Category: Sci-Fi

Capably presenting the doubt, the mystery, and the tension of the unexplainable, Fire in the Sky is an interesting one-sided take on UFO mythos.

Nuclear anxieties, the red scare invasion, and spicy sexuality give The Brain from Planet Arous a better-than-average reputation for no-budget '50s sci-fi.

Monster from Green Hell is clumsy, cheap, and often comatose, but it's hardly the worst irradiated big bug flick.

Mighty Peking Man is undoubtedly shameless in ripping off King Kong, but there's no denying the incredible work that went into the visual effects.

The Incredible Shrinking Man is among the '50s best sci-fi offerings, draining a man of his domestic masculinity while delivering appropriate nuclear-era thrills.

The Giant Claw is about a cackling turkey from space and utterly ridiculous, but joyously goofy 1950s giant monster exploitation.

While a little unique for the genre, Zombies of Mora Tau flails its arms without ever finding a workable protagonist.

Ponderous, slow, and cheap, Creature with the Atom Brain answers its own questions in minutes amid standard post-war paranoia.

Kitschy and naively primitive, this pre-space race Flight to Mars skips past the moon to deal in Cold War paranoia deeper into the solar system.

Lost in the shuffle of young teen sci-fi dystopian thrillers, Chaos Walking is all thematic politics and not much story.

Easily one of the oddest straight adaptations of King Kong, the 1976 version focuses on a goofy sexuality that's neither successful or comfortable when trying to settle on tone.

The invasion of Invasion from Inner Earth is a devious plot to bore humanity to death, and if seen by enough people, the plan will work.