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Amazon.co.uk: Fly, The / Return Of The Fly [1958]: DVD This is much more of a monster flic than the first Fly film and focuses much more on action rather than upon the fight of a monster to retain his humanity. The main clue to the lower buget is that the film was shot in black and white unlike the original which was in technicolour. The low buget can be seen on the man-headed fly which looks far inferior to the similar creature on the first film. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NOLW   (882 words)

The Fly The film is most remarkable for its unwavering attention to the human element that glistens behind the eyes of its monster, which makes THE FLY Cronenbergs supreme portrayal of "the immortal soul tied to the body of a dying animal." Although it is a showcase for the make-up effects of Walas and his crew, and was Cronenberg's biggest production, the film is a surprisingly compressed, intimate work. "...Whereas the original deterioated into a fly-hunt, the remake opts for a slow metamorposis from man to fly that develops as a disease would. members.tripod.com /~southwor/DavidCronenberg/fly.html   (468 words)

Classic-Horror Review of The Fly (1958) The Fly was released in the midst of the 50’s monster-film craze, and make no mistake, it is an attempt to capitalize on that trend. This section of The Fly is sustained for some time, and when the moment comes that Helen reveals the shocking backstory, which is re-enacted instead of just re-told, and which ends up forming the bulk of the film, it’s the perfect moment for a release from the tension of the mystery. But unlike most of those films, it never seems cheesy or campy, the science never seems like complete nonsense, and none of it comes across as unintentionally funny at this late date--even allowing for the relatively primitive special effects and the occasionally lampooned late scene involving a spider web. classic-horror.com /reviews/fly58.shtml   (744 words)

#47: THE FLY The original 1958 film came up with a great idea, but a dude with a labcoat and a giant fly-head was hardly the scariest looking thing around. Soon he turns into an out and out monster that seems like a FLY that would be living in HR Giger's house. There was a sequel, the cleverly titled FLY II (which really should have been called SON OF THE FLY), with Eric Stoltz as Brundle's son. www.retrocrush.com /100monsters/47.html   (299 words)

Sound Space: Science Fiction Audio Reviews The lengthy "Allen Dies/Righting Matters" from Return of the Fly accomplishes a similar feat, blending tension and terror with sympathy and resolve, just as "Rat Monster/Getting Rid of the Car" smoothly integrates an arresting arrangement of sneaky and startling notes. Well, along with an engaging storyline, solid acting and years of television reruns, one possibility might be the musical accompaniment. A new two-CD set spotlights not only their work on this classic SF movie, but also their contributions to a pair of less-well-remembered sequels: Return of the Fly and Curse of the Fly. www.scifi.com /sfw/issue309/sound.html   (574 words)

The Fly (1958) - The Monster Created By Atoms Gone Wild The Fly (1958) - The Monster Created By Atoms Gone Wild www.britannia.org /film/filmdetails.php?FilmID=00000563   (31 words)

Science Fiction Movie Posters One-Sheet...Fine...$20 Son of Dracula 1970s Lobby card showing mummy and Frankenstein monster attacking a woman...Fine to NM...$15 Son of Dr. Jekyl 1951 Louis Hayward 8 Card Lobby Set...NM...$75 Son of Frankenstein 1963R Close-up still of Bela and Boris as Dr. and Monster Frankenstein...NM...$20 Sorcerers, The 1967 Close-up of elderly woman comforting a beleaguered Boris Karloff. Phantom of Soho Mint...v.attractive...$35 Monster on the Campus 1958 Huge head shot of monster and students fleeing for their lives. Done in flourescent yellow & black...shows caricature of A&C jumping and holding their hats...One is Near Mint...$75 After the Fall of New York 1984 Apparently an attempt to simulate the movie "The Escape from New York"...shows a huge sword-slinging monster coming after the people of New York...excellent graphics... www.movieposters.com /public_html/html/scifinew.htm   (31 words)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) (1958) and two other modern day dinosaur films - The Giant Behemoth/Behemoth the Sea Monster (1958) and This was clearly early days before Ray Harryhausen would go onto polish his art in the standout likes of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973). The show is fairly much stolen by an amusingly absent-minded, schoolboyish performance from Cecil Kellaway. www.moria.co.nz /sf/beast20000fathoms.htm   (584 words)

