Author Archive: Retro

A race of Amazon warriors is enslaving the men of a country, and the mighty Thor is called upon to help them regain their freedom.

“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.

First Moon expedition battles a race of sexy, aggressive women as well as rockmen who rise from the lunar subsoil, AND a giant hairy spider. Dir. Richard E. Cunha

A cosmetics queen develops a youth formula from jelly taken from queen wasps, failing to anticipate the typical hoary side effects.

A family leaves L.A. for a camping trip – just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As the city descends into chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive

Three people are transported into a parallel reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Shortly after the launch of a satellite from a space shuttle the satellite collides with a UFO in front of the crew’s eyes. Because of an election campaign some politicians try to hide the crashed UFO — inside hangar 18.

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