The The Magnetic Monster - Feeding 1950's atomic paranoia

Here’s an interesting little known movie that once fed mid twentieth century paranoia about atomic consequences. Enjoy!

The ‘Magnetic Monster’ 1952
Movie scenario lightly sprinkled with thoughts

The Office of Scientific Investigation (OCI) was established in response to “what man has unleashed but has not yet learned to control.” The men of OCI, sporting degrees in science are called A Men, “like the end of a prayer” as quipped in the opening narration. (A = Atom).

The A Men become aware of a “paramagnetic force” emanating from an element “heavier than uranium and capable of wiping out a few city blocks.” It’s discovered in a clandestine lab over an appliance store causing downstairs merchandise to “sail about the store.” A Geiger counter leads OCI investigators to the element’s container and a corpse, but not the offending element that “must be contained because it will strike again.”

The public is informed that “a dangerous radioactive element is at large” and asked to call in if anything suddenly becomes magnetic. A related call from an airport taxi driver, with a stalled vehicle and tools sticking to his engine block, leads to OCI’s discovery of airport radar and radio communication interference. It also leads to an airport ‘flight insurance vending machine’ where Howard Dinker’s completed insurance form Geiger counts him as the man with the element. Dinker, a Research Physicist at South Western, is toting it around in his brief case. Dinker’s plane has already taken off and the contents of his brief case are causing the engines, and his health, to sputter. The plane is ordered (absent “radio interference?”) to promptly return to the airport.

With the plane evacuated and Dinker in his passenger seat at death’s door, he informs OCI investigators that the new element, “serenium,” is unstable, hungry and must be fed constantly or it will reach out with its magnetic arms for anything within its reach and kill it. It’s monstrous! It grows bigger and bigger.” Dinker instructs OCI to keep it under constant electric charge. When asked, “How can it be stopped?” Dinker responds, “I don’t know, other scientists will have to find the answer. My contribution (?) is finished.” Dinker’s interview and life ends with these dying words, “In nuclear research there is no place for lone wolves.”

The offending element is transported to a university where it reportedly “explodes,” killing two. Jeff Stewart (Richard Carlson), chief of OCI research, laments “The score: four murders in two days. Cause of death: The element was hungry. He rephrases one of Dinker’s dying sentences stating that, “The element was reaching out with invisible fingers grabbing metallic objects with terrifying strength.”

So the element “explodes at the university” and is reportedly “capable of wiping out a few city blocks,” yet we see no explosion or related carnage. If indeed the element was capable of wiping out a few city blocks how come it only took out two individuals and seemingly no university brick and mortar? Perhaps it’s the script’s clumsy way of catering to a public perception that “a dangerous radioactive element at large” has to explode to prove that it’s radioactive?

In the wake of the “university explosion” it’s reported that, “All metal parts within a radius of 100 yards (of the explosion) became magnetic.” Although the radioactive element reportedly exploded, it fails to explode (destroy) it self? But then, as Stewart observes, it “defies every law of physics” and has yet “…to be defined.”

The efforts of OCI get barked at by military brass…“Metal objects can’t grow” and “we’re losing valuable government property.” Except for providing a fast jet and a suggested resource for destroying the element, the military nags instead of helps suggesting a degree of self obsolescence in its ability to protect the nation from things to come.

The mysterious element (serenium) is placed in an electrograph resulting in Stewart’s observation that, “Mass is growing in supposedly empty space. Energy is being drawn into space transforming itself into mass. They are like planets. This process might have been the origin of the solar system. Yes gentlemen we are witnessing the secrets of creation.” Ironically the goal of OCI is to destroy the element before it destroys creation.

Stewart observes that the element “follows a direct mathematical progression.” So, states Stewart, “the computer was awakened from its slumber and the data fed into the brain of the MANIAC.” (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Computer). “Our problem was to feed the brain.”

“At last we were coming to understand the monster that Dinker had blundered into existence,” proclaims Stewart. While waiting for results from the MANIAC, Stewart’s assistant asks him if he’s “afraid?” "Sure, aren’t you?” Stewart replies. This exchange reveals a sense of fear and danger applicable to everyone, from the most knowledgeable (with science degrees) to the most ignorant, about a nuclear genie released from its bottle into a world unable to understand its function or predict its consequences.

The care and feeding of a new and ever hungry element, “serenium,” soon requires the electrical power of an entire city to stabilize it for another eleven hours, until it’s ready for (demanding) its next feeding – requiring (again) twice the nourishment to (again) double its size.

A Men contemplating “the limit of its growth” concludes, “There is no limit.” Observing the element in the electrograph coupled with the calculations of the MANIAC cause OCI agents to believe the element will “grow to the point that the earth will be thrown off its axis and spin off into space.” Oops!

Following the rogue element’s city power meal the MANIAC calculates that 900 million volts will be needed to “over feed (electron bombard) and destroy it” when it demands its next meal. There is only one hope! Unless a top secret power plant (generator), the “deltatron,” located in Nova Scotia, can generate enough energy to over feed and destroy it the earth is doomed. The element is scheduled for a quick military flight to Nova Scotia with OCI’s expressed concern that, “We didn’t know how it would react with the sudden acceleration of the jet plane.” It sure is a mysterious element isn’t it!

Anticipating their actions in Nova Scotia Stewart exclaims, “What we’d do there we didn’t know for sure. If we got there we had exactly one hour and thirty five minutes to find out.” When the OCI agents arrive local officials are heard to say, “Here are the Americans. I hope they know what they are doing!”

The Canadian guy in charge of the deltatron reveals its output to be “600 million volts,” disclosing that it has “never been tested” to exceed that amount. Stewart responds, “There’s no time for a test." The deltatron’s proprietor asks Stewart, “How are you going to use the deltatron?” Stewart responds, “To choke it (the element). Kill it. Choke it to death.” “But what if it doesn’t work?” asks the proprietor. “I’ll leave that to your imagination” responds Stewart. “Our only hope is that the deltatron will break the element before she breaks herself.” This is not comforting to the proprietor and developer of the deltatron who seemingly has been told nothing about why his deltatron is being put at risk.

Interestingly the deltatron’s push bar power control has a large handle resembling a German iron cross (with a “Danger” sign along side the push bar). Taking charge Stewart pushes the deltatron to its untested maximum in hopes of over feeding and destroying the element destined, without potent intervention, to “throw the earth off its axis and causing it to spin off into space.”

Fortunately the deltatron proves equal to its untested task, but the element (serenium) doesn’t go easy taking the deltatron with it in an explosion visible (this time) to the naked eyes of movie patrons leaving them to believe this explosion, unlike the one at the university, is truly the undoing of this unholy radioactive element.

