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2001 - A Space Odyssey 
Stanley Kubrick filmed this masterpiece of science fiction, with considerable technical direction from reknowned SF author, Arthur C. Clarke, who penned the novelof the same name concurrently with the production of the movie. The story itself is based on one of Clarke's earlier short stories, The Sentinel.
20 Million Miles to Earth 
Harryhausen monster-on-the-loose flick with lots of stop-motion monster goodness.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
Jules Verne's classic novel
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
The weirdest circus movie since Freaks.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The first of the popular Sinbad series from special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen.
The Angry Red Planet
Weird interplanetary excursion complete with carniverous plants, space goo and the infamous bat-rat-spider creature.
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958) 
The ex-wife from hell tries to squish her philandering husband.
Attack of the Crab Monsters
What would you do if you had radioactive talking crabs? Roger Corman made a movie about them, and you get to watch. It is important to note that this is not the only giant crab movie you can see. Other fascinating crustacean on the loose films include Queen Crab and Crabs!. But WAIT! There's MORE...
At The Earth's Core
You know the old saying: If you dig deep enough, you are almost certainly going to unearth telepathic flying reptiles. No, wait, that's not the saying.
Barbarella 
Jane Fonda parades around psychedelic sets in skimpy spacewear.
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
More stop motion mayhem from Ray Harryhausen.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
First sequel to Planet of the Apes, this one adds mind-reading mutants to the topsy-turvy world of Manhattan's talking monkeys.
The Black Scorpion
Big, black bug on the loose. Not to be confused with the short-lived 90's TV show, Black Scorpion, which is what happens when you try to remake the Batman TV series with more boobs and less money.
The Blob (1958)
Never poke a meteorite with a stick!
Brain From Planet Arous
Alien pervert possesses hapless scientist.
Bride of Frankenstein
Body by Frankenstein, hair by Dairy Queen.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Pilot for the TV series that gained theatrical release. Buck pulls a Rip Van Winkle and wakes up to find that Spandex has conquered the Earth.
Cat-Women Of the Moon
Low-budget oinker shot in five days following the popular fifties sci-fi premise of male space explorers encountering an all-female society on another planet. Hope springs eternal.
A Clockwork Orange
Disturbing commentary on violence and behavioral conditioning. Based on the Anthony Burgess novel
Colossus - The Forbin Project
The world as it could be if Windows really worked...
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Subversive and violent chapter of the ape movies.
Conquest of Space
Visually interesting but dreadfully boring mission to Mars movie.
The Crawling Eye
This movie scares the crap out of little kids, but adults will laugh their heads off (which will also scare the kids).
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Impressive looking gill-man pursues the equally impressive looking Julie Adams in this classic beauty and the beast tale. Originally filmed in 3D.
The Creature Walks Among Us
The luckless gill-man gets an involuntary face lift.
Doctor Who - Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Dark Star
Painfully low-budget but witty film shot by John Carpenter and many other talented people years before anyone ever heard of them.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Lecture from outer space.
The Day of the Triffids
Post-apocolyptic survivor's wish they'd sprung for the economy-sized bag of weed-b-gone. Based on the novel
The Deadly Mantis
All the good giant bugs were taken.
Death Race 2000
Clever cult action film based on the short story, "The Racer", by Ib Melchior. It inspired the first video game yanked from store shelves for being too violent.
Destination Moon
Astronauts travel to the moon and encounter nothing at all.
Destroy All Monsters
All the Toho monsters in one big rubber-suited brawl.
Dr. Cyclops
Ironically, he has three more eyes than I expected.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Like Fail-Safe, only funnier.
Dr. Who and The Daleks
Peter Cushing helms the Tardis in this big screen version of the popular TV show.
Earth Vs the Flying Saucers
Ray Harryhausen takes on Washington D.C.
Empire of the Ants
Nothing complicates a real estate deal like a bug problem.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
70's culture makes monkeys look smart.
The Eye Creatures (remake of Invasion of the Saucer Men)
Somehow manages to be worse than the original.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury's cautionary novel
Fail-safe (1964)
Tense tale of nuclear brinkmanship, based on the book
Fantastic Planet
Freaky French animated flick.
Fantastic Voyage
Miniature scientists fight over who gets to scrape the cholesterol from Raquel Welch. Isacc Asimov penned a novel based on the screenplay, and wrote a sequel all his own some time later.
H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon
Ray Harryhausen takes a few liberties with the H.G. Wells novel
Flash Gordon (1980)
Campy, colorful space opera featuring a memorable soundtrack by Queen.
The Fly (1958)
Scientist learns the value of animal experimentation the hard way in this dark thriller based on the short story first published in Playboy magazine by George Langelaan.
Forbidden Planet
Shakespeare's Tempest...sort of. Starring Robby the Robot and the legs of Anne Francis. Props and costumes from this movie ended up reappearing in all sorts of low-budget sci-fi films for years.
Frankenstein
Hollywood's iconic version of Mary Shelley's classic tale.
Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster
Godzilla's mortal enemy gets his own starring role.
The Giant Claw
I could carve a scarier giant movie monster out of a potato.
Godzilla
First screen appearance of everybody's favorite house-stompin' giant green lizard. Only this time he's in black and white.
The Green Slime
The Green Slime are coming! All your base are belong to us!
