Alien Worlds: 20 Movie Pack [5 Discs]Alien Worlds: 20 Movie Pack [5 Discs]

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  • Number of Discs: 5
  • Screen: Color
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
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  • A synopsis of The Incredible Petrified World may suggest a hilariously inept yet entertaining 1950s sci-fi romp. Nothing, sadly, could be further from the truth. The main reason for Jerry Warren's lack of appeal even to "Bad Movie" lovers of today may be due to a direction, or lack thereof, that may very well cure insomnia. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens here, hence, it has been often suggested, the word "petrified" in the title. Yes, Warren does insert grainy stock footage of a fight between a shark and an octopus but only viewers totally unfamiliar with 1950s sci-fi adventures will have missed this particular piece of "spectacle." The cast members, including the always game John Carradine and such stellar B-Movie perennials as Phyllis Coates and Robert Clarke, do what they can with the material but are soundly defeated by Jerry Warren's heavy-handed and downright amateurish approach to moviemaking. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
  • Attack Of The Monsters is one of the lesser Gamera entries. It's obvious the filmmakers had a smaller budget with this entry because it recycles scenes from other films in this series and features some atypically shoddy rear-projection effects. The kid-friendly focus of the film is taken a bit too far, making the film sickly-sweet at times, and it doesn't help that young star Christopher Murphy is a terrible actor. That said, completists may still want to check Attack Of The Monsters (known in Japan as Gamera Vs. Guiron) for a few reasons. The first is villain Guiron, who has a unique design - his head and nose are shaped like a giant knife blade. Guiron is probably also the most violent of Gamera foes: a startling scene has him using his razor-sharp noggin to chop up a rival monster he has just killed! The film's plot also has some surprising fairytale-like elements, with the two humanoid aliens that drive the plot kind of acting like the witch from "Hansel And Gretel" towards our kid heroes (right down to wanting to use them as a food source). Ultimately, the mix of saccharine kid-movie elements and often surrealistic monster movie shocks will not be to everyone's taste but monster movies might find Attack Of The Monsters to be an amusingly campy entry in the Gamera series. ~ Donald Guarisco, Rovi
  • For those who can never get enough Technicolor Japanese man-in-a-monster-suit movies, there is Destroy All Planets. While offering up everything one expects from a massive zero-budget monster battle film, Destroy All Planets also delivers unintentionally brilliant quirky moments like the hypnotized army, Japanese men with glowing eyeballs, and a fiendishly fake-looking squid alien who wishes to attack Earth for its supply of nitrogen. Obviously made for children, this 1969 classic centers on star monster Gamera's love for small children. This love is so important that Destroy All Planets spends 20 minutes showing clips from past Gamera films where he defends his little buddies. Director Noriyaki Yuasa and his special-effects crew seem to share this love, as the special effects appear to be made with models resembling items from a child's toy box. For those out there ready to watch a chubby Japanese boy in short shorts ride into space on the back of a flying lizard creature, Destroy All Planets is the film for you. ~ Jason Gibner, Rovi
  • The very title Killers from Space is so low-brow trashy that one can be excused for assuming that the film that accompanies it is a sci-fi hoot. Indeed, the plot -- aliens possess body of dead scientist and use him as their pawn to conquer the world -- also holds a great deal of "camp" promise. And when one discovers that the aliens look like nothing so much as overweight men dressed in jumpsuits and wearing ping pong balls for eyes, it seems inconceivable that Killers isn't a laugh riot from start to finish. Unfortunately, somehow director W. Lee Wilder manages to take all the fun out of what should be a crazy misfire of a movie, making a film that is so tedious and dull that all the fun drains out of it within the first 15 minutes. Clearly, Wilder was attempting to treat this material with seriousness, which is not a crime. But his work here is so lacking in any skill, so lacking in any sense of pacing or structure or ability to build suspense, that he makes Killers a chore to sit through. True devotees of 1950s sci-fi may want to watch Killers in order to see links between it and better films such as Invaders from Mars or The Day the Earth Stood Still, but others should just give it a miss. ~ Craig Butler, Rovi
  • When a manned space voyage to Venus goes awry, a second spacecraft is sent to the planet's misty surface to locate any survivors. There, the crew encounters strange animals, including dinosaurs and a sort of man-lizard, as well as mysterious sirens. This imaginative and highly visual film is actually a Soviet-made production titled Planeta Bur, which was purchased by Roger Corman and American International Pictures and refashioned into a more simplistic science fiction-adventure for American audiences. Former experimental filmmaker and Kenneth Anger associate Curtis Harrington (using the nom du cinema John Harrington) was pressed into directing new footage featuring Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue, which was incorporated into the film for Hollywood name value (such as it was at the time). The end result gives enticing glimpses of Russian director Pavel Klushantsev's original vision and some impressive special effects (most notably, the air car and the crew's mechanical helpmate Robot John), which are unfortunately dampened by the newer, more awkward-looking scenes. Ever the penny-pincher, Corman recycled the Russian footage for a second, less coherent feature, 1966's Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, which featured scenes with Mamie Van Doren shot by then-novice director Peter Bogdanovich. Sinister Cinema offers a subtitled print of Planeta Bur, while Something Weird Video's spotless print of Prehistoric Planet includes an odd and haunting underwater scene not featured in other versions. ~ Paul Gaita, Rovi

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