Sunday, April 22, 2012

totally stupid film -- It Conquered The World (retro science fiction)


It Conquered the World is a 1956 American science fiction film about an alien from Venus trying to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist. It was directed by Roger Corman, written by Lou Rusoff (with uncredited contributions by Charles B. Griffith who didn't wish his name on the film), and starred Peter GravesLee Van CleefBeverly Garland, and Sally Fraser.
Plot
Dr. Tom Anderson (Van Cleef), an embittered scientist, has made contact with a Venusian alien with his radio transmitter. The alien wants to take over the world using mind control devices, but claims it only wants to bring bring peace to the world by eliminating emotions. Anderson agrees to help the creature and even allows it to assimilate his wife (Garland) and friend Dr. Nelson (Graves). The alien then disrupts all electric power on Earth, including motor vehicles, leaving Dr. Nelson to resort to riding around on a bicycle.
After killing a flying bat-like creature which carries the mind control device, Nelson returns home to find his wife has been assimilated. She attempts to force assimilation on him with another bat, and he ends up killing her. By then the only people who are free of control are Nelson, Anderson, Anderson's wife and a group of soldiers camping in the woods. Dr. Nelson finally persuades the paranoid Anderson that he made a horrible mistake about the alien's motives, allying himself with a creature bent on world domination. When they discover Tom's wife took a rifle to the alien's cave to kill it, they hurriedly follow her. The monster kills Mrs. Anderson before the two doctors can rescue her. Finally seeing the loss of everything he holds dear, Dr. Anderson kills the monster, himself dying in the process.
wikipedia -- It Conquered the World

Actress Beverly Garland

cheater...



One would want to say to the idiot..."Come'on man, take a look at her, see the impression of the hand, bet she's got one down there to!"

Thursday, April 19, 2012

really hokey retro movie --- From Hell IT Came


From Hell It Came is a 1957 horror film and science fiction film directed by Dan Milner and written by Bruce Jay Friedman and Jack Milner. It was released by Allied Artists. According to Tim Healey, it deserves an honoured place in the canon of the world's worst movies
Plot
A South Seas island prince is wrongly convicted of murder and executed by having a knife driven into his heart. The prince is buried in a hollow tree trunk and forgotten about until nuclear radiation reanimates it in the form of the tobonga, a scowling tree stump. The monster escapes from the laboratory and murders several people, including the true murderer (the witch doctor, whom the tobonga pushes down a hill and is impaled on his own crown of shark teeth). The creature cannot be stopped, burned, or trapped. Only when a crack rifle shot drives the knife (which still protrudes from the creature's chest) all the way through its heart it finally dies and sinks into the swamp. A pair of American scientists save the day.

Cast
Tod Andrews - Dr. William Arnold
Tina Carver - Dr. Terry Mason
Linda Watkins - Mrs. Mae Kilgore
John McNamara - Prof. Clark

Sunday, April 15, 2012

one of the weirdest movies ever -- ZARDOZ

Zardoz is a 1973 science fiction/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman. Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role (after The Offence). The film was shot by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth on a budget of US$1 million.

elke sommer, a "sex kitten" of the 1960s