Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Watchingwell   








             Curated classic films














Guilty Pleasures Part II
Movies that are so bad, they’re sorta good


     Yes, folks, in my quest to relay to you the rarest of film finds, I have actually unearthed another set of these unappreciated gems. I present them to you in reverse order of embarrassment to the film-making profession.




The Crawling Eye (1958)
I hope I won't spoil it for anyone by saying the crawling eye is actually an alien.  Forrest Tucker gives a respectable performance as a scientist in Switzerland looking into strange happenings in a small town. Directed by Quentin Lawrence.







The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Ooh, Bela Lugosi is a scientist who tries to keep his wife alive by kidnapping young women and extracting their young, glandular fluids for her. Directed by Wallace Fox.





The Wild, Wild Planet (1966)
A mad scientist tries to engineer the perfect human by using attractive specimens he captures for crazy experiments. Directed by Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony Dawson).








Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
Romeo and Juliet in space as an earthling and an alien in love try to save Earth from an alien lobster invasion. Directed by Tom Graeff.





From Hell It Came (1957)
Killer tree takes revenge on natives because before it was a tree it was a man -- oh, it doesn't matter -- killer tree --hilarious! Directed by Dan Milner.




                                                    The Mad Monster (1942)
Discredited doctor, the competently-evil, George Zucco, plots revenge by doing experiments.  His first one turns his gardener into a werewolf. Oops. Directed by Sam Newfield.






Killers From Space (1954)
Bug-eyed aliens 'save' Peter Graves after his plane crashes in the desert while recording radiation levels from atom bomb tests. Peter comes home acting strange. Directed by W. Lee Wilder.




                                                        Lost Continent (1951)
Two scientists go to South Sea Island to recover a downed atomic rocket.  They have to do a lot of climbing when they get there and find -- dinosaurs!  A pretty decent cast and really cheap special effects.  Directed by Samuel Newfield.
Project Moon Base (1953)
A spy on board a ship bound for the moon is out to sabotage the space station. This film is worth watching  just to catch the jaw-dropping sexist dialogue. Directed by Richard Talmadge.

and the number one most embarrassing is:



Jungle Goddess (1948)
George Reeves (of Superman fame) and Ralph Byrd (of Dick Tracy fame) travel to Africa to rescue American heiress who was in a plane crash.  However, they must contend with the fact that she has become the 'white goddess' to the natives (naturally). Watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version.  Directed by Lewis D. Collins.


Grab some popcorn and have some laughs.