THE CYCLOPS 1957 (WARNER ARCHIVE) Gloria Talbott stars in this thriller directed by Bert I Gordon. She and her party of three other men set out to find her long lost fiancee who has been missing in the mountains of Mexico for three years.
The party are told they cannot fly into the mountains by the Mexican police, but they do anyway and find nothing but trouble. Lon Chaney, Jr. is Marty, a greedy man who wants to find uranium, Tom Drake is the pilot and James Craig is the scientist who loves Talbotts' character.
The man they are looking for is found soon enough. It seems the uranium in the mountains has changed him into a mutated 25 foot giant. The mutated monster captures the small folks and kills Marty. The others must escape or die.
Some of the effects in this film don't work too well, but that is expected in any Gordon production as the money was very limited. If you like mindless 50's monster movies like I do, then this film will work for you.
DRACULA AD 1972...1972 (WARNER) Christopher Lee is back in a modernized Hammer classic about the Count being brought back to life via black magic in 1972.
Sexy Stephanie Beacham and her friends including Caroline Munro (who is simply stunning) are menaced by the revived Count and his helper Johnny Alucard, played by Christopher Neame. Peter Cushing is Van Helsing who must save his granddaughter (Beacham) from the blood sucker clutches.
This is a very well made film directed by Alan Gibson. Lee and Cushing are excellent as usual. The women are all beautiful and we even get to hear The Stone ground sing "Alligator Man". What more could you ask for?
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