Full Length Old Sci-Fi and Horror Movies – Good, Bad and Ugly

Indented comments are from the Youtube postings. Anything I say is all the way to the left of the page.

Zydereen of Neptune (1955)

“Zydereen of Neptune” is a compilation of the classic 1950s Sci-fi tv program Flash Gordon. The episodes used for the film are…… 1. The Witch of Neptune 2. The Brain Machine 3. Struggle to the end

The Phantom Planet (1961)

After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet’s exotic atmosphere.

Terror Beneath the Sea / Kaitei daisensô 1966

Invasion of the Saucer Men

A spaceship lands in the woods. A teenage couple, Johnny Carter (Steven Terrell) and Joan Haydon (Gloria Castillo), driving down lover’s lane without headlights, accidentally run down one of the aliens. Joe Gruen (Frank Gorshin) a drunken opportunist, comes across the alien’s corpse. He plans to keep the body in his fridge, but the aliens arrive and kill him by injecting alcohol into his veins via their hypodermic fingernails. Having reported their close encounter to the police, Johnny and Joan return with the Sheriff, only to find Joe’s body in place of the alien. The police plan to charge them with manslaughter. Meanwhile the dead alien’s hand detaches itself, grows an eye, and runs amok. The military, following a UFO report, are soon involved. They surround the alien’s spaceship, but in the end it is the teenagers who defeat the aliens when they discover that they cannot stand the glare from their car headlights.

Unknown World – 1951

To escape imminent nuclear war, a group of scientist take their mole machine to the center of the Earth only to discover a mysterious world full of it’s own dangers. Starring Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon and Otto Waldis.

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This one would have been better in color, but I still like it.

Wow, what an awesome gem! : ) Thank you for sharing.

Teenagers From Outer Space – 1959

 A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons.

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Don’t watch alone….very scary movie…

She never listens to him, he says “stay there and you will be safe”   and she always moves.  this is typical of movies where the man is trying to protect the woman , then she falls down.

Red Planet Mars – 1952

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Another film from back in da day. 😉 That details CODED messages being communicated from Mars to Earth, and a conspiracy to try to keep it covered up by a DECEIVER WITH HIS OWN AGENDA!! This also will be discussed in my book CONSPIRACY OF RICHARD HOAGLAND AND THE FACES OF MARS! 😉 

Hot damm another peter graves classic.

Nineteen Eighty-Four – 1956

Nineteen Eighty-Four (mostly written 1984) is a 1948 dystopian fiction written by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), about a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. Oceania is
ruled by a political party called simply The Party. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth, protagonist
Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party’s propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother. 

Indestructible Man – 1956

Indestructible Man (1956) is an American black-and-white science fiction film, an original screenplay by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins for producer-director Jack Pollexfen and starring Lon Chaney, Jr.. It was produced independently, and picked up after completion for distribution in the United States by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. It is somewhat of a remake of Chaney’s 1941 film, Man Made Monster and owes much to Frankenstein. It was later featured in the fourth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, alongside chapter two of the Ray “Crash” Corrigan Undersea Kingdom serial.

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Even a man, who is pure in heart can become ……………..Lon Chaney!

How many times I watched this film on TWILIGHT MOVIE IN THE 60s  haha-Still holds up considering the shoestring budget-Thanks for posting.

Wow, what an ending.

The Day Mars Invaded Earth – 1963

(OK – this is after the 50s but it’s B&W, so it’s almost the same…)

Not of This Earth – 1957

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This is by far my favorite Roger Corman production. Paul Birch and Beverly Garland are at their best and the horror and unintentional(?) humor are low key and very effective. Thanks for posting! A+.

Hardly no action in this sci-fi,however it was very suspenseful and kept my interest, and that drink that Johnson took….could be the “CURE-ALL” to EVERYTHING NOW in 2014.  Very interesting!!

