Favorite B-movies
by CC_The_Martian | created - 25 Mar 2015 | updated - 22 Jul 2020 | PublicThese are my favourite B-movies roughly from the 1950s but some from the 60s and 40s may leak in.
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1. The Mole People (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier
Votes: 3,997
2. The Invisible Ray (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton
Votes: 3,029
3. The Alligator People (1959)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her husband.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready
Votes: 2,507
4. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield
Votes: 4,803
I love this werid little film to bits but um...Criterion Collection? Really?
5. Target Earth (1954)
Approved | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are strangers Frank and Nora.
Director: Sherman A. Rose | Stars: Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, Richard Reeves
Votes: 1,503
6. Gargoyles (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror
An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey
Votes: 3,770
7. The Man from Planet X (1951)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert
Votes: 3,091
8. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 753
9. Return of the Fly (1959)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Philippe Delambre, the now-adult son of "The Fly", does some transportation experimentation of his own.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton
Votes: 5,182
10. Manster (1959)
Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.
Directors: George P. Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern
Votes: 1,666
11. The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Approved | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Directors: Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis | Stars: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore
Votes: 8,925
12. The Land Unknown (1957)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon
Votes: 2,045
13. The She-Creature (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller
Votes: 1,963
14. Day the World Ended (1955)
Approved | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-Apocalyptic world after an atomic war seven disparate people find themselves in a protected valley in the home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors
Votes: 2,609
15. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A military officer survives a nuclear blast, only to begin to uncontrollably grow into an increasingly unstable giant.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor
Votes: 2,844
16. War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin, Russ Bender
Votes: 2,614
17. Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Approved | 79 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney, Michael Mark
Votes: 2,889
18. The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
"The Monster That Challenged the World" is a 1957 horror / science fiction movie of when horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters enter the canal system of the California's Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow
Votes: 3,156
19. The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Thomas Browne Henry
Votes: 1,871
20. The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Roosevelt Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall, Roger Perry
Votes: 2,927
21. The White Gorilla (1945)
Not Rated | 62 min | Adventure
A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Lorraine Miller, George J. Lewis, Francis Ford
Votes: 552
22. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Director: Joseph Green | Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont
Votes: 7,573
23. I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Frankenstein creates a hulking teenager from the body of an accident victim; his "creation" awakens and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway
Votes: 1,037
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