The Tick is a fictional character created by cartoonist Ben Edlund in 1986 as a newsletter mascot. He is an absurdist spoof of comic book superheroes. After its creation, the character spun off into an independent comic book series in…
Submarine Alert (1943)
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast’s top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the…
Voodoo Island (1957) - USA
Tags: Boris Karloff, Horror, USA ONLY
Voodoo Island is a 1957 horror film featuring the popular horror icon Boris Karloff. The film is set in the South Pacific and was filmed on Kauai, Hawaii. After being released theatrically by United Artists in 1957, the film was…
Khartoum (1966) - USA
Tags: Adventure, Color, USA ONLY, War
Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as General Gordon and Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi (Mahommed Ahmed) and is based on Gordon’s defence of the Sudanese city of…
Virus (1980)
Tags: Color, Favorites, George Kennedy, Glenn Ford, Sci-Fi
Virus (otherwise known as Fukkatsu no hi, lit. Day of Resurrection, Virus) is a 1980 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Masao Kusakari, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Ken Ogata, Sonny…
Snake People (1971)
Tags: Boris Karloff, Color, Cult Film, Horror
The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult’s bizarre activities. Captain Labesch arrives…
Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1966)
Tags: Color, Favorites, Sci-Fi
Zontar, the Thing from Venus also known as Zontar: The Invader from Venus is a 1966, made for television, science fiction film, directed by Larry Buchanan and based on the teleplay by Hillman Taylor and Buchanan. It is a remake…
Mothra (1961) - USA
Tags: Color, Godzilla, Sci-Fi, USA ONLY
Mothra (モスラ, Mosura?) is a 1961 giant-monster movie from Toho Studios, directed by genre regular Ishirō Honda with special effects by legend Eiji Tsuburaya. It is the kaiju eiga debut of screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa, whose fantastic yet intelligent approach to…
Rebirth of Mothra Movies (1996-99) - USA
Tags: Color, Godzilla, Sci-Fi, USA ONLY
Rebirth of Mothra, released in Japan as Mothra (モスラ, Mosura?), is the first in a trilogy of kaiju eiga films produced by Toho, in which Mothra’s son saves the world from environment-threatening monsters. This film features the monsters Mothra, Mothra…
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) - USA
Tags: Color, Randolph Scott, USA ONLY, Westerns
On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of…
Survivors. The (1983) - USA
Robin Williams gets fired by a parrot and blows up Walter Matthau’s gas station. Things go downhill from there when they meet a con artist running a survivalist group. This is is a really funny movie, but there is one…
The War of the Robots (1978)
Here’s a midnight movie for ya.
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims. La Guerra dei robot is…
Racket Squad – 6 episodes (1950)
Racket Squad starred Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional cop working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show was about con men and bunko artists. At episode’s end, Captain John Braddock (Hadley) gave viewers advice on…
Saint, The (1997) - USA
Val Kilmer reprises the Leslie Charteris character, Simon Templar, aka “The Saint”. Elizabeth Shue is cute. What else did you need?
Africa Screams (1949)
Tags: Abbott and Costello, Comedy
Africa Screams is a 1949 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is notable for having two members of the Three Stooges (Shemp Howard and Joe Besser) working together in a non-Stooge vehicle.
EEGAH! (1962)
Tags: Arch Hall Jr., Arch Hall Sr., Cult Film, Marilyn Manning, Sci-Fi
EEGAH!.
If you think you’ve seen some weird movies here on Retrovision Internet TV. Why don’t you try this one on for size?. This is the quintessential 1950s midnight movie. Goofy 1950s teenagers find a cave man. Guess who he…
Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
Cosmos: War of the Planets (Italian: Battaglie negli spazi stellari) is an Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring John Richardson, released in 1977.
The film begins with the crew of a spaceship seeing explosions in space and asteroids…
Secret Invasion, The (1964) - USA
Tags: Color, Mickey Rooney, Roger Corman, USA ONLY, War, WWII
The Secret Invasion is a 1964 war film directed by Roger Corman. In World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.
Prisoners Rocca (Raf Vallone), Scanlon (Mickey Rooney), Fell (Edd Byrnes), Durrell (Henry Silva),…
Guy with the Secret Kung Fu (1981)
Tags: Adventure, Color, Kung Fu
The Guy with the Secret Kung Fu (Cai yang nu bang zhu) is a 1981 Hong Kong martial art film. The film has passed into public domain.
City Ninja (1985)
The evil master want to train some Ninja kids to make them an evil assassin army, but the kids strike back to overcome their slavery and brutal discipline.
Lady Whirlwind (1973)
Lady Whirlwind aka Deep Thrust is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Huang Feng, starring Angela Mao, Chang Yi and Sammo Hung.
A young man (Chang Yi in a rare good guy role) is severely beaten by…
Head, The (1959)
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor’s head alive and…
Bullfighters, The (1945) - USA
Laurel and Hardy star as two private detectives traveling down to Mexico in search of a mysterious woman. One detective, who happens to resemble a famous matador, is blackmailed into impersonating the matador and fighting El Toro, the legendary bull.
