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- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsJohn CarradineKent TaylorTommy KirkA mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.In 1965 Al Adamson produced/directed a low budget quickie called "Psycho A Go-Go". It wasn't very successful...
Four years later Adamson added some new scenes to it and gave it a new title: "Fiend with the Electronic Brain". Needless to say, it was as bad as the previous version.
In 1971 Adamson decided to "enhance" his cinematic offspring with even more new scenes. And of course he changed the title once again, this time to: "The Man with the Synthetic Brain".
Although the cast now featured several well-known stars, the film was still a big flop.
No prob to Adamson. The next year he renamed his creation for the third time and re-re-re-released it as "Blood of Ghastly Horror". Finally the movie was a huge success. Not!
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonPavel KlushantsevStarsBasil RathboneFaith DomergueMarc ShannonIn 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella.A Roger Corman reworking of Planeta Bur with additional scenes with Faith Domergue and Basil Rathbone.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsMamie Van DorenMary MarrPaige LeeAstronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.A second American reworking of Planeta Bur. Corman removed the footage from his 1965 "version" and added some new, featuring Mamie Van Doren.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresRafael PortilloJerry WarrenStarsYolanda VarelaLon Chaney Jr.Alfredo Wally BarrónExperimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. This creature breaks free of Janney's lab. Meanwhile, a hired thief sent by Janney to steal the other, living mummy, is overcome and that creature escapes also. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night...Jerry Warren threw together two Mexican horror movies, "La Casa Del Terror" and "La Momia Azteca". He recorded his own scenes in order to combine them in some plot about a woman leading a team of archaeologists to find two ancient and evil mummies, one of whom is a mummified werewolf ... and it all makes absolutely no sense.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsJohn CarradineRobert DixVicki VolanteIn the near future with a intergalactic vampire plague threatening earth, an expedition is sent to a distant galaxy in hopes of discovering the plague's source. Landing on a mysterious planet they discover that Spectrum radiation has turned the atmosphere into a one-color tint. Exploring further, the group discovers living dinosaurs, a race of vampire cavemen, and other strange creatures.Horror of the Blood Monsters uses different footage from various other films including One Million B.C. (1960), Unknown Island (1948), Robot Monster (1953), The Wizard of Mars (1965) & Tagani (1965).
Those which were filmed in black&white got an unicolor tint to match the rest... - DirectorLee HarryStarsEric FreemanJames NewmanElizabeth KaitanThe now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior.From the imdb trivia page:
"The producers of Silent Night, Deadly Night wanted director Lee Harry to re-cut the first film and insert just one or two new scenes ... But screenwriters L. Harry, J. H. Earle, D. Patterson and L. Appelbaum, wrote short vignettes involving the patient's youth ... and eventually it became this sequel. But there was not enough material for a full length film, so numerous flashback sequences were used to extend the running time. When the film still ran short, a lengthy closing-credits sequence (nearly ten minutes in length, showing the full cast and crew of this film and its predecessor) was added to pad-out the film's running time even further." - DirectorAlbert DeMondStarsMorton LowryMae ClarkeLawrence GrantA wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.A wisecracking narrator mocks footage from Nosferatu (1922) and Frankenstein (1931). He was shot the next day...
- DirectorMassey CramerDonn DavisonStarsGeorge EllisErin FlemingEdward YastinA small-town newspaperman begins to suspect that a wave of murders committed in the area may not be the work of a serial killer but a monster.A "reworking" of The Legend of Blood Mountain. Basically the same movie, but... with some newly shot extra footage. Brilliant!
- DirectorDave FlockerStarsBob ClymireJan SwihartBill Simonsen"Curse of Bigfoot" tells the tale of a group of high school students on an archaeological dig who discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave.Starts with some newly added footage. The worst of the worst. And ends with the total "The Teenagers Battle the Thing" which for some reason was released in black&white in 1958. Curse of Bigfoot contains a color version. There's no entree on the imdb to "The Teenagers Battle the Thing, but both public domain movies can be downloaded from archive.org.
A rather amusing Rifftrax version is also available. - DirectorJerry WarrenStarsRock MadisonAnn WellsGeorge ToddA mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist's body. He revives him, and the terror continues.The original Mexican film was called La Marca del Muerto (1961).
Jerry Warren bought the rights of it, threw in a few new scenes, took out a lot of the dialogue and dubbed the rest in English. Instead of dialogue he mostly added rather aggravating narration. There's a clear difference in quality between the atmospheric original scenes and the inferior ones that were added by Warren. - DirectorDavid BradleyStarsWalter StockerAudrey CaireCarlos RivasNazi madmen preserve Hitler's brain on a small tropical island until the time is right to resurrect him and, along with him, the Third Reich.Originally released as Madmen of Mandoras (1963).
