Thrift Store Sci-Fi B-Movie List
by fragasnap | created - 30 Oct 2019 | updated - 11 Jun 2022 | PublicAn organization of the sci-fi B-movies I've watched from random 50+ movie box sets.
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1. Trapped by Television (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, Nat Pendleton, Joyce Compton
Votes: 357
A meathead bill collector gets scooped up with some con-artists into inventing television broadcast, in what could technically be classified as sci-fi in 1936.
2. Monstrosity (1963)
Unrated | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
Directors: Joseph V. Mascelli, Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters
Votes: 2,970
Also: The Atomic Brain. A wealthy old woman seeks to transplant her brain into a young woman's body, and so hires three foreign servants and has absolutely no subtlety in her intentions. After some dull scenes that were maybe supposed to establish tension, it scales to hilarious absurdity.
3. The Bat (1959)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton
Votes: 6,196
A fun enough murder mystery, really. Also labeled sci-fi when it most certainly is not: The closest we get is an undefined bat "experiment" which still might not qualify considering the unexplained bat shrine.
4. Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986)
PG | 92 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Dennis Holahan, Sydney Penny, Rosie Marcel, Ricky Paull Goldin
Votes: 294
Some alien pioneers from the moon sneak to planet earth to prove that, in spite of humans still being capitalist swine, they could be ready for alien contact. The show is stolen by an all-powerful Y-shaped alien and Grandpa (that's his name) who probably ad-libed all his lines.
5. The Galaxy Invader (1985 Video)
PG | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover, Greg Dohler
Votes: 1,478
The most deplorable old dad finds an alien and chases hi for the rest of the movie hoping to earn fame and big-bucks™
6. Robo Vampire (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a very dangerous mission.
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Robin Mackay, Nian Watts, Harry Myles, Joe Browne
Votes: 1,497
An invincible robocop fights similarly invincible jiangshi as a side plot that may or may not be related to a drug syndicate kidnapping a lady. An unfortunate lack of robotic vampires.
7. R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
Director: Cullen Blaine | Stars: Margaret Trigg, Richard Gesswein, Jayne Smith, James Cole
Votes: 3,773
A woman must drive forever to avoid death from a slow-moving sound-sensitive deadly android-like robot, with odd framing and absurd technobabble and hilarious philosophizing between.
8. Footprints on the Moon (1975)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After being tormented by dreams about astronauts on the moon, a translator visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her, although she does not know them.
Directors: Luigi Bazzoni, Mario Fanelli | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi, Caterina Boratto
Votes: 2,505
Also, Primal Impulse. A lady finds out she's lost three days and is fired from her job, so she tries to retrace her steps, basically finds out nothing, and then is probably killed.
9. The War of the Robots (1978)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Antonio Sabato, Yanti Somer, Malisa Longo, Patrizia Gori
Votes: 880
Everyone is remarkably unconcerned about an imminent nuclear meltdown after putting off evacuating for a literal week, which you think would lead to at least some stakes to what is the most boring space dogfight ever committed to film.
10. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.
Director: Tom Graeff | Stars: David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B. Dunn
Votes: 3,855
I don't think I can even top IMDb's description.
11. Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Not Rated | 82 min | Sci-Fi
Hard-nosed new boss Stanton takes over a scientific research company upon the death of his benevolent father.
Director: David L. Hewitt | Stars: Scott Brady, Anthony Eisley, Gigi Perreau, Abraham Sofaer
Votes: 968
Accidentally invent a time machine, get an irrelevant warning from the future, and then steal irrelevant jewels from a Nickelodeon game show.
12. Unknown World (1951)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Scientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, Jim Bannon, Tom Handley
Votes: 1,295
A bunch of doomsayers fearing nuclear annihilation decide to cave-stead in their mole car, but not just *any* cave with potable water is good enough! We have to go deeper!
