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The Abominable Snowman (1957)
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Val Guest actor: Forrest Tucker / Peter Cushing …
other title: 디 어바미너블 스노우맨 / 恐怖の雪男 …
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
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The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
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John Sturges actor: Spencer Tracy / Felipe Pazos …
other title: Il vecchio e il mare / Der alte Mann und das Meer …
Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success
★ 7.2 6 ratings
Alexander Mackendrick actor: Burt Lancaster / Tony Curtis …
other title: Piombo rovente / Magtens sødme …
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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The Gamma People (1956)
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John Gilling actor: Paul Douglas / Eva Bartok …
other title: Les Secrets du Docteur Boronski / Les Secrets du Dr Boronski …
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
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Fiend Without a Face (1958)
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Arthur Crabtree actor: Marshall Thompson / Kynaston Reeves …
other title: Ungeheuer ohne Gesicht / Monstres invisibles …
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
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The Giant Behemoth (1959)
Behemoth, the Sea Monster
Eugène Lourié / Douglas Hickox actor: Gene Evans / André Morell …
other title: Il drago degli abissi / Das Ungeheuer von Loch Ness …
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
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Seven Days to Noon (1950)
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John Boulting / Roy Boulting actor: Barry Jones / André Morell …
other title: Minaccia atomica / Ultimatum …
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.
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Lost Continent (1951)
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Sam Newfield actor: Cesar Romero / John Hoyt …
other title: Il continente scomparso / Jules Verne - Die Reise zur geheimnisvollen Insel …
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
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Quatermass 2 (1957)
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Val Guest actor: Brian Donlevy / John Longden …
other title: I vampiri dello spazio / Usina de Monstros …
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. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
★ 7.6 12 ratings
Don Siegel actor: Kevin McCarthy / Dana Wynter …
other title: L'invasione degli ultracorpi / De stjålne kroppe …
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Watched
Aug. 31, 2026
I much prefer the 1978 version but this still had its moments of tension.

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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The Great War (1959)
La grande guerra
Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Alberto Sordi …
other title: La grande guerra / Man nannte es den großen Krieg …
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
ゴジラの逆襲
Motoyoshi Oda actor: Hiroshi Koizumi / Setsuko Wakayama …
other title: Godzilla - Il Re Dei Mostri / Godzilla kehrt zurück …
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
Watched
Aug. 3, 2026
Lacked a lot of the emotional power of the 1st film, and sagged in the middle. Also had some kaiju fight scenes *sped up* (instead of slowed down). But nice to see somewhere other than Tokyo get smashed! Hopefully the franchise picks up again when Honda Ishirō resumes directing.

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Shadows (1960)
Shadows
John Cassavetes actor: Ben Carruthers / Lelia Goldoni …
other title: Ombre / Sombras …
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
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The Mysterians (1957)
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Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: I misteriani / Os Bárbaros Invadem a Terra …
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
Watched
July 27, 2026
Some impressive footage but long stretches of not much happening, and missed opportunities to explore some of the ideas: e.g. would we sacrifice others to save ourselves?

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
宮本武蔵
Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: Miyamoto Musashi / Samurai I: The Legend of Musashi …
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.