Stewart exclaims, “We did it. We killed it. It’s gone. It’s gone forever.”

In the final scene Stewart ruminates, “Secret of multiplication.” His pregnant wife asks, “What are you talking about?” Stewart replies, “I’m not sure, except they both have something to do with multiplication. Done with love the result is a baby, a beautiful thing. But without love, done with hate or with fear, the result is a monster, an element that grows.”

Primary theme: Mans’ ignorant tampering with the laws of nature result in unleashing powers he cannot understand, control, or contain. The ‘Magnetic Monster,’ was released into theaters to feed on mid twentieth century man’s cold war fears and ignorance about nuclear consequences. Stewart’s (Richard Carlson’s) concluding statement speaks to the use of nuclear power for good or for evil (nuclear power plants VS nuclear bombs? Make nuclear love not nuclear war?).

OTHER THOUGHTS about Virgins in Paradise - Their Needs and Wants

Radical Islam’s virgins need a web site in paradise!

Various media sources have reported a reward in paradise of “seventy virgins” for suicide bombers and other martyrs of radical Islam. I recently profiled two Middle East guys in a crowded restaurant and took a nearby table hoping to hear something that might prove helpful to our Department of Homeland Security. They were discussing an Islamic virgin in Islamic paradise who lost her virginity to a man who wanted to have a family instead of blowing them up. From what I could hear she got tired of waiting for a suicide bomber husband and didn’t want to share him with sixty-nine others. Her defection to a single relationship was said to be well received by other virgins who preferred sharing a man with sixty-eight instead of sixty-nine. Actually, according to the Quoran, it’s “72 wives for every believer admitted to Paradise,” not just martyrs.

Perhaps it was my attentive manner that caused them to grab their half eaten pastries and move to a vacated table leaving me to ponder their muffin muffled comments.

The mass production of virgins in paradise in increments of seventy would require aggressive measures that might well include gender manipulated breeding, immaculate conceptions, fertility drugs and other mass virgin reproduction strategies.

Up ticks in suicide bombings would raise the prospect of a virgin supply and demand problem. So when a designated virgin bride of radical Islam strays into a monogamous relationship it might encourage others to do likewise, decreasing the incentive for young hormone stricken faith based bombers to detonate themselves in public.

A stampede of defecting virgins from paradise could shake the very foundation of radical Islam! A hereafter web site for virgins would enable them to discuss sexual frustration reduction strategies, aphrodisiac recipes, and other ideas for being competitive in their eternal quest for intimacy with that special martyred guy they hope and pray is, or becomes, a glutton for carnal relations.

On the flip side, the U.S. government’s anti terrorist efforts could include broadcasts, through the “Voice of America,” about ‘the joys of monogamy.’ However government health warnings about HIV and other multiple partner sexually transmitted diseases would likely fall on dead ears in an Islamic paradise, and do nothing to stop seventy Islamic women from sharing one heroic guy.

There is virtually no market for Viagra among female virgins. However, a guy with seventy or more wives will want something in his soup that can help him come more times than seventy wives can normally expect a man to come. Given such multiple marital responsibilities it is not likely that radical Islam’s suicidal heroes will be seeking intimate relations outside of marriage in an Islamic paradise. It could be liberating for Islamic women not needing to tent their bodies from the sexually weary gaze of well rewarded martyrs. To the contrary, many of these women will need to jump start their loss of virginity and contribution to the Islamic virgin reward pool. For Islam’s female suicide bombers, rewarded with seventy guy virgins, there are vaginal crèmes that can make accepting multiple rewards a lot easier. A web site for women in paradise is needed!


Research notes:
According to Islamic tradition, Sheikh Palazzi states there are 72 wives for every believer who is admitted to Paradise, not only for a martyr. The proof is in a Hadith (Islamic tradition) collected by Al-Tirmidhi in the Book of Sunan (volume IV, chapters on "The Features of Paradise as described by the Messenger of Allah," Chapter 21: "About the Smallest Reward for the People of Paradise," Hadith 2687).
Sheikh Palazzi added that it is also quoted by Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir of Surah Al-Rahman (55), verse 72: "It was mentioned by Daraj Ibn Abi Hatim that Abu-al-Haytham Abdullah Ibn Wahb narrated from Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri, who heard the Prophet Muhammad saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of Paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a.'"

A 1950's era MUST READ Sci Fi List

This work in progress list of 1950's era science fiction

is a must read for a few or two or more!