13. Star Knight (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Princess Alba is abducted by a dragon, and it's up to Klever to save her. But, it turns out that this dragon is an alien spacecraft, and Alba falls in love with the human-alien inside it.
Director: Fernando Colomo | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Fernando Rey, Maria Lamor
Votes: 787
An alien man who speaks in cups falls in love with a stupid princess.
14. Mothers of America (1969)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure
Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Shirley Eaton, Richard Stapley, George Sanders, Maria Rohm
Votes: 1,242
Also, Future Women, with appreciation to whoever removed the sex scenes. A man pretends to be illicitly wealthy so he will be kidnapped to Femina, a woman-only city where midriff-baring is compulsory. Top marks for torture using a foam-bladed fan.
15. Slipstream (1989)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton
Votes: 3,065
A mysterious man-on-the-run embarrassingly discovers the pleasures of the world. The cataclysmic weather for which the movie is named might be relevant.
16. Fugitive Alien (1986 TV Movie)
102 min | Action, Sci-Fi
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
Directors: Minoru Kanaya, Kiyosumi Kuzakawa | Stars: Tatsuya Azuma, Miyuki Tanigawa, Jô Shishido, Chôei Takahashi
Votes: 873
In what feels like a bad Japanese variation of Star Trek cut together into a film, captain Joe (we know it's his name because of his hat) vouches for a traitor alien who refused to kill a child because they shared a name.
17. Robot Monster (1953)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.
Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle
Votes: 5,451 | Gross: $1.00M
On your average family day picnic+nap(?), the world's fastest alien apocalypse occurs, committed by single robot man in a gorilla suit.
18. The Alien Factor (1978)
G | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A science ship with three dangerous specimens collected from around the universe crash lands on Earth. A mysterious stranger named "Ben Zachary" shows up claiming to be able to save the day. Can he do what he claims?
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Don Leifert, Tom Griffith, Richard Dyszel, Mary Mertens
Votes: 1,275
Whenever you think you're about to walk around in the woods forever, an alien jumps in to save the movie (in spite of definitely not being able to see in that costume).
19. Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Ian Serra, Nina Ferrer, Susana Bequer, Sara Palmer
Votes: 4,762
When you make a horror movie with a cute tiny alien suit just before E.T. is released, you just make it work, in spite of all the death. Highlight in horrible ADR kid.
20. Star Pilot (1966)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from Hydra crashes on Sardinia. Aliens take a scientist, his daughter, technicians and spies hostage to fix their ship. After repairs, aliens abduct the humans but they rebel, sending the ship into deep space.
Director: Pietro Francisci | Stars: Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris
Votes: 614
A group of university technicians and conspicuously disposable Chinese mafioso are kidnapped by human-aliens on the most inefficiently designed space craft ever, requiring 6 people to man.
21. The Wasp Woman (1959)
Not Rated | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick
Votes: 5,474
When a cosmetics company forgets that they don't have to take new pictures of their spokeswoman and CEO every month, she turns to the obvious solution: Injecting her veins with bee venom! Hopefully it doesn't turn her into a rat like it did that guinea pig...
22. Death Machines (1976)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
An evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
Director: Paul Kyriazi | Stars: Ronald L. Marchini, Michael Chong, Joshua Johnson, Mari Honjo
Votes: 671
An Asian lady uses three unstoppable death machines (meaning, guys) to take over the assassin syndicate, but her plans may fall apart when a witness, who keeps trying to become the main character, is left alive. Never mind the number of additional witnesses created by the incompetent attempts to bump him off.
23. Laser Mission (1989)
R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Action superstar Brandon Lee portrays rebellious government agent Michael Gold who is sent on a desperate mission to a Soviet-controlled African nation in order to uncover a top-secret laser weapons operation and destroy it.
Director: BJ Davis | Stars: Brandon Lee, Debi A. Monahan, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Cox
Votes: 2,613
Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, but with radioactive lasers in Africa with the Russians.
