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Continue reading →: The Trollenberg Terror (1958)A Swiss mountain, a radioactive cloud, a lab with a bottomless budget, and Janet Munro stealing every scene. One of my favorite B movies of all time.
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Continue reading →: Now Casting: Beta Testers for In the Can!My B-movie card game, In the Can!: Atomic Pictures, is officially in play testing, and I’m looking for beta testers.
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Continue reading →: The Master List: Every 1950s Sci-Fi Film on the Watchlist
Every 1950s sci-fi and creature feature on the Attack of the 50-Foot Watchlist, grouped by year, with what I’ve watched so far.
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Continue reading →: Rocketship X-M (1950)“They aimed for the Moon and woke up on Mars.” Why I Watched It This was the film that tried to start it all. Released just before Destination Moon, Rocketship X-M wanted to bring serious science to the screen. Instead, it accidentally invented the “whoops, wrong planet” subgenre. I went…
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Continue reading →: Prehistoric Women (1950)Tagline: Before time began, so did the stereotypes. Why I Watched It I try to give every movie from the 1950s sci-fi era a fair shake, even when they stretch the definition of the genre. Prehistoric Women is not traditional science fiction as we define it now, but it was…
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Continue reading →: The Flying Saucer (1950)The first film to feature a flying saucer… and maybe the least about one. Why I Watched It This one holds a strange but important little place in sci-fi history. The Flying Saucer (1950) is often credited as the very first feature film to actually include a flying saucer on…
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Continue reading →: Destination Moon (1950)Destination Moon deserves its reputation as one of the most influential sci-fi films of the decade.
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Continue reading →: Devil Girl from Mars (1954)A commanding alien woman crash-lands in the Scottish Highlands and discovers conquering Earth is harder than it looks. Devil Girl from Mars (1954) is witty, theatrical, and endlessly rewatchable, proving that sometimes the cheesiest movies are the most entertaining.
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Continue reading →: Welcome to the Watchlist!Welcome, cinema aficionados and interstellar wanderers! I’m Jay, your friendly neighborhood movie nut on what may very well be the most delightfully absurd quest imaginable. When I share my mission to watch every single 1950s sci-fi flick ever concocted, the usual response is a chorus of laughter, followed by a…
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I’m B-Movie Jay, and I’m on a ridiculous mission to watch every 1950s sci-fi movie ever made, one rubber monster, atomic mutant, and flying saucer at a time.
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