He's so cold and bloodless, sinister but also a drip. What she saw in him I'll never know. Interesting concept, but the execution was so lifeless and dull. Both the leads got a European vacation out of it so that might have been the reason they signed for The Electronic Monster. Good a reason as any. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
The director is none other than Montgomery Tully, at his most workmanlike, while the American import lead is the indescribably dull Rod Cameron. The story is about a clinic for experimental electronic therapy, so expect lots of scientific apparatus and electronic noises on the soundtrack. The muddled plot draws in a little romance, a little peril, mysterious death and the ubiquitous criminal gang, but it's all entirely by rote. Cameron's rugged countenance well suited to Westerns seems out of place as a two fisted insurance investigator looking into the sudden death suicide or murder of a star actor who had just left a clinic near Cannes that specializes in relaxing patients with dream therapy as a form of 'escape from reality.
The primary villain is quickly revealed to be the clinic owner Peter Illing , his bizarre likeness shown in the electronically induced dreams I could have done without the diaper-clad lads prancing about , apparently a former Nazi who is confident that the well paid local authorities won't bother him. A decent enough view if somewhat obvious, though some of the French accents render dialogue unintelligible. After a film star is killed in a car crash, insurance investigator Jeff Keenan Rod Cameron is dispatched to get to the bottom of the death.
Upon arrival in the south of France, Keenan discovers that others have died, and may be linked to his company's client. This might have something to do with a certain psychiatric clinic. Oddly, this has something to do with implanting images of semi-erotic, modern dance routines!
Of course, this isn't a good idea, and leads to horrific results. In addition, a nefarious cabal is at work behind the scenes with an unsavory agenda. This isn't a bad movie, and it's a shame it's been almost totally forgotten. The plot is interesting, and the movie could be remade.
It's the sort of raw material that would make for a tremendous David Cronenberg film. Until then, it's enjoyable enough Ballet, Mien Fuhrer? Directed by Montgomery Tully, and David Paltenghi. About the end of the world, issues that were always going on about how many bombs were being built.
The Cold War was always in the media. Reflecting the growing internal struggles within American society and the developing mistrust about Soviet aggression and anyone and anything perceived as subversive. The phenomena of sightings of UFOs would continue throughout the s, though agencies were fully prepared to explain away the reports.
Yet the public had a hunger to and fascination with the possibility of extra-terrestrials. Destination Moon did attempt to accurately portray a trip to the moon given the technology and knowledge that was stuck in Then we shot past the moon in cinema and went straight to the red planet with Flight to Mars ! Themes and metaphors that emerged from anxiety about the atom bomb , radiation fallout , the advent of modernity , the space race and the wanderlust to conquer outer space , interplanetary warfare , military vs.
There were also science fiction films that rang the warning bell about cosmic calamity and catastrophic world coming to an end , annihilation fantasies like When Worlds Collide It was a great reflexive move for those science fiction films to portray aliens that were sympathetic, yet non-humanoid in appearance.
Most Sci-Fi films show aliens as menacing, not only destructive but dangerous because they also wanted to keep us as captives, zap our resources and colonize our planet, sometimes even take our women, oh god no unhand Faith Domergue you pants wearing Mutant! That you would come home and that you would not recognize your mom and dad they would have changed into people who hate you! I can attest to the persuasion these films could have over the burgeoning imagination of a child, especially one like me who felt very much like an outsider as a kid.
One night, as sure as my name is MonsterGirl , I went home, looked at my parents, decided they had been switched by aliens and ran out of the house, walking around the block for at least an hour before I convinced myself that I was being ridiculous.
Or was I? These themes did have a not so subtle impact on a young impressionable mind who could easily question the world around them. Who could you trust? Would would believe you anyway? There is the outsider narrative, diminishing human forms as in Bert I. Although mad -bad science has shrunk down people before the s in The Devil Doll and in the hands of crazed Albert Dekker in Dr. Cyclops There is the quintessential existential crisis, the beautifully thought provoking film by director Jack Arnold starring the eternally transcending man Grant Williams in, The Incredible Shrinking Man Giant insects, sea creatures and people who ran around half crazed and scantily dressed were a by-product of the atomic age!
In Queen of Outer Space the masked disfigured Queen Yilana Zsa Zsa Gabor imprisons the men who crash land on her planet, intending to annihilate the earth with her beta disintegrator, though her beautiful subjects revolt in the name of love.
