Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction > Science Slip: 53 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
- A man suffers a humiliatingly gradual size–reduction after exposure to radiation. A class act, compellingly told through water–tight…
- 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…
- 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…
- Them! (1954)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn
- Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
- Donovan's Brain (1953)
- Dir. Felix Feist
Feat. Lew Ayres, Gene Evans
- B–movie classic about a scientist who keeps alive the brain of a tyrannical tycoon and slowly succumbs to its sinister motives.