The Incredible Mr Limpet (1964)
Dec 9, 2012Man Becomes a Porpoise
An appealingly silly blend of live-action and animation where Don Knotts plays a downtrodden clerk obsessed with fish who falls into the ocean and becomes a porpoise
Andrew Duggan
Seven Days in May (1964)
Feb 14, 2001Political Thriller/Presidential Overthrow Plot
Stark black-and-white thriller from John Frankenheimer about a military coup in the US. Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling delivers a superb script
In Like Flint (1967)
May 1, 2000Spy Film
Sequel to the James Coburn-starring Our Man Flint, one of the James Bond parodies of the 1960s. Unlike its predecessor, this one is less interested in the humour and seems to be taking the silliness seriously
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
Jul 14, 2013Comet on a Collision Course with the Earth
TV movie about an impending asteroid collision that was intended as a copy of the big-budget disaster movie Meteor but is actually a far better film. The science and Civil Defence reaction is written with an impressive credibility
The Time Machine (1978)
Apr 1, 2016Time Travel/H.G. Wells Adaptation
Largely forgotten adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel made for tv. While other versions place the story in Victorian England, this has been Americanised – where the time traveller is a weapons designer and journeys back to the Wild West. What kills the film is a painful cheapness
It Lives Again (1978)
May 21, 2001Killer Mutant Babies
This was the first of Larry Cohen's sequels to his killer mutant baby film It's Alive. Here Cohen uses the occasion to expand the themes in richer depth and makes a work that stands up as well as the original
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Feb 16, 2022Frankenstein Film
Jerry Warren was surely a rival of Edward D. Wood Jr as a bad filmmaker although less well-known. This, which was his last film, is possibly the worst Frankenstein film ever made
A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
Sep 3, 2005Town of Vampires
Cult director Larry Cohen makes a sequel to the Stephen King mini-series but throws most connection out to make his own wry, occasionally amusing vampire film