Classic-Horror Review of The Fly (1958) The Fly was released in the midst of the 50’s monster-film craze, and make no mistake, it is an attempt to capitalize on that trend. I know there’s a whole camp, comprised primarily of the folks who’d say that House of Dracula blows Ravenous out of the water when it comes to horror, who think the 1958 version of The Fly is a masterpiece and the 1986 version is so much garbage on celluloid. This section of The Fly is sustained for some time, and when the moment comes that Helen reveals the shocking backstory, which is re-enacted instead of just re-told, and which ends up forming the bulk of the film, it’s the perfect moment for a release from the tension of the mystery. classic-horror.com /reviews/fly58.shtml   (889 words)

Amazon.com -zShops: GIGANTIS THE FIRE MONSTER original movie poster GODZILLA This is an original 14x22 window card poster from the film "Gigantis The Fire Monster" released in 1958. Description: This is an original 14x22 window card poster from the film "Gigantis The Fire Monster" released in 1958. This poster was sent to theatres to be displayed in the lobby to promote the film's engagement. s1.amazon.com /exec/varzea/change-style/ts/exchange-glance/Y03Y6024879Y2517808/058-9875942-5503622   (219 words)

Biography for Christopher Lee (I) However, it was when playing the monster in the Hammer film, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) that proved to be a blessing in disguise, since the movie did successfully, leading to him being signed on for future roles in Hammer Films Productions. Lee and Cushing often than not played contrasting roles in Hammer films, where Cushing was the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula respectively in Dracula (1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy respectively in The Mummy (1959). Lee had numerous parts in film and television throughout the 1950s but didn't achieve stardom until his association with Hammer Film Productions, which started with The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), all co-starring Peter Cushing. www.imdb.com /name/nm0000489/bio   (3406 words)

Syracuse New Times: Film Review Britain's Hammer Films was nearing its end as a defining influence of horror features for almost 20 years when the company OK'ed this offbeat production, in which former Imperial Guard soldier Captain Kronos (Horst Janson, who resembles Roman Polanski) and his hunchback assistant Grost (John Cater) roam 19th-century Europe in search of sawtooths to slay. Schlockmeister William Castle was best known for his horror-movie gimmicks, such as wiring selected bijou seats to deliver mild shocks to patrons for 1959's The Tingler or having a skeleton attached to a pulley and shoved into an unsuspecting audience during screenings of 1958's House on Haunted Hill. Paramount Home Entertainment's sell-through DVD of Kronos boasts a commentary track with Clemens and Munro; incidentally, Paramount has also released a separate DVD of Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, which was the second half of the double bill with Kronos. newtimes.rway.com /2003/102903/film.shtml   (3406 words)

1958 in film I Married a Monster from Outer Space Contains a film review of the 1958 movie in which he starred as the character Bill Ferrell. Ley de correos (1958) Texto completo de la Ley publicada en la Gaceta Oficial N° 25.841 de fecha 18 de diciembre de 1958. See also: 1957 in film, other events of 1958, 1959 in film, list of 'years in film'. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1958_in_film.html   (3406 words)

the fly plus sequel and remakes- film reviews for zone-sf.com Cronenberg's The Fly is an intelligent revision of a much-loved yet cheesy SF monster movie, which dispenses with the flashback structure of the 'classic' film and opts for linear storytelling. As the original 1950s' version of The Fly was set in Montreal, it was appropriate that Canadian David Cronenberg was chosen to co-write (with Charles Edward Pogue) and direct a new adaptation of the story. The final scenes of The Fly, in which dodgy visual effects reveal a tiny human face on the fly's body crying out for help because it's stuck in a spider's web, have passed into genre legend as the epitome of high camp, and are often parodied. www.zone-sf.com /fly-movies.html   (1026 words)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Harryhausen’s films are largely designed to showcase his stop-motion animated creature effects and collectively often seem more like travelogues through a fantasy zoo, with their scripts rarely serving to do more than bring together a menagerie of Harryhausen’s creations. Stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen first came to notice in the 1950s, initially with monster movies such as The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) and 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) and then the enormous success of the Arabian Nights fantasy The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). Jason’s origin is blurred somewhat - Pelias is supposed to be his uncle, for instance, and there is a lot that is missing, particularly a good deal of the story’s ambiguity and nastiness. www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/jason.htm   (1026 words)

