Actors: Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, William Phipps, Douglas Fowley, See more
Directors: Arthur Hilton
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Language English
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 
Run Time: 64 minutes Made in 1953

Five astronauts travel to the dark side of the moon on a scientific expedition. There they discover a cave which somehow retains a breathable atmosphere. They remove their space suits and venture on, soon finding a buried city where the last members of a 2 million year old civilization greet them with food and drink. Little do they know that these eight lovely leotard-clad women are planning to steal their ship. Campy fun SciFi classic!

The stalwart crew consists of noted scientists and engineers, but Everyman Joe Sweeney (Dick Wesson) is aboard for broad audience appeal; a Bronx-born guy who pronounces "Earth" as "oith" and complains that the moon has "no beer, no babes, no baseball." But when a payload crisis threatens the crew's safe return to Earth, Joe rises to the occasion.

Destination Moon was the first major science fiction film produced in the United States and lifted the genre from the realm of the fantastic to the world of the believable. Co-scripted by Robert Heinlein from his novel "Rocketship Galileo," "Destination Moon's" suspenseful plot relates the saga of man's first voyage to the moon amid a series of scientific cliffhangers.

Actors: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill, Edgar Barrier
Directors: Fred F. Sears
Format: Black & White, PAL
Classification:  NTSC
Run Time: 71 minutes

THE GIANT CLAW (1957)
Stars Jeff Morow and Mara Corday. A giant turkey vulture from outer space decides to take a bite out of the big apple. Played very seriously by all the cat members, who must have been horrified when they saw the special effects of the wackiest looking giant monster I've ever seen. As big as a battleship and flying at 4 times the speed of sound. Atom bombs do not touch it and until our heroes figure out how to stop it, it appears Earth is but a feeding ground. Excellent video and audio and well played (a bit hammed up by the military Generals.).

First Spaceship on Venus provides us with this advice - if you go to another planet and find yourself closely pursued by black goo, don't shoot it - not unless you want something really bad to happen to Earth. You have to admire the optimism though - from their 1962 perspective - where a moon base would already have been established, and where scientists from all countries worked together to send a spaceship to Venus. Why Venus? A strange metallic object has been discovered; scientists have concluded it came from the famous Tunguska Event of 1908 and is nothing less than a spool containing a message from another planet - a planet which, given the trajectory of the object that exploded over Siberia they decide is Venus. It's up, and away to Venus, as Earth seeks its first contact with an alien race.

 

No big bug collection is complete without "Killers From Space." Dr Douglas Marvin (Peter Graves) while at an atomic test sees something suspicious on the ground. When the pilot takes his plane closer the controls jam. The plane crashed and the pilot is burnt to a crisp. Dr. Marvin mysteriously shows up later with a scar on his chest and no memory. Where could he have been? And is it important? Only time will tell. If we have time left with Killers from space.

Killers From Space is everything you want in a B-movie about Aliens taking over the world. This begins a strange journey that leads him to believe that aliens are using our atomic energy to support themselves so they can unleash a deadly herd of giant insects that will devour all humans on the earth. 

This sci-fi, post-disaster drama is about three people left alive after everyone else has been killed on earth. The trio is comprised of Harold (Antony Carbone), Martin (Edward Wain), and Evelyn (Betsy Jones-Moreland) who were underwater scuba diving when a mysterious glitch in the atmosphere depleted all available oxygen for a short period of time -- enough to kill off earth's population. The ambiance is at first eerie and increasingly ominous as the divers surface and slowly discover that no one is alive out there. Then the interaction of the two men with each other and with Evelyn (Eve?), takes over and the story veers into an odd romance drama as the two machos each try to seduce the last woman left on earth. The story was a first effort by scripter Robert Towne.

