Daniel Haller

Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Rating: ★½
Mar 19, 2020Astronaut Resurrected by Aliens
Roger Corman's brother produces a low-budget film that borrows a few leafs from The Quatermass Xperiment in its story of an astronaut who returns having been resurrected from the dead by alien invaders.
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War of the Satellites (1958)

War of the Satellites (1958)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 11, 2020Aliens Sabotage Space Launches
An early film from legendary B movie producer/director Roger Corman. This is an alien invasion film but has been twisted out of shape to exploit the fascination with satellites after the launch of Sputnik several months before the film came out
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 17, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Deranged Nobleman
The second of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films with Vincent Price. This feels too much as though Corman was trying to make another House of Usher, nevertheless it creates its own thunderously overwrought atmosphere, even if it has little to do with the Poe story
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Rating: ★★
Jul 12, 1999Space Opera/Man Unfrozen in the Future
In the aftermath of Star Wars, the comic-book/serial hero was revived in this heavily Star Wars influenced remake that was released theatrically and then served as the pilot of a tv series
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