Compare prices for Monster on the Campus (1958) Science Fiction Movies DVD-Video. Read science fiction movies dvd-video reviews and compare prices at Yahoo! Shopping. Compare prices for Monster on the Campus (1958) Science Fiction Movies DVD-Video. Arthur Franz stars in this far-out science fiction film as Donald, a professor of paleontology who receives a prehistoric fish at all-American Dunston University. Whit Bissell is the head of Dunston's science department, and scoffs at the whole nonsensical business. 66.218.75.128 /p:Monster%20on%20the%20Campus:1800197200   (1026 words)

dOc DVD Review: The Fly/The Return of the Fly (1958/1959) The Return of the Fly, filmed the next year, is not so important or so understated, and suffers from a script which degenerates into typical mad monster stuff. The relationships are all wooden and by the numbers, and it's difficult to care about any of the characters here, whereas there was a close empathy with the situations of many of the characters in the original film. This time the fly in the ointment is Philippe's assistant, Alan Hinds (David Frankham), who is willing to commit murder or worse in order to steal the matter-transmission technology and sell it to the highest bidder. www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=434   (1297 words)

At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Dracula (1958) Fresh from their success with The Curse of Frankenstein, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing adapt the classic Dracula story in what is arguably their best in a long line of classic monster movies. Back to the Film Reviews for the 1950s. The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974) (aka: "Rites of Dracula") www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/dracula.1958.shtml   (1297 words)

MTV.com - Movies - Jacques Marquette During the late '50s, however, Marquette made a brief foray into producing and directing movies that led to the making of a handful of low-budget science fiction and horror classics, the most fondly remembered of which was Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). It was to avail himself of their services, make some profitable films, and graduate to the role of cinematographer that he formed Marquette Productions in 1957. Marquette shot the latter film for an estimated 58,000 dollars, using the house and backyard of a neighbor, while actors John Agar, Robert Fuller, Thomas B. Henry and everyone else involved -- including director Nathan Juran, working under the alias Nathan Hertz on this low-budget production -- worked for scale. www.mtv.com /movies/person/89615/bio.jhtml   (1297 words)

GORGO at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES Eugene Lourie was already a veteran director of monster movies such as "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), "The Colossus of New York" (1958), and "Behemoth The Sea Monster" (1959) when he made "Gorgo", Britain's answer to the popular "Godzilla" dinosaur series. This film had the edge over many of the previous black and white monster flicks as it was shot in fabulous colour, there was no dubbing of voices and it boasted some of the best special effects at the time. "Gorgo" has got what it takes to appeal to all monster movie fans. www.hollywoodteenmovies.com /Gorgo.html   (335 words)

Frankenstein Movies Monster Culture was born, and a new burst of Frankenstein energy generated I was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Frankenstein 1970 (1958; with Karloff as a then-future descendant of Victor Frankenstein) and Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958). As originally shot, the film showed the Monster as blind and speaking in Ygor’s voice ! Then England’s minor Hammer Studio, like Universal before it, reached for the big time with classic horror thanks to Frankenstein. frankenstein.monstrous.com /frankenstein_movies.htm   (1794 words)

Frankenstein Movies Monster Culture was born, and a new burst of Frankenstein energy generated I was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Frankenstein 1970 (1958; with Karloff as a then-future descendant of Victor Frankenstein) and Frankenstein’s Daughter (1958). As originally shot, the film showed the Monster as blind and speaking in Ygor’s voice ! Tim Burton’s 27-minute Frankenweenie (1984) is a clever parody of the first Whale film, in which young Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver) reanimates his dog with household appliances only to find that the neighbors hate and fear the reanimated Sparky. frankenstein.monstrous.com /frankenstein_movies.htm   (1794 words)

Savant Review: Fiend Without a Face Fiend is just a 1958 Sci-Fi film, slightly more gory than most, but not all, of its kin. Fiend Without a Face is referred to in Criterion's special essay as 'a high-water mark in British Science Fiction.' This is total hooey. Fiend was made in the same cookie-cutter as scores of other uninspired monster movies - fill up seventy minutes with anything at all, followed by a few minutes of a monster for a payoff. www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s177fiend.html   (1794 words)

