Subgenre Sampler
Outer Space: 169 Films to Buy & Rent
Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (1962)
- Dir. Gerry Anderson
- A precursor to the Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 is a massive spacecraft, patrolling a dangerous sector of the galaxy and piloted by the handsome and…
First Spaceship On Venus (1962)
- Dir. Kurt Maetzig
Feat. Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski
- Adapted from a novel by Polish sci–fi writer Stanislaw Lem (SOLARIS), this follows an expedition to Venus to discover the ravaged remains of an…
Journey to the Seventh Planet / Planet of Blood (1962-1966)
- Dir. Sidney Pink, Curtis Harrington
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, John Saxon…
- Two inventive low–budget science fiction films from the 1960s that influenced later films.
JOURNEY TO THE 7TH PLANET (1962) –…
Planeta Bur: The Planet of Storms (1962)
- Dir. Pavel Klushantsev
Feat. Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Yuri Sarantsev
- Cult science–fiction with Russian cosmonauts landing on a Venus teeming with flesh–eating plants, lizard men and dinosaurs! Ingeniously…
Phantom Planet, The (1961)
- Dir. William Marshall
Feat. Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Francis X. Bushman…
- Spacy variation on Gulliver's Travels in which an astronaut is shrunk to six inches before helping out a tiny race rid their world of nemesis Richard…
Angry Red Planet (1959)
- Dir. Ib Melchior
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Norah Hayden
- An expedition to Mars runs into all sorts of alien terrors in this extraterrestrial romp. 'Cinemagic' (which turns everything pink) is just one of…
First Man Into Space (1958)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi
- A test pilot disobeys orders and takes his experimental ship higher than man has ever been before, but not without suffering a bizarre and horrible…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith
- 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming
- Campy cult fantasy with an American space crew crash landing on Venus, which is inhabited by beautiful woman presided over by a despotic Queen.
Mysterians, The (1957)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Susumu Fujita
- Pastel coloured invader movie from the creative team behind GODZILLA. Aliens refugees from a planet destroyed by atomic bombs flee to Earth in the…