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Robot Monster

December 26, 1997, Screens

D. Phil Tucker (1953)

Grade-Z nonsense about a man in an ape suit wearing a diving helmet and battling post-nuclear-war humans. Watch for his war-surplus radio, which emits bubbles while in use. Originally in
3-D.


The Flesh Eaters

D. Jack Curtis (1964)

Plane crash survivors (including an ex-Nazi) fall prey to parasites that dine on them. Audacious ending!


The Frozen Dead

D. Herbert Leder (1967)

Deadpan Dana Andrews keeps a room full of leftover Nazis on ice and powers them with a severed head in a developing tray. Turgid, but worth seeing.


The Killer Shrews

D. Ray Kellog (1957)

Dogs dressed in fangs and wigs terrorize Texas. Produced by Ken "Festus" Curtis.


The Giant Gila Monster

D. Ray Kellogg (1957)

Teenagers, rock & roll, hot rods, and rear-projection lizards come together in the companion piece to The Killer Shrews.


The Corpse Grinders

D. Ted V. Mikels (1971)

Bodies get shoved in one end of a box, and cat food comes out the other. Kitties turn into vicious killers.


The Cape Canaveral Monsters

D. Phil Tucker (1960)

Zombie car-crash victims piece together their wrecked Buick to sabotage the U.S. space program. Baffling.

— Jerry Renshaw

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