Their dancing their music their leotards were so Moderne! Missile to the Moon Stevens and one of her maidens in distress…. Mark Hamill who narrates the wonderful documentary written and directed by Richard Schickel Watch the Skies! They would create love stories in space!
There were menaces from without, menaces from within. The ordinary world transformed into the monstrous. There were warnings from benevolent aliens and aggressive attacks by aliens who wanted to colonize our planet.
And by the end of the decade we were left a legacy of impressive productions that remain timeless masterpieces, the cult grade- B Sci-Fi picture with their indelible charm and kitsch emblems, and the true stinkers that are so bad there too good not to appreciate. There were collections of stylized works by Jack Arnold, Bert I. Gordon , Edward L. Cahn and one indie auteur who showed us how to make a memorable movie on a shoe string budget who also launched many a career, the inimitable and grand Roger Corman.
Killers from Space And just as key to the atmosphere and attitude of the films were the musical contributions which defined that certain feel of chills and excitement, screwball antics and off-beat perscussion that filled up your head with pulsing visions of laser beams and other-worldly noises that ran up your spine like a finely coiled wire resonating the confluent sounds of the cosmos! Geesh that was a mouthful! There were composers who masterfully underscored some of the BEST films and even the worst!
Salter and Henry Mancini to name a few. Instrumentalist Clara Rockmore mastered the Theremin which had a cosmic, universal vibe that was, well out of this world! Popular were the films that dealt with the hubris of science that ultimately manifested monsters.
There were even pants monsters, yes! Patricia Medford in Them! There are way too many that fall right on the gray line that either exists in the middle or transects both themes at once. One could say the film is also a crime drama. There are too many nuances and parameters that intersect. Science fiction takes place in the realm of the not-yet; supernatural horror films operate in the realm of the impossible. The enormous influence that Science Fiction cinema had long-lasting effects on the advent of television.
The show came in on the end of the decade. Stories that were infused by the themes of the 50s and set the tone for future decades to come. The Twilight Zone was groundbreaking and thought-provoking, dealing with issues of war, class, race, it was a socially conscious program that constantly tried to remind us of our humanity.
The decade of s Science Fiction also bled into the mindfulness of my favorite early 60s science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume.
If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.
You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to — The Orwellian Control Voice from The Outer Limits anthology television series aired from In this period, it is the process of rationalization which is the threat, and in this way horror texts were at least as concerned with developments within American society as they were with threats from without… Here rationalization is understood as the process through which scientific — technical rationality is applied to the management of social, economic and cultural life….
Grant Williams protagonist Scott Carey becomes engulfed in a glittery mist of atomic dust particles in The Incredible Shrinking Man the film exudes anxiety of his diminishing masculinity by not only losing his literal size, his physical height but he loses his maleness as a husband and as a regular man. There would be films that embrace the dystopia narratives , and curiosity with technical advancements like robots! Whether you grew up actually seeing them for the very first time, or becoming a new fan who is excited to embrace the heart and soul of a genre that made you think beyond what if?
Directed by Irving Pichel and producer George Pal along with a screenplay by Robert Heinlein took a very documentary approach to the narrative and the landscapes. It was based on the novel Escapement by Charles Eric Maine. South West Passage - Rod Cameron - Edward Beale Rod Cameron is in charge of finding a shorter trail across the American desert and to also test the practicality of using camels in the west in this western.
An actual test once conducted in the Big Bend area of Texas. Clint MacDoanld, a bank robber one jump ahead of a posse, joins the caravan by posing as a doctor. His sweetheart, Lilly, also comes along and signs on.
There is a whole lot of footage of the grueling trek across the desert, but it begins to move when mule-skinner Matt Carroll becomes aware of MacDonald's true profession and he wants the gold from the bank robbery. The Apaches have shied away from attacking the train, because of their fear of the camels, but a camel dies and the jig is up as they lose their fear and here they come.
Renegades of the Rio Grande — Rod Cameron - Buck Emerson Rod Cameron was trying to return the loot from a robbery and finds hmself suspected of the crime. Note: Contains Portuguese Subtitles. Portuguese Title is: Os Desprezados. No opening credits. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man's case, which turns out to have international ramifications. Release date May United States. United Kingdom.
English French. Zex, the Electronic Fiend. Anglo-Guild Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 16 minutes.
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