Author Archive: Retro

The community of Santa Monica is plagued by a serial killer…or could it just be an invisible alien acting in self defense? Well-produced sci-fi with some cool effects for its time. Dir. W. Lee Wilder

A group of citizens tries to prove the U.S. is concealing a crashed flying saucer. They get results!

Assembled by the same production team responsible for the minor sci-fi classic Rocketship X-M, Unknown World isn’t quite in the same league as its predecessor. The plot is set in motion by Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian), who theorizes that mankind could save itself during a nuclear attack by resettling far beneath the earth’s surface. To prove his theory, Morley builds the Cyclotram, a combination drill and exploratory vehicle, with the financial assistance of playboy Wright Thompson (Bruce Kellogg), who insists upon joining the expedition to the earth’s core. After several hair-raising adventures, the Cyclotram and its surviving passengers reach a cavern nearly 2000 miles beneath the surface. The cavern contains all the necessities of survival save one: the atmosphere renders anyone living within its walls sterile. Deciding that it isn’t worth hiding in the center of the earth if only one generation will survive, the explorers endeavor to get back to the surface — [...]

A professor invents a radium tube that makes internal combustion engines stop running. He and his invention are captured by a gang of robbers. A federal agent is sent to rescue him.

Sci-fi actioner concerns the exploits of an intergalactic policeman named Abraxas (Jesse “The Body” Ventura). The space cop comes to Earth to track a rogue alien, Secundus (Sven-Ole Thorsen), who is looking for a woman to bear his child ? a “Comator” with the power to destroy the universe. The sole point of interest may be the method of impregnation ? a single touch. The supporting players include Marjorie Bransfield and James Belushi, cast once again as a school principal.

An expedition to Titan uncovers an alien being, that goes on a rampage.

Rocky Jones discovers two strange moons orbiting each other, inhabited by warring civilizations.

Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.

“Can your heart stand the shocking facts about Graverobbers from Outer Space?” That’s the question on the lips of the narrator of this tale about flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones. A pair of aliens, angered by the “stupid minds” of planet Earth, set up shop in a California cemetary. Their plan: to animate an army of the dead to march on the capitals of the world. (The fact that they have only managed to resurrect three zombies to date has not discouraged them.) An intrepid airline pilot living near the cemetary must rescue his wife from this low-budget terror. “Can you prove it *didn’t* happen?”. Dir. Ed Wood.