1958 – We Have Issues

Fiend Without A Face (1958) – Review

June 20, 2026 greigzilla

To the uninitiated, I guess most 50s sci-fi flicks seem the same. Take a cast of stuffy, exposition spouting, scientist/military types and have them pontificate

Touch Of Evil (1958) – Review

June 7, 2026 greigzilla

Sometimes people do their best work when their back is against the wall. When hired to appear in sleazy tex-mex noir, Touch Of Evil, former

Tarzan’s Fight For Life (1958) – Review

November 27, 2024 greigzilla

After wading through a fair few classic Tarzan movies as a result of reviewing them for this site, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s

The H-Man (1958) – Review

November 14, 2024 greigzilla

While Ishiro Honda will always be most famous for unleashing a 165 foot tall irradiated lizard onto the world as it masqueraded as the social

Tarzan And The Trappers (1958) – Review

October 22, 2024 greigzilla

Despite having a long history of brawling with lions, feuding with hunters and generally sprinting through the underbrush with only a loin cloth to save

Vertigo (1958) – Review

April 28, 2024 greigzilla

Preserving the secret of a film that’s armed itself with devastating twist is becoming something of a lost art. Be it through careless posting on

It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) – Review

March 6, 2024 greigzilla

Experiencing chronic deja vu while watching an older movie is nothing new as filmmakers have been borrowing and homaging from older flicks for about as

The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958) – Review

June 27, 2022 greigzilla

After the hugely favourable reception the Hammer got for their ever-so-dashing version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (not to mention the similar thumbs up they got

Dracula (1958) – Review

June 22, 2022 greigzilla

Whenever a filmmaker puts a sexy new spin on a classic character, there’s always a certain amount of pushback from purists crying heresy, but if

The Blob (1958) – Review

February 17, 2022 greigzilla

Surely there’s no movie more quintessential to the the 50’s monster movie experience than 1958’s The Blob. Essentially an 86 minute collation of every roaming,

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) – Review

December 2, 2021 greigzilla

The sub-genre (pun not intended) of the submarine based war movie seems to only have a handful of tropes. Watch a couple in a row

The Vikings (1958) – Review

November 20, 2021 greigzilla

Watching the epics from cinema’s past is often a surreal experience as it’s kinda weird to see what trends were obsessing audiences during Hollywood’s many