Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)

Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Rating: ★★
Nov 15, 2018Atomically-Revived Zombies
Atomic became the explain-all buzzword for almost every monster movie of the 1950s.This is the novelty of the one and only atomic zombie film, although at heart is no more than a 1940s mad scientist film

Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)

Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Rating: ★★
Feb 21, 2013Zombie Sailors Guard a Treasure
A zombie film back from the days before zombies wanted to eat brains and could only be despatched with a bullet in the head where they were instead figures out of voodoo – in this case undead sailors guarding a treasure. A mildly interesting if never entirely standout B movie of the era

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 17, 2001Alien Nasty
Although others can be cited, this more than any other is the film that inspired Alien, which in itself seems to have been construed in terms of putting The Thing from Another World aboard a spaceship. A B movie no denying but tight and solidly constructed