24. Crash of Moons (1954 TV Movie)
Unrated | 78 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
This was never released as a feature film but, instead, is comprised of 3 episodes from the TV series, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) which were edited together and released on video as a feature-length story.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Richard Crane, Scotty Beckett, Sally Mansfield, Robert Lyden
Votes: 924
When a pair of improbably-habitable roving gypsy moons finds themselves careening towards a planet under the thrall of an isolationist dictator, moving the people from one moon to the other will surely be sufficient to save them.
25. 984: Prisoner of the Future (1982 TV Movie)
76 min | Sci-Fi
A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Stephen Markle, Don Francks, Stan Wilson, David Clement
Votes: 220
We try to figure out why a guy is being held in a warehouse and who exactly benefits from nuclear annihilation.
26. Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Horror
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,435
When the hokey medicine woman who curses the plantation manager to turn into a gorilla fails to carry the film to its completion, the constable, reading the story's themes aloud from cards in the middle-distance, takes the reigns.
27. Hands of Steel (1986)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, Claudio Cassinelli, George Eastman
Votes: 2,875
In a world where "you have no future" is passable political propaganda, we abandon all environmental themes to instead arm wrestle with cyborgs.
28. The Brain Machine (1972)
PG | 85 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.
Director: Joy N. Houck Jr. | Stars: James Best, Barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 539
A machine is designed to force humans to live in an experimental world of truth. It turns out that humans think they are immortal, and an AI equipped with a hydraulic press has a pretty obvious solution to that problem.
29. War of the Planets (1977)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while a UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space ... See full summary »
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: John Richardson, Yanti Somer, West Buchanan, Charles Borromel
Votes: 1,017
As humans gradually move away from their physical love and towards a technological future, a warning comes in the form of a rogue AI requisitioning assistance from humans as the natives have become too stupid to work. Nothing sensible follows.
30. The Creeping Terror (1964 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat the citizens of an American town.
Director: Vic Savage | Stars: Vic Savage, Shannon O'Neil, William Thourlby, John Caresio
Votes: 4,712
Emphasis "creeping," as no human can possibly crawl to escape throwing themselves into a monster's stomach-hole, even after showing embarrassing attempts at dancing. Starring a lead actor so laughable that virtually all of his scenes are done over by a narrator giving a play-by-play of the conversation.
31. Hundra (1983)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Born in a tribe of fierce warrior women, the archer and sword fighter, Hundra, has been raised to despise the influence of men. Superior to any male, Hundra takes a vow of revenge until one day she finds love.
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Laurene Landon, Cihangir Gaffari, María Casal, Ramiro Oliveros
Votes: 1,220
A barbarian women from a shattered tribe is sent by an elder to repopulate her tribe because... feminism? Was immensely disappointed when she had to learn womanly ways to seduce the temple healer, instead of murdering a bunch of barbarians and stealing their wives. Wait, how is this sci-fi?
32. Killers from Space (1954)
Passed | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An atomic scientist claims he was abducted by aliens after being injured in a plane crash.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton, Frank Gerstle
Votes: 2,558
A bug-eyed alien race plans to take over the world, but is first collecting power from nuclear energy that they can't even contain without destroying themselves.
33. Creature (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a member of a geological research team who was sent to Saturn's largest moon: Titan crashes their spacecraft into a space station, another team is sent to Titan to investigate, not knowing the terror that awaits them.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Votes: 4,688 | Gross: $4.78M
Diet Alien where an ecological survey awakens a "sly" creature.
34. Prey (1977)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A deadly shape-shifting alien infiltrates a country house occupied by two lesbians, and proceeds to study their behaviour, for a sinister purpose.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen, Sandy Chinney
Votes: 1,567
An alien body-snatches some unrelated couple in order to mill around a crazy lesbian couple before making a conclusion you would think the first scene showed.
