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 Wasp Woman (1961)
4.6/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris
Cosmetics producer Susan Cabot thinks she's discovered a new age-retarding cream, but learns that the 'wasp enzymes' in the formula turn her into an i... Read more
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
Night of the Ghouls (1960)
3.6/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Criswell, Paul Marco
Here is Ed Wood's last horror movie and sort of sequel to 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. Dr. Acula is raising the dead near Willow Lake, meanwhile strange... 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
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Jonathan Haze, Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller
Jack Nicholson is the masochist who thrives on dental pain in this very funny cult classic from Roger Corman. The preposterous plot revolves around a... Read more
Battle Beyond The Sun ( Nebo Zovyot ) (1959) / Star Pilot ( 2+5: Missione Hydra ) (1966) (1959)
7.6/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Pietro Francisci, Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr
An americanised version of Nebo Zovyot was the product of Roger Corman's acquiring the rights to the Russian film and exploiting it for all the specia... Read more
The Killer Shrews (1959)
3.9/10
Director: Ray Kellogg
Starring: James Best
No, it's not Shakespeare's long-missing sequel! It's the hilariously bad monster movie about a horde of outsized man-eating rodents that run amok on a... Read more
Teenage Zombies (1959)
2.7/10
Director: Jerry Warren
Starring: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor
Cinematic punishment from grade-Z auteur Jerry Warren. On a secluded island, a mad scientist concocts a horrific plot for world domination. When a gro... Read more
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
4/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Duke Moore, Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene
A.k.a. 'Grave Robbers From Outer Space'. Hailed as the worst film of all time and so mesmerizingly awful it actually improves (so to speak) with each... Read more
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
6.8/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
Roger Corman's prelude to 'Little Shop of Horrors' has Dick Miller getting that life-like quality to his clay sculptures by building them around life-... Read more