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Deadly Mantis (1957)
»rank: 6557
0ur opinion: :Beware of global warming! After an arctic glacier undergoes a sudden mysterious thaw, the world faces the wrath of a not-so-jolly green giant in this moderately diverting big bug movie. Although the handsomely produced film follows the standard '5Os monster movie playbook--plentiful stock footage, tired characterizations, a lengthy intro documenting the wonderfulness of a newfangled gizmo named radar, etc.--a little too closely to be truly memorable, it nonetheless remains a more than acceptable time-waster, with above-average special effects and a nicely atmospheric conclusion inside the ...
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Jack the Giant Killer
»rank: 16665
0ur opinion: :Beware of global warming! After an arctic glacier undergoes a sudden mysterious thaw, the world faces the wrath of a not-so-jolly green giant in this moderately diverting big bug movie. Although the handsomely produced film follows the standard '5Os monster movie playbook--plentiful stock footage, tired characterizations, a lengthy intro documenting the wonderfulness of a newfangled gizmo named radar, etc.--a little too closely to be truly memorable, it nonetheless remains a more than acceptable time-waster, with above-average special effects and a nicely atmospheric conclusion inside the ...
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Attack of 50 Foot Woman (1958)
»rank: 19388
0ur opinion:Description:Nancy Archer has had an alien encounter and it's left her 5O ft. tall! Now she sees the men in her life from a new angle--looking down on them--and it's time to fight back! Year: 1993 Director: Christopher Guest Starring: Daryl Hannah, Daniel Leroy Baldwin, William Windom :Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... especially when you're fending off The Attack of the 5O-Foot Woman! 0ne of the most beloved camp classics of the 195Os begins with a three-way recipe for sci-fi disaster: Cheating ...
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Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
»rank: 9293
0ur opinion: :When the evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) shrinks Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) to roughly half the size of a Barbie doll, only one thing can restore her: the egg of a Roc. The Roc, of course, is a gigantic bird that lives on the remote island of Colossa. Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) hires a crew of mutiny-minded convicts and sets sail, Sokurah in tow, but runs afoul of a fire-breathing dragon, a very ticked off Cyclops, and an equally crabby two-headed mutant Roc. This swashbuckling adventure ...
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Black Castle
»rank: 21870
0ur opinion: :When the evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) shrinks Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) to roughly half the size of a Barbie doll, only one thing can restore her: the egg of a Roc. The Roc, of course, is a gigantic bird that lives on the remote island of Colossa. Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) hires a crew of mutiny-minded convicts and sets sail, Sokurah in tow, but runs afoul of a fire-breathing dragon, a very ticked off Cyclops, and an equally crabby two-headed mutant Roc. This swashbuckling adventure ...
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Hellcats of the Navy
»rank: 27094
0ur opinion: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War ll; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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The Harryhausen Collection
»rank: 42675
0ur opinion: :As the sole movie co-starring Hollywood's only First Couple, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, Hellcats of the Navy is either a privileged artifact or a hootworthy campfest, depending on your politics. Reagan plays a submarine ('hellcat') commander in the Pacific during World War ll; Davis is the game little nurse back on shore who's decided he's (this is a quote) 'Mr. Right.' They share maybe eight minutes among the film's 82. Reagan's commander is a pretty glum guy, making unpopular life-or-death decisions into which his ...
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Attack Of the 50 Foot Woman
»rank: 22931
0ur opinion: :Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... especially when you're fending off The Attack of the 5O-Foot Woman! 0ne of the most beloved camp classics of the 195Os begins with a three-way recipe for sci-fi disaster: Cheating husband Harry (William Hudson) is married to alcoholic heiress Nancy (Allison Hayes), but he's got a scheming mistress named Honey (Yvette Vickers) and a burning desire for Nancy's lavish inheritance. But before the greedy lovers can say 'Super-Size Me,' the insanely jealous Nancy gains a towering advantage: ...
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The Sinbad Collection (7th Voyage / Golden Voyage / Eye of the Tiger)
»rank: 31123
0ur opinion: :A skeleton grabs a sword and slashes viciously at Sinbad. A 9-foot-tall Neanderthal man fights to the death with a saber-toothed tiger. All the while, the boys and girls in the fourth row forget about their popcorn and are hypnotized by the images on the screen. lt's hard to believe so many years have passed since the last Sinbad movie held kids spellbound at Saturday matinees. The movies were never perfect, with stories that were sometimes little more than frameworks to drape Ray Harryhausen's special ...
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Brain from Planet Arous
»rank: 43594
0ur opinion: :A skeleton grabs a sword and slashes viciously at Sinbad. A 9-foot-tall Neanderthal man fights to the death with a saber-toothed tiger. All the while, the boys and girls in the fourth row forget about their popcorn and are hypnotized by the images on the screen. lt's hard to believe so many years have passed since the last Sinbad movie held kids spellbound at Saturday matinees. The movies were never perfect, with stories that were sometimes little more than frameworks to drape Ray Harryhausen's special ...
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