The Man and the Beast

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quate...

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Val Guest

Cast

Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Eugenio Martín

Cast

Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas

When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's homemade monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sp...

Runtime

30m

Director

Tim Burton

Cast

Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver

A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.

Runtime

1h 14m

Director

Ray Kellogg

Cast

Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone

A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.

Runtime

1h 17m

Director

Jack Arnold

Cast

Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt