Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1535 Films to Rent
- Indestructible Man (1956)
- Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney
- Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates…
- 50's sci–fi masterpiece about alien pods replicating and replacing American townspeople. Whether read as a Communist or McCarthyist parable, it…
- Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956)
- Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor
- Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
- Rodan (1956)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata
- GODZILLA spin–off has a small Japanese town undergoing various monstrous threats, starting with caterpillars and ending with flying prehistoric…
- Roger Corman Collection #2 (Creature from the Haunted Seas, It Conquered the World) (1956-1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland…
- A double–feature of Corman sci–fi 'quickies'.
It Conquered the World (1956) – Van Cleef lures a malevolent alien from Venus to…
- It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
- Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Ian Keith…
- It's Ray Harryhausen again, so expect some dazzling special effects. A huge octopus emerges from the Pacific to wreak havoc on San Fransisco.
- Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)
- Dir. Franklin Adreon
Feat. Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space
- Cult movie serial which reworks stock footage from 1941's JUNGLE GIRL. A giant crayfish monster terrorises the African jungle and it's up to the…
- Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson
- Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s.
The six–part…
- Tarantula! (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…
- One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
- Cat Women of the Moon (1954)
- Dir. Arthur Hilton
Feat. Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory
- Ed Wood might be given a run for his money with this drive–in cheapie about a moon expedition that discovers a man–hungry female…