Biography for Christopher Lee (I) However, it was when playing the monster in the Hammer film, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) that proved to be a blessing in disguise, since the movie did successfully, leading to him being signed on for future roles in Hammer Films Productions. By the mid-1970s, Lee was tiring of his horror image and tried to widen his appeal by participating in several mainstream films, such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Lee and Cushing often than not played contrasting roles in Hammer films, where Cushing was the protagonist and Lee the villain, whether it be Van Helsing and Dracula respectively in Dracula (1958), or John Banning and Kharis the Mummy respectively in The Mummy (1959). www.imdb.com /name/nm0000489/bio   (3328 words)

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001): Larry Blamire, Fay Masterson, Brian Howe, Jennifer Blaire - PopMatters Film Review The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra constitutes another attempt, lovingly based on bad, low-budget movies, borrowing from and referencing classics such as The Astounding She Monster (1958), Robot Monster (1959), The Brain from Planet Arous (1958), and The Day the World Ended (1956). The story follows jovial scientist Paul Armstrong (Larry Blamire, also the writer and director), and his adoring wife Betty (Fay Masterson) as they drive their snazzy convertible to a remote cabin in California's Bronson Canyon (where all the films mentioned in the previous paragraph were at least partially shot). At the same time, an alien couple, Kro-Bar (Andrew Parks) and Lattis (Susan McConnell), crashland a cheap-looking spaceship in a splotch of forest near the cabin. www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/l/lost-skeleton-of-cadavra.shtml   (3328 words)

Henshin!Online George Takei was the man of many voices for his first acting job as a voice actor on the 1957 American version of RODAN (Sora-no Daikaiju Radon, 1956), followed by the second Godzilla film GIGANTIS: THE FIRE MONSTER (Gojira-no Gyakushu, 1955) and the Toho horror film THE H-MAN (Bijo-to Ekitai Ningen, 1958). Even though there were Anime superhero team shows before it, such as RAINBOW TASK FORCE: ROBIN (1966-1967), SKYERS 5 (1967) and CYBORG 009 (1967-1968), GATCHAMAN was the influential force that set the parameters for the team-based Anime and Tokusatsu series that followed, especially in the Sentai and Combination Robot sub-genres. Nankai-no Daikaiju) and released theatrically in the United States as YOG: MONSTER FROM SPACE, SPACE AMOEBA came out on R2 DVD this past June 24. www.henshinonline.com /archive.html   (16827 words)

Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Earth vs The Spider [2001] Earth vs. The Spider can't really make up its mind whether it's an homage to the B-movie horror genre (the title, but nothing else, has been lifted from the 1958 drive-in "classic"), a too-ironic-for-its-own-good spoof, or an uncomplicated but genuine monster flick. There's also what seems at first to be a nod in the direction of Toho's multi-monster epics, but those two giant furry caterpillars are in fact Theresa Russell's eyebrows. 'Earth Vs the Spider' isn't a bad film....but neither is it a great film either. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000063VA4   (16827 words)

Untitled In fact a few years earlier, in 1958, I had been at Loch Ness during a trip through Scotland and had not found any reason to believe that the Monster is real. To me he is one of the most qualified scientist for a long long time, who has looked into the mystery of The Loch Ness Monster and had their been sufficient funds to keep him searching I´m sure he would be the man to solve the riddle. The objective evidence of Dinsdale film, innumerable sonar contacts, and 1972 flipper photo "with simultaneous sonar" proves that. user.bahnhof.se /~wizard/cryptoworld/index10a.html   (16827 words)

Arkoff Film Library David Skal in The Monster Show (Plexus, London, 1994) notes that by 1958 twelve to twenty-five year olds represented 72 percent of the moviegoing public. Just for the record the cover showing a monster with a dagger in it’s eye and a decorous woman prostrated before it is nowhere to be seen in the film itself. DVD extras include a 50 minute audio interview with Samuel Z. Arkoff, recorded in 1991 at the National Film Theatre which is accompanied by pictures taken at the time, plus nine original Theatrical Film Trailers of movies from the Arkoff Film library. www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/193005   (3104 words)

Britmovie - The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 The film's suggestion that the monster has become a cannibal is also so subtly referred to as to be almost undetectable, while the creature into which the Baron's brain is transplanted at the end just happens to look and sound exactly like Peter Cushing! The film starts off well, with a shot of the guillotine to which Frankenstein is being led for execution. Surprisingly, the operation goes well and Karl, now played by Michael Gwynn) turns out to be both intelligent and articulate - just as in the Mary Shelley novel. www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/horror/filmography/009.html   (565 words)

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