Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Dec 2, 2001Cambodian Zombie Secrets
From the brothers who made the classic White Zombie, a similar film about an expedition to Cambodia to find the secret of creating zombies
Dean Jagger
X the Unknown (1956)
Nov 25, 2015Radioactive Blob Amok
An early Hammer film, an attempt to exploit the success of their Quatermass films. This prefigures the menace of The Blob by a couple of years (while adding a few dashes of the atomic monster fad) but comes with a stark b/w urgency that makes this by far the better film
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
End of the World (1977)
Nov 14, 2013Aliens in a Convent/Looming End of the World
A thorough embarrassment on Christopher Lee's resume – an early Charles Band film in which Lee is a stranded alien inhabiting the cloned body of priest in a convent of nuns
Alligator (1980)
May 6, 1999Giant Alligator
Amid the spate of post-Jaws Animals Amok films, this, which comes armed with a John Sayles script and plays on the urban legend of baby alligators flushed into the sewers, was a rather enjoyable effort that plants tongue in cheek