When a small band of people is shipwrecked on an uncharted island, they soon find themselves facing a greater menace than isolation and survival against the elements: the island is ruled over by a Nazi scientist who escaped after the war and continues his experiments on some captive women in an effort to find a …
Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Mayhem in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, a rare fertile man who is appropriated by the governing MedTech Corporation. Hell is sent unwillingly, but compelled by boobytrapped underwear, together with a MedTech scientist and a driver/bodyguard, to rescue some captive fertile women from the mutant stronghold Frogtown, so that they can …
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Warlords of the 21st Century (1982)
In a post-apocalyptic world, a loner (Michael Beck) rescues a young woman (Annie McEnroe) fleeing from an evil gang led by a ruthless warlord in an armed and armored semi-truck (hence the other title of the move, Battletruck). The gang eventually targets the peaceful village where the woman takes refuge and where the loner has …
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Santo contra los zombies (1962)
Rather slow but nonetheless entertaining movie that apparently was masked wrestler Santo’s first starring vehicle, Santo contra los zombies has our hero, as so often, battling a mad scientist and his minions — in this case zombies energized and controlled by electronic belts. There’s plenty of battles both in the ring and out, a rather …
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Man with Two Lives (Monogram, 1942)
When a scientist experimenting with revivification brings a young man (Edward Norris) back to life after a car crash, something is very different about the boy. He soon is heading out of the house and taking up with a gang of crooks and proving himself a vicious member of the gang, even as he neglects …
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She (1984)
In this bizarre post-apocalyptic movie that really owes nothing but its title to H. Rider Haggard’s classic fantasy adventure tale, Sandahl Bergman plays the leader of one tribe. As their goddess, she routinely kills those chosen in a ritual to be her lovers. Things change, however, when two brothers, whose sister has been abducted by …
Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
Pia Zadora stars as Dee Dee, who just wants a chance to sing with a band, though her jerk of a boyfriend, who has a Stray Cats-like rockabilly group, doesn’t want her to do so. She gets her chance, however, when aliens arrive and decide to perform at the local high school cotillion — if …
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Earth vs the Spider (American International, 1958)
High school students, a teacher, and the sheriff end up fighting against a monstrous arachnid after one student’s father is killed by the giant creature. Initial success proves illusory, however, and more terror awaits the teens and the town. There’s nothing particularly distinctive about this creature feature, but it fills its short running time well …
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War of the Planets (1966)
In War of the Planets (original title: I diafanoidi vengono da Marte), gaseous green aliens attack Earth’s space stations and take possession of some of the crews, using them as hosts united with the alien intelligence. It’s up to one maverick captain and a few colleagues to try to end this menace after most conventional …