Flight to Mars (1951)
Mar 9, 2001Mission to Mars
1950s SF film about an expedition to Mars. This fails to find anything interesting to happen once there where the astronauts do no more than engage in romances with the Martian women
Cameron Mitchell
Carousel (1956)
Sep 7, 2001Musical/Man's Redemption in the Afterlife
A Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that has gained a classic status. On the other hand, it doesn't resonate so well today in its story about the redemption of a wife-beater.
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Jan 18, 2017Giallo Psycho-Thriller
The film that formulated giallo cinema. Drawing inspiration from the success of Psycho, Mario Bava strips the psycho-thriller down to a parade of killings amid extravagantly arty surroundings and with a gorgeous colour palette
Nightmare in Wax (1969)
Dec 29, 2015Mad Waxworks Curator
Undeniably influenced by the classic Mystery of the Wax Museum, an entertainingly lurid film with Cameron Mitchell as a mad waxworks curator taking revenge on a Hollywood studio by encasing the bodies of its' stars in wax
The Stranger (1973)
Aug 3, 2017Counter Earth
Essentially a tv movie version of the Gerry Anderson film Doppelganger in which an astronaut comes around to find he is on a Counter Earth. The premise, an alternate history of sorts, is nonsensical and even then the film abandons it soon in to become a variant on The Fugitive
Supersonic Man (1979)
Aug 10, 2023Superhero Film
A cheap Spanish-made copy of the first Christopher Reeve Superman film
The Silent Scream (1979)
Apr 18, 1999Slasher/Family Secrets
Halfway reasonable entry in the 1980s slasher cycle that sits with one foot in the Old Dark House genre. This also comes with a great cast of genre veterans.
Without Warning (1980)
Oct 28, 2015Alien Sportsman Hunts Human Game
One of the first copies of Alien, this essentially acts as a slasher movie but with an alien instead of a hockey-masked killer. It also manages to predict the essentials of Predator in many ways. A B-movie but the cast list makes for eye-opening reading today
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
The Demon (1981)
Aug 15, 2024Slasher Film
A South African-made copycat of Halloween with a figure in a black mask stalking women. Cameron Mitchell turns up as a weird clairvoyant hired to find one of the missing girls
The Tomb (1985)
Jan 18, 2003Revived Mummy Queen
Film from B-budget director Fred Olen Ray that is sold in a way that would have you believe it is a copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark but in reality is no more than a dull and cheap revived mummy queen film
Deadly Prey (1987)
Nov 20, 2025Human Hunting for Sport/Action
Another variant on The Most Dangerous Game with an unarmed man on the run against armed hunter(s). This was made just after Rambo came out so it becomes one lone man fighting an entire army with his bare hands.
From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
Jun 18, 1999Horror Anthology
One of the more underrated horror anthologies featuring an aging Vincent Price as narrator. All four stories are equally strong and venture into some pleasingly dark and grisly places
Space Mutiny (1988)
Dec 10, 2019Space Opera
This is widely regarded as a classic bad movie. A South African-made space opera where the corner-cutting cheapness of the production proves frequently hilarious