War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

The towering terror from hell!

War of the Colossal Beast is a 1958 black-and-white science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon. The movie is a sequel to the 1957 film The Amazing Colossal Man and follows the story of Glenn Manning, a U.S. Army officer who became a giant after being exposed to radiation in the first film. This movie, also known by its alternate titles Revenge of the Colossal Man and The Colossal Beast, continues the narrative of Manning’s tragic transformation and subsequent monstrous behavior.

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Frankenstein 1970 (1958)

WARNING! “Frankenstein 1970” is the most blood-freezing horror ever created! This picture may be too dangerous for people with weak hearts! Beware!

I watched this 1958 B&W Allied Artists Pictures Corporation[1] science fiction/horror film, shot in CinemaScope[2], on Svengoolie. Baron von Frankenstein’s grandson (Boris Karloff) rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster. Buying an atomic reactor, which he uses to create a living being, modeled after his own likeness before he had been tortured. by the Nazis. When the baron runs out of body parts for his work, he proceeds to kill off members of the crew, and even his faithful butler, for more spare parts.

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