Cardboard Science: But the film is a saddening bore

THE ANGRY RED PLANET

1959

Directed by Ib Melchior

Written by Sid Pink and Ib Melchior

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: But he had glimpsed a dark swooping patch overhead, lighted by gleams of fox-fire redder than the aurora glow, and had heard a flutter of thick wings and smelled a whiff of corruption tainting the clean air

THE GIANT CLAW

1957

Directed by Fred F. Sears

Written by Samuel Newman and Paul Gangelin

Spoilers: high

Cardboard Science: Mr. Joseph Young as himself

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG

1949

Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack

Written by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, Willis O'Brien, and Ruth Rose

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: When man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world

THEM!

1954

Directed by Gordon Douglas

Written by George Worthing Yates, Ted Sherdeman, and Russell Hughes

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: Phantom marine mutations, death rays, utter nonsense

THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES

1955

Directed by Dan Milner

Written by Dorys Lukather and Lou Russof

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: A million years of evolution with one bomb

DAY THE WORLD ENDED

1955

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Lou Russof

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: I think I could stand it, except for out there—all that wasteland and mountains—it might as well be on another planet

THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES

1955

Directed by David Kramarsky and Roger Corman

Written by Tom Filer

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: You're a lovely girl, but lovely girls just don't run around worrying about non-existent sea monsters

MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR

1954

Directed by Wyott Ordung

Written by Roger Corman and Bill Danch

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: Not dead the way we understand death

CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN

1958

Directed by Edward L. Cahn

Written by Jerome Bixby

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: Weird West

THE VALLEY OF GWANGI

1969

Directed by Jim O'Connolly

Written by Willis O'Brien, William Bast, and Julian More

THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN

1956

Directed by Ismael Rodriguez and Edward Nassour

Written by Willis O'Brien, Robert Hill, and Jack DeWitt

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: I was a teenage arachnophobe

EARTH VS. THE SPIDER

1958

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

Written by Laszlo Gorog and George Worthing Yates

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: You didn't get paid to be eaten by prehistoric animals, did you?

THE CYCLOPS

1957

Written and directed by Bert I. Gordon

Spoilers: as the film would have it, high, but practically mild by the standards of anyone with the intellectual faculties of a six year old

Cardboard Science: I brought the atom bomb, I think it's a good time to use it

KING DINOSAUR

1955

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

Written by Tom Gries, Al Zimbalist, and Bert I. Gordon

Spoilers: high, I guess, but who could possibly care?

Cardboard Science: More like bore of the colossal beast, amirite?

WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST

1958

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

Written by George Worthing Yates and Bert I. Gordon

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: Little men come when anything goes

ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE

1958

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

Written by George Worthing Yates and Bert I. Gordon

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Fragments as our universe must needs disown

DIE, MONSTER, DIE!

1965

Directed by Daniel Haller

Written by Jerry Sohl (based on "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: The waves have now a redder glow—the hours are breathing faint and low

WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP

1965

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Written by Charles Bennett, Louis M. Heyward, and David Whitaker

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: And out of the smoke locusts came forth unto the earth, and power was given to them

BEGINNING OF THE END

1957

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

Written by Fred Freiberger, Lester Gorn, and Bert I. Gordon

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: B-I-G

THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN

1957

Directed by Bert I. Gordon

Written by Mark Hanna, George Worthing Yates, and Bert I. Gordon

Spoilers: moderate

Cardboard Science: Size queen

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN

1958

Directed by Nathan Hertz Juran

Written by Mark Hanna

Spoilers: moderate