Herbert L. Strock Archives

Monstroid

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

R

3.4

1980 Horror 98 min Play

4.6

Witches’ Brew

A remake of 1944's Lon Chaney film Weird Woman (the first was Burn, Witch, Burn! in 1962) is more of a horror spoof, as three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they turn on each other, and no one is safe!

NR

4.6

1980 Comedy 98 min Play

2.7

The Crawling Hand

After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, a teenager finds a severed arm among wreckage on earth. Soon the thing returns to life to murder and posses the young man's mind.

NR

2.7

1963 Horror 89 min Play

1

Rider on a Dead Horse

Three men fight for gold.

NR

1

1962 Western 72 min Play

4.3

The Devil’s Messenger

In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.

NR

4.3

1961 Horror 72 min Play

5.5

How to Make a Monster

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

NR

5.5

1958 Horror 73 min Play

5.1

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell) creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

NR

5.1

1957 Horror 74 min Play

5.1

Blood of Dracula

A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.

NR

5.1

1957 Horror 68 min Play

5.4

Battle Taxi

In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.

NR

5.4

1955 Drama 82 min Play

6.1

Gog

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

NR

6.1

1954 Science Fiction 85 min Play

6.1

The Magnetic Monster

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

NR

6.1

1953 Science Fiction 76 min Play