Abominable Snowman ('54) [Formats: LD & VHS)
They hunt him and he hunts them in the Himalayas. Abominable! A cold hearted posse leader, gets his fill of alternative consciousness at the local Monastery.
Amazing Colossal Man ('57)
An amazingly colossally stupid man stands in front of a nuclear blast & catches his lingering death of radiation. He's growing too big for his britches, heart, & girlfriend. Time for his shot!
Angry Red Planet ('59) [Formats: DVD, LD, & VHS)
Everything's red, including a compliant female scientist & three men and a Martian. Martian plants and animals get shot with sonic freeze gun 'Made in USA.' So why is Mars so angry?
Assignment Outer Space ('60) (Italian) (Movie Guide - VHS/LD)
Astounding She Monster, The ( ) [Formats: VHS)
A luminous female from space with a feminine nuclear touch who plays hide & seek & terrorizes in & around a mountain cabin. She wants as many close encounters she can lay her hands on. Atomic Brain, The (VHS)
Atomic Man (’63) (VHS) British
Radiation exposure makes a peculiar man more peculiar. The cops are slop and London would be nuclear ash were it not for a sleuth reporter & nuclear bomb squad.
Atomic Submarine ('59) [Formats: LD, VHS)
A one eyed ET Octopus in water proof flying saucer destroys ships & collects human specimen. Its found a new acquatic home sweet earth home. Atomic Submarine. We Need You!
Attack from Space (’65) Japanese/Starman) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
Although lacking superman's physique he's still able to fly through space & take on the enemies of earth. He's also the primary ingredient in a Japanese serial.
Attack of The Crab Monsters ('57) [Format(s): VHS)
Giant crabs with pincers and telepathic powers that drive guys & gals wild nautical miles from nowhere. Victims are assimilated body, soul, and voice into the being of the crabs. Bon Appetit!
Attack of the 50 foot Woman ('5) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
A woman's revenge is aided by visiting extraterrestrials who make her 50 feet tall, super empowering her to kick some unfaithful hubby ass. Morals & cinematography both B&W.
Bamboo Saucer ('68) [Format(s): VHS)
Saucer sightings catch the interest of Americans & Russians. But catching the empty saucer requires stepping over China's red line, flying saucer flying lessons, & a scary solar system test flight that ends in romance & Geneva.
Battle Beyond The Sun ('63) [Format(s): VHS)
Battle in Outer Space ('59) English & Japanese [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Earth is under attack by extraterrestrials. The Japanese do the heavy lifting with token advice from abroad. A critical battle takes place on the moon. Little aliens with big lasers.
Battle of the Worlds ('61) Italian [Format(s): VHS)
Space riddles that befuddle common man & machine get cracked by a balding egg head who detects an alien planet on military collision course with earth. Genius VS ETs & bureucrats.
Beast of Hollow Mountain (’56) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
A Dinosaur's messin with the cattle and women folk! What to do? Get some rope, quick sand, a gutsy cowboy, & a cowgirl needin rescuin. Get it?
Beast of Yucca Flats (’61)
He was a "Colossal (fat) Man" even before his exposure to Atomic blast. He picks up & carries off girls until he's picked off by cops. Bad actors are helped by a bad narrator who won't shut up!
Beast With 1,000,000 Eyes [Format(s): VHS) Public Domain
Out in the desert lives a dysfunctional family with their dog & hired retarded hand who gets peaked peeking at the daughter. All is marginally stable until extraterrestrials get in the picture.
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms ('53) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Man gets underfoot when a frozen dinosaur gets unleashed by the power of the atom. Dinosaur assassins with a single shot 'hit or miss' dose of isotope give it their best shot.
Beginning of The End ('53) [Formats: VHD, DVD]
Nuclear experiments make fruits, vegetables, & locusts huge. So it's 'Keep the produce & kill the bugs' or 'keep the produce & kill the humans' in this Bugs VS Military-Science killer.
Beyond the Time Barrier ('60) [Format(s): VHS)
A space pilot jets 60 years into the future, finds romance & returns to warn of coming nuclear
holocaust. His transformation from young stud to old fart waters down the warning. ­
Black Scorpion (' 57)[Format(s): LD, VHS)
A Mexican volcano spews lava & giant scorpions. The army recruits geologists & other science grads to help out. Scorpions get hungry. Mexicans get panicked. Appetites get appeased.
Blob, The ('58) [Format(s): [DVD, LD, VHS)
Happy adolescenthoods are disrupted when a space rock hits earth dirt near rural town USA. It oozes opportunistic alien goop that's all consuming and not easily avoided.
Blood Beast ('58) [Format(s): VHS)
Astronaut returns as an alienated alien lacking earth manners or regard for the sanctity of human life. He communicates telepathically through a concealed megaphone?
Brain Eaters ('58)
A 'space cone' full of little brain suckers give terminal headaches to their zombie inductees. Holes in the back of inductee skulls are dead give aways most locals can't resist.
Brain From Planet Arous, The ('58) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
A nuclear scientist's brain gets too big for its skull when inhabited by Gor, a controlling brain from planet Arous. Mankind's only hope is a stealth, swift, well placed hatchet lobotomy.
Caltiki, The Immortal Monster ('59) [Format(s): VHS) Public Domain
At age 20 million a monster takes a revenge on South American treasure seekers that would make Montazuma's toes curl. It has information about the fate of the Myans but isn't talking.
Cape Canaveral Monsters ('60) [Format(s): VHS) Public Domain
ETs inhabit the bodies of a middle aged couple & hang around Cape Canaveral messing up rocket launches. They come & go home via a tub of suds until kid scientists pull their plug.
Catwomen of the Moon ('54) [Format(s): 3D DVD, VHS)
You can't blame JFK for wanting to go to the moon. These lunar speciwomen are purrrfect & well worth the tax payer lunar bucks! Moon girl gets her speciman from earth.
Children of the Dammed ('64) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Extraterrestrials slip a date rape drug into some rural British atmosphere. When the town folk awake the women are pregnant and soon give birth to evil mental giants who kick brain.
Colossus of New York ('58) [Format(s): VHS) Public Domain?
Brain surgeon's brainy son gets squished by a truck and his brains preserved in a giant robot that, absent a soul, behaves in a manner contary to mankinds best interests.
Conquest of Space ('59) [Format(s): DVD, VHS)
"The Wheel" space station's big wheel is a control freak who won't allow his 'just married' junior officer' earth leave' to multiply & replenish the earth. Mental gaskets start to leak.
Cosmic Man, The ('59) [Format(s): DVD, VHS)
A golf ball looking spacecraft is the subject of military & scientific curiosity. A cosmic man emerges & admonishes earthlings to be nice cosmic neighbors. No nuke balls in space damit.
Cosmic Monsters ('58) British [Format(s): VHS)
A smart stupid scientist turns up the juice & brings down cosmic rays that enlarge bugs and threaten Earth. "Turn off that dam machine!" "No!," says the scientist. ET to the rescue!
Crack in the World ('65) [Format(s): VHS)
