Cult cinema previews, reviews, ratings and FREE films online! 10,975+ entries
Black Park is a country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England. Covering roughly 530 acres of woodland, heathland and grassland, the park includes an imposing avenue of mature pine trees and …
Black Park, Buckinghamshire, England – film location Read More
The Pan Book of Horror Stories was a paperback series of short horror story anthologies published by Pan Books Ltd. The series ran to thirty volumes, the first published in …
Pan Book of Horror Stories Read More
Paul Blaisdell was an American artist, sculptor and actor, best known for his special effects creations for some of the early Science Fiction creature features made by Roger Corman. Despite …
Paul Blaisdell – Artist, sculptor and actor Read More
‘The fly with the head of a man… and the man with the head of a fly!’ The Fly is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Kurt Neumann. The screenplay was …
THE FLY (1958) Reviews and overview Read More
José Ramón Larraz (born 1929 in Barcelona) was a Spanish director of exploitation and horror films such as the cult classic Vampyres (1974). He died in Malaga on 3rd September 2013 whilst working on a remake of …
José Ramón Larraz – filmmaker Read More
‘Murder – their religion!’ The Stranglers of Bombay is a 1959 British adventure horror film directed by Terence Fisher. The Hammer Films production stars Guy Rolfe (Dolls; Puppet Master films), …
THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY (1959) Reviews and overview Read More
The Prize Pest is a 1950 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. It was directed by Robert McKimson, and written by Tedd Pierce. It was originally released December 22, 1951. This is considered by some …
THE PRIZE PEST (1950) Animated short Read More
Richard Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, …
Richard Matheson – author and screenwriter Read More
The Colossus of New York is a 1958 sci-fi film produced by William Alland (Tarantula, Creature From the Black Lagoon), and directed by Eugène Lourié (The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Gorgo). The movie …
THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK Reviews of cult sci-fi Read More
The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 sci-fi horror film, directed by Bert I. Gordon, produced by Gordon, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson and starring Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson and Larry …
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN Reviews of Bert I. Gordon’s amusing movie Read More
Jack Davis (Dec 2, 1924 – July 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. Davis was one of the founding …
Jack Davis – cartoonist and illustrator Read More
The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument, controlled without physical contact from the player. It was originally also known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone, termenvox or thereminvox, In the 1950s, the emergence of science fiction movies as mass …
Theremin – musical instrument Read More
The Angry Red Planet is a 1959 American science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior (co-writer of Planet of the Vampires and Death Race 2000). Pre-release titles were Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four. …
THE ANGRY RED PLANET (1959) Reviews and overview Read More
Alfred Reginald Natzick aka Reggie Nalder/Detlef Van Berg/Detlas Van Burg Born in Vienna in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1907, or indeed any point during a twenty-year period around this time …
Reggie Nalder – Actor Read More
Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle in 1924. The company originally produced business and advertising films. In 1937, Castle branched out into 8mm and 16mm home movies, buying newsreel …
Castle Films – 8mm home movie distributor Read More
Buy Blu-ray: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk ‘The Terrifying Lover – who died – yet lived!’ Dracula is a 1958 British supernatural horror film directed by Terence Fisher from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. …
DRACULA aka HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) Reviews of Hammer classic Read More
The Bad Seed is a 1956 American horror-thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It is based upon a play (of the same name) by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is …
THE BAD SEED (1956) Reviews and overview Read More
Horrors of the Black Museum is a 1959 British horror film directed by Arthur Crabtree for American exploitation producer Herman Cohen (Konga; Trog; Craze), who concocted the lurid screenplay with Aben Kandel. It was the first …
HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (1959) Reviews and overview Read More
‘Terror is loose in the city!’ Revenge of the Creature is the first sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon. The sci-fi horror movie was released on May 11, 1955, in the …
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE Reviews of the Black Lagoon sequel Read More
Drakula İstanbul’da (Dracula in Istanbul) is a 1953 Turkish film version of Bram Stoker’s original novel Dracula. The screenplay was based on a 1928 novel by Ali Riza Seyfi called Kazıklı Voyvoda (“Impaler Voivode”), and …
