Popcorn Pictures

Reviewing the best (and worst) of horror, sci-fi and fantasy since 2000

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

50s big bug movie about a giant preying mantis is one from the dying days of the genre and it shows.

The Giant Claw (1957)

The pinnacle of B-movie terrible, The Giant Claw sees a huge extraterrestrial bird arrive on Earth and start smashing stuff up.

X...the Unknown (1956)

Radioactive blob-like monster from the centre of the Earth makes its way to the surface to terrorise a Scottish community.

The Black Scorpion (1957)

Giant scorpions are on the loose in Mexico in another 50s sci-fi monster movie.

Monster from Green Hell (1957)

Late entry into the 50s atomic monster cycle and this time its giant wasps in Africa which are causing all of the problems.

Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Invisible brain-slurping monsters created in a thought control experiment are unleashed upon an unsuspecting town.

Beginning of the End (1957)

America gets attacked by copious amounts of grasshopper stock footage in Beginning of the End.

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Landmark sci-fi horror from Hammer about the survivor of a space exploration mission and the 'present' he brings back to Earth.

The Tingler (1959)

Gimmicky schlock from the master of gimmick horror, William Castle, and starring the inimitable Vincent Price.