Instead of shooting their nuclear missile up they shoot it down into earth's core for some cheap molten energy. It's a real crack up all around.
Crawling Eye, The ('58) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
"Our planet is doomed" said one Crawling Eye. "I know" said the other. "Let's scoot to earth, hang-out a top its highest mountains & turn humans into frozen killer zombies." They do too!
Crawling Hand, The ('63) [Format(s): DVD, VHS)
Astronaut goes up. Astronaut's hand comes down & has a hand in multiple murders. A victim's French girlfriend is "stacked" & traumatized. Also starring the skipper of "Gilligan's Island."
Creature From The Black Lagoon ('54) [Format(s): DVD,LD, VHS)
He's webbed, scaly, dripping wet, and stalks women. He escapes from an aquatic zoo in pursuit of a wet dream that goes unquenched when his dream girl gets away. Rated 'G' wiz.
Fiend Without A Face ('57) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
Canadian town folk believe the 'fiend' is the U.S. military. Wrong! It's nuclear power & mind power invisibly tearning up to deprive Canadian red necks of their brains & spinal cords.
Fire Maidens From Outer Space ('55) [Format(s): VHS)
Roman movie props our discovered on Jupiter's moon. Moon girls sacrifice their sexiest to a ‘peeping tom’ monster guy eager for the squirming screaming meal of his dreams. Save us big strong earth men.
First Man Into Space ('55) British [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
When a test pilot returns from space his girlfriend mistakes him for spam man. The cosmetic effects of the cosmos are proven to be grotesque. Cancel your Space Shuttle booking NOW!
First Men In The Moon ('64) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
The 'Super Powers' don't feel too super after discovering a now elderly British trio beat them to the moon in 1899. The rest is movie history and fictitious proof of loonie lunar life.
First Spaceship on Venus ('60) [Format(s): DVD, VHS)
In 1908 am alien craft explodes over Siberia. A 'spool recorded message' is discovered 70 years later. Is it from Venus? Bingo! A rocket is reserved to go up & meet the Venetians.
Five ('51) [Format(s): VHS) Public domain
She's in the x-ray room & hubby's in the waiting room when the nukes hit. After days in a daze a nice guy takes her in. But she can't take him in until she's dead certain hubby's nuked dead.
Flame Barrier ('58) [Format(s): VHS) Public Domain
Rocket returns with a goopy hitch hiker. A Jungle guide, sexy widow, & goopy ET set the
stage in a cave for a multiple climax that ends with a PG whimper.
Flight to Mars ('51) [Format(s): VHS)
Three guys & a girl land on Mars, teach Martians to play bridge, build a rocket, & help over throw a tyrant. See Earth boy meet & marry Mar's girl. See Jealous Earth girl! In color!
Fly, The ('58) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
A guy has a crush on a girl whose husband got turned into a fly by some wierd science. If he swats the fly he gets the girl, maybe.
Fly, Return of the (’59) [Format: VHS]
Flying Saucer, The ('50) (VHS) '01 Movie Guide - VHS)
Where do flying saucers come from? An undercover couple go to Alaska to find out but never make it under the covers. Commies & a Capitalist 'flying saucer inventor' are to blame.
Flying Saucer Mystery (50's documentary) [Format(s): VHS)
A 1950's Flying Saucer 'Documentary' proposes one theory, among others, that Immortal ET's, unlike the Biblical Adam & Eve, never partook of their "Garden of Eden's" forbidden fruit. Light years to burn & planet hop.
Forbidden Planet (‘56 ) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Proprietor of distant planet prohibits captain & crew from landing on his planet or his daughter. Prohibitions denied! A robot, an Id monster, ancient alien technology, hugs, kisses, & beyond.
Four Sided Triangle ('52) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
From the Earth to the Moon ('58) British [Format(s): LD, VHS)
How powerful the charge & large the bore for the 'moon shot' heard around the solar system? In flight squabbles & sabotage - in route to the moon - give it that special human touch.
Gamma People (‘56 )
Two accidental tourists roll into an isolated town with Nazi culture & a high tech secret.
Gamma zombies on psychic retainer kill on command to keep their master's secret secret.
Gammera, Giant Monster ('65) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
"It's a flying saucer!" "No! It's a spinning turtle shell," & wherever it lands nobody knows except Tokyo. Is this upside down flying Japanese turtle to be or not to be a sequel? Afraid so.
Giant Claw, The ('57) [Format(s): VHS (EP)
Was "Big Bird" an only bird? This bird proves it's not so. It chases jets, knocks over buildings, & takes off with a car full of teens & a passenger train. It's a big Bad Bird from" outer space. "
Giant Behemoth, The ('59) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Here's an electric Brontosaurus with carnivore teeth & radioactive persona that is persona non gratis in London. Its radioactivities are stopped by a nuke dipped torpedo tip.
Giant Gila Monster ('59) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
It's a 1950's time capsule bursting with teenage jargon, & hot rods unable to outrun a party crashing cold blooded killer lizard. A nitro filled hot rod turns lizard blood room temperature.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters ('54) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
Godzilla is chased around Japan by dubbed in American actor, Raymond Burr. Godzilla's debut catches all by surprise, especially Tokyo!
Gojira ('54) Jap Original (Godzilla) English Subtitled [Format(s): VHS) The 'Godzilla' original, where the Japanese speak Japanese & 'feel their pain' without a dubbed in American actor. The only thing American is the 'A bomb. '
Godzilla Raids Again ('59) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Osaka becomes number two on Godzilla's menu in as many movies. Some victims flee north tl Hokkaido where an avalanche of ice cubes ruin Godzilla's last day in his first sequel.
Godzilla Fantasia [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Music, lights, Godzilla, & no celebrity mouse in a collage of Godzilla clips co-starring some up and rumbling guest monsters & enough collateral damage for the whole family.
Gog ('53) [Format(s): VHS) Public domain
Modestly concealed under desert sand is a Weapons Research Facility where science proves that 'from space you can kill forever. '
Gorath Japanese (‘62 ) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
What do the Japanese do 'When World's (are about to) Collide?' Instead of rocketing away they set off tons of megatonage to nuke propel earth out of harm's way. Thrust polar nukes push!
Gorgo ('61) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Mummy's little dinosaur gets captured by a frugal budgeted slow moving British flick. Help mummy! Watch out London! Evacuate the theatre & get your refund before it's too late!
H-Man, The [Format(s): VHS)
The Japanese seek a cure for nuclear diarrhea that dissolves its victims. A scientist says flood Tokyo's gastrointestinal (sewer) system with gasoline & ignite. Aaaaaah! Domo Arigato.
Hand of Death (‘62 )
A chemist concocts a formula that puts enemy armies into a compliant hypnotic trance. Un­intended side effects turn this chemist into a Grim Reaper whose finishing touch finishes many.
Hideous Sun Demon (‘59 ) [Format(s): VHS)
