Jack H. Harris Archives

The Blob (1958)

Rating: ★½

Jul 3, 2000Alien Monster

Film about a monstrous blob that devours everything in its path. This has become a 1950s B movie classic more through its chessiness value, not to mention theme of teenage rebellion, than necessarily being a great film

Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr

Actors: Steven McQueen, Aneta Corsaut

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 200028 December 2025 by Roog

The 4D Man (1959)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 8, 2000Incorporeal Man

Surprisingly good 1950s film in which scientist Robert Lansing invents a process that allows him to become insubstantial and walk through walls. The effects are very good and this attains some eerie effect

Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr

Actors: Robert Lansing, Lee Merriwether, Robert Strauss, Edgar Stehli

Category: Science Fiction

8 April 200011 November 2025 by Roog

Dinosaurus! (1960)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 22, 2005Revived Dinosaurs and Caveman

A low-budget effort but amiable effort about dinosaurs and a caveman that are revived on an island. The cheap effects, culminating in a battle between a dinosaur and a crane, have some imagination

Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr

Actors: Ward Ramsey, Gregg Martell, Paul Lukather, Jack Younger

Category: Science Fiction

22 February 200518 January 2026 by Roog

Equinox (1970)

Rating: ★★

Jun 30, 2001Backwoods Occultism

A film about backwoods occult that comes with much H.P. Lovecraft influence. An inngenue film made by several unknowns who later became key figures at Industrial Light and Magic

Director: Jack Woods

Category: Horror

30 June 200131 January 2026 by Roog

Beware! The Blob (1972)

Rating: ★

Apr 1, 2002The Blob Comedy Sequel

A sequel to The Blob, although this plays everything for comedy. The one and only film directed by actor Larry Hagman, no less than J.R. Ewing of Dallas fame

Director: Larry Hagman

Actors: Robert Walker, Godfrey Cambridge, Gerrit Graham, Carol Lynley, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 April 200212 January 2026 by Roog

The Adventures of Taura: Prison Ship Star Slammer (1986)

Rating: ★★

May 27, 2007Interstellar Women in Prison Film

B-budget director Fred Olen Ray makes a Women in Prison film set in space. Known under several different names, this is another of Olen Ray's bimbo pictures where he plants tongue well in cheek

Director: Fred Olen Ray

Actors: Ross Hagen, Dawn Wildsmith, John Carradine, Aldo Ray, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 May 200721 November 2025 by Roog

The Blob (1988)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 6, 2000Monster Movie

The original 1958 The Blob gets a full makeover via some sensational state-of-the-art animatronics and makeup effects with impressive results. A much superior work to the original in all ways

Director: Chuck Russell

Actors: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Joe Seneca, Donovan Leitch, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 August 200025 May 2026 by Roog