Subgenre Sampler
Monster Mash: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
- Reptilicus (1962)
- Dir. Sidney Pink
Feat. Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner
- Many chuckles to be had at the expense of this mini–budgeted monster mash filmed in Denmark. A prehistoric creature rejuvenates itself and…
- Slime People, The (1962)
- Dir. Robert Hutton
Feat. Robert Hutton, Les Tremayne, Robert Burton
- Fairly basic B–grade monster paranoia with slimy, reptilian breed of creatures being awoken by nuclear testing and heading out to hunt humans…
- Gorgo (1961)
- Dir. Eugene Lourie
Feat. Bill Travers, William Sylvester
- When a baby sea–monster is fished out and paraded as a London circus exhibit, big, bad Momma soon enough comes lookin' for junior. Previously…
- Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
- Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers
- A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
- Giant Behemoth, The (Behemoth the Sea Monster) (1959)
- Dir. Eugene Lourie, Douglas Hickox
Feat. Gene Evans, Andre Morell
- Cult low–budget creature feature where a dormant dinosaur is resurrected during botched nuclear testing, and rampages through the city of…
- Killer Shrews, The (1959)
- Dir. Ray Kellogg
Feat. James Best, Ken Curtis
- Low–budget B–movie set on an isolated island where a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a…
- Blob, The (1958)
- Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Steve McQueen
- Steve McQueen's first film sees him as a teenager trying to save his home town from a hostile hunk of red protoplasm. Camp fun as only the 50's could…
- Brain Eaters, The (1958)
- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Cornelius Keefe…
- Shoestring drive–in fare about brain creatures from the Earth's core that go about turning humans into mindless zombies.
- How To Make A Monster (1958)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris
- A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
- I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott
- An exceptional, well–directed 1950's B–movie in which a race of monster–like aliens try to conquer Earth by taking over a…