Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 2587 Films to Rent on VHS
Reform School Girl (1958)
- Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Gloria Castillo, Sally Kellerman
- A “shocking true story”, this cheapie concerns the rough–ride of 17 year–old Gloria Castillo, who gets mixed up with a…
Return of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Paul Landres
Feat. Francis Lederer
- Coinciding with Hammer studios revival of the Transylvanian count, this commendable effort has a long–in–the–tooth Francis Lederer…
Some Came Running (1958)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Maclaine…
- Frank Sinatra gives an affecting, lowkey performance as soldier returning from WW2 to pick up his writing career again.
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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…
Amazing Colossal Man, The (1957)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. Glenn Langan
- An army colonel (Glenn Langan) experiences growing pains (ten feet a day to be sure) after exposure to, you guessed it, radiation. His condition…
Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller
- Cheesy 'killer–B' in which a bad alien brain inhabits the body of a small–town scientist and a good alien brain that inhabits the body of…
Brothers Karamazov, The (1957)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom…
- A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia.
Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
Golden Age of Comedy, The (1957)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin…
- Perfect introduction to the world of silent comedy, this is the first of three celebrated compilations from cinephile Robert Youngson.
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
- Campy drive–in classic about a mad scientist who pulls a teen from a car wreck and 'repairs' him. Best seen as a double feature with 'Teenage…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Michael Landon
- A cool Michael Landon scored a big hit in his film debut – a hilarious mishmash of horror and juvenile delinquency dramas.