Norbert Schiller – Doyle's Space

The Thing from Another World (1951)

The story of an isolated Arctic research team encountering a hostile extraterrestrial lifeform.

The Thing from Another World (1951) is a seminal science fiction horror film directed by Christian Nyby and produced by the legendary Howard Hawks. Adapted from the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr., the film tells the story of an isolated Arctic research team that encounters a hostile extraterrestrial lifeform. While Nyby is credited as the director, many film historians believe that Hawks, known for his fast-paced, overlapping dialogue and tight storytelling, had a strong hand in shaping the film’s direction.

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.