes him. Later, general store owner Dave…