And from Television…

An episode of Tom Corbett Space Cadet – Monster of Space – Suggested by Hal Whelply 

Phantom From 10,000 Legues

An unusual radioactive rock on the sea bottom mutates the ocean life into a horrible monster. When charred, radioactive bodies begin to drift ashore a scientist and government agent investigate the phenomenon, and it’s connection to a local marine biology professor.

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I suppose it’s NOT all that bad. The monster suit is quite amusing.

Plan 9 From Outer Space – 1959

Yes… Really…

“Plan 9 from Outer Space” is a 1959 science fiction film written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film features Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, Maila “Vampira” Nurmi, and Bela Lugosi.

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Did anyone else come here after seeing Ed Wood?

Hmm, so apparently, this is regarded as the worst movie ever made, but I swear I have seen worse movies.  I mean, has anyone seen Battlefield Earth by chance???

This is the greatest movie of all time.

What could possibly be worse, you ask?

I am totally jazzed that I found this one! One of my favorites when I was a kid – 

Radar Men of the Moon – Commando Cody – 1952

Radar Men from the Moon is Republic Pictures’ first Commando Cody 12-chapter movie serial, filmed in 1952, and starring newcomer George Wallace as Cody, Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, and serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon. The director was Fred C. Brannon, with a screenplay by Ronald Davidson, and special effects by the Lydecker brothers. It was later released by Republic in 1966 as the 100-minute television film Retik the Moon Menace.

The odd naming choice of the serial’s main hero, “Commando Cody,” was possibly an attempt by Republic to make young audiences think they were seeing another adventure of Commander Corry, the hero of the popular ABC TV and radio series Space Patrol (1950–1955). There is, however, no surviving evidence that this was a consideration by anyone at Republic. [2]

Radar Men from the Moon’s first chapter spawned the period expression “Atomic activity on the Moon, atomic blast on the Earth” (uttered by Henderson when telling scientists of the government’s research findings).

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I remember seeing this on TV and saying “Holy cow! That guy is the Lone Ranger!”

Clayton Moore played villain henchmen before the Lone Ranger.

I love these old science fiction serials because it doesn’t have modern CGI or big budget expenses and major stars. You must remember that this was during the cold war era and the conservative 1950s when technology was in its infancy.

Cat Women of the Moon – 1953

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I like that the woman brought cigarettes with her on the moon walk.

This was a pretty good cast, too.  They must have all fired their agents after this stinkbomb reached the theaters.

I miss the days when gym lockers and desk chairs were instrumental in getting people to the moon.
“What… who… moon rocket is that you?”

The Snow Creature – 1954

The Snow Creature is a 1954 black-and-white sci-fi monster movie produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder, written by Myles Wilder, and starring Paul Langton and Leslie Denison.

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Japanese Sherpa’s, non-stop flight from LA to Mumbai in a prop driven plane, looking for new plants above the Alpine zone, a drunken photographer, and a guy with a white carpet glued to him, it’s gotta be good! lol

The snow creature would be Frosty; you can make him yourself in your own front yard. Weather permitting, of course.

Menace from Outer Space – 1956

Menace from Outer Space is a 1956 science fiction adventure film starring Richard Crane, Scotty Beckett, and Sally Mansfield. The film was created from several episodes of the television show Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.

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WHAT IN THE NAME OF SPACE IS this.With Venus,Bobby,and Winky on board,the earth is safe from anyone.right?

Destination space(TV Pilot) – 1959

This pilot was produced by CBS in 1959 but unfortunately it never materialized into a series. Features veteran actor Harry Townes, John Agar and Edward Platt from Get Smart. This film entered the public domain in 1987 from lack of copyright renewal.

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the space plane to the wheel space station by simply leaping across a vast stretch of space without any little rocket thrusters to direct them (this bizarre technique was also used in “Assignment Outer Space”).  Also, several technical errors like when the moon spaceship’s nuclear reactor is getting ready to explode and we hear a voice saying to pull the control rods out as quick as possible!  Lol!  Yeah, that will solve the problem…BOOM!

