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Director: Hugo Fregonese    More Info
Starring: Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Patty Shepard, Helga Geissler, Angel del Pozo, Craig Hill, Paul Naschy, Fajda Nicol, Manuel de Blas, Diana Sorel

 Alien invaders from a dying planet arrive on Earth to take it over. A good way to start would be to bring our favorite monsters (Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, The Mummy, and The Werewolf) back to wreak havoc. But–The Werewolf decides to fight the invaders.

Director: Ted Post    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, James Franciscus, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Victor Buono, James Gregory, Jeff Corey, Natalie Trundy

 This is the first sequel to the popular primate films, and Charlton Heston is back. This time, U.S. astronaut Taylor (Heston) has disappeared while exploring the distant planet that was once ruled by apes. Astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) is sent to rescue him and crash lands on the Planet of the Apes. Taylor's mate Nova (Linda Harrison) rescues Brent and takes him to the ape city where friendly scientists Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (David Watson) hide them. Adventures abound when they are kidnapped, find Taylor, escape, and then discover the weapon that could prevent the apes from wiping out the world.

Director: Joseph Sargent    More Info
Starring: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff, Georg Stanford Brown, Willard Sage, Alex Rodine, Martin E. Brooks, Marion Ross

 Dr. Forbin (Eric Braeden) develops a supercomputer, "Colossus," intended to control the military defense system. Shortly after being turned on, Colossus finds that Russia has made a similar computer, and the two hook up to share information. Before long, the two merge with the intention of taking over the world and threaten destruction if they are unplugged. Will Forbin be able to outwit the computers? A good flick.

Director: Terence Fisher    More Info
Starring: Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley, George Pravda, Geoffrey Bayldon, Harold Goodwin, Peter Copley

 Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) visits his colleague Dr. Brandt (George Pravda) who has been committed to an insane asylum. While there, Frankenstein blackmails a doctor, Karl (Simon Ward), and his lover Anna (Veronica Carlson) into helping him free Brandt. After escaping from the asylum, Frankenstein accidentally kills Brandt and then transplants Pravda's brain into asylum employee Professor Richter (Freddie Jones)–an act that will lead to death and destruction.

Director: Noriaki Yuasa    More Info
Starring: Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy, Kon Omura, Junko Yashiro, Ryo Hayami

 When an ancient and sacred statue is dug up, monster lizard Jiger is awakened and begins wreaking havoc. Our hero Gamera tries to end this nonsense, but Jiger's tail impacts Gamera's chest during a fight, leaving eggs in the wound. Soon the baby lizard hatches and sucks the blood from Gamera. Fear not; two youngsters take a submarine ride through Gamera's bloodstream and kill the invader.

Director: Roger Corman    More Info
Starring: Bob Corff, Elaine Giftos, Pat Patterson, George Armitage, Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams, Alex Wilson, Bud Cort, Talia Shire

 (Full title: "Gas! - or, It May Become Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It") Gas that causes premature aging escapes from an Alaskan plant and kills all humans over 25 years old in this disjointed–but hilarious–story.

Director: Jimmy Sangster    More Info
Starring: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Graham James, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price, David Prowse, George Belbin, Jon Finch, Bernard Archard, James Hayter

 After killing his father, Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) inherits the castle–complete with housekeeper Alys (Kate O'Mara) who is also his mistress. Frankenstein is soon busy murdering people to use as body parts for his Monster. Unfortunately, the Monster (David Prowse) didn't get much of a brain in this horror/comedy version of Mary Shelley's tale.

Director: Al Adamson    More Info
Starring: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Joey Benson, Jennifer Bishop, Bruce Powers, Fred Meyers, Britt Semand, Theodore Gottlieb, Al Adamson

 Relying heavily on stock footage and a partially completed Philippine film, Al Adamson came up with a movie that is certainly a competitor for the "10 Worst Movies" list. Threatened with an attack from a distant planet, scientists try to beat the invaders to the punch by going to the planet and destroying the would-be invaders, and they find assorted creatures to deal with.

