An American adventure film produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder.
A botonist and his photographer go on an expedition in the Himalayas and struggle with their native guides for control of the mission. They eventually capture a yeti and return to America. The yeti escapes and the police try to catch it.
Such a lame and stale plot! Trecherous native guide, monster in the sewer, whatever. The characters were as stereotypical as the plot and the style was bland. Not only that, but the monster is never clearly shown. At least the pacing was a little better than the last few shit-flicks. This type of movie doesn't require a long explanation. I rate it bad. You probably shouldn't watch it.
A Japanese American science fiction film directed by Kenneth G. Crane or Norman Thomson , starring James Craig.
A mathematician at NASA is stressed at work and takes a vacation. First he drives in America, where he picks up a venus flytrap plant. He then visits Japan where he gets another carnivorous plant and fuses them together to create a monster.
This may be the worst film I have ever seen. It's not as long as Some Kind of Monster or Ben Hur, but every excrutiating second is painful to watch (except one scene). The main character is an asshole who shouts nearly every line of his poorly delivered dialogue. The plot was boring and the slow pacing made an hour and 33 minutes seem to take forever. The bad audio was too loud and distorted like an old kung fu flick and every time an animal was on screen, it was crying out in distress. The bad video was blurry and grainy, although in color. The only thing that I liked was the topless female diving team. Yes, hidden in the center of this terrible film is a wonderful scene full of female anatomy points. I put the pictures up so you don't have to sit though the painful experience of the film itself to see them. I rate this shit. DO NOT WATCH!
An American science fiction directed by William Marshall.
In the distant and high-tech future (1980), spaceships have been disappearing after reporting that their instruments are malfunctioning. A spaceship is sent to investigate (redundancy?) and ends up landing on a moving planet. The astronaut exits the ship and has adventures with the inhabitants of the planet.
I thought it was cute. Such a hokey old science fiction film about foreign worlds and aliens seems endearing to me. The only thing it was missing was robots. The audio and video were relatively clear for the date. The plot and characters held my interest and the pacing felt right. I think that it was clearly presented and not a bad film at all. I noticed that the bad aliens flew their spaceships in a phallus formation (complete with testes), but I won't hold that against them. I'm keeping it because I'll probably watch it again sometime. I rate it adequate and would recommend it to anyone looking for an old science fiction film.
An American science fiction horror film directed by Sam Newfield.
A mad scientist injects his gardener with wolf blood and turns him into a werewolf. The gardener then goes out and kills people at night as the werewolf, but has no memory of it when he turns back into a human during the day. The scientist tries to prove his success to his old colleagues who have excommunicated him for being a mad scientist.
The production was absolutely prehistoric. Bad audio was crunching at scene changes with tons of whooshing and hissing dead air. Bad video was overexposed and bleached looking on light surfaces, but underexposed and totally black on darks. The plot was simple and should not have taken so long to communicate. The slow pacing made an hour and fifteen minutes seem like eternity. I rate this shit for such bad presentation, even though I watched the whole thing.
An American science fiction war film directed by Kenneth Hartford and David L. Hewitt.
In the distant future, a man sits in a computer room on an island, watching videos about war. The video that he watches concerns a war in 1986 involving Nazis and clones.
The "film-within-a-film" thing doesn't work so great here. Why must we see the guy watching the movie and narrating? It has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. The plot, by the way, is lame and not very clearly presented (big surprise there). The characters are a little difficult to identify and keep track of, seeing how everyone is wearing the same clothes and there are supposed to be multiple clones of each character. The style, amazingly, was identifiable. It may have something to do with the periodic shots of future man watching the movie with the viewer, but this movie is clearly this movie. Future man says something to a snake that is in the room with him (for no apparent reason) about punching buttons and procedes to flip switches and turn knobs, but punches zero buttons. Just an amusing little side note. I will never watch it again and would not recommend it to anyone because it doesn't make sense. Know what else doesn't make sense? I'm rating it o.k. because it has style.
An American science fiction horror film directed by Ray Kellogg.
A ship lands at an island and the sailors visit a scientist who is experimenting with size changing. He has created vicious dog-sized shrews with a poisonous bite. The people have social drama while escaping from the island.
The social drama amidst survival conflict reminded me of sci-fi channel 1990s and 2000s features. I think that they may have used these old science fiction films as "cut and paste" templates for their modern films. I was amazed that the people came up with a smart solution to the problem of getting them to the boat waiting offshore. The plot was stupid and the characters stereotypical and shallow. The style was standard and genereic. Audio and video standard and generic for the date as well. I did not actually see the screenshot because the "killer shrews" were only shown very briefly to hide the lack of proper special effects. Apparently, they were dogs in costumes and stuffed models shaken vigorously. I would not watch it again. I rate it poor. You probably shouldn't watch it unless you're wondering where the "syfy" channel gets it's source material to make new films out of.
An American science fiction crime film directed and produced by Jack Pollexfen, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
A criminal is executed and his body sold to a scientist for experimentation. The scientist reanimates the corpse and the criminal seeks revenge on his former co-workers for having betrayed him and letting him get caught. The undead criminal is immune to most types of damage and mute due to the procedures of the scientist who reanimated him. A showgirl turns out to be a valuable contact for the police as they try to track down this immortal killer.
I found the plot to be interesting and very clearly presented. The characters were in classic gangster crime/film noir roles, but they worked in this context. Obviously the video was in black and white and the audio was a little treble-biased, but these facts did not detract a great deal from the film. Style was pretty generic and standard for the date, but the pacing felt natural and presented events in a timely fashion. Considering the generic style and absolute mountain of movies I watch, I probably wouldn't watch it again. The clear presentation and general coherence lead me to rate it adequate. I would recommend viewing if you watch lots of movies or are just looking for something slightly better than average to pass the time.
