I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (1970/Cinemation) 83mins. Released 1971 after changes.
Credits: Dir. & Sc: David Durston; Prod: Jerry Gross & Harry Kaplen; Ph: Jacques Demarecaux; Art: Charles Baxter; Mus: Clay Pitts.
Cast: Bhaskar, Rhonda Fultz, Riley Mills, Jadine Wong, Tyde Kierney, Elizabeth Marner Brooks, George Patterson, Richard Bowler, Iris Brooks, John Damon, Lynn Lowrey, Alex Mann, Mike Gentry.
Satanic hippies give a man LSD as part of their sacrificial ritual so his vengeful son injects the blood of a rabid dog into meat pies which he serves to the hippie community. Instead of killing them as planned the infected pies turns them into rampaging maniacs.
Due to the controversy the film caused it has been re-edited into what is now an incoherent muddle.
Double billed with I Eat Your Skin.

I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964/Iselin-Tenney) 81mins. BW.
Originally titled: ZOMBIES. Aka: VOODOO BLOOD BATH.
Dir., Prod. & Sc: Del Tenney; A.Prod: Jesse Hartman & Dan Stapleton; Ph: Francois Farkas; Ed: Larry Keating; Art: Robert Verberkmoss; Mu: Guy Del Russo; Mus: Lon E. Norman.
Cast: William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Betty Hyatt Linton, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy, Robert Stanton.
A writer discovers that a scientist working on a cure for cancer has inadvertantly created a race of zombies, by injecting the people of a Caribbean island with snake venom.
This awfully cheap and inept underground production was made in 1961 as ZOMBIES, but re-edited to further incoherence in 1964 by Jerry Gross who re-titled and released it in 1971 to double bill with I Drink Your Blood.

I HAVE A STRANGERS FACE (1966) see Tamin No Kao

I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958/Fowler Jnr./Paramount) 78mins. BW.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: Gene Fowler Jnr.; Sc: Louis Vittes; Ph: Haskell Boggs; Ed: George Tomaini; Art: Hal Pereira & Henry Bumstead; Sets: Robert Benton; Sfx: John P. Fulton. From a story by Gene Fowler Jr. & Louis Vittes.
Cast: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Jean Carson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Peter Baldwin,Steve London, Robert Ivers, Jack Orrison, Chuck Wassil, Ty Hungerford, James Anderson, Alan Dexter, Valerie Allen.
On the way home from his stag night, Bill, (Tryon), is possessed by an alien, but although his fiancee, Marge, (Talbott), suspects something is wrong, they marry as planned. Time passes and other males in the community also become emotionless, acting strangely and meeting with Bill in secret. Pressed for a reason Bill reveals that as aliens they came to Earth to breed when their own planet overheated and killed all the females, but until their latest operation they have been unable to mate with Earth women and cannot comprehend human emotion. The remaining uneffected men hunt down the aliens with their dogs that kill them by biting off their probocis, Bill and the others return to normal while the surviving aliens leave for another planet.
The sensationalist title belittles the effective conveyance of the messages within attacking McCarthyism and America's communist paranoia. Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers this is an effective, if cheap made, science ficton film under the able hands of Fowler.

I MARRIED A WEREWOLF (1961) see Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory

I, MONSTER (1971/Amicus/Britih Lion) 75mins. UK
Credits: Dir: Stephen Weeks; Prod: Milton Subotsky & Max J. Rosenburg; Sc: Milton Subotsky; Ph: Moray Grant; Ed: Peter Tanner; Art: Tony Curtis; Mu: Harry Frampton & Peter Frampton; Mus: Carl Davis. From "The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt, Kenneth J. Warren, Susan James, Marjie Lawrence, Aimee Delamain, Chloe Frank, Michael DesBarres.
Doctor Charles Marlowe, (Lee), a follower of Freud's teachings, experiments with a drug that removes his super ego, the controlling morality of the human mind. After testing the serum on some willing patients he finds that they turn into the exact opposite personalities from which they normally present. But Marlowe doubts the long term effects and so experiments on himself, which causes him to turn into a fiend, the opposite of his normally caring self. As Mr. Blake, the fiend causes havoc and commits murder in the seamier parts of London, arousing the concern of Marlowe's fellow doctors who believe that Blake is blackmailing their colleague. Not being able to control the transformations, Blake catches fire when he upsets an oil lamp becoming Marlowe as he dies.
Twenty two year old Weeks' directorial debut is an inspired work, adding a new slant on the famous tale. Lee is superb as the troubled hero and villain.
Originally made in 3-D, it has never been shown in that format.

