An Italian science fiction adventure film directed by Alfonso Brescia.
The trials and tribulations of a team of astronauts are shown.
The plot is murky like a swamp and with all the characters in the same costumes, they are hard to tell apart. The vintage synthesizer music was the only good thing about this film. The pacing was on time, but with style in the negative, it got annoying. The stupid plots and flashy costumes and sets earn this a poor. It seems like they might have been trying to make a movie.
An American drama directed by Curt Siodmak, starring Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr. and Barbara Payton.
A woman's husband is poisoned by a gypsy. He gets jungle fever and wants to spend the night in the rainforest killing things.
It would have been o.k. if there had been even one scene showing the husband rampaging through the jungle, but there were none. It was what I shall now dub a "talking movie" in which dialogue and words are the only action. They talked about rampaging through the jungle, but it was never shown. Any film that coins a phrase to describe how bad it is can only be rated shit.
An Italian science fiction drama directed by Antonio Margheriti, starring Claude Rains.
A wandering planet enters the Earth's solar system. Scientists investigate.
This was pretty boring. There were spaceships, space suits and foreign worlds, but that didn't make it interesting. The quality in general was very low. People wearing space suits and talking about other planets entering our solar system is about as interesting as when they put on togas and talk politics. I rate this bad. Don't watch it.
A Japanese science fiction film directed by Noriaki Yuasa.
Two boys wander onto a space ship which takes them to another planet. Gamera, the giant turtle monster follows them. The girls on the planet plan to eat the brains of the boys and have giant monster fights.
Call it cheesy, lame, hokey or any other derogatory terms, but I like this. It's a movie about monster fights (as advertised) and there's nothing wrong with that. The special effects don't look like modern computer graphics, but that gives it style. Speaking of style, it's abundant and you can't mistake this film for something other than what it is. Young male characters are perfect because that is the target audience. I could spout about the glorious simplicity of this film all day or just rate it good. It is exactly what it is supposed to be.
An American science fiction horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski.
Giant leeches drag people into their cave in a swamp in order to drain the people's blood. Small town drama goes on outside the swamp.
This was horrible! The plot and characters were simple and easy to follow. The leeches themselves had about a minute total of screen time. Talking, boring, poorly made. If I watch a movie called "Attack of the Giant Leeches", I expect to see leeches attacking. I saw hillbillies, dorks and women talking. I rate it shit. Yes, I'm rating quite a few movies shit lately. They are all in the running for worst movie ever made and I mean it every time.
An Italian horror science fiction film directed by Anton Giulio Majano.
A scientist uses radioactive material to restore the beauty of a woman and turn himself into a monster.
More '60s Italian trash. My blog is full of rantings on my distaste for this filth and I feel no need to add to that. The problem is that it's boring and poorly made. I rate it shit. Don't watch it.
An Italian science fiction directed by Antonio Margheriti.
A crew of astronauts must stop a runaway spaceship from crashing into the Earth. This ship is emitting an emission which destroys anything that comes close to it.
This is the most boring science fiction film I have viewed to date. It figures that it was made in Italy in the 1960s when and where they were also making such bad sword and sandal flicks. Science fiction should have robots, aliens and foreign worlds. This had none of those. It was just people in space suits talking and some model ships against a black background. BORING! I rate it shit. Please don't watch it!
