Horror, Science Fiction, by George P. Breakston, United States, 1959.
An American journalist stationed in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist who is conducting bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the scientist realizes that the hapless correspondent is the ...

Horror, Crime, by Monte Hellman, United States, 1959.
A group of criminals, led by the ruthless Alexander Ward, devises a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to cause an explosion in a nearby gold mine; the detonation w...

Horror, Sci-fi, by Bernard L. Kowalski, United States, 1959.
An independent production by Roger Corman's factory, it is one of the "creature films" produced in the 1950s in response to fears of the cold war. In the Florida Everglades, a pair of giant leeches live in an underwater cave. They begin...

Science fiction, by Robert Wise, United States, 1952.
Based on the short story Goodbye to the Master by Harry Bates, the film is set in Washington. A flying saucer lands in a park and a crowd, even if frightened, crowds around, while soldiers with armored vehicles arrive. A human-like extraterres...

Sci-fi, by John Sherwood, United States, 1957.
A large meteorite crashes into the Southern California desert and explodes in hundreds of black fragments that have strange properties. When those fragments are exposed to water, they grow and become large and tall. The fragments begin to slowly petr...

Horror, sci-fi, by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow, United States / Italy, 1964.
Unnoticed at the time of its release and considered today a masterpiece, it is the first and best film adaptation of Richard Matheson's book of the same name, released in 1954. Shot back in 1964, in Rome, with an Italia...

Horror, by Theodore Gershuny, United States, 1972.
1972 American Slasher, is a forerunner horror genre several years before Carpenter's Halloween, with a complex script and first person shooting of the killer, which inspired many subsequent films. Its originality and its narration are what manage...

Horror, di George Romero, Stati Uniti, 1968.
One of the most profitable independent films of all time, it grossed around 250 times its budget. Inspired like other cult horror films by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel "I Am Legend". Shot as a "guerrilla film" with a cast and crew of friends and famil...

Horror, Sci-fi, by Roger Corman, United States, 1959.
Scientist Eric Zinthrop is fired from his job on a honey farm for using wasps to experiment with him. The owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin, is upset when the sales of her company start to decline: her customers know that she ...

Comedy, Crime, by Roger Corman, United States, 1959.
Produced on a budget of $ 50,000, it was shot in five days by low-budget B movie king Roger Corman. One night, after hearing the words of Maxwell H. Brock, a poet who performs at The Yellow Door cafe, the obtuse waiter Walter Paisley returns ho...

Horror, by Roger Corman, United States, 1960.
The brilliant Roger Corman, director and producer who has often worked with ridiculous budgets, allowing the debut of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, makes the film where his style is more recognizable. A budget of 30 thousand dollar...

Horror, by Roger Corman, United States, 1963.
Lieutenant Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), a French soldier, loses contact with his unit and is forced to wander alone near the Baltic Sea. While searching for his regiment, he spots Helene (Sandra Knight), a mysterious beauty, walking alone. Enchanted, Du...

Horror, Thriller, by Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1963.
Francis Ford Coppola's debut film produced at low cost by Roger Corman, who wanted a film on the model of low budget Psycho with gothic atmospheres and heinous crimes. The Haloran family gathers in their Irish castle to commemorate t...