ICON (1960) see Il Mulino delle Donne de Pietra

IDO ZERO DAISAKUSEN (1969) see Latitude Zero

L'IGUANA DALLA LINGUA DI FUOCO (1970)
Aka: THE IGUANA WITH THE TOUNGE OF FIRE.
Credits: Dir: Willy Pareto (Riccardo Freda).
Cast: Anton Differing, Valentina Cortese, Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander.
In Dublin, a series of brutal murders occur in which all the victims have their throats slit and their faces disfigured with acid. The only link to the crimes is the relationship the victims have with the Swiss ambassador, (Differing), and his family, which is brought to the attention of a retired inspector, (Pistilli), who is courting the ambassador's daughter Helen, (Lassander). All the clues seem to point to each family member until it is revealed that their estranged son Mark is the culprit hoping to surround his family with unhappiness. However, the first murder was committed by the ambassador himself who had an affair with a woman who was trying to blackmail him.
Freda attempts a giallo styled thriller, but the cast fails to arouse much interest and like Argento, Freda concentrates too much on the mutilation.

THE IGUANA WITH THE TOUNGE OF FIRE (1970) see L'Iguana Dalla Lingua Di Fuoco

IKARIE X.B. 1 (1963/Barrandov) 90mins. Czechoslovakia.
Aka: VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.
Credits: Dir: Jack Polack (Jindrich Polak); Prod: Rudolph Wohl; Sc: Pavel Juracek & Jindrich Polak; Ph: Jan Kalis; Ed: Josef Dobricovsky; Art: Jan Zazvorka; Mus: Zdenek Liska & Evzen Illin.
Cast: Zdenek Strepanak, Francis Smolen, Radovan Lakavsy, Dana Medricka, Irena Kacirkov , Jiri Vrstala, Ludek Munzar, Emilie Vasayova.
A group of space travellers search for a planet that is less corrupt than their own. During their journey they discover a ghost ship manned by finely dressed corpses around a table, are sucked through a space nebula and finally discover a new planet suitable to their needs. This particular planet is called Earth.
The poor English dubbing spoils an imaginative film.
The American version has a different ending.

I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU (1951) see The House in the Square

ILLUSION OF BLOOD (1968) Japan.
Credits: Dir: Shiro Toyoda.
A samuri warrior is haunted by his first wife and driven to suicide.
An interesting film with some extremely bizarre imagery.

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN (1969/SKM./Warner) 103mins.
Credits: Dir: Jack Smight; Prod: Howard B. Kreitsek & Ted Mann; Sc: Howard B. Kreitsek; Ph: Philip Lanthrop; Ed: Archie Marshek; Art: Joel Schiller; Des: Richard Sylbert; Sfx: Ralph Webb; Mus: Jerry Goldsmith. From stories by Ray Bradbury.
Cast: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers, Tim Weldon, Christine Matchett.
An old hobo, Carl, (Steiger), meets up with a younger man, (Drivas), on the road who notices that Carl's body is entirely covered with tatoos and discovers he is after the woman who put them there and kill her. To anyone looking at the tatoos, they come slowly to life telling a story that depicts Carl as an evil man, making the onlooker angry. Despite Carl's warnings, the young man stares into the bare patch of skin on Carl's back.
"The Veldt".
In the future, a children's playroom is actually a holograph projection room where any thing can seem real. A couple notice that their two children seem obsessed with the playroom's program of the African veldt and the animals that live there, but when they investigate the hologram, it becomes more real than usual and kills them.
"The Long Rains".
Stranded on a rain pelted planet, three spacemen try to find the safety of a sundome, but the continual rain slowly drives them insane. Only one of them survives.
"The Last Night Of The World".
After a nuclear holocaust the surviving members of the world predict that the world will end on a certain night and all survivors are encouraged to kill themselves and avoid the agony. A father kills his children, but the next day begins as usual and all the expert predictions were wrong.
The young man becomes so enraged by the stories that he tries to kill Carl.
An admirable attempt to bring Bradbury's tales to the screen, but the short stories are not given enough time to develop adequately and the linking scenes with Steiger are too disjointed. This struggles to be a morality play, but lacks the necesssary poetry.