Director: Ted Post    More Info
Starring: James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Scott Marlowe, Andrew Prine, Tisha Sterling, Leslie Nielsen

 When their spacecraft is downed and needs repair, aliens hypnotize citizens of a small town as their means of enlisting aid.

Director: Ishiro Honda    More Info
Starring: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara, Yu Fujiki, Noritake Saito, Yuko Sugihara, Sachio Sakai, Chotaro Togin

 While planning a resort hotel on a remote Pacific island, promoters discover giant mutant monsters under the control of alien beings that crash landed on the island during a space probe.

Director: Robert Wise    More Info
Starring: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien

 A U.S. Army satellite carrying a virus from outer space has crashed on Earth. It has landed in a remote village in the Southwest and has killed everyone, except a crying baby and a wino. Top scientists gather at the site to figure out what is happening. After intense examinations, they isolate the organism–Andromeda Strain–that has caused the deaths. Now the race against time begins as the scientists attempt to find a cure before more people die.

Director: Stanley Kubrick    More Info
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Michael Bates, Aubrey Morris, James Marcus, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Carl Duering, Godfrey Quigley

 Stanley Kubrick's violent film is about a futuristic society in which a psychotic young hoodlum, Alex (Malcolm McDowell), goes on a killing spree and is arrested. His friends and family reject him, and now Alex, as the means of making it impossible for him to commit violent acts, is subjected to mental castration by the frustrated administration. Clockwork orange is defined as not being good from choice. Intense and chilling.

Director: Guy Hamilton    More Info
Starring: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Jimmy Dean, Charles Gray, Bruce Cabot, Bruce Glover, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Laurence Naismith

 Diamonds have been stolen from South African mines, and James Bond (Sean Connery) goes undercover as diamond smuggler Peter Franks. The trail leads him to Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray) whose sinister plot to take over the world must be stopped at all cost. Bond joins forces with Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), and they try to stop hit men Wint (Bruce Glover) and Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith) and, in the process, prevent a space-orbiting laser from destroying Washington, D.C. Great special effects and lots of adventure.

Director: Al Adamson    More Info
Starring: J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., Anthony Eisley, Regina Carrol, Greydon Clark, Angelo Rossitto, Anne Morrell, Jim Davis, Russ Tamblyn, Zandor Vorkov

 This film brings together J. Carrol Naish as Dr. Frankenstein and Lon Chaney Jr. as Frankenstein's mute assistant Groton in their final film. Judith (Regina Carrol) is searching for her missing sister who, it turns out, has been killed by Groton. Frankenstein is running a house of horrors and experiments on Groton's victims. Judith teams up with Mike (Anthony Eisley) in the search for her sister. Meanwhile, Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov) unites with Dr. Frankenstein to bring back the monster and ensure a good supply of blood. They succeed, Judith and Mike are confronted by the monster, and a deadly battle ensues.

Director: Don Taylor    More Info
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Eric Braeden, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, William Windom, Sal Mineo, Albert Salmi, Harry Lauter, M. Emmet Walsh

 After a nuclear disaster, two apes (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter) have escaped their lost planet and arrive on Earth. Unfortunately, humans greet them warily–afraid that apes will gain control of Earthlings.

Director: Yoshimitsu Banno    More Info
Starring: Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase, Keiko Mari, Toshio Shibaki, Haruo Nakajima, Kenpachiro Satsuma, Yukihiko Gondo, Eisaburo Komatsu, Tadashi Okabe

 This Godzilla film makes a statement on pollution, including a "Save the Earth" song. The new monster is formed by sludge and grows as it consumes polluted waste and smoke. When it starts killing thousands with its poisonous breath, Godzilla must jump in and save the Earth.

Director: Boris Sagal    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Eric Laneuville, John Dierkes, Brian Tochi, Jill Giraldi, Anna Aries

 This film adaptation of Richard J. Matheson's "I Am a Legend" is about a bacteriological-war survivor, Col. Robert Neville (Charlton Heston), who guards a life-saving serum in his Los Angeles high-rise apartment while fighting off mutated zombies led by Matthias (Anthony Zerbe). Neville believes that he is the sole survivor on Earth until he encounters a group of young people, led by Lisa (Rosalind Cash). Neville becomes romantically involved with Lisa, and, together, they try to suppress the zombies. The original movie adaptation of "I Am a Legend" was made as "The Last Man on Earth" in 1964 and starred Vincent Price as the lone survivor. It was again re-made in 2007 as "I Am Legend."

