Film Chest Media Group announced this past week that a
12-film, three-disc collection featuring 11 classic sci-fi thrillers from the
1950s and 60s, plus Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece from the silent era, Metropolis,
will be available on May 31.
Titled 12 Sci-Fi Cult Classics, in addition
to Metropolis,
fans can savor the thrills — in chronological order — of such sci-fi gems as:
Director W. Lee Wilder’s 1953 invasion of Southern
California by the occupant of downed flying saucer in Phantom from Space. The Griffith Observatory serves as the focal
point for the grand finale as the “alien” (played by Dick Sands) desperately
tries to communicate with the earthlings who have hounded him before he
succumbs to our atmosphere.
We skip ahead six years to not one but five sci-fi treasures
from 1959 — director Bernard L. Kowalski’s Attack of the Giant Leeches
(produced by Roger Corman, with a script from actor-turned-screenwriter, Leo
Gordon), the Roger Corman-directed (with Jack Hill), The Wasp Woman (again
with a Leo Gordon script), f/x ace Ray Kellogg took time off from his busy
studio schedule to be the writer and director of two classics from the period, The
Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews — both produced by
actor Ken Curtis — and lastly, writer/director Tom Graeff’s Teenagers
from Outer Space.
The year 1960 contributes iconic filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer’s The
Amazing Transparent Man to Film Chest’s 12 Sci-Fi Cult Classics
collection.
Director William Marshall’s The Phantom Planet (from
1961), writer/director Joseph Green’s The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962),
filmmaker Joseph Mascelli’s The Atomic Brain (1964) and the
Japanese import showcasing the talents of Gamera, Destroy All Planets
(released by AIP in 1969), round out this impressive assembly of classic sci-fi
films.
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