Big Bad B Movie Blog

Release: 1979 Director: Gary Nelson Production Company: Walt Disney Productions Notable Cast: Anthony Perkins   as Dr. Alex Durant Yvette Mimieux   as Dr. Kate McCrae Ernest Borgnine   as Harry Booth Roddy McDowall   as VINCENT Plot: The crew of the Palomino come across what appears to be an abandoned ship in space. The ship is near a black hole and somehow defying the gravitational pull. They figure out that the ship is the missing Cygnus and go in for a closer look. The Palomino encounters some issues and is able to dock with the Cygnus. Aboard is Dr. Reinhardt and a seeming army of robots. He shares with them his goal of taking the Cygnus through the black hole to see what's on the other side. The crew become suspicious of the human like behavior of the robots on the Cygnus and a horrible mystery unfolds. The Monster: This time we get Maximilian who is the chief henchman of Dr. Reinhardt. Silent, heavily armored and featuring spinning blades of...

Release: 1955 Director: Ed Wood Production Company: Rolling M. Productions Notable Cast: Bela Lugosi   as Dr. Eric Vornoff Tor Johnson   as Lobo Plot: The movie starts off with two hunters essentially being killed by Dr. Vornoff. Then we find out that Janet Lawton is doing investigative journalism into the disappearances before becoming a captive of Vornoff. We learn that Vornoff is performing experiments to create a race of atomic supermen. Can the police find Janet and put and end to Vornoff's mad experiments? The Monster: We had a couple of choices for monsters here. There is the giant octopus that catches people and possibly kills them. It isn't too scary though as it's victims see to need to do most of the work. Then we have Lobo and Vornoff. Lobo is a speechless Igor type of character. He appears to have superior strength to average men. Lobo does appear to have intelligence as he makes a decision to save Janet at the end and turns on his master. Vornof...

Release: 1951 Director: Curt Siodmak Production Company: Jack Broder Productions Inc. Notable Cast: Lon Chaney Jr.   as Police Commissioner Taro Raymond Burr  as Barney Chavez Tom Conway  as Dr. Viet Paul Cavanagh  as Klaas Van Gelder Plot: Barney Chavez murders his boss to take his wife. The crime is witnessed by a local witch who then curses him. At night suddenly Barney starts becoming a gorilla. The Monster: So read below because the answer here is man. MAN!!!! How's that for a Twilight Zone kind of swerve for this one. There is a guy in a gorilla guy a couple of times but as we find out, there never was any gorilla. It was man all along... Thoughts: This is only the 10th movie I have reviewed for this blog so I don't have any sort of formalized process for how I approach a review yet. To this point I have tried to go for a mix of movies I have seen and movies I am less familiar with. I have been trying really hard to just not go down a list of m...

Release: 1954 Director: Jack Arnold Production Company: Universal Pictures Notable Cast: Richard Carlson   as David Reed Julie Adams  as Kay Lawrence Richard Denning  as Mark Williams Plot: A strange fossil discovery leads to an expedition to try and find the rest of the remains. The crew of the ship soon run into the Gill-Man who is a bigger menace than they were ready for. The Monster: The Gill-Man is a true icon of Hollywood monsters. He's right up there with Dracula, Frankenstein , Jason, etc as being one of the most recognizable Hollywood creatures of all time. Any sort of collection of famous monsters will have the Gill-man in it. The Gill-Man himself appears to be fairly strong and can obviously breathe under water. He also seems to possess about human level intelligence. His scaly skin also seems to give him some level of invulnerability. He takes a harpoon shot at one point and mostly shrugs it off. Thoughts: This wasn't on my list for movies I ...

Release: 1958 Director: Nathan Hertz Company: Woolner Bros. Pictures Notable Cast: Allison Hayes   as Nancy Fowler Archer William Hudson  as Harry Archer Yvette Vickers  as Honey Parker Roy Gordon  as Dr. Isaac Cushing Ken Terrell  as Jess Stout Plot: Nancy Fowler encounters a satellite and a giant alien in the satellite. No one believes her. Meanwhile her husband has been scheming to get Nancy back to the sanatorium so that he can take over her sizable estate. They go out to the desert to search after coming to an agreement. They encounter the alien again and Harry leaves her for dead. Nancy later turns up delirious and grows to a gigantic size while being cared for. She wakes up and goes on a rampage looking for her husband. The Monster:  Nancy Fowler grows to be 50 feet tall. Being 50 feet tall makes her stronger and harder to kill obviously. Bullets seem to have little effect as they had to kill her by shooting an electrical transform...

Release: 1958 Director: Roger Corman Company: Santa Cruz Productions Notable Actors: Dick Miller   as Dave Boyer Susan Cabot  as Sybil Carrington Richrd Devon  as Dr. Pol Van Ponder Michael Fox  as Jason ibn Akad Robert Shayne  as Cole Hotchkiss Bruno VeSota  as Mr. LeMoine Roy Gordon  as The President Plot: A race of aliens declares they are protecting the universe from the human race who are beginning to experiment with space travel. Humanity as a response becomes more determined to conquer the stars. The aliens replace one of the members of the space project and works to cancel the program behind the scenes. When that fails we head to space as the human race is going to try and break the barrier set up by the aliens. Who will win in this space race war? The Monster: Our impostor is from a race that call themselves the Masters of the Spiral Nebula Ghana. So we never see what the alien looks like in it's true form we do get a see a ...