Schlockfest
Alice's Schlockfest is where live some of the most astonishing, sleazy, gross-out, tasteless, campy, sometimes worst movies ever made. One of the most successful, bad taste, low-budget cult films, a spoof of heroic monster films, was director Michael Herz' and Lloyd Kaufman's "The Toxic Avenger" (1985) pictured right. Below you may enter Alice's line-up of the very best of the very worst....
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
3.8/10
Director: Edgar G Ulmer
Starring: Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith
This sci-fi schlocko concerns a crazed scientist who, hoping to create the perfect henchman, renders a crook invisible. Unfotunately, the unseen under... Read more
The She-Creature (1956)
3.2/10
Director: Edward L Cahn
Starring: Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Chester Morris, Marla English
A hypnosis based horror film tells the story of an oily hypnotist Dr Carlo Lombardi and his beautiful former carnival worker assistant Andrea. Dr Lomb... Read more
Hercules Unchained (1960)
4.4/10
Director: Pietro Francisci
Starring: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez
Steve Reeves returns as the mighty Hercules in this saga of muscles, maidens and monsters. Robbed of his memory, Herc is a prisoner of the lovely Quee... Read more
Jail Bait (1954)
3.2/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Steve Reeves
A hard as nails gangster film Ed Wood style. A hood on the lam shoots his partner, then forces his surgeon father to change his face... Stars Lyle Tal... Read more
Cool and the Crazy (1958)
5.4/10
Director: William Witney
Starring: Gigi Perreau, Scott Marlow
Seven savage punks on a weekend binge of violence!!! A cult fifties b-movie of a rebellious youth, fresh from reform school, who hooks up with the ba... Read more
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
5.6/10
Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Bruhl, John Ortiz, Chris O'Dowd, Elizabet...
Orbiting above an Earth on the brink of catastrophic energy wars, scientists test a dangerous device that could provide unlimited power but also runs... Read more
Female Jungle (1956)
5.6/10
Director: Bruno Vesota
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Lawrence Tierney, John Carradine
Aka 'The Hangover'. Taking place over the course of a night this fifties take on film-noir tells the story of the murder of a glamorous blonde actress... Read more
The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)
2.1/10
Director: James L Wolcott
Starring: Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Cande Gerrard, Johnny Walsh
A prehistoric beach blanket classic with leopard skin-clad women and brutish men engaged in the battle of the sexes on the idyllic island of Wongo. A... Read more
First Man Into Space (1958)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards
"A better than it looks" tale of a daring pilot who disobeys orders and becomes the title character, returning to Earth a dust-encrusted, blood-drinki... Read more
The Spider (1958)
4.1/10
Director: Bert I Gordon
Starring: Ed Kemmer, June Kenny, Geene Persson, Gene Roth
A.k.a. "Earth vs The Spider". The ads warned 'It must eat you to live'. A spider bigger than a bus is found in a cave and, when revived, decides to st... Read more