Author Archive: Retro

An expedition to the Moon finds an underground civilization of feline femmes and a giant spider filled with sawdust.

Crazy old woman has nutty Dr. Frank transplant her brain into the body of a beautiful young girl. Of course they work out the bugs by experimenting with a couple of foreign immigrants. Dir. Joseph V. Mascelli

A self-obsessed professor/genius tests his experimental immortality drug on himself. He slowly devolves to a sawed-off dinosaur, then primordial slime.

Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.

A strange force transforms women into creatures who “mate” men to their deaths. Written by Nicholas Meyer (SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION, STAR TREK II & VI).

Not a feature film, but several episodes of the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) edited together and released as a feature.

The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. A camp classic!

Eve is a jungle girl brought up by apes. She is captured with a number of apes by a mad scientist, conducting mind control experiments on them. Eventually she is liberated by a young explorer.

When the American clipper ship “The Queen” is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for treatment and recuperation. There, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries, daughter of the magistrate and all-but-fiancée to rancher Martin Shannon. She also finds herself attracted to Kirk, and a rivalry develops between the two men. Meantime the pirates, led by Captain Hackett, decide to raid the colony and, in the process kidnap Elaine and her friend, Nancy. Kirk and Shannon lead the pursuit, having not only the romantic triangle to resolve but the pirates to overcome and, along the way, being stranded on a volcanic island inhabited by dinosaurs…