Additional footage of course was added. - DirectorMikhail KaryukovAleksandr KozyrFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsIvan PereverzevAleksandr ShvorinKonstantin BartashevichTwo countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.I've added this title because there was no imdb entree to the American re-edited version called Battle Beyond the Sun from 1963.
(The link goes to archive.org from where you can download this public domain movie.)
However the imdb gives this information on the trivia page: "The credit on the U.S. version of the film, "Battle Beyond the Sun", was given to 'Thomas Colchart', a pseudonym for then aspiring filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Roger Corman gave him the task of creating two monsters resembling genitalia (one male, one female) which were amusingly spliced into the film."
Some interesting information about "Battle Beyond The Sun" can be found here - DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsJohn SaxonBasil RathboneJudi MeredithThe year is 1990. An alien species makes contact with Earth through radio transmissions. After astronauts from earth venture to the planet, they find one - a female, who's mute. As they transport her back to earth, one by one, the male crew members die. It's too late when they realise she needs their blood to survive.From the imdb trivia page:
This was an ultra low budget production. The elaborate special effects were taken (uncredited) from two big budget Soviet productions, _Mechte Navstrechu (1963)_, and _Nebo Zovyot (1960) - DirectorIshirô HondaTerry O. MorseStarsRaymond BurrTakashi ShimuraMomoko KôchiAn American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.The Americanized version of Gojira from 1954.
- DirectorFord BeebeSaul A. GoodkindStarsBuster CrabbeConstance MooreJackie MoranA 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.This is an edited version of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers.
- DirectorCurt SiodmakHerbert L. StrockStarsRichard CarlsonKing DonovanJean ByronThe Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities.Uses stock footage of the underground magneto-dynamo from the German science fiction thriller Gold from 1934!
- DirectorFred C. BrannonStarsWalter ReedLois CollierJames CravenFeature version of 1950 serial "Flying Disc Man from Mars."Feature version of the previously released serial, Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950).
- DirectorJerry A. BaerwitzIshirô HondaMotoyoshi OdaStarsMyron HealeyTsuruko KobayashiClifford KawadaHeavily alerted American version of Japan's Varan. A prehistoric behemoth is unwittingly awoken from hibernation due to a U.S-Japanese military experiment for economic means on it's watery lair.an American-produced adaptation of the material from Daikaijû Baran
Differences:- This one has American actors (e.g. Myron Healey)
- a plot about trying to desalinize water
- 70 instead of 90 minutes long
- Varan's first appearance is different
- a different musical score
- DirectorJun FukudaYoshimitsu BannoIshirô HondaStarsHiroshi IshikawaYuriko HishimiMinoru TakashimaAfter a manga artist and his friends uncover a plot by his employers at an amusement park to lure aliens Ghidorah and Gigan to Earth, Godzilla and Anguirus set out to defeat them.From the imdb trivia page:
"As a cost-saving measure, stock footage from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Destroy All Monsters and other films were incorporated into the film (these films feature scenes of Godzilla, King Ghidorah and Angilas). Also the entire score of the film was composed of a re-used Akira Ifukube scores from numerous Toho Sci-Fi pieces." - DirectorFederico CurielStarsAlejandro MorenoBlanca SánchezMartha Elena CervantesArácnea's residents have been desperately searching for a source of food to save the life of their queen. Earth is chosen, since human brains are apparently like health food for alien spiders.The English title for this movie is "Hellish Spiders".
It used footage from Teenagers from Outer Space and Plan 9 from Outer Space!!!!!!
By Jove... What can one say about that?! - DirectorAl AdamsonPaul AratowStarsJohn CarradineDon 'Red' BarryLarry HankinAn evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.This is another of Adamson's patchwork features cobbled together using an older unfinished film (LUCIFER'S WOMEN) mixed with newer footage featuring Adamson regulars John Carradine and Regina Carroll.
- DirectorJack HillStephanie RothmanStarsWilliam CampbellMarissa MathesLori SaundersA crazed artist who believes himself to be the reincarnation of a murderous vampire kills young women, then boils their bodies in a vat.In 1964 Roger Corman hired Jack Hill to write and direct a horror film with the condition that he make liberal use of footage from "Operation Titian"
However, Corman didn't like the resulting film, so he shelved it for a year, bringing it out for director Stephanie Rothman to revise. Rothman turned the possessed sculptor into a vampire, shot extensive new footage (using a few members of the supporting cast) and finally "Blood Bath" was created (as the co-feature for "Queen of Blood" in 1966).