Thanks for the upload. I’d heard of this in the context of its reuse of the “Conquest of Space” effects sequences. Since I’ve always thought of that as a movie with great effects sold out by a horrid script, it’s nice to see them used effectively here.

The Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy – 1958

The evil Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda), also known as “The Bat”, plots to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from the tomb of a centuries-old living mummy, Popoca (Angel di Stefani). Krupp builds a robot to defeat the mummy. Krupp’s former colleague Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay) and associates work to stop the mad scientist from creating his robot.

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Only at 3:24 and I’m already impressed – seems like they were going for the Guinness world record for movie script speed-reading!

I guess I should have known better than to expect a fight between a machine and a corpse to be “lively”.  I bet this is where they got the idea for those “Robots vs Zombies” books.

Ridiculous, silly and brilliant all at the same time. So bad that it’s very good indeed.

Assignment Outer Space – 1960

Space Men is a 1960 science fiction film starring Rik Van Nutter and directed by Antonio Margheriti. It follows an assignment by Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson aboard a space station in the 21st century.

Original titled SPACE MEN but released in the USA as ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE, this is a 1960 science fiction film starring Rik Van Nutter (gotta love that name!) and directed by Antonio Margheriti and produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff.

It follows an assignment by Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson aboard a space station in the 21st century. Despite problems with the base commander, he is eventually responsible for stopping a space ship which threatens to destroy the Earth.

It was director Antonio Margheriti’s first assignment, and this film showed what quality he could deliver while working with a minuscule budget.

This film is interesting for having a black protagonist, American choreographer, Archie Savage, in a pivotal role. It reminds us of FIRST MEN ON VENUS, the film based on the classic Lem story, its full of library music and science waffle, but a really interesting watch, trying hard to feel ‘factual’

Comments: Took these from two postings because the first one had disabled embedding..

I watched this on my electric brain ……..

I find my self watching this once a year.

A time travel movie, no doubt. It’s from 2016, just a year away………..whewwwww how cool.

Special magnetic boots? Haha they just couldn’t pull off the weightlessness effect so they had to come up with a clever excuse

The Brain Eaters – 1958

Strange things are happening in Riverdale Illinois. A huge seemingly alien structure has been found jutting out of the earth. Sent to investigate the origin of the mysterious object Senator Walter Powers discovers that parasites from the center of the earth have infiltrated the town taking control of the authorities and workers making communication with the outside world impossible and leaving the responsibility of stopping the invasion up to Powers and a small group of free individuals. Not just bad it’s Mondo bad.

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Valeu !!! Mais um para minha lista. Esse longa conta com a produção de Roger Corman…

IMO – the movie is worthless.

Leonard NEMOY????

Attack from Space (TV) – 1965

Ahhhh… Starman…

Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a conspiracy involving Earth’s top scientists, and he must root out the traitors and also stop the impending alien invasion. 

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Although the dialog is sometimes hilarious, the voice acting is very good, and the sets and cinematography are surprisingly excellent.  Starman’s running quick-change is awesome 🙂  However… I can’t believe those engineers didn’t have a single extra solenoid on hand XD  Is this the first appearance of the Death Star??  Favorite line: “I KNOW IT!”  To get best enjoyment from this movie, put brain in neutral and let your eyes do most of the work 😉

The high council of the Emerald Planet, shown at the beginning of the movie, have freaked me out for decades.

No human mind was used in the production of this movie.

Silver Needle In The Sky (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger) – 1954

Rocky Jones and his happy-go-lucky crew must escort a group of space ambassadors to an interplanetary peace conference on space station X-07. Miffed that she hasn’t been extended an invitation, wicked Cleolanta of Ophesius plots to abduct the ambassadors and use them to secure the release of two of her men who are being held for trial on Earth.  

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Gotta smile while watching these. While I took every sci-fi show movie, book, comic etc. very serious  50 years ago, today I jus smile.  As they boldly’ looked at the future, they did so without violating the stereo typing of the day.

Atomic Rulers (Starman) – 1965

Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!

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Though it starts out just about the same as Attack From Space, give it about 3 minutes…