Thrift Store Sci-Fi B-Movie List
An organization of the sci-fi B-movies I've watched from random 50+ movie box sets.
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- DirectorDel LordStarsMary AstorLyle TalbotNat PendletonAn inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.A meathead bill collector gets scooped up with some con-artists into inventing television broadcast, in what could technically be classified as sci-fi in 1936.
- DirectorsJoseph V. MascelliJack PollexfenStarsMarjorie EatonFrank GerstleFrank FowlerA rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.Also: The Atomic Brain. A wealthy old woman seeks to transplant her brain into a young woman's body, and so hires three foreign servants and has absolutely no subtlety in her intentions. After some dull scenes that were maybe supposed to establish tension, it scales to hilarious absurdity.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsVincent PriceAgnes MooreheadGavin GordonA crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.A fun enough murder mystery, really. Also labeled sci-fi when it most certainly is not: The closest we get is an undefined bat "experiment" which still might not qualify considering the unexplained bat shrine.
- DirectorPeter R. HuntStarsDennis HolahanSydney PennyRosie MarcelThree aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.Some alien pioneers from the moon sneak to planet earth to prove that, in spite of humans still being capitalist swine, they could be ready for alien contact. The show is stolen by an all-powerful Y-shaped alien and Grandpa (that's his name) who probably ad-libed all his lines.
- DirectorDon DohlerStarsRichard RuxtonFaye TillesGeorge StoverAn alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.The most deplorable old dad finds an alien and chases hi for the rest of the movie hoping to earn fame and big-bucks™
- DirectorGodfrey HoStarsRobin MackayNian WattsHarry MylesNarcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot and he is sent on a very dangerous mission.An invincible robocop fights similarly invincible jiangshi as a side plot that may or may not be related to a drug syndicate kidnapping a lady. An unfortunate lack of robotic vampires.
- DirectorCullen BlaineStarsMargaret TriggRichard GessweinJayne SmithA prototype crime-fighting robot breaks free from its lab, initiating a relentless rampage as it malfunctions and targets innocents for destruction.A woman must drive forever to avoid death from a slow-moving sound-sensitive deadly android-like robot, with odd framing and absurd technobabble and hilarious philosophizing between.
- DirectorsLuigi BazzoniMario FanelliStarsFlorinda BolkanPeter McEneryNicoletta ElmiAfter being tormented by dreams about astronauts on the moon, a translator visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her, although she does not know them.Also, Primal Impulse. A lady finds out she's lost three days and is fired from her job, so she tries to retrace her steps, basically finds out nothing, and then is probably killed.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsAntonio SabatoYanti SomerMalisa LongoAn alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.Everyone is remarkably unconcerned about an imminent nuclear meltdown after putting off evacuating for a literal week, which you think would lead to at least some stakes to what is the most boring space dogfight ever committed to film.
- DirectorTom GraeffStarsDavid LoveDawn BenderBryan GrantA young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love and plot to stop the alien race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.I don't think I can even top IMDb's description.
- DirectorDavid L. HewittStarsScott BradyAnthony EisleyGigi PerreauHard-nosed new boss Stanton takes over a scientific research company upon the death of his benevolent father.Accidentally invent a time machine, get an irrelevant warning from the future, and then steal irrelevant jewels from a Nickelodeon game show.
- DirectorTerry O. MorseStarsBruce KelloggOtto WaldisJim BannonScientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.A bunch of doomsayers fearing nuclear annihilation decide to cave-stead in their mole car, but not just *any* cave with potable water is good enough! We have to go deeper!
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsKlaus KinskiHarvey KeitelFernando ReyPrincess Alba is abducted by a dragon, and it's up to Klever to save her. But, it turns out that this dragon is an alien spacecraft, and Alba falls in love with the human-alien inside it.An alien man who speaks in cups falls in love with a stupid princess.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsShirley EatonRichard StapleyGeorge SandersHaving established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.Also, Future Women, with appreciation to whoever removed the sex scenes. A man pretends to be illicitly wealthy so he will be kidnapped to Femina, a woman-only city where midriff-baring is compulsory. Top marks for torture using a foam-bladed fan.
- DirectorSteven LisbergerStarsBob PeckMark HamillKitty AldridgeIn the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.A mysterious man-on-the-run embarrassingly discovers the pleasures of the world. The cataclysmic weather for which the movie is named might be relevant.
- DirectorsMinoru KanayaKiyosumi KuzakawaStarsTatsuya AzumaMiyuki TanigawaJô ShishidoAn alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.In what feels like a bad Japanese variation of Star Trek cut together into a film, captain Joe (we know it's his name because of his hat) vouches for a traitor alien who refused to kill a child because they shared a name.
- DirectorPhil TuckerStarsGeorge NaderGregory MoffettClaudia BarrettThe monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.On your average family day picnic+nap(?), the world's fastest alien apocalypse occurs, committed by single robot man in a gorilla suit.
- DirectorDon DohlerStarsDon LeifertTom GriffithRichard DyszelA science ship with three dangerous specimens collected from around the universe crash lands on Earth. A mysterious stranger named "Ben Zachary" shows up claiming to be able to save the day. Can he do what he claims?Whenever you think you're about to walk around in the woods forever, an alien jumps in to save the movie (in spite of definitely not being able to see in that costume).
- DirectorJuan Piquer SimónStarsIan SerraNina FerrerSusana BequerA young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?When you make a horror movie with a cute tiny alien suit just before E.T. is released, you just make it work, in spite of all the death. Highlight in horrible ADR kid.
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsLeonora RuffoMario NovelliRoland LesaffreA spaceship from Hydra crashes on Sardinia. Aliens take a scientist, his daughter, technicians and spies hostage to fix their ship. After repairs, aliens abduct the humans but they rebel, sending the ship into deep space.A group of university technicians and conspicuously disposable Chinese mafioso are kidnapped by human-aliens on the most inefficiently designed space craft ever, requiring 6 people to man.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsSusan CabotAnthony EisleyBarboura MorrisThe head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.When a cosmetics company forgets that they don't have to take new pictures of their spokeswoman and CEO every month, she turns to the obvious solution: Injecting her veins with bee venom! Hopefully it doesn't turn her into a rat like it did that guinea pig...
- DirectorPaul KyriaziStarsRonald L. MarchiniMichael ChongJoshua JohnsonAn evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.An Asian lady uses three unstoppable death machines (meaning, guys) to take over the assassin syndicate, but her plans may fall apart when a witness, who keeps trying to become the main character, is left alive. Never mind the number of additional witnesses created by the incompetent attempts to bump him off.
- DirectorBJ DavisStarsBrandon LeeDebi A. MonahanErnest BorgnineAction superstar Brandon Lee portrays rebellious government agent Michael Gold who is sent on a desperate mission to a Soviet-controlled African nation in order to uncover a top-secret laser weapons operation and destroy it.Like the Cuban Missile Crisis, but with radioactive lasers in Africa with the Russians.
- DirectorHollingsworth MorseStarsRichard CraneScotty BeckettSally MansfieldThis was never released as a feature film but, instead, is comprised of 3 episodes from the TV series, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) which were edited together and released on video as a feature-length story.When a pair of improbably-habitable roving gypsy moons finds themselves careening towards a planet under the thrall of an isolationist dictator, moving the people from one moon to the other will surely be sufficient to save them.
- DirectorTibor TakácsStarsStephen MarkleDon FrancksStan WilsonA corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.We try to figure out why a guy is being held in a warehouse and who exactly benefits from nuclear annihilation.
