Author Archive: Retro

Re-edited version of the 1939 Universal serial “Buck Rogers.”

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.