Actors: Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony
Directors: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Format: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, NTSC

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Run Time: 78 minutes  Filmed 1959

Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it can't quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as you've heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead. Psychic Criswell narrates ("Future events such as these will affect you in the future!") as police rush through the cemetery, occasionally clipping the cardboard tombstones in their zeal to find the source of the mysterious goings-on. More than just a bad film, Plan 9 is something of a one-stop clearinghouse for poor cinematic techniques: the time shifts whimsically from midnight to afternoon sun, Tor Johnson flails desperately in an attempt to rise from his coffin, and flying saucers zoom past on clearly visible strings. Fading star Bela Lugosi tragically died during filming but such a small hurdle could not stop writer-producer-director Ed Wood. Lugosi is ingeniously replaced with a man who holds a cape across his face and might as well have "NOT BELA LUGOSI" stamped on his forehead.

Project Moonbase is a "feature film" cobbled together from several episodes of the unsold TV science fiction series "Ring Around the Moon." Set in the future -- 1970, that is -- the film takes place on a huge space station, where a group of pilots and scientists draw up plans to establish a U.S. military base on the moon. This project is nearly stymied by foreign spy Dr. Wernher (Larry Johns), who is exposed when he cannot answer a few simple questions about the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'BrianDirectors: Kurt neumann Format: Black & White, NTSC Language English Runtime: 77 minutes  Just before the sci-fi craze of the 50's, this little one is a gem. You've a team of astronauts that is using a new rocket using a new fuel to go all the way to the Moon and back. But on the way to it, fuel mixes and asteroids ruin the plans, the astronauts ending up on Mars.Rocketship X-M was really one of the first good science fiction films of the 1950s, and its influence can be seen in the slew of space movies released throughout that decade. In some ways, it is the quintessential science fiction film of the era; it sends a crew of four men and one woman into space for the first time, and these characters actually get a chance to express their own personalities during the journey. While the science of the film misses the mark in a number of ways, the filmmakers did not rely on alien "monsters" to help the story along. The movie has a message, and its plausibility and rather unhappy conclusion bring that message home to viewers.

Alien invaders kidnap everyone's favorite right jolly old elf in this low-budget mixture of children's comedy and sci-fi adventure. Christmas is not far away, and countless children are glued to their family's TV sets, watching reports about Santa Claus. However, this is happening on Mars, and leaders of the Red Planet aren't sure what to do for their kids who are pining away for a visit from the gift-bearing earthling. Martian leader Kimar dispatches two of his emissaries, the chronically grumpy Voldar and the moronically cheerful Dropo , to Earth to bring Santa back for a visit. After arriving on Earth, Voldar and Dropo abduct two children, Betty and Billy, and order the kids to show them the way to Santa's workshop, from which all three are taken to Mars against their will. As Santa, Betty, and Billy try to find a way back to Earth, Voldar becomes enraged with the Earth kids, while the children bond more comfortably with the intellectually-challenged Dropo. Shot on a shoestring budget on Long Island, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians has developed a rabid cult following over the years, and yes, it's true, Kimar's daughter Girmar really is played by a ten-year-old Pia Zadora.
Disc #1 -- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
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Region 1, NTSC   Filmed 1964

In a post-apocalyptic world, a fugitive (Bob Peck) is captured by cop (Mark Hamill) and his beautiful partner (Kitty Aldridge). But when bounty hunter (Bill Paxton) learns that there is a price on Byron's head, he tricks the police and absconds with the prisoner. In order to escape detection, Matt flies off into the slipstream --an environmental curiosity of high and harsh winds treated by a local religious cult as a god. The religious cult captures them and holds them captive. Byron has healing powers and the cult decides to bind him up to a giant kite in order to determine whether he is a good or bad spirit. Matt flies upward to free Byron, but Belitski, not trusting Matt, flies upward herself. A violent wind tosses all three into parts unknown, while Tasker is almost killed by the kite. Matt is found to have been poisoned by Tasker and seeks to accompany a cave dweller (Eleanor David) to her homeland, where he can get an antidote to the poison in his veins. Meanwhile, Byron is revealed to be an android. The three journey to a settlement dedicated to sensual pleasure.