I Married a Monster From Outer Space
I guess it really does happen...
In Like Flint
James Coburn as a James Bond wannabe
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Don Knotts gets turned into a cartoon fish. No, really.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Hapless hero learns that size isn't important...unless your cat is hungry.
Invaders from Mars
I've heard this is pretty good, but one look at the ping-pong ball eyes of the aliens and I lose all perspective. Proceed at your own risk...
Invasion of the Saucer Men
If you want to find every 50's vintage alien invasion cliche in one movie, this is it.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Paranoic film of alien invaders made during the height of the fifties' Red Scare.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
It's the 1970's and everyone is paranoid again.
The Invisible Man (1933)
I don't know if I saw it or not. (I saw the 2020 remake, though, and you should, too.)
Island of the Lost Souls
The first film version of H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau.
It Came From Beneath the Sea
Ray Harryhausen wreaks more havoc on national landmarks.
It Came From Outer Space
Alien invader flick penned by Ray Bradbury.
It Conquered the World
Giant turnip invades the Earth, courtesy of Roger Corman. Try the MST3K version, if you can find it.
It! The Terror From Beyond Space
Before there was Alien, there was THIS thing.
Jason and the Argonauts
Harryhausen's famous flick with all those stop-motion sword-fighting skeletons.
Journey to Center of the Earth (1959)
Entertaining adventure yarn that suffers only slightly from a tendency of the cast to burst into song.
King Kong (1933)
The original and arguably still the best of the giant beauty and the beast tale.
King Kong (1976)
The 70's remake, which disappointed everybody by resorting to Rick Baker in a monkey suit and leaving out all the dinosaurs.
Kronos
It keeps going, and going, and going...
The Land That Time Forgot
German U-boat gets REALLY lost.
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Jack Nicholson was stealing scenes long before anyone had ever heard of him.
Lost Horizon
Air travellers stumble upon the lost world of Shangri-La.
The Lost World (1925)
The grand daddy of dinosaur flicks.
The Man From Planet X
Atmospheric little low-budget flick which makes you think Michael Rennie got off light. (See the Day the Earth Stood Still)
Master of the World
Blablabla
Metropolis (1927)
Hugely visual and influential film from the silent era.
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
The other giant monkey movie.
The Mole People
Social injustice at the Earth's core.
The Monolith Monsters
Never leave your rock salt experiment unsupervised.
The Monster That Challenged the World
Sometimes the fish get the bait, sometime the bait gets you.
Mysterious Island (1961)
Harryhausen adventure yarn with giant creatures to spare. Loosely based on the Jules Verne novel
One Million Years B.C.
Cavegirl Raquel Welch is menaced by Harryhausen's miniature dinosaurs.
Phantom Planet
Miniature alien civilization stakes out an asteroid of their own, but some astronauts find them, anyway. Cheesy but fun, you may enjoy the MST3K version
Planet of the Apes (1968)
What's scarier than Creationists? Talking Monkey Creationists!
Planet of the Vampires
Creepy and stylish Italian space flick.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Ed Wood's hilariously bad classic.
Queen of Outer Space
If you want to learn just how far women's liberation has come, show this film to your wife.
The Reluctant Astronaut
Don Knotts in space. Nuff said.
Return Of The Fly
More adventures in teleportation. My personal favorite is the "handster".
Revenge of the Creature
It's difficult to find an aquarium the right size for gill-men.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Astronaut unlucky enough to be stranded on the only alien planet not inhabited by an entire civilization of lonely women.
Rocketship X-M
You'll enjoy this more if you get the MST3K version.
Robot Monster
One of the worst movies ever made.
Rodan
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...another Japanese man in a rubber suit.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
I just don't have the right icons for this review.
The She-Creature
To be reviewed...
Silent Running
Tear-jerking environmental film with impressive effects by Douglas Trumball.
Sleeper
Futurific comedy by Woody Allen
Starcrash
Caroline Munro saves the universe, but not this gut-bustingly bad movie.
Star Trek - The Motion Picture
So, which is bigger: V'Ger or the Death Star?
Star Wars (Episode IV - A New Hope)
This movie played at the cinema near my home for over a year. And I still watch it.
Tarantula
There isn't a can of Raid big enough.
Them!
One of the best of the big bug movies.
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Scary alien terrorizes Antarctic researchers.
Things to Come
Eye-popping effects for a vintage flick based on the book
This Island Earth
Aliens outsource their R&D to Earth. Fodder for the MST3K Movie, but enjoyable even without the heckling of small robots.
Thunderbirds Are Go
Wooden puppets save the world. Based on the Gerry Anderson TV series.
THX 1138
Dystopian future where red Koolaid is forbidden.
The Time Machine (1960)
George Pal brings yet another H.G. wells Classic
The Valley of Gwangi
The only dinosaur western that I know of. Effects by Harryhausen.
Village of the Damned (1960)
A good argument against spanking your kids...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Filmed back when smoking on submarines wasn't such a big deal, and global warming was science fiction.
The War of the Worlds (1953)
George Pal's classic retelling of H.G. Well's famous story.
When Worlds Collide
Last one off the Earth turns out the lights...
Wizards
Demented animated fantasy romp by Ralph Bakshi.
You Only Live Twice
007 tries to figure out who keeps swiping all the spaceships.
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks' inspired satire of the 40's classic.