Too much childhood sun can lead to adult skin cancer. So where'd this guy spend HIS childhood_ He's all crust & scabs. Want a biopsy Mister? Don't shoot unless he says "pretty please."
IC-l ('65)
Multiple couples with multiple children multiple millions of miles from earth in search of a 'clean well lighted planet.' The captain's ever widening mean streak is truly revolting.
I Married a Monster From Outer Space ('58) [Format(s): LD, VHS) She's from earth. He's from the Andromeda galaxy. It's clear this cross galactic marriage isn't working when she seeks to have her marriage & hubby terminated by earth men.
Incredible Petrified World, The
Incredible Shrinking Man, The ('59) [Format(s): VHS)
No anatomy discrimination here! All micro shrinks equally. He's now vulnerable to creatures with up to 8 legs & a safe date for females with 2. No place to run & too many places to hide.
In The Year 2889 [Format(s): VHS) Public domain
This is a re-mistake of "The Day the World Ended,” absent the better actors and black & white cinematography. See original title for this unoriginal original plot.
Invaders From Mars ('53) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
A boy’s nightmare begins when Martians insert control devices in boy's parent's skull making them more obedient to Martians than to their kid. The army & a social worker to the rescue!
Invasion ('66) British (VHS) [Format(s): DVD, VHS) Patent prevents re-producing/sale]
A piece of rural England's enveloped by an ET force field so that Chinese looking ET females can catch a Chinese looking ET male. Caucasian looking earthlings are caught in the envelope.
Invasion of the Animal People ('62) Swedish [Format(s): VHS)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('56) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
Espresso bottoms up! Slumber & you'll succumb to an alien space pod with your name and face on it. You can run but you can't nap.
Invasion of the Neptune Men (‘61 ) Japanese [Format(s): VHS)
A 'movie budget' saving hero plays multiple roles - junior high teacher, scientist, martial artist, & rocket plane pilot ("Space Chief'). He kicks it to the Neptune men with help from the kiddies.
Invasion of the Saucermen ('57) Re-made '65 'Eve Creature.' (VHS) '01 MG-VHS
Light sensitive 99 (alcohol) proof aliens fly saucers in straight lines & try injecting their fermen­tation's, via spiked fingernails, into hormone enriched teens. Kill the headlights & save an alien!
Invasion of the Star Creatures ('62)Format: VHS]
No movie star creatures in this cast of army grunts, Indians, 2 sexy E.T. PhD's & their potting soil(ed) zombies. They've come to take over man but get taken over by 2 of the 3 stooges.
Invasion U.S.A. ('52) [Format(s): VHS)
An intoxicating stranger convinces bar patrons, via psychic manipulation, that protecting life, liberty, & stuff from commie attack is everyone's job. Make bombs not pacifism!
Invisible Boy, The ('57) [Format(s): VHS, LD)
Boy meets "Robbi Robot," controlled by a super inhuman robot brain. Robot turns boy invisible. Parents get angry at boy. Robot takes invisible boy up in rocket. Parents get worried.
Invisible Invaders ('59) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
For three scary days invisible stupid ETs inhabit the dead to become stiff walking invisible visible targets. The search for intelligent life in the universe continues.
Invisible Ray, The ('36) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
See & hear the first movie meteor felt around the Dinosaur world. See the scientist behind the deadly ray with a vengeful disposition not even his mother can love or his victims survive.
It Came from Beneath the Sea ('53) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
And came to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge where "It," a giant octopus, ends bridge tolls. A driving military force couldn't stop this commuters' nasty wet dream.
It Came From Outer Space ('53) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
It's buried under tons of desert dirt & rock. "It's a meteor!" "No! It's a spaceship!" So what the hell is it? Ugly aliens provide answers written by Ray Bradbury.
It Conquered the World ('56) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Scientist has a radio relationship with a Venus monster who hijacks a rocket to earth, turns off global power & releases mind control bat gizmos. Big wigs get ruffled, punctured, zombied.
"IT," the Terror From Beyond Space ('58) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
An SOS from Mars reports 18 dead. The single survivor is wrongfully accused of murder. A rocket crew learns the hard way that a Martian Monster did it. Close the hatch dam it!
Journey to the Center of the Earth ('59) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Journey To The Seventh Planet ('61) Danish [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
"It's 2001" & the United Nations is the sole governing body of the world." It’s time to take over the solar system, featuring Uranus inhabited by girls, vegetation, & one nasty alien brain.
Killers From Space ('54) [Format(s): DVD, VHS)
A pilot-scientist's plane is sucked into a nuclear test site where extraterrestrials attempt zombie transformation surgery.' ETs with bulging eyes & scaples that temporarily bend a man's will.
King Dinosaur ('55) [Format(s): DVD, VHS)
A new planet moves into the solar system with enough lizards, called "Dinosaurs," to fill a terrarium. Ph.D. couples on double space date get chased & bit & nuke em' back to da stone age.
Kronos ('57) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
Features the biggest & best energy sucking vacuum cleaner this side of the universe! Everything sucked in & taken out' to an energy starved planet. Men in white stop the sucking.
Land Unknown, The ('57) [Format(s): VHS) LD avail
A military guy & science girl visit a polar place where Dinosaurs, cave men, & instinct aren't extinct. Does a mid 20th Century girl prefer her man in uniform or loin cloth? Find out.
Last Woman on Earth ('60) [Format(s): VHS)
Two skin diver guys & a woman submerge as 3 of 3 billion & emerge as 3 of 3. Which of earth's last two guys will score with earth's single woman? Dibs!
Lost Missile ('58) [Format(s): VHS) Public domain
A low flying missile of 'unknown origin' threatens earth. Its scorching path around & around the globe turns cities to toast and earthlings to barbecue. Earth needs a dam fast nuke dam fast!
Magnetic Monster, The ('53) (VHS/LD) '01 Movie Guide - VHS/LD)
A scientist clings to a contaminated nuke gizmo with doubling daily deadly influence. Nuke cops & a hydro electric generator team up to bloat up & blow up the unholy gizmo.
Man From Planet X, The ('51) [Format(s): DVD, LD, VHS)
ET lands in Scotland to prepare the way for a planet full of invading brethren. Time's running out for two science guys, a newspaper guy, & bonnie lass. Can Scotland. Or even Earth. Survive?
Man With The X-Ray Eyes ('63 ) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
A scientist uses 'vision penetrating' eye drops to penetrate casino games, women's clothing, & other social barriers that excite authorities. A wanted man who wants for nothing.
Martian Chronicles, The ('80) [Format(s): LD, VHS)
Recommended by the 'National Education Association' to enhance student understanding of war, ecology, & multiculturalism. Features invading Earthlings & endangered Martians.
Menace From Outer Space ('53) [Format(s): VHS)
Metropolis
Mission Stardust (‘68 )
