Cinema of the Damned
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X: The Unknown
›1956 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 81m · Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, William Lucas
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
The Magnetic Monster
›NR1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Leo Britt
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Swarmed
›PG-132005 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Carol Alt, Jonathan Malen, Maria Brooks
Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.
Poultrygeist II: Dawn of the Chicken Dead
›2026 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · Lloyd Kaufman, Debbie Rochon, Mark Torgl
A global poultry pandemic sets the stage for a wealthy tech tycoon to attempt to relaunch a failed fast-food empire using lab-grown synthetic chicken. Things go horribly wrong when these artificial food supplies unleash a wave of mutant chicken zombies.