In the late 1940's and 1950's the USA and the Soviet Union repeatedly tested nuclear bombs. In the USA the early tests were done in the desert southwest, and the mushroom clouds could be seen for dozens of miles (and the noise could be heard for hundreds of miles). As scientists measured the increased levels of radiation in milk served to schoolchildren and their parents built bomb shelters in their backyards, Hollywood decided to take the cold war paranoia which made the fifties so unique and create a new type of sci-fi/horror movie - the "mutant monster" film.  It starts out in the New Mexico desert, where two state troopers discover a mobile home that's been ripped apart by some unknown animal. The adults are missing, but they do find a terrified little girl (a creepy Sandy Descher) who's so shocked that she can't talk and simply stares wide-eyed and zombie-like at the policemen. A fierce sandstorm blows up, and the troopers then arrive at a local general store that's been ripped apart like the trailer. Curiously no money or valuables were stolen, but sugar has been spread everywhere, and the owner's corpse is found. He had emptied his shotgun at his attacker before being killed with a massive injection of acid. The troopers also find some tracks from an "unknown" large animal. Baffled by this turn of events, one trooper takes the mute little girl to a hospital. The other trooper stays behind to guard the store, but he is attacked and killed by an unknown assailant. The scientists have a hunch that the "unknown" animal that killed the storeowner and destroyed the buildings was - a giant ant! The ants had been at the site of the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico in 1945, and the radiation has caused them to mutate to an enormous, man-eating size. Soon our heroic quartet is involved in a race against time to find and destroy the ant's colony before they can reproduce and spread across the world. When the queen ant and some male escorts escape the search becomes even more frantic, and leads to a final showdown in the vast sewers of Los Angeles.

This 1936 Brit sci-fi feature deals with war and

progress. Everytown (London?) is shown in 1940 about

to celebrate Christmas amidst blaring headlines of war

(in a nifty bit of symbolism, the children play with

war toys around the Christmas tree). Then war hits the

city (in an eerily accurate foretelling of the German

blitz that DID rock England in 1940). As time goes on,

the war drags into decades ending up in a post-

apocalyptic society in 1966.

Because of the war, Everytown/London has regressed

into a crude, medieval type society without

electricity which wastes its resources on senseless

wars and is led by a Hitler-type warlord ogre called

"The Boss." The world is also famished by a deadly,

incurable disease called "Wandering Sickenss" whose

victims are shot by the boss (reminds you of Castro's

quarantine of AIDS patients). John Cabal (Raymond

Massey) is a leader of scientists who return to

civilize Everytown/London and establish a scientific

technocracy. But the Boss demands the technology to

wage more war, which he tells his followers is

necessary for the peace. A moon shot and some anti-

progress protesters play major parts in the latter

third of the story. H.G. Wells, from whose book The

Shape of Things to Come this film was adapted, was a

man deeply opposed to war.

 

Actors: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson, See more
Directors: Joseph M. Newman
Format: Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

A mysterious, pilotless plane carries scientist Rex Reason to a colony of America's best and brightest minds. They've been kidnapped by a dying alien race, the Metalunians, to repair their defense shield before their enemies destroy their world completely, toiling under their spying eyes and futuristic security cameras (two-way TVs that dominate every room). Jeff Morrow, under a raised forehead, bronze tan, and snow-white hair, philosophizes as Exeter, the thoughtful Metalunian torn between his duty and his morals as he forces the plucky humans to labor in his race's defense. The moody mystery of the first half turns to pure pulp adventure when the humans are transported across the galaxy to the battle-scarred world of Metaluna, under the threatening watch of a monstrous bug-eyed monster with a giant brain for a head and massive claws for hands. There's a genuine sense of wonder to Joseph Newman's intergalactic adventure, one of the most ambitious science fiction films of the 1950s.