35. First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Unrated | 79 min | Sci-Fi
When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Yôko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe
Votes: 3,143
We investigate life on a quiet Venus in the very optimistic estimate of 1985 where we find an almost completed allegory of nuclear destruction after they weaponized trees and goo.
36. Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Not Rated | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson
Votes: 2,269
A man crash lands a satellite shuttle at an improbable 6,000 miles per hour and "dies," having no pulse but somehow a blood pressure. He awakens to give birth to a new race of bird people gestating in and around his chest I guess.
37. The Phantom Planet (1961)
Unrated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
Director: William Marshall | Stars: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman
Votes: 3,317
A man awakens from crashing onto an asteroid to discover he's been miniaturized to help tiny humans fight their impotent literally-on-fire enemies.
38. Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Gurgen Tonunts
Votes: 1,099
People take a surprisingly resource-lite jaunt to Mars, land on one of its moons, find some monsters that never appear on screen with anyone, and then go home. The world will surely be a better place now...
39. The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed scientist invents an invisibility formula. He plans to use the formula to create an army of invisible zombies.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault
Votes: 2,739
A serial bank robber is broken out to steal nuclear material to create an invisible army resulting in what is probably the least devastating nuclear explosion ever committed to film. Props to 60's technobabble.
40. In the Year 2889 (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a post nuclear Earth, survivors are stuck in a valley and have to protect themselves from mutant human beings, and each other in some cases.
Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty, Neil Fletcher
Votes: 1,179
In a world of exceedingly pessimistic extrapolation of long-range communications, nuclear annihilation spares only small handfuls of people who are then trapped in the house, and no matter how many times the guests try to murder you, you still can't kick them out.
41. Gammera the Invincible (1966)
Unrated | 86 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera--a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster--from his millions of years of hibernation. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo.
Directors: Sandy Howard, Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane J. Findlay, John Baragrey
Votes: 1,342
The ancient Gammera bursts free from the ice due to a nuclear explosion and proceed to energy generators to feed because, as we all know, the primeval Earth was made of fire. It's pretty boring after the setup.
42. Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
Unrated | 77 min | Horror
Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!
Director: Fritz Böttger | Stars: Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, Alexander D'Arcy, Helga Neuner
Votes: 4,207
A dance troupe crash lands on an irradiated island with one giant spider. They seem remarkably unconcerned, spending most of the film partying even after burying one of their comrades.
43. 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
A mad scientist trying to chemically "evolve" humans doesn't seem to bothered by the inevitable violence. The Tokyo police are helpless to stop a two-headed man, probably mostly because the chief of police doesn't speak Japanese.
44. Beyond the Moon (1954 TV Movie)
76 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's allies are captured by aliens and brain washed.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Robert Lyden, Patsy Parsons
Votes: 149
Rocky, who believes that women are not fit for space rangering such as the type in which he engages, turns out to be right when his mission to rescue a scientist hostage involves no politicking and only punching.
45. The Giant of Metropolis (1961)
Unrated | 98 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science schemes.
Director: Umberto Scarpelli | Stars: Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez, Roldano Lupi, Marietto
Votes: 452
A science man has gone too far establishing a technocracy with his deadly magnets, healing radioactive rays, and generally fancy spotlights and now threatens the safety of the planet.
46. Warning from Space (1956)
Unrated | 87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Shima | Stars: Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagisawa, Shôzô Nanbu
Votes: 1,269
A species of socially inept aliens come to warn humans not to blow up their own planet with an uninvented super weapon and also to watch out for a planet that's going to crash into Earth.
47. Assassin (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 74 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A former government operative is called out of retirement to battle a new super weapon gone bad, a cyborg. Reluctantly, the retired operative trails the cyborg and tries to destroy it.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Robert Conrad, Karen Austin, Richard Young, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 418
When a robot assassin with a name too cool to not explain in the dialogue starts, uh, assassinating people, an ex-agent is called to defeat it. Does the robot have wants and desires of its own? Who knows? Kaboom!
48. Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Unrated | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.
Director: Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Nobuhiro Kajima, Miyuki Akiyama, Christopher Murphy, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 3,049
The best part of Attack of the Monsters is when Gamera, friend to children, shows up in the second act with no previous indication that this is a kaiju movie. Otherwise, Guiron is pretty silly with biological shuriken and a sword-face.
49. The Day Time Ended (1979)
PG | 79 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that transports it back to prehistoric times.
Director: John 'Bud' Cardos | Stars: Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty
Votes: 2,048
Some stop-motion aliens are probably connected to a family being hurtled to an alien planet. Still unsure how time plays into it.
50. Morons from Outer Space (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail
Votes: 2,132 | Gross: $0.44M
Stupid completely human people from another star crash land on Earth and have television-pilot-style antics.
51. Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien "policeman" arrives on Earth to apprehend a renegade of his own race who impregnates a woman with a potentially destructive mutant embryo.
Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Damian Lee, Jerry Levitan
Votes: 2,367
11,000 year old Jesse Ventura fails to stop an ex-officer from magically impregnating a lady in the most roundabout apocalypse scenario imaginable because killing an ex-officer is disallowed, even though he also won't kill the lady or child as he is ordered. He's just overall pretty bad at his job considering his 11k years of service.
52. White Pongo (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure
Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Al Eben
Votes: 696
White Pongo, the eponymous "missing link," knows exactly how often he needs to appear to keep the audience engaged. The thirsty woman is a nice change of pace.
53. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Not Rated | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
Director: Nicholas Webster | Stars: John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon
Votes: 12,656
Color-changing Martians (or maybe the make-up team just sucks) kidnap a Luddite Santa Claus and two surprisingly collected Earth children. Much awkward laughter ensures as the Martians fisticuffs for control over their undefined government and way of life (a way of life that involves living in caves, consulting wise elders, and not having any fun).
54. Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966 TV Movie)
78 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A monstrous evil brain from outer space leads his minions on a crusade to conquer the universe, and unleashes hideous monsters on Earth that spread deadly diseases.
Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada, Makoto Abe
Votes: 900
The proto-sentai acrobatics of Starman in recycled serial sets repeatedly beat back the aliens, who, in spite of their mutant armies, omnipotent-brain leader, giant germs (?), and handheld nuclear weaponry, also prove no match for the local law enforcement.
55. Atlantis Interceptors (1983)
Unrated | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi
An ancient Atlantean relic is discovered on the ocean floor near a sunken nuclear submarine, which triggers a violent set of events that sees a couple of scientists teaming up with a few mercenaries to survive the onslaught that follows.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Christopher Connelly, Gioia Scola, Tony King, Stefano Mingardo
Votes: 2,340
They rented several helicopters and daggumit their going to use every minute of that footage! Is the move not long enough yet? Nah, leave out the explanation to the climax and have Washington kiss more Molotov cocktails.
56. The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
A meteor that crashed into Oregon's Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals.
Director: William R. Stromberg | Stars: Richard Cardella, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel, Bob Hyman
Votes: 1,686
A great stop-motion monster can't uplift this dull series of disconnected plots, even if we kill the insufferable and unintelligible comic relief in the climax. Maximum hilarity from its day-for-day-that-we'll-call-night scenes. By the way, who is the blackmailer?
57. The Lost Jungle (I) (1934)
Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the ... See full summary »
Directors: David Howard, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Syd Saylor, Cecilia Parker, Edward LeSaint
Votes: 265
The Lost Jungle is an island with the most diverse fauna imaginable in a constant free-for-all. I am glad animal rights would one day be invented.
58. Assignment: Outer Space (1960)
Unrated | 73 min | Sci-Fi
In the 22nd Century, Ray Peterson, reporter for the Interplanetary News, is assigned to write a story aboard a space station.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Rik Van Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage
Votes: 1,043
Shockingly convincing physical performance for a film from the 60s, aside from people flinging themselves through open space. Probably the worst Christmas movie.