The foreign '60's types' herein don't wear flowers in their hair and are more pragmatic about unilateral disarmament. Like the 60's this one's hard to describe but groovy to experience.
Mole People, The ('56) (VHS/LD) '01 Movie Guide - VHS)
Earth's upper crust find a lost civilization in the under crust, including 'mole people' - exploited under-world underlings. Upper crust boy digs lower crust girl. Do his parent's dig?
Monolith Monsters, The ('57) (VHS/LD) '01 Movie Guide - VHS/LD)
Just add water & these space rocks grow, fall down, and grow again. Can the cascading cavalcade of rocks be stopped? Stop the falling rain to stop the falling rocks. Or just add salt?
Monster From a Prehistoric Planet ('67 ) (VHS) '01 Movie Guide - Not listed)
A precursor to 'Jurassic Park' is 'Play Mate Park, ' where a baby prehistoric "gapa" bird is re­located until its parents assert custodial rights with building & bone crushing consequences.
Monster From Green Hell ('57) (VHS) '01 Movie Guide - VHS)
African monster tales cause scientists to high tail it to Africa where they discover heat exhaustion, poison water, & space mutated monster bees making bee lines for their lives.
Monster From the Ocean Floor
It appears that the one eyed ET octopus shot down in "Atomic Submarine" resurfaces to make trouble for superstitious natives & young lovers until its eye gets poked out by a one man sub.
Monster That Challenged the World, The ('57) (VHS/LD) '01 MG. - VHS/LD) A big amphibious caterpillar threatens navy guys, other guys, & a mother & child. An officer & a gentleman nip this metamorphosis in the pupa.
Mothra ('61) Japanese (VHS) '01 Movie Guide - VHS)
Two giant stages of Lepidoptera metamorphosis star in this two for one Japanese creature feature. As a caterpillar it spits & spins around Parliament. As a moth it raises hell over Tokyo.
Mysterians Japanese ('58)
Planet 'Mysteroid' is doomed. So the 'Mysterians' fly their high tech weapons & horny men to Japan to 'beam up' (etc.) Japanese girls starting the hottest Sci Fi shootin match of the 1950's!
Navy VS The Night Monster, The
A dark sided Mc Hale's Navy. Meaningful infatuations are threatened & worse by a veggie monster that puts damsels & their defenders in terminal distress. Island romances cut short.
Night Caller From Outer Space ('65)
Mutant alien from uterus barren planet seeks sexy British girls though an ad in Bikini Magazine. Successful applicants get a one way trip to an ugly planet to procreate with ugly mutants.
Night The World Exploded
Earth is having a serious bowel problem. Two romantically involved geologists are determined to get to the bottom of a problem destined to become everybody's problem.
Not Of This Earth - (1956 original & '80's version)
Panic In The Year Zero (Formats: DVD, LD, VHS)
Family of four with trailer home hits the road before 'the bomb' hits LA. Civilized father un­civilizes his family to survive a nuked world. White middle aged boy scout turns greenish beret.
Phantom From Space
This space phantom's a hand full for mediocre actors scripted to track him down in after hours LA. When not wearing clothes or a diving helmet he's invisible & untouchable.
Phantom Planet, The
Teeny inhabitants of a tiny asteroid discover good things come in big space suits when earth man crash lands. The girl's dig him. The guy's don't. Jealousy, confrontation, resolution, piece!
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planets Against Us
A dead professor, alias "Bronco," is possessed by a lethal ET with a killing touch. He's the subject of an international man hunt in response to his sabotage of various space programs. .
Planet of Blood
Planet of the Dinosaurs
Planet of Storms [Russian -with English sub titles Great!)
Planet of the Vampire ('68)
What do earth vampires have that ET vampires don't? To find out they bite & suck on some astronauts, taking over their bodies & space ship for a visit to earth. Destination Transylvania?
Project Moonbase
A girl colonel & boy major only intended to orbit the moon & take pictures until a commie saboteur forces a moon landing, followed by a loony lunar marriage in hot pants & shower caps.
Quartermass Experiment, The ('55) Something happened up there and the prognosis down here isn't good for this astronaut born again veggie monster with attitude, tightly wrapped vines, & Ready for a cure...Ready, aim, fire!
Quartermass . Enemy From Space ('57) .
Space rocks containing alien organisms turn humans to zombies who build monster growing domes with all the comforts of home. Zombie reps in Parliament get needed funding.
Quartermass & The Pit ('67)
Anciently stranded ET grasshoppers (?) give paranormal resistance to sharing space with a Lon­don subway project. After bugging Londoners for centuries it's time for the bloody climax.
Queen Of Outer Space (Formats:VHS)
Astronauts are caught in Venus flyers trap where it's 'Female Whites Only!' Can Earth boys stop Venus girls from destroying Earth? Sexy smoochin allies say ooh yes! yes! Oooh! Aaah!
Red Planet Mars (LD/VHS)
"Better dead than red?" Not for a science couple receiving 'Peace on Earth' signals from the Red Planet. Tuned in commies see a big opportunity for a bigger 'Piece of Earth. '
Reptilicus (DVD, VHS)
A piece of frozen reptile monster is dug up, thawed, & regenerates in full to attack Copenhagen. It looks like a Chinese New Year's Dragon & Copenhagen sounds like Chinese fireworks.
Return of the Creature
What creature is that? It’s the Creature from the Black Lagoon and he hasn’t changed a bit.
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
Riders to the Stars ('54)
Can earth men snare meteorites from space? In space Earth metal sucks & Meteor metal rules! American men, 'made of the right stuff,' are sought and sent up to get it.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (LD)
This time he's stuck on a space island with Death Valley landscaping. If the elements don't get em maybe "Friday's" slave captors will - this time.
Robot Monster (DVD, LD, VHS)
A boy's dream or reality? Mar's monster in mink is ordered to finish off Humanity. High tech Earth family VS high tech Martian with a bubble machine & the hots for Earth's last girl Rocketman (1954) John Agar
"Yes Timmy there is a Rocketman." He once gave a magic 'ray gun' to a wee orphan boy who took righteous aim at a corrupt politician and saved an orphanage.
Rocketship MX
The first Hollywood rocket to miss the moon, land on mars, & crash on earth. The 'guy meets girl' duo transition from 'one with the universe' to 'one on one' during pre-crash intimacies.
Rocket Attack USA
It's either viagra for the USA's rocket program or smokin mushrooms over red white & blue! Build em big, long, & strong or with old Glory's ashes we all fall down.
Rodan (LD/VHS)
First this BIG bird catches Earth's attention, then its planes, its cities, & a honeymoon couple. The food chain is affirmed when humans are eaten by pincer bugs that get eaten by Big Bird.
Satan's Satellites
It's another one of those black and white 'earth versus evil' serials attempting to fill the cinema intermission gap one episode at a time.
She Monster
Slime People
Space Children
Children are telepathically recruited by divine pulsating space goop. God enlists kids to kill nuke bomb satellites on both sides of the “iron curtain,” sabotaged by the hands of babes.
Space Master X-7
Space Probe Taurus
A manned/womanned rocket ends up at the bottom of an outer space lake with monster crabs and 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon!?'
