doomsday machine (1976)

"I don't understand."
The Americans discover that the Chinese have developed a doomsday machine that can destroy the earth. This derails the preparations for a mission to Venus as the crew must try to save the Earth from destruction, with three of the crew being replaced by three women.
Be amazed who the women manage to maintain their beehives whilst in space, in this cheesy and cheap Sci-fi hokem.

the frozen dead (1967)

"The human is much more complex."
High ranking Nazi's are frozen and secreted about the world, as they realise they are losing the war. Twenty years later Nazi scientist Dr Norberg (Dana Andrews) sets out to revive them. But unfortunately they all come out brain-damaged, some would say they were brain damaged from the start! To determine what is going wrong he needs a healthy brain to experiment on, and a friend of his niece, Elsa (Kathleen Breck) is chosen. But Jean Norberg (Anna Palk) is suspicious of the sudden disappearance of her friend, a friend who has been condemned to a living hell, tortured as a head in a jar.
A film whose premise reads like a typical horror, but is infused with a despair and sadism, that is hard to forget.

the doomsday machine (1976)

"I can't get over it. Putting females together with the male animal in a cage like this. What are we supposed to do for the next two years, breed!"
The Chinese have developed a bomb capable of wiping out all life on earth, and plan to use it within days. In an attempt to counter this the US govt takes over a manned mission to Venus, replacing half the crew with women. So when the inevitable apocalypse occurs these people become the last humans in the universe...
A troubled production obviously didn't help to keep this film focused; as a partially complete film is then mashed together with scenes featuring new actors, to make one mess of a salvage job.

it! (1966)

aka Anger of the Golem. Curse of the Golem.
After a fire at a warehouse, a museum worker Pimm (Roddy McDowall) and his boss find only one item undamaged, a bizarre looking statue. Whilst distracted Pimm's boss dies, and when found the statue is in a slightly different position. Pimm delves into the history of the statue and finds it is the legendary Golem, created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century, is indestructible and prone to killing people.
A modern update of the Golem myth, with McDowall giving a nicely warped performance as a museum curator, who quickly goes power crazy in his pursuit of a young woman (Jill Haworth). Otherwise this is a slow paced horror, building an air of suspense, but taking too long to do so for many used to modern frenetically edited horrors.