Welcome to Movies from Hell!
This darkHollywood feature is devoted to the invasion of the c-movies in the 1950s - pictures specifically designed to lure kids out of the family television room and back to drive-ins and Saturday matinees with vague promises of sex, atomic aliens and rock and roll.

What you usually got was a screaming girl in a tight sweater chased by a guy in a rubber mask and some cloned popular music. The only good thing about these turkeys hung in the lobby boasting colossal  thrills coming next week.

The titles below link to those incredible posters and the IMDb for more info about the people responsible for Hollywood's darkest days. There's nothing to buy. No ticket required. So dig it, kids! Scroll down into Movies from Hell!

13 Ghosts (1960)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The Beast With 1,000,000 Eyes (1955)
Beginning of the End (1957)
The Black Scorpion (1957)
Bride of the Monster (1956)
The Crawling Eye (1958)
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Creature With The Atom Brain (1955)
Curse of The Demon (1957)
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
Day The World Ended (1956)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Fire Maidens From Outer Space (1956)
The Giant Gila Monster (1957)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Hot Rod Rumble (1957)
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Conquered the World (1956)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
The Killer Shrews (1959)
King Dinosaur (1955)
The Leech Woman (1960)
Lost Continent (1951)
Macabre (1958)
The Mole People (1956)
Monster On The Campus (1958)
Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Not of This Earth (1957)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Rocketship X-M (1950)
The She-Creature (1956)
Tarantula (1955)
Teenage Cave Man (1958)
Teenagers From Outer Space (1959)
Teenage Rebel (1956)
Terror From The Year 5000 (1958)
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
This Rebel Breed (1960)
The Tingler (1959)
The Undead (1957)
The Unearthly (1957)
Viking Women and The Sea Serpent (1958)
War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
The End... of The Beginning!
As bad they were, you can't escape the Movies from Hell! They influenced everybody from Forrie Ackerman to Joss Whedon and probably contributed to the end of the Cold War and landing Buzz Aldrin on the moon. A lot more Movies from Hell were made later, but darkHollywood only covers films from 1929 to 1960, so look for them elsewhere, OK? In closing, this odd little tribute is dedicated to Billy Toth and Tommy Sanch, wherever they are!
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