Cult Camp Classics Vol. 1: Sci-Fi Thrillers: DVD Review (2007)

For those who love bad movies--really, really bad movies--this terrific set is like taking a one-two punch to the head. And yet you cry out for more.

Featured are 1959's "The Giant Behemoth," in which London comes under attack by a huge palaeosaurus who gets zapped by radiation (natch) and goes on a tear. Next up is another behemoth, 1958's "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman," which is about as pre-feminist as it gets.

But nothing in this set--which just gives and gives and gives--compares to the worldwide fear Zsa Zsa Gabor ignited in 1958 when she co-starred in "Queen of Outer Space," the sci-fi disaster that cast Eva's sister as the only rational woman on the planet Venus. (So much for typecasting.)

With Zsa Zsa unable--or unwilling--to conceal her Hungarian accent, the movie became sci-fi for the Eastern bloc, a ripe piece of trashovitch that suggested horror in its purest form.

One of the better new releases.

Grade: A-