When it was prepared for TV release, Corman changed the title to "Track of the Vampire" (Rothman's title of choice) and added approximately 11 minutes of additional footage (some of it outtakes from Hill's and Rothman's shoots). Further complicating matters, Corman released the English-dubbed version of "Operation Titian" directly to TV at about the same time as "Portrait In Terror".
Quote from its Wikipedia page:Blood Bath had possibly the most convoluted production history of any horror movie ever made.
In 1963, while on vacation in Europe, Corman made a deal to distribute an unproduced Yugoslavian espionage thriller to be titled Operacija Ticijan/Operation: Titian. Corman bought the rights to the film for $20,000 and insisted on control over the production to ensure it could be adequately “Americanized”. To this end, Corman provided two cast members, William Campbell and Patrick Magee, who had appeared together in Corman’s The Young Racers and Francis Ford Coppola’s Corman-produced Dementia 13. In addition, Coppola was installed as the production’s script supervisor. The completed film was deemed unreleasable by Corman, although a redubbed, slightly re-edited version was eventually released directly to television under the title Portrait in Terror.
In 1964, Corman asked director Jack Hill to salvage the film. Hill filmed additional sequences in Venice, California, in order to match the original movie’s European look, and turned the former spy thriller into a horror movie about a crazed madman who kills his models and makes sculptures out of their dead bodies. Campbell was available for the reshoots and insisted on a sizeable paycheck to appear in the film, reportedly angering Corman, who nonetheless agreed to the actor’s demands. Hill added all of the beatnik-related scenes shot with Sid Haig and Jonathan Haze, and was responsible for what many fans believe is the single most effective sequence in the film, the hatchet murder of Melissa Mathes. Magee’s role was more or less retained intact in this version. However, Hill’s version of the film, retitled Blood Bath, has never been released, as Corman once again was unhappy with the results.
In 1966, Corman made another attempt to create a workable film. He hired another director, Stephanie Rothman, to change the story as she saw fit. While retaining much of Hill’s footage, she changed the plot from a story about a deranged, murderous artist to a story about a deranged, murderous artist who is also a vampire. Because Campbell refused to participate in yet another reshoot, Rothman was forced to use a completely different actor for the new murder scenes. This meant Rothman now had to provide the Campbell character with the ability to magically transform his physical shape whenever he turned into a vampire, in order to explain why the vampire-killer looked nothing like Campbell. Almost all of the scenes Rothman added, including those with Sandra Knight, were among the most derivative, and therefore the weakest, in the film. This time around, Magee’s role was almost completely excised. He appears as the jealous husband of a nightclub dancer (played by Anna Pavane) who poses for Sordi but is not murdered. He tracks Sordi to his studio and attempts to kill the artist but is pushed into the boiling wax. For reasons known only to him, it was this version of the film that most pleased Corman, and it was subsequently briefly released to theatres by American International Pictures, retaining Hill's Blood Bath title. Both Hill and Rothman were credited as co-directors. The film's co-feature was Queen of Blood, which was cobbled together by Corman and co-produced by Rothman. Hill later claimed that Rothman's changes "totally ruined" the film.[1]
A fifth version of the film exists. Rothman’s Blood Bath ran 69 minutes, which was deemed too short for television showings. More new footage was added, including a six- minute sequence showing Linda Saunders dancing non-stop on the beach. The film was retitled Track of the Vampire, and it is this TV version that is the most commonly known of all five films today, available in a wide variety of “public domain” videotapes and DVDs.
Music for the film was cribbed from scores that composer Ronald Stein wrote for earlier Roger Corman productions, most notably The Undead and Dementia 13. - DirectorKenneth J. BertonStarsErnest BorgnineGeorge MilanBunny SummersTwo creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.The second segment of the film is a recut version of The Devil's Gift, a 1984 film made by the same director.
- DirectorNick MillardStarsPriscilla AldenRobert CoppleCharles EganA severe decrease in funding forces a mental hospital to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic and delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.
- DirectorDoris WishmanStarsSamantha FoxDiane CumminsSaul MethA woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.From the imdb trivia page:
According to an unverified claim by director Doris Wishman, much of the negative for the movie was destroyed by a disgruntled lab employee. Wishman then spent the next few years re-writing and re-editing the film, mixing new and existing footage and adding a voice-over narration to the soundtrack.