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Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite Invaders from Mars is remade by director Tobe Hooper in 1986 for Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s British Cannon studios, with Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy […]
Director Tobe Hooper’s 1985 British movie tribute to Hammer Films is an entertainingly gory, tongue-in-cheek vampire movie set in London and starring Peter Firth and Frank Finlay. In Dan O’Bannon and Don Jacoby’s screenplay, based […]
‘The mighty titan of terror in his most incredible adventure,’ screamed Toho studios to advertise director Ishirô Honda’s 1975 Japanese horror movie, the 15th in the Gojira/ Godzilla series, which by then already had been […]
Oh there’s a signal from a weird planet, let’s respond to it! Oh, heck, it’s an alien, let’s shoot it with old-fashioned guns. Oh, hell, it’s after us, let’s run. Thank God, we’re back on […]
A daft exploitation movie title hides director Byron Haskin’s imaginative, intelligent and involving 1964 Sci-Fi version of Daniel Defoe’s classic tale with Paul Mantee as Commander Kit Draper, a US astronaut whose craft is afflicted […]
Godzilla [Gojira], the dinosaur with radio-active breath, pals up with spiky-backed giant Angorus [Anguirus] to save trembling Earthlings from a devilish duo of space monster invaders – metallic bird Gigan [Gaigan] and King Ghidrah, the […]
Co-writer/ co-producer/ scorer/ director John Carpenter’s low-budget ($60,000) 1974 feature film début is a rollicking, anarchic trip into space that merrily debunks a host of other space movies, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, and paves […]