IMAGE WIFE (1958) see Riko Na Oyome-San

IMMEDIATE DISASTER (1954) see Stranger From Venus

THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1962) see Caltiki, il Mostro Immortale

THE IMMORTAL (1969) 75mins. TVM.
Credits: Dir: Joseph Sargent. From a novel by James Gunn.
Cast: Christopher George, Jessica Walter, Barry Sullivan, Carol Lynley, Ralph Bellamy.
A racetrack driver discovers that his blood contains freak antibodies which makes him immune to aging.
An average pilot film for a television series that needs longer to develop its ideas.

IN THE GRIP OF THE SPIDER (1971) see Nella Stretta Morsa del Rango

IN THE YEAR 2889 (1966) see Year 2889

INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1958/Governor) 78mins. BW.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: Jerry Warren; Sc: John W. Steiner.
Cast: John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Allen Windsor, Lloyd Nelson, George Skaff.
Four people become trapped in a diving bell that lands in a strange lost world riddled with tunnels underneath the ocean floor.
Wooden acting and a bad script can only mean fun for B-movie fans. Clarke repeats his gurgling voice that he used in The Hideous Sun Demon.

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957/Universal) 81mins. BW.
Credits: Dir: Jack Arnold; Prod: Albert Zugsmith; Sc: Richard Matheson; Ph: Ellis W. Carter; Ed: Al Joseph; Art: Alexander Golitzen & Robert Clatworthy; Sets: Russell A. Gausman & Ruby R. Levitt; Sfx: Clifford Stine, Roswell A. Hoffman & Everett H. Broussard; Mu: Bud Westmore; Sound: Leslie I. Carey & Robert Pritchard; Mus: Joseph Gershenson & Hans Salter. From a story by Richard Matheson.
Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert, Frank Scannell, Helene Marshall, Diana Darrin, Billy Curtis.
"So incredible you'll talk about it for years to come!"
Scott Carey, (Williams), and his wife, (Stuart), are alone on a boat when Scott is enveloped by a strange mist. Six months later he finds that his body is shrinking an inch every week and eventually he becomes so small that he moves into a dolls house where he encounters the wrath of the house cat who causes him to fall into the basement. There he has to survive pools of water, water droplets and a spider. Scott continues to shrink until he is microscopic when he is able to leave the basement into the outside world and looks to the heavens accepting his lot. "To God there is no zero. I still exist".
An unmissable classic of sci-fi cinema. Matheson's original ending had Scott given an antidote and reunited with his wife, but much to his annoyance this was changed by uncredited writer Richard Alan Simmons and Jack Arnold to the more spiritual ending.
One reason given for the film's success is the detailed attention given to the enlarged sets. Even the water drops were constructed from water filled condoms that would explode on contact in the correct manner.

THE INCREDIBLE TWO HEADED TRANSPLANT (1970/AIP./Trident/Mutual General) 88mins.
Credits: Dir: Anthony M. Lanza & John Cardos; Prod: John Lawrence; Ex.Prod: Nicholas Wowchuck; Co-Prod: Volodymyr Kowal; A.Prod: Arthur N. Gilbert & Alvin L. Fast; Sc: James Gordon White & John Lawrence; Ph: John Steeley, Glen Gano & Paul Hipp; Ed: Anthony M. Lanza; Art: Ray Markham; Sfx: Ray Dorn; Mu. & Head Des: Barry Noble; Mus: John Barber. Song "Incredible" sung by Bobbie Boyle; Lyrics: Barnabus Hill; Mus: John Hill.
Cast: Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem, Albert Cole, John Bloom, Berry Kroeger, Larry Vincent, Jack Lester, Jerry Patterson, Darlene Duralia, Ray Thorn, Donald Brody, Mary Ellen Clawsen, Janice P. Gelman, Mike Espe, Andrew Schneider.
"One wants to love! One wants to kill!"
A doctor, (Dern), at an asylum is busy grafting the heads of animals onto other animals bodies, much to the dislike of his assistant, (Kasem), who believes the work is unethical. When convicted murderer and psychopath Manual Cass, (Cole), escapes, he is shot and the doctor uses the oppertunity to remove his head and graft it onto the incredibly strong, but mentally deficient Danny, (Bloom). Although Danny knows murder is wrong, the evil head attatched to him forces him to kill, until the monsrosity is trapped in a deserted mine by the doctor and his assistant who all perish when the mine shaft collapses.
A cheaply made and dated film with all the qualities of a television production, including some continuity errors. Dern's performance, however, outshines them all and saves the production.
AIP. decided to beef up their thinly plotted project with appearances by famous disc jockey Kasem and horror film host Vincent.

