1950s movies
Monster on the Campus (1958)
A college professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a prehistoric fish. While examining the find he is accidentally exposed to it's blood, turning him into a murderous Neanderthal. Starring Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, and Judson Pratt. Yea, the prehistoric...
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Based on the BBC teleplay by Nigel Kneale (creator of the "Quatermass" series), this Hammer tale of adventurers in the Himalayas finds our intrepid explorers (Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker) at odds both with one another and the unforgiving harshness at "the top of...
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Two men escaping the police by ship are blown off course by a typhoon and shipwrecked on an uncharted island populated by women who make a living diving for pearls. What the men don't know is that the women are also part of a shark cult that sacrifices young virgins...
Panther Girl of Kongo (1955)
Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation has made herself at home in Africa as the elephant-riding, vine-swinging, miniskirted ‘Panther Girl.’ On safari to film animals, Jean encounters something really wild; a giant crayfish monster (created by greedy...
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
A couple of teenagers are reported missing in a small Texas town, and it is thought they eloped. Sheriff Jeff turns to his friend Clarence Winstead, a garage mechanic and leader of a hot-rod gang, for help. After a series of tragic motor accidents, it becomes apparent...
Beast From Haunted Cave (1959)
Gangster Alexander Ward, his girl friend, Gypsy Boulet, and two henchmen come to Deadwood, South Dakota with the idea of stealing some gold bars. They enlist the aid of a local ski instructor, Gil Jackson, and plan to use him as a guide out of the territory after the...
The Killer Shrews (1959)
A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As...
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
In a community near a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes him. Later, the cuckold Dave Walker finds his slut wife Liz Walker cheating on him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp, and forces them to...
Robot Monster (1953)
Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a bigfoot in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love...
Forbidden Jungle (1950)
Forbidden Jungle-1950. Tom Burton, a great-white-hunter and safari leader, is hired to take an expedition deep into the African jungle to search for a white boy lost in a plane crash years before, and who has been rumored to be living among the wild animals. Starring...
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's sarong-clad daughter Nona, and a mad scientist named Dr. Zabor who is conducting experiments...
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds...