Subgenre Sampler
Science Slip: 117 Films to Buy & Rent
- Amazing Transparent Man, The (1960)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman
- Underrated, though still fairly tacky mad–scientist caper in which Douglas Kennedy turns a convict invisible so he can steal uranium for…
- Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
- 4D Man (1959)
- Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Robert Lansing
- Sullen scientist Robert Lansing becomes greedy and homicidal after being charged with the ability to pass through solid matter. A certain…
- Beyond the Time Barrier (1959)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke
- An astronaut on a space mission is unwittingly catapulted into a plague–ridden Earth of 50 years into the future. Inriguing low–budgeter…
- Manster, The (1959)
- Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley
- An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
- Tingler, The (1959)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman
- B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
- Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)
- Dir. Nathan Hertz
Feat. Allison Hayes, William Hudson
- After a close–encounter, Allison Hayes starts growin' while her sleazeball husband philanders the town hussy. Bad special FX, charismatic…
- Fly, The (1958)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
- Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
- Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…
- One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
- Terror from the Year 5,000 (1958)
- Dir. Robert J. Gurney
Feat. Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs
- In a future contaminated with radioactivity, bizarre experiments with a time machine materialise with a terrifying she devil from 3000 years in the…