DRACULA IN ISTANBUL (1953) Turkish take on Bram Stoker Read More
The global popular cultural significance of the 1930s and 1940s Universal movie monsters cannot be understated. These films were smash hits that, despite the efforts of censorial prigs on both …
Universal Monsters – merchandise Read More
Stuart Freeborn (5 September 1914 – 5 February 2013) was a veteran British motion picture make-up artist who died recently. He has been referred to as the “grandfather of modern make-up design” and is perhaps best …
Stuart Freeborn – make-up artist Read More
The Thing from Another World is a 1951 science fiction horror film directed by Christian Nyby from a screenplay by Charles Lederer, based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by …
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) Reviews of sci-fi classic Read More
Womaneater is a 1958 British horror film about a mad scientist who feeds captured women to a flesh-eating tree in order to raise the dead Directed by Charles Saunders (The …
WOMANEATER Reviews of flesh-eating tree horror Read More
‘Giant spider strikes! Crawling terror 100 feet high!’ Tarantula is a 1955 American sci-fi horror film directed by Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man; Creature from the Black Lagoon; It Came from …
TARANTULA Reviews of Universal’s fun monster movie Read More
The Coffin Bank is a horror-themed piggy bank that seems to have first been made by Yonezawa Toys (also known as Yone) in Japan in the 1950’s and were a …
Coffin Bank – Toy Read More
Cat Girl is a 1957 British-American horror film co-produced by Anglo Amalgamated and American International Pictures (AIP). It is an unofficial remake of Cat People (1942). Thanks to Eady Levy introduced by …
CAT GIRL Reviews of ’50s Cat People remake Read More
‘The ultimate dimension in terror!’ House of Wax is a 1953 American horror film directed by André de Toth from a screenplay by Crane Wilbur (The Bat). The movie stars …
HOUSE OF WAX (1953) Reviews of Vincent Price 3D classic Read More
‘Nature gone mad!’ The Cyclops is a 1957 science-fiction horror film written, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. Main cast: James Craig – Bigfoot | Venus Flytrap Lon Chaney Jr. …
THE CYCLOPS (1957) Reviews and overview Read More
‘Out of the mystic East terror strikes at the heart of a city!’ Cult of the Cobra (1955) is an American horror film directed by Francis D. Lyon (Castle of …
CULT OF THE COBRA (1955) Reviews and overview Read More
Night of the Ghouls is a 1958 horror film [released in 1959] written and directed by Ed D. Wood Jr, and a sequel of sorts to the 1955 film Bride …
NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (1958) Reviews and overview Read More
‘Doll dwarfs versus the crushing giant beasts!’ Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed, produced and written by Bert I. Gordon. The Alta Vista Productions movie stars …
ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958) Review of Bert I. Gordon cult classic Read More
Varan the Unbelievable, released in Japan as Giant Monster Varan (大怪獣バラン Daikaijū Baran), is a 1958 Kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya (special effects), and their last black-and-white monster film. …
VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE (1958) Reviews and overview Read More
‘Almost beyond the imagination… A strange adventure into the unknown!’ The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen …
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) Reviews and overview Read More
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 sci-fi horror film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney’s …
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Reviews of the ’50s sci-fi classic Read More
Dementia is a 1953 American film, filmed in a film noir style, but not released until 1955. Though this film was credited to John Parker as being the screenwriter, director, and producer, he …
DEMENTIA aka DAUGHTER OF HORROR (1953) Reviews and overview Read More
‘… On a rampage for a human bride!!’ The Curse of the Faceless Man is a 1958 American horror film, released by Robert E. Kent Productions and United Artists. It was directed by Edward …
THE CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN (1958) Reviews and overview Read More
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 American science fiction monster film directed by Eugène Lourié (The Colossus of New York; The Giant Behemoth; Gorgo) from a screenplay by Lou Morheim and Fred Freiberger, …
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953) Reviews and overview Read More
Les Diaboliques, released as Diabolique in the United States and The Fiends in the UK, is a 1955 French psychological thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot and Paul Meurisse. It is based on the novel Celle qui …
LES DIABOLIQUES aka DIABOLIQUE (1955) Overview Read More
Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira) is a 1954 Japanese science fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The movie stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata and Takashi Shimura. Plot: Godzilla, a …
GODZILLA (1954) Reviews and overview Read More