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES, WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES
(1963/Morgan-Steckler Prod.) 90mins. Aka: TEENAGE PSYCHO MEETS BLOODY MARY.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: Ray Dennis Steckler; Ex.Prod: George J. Morgan; Sc: Gene Pollock & Robert Silliphant; Ph: Joseph V. Mascelli (aided by a young Vilmos Zsigmond & Laszlo Kovacs); Ed: Don Schneider; Art: Mike Harrington; Mu: Tom Scherman; Mus: Libby Quinn. From a story by E.M. Kevke.
Cast: Cash Flagg (Ray Dennis Steckler), Carolyn Brandt, Atlas King, Madison Clarke, Brett O'Hara, Jack Brady, James Bowie, Toni Camel, Sharon Walsh, Joan Howard, Whitey Robinson, Neil Stillman, Erina Enyo, Bill Ward, Gene Pollock, Son Hooker, Titus Moede, Dan Russe, Robert Silliphant.
"The first Monster Musical".
Estrella, (O'Hara), a gypsy fortune teller at a carnival, transforms her clients into zombies by throwing acid on them. When three teenagers visit her sideshow she hypnotises one of them, Jerry, (Flagg), to kill a gypsy dancer who discovered her cage of zombies. The zombies break loose, kill Estrella and perform a bizarre dance number.
A chaotic piece of tedious nonsense that gained notoriety due to the lengthy film title. There are occasional moments of atmosphere when the zombies break loose, but most of the film's bad acting and terrible dialogue make this almost unwatchable.
Advertised with "Hallucinogenic Hypnotism" which featured a "spiraling hypnotic wheel" that cued cinema ushers to run through the audience in phosphorescent masks waving axes.
The song "Zombie Stomp" is played when the zombie mutants run amok.

INCUBUS (1965/Daystar/Contempo III) BW.
Credits: Dir. & Sc: Leslie Stevens; Prod: Anthony M. Taylor.
Cast: William Shatner, Allyson Ames, Ann Atman, Eloise Hart, Milo Milos (Milosevic), Robert Fortier.
A man, (Shatner), and his sister, (Atman), fall foul of two succubus, (Ames & Milos).
From the creator of the "Outer Limits" television series, the dialogue is entirely in Esperanto, an experimental language created in 1887, designed to be universal, combining elements of all the more common languages.
Milos later killed his lover Barbara Rooney, (wife of Mickey Rooney), and then committed suicide.

THE INDESTRUCTABLE MAN (1956/Allied Artists) 70mins. BW.
Credits: Dir. & Prod: Jack Pollexfen; Sc: Vy Russell & Sue Bradford.
Cast:Lon Chaney Jnr., Marian Carr, Casey Adams, Ross Elliott, Stuart Randall, Robert Shayne, Kenneth Terrell.
"300,000 volts of horror!"
A brutal killer, (Chaney), is executed in the electric chair, but a mad scientist, (Shayne), brings him back to life. The killer then sets about murdering all those who were responsible for his imprisonment and execution.
An enjoyable, low budget gangster film narrated by Elliott in the style of Phillip Marlowe's detective. One scene has Chaney burned in the face with a flame thrower.

THE INFERNAL DEAD (1960) see Munecas Infernales