Space ways
Alienated couple form two new and separate unions. Did an alienated husband kill his wife & her boyfirend & blast them into space? He blasts off with his new girlfriend to prove otherwise.
Stranger From Venus
UFO headlights force her off the road. She's pulled from the wreck & death's door by a hot alien who pulls her heart strings and yanks the chains of government bureaucrats.
Tarantula
A nuke nutrient kills human animals & enlarges the rest including a nutri-gigantic Tarantula with an appetite for humans and cattle. On his way to town for a bite he's roasted by napalm.
Target Earth
Good target! A smarter planet would have quickly destroyed these bulky cardboard robots. A cute couple plays robot hide & seek but fails to seek needed mat knives & hole punchers.
Teenagers From Outer Space
Aliens land, zap "Sparky," & conduct atmospheric survival tests on their lobster. A dissident alien escapes with Sparky's dog tags, finds owner, falls in love, commits sabotage and dies.
Terror From the Year 5000
Terror Island
A bad tentacle can ruin a good day & turn solid men to mush. Things only get mushier until offending tentacles go limp on nuke fed beef.
Them (Formats: DVD, LD, VHS)
What are Them things? Initial witnesses are too choked up or dead to tell. Them's everywhere & nowhere! A daddy-daughter Entomology team find answers that end Them nasty Antics.
Thing From Another World, The ('51) (Formats: DVD, LD, VHS)
The Thing of Things from outer space at the North Pole. This Thing's composed of vegetable matter that bullets can't splatter. It's not vegetarian and only cooks at high voltage
Things To Come (Formats: DVD, VHS)
The "Things To Come" now dated weapon technology in this one have come and gone. Only human nature remains unchanged, making the weapons that came preferable to those to come.
This Is Not a Test (DVD, VHS)
The cold war's in for a quick thaw with nuke missiles on their way to the USA! Meanwhile a rural cop takes charge of citizen road rabble better suited to a final episode of 'The Love Boat. '
This Island Earth (LD/DVDIVHS)
Aliens from super advanced planet "Metaluna" seek expertise of '1955 Earth PhD's. Metaluna's under attack! Earth brains needed! Includes a round trip Flying Saucer ride to Metaluna.
Time Machine, The ('60) (DVD, LD, VHS)
Departing Dec. 31, 1899. First stop WWI, WW II, WW III. Then where mutant brunettes feed dumb blondes who feed themselves to mutant brunettes. Endangerous!
Tobor the Great (LD, VHS)
Gramps believes robots, not men, should pilot space rockets. He builds a robot to prove it. Commies grab gramps & grandson to get 'the formula.' An American robot gets the commies.
Tobor, Here Comes ('55) (VHS - A TV series pilot that never took off)
Twelve "12 to the Moon" (Formats: VHS - Public Domain)
An astronaut diversity moon mission, featuring WW II vintage animosities & in flight fights, finds more diversity on the moon that threatens a quick freeze of earth's 'melting pot.'
Twenty Million Miles to Earth
A U.S. rocket with pupa wrapped Venus creature crashes in Italy. The creature soon outgrows its pupa & cage to take on the Romans. Rome's Animal Control can't control. Cesar's ghost! Help! Twenty-Seventh (27th) Day, The (Formats: LD, VHS)
A dying planet Alien gives blue collar Earthlings, on both sides of the 'Iron Curtain,' the power to destroy all human life. He then waits 27 days hoping for the worst.
Unearthly Stranger British (Formats: VHS - Public Domain)
Includes a cerebral hemorrhage, sexy bride, and more from outer space than normally expected. Telepathic space travel is refined to a mediocre science. ET’s aren't pleased.
Unknown World (Formats: DVD, VHS)
Scientists burrow deep into earth's bosom seeking evacuation & relocation space in anticipation of atomic war. It's dark dreary space without antidepressants & a great relief to get top side.
Valley of the Gwangi (DVD, LD, VHS)
Cow boys & a cow girl rope a T-Rex & turn it into a rodeo act with unanticipated consequences that catch the attention of paleontologist and victims alike in the prehistoric creature western.
Varan
A Marine Biologist's research dredges up a monstrous spiked back reptile that likes its Japanese raw, sushi style.
Village of the Dammed (' )
Voyage To The Planet Of Prehistoric Women
Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet ('65) (VHS/DVD)
It's 2020 AD and it’s Destination Venus, where one shot kills a hopping dinosaur. Venus girls are heard but not seen. A Russian robot sings & gives astronauts piggy back rides.
War of The Colossal Beast ('58)
A nuked & deteriorating "Colossal Man" is dredged up to squeeze out a few more bucks and humiliations. He now has the face & disposition only a sexy sister could love & tries to rescue.
Warning From Space (Formats: DVD)
A newly discovered power makes nukes seem like puke. ET star creatures transform their top scientist into a sexy cabaret star striving to meet man's cosmic & earthy needs.
War of the Satellites (Formats: VHS - Public domain)
ET's don't want to share space in outer space & thwart Earthling efforts to penetrate the "space barrier." The thwarting includes ET's mimicking humans, U.N. manipulation, & worse.
War of the Worlds ('53) (Formats: DVD, LD, VHS)
Earth VS Mars! The Martians have the weapons but not the antibodies to be earth's some­bodies. Several days on earth & it's like they've got full blown AIDS. Sickening!
Wasp Woman (' )
Men get stung and women have fun in this reversal of role spectacular! No surprises here! All the wasp women are white.
When Worlds Collide [Alias title: 'Horror of the Red Planet'] (LD,VHS,DVD)
They're huge and traveling billions of miles to do unto humans what ancient meteors did unto dinosaurs. It’s time to desert Earth ship. Build a rocket, hold a lottery & riot! Noah’s dejavu.
Wizard of Mars (Formats: VHS)
A forced Mars landing uncovers a Martian civilization stuck in time & microscopic size. A 'G' rated "physical act" is needed to get Martians back in & on time. Help!
Women of the Prehistoric Planet ( )
World Without End
1957 Mar's crew is time warped 500 year's into Earth's future where mutant bullies force normal Americans into an underground society with sissy men in tights & sexy girls in mini skirts.
X From Outer Space, The ('67) (LDNHS)
Japan's best toy space craft are matched with its worst actors & several from Europe to flit, flirt, & fart around in space where they learn how to finish off a space monster & this movie.
X The Unknown ('56) (British) (Formats: DVD, LD, VHS)
A fissioning dirt blob oozes from its fissure in search of fissionable grub. Woe unto those caught between the hot blob & its hot plate.
Yesterday Machine, The ('51) (Format: VHS)
'Time travel' & the 'Nazi dream' combine to keep the dream alive. It's all headquartered under­ground in rural America with Nazi scientists in, and at the, control.
YOG!!. Monster from Outer Space (Japanese)
Featuring an Octopus monster called "Yog." He appears in a pumped up 'Vatican style' hat swiped off a pope? Islander rituals & Japanese guns can't slow it or kill it.
Yongary Monster From the Deep ('69) Korean (VHSILD)
This spike nose monster puts stress on South Korea's weapons stash. A scientist & smart t kid team up to make this monster drops dead & can't get up.
Zontar, The Thing From Venus ('67 remake of "It Conquered The World")
"Zontar" & "It Conquered the World" feature common scripts with different lead hunks.