59. Life Returns (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
Directors: Eugene Frenke, James P. Hogan | Stars: Onslow Stevens, Lois Wilson, Valerie Hobson, Frank Reicher
Votes: 262
After 40 minutes of mostly unrelated montage during which we await a plot, we then watch a man breathe into a dog's for 10 minutes as climax.
60. Horror High (1973)
PG | 85 min | Horror
A shock-filled tale of a serious and shy but brilliant science student who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jekyll and Hyde.
Director: Larry N. Stouffer | Stars: Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, Rosie Holotik, John Niland
Votes: 1,178
The world's most unflappable school plays home to a serial murderer enhanced by the power of chemistry to commit a series of dumb gore kills--guitar cleats being the highlight of them.
61. Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
Unrated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin
Votes: 1,633
Hercules, upon finding himself kidnapped to aid a secret operation against a rival nation, makes no attempts to escape but sure isn't going to help until they get there. Only one woman was captive, though. What a gip.
62. Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967 TV Movie)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young scientist who helps a lone alien from Venus, finds out it wants to destroy man.
Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: John Agar, Susan Bjurman, Tony Huston, Pat Delaney
Votes: 1,128
Flying lobsters take thermodynamics behind the shed.
63. The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez
Votes: 6,564 | Gross: $3.70M
A mute alien wanders around Harlem and hears a bunch of peoples' irrelevant life stories before some silly aliens come to kill him ineffectually and then he kills a drug kingpin. There's probably some overarching commentary this is supposed to make on racism, but heck if I can tell what it was.
64. Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964)
Unrated | 86 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Hercules fights to free the people of Babylon from an evil sorceress.
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Peter Lupus, Helga Liné, Mario Petri, Livio Lorenzon
Votes: 576
A total meathead Hercules rescues the queen of Hellenes to whom he might be married who was apparently captured by the Babylonians (and continues to rule from captivity). The three Babylonian rulers are clearly upstaged by the woman for her flute theme song and rotating device that somehow destroys the city with chains.
65. Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)
Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Hercules is summoned to oppose the evil Queen Samara, who has allied herself with aliens and is sacrificing her own people in a bid to awaken a moon goddess.
Director: Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Sergio Ciani, Jany Clair, Anna Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani
Votes: 1,991
A woman sacrifices her people to a moon god (?) for inexplicable purposes. Can Hercules stand in mildly threatening places well enough to fell the moon men?
66. Eyes Behind the Stars (1978)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave.
Director: Mario Gariazzo | Stars: Robert Hoffmann, Nathalie Delon, Martin Balsam, Sherry Buchanan
Votes: 486
People walk into and out of scenes for a while amid the ambient static of terrible microphones. Aliens similarly amble about the woods.
67. Anthar l'invincibile (1964)
Unrated | 93 min | Adventure, Fantasy, War
The son of Hercules is pitted against a ruthless desert warrior.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Kirk Morris, Michèle Girardon, Manuel Gallardo, Mario Feliciani
Votes: 296
Antar, the son of Hercules, rides across the desert, and rides, and sets fires, and rides.
68. The Astral Factor (1978)
PG | 85 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who ... See full summary »
Directors: John Florea, Gene Fowler Jr., Arthur C. Pierce | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Sue Lyon, Mark Slade
Votes: 864
A man teaches himself ESP from a mass market book in order to invisibly strangle mid-to-late-20s blonde Swede women who remind him of his late-30s brunette Italian mother. No one battles him with ESP which is the only indictment you need to hear.
69. Eegah (1962)
Unrated | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.
Director: Arch Hall Sr. | Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning, Richard Kiel, Arch Hall Sr.
Votes: 6,125
Our headcanon is that the leading lady's father is also a caveman giant as told in the Book of Genesis.
70. Kong Island (1968)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Eve is a jungle girl brought up by apes. She is captured with a number of apes by a mad scientist, conducting mind control experiments on them. Eventually she is liberated by a young explorer.
Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Brad Harris, Esmeralda Barros, Marc Lawrence, Adriana Alben
Votes: 954
This film is all about the knees.
71. They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Unrated | 85 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Scientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay
Votes: 2,043
How its name wasn't translated to some form of its original book, "The Gods Hate Kansas" is a mystery for the ages. It plays similar to The Host, but a cheesy 60's B-movie instead of a cheesy 00's YA-movie.
72. The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Allen Windsor
Votes: 1,336
A deep-sea diving bell accident strands an astonishingly large party of four to the bottom of the ocean, whence they swim, yes swim, into a most-definitely not incredible, not petrified, and not even world-spanning cave for refuge and wait out the screen time.
73. Queen of the Amazons (1946)
Approved | 61 min | Adventure
A woman's husband has disappeared on an expedition into the jungle. She hires a guide to take her into the jungle to find him. However, they discover that he has been captured by a savage female tribe.
Director: Edward Finney | Stars: Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg, John Miljan
Votes: 880
A mission is sent through oodles of stock footage to find a woman's missing husband who has betrayed her for the useless Amazons of Africa.
74. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Unrated | 78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Gennadi Vernov
Votes: 1,993
When you release a bad movie, why not chop up the Russian original and release it again? Stripping it of intrigue but including all of its highlights otherwise and forming it together in a more coherent plot with pointless unrelated women.
75. The Wild Women of Wongo (1959)
Unrated | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy
Men, women and apes live together as three different tribes on the tropical island of Wongo. When the tribes discover that they live together on the island, ape-men start planning a raid on the tribe in order to capture mates.
Director: James L. Wolcott | Stars: Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Candé Gerrard, Adrienne Bourbeau
Votes: 1,388
In a barely disguised fetish film, we learn of nature's greatest mistake: Parrots. Highlight when the alligator priestess dons an alligator cap and then does a flailing dance.
76. The Snow Creature (1954)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
American botanical expedition in the Himalayas stumbles across a Yeti den, capture one and transport it back to Los Angeles, where it escapes while customs officials are debating whether it is animal or human.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada, Rollin Moriyama
Votes: 1,216
Instead of a fun adventure in the Himalayan soap mountains with the Japanese locals, we release a yeti-man into the streets where he walks forward and backward repeatedly out of the darkness of a sewer.
77. Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Unrated | 74 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella.
Directors: Curtis Harrington, Pavel Klushantsev | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon, Christopher Brand
Votes: 1,928
Marginal intrigue is not enough to salvage the vapidity of this jaunt to Venus, especially for how remarkably uninterested these cosmonauts seem in the foliage and fauna of an 880-degree planet.
78. Phantom from Space (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Ted Cooper, Tom Daly, Steve Acton, Burt Wenland
Votes: 1,535
An invisible man runs around in an environment in which he cannot breathe for several hours in an attempt to deliver some important message by tapping it out.
79. Planet Outlaws (1953)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Votes: 462
An unintelligible whirlwind of a 1939 serial with 150 minutes removed, but certainly none of the folks piloting their steam-iron spaceships.
80. Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Directors: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,889
A pilot forced to fly by an escapee from a psychiatric ward proves to be the craziest of the lot by crash landing on a 100ft mesa instead of the surrounding desert, upon which everyone is threatened by the spider women (who are very much not lost).
81. Son of Hercules (1964)
80 min | Action
Hercules battles to save the population from a giant dragon.
Director: Sultan | Stars: Bipin Gupta, Kamran, Leela Kumari
Votes: 45
A TV-movie in which beefcake Argoles pulls and pulls and pulls and kills an entire underground city by flooding it with lava.
