Science Fiction Noir , The Candidates
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- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKevin McCarthyDana WynterLarry GatesA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.The one often called a noir , great photography , told in flashback , paranoia at it's best . Spoiled only by an added later happy ending .
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellYvonne MitchellIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.Great BBC version with Peter Cushing and written by Nigel Kneale , one of the scariest films you'll ever see
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsEdmond O'BrienMichael RedgraveJan SterlingIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.This one has Edmond O'Brien and Jan Sterling , plus Michael Redgrave , Donald Pleasance for the British side .
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsLew AyresGene EvansNancy ReaganThree scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist.Just has a similar feel , the plot of someone taking a rich man's place , the political and financial corruption would be noir without the brain in a jar scenario .
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsRobert ClarkeMargaret FieldRaymond BondAs a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.Photography , camera angles , voiceover telling the story in flashback , directed by Ulmer .
- DirectorJack PollexfenStarsLon Chaney Jr.Max ShowalterMarian CarrCharles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.Dragnet style voiceover , great use of real locations in Los Angeles
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsMarguerite ChapmanDouglas KennedyJames GriffithA crazed scientist invents an invisibility formula. He plans to use the formula to create an army of invisible zombies.Ulmer again , science used to rob banks , Marguerite Chapman is good as an over the hill moll
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJack WarnerRichard WordsworthProfessor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.Deadly serious , paranoid , great photography , plus noir favourite Brian Donlevy . Hammer in the change between noir and horror . The original BBC version is worth a vote too .
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney JamesProfessor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.Even better sequel , touches of Invasion of the Body Snatchers .
- DirectorLeslie NormanJoseph LoseyStarsDean JaggerEdward ChapmanLeo McKernA radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.A lesser known Hammer sci fi , with similarities to Quatermass
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMacdonald CareyShirley Anne FieldViveca LindforsAn American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.Under rated , directed by Joseph Losey , has it's moments .
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames WhitmoreEdmund GwennJoan WeldonThe earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.Great noir photography , and it ends up in the LA storm drains . So what if it's got giant ants ?
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsPaul HubschmidPaula RaymondCecil KellawayA ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.Great photography , bit parts for Steve Brodie and Lee Van Cleef who gets to shoot the monster .
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsAnne HeywoodPeter van EyckCecil ParkerAfter the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private airplane, three scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate with it through telepathy.Cheaper British version of Donovan's Brain , fits in with all the British B movie noirs of the time .
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsEddie ConstantineAnna KarinaAkim TamiroffA U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.Eddie Constantine's Lemmy Caution , star of countless French noirs , in a strange alien city
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsJohn P. RyanSharon FarrellAndrew DugganThe Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.Hitchcock couldn't have done a better job , great Bernard Herrman score , and another finale in the LA storm drains
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Visual homage to noir of the forties , trench coats and venetian blinds .
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.Eighties equivalent of all those RKO B's , features a bar called Technoir , and of course rips off the two Outer Limits Harlan Ellison stories , Soldier and Demon with a Glass Hand which are prime candidates too .
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsHarry Dean StantonEmilio EstevezTracey WalterA young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.The box from Kiss Me Deadly and other touches
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsRon RandellDebra PagetElaine StewartAfter wandering in a nuclear testing area in the desert, escaped mobster Ron Candell starts mutating and seeks revenge on his former crime partners.B movie classic , escaped gangster caught in a nuclear blast tries to get even with the world
- DirectorKen HughesStarsGene NelsonFaith DomergueJoseph TomeltyA scientist is found floating with bullet and a radiation halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his double from destroying his experiments.Noirish opening , dark photography , features a twist on the usual amnesia .
- DirectorMontgomery TullyDavid PaltenghiStarsRod CameronMary MurphyMeredith EdwardsAn insurance investigator finds there's more to electronic dream therapy than meets the eye.Merton Park B movie , insurance investigator , ex nazi doctors , fits in with the British crime features
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsHoward DuffEva BartokAlan WheatleyA small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go missing - have they gone off together or are their murdered bodies circling the earth in the remains of the rocket?Hammer murder mystery , with rockets .
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMark StevensMarianne KochWolfgang LukschyA scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPeter DyneleyJane HyltonNanette NewmanA young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsBarbara PaytonJames HayterStephen MurrayBill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of her for himself. The experiment, at first deemed a success, seems to have worked only too well as the duplicate, Helen, is such an exact copy that she also loves Robin, not Bill. Bill hopes to rectify the situation with another radical experiment.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsMichael ElphickEsmond KnightMe Me LaiA cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.