MONSTERAMA SCI FI LATE NIGHT CREATURE FEATURE SHOW (1996) ** ½

Here’s yet another Something Weird trailer compilation tape.  I have to say, it’s not one of their best collections.  In fact, you’ve probably seen most (or all) of these trailers elsewhere (including on other Something Weird tapes).  Then again, if you’re a sucker like me for trailer comps and monster mash tapes, it’ll go down smooth enough. 

Monsterama Sci Fi Late Night Creature Feature Show is chockfull of trailers for ‘50s space exploration flicks (Rocketship X-M, Destination Moon, and When Worlds Collide), Grade Z junk (Teenage Zombies, Killers from Space, and From Hell It Came), 3-D movies (It Came from Outer Space, Robot Monster, and The Mad Magician), films from Universal Studios (The Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, and House of Dracula), the works of Roger Corman (Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Day the World Ended, and It Conquered the World), selections from Val Lewton’s career (I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, and The Curse of the Cat People), and the comedies of Abbott and Costello (Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein).  Unfortunately, some of the trailers are shorter versions and/or from re-releases.  Oddly enough, the trailer for Half-Human has Spanish subtitles, which is something different at least.

Would I like to have seen a few other subgenres represented here?  Sure.  Would it have been nice to have seen more trailers for color movies?  (And by “color”, I mean “newer” as there are trailers for the likes of Scared to Death, This Island Earth, and Invaders from Mars.)  You bet.  Should there have been a few obscure titles sprinkled in here and there for the sake of variety?  Absolutely.  However, if you’ve got an itch to watch a bunch of ‘50s black and white Sci-Fi trailers, this will be the cure for what ails you. 

The complete trailer list is as follows:  The Monster of Piedras Blancas, How to Make a Monster, Rocketship X-M, Destination Moon, Teenage Zombies, Half-Human, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, It Came from Outer Space, Robot Monster, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Killers from Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mad Magician, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Creature with the Atom Brain, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, X the Unknown, Tarantula, The Day the World Ended, When Worlds Collide, Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Burn, Witch, Burn!, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Time Machine, Rodan, Them!, Revenge of the Creature, Black Friday, The Wolf Man, The Atomic Monster (AKA:  Man Made Monster, The Ghost of Frankenstein, I Married a Witch, I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Curse of the Cat People, Son of Dracula, House of Frankenstein, The Body Snatcher, House of Dracula, The Beast with Five Fingers, Scared to Death, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, Mighty Joe Young, This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Astounding She-Monster, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, The Deadly Mantis, Beyond the Time Barrier, Beyond the Time Barrier (TV Spot), Phantom from Space, Invaders from Mars, The War of the Worlds, The Creature Walks Among Us, It Conquered the World, The Mole People, The She-Creature, The Man Who Turned to Stone, 20 Million Miles to Earth, The 27th Day, The Monster That Challenged the World, From Hell It Came.