Author Archive: Retro

While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by aseven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, shereturns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them andthe rest of Palm Springs, California.

Bail bondsman tries to keep witness in drug trial alive to testify.

Dir. Roger Corman. Cult favorite Dick Miller stars as a sculptor who seems to bring make life-like plaster cats and people. Another Corman quickie made in 2 days.

Dir. Ed Wood. Classic bad film. Film noir Ed Wood style. First screen appearance of the legendary muscle man Steve Reeves, who was later immortalized in the “Hercules” pictures.

A russian scientist is chased into a nuclear testing area and has the misfortune of experiencing an atomic bomb explosion. Now, club-wielding monster, he strangles a lot of people. Supposedly a nuclear protest film. Excellent cinematography.

Wood’s most autobiographical film, he stars under a pseudonym in this “docu-drama” about transvestites and sex-change operations. Will his fiance let him wear her angola sweater? See daffy dream sequences, Bela Lugosi as a scientist-narrator and a heartfelt plea for understanding towards men who wear “pink satin undies.” Glen or Glenda?” is a bad movie lover’s dream. Hilarious dialogue, no coherent plotline, and many memorable sequences of transvestites and their hardships.

A reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf, and then gets transferred back to Washington, where he gets a job as press assistant to the President. Then bodies start turning up in D.C. . . .

Dir. Sam Newfield. All-midget cast western. You haven’t seen a true chase scene until you see a group of guys chasing each other on Shetland ponies.

Unusual western that’s a lot of fun contains many stars who were munchkins in “The Wizard of Oz”. Produced by Jed Buell. Dir. Sam Newfield.

Big city mobsters capitalize on civil unrest by setting up a profit-oriented, secret society based on religious and racial intolerance. Dir. Victor Halperin