82. Bloodtide (1982)
R | 82 min | Adventure, Horror
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
Director: Richard Jefferies | Stars: James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller
Votes: 2,598
A man stealing from a superstitious Greek Island somehow awakens a silly duck monster.
83. Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Gamera the Flying Turtle falls under the spell of evil aliens, but two children free him and he returns to fight the aliens' monster, Viras.
Directors: Noriaki Yuasa, Shigeo Tanaka | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Tôru Takatsuka, Carl Craig, Michiko Yaegaki
Votes: 1,865
The most boring Kaiju film ever devised, where most time is burned reusing out-of-context clips from other Gamera films.
84. Prehistoric Women (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Tigri and her stone-age girl friends hate all men, but realizing they are a necessary evil, capture some for potential husbands.
Director: Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon
Votes: 632
A women-only tribe kidnaps some men. Their left-for-dead friend is so stupid that he has to be pointed the right direction to find his way. Even when he discovers fire, he rarely thinks of good uses for it.
85. Galaxina (1980)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.
Director: William Sachs | Stars: Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton, Dorothy Stratten
Votes: 3,428
The highest praise this can be given between its beleaguered jokes and disgusting caricatures is that it at least has no on-screen sex.
86. She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Approved | 63 min | Adventure
Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell, Jeanne Gerson
Votes: 1,116
Two men in a getaway for an unrelated and virtually unknown crime crash onto a Hawaiian island of pearl diving women (who can't decide how well they know English, but are dang good at communicating through flags) and decide they will never again wear shirts to up the sexual tension. You know what I want to see after ten minutes of dull dance scenes outlining events of scenes we literally just watched? More boring dance scenes that establish nothing.
87. The Head (1959)
97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies.
Director: Victor Trivas | Stars: Horst Frank, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmid, Paul Dahlke
Votes: 812
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWjBgYvjPns
88. Invaders from Space (1965 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 78 min | Sci-Fi
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman ... See full summary »
Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Minako Yamada, Junko Ikeuchi, Sachihiro Ohsawa
Votes: 421
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QVXU8Ycas
89. Night Fright (1967)
Unrated | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community.
Director: James A. Sullivan | Stars: John Agar, Carol Gilley, Ralph Baker Jr., Dorothy Davis
Votes: 1,035
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ93aY46YXs
90. It's Alive! (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A loony farmer finds a prehistoric monster hiding in a cavern on his land. To feed his newest critter, the farmer kidnaps three people. The three desperately try to escape and finally, one of them succeeds.
Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Shirley Bonne, Bill Thurman, Annabelle Weenick
Votes: 971
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FzhuX4du9U
91. Welcome to Blood City (1977)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of people find themselves as slaves in what looks like a Wild West town, but with no memory of who they are or how they got there. In this town, people advance through killing ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse
Votes: 543
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9jpvnU-fs
92. Escape from Galaxy 3 (1981)
92 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
The crew of a space ship confronts an evil galactic ruler out to rule the universe.
Directors: Bitto Albertini, Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Sherry Buchanan, Fausto Di Bella, Don Powell, Chris Avram
Votes: 568
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D0GhgmSxro
93. Future Hunters (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Robert Patrick, Linda Carol, Ed Crick, Bob Schott
Votes: 520
Missed this one... Not easily available online
94. Top Line (1988)
94 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Author Ted Angelo discovers a U.F.O. in the Colombian jungle. When he tries to spread the word, he earns more than the usual disbelief. Suddenly he's hunted by almost every organization, ... See full summary »
Director: Nello Rossati | Stars: Franco Nero, Deborah Moore, Mary Stavin, William Berger
Votes: 470
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IklfyWhPsfs
95. Brain Twisters (1991)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Employees of a software company discover a conspiracy to use the games made by the company to control the thoughts of its customers.
Director: Jerry Sangiuliano | Stars: Farrah Forke, Terry Londeree, Joe Lombardo, Donna Bostany
Votes: 537
Missed this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76J3t-888Ek
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