Author Archive: Retro

Screen legend Rains plays the leader of a team from colliding with Earth.

An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.

A man is free to battle bad guys from space because the silver plate in his head makes him immune to their powers.

A two-part episode of the sci-fi TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954), released as a feature.

Buck Rogers and Buddy are frozen in suspended animation by a strange gas. They awaken 500 years into the future, just in time to battle Killer Kane & his supergangsters. Feature version of Serial. Dir. Ford Beebe

A large hairy monster from outer space attacks.

Unusual sci-fi invasion film, with a black-comedy twist: The Earth is taken over by The Monitors, aliens who run it like hall monitors in a 1950’s high school, with overtones of Big Brother. The film follows the progress of the human underground rebellion. The twist is that as the film goes on, the audience’s sympathies shift to the aliens, who are basically benevolent. When the humans manage to oust them, it’s back to corruption and bribery by the usual suspects.

Four individuals from outer space have the ability to change form and disrupt radio transmissions and magnetic fields. Their powers threaten earth’s governments and seem to be derived from an unusual accident on one of the moons of Uranus. Dir. V. Karpichhyov, Andrei Yermash

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police – until a young scientist appears who claims that H-Bomb tests in the Pacific, evidenced by a “ghost ship” that has turned up in the harbor, have created radioactive creatures – “H-Men” – who ooze like slime and dissolve anyone they touch.