Director: Robert Wynn    More Info
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, James Daly, Angie Dickinson, Robert J. Wilke, Don Haggerty, Jack Carter, Patrick O'Moore, Dick Simmons, Peter Mamakos

 Following Senator Zachary Wheeler's (Bradford Dillman) plane crash, TV reporter Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) unwittingly discovers a secret medical facility in New Mexico where diabolical plans are underway to blackmail leaders of the world.

Director: Douglas Trumbull    More Info
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Steve Brown, Cheryl Sparks, Joseph Campanella, Roy Engel, Larry Whisenhunt

 Special effects are worth the price of admission for this film in which Bruce Dern plays the leader of a group of space scientists whose spaceship is the greenhouse supply for Earth's last vegetation. Joan Baez sings the environmental songs.

Director: George Lucas    More Info
Starring: Robert Duvall, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Sid Haig, David Ogden Stiers, John Pearce, Julie Payne, James Cranna

 This tale about life in the future where people behave like robots began as a 20-minute production assignment when George Lucas was a student. Later, it was expanded and distributed by Warner Bros. The storyline begins in an underground city where the human race now exists, and residents are drugged to control their emotions. Sex is outlawed. But THX 1138's (Robert Duvall) roommate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) has been reducing their drugs, and they have discovered love. Now LUH is pregnant, and THX is sent to prison for drug evasion. THX, with help from prison-mate SEN 5241 (Donald Pleasence) and TV hologram (Don Pedro Colley), escapes from prison, searches for LUH, and attempts to escape to Earth's surface while being pursued by the robocops.

Director: Roy Ward Baker    More Info
Starring: Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Barry Morse, Barbara Parkins, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd

 An anthology of four horror tales told by mental patients fill this film with suspense as young psychiatrist Dr. Martin (Robert Powell), who has applied for the job as head of the asylum, is given the assignment of finding out which one of the patients had been in charge of the asylum. In one story, Walter (Richard Todd) murders his wife, and she seeks revenge. Another story involves tailor Bruno (Barry Morse) weaving a coat to bring back his son from the dead. The third story is about schizophrenic Barbara (Charlotte Rampling) inserting her "doppelganger" into Lucy (Britt Ekland). The final story involves toymaker Bryon (Herbert Lom) and his killer robots. A good film for horror buffs.

Director: Larry Hagman    More Info
Starring: Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lynley, Shelley Berman, Burgess Meredith, Marlene Clark, Dick Van Patten

 Well, Mr. Hagman how could you? It sure couldn't have helped you get the "Dallas" role. Anyway, in this sequel a frozen specimen of the Blob is brought back from the North. After it is thawed, the "fun" begins.

Director: J. Lee Thompson    More Info
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Ricardo Montalban, Don Murray, Natalie Trundy, Hari Rhodes, Severn Darden, John Randolph, John Dennis, H.M. Wynant, Gordon Jump

 In this sequel to "Planet of the Apes," Roddy McDowall plays his own son as he moves among his fellow apes that are now servants. He manages to lead them into an organized revolt in their quest for freedom. This is the fourth in the series of five "episodes."

Director: Harry Essex    More Info
Starring: Marvin Howard, Maria De Aragon, Eric Alison, Mason Caulfield, Cecil Reddick, Barney Bossick, Tim Frawley, Chuck Hillig, Ola Kauffman, Al Ward

 A sphere from outer space crashes on Earth. This isn't any old sphere–it is alive, and, to replenish itself, it absorbs people at a seaside resort.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy    More Info
Starring: Richard Boone, Patty Duke, Michael Constantine, Jack Kruschen, Murray Hamilton, Jack De Mave, Bill McKeever, Richard Roat, Richard Turner, Fred Maio

 Anton (Richard Boone), a Soviet defector, lives in the California wine country. But now Soviet agents are on his trail in this made-for-TV film that was shot in California's Napa Valley.