Author Archive: Retro

A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.

To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a boy is given the power to become an adult superhero with a single magic word.

Lang’s conclusive masterpiece of futuristic fantasy depicts life in the year 2000, as a member of the idle ruling class goes underground to see how the dehumanized working class gets along. Excellent, ahead-of-its-time, Sci-Fi/Fantasy film that defined a genre. Produced by Erich Pommer. English titles. Dir. Fritz Lang.

An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.

Reporter visits a space station to cover a story, and finds he must try to divert a huge computer-run spaceship which is on a collision course with earth. English dubbed. Dir. Antonio Margheriti

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

A tale set in the near future where food is scarce and civilization has turned savage as the result. A farmer is beset by hordes of hungry city dwellers, who slaughter his family, spurring him to action.

Green cheese? Men in the Moon? Nah, everyone knows that the moon is really populated by beautiful women wearing silk underwear and spiked heels. They are ruled by an evil temptress and share the moon with giant rock men and an enormous spider.