The Next Voice You Hear … (1950)
Mar 18, 2021Messages from God on the Radio
A film that could have only been made in the 1950s where the voice of God suddenly appears on the radio around the world. Starring later-to-be US First Lady Nancy Reagan
Jeff Corey
Superman and the Mole-Men (1951)
Jun 1, 2017Comic-Book Superhero
Aside from two earlier serials, this was the first Superman feature film, featuring George Reeves in a dry run for tv's Adventures of Superman. With its crude effects and avoidance of much in the way of superheroics, this makes fascinating contrast to the modern Superman of Man of Steel
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Apr 2, 2002Home Invasion Thriller
A home invasion thriller starring Olivia de Havilland as a wheelchair-ridden woman who is brutalised and tormented after three hoodlums break in as she is trapped in an elevator cage during a power cut
Seconds (1966)
Feb 18, 2002Secret Rejuvenation Syndicate
An astonishingly bleak John Frankenheimer film in which a disillusioned middle-aged man is contacted by a secret organisation that rejuvenates him to become Rock Hudson
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Jun 12, 2000Planet of the Apes Sequel/Telepathic Mutants
The second and most underrated of the Planet of the Apes films. For a time it repeats the original but gains considerable imagination and a striking satiric bite with the introduction of the mutants
Jennifer (1978)
Apr 10, 2013Snake Controlling Teen's Telekinetic Revenge
A blatant ripoff of Carrie about a tormented girl who takes psychic revenge using snakes. Without Brian De Palma in the director's chair, this only looks like a cheap tv movie
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Jan 15, 2011Space Opera
Roger Corman jumps aboard the Star Wars fad and offers up a version of The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven located in space. Corman has thrown a reasonable budget at the film for once and it emerges as colourfully enjoyable
Surviving the Game (1994)
Aug 20, 2003Human Hunting for Sport
Blatant copy of Jean-Claude Van Damme's Hard Target and both in turn from The Most Dangerous Game. Here Ice-T is a homeless man forced to flee hunters and survive with his bare hands.