Showing posts with label Bad Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad Film. Show all posts

Monday, September 29, 2025

Zontar Top Shelf Classics 1950s Sci Fi films part 2

Zontar Top Shelf Classics are the best of their kind. Not a tiresome numbered best of list, but an acknowledgment of quality that lifts it above the grey sea of mediocrity.  It is not a fixed document as The Editors and their Master from Venus are a fickle lot, reassessing  and rethinking the vast interconnected flows of Earth HuMan culture. 


Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)  Ray Harryhausen brings life to flying saucers, and the destruction of Washington DC.



Forbidden Planet (1956) Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, the first electronic musical score by Bebe and Louis Barron, epic effects, and the inspiration for Star Trek TOS. The "Krell Arch" shows up all over the franchise. 



Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) classic brain control cold war paranoia. 




It Conquered the World (1956) Corman brings us the classic visage of the then unnamed Zontar.



The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) John agar is controlled by a lusty Space brain.



Quatermass 2 (aka Enemy From Space) (1957) Industrial bleakness enhances the horror of the discovery that the Aliens are well on their way to control. 



Invisible Invaders (1959) Edward L. Cahn's fevered dream has an Alien resurrected John Carradine foretelling the Earth's doom. 




Zontar Top Shelf Classics 1950s Sci Fi films part 1

Zontar Top Shelf Classics are the best of their kind. Not a tiresome numbered best of list, but an acknowledgment of quality that lifts it above the grey sea of mediocrity.  It is not a fixed document as The Editors and their Master from Venus are a fickle lot, reassessing  and rethinking the vast interconnected flows of Earth HuMan culture. 


The Thing from Another World (1951) By far the best version with the hand of Howard Hawks showing with overlapping dialogue and striking cinematography. 




The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) Hans Conried shines in the best adaptation of Seuss.



Invaders from Mars (1953)
William Cameron Menzies' masterpiece of childhood paranoid nightmares with incredible imagery.




Robot Monster (1953) One of the great Bad-Films.



Godzilla (a.k.a Gojira)(1954) The original Japanese movie is a moving anti-nuke statement. Zontar Magazine released the first subtitled home video of this back in the VHS days.



Them! (1954) The first and best of the big bug flicks.  



This Island Earth (1955) Technicolor and widescreen its like a 1950s Sci Fi short story come to life. Interocitors and the destruction of an alien world are but a few of the delights.






Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Danish Movie Programs #2

Bride of the Gorilla Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr. 1951 



affo - Venere di Lesbo Tina Louise, Kerwin Mathews 1960 
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6 Day Bike Rider Joe E. Brown Maxine Doyle Vintage 1934



Earthworm Tractors Joe E. Brown June Travis 1936



What a Way to Go! Shirley MacLaine Paul Newman  1964 



A Night to Remember Kenneth More, Ronald Allen 1958 



Bílá nemoc Hugo Haas Bedrich Karen 1937 


Blondie Takes a Vacation Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake 1939




Foreign Correspondent Joel McCrea, Laraine Day 1940



Carry On Doctor Frankie Howerd, Sidney James Vintage 1967 



Invisible Agent Ilona Massey Jon Hall Peter Lorre 1942 



Lost Continent Cesar Romero Hillary Brooke 1951



Horse Feathers  Marx Brothers 1932



Monkey Business  Marx Brothers 1931



Donald Duck Pluto Mickey Mouse Walt Disney 1950s




Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Cary Grant Loy 1948



For a Few Dollars More Clint Eastwood Van Cleef 1965.



Pollyanna Hayley Mills Jane Wyman Walt Disney 1960



Speedway Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra 1968



The Atomic Kid Mickey Rooney Robert Strauss 1954



The Black Cat Basil Rathbone Hugh Herbert Broderick 1941



The Killers Lee Marvin Angie Dickinson John Cassavetes 1964 



The Naked Brigade Shirley Eaton Ken Scott Mairi  1965



Untamed Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan 1955
















































 

Monday, October 9, 2023

UK quad posters (30 inches x 40 inches) #3

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930/1950 reissue) 



Black Shield of Falworth (1954)



Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)



SIMBA (1955) 



FBI Story (1959)



Forbidden Island (1959)



GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! (1962) 




LET’S KILL UNCLE (1966) William Castle 



Mildred Pierce  (2001 RR) 



Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)



Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)



Prince Valiant  (1954)



The Robe (1953)



Spy in the Green Hat  Man From UNCLE (1967)



Story of David (1961)



THE INTERNS (1962) 



The Plank (1967) 



Triumph of Hercules (1964)