Attack of the B Movies

You're in for a treat with these classic monster movies, mostly from the 50s.  Get ready for the Blob, Godzilla, zombies, aliens, mad scientists, and other monsters to attack.  List prepared using assistance from Badmovies.org.

	The Blob Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader. Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth. Starring Steve McQueen. PG
	Creature From the Black Lagoon A scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounter a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature. Directed by Jack Arnold. Starring Richard Carlson & Julie Adams. NR
	The Day the Earth Stood Still A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son befriend him ... and soon realize that they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Michael Rennie & Patricia Neal. G
	Earth Girls Are Easy Three furry aliens, played by Jeff Goldblum and stand-up comedians Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, splash down in Genna Davis' pool, finding that life here on earth is more than just fun, fun, fun - it's also romance, dancing, TV, adventure, music...and makeovers. The extra-terrestrial trio have no idea how wild earth girls can be...but they're about to find out. Directed by Julien Temple. Starring Geena Davis & Jeff Goldblum. PG
	Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending experimental rockets into the upper atmosphere. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. During the final rocket launching, a flying saucer lands and the military fires upon the aliens, triggering the destruction of the installation and a cryptic warning from the aliens. In response, Dr. Marvin and his colleagues develop an anti-magnetic beam weapon to disable the flying discs. The weapon and the mettle of the populace of Washington, DC are soon put to the test, when the flying saucers attack. Directed by Fred F. Sears. Starring Hugh Marlowe & Joan Taylor. NR
	Godzilla Godzilla rises from the sea, his slumber disturbed by atomic tests. With its haunting scenes of a devastated Tokyo eerily echoing the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this film gave the world the perfect monster, and metaphor, for the Atomic Age. Directed by Ishirô Honda. Starring Akira Takarada. NR
	House of Wax An acclaimed wax sculpter goes from slightly wacko to completely deranged when he loses both his art showcase and the use of his hands in an arsonist's inferno. The determined, flame-scarred Jarrod invents a unique way of rebuilding his house of wax . Aided by Igor, he dips his helpless victims in wax ! Both critics and the public praise Jarrod's new works. But a lone voice cries murder when heroine Sue Allen discovers a wax figure with an uncanny resemblance to her mysteriously murdered friend. As she sets out to prove Jarrod's guilt, she hardly knows the horrors that await her. Directed by André de Toth. Starring Vincent Price. NR
	Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Santa Mira, a small town in California, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. In a terrifying race, for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people. Directed by Don Siegel. Starring Kevin McCarthy & Dana Wynter. NR
	It Came From Outer Space A science fiction melodrama. After discovering that a meteor-like object buried under a landslide is an inhabited space ship from another planet, a young scientist delays an attack by panic-stricken townspeople so that the ship can leave the earth. Directed by Jack Arnold. Starring Richard Carlson & Barbara Rush. NR
	Mars Attacks! Mean, green invaders from the angry red planet. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Jack Nicholson & Glenn Close. PG-13
	Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Brain That Wouldn't Die Dr. Bill Cortner is a brilliant young surgeon who experiments illegally with the bodies and minds of fellow humans. When his fiancee is decapitated in a freak accident, he tries to transplant her still living head and brain to another body. Directed by Joseph Green. Starring Jason Evers. NR
	Night of the Living Dead A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds--destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house. Directed by George A. Romero. Starring Duane Jones & Judith O'Dea. NR
	Plan Nine From Outer Space Alien invaders use "Plan 9" to re-animate dead earthlings. Directed by Ed Wood. Starring Bella Lugosi, Vampira, & Lyle Talbot. NR
	The Tingler An obsessed doctor discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, the Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. Directed by William Castle. Starring Vincent Price. NR
	War of the Worlds Disguised as meteors, Martian spacecraft invade the Earth and conduct the systematic destruction of all major population centers. Not even nuclear bombs can stop them. Soon panic and looting set in as the thin veneer of civilization is stripped away. Directed by Byron Haskin. Starring Gene Barry & Anne Robinson. Based on the book The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. G