A 1950's Solar System Education Rendered Obsolete

My educated views on the solar system were acquired in exchange for tuition paid at ticket kiosks fronting cinema establishments advertising 1950's science fiction features. Just when I thought my education was complete NASA rendered it obsolete - repeatedly shooting off its mouth after shooting its probes and people into space.

When NASA sent up for snap shots, soil samples, and atmospheric tests it robbed our imaginations of what might have been.

A lot of folks got excited by the discovery of a “Mar’s rock” thought to contain fossilized worms. This so called ”exciting discovery” has downgraded global imagination about life on Mars to little more than the least of life on Earth, rendering extinct the imaginative creatures once scripted to roam the “angry red planet” of our mid twentieth century silver screens. The 1950’s “War of the Worlds” has been reduced to a potential “War of the Worms,” assuming Mars worms remain with intestines not petrified and fortitudes fortified to take on Earth worms.

Those who grew up on 1950’s science fiction cinema have had their imaginations robbed of:

a 1950’s Mars inhabited by: (a) invisible energy beings surfing radio waves to earth [The Day Mars Invaded Earth, 1962]; (b) triple eyed creatures triple eyeing earth’s Real Estate. [War of the Worlds, 1951]; (c) giant spiders, carnivorous plants and monster amoebas [Angry Red Planet, 1960]; (d) a civilization stuck in time and microscopic size [Wizard of Mars, 1965]; (e) a Mar’s girl seeking sperm donors from earth [Devil Girl from Mars, 1954]; (f) husky abductors in snug one piece green pajamas [Invaders from Mars, 1953]; (g) unidentified beings who only transmit when transmitted to [Red Planet Mars, 1952]; (h) a fat hairy primate with a bubble machine and attraction for earth girls [Robot Monster, 1953]; (i) an underground civilization with men in tights and girls in mini skirts [Flight to Mars, 1951]; (j) scaly monsters with flesh shredding claws [“IT,” The Terror from Beyond Space, 1958 ].

a 1950’s Venus inhabited by: (a) the extinct remnants of a super advanced civilization [First Spaceship on Venus, 1962 ]; (b) hormone enriched high tech sex kittens with attitude [The Queen of Outer Space, 1958]; (c) humanoids with galactic intellects in striped pants [Stranger from Venus, 1959]; (d) fat carrot headed creatures with fangs that release mind control bat gizmos [It Conquered the World, 1956]; (e­) scaly creatures that can grow infinitely large in earth’s atmosphere [20 Million Miles to Earth, 1957]; (f) girls heard but not seen [Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet, 1965].

a 1950’s Neptune inhabited by conquest driven invaders with pointed helmets and substandard martial arts skills [Invasion of the Neptune Men, 1963].

a 1950’s Uranus inhabited by an alien brain that projects man’s worst fears and best dream girls [Journey to the Seventh Planet, 1962].

a 1950’s Moon inhabited by: (a) caterpillar monsters and humanoids with spears [First Men in the Moon, 1964]; (b) authentic beauty queens in black leotards [Catwomen of the Moon, 1954]; (c) telepathic women ruled by a telepathically superior evil queen [Missile to the Moon, 1959]; (d) a mysterious underground civilization seeking married couples from earth [Twelve to the Moon, 1960].

a 1950’s Jupiter moon inhabited by beautiful girls sacrificing their own to an ugly brute with big teeth and a large appetite seeking the squirming screaming meal of his dreams [Fire Maidens of Outer Space, 1955].

a 1950’s Asteroid inhabited by an advanced civilization of tiny people navigating their high tech space rock through space [The Phantom Planet, 1961].

The boring revelations of science depicting a life barren solar system force our imaginations to stretch light years to imagine what could once be imagined a rocket ride away in our own cosmic neighborhood! Current space craft technology would take nine months to get to mars and seventy thousand years to get to the nearest star. “The experts” suggests it will be decades before we have hazy telescopic insight into planets further out that are candidates for harboring life and alternative receptacles for the content of our imagination.

However, notwithstanding the so called accomplishments of NASA and its foreign counter-parts, some 1950’s and early 1960’s cinematic speculations about what exists out there or visits here have yet to be disproved, as evidenced by the following: (1) a one eyed octopuses in water proof flying saucer seeking relocation space in earth’s oceans [Atomic Submarine, 1959]. (2) a dark blue flying saucer wandering aimlessly about without pilot or stated purpose [The Bamboo Saucer, 1968]. (3) a small extraterrestrial flying contraption that can make noise everywhere in the middle of nowhere [Beast with a Million Eyes, 1955]. (4) a floating ET brain seeking human head space and world domination [Brain from Planet Arous, 1957]. (5) floating flitting light balls containing alien brains that inhabit middle age humans [Cape Canaveral Monsters, 1960]. (6) a cosmic man able to exit and enter his golf ball space craft via light beams [The Cosmic Man, 1958]. (7) cosmic rays that enlarge insects and diminish humans [Cosmic Monsters, 1962]. (8) high elevation one eyed ETs able to turn humans into freeze dried zombies [The Crawling Eye, 1958]. (9) an astronaut’s severed hand that has a hand in multiple murders [The Crawling Hand, 1963]. (10) a bulky slow moving ET comprised of rags, tarps, and carpets that consumes slow moving people [The Creeping Terror, 1964]. (11) an invisible space monster able to suck up urban landscapes [Dagora, 1965]. (12) falling veggie space things able to blind and eat humans and take over their space [The Day of the Triffids, 1962]. (13) ET cops authorized to police Earth’s nuclear impact on other planets [The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951]. (14) light weight ET’s in laser equipped saucers [Earth VS the Flying Saucers, 1956]. (15) aliens ‘flying under the influence,’ intoxicating teens via fingernail syringes [Invasion of the Saucermen, 1962]. (16) outer space effects that turn men into monsters [First Man into Space, 1959]. (17) a gooey space creature able to board orbiting earth craft for a menacing visit to earth [Flame Barrier, 1958]. (18) a man eating space bird projecting an anti matter shield that can deflect the military’s best efforts [The Giant Claw, 1957]. (19) ugly space aliens that assume the likeness of eligible bachelors and marry their women [I Married a Monster from outer space, 1958]. (20) an ET force field able to isolate one neighborhood from the rest [Invasion, 1966]. (21) veggie space pods able to assume the likeness of humans and destroy the originals [Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956] (22) invisible ET invaders able to inhabit dead humans and play hide seek and destroy with the military [Invisible Invaders, 1959]. (23) one eyed ET’s that land like meteors in meteor looking space craft [It Came from Outer Space, 1953]. (24) ET’s with bulging eyes able to tunnel under nuclear test sites and make our world their world [Killers from Space, 1954]. (25) a gigantic ET vacuum able to suck up Earth’s energy for take out to another planet. [Kronos, 1957] (26) a low flying ET friction missile that can turn cities to toast. [Lost Missile, 1958] (27) a marauding planet X seeking an earth takeover [Man from Planet X, 1951]. (28) dead planet aliens squat on mars then on the moon and now they want to squat in Japan [The Mysterians, 1957].

The list goes on and science still has a lot to answer for!