Arthur Franz as the Monster on the Campus; a sea creature from Horror of Party Beach; one of the Beach Girls and the Monster

MATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958) John Agar, June Kenney, John Hoyt, Marlene Willis, Kenny Miller, Susan Gordon, Michael Mark; American International, 79 minutes. Produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon; screenplay: George Worthing Yates; Deranged doll-maker Mr. Franz is deathly afraid of being left alone, so he creates a machine that can shrink humans down to only a few inches tall. He soon accumulates a troupe of shrunken prisoners whom he forces to perform for him and keep him company.

MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS (1958) Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue; Universal International, 77 minutes. Producer: Joseph Gershenson; screenplay: David Duncan; director: Jack Arnold. A college professor studying a newly discovered species of prehistoric fish is transformed into a caveman when he is accidentally exposed to the fish's blood.

MISSILE TO THE MOON (1958) Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens, Tommy Cook, Nina Bara, Gary Clarke, Michael Whalen, Laurie Mitchell; Layton Film Productions Inc./ Astor Pictures Corporation; 78 minutes. Producer: Marc Frederic; screenplay: H.E. Barrie and Vincent Fotre; director: Richard E. Cunha. Two escaped convicts are caught hiding in a rocket by a scientist who forces them to pilot the ship to the Moon. Once on the Moon, they encounter a kingdom of scantily-clad women and their sinister female ruler The Ledo, as well as giant spiders and rock creatures. (The escaped convicts are juvenile delinquents and Gary Clarke did play the teenage werewolf in How to Make a Monster the same year.)

THE HEADLESS GHOST (1959) Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, Jack Allen, Clive Revill; Carmel Productions/ American International Pictures, 62 minutes. Producer: Herman Cohen; script: Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel; director: Peter Graham Scott. Three foreign exchange students, Americans Ronnie and Bill and Danish Ingrid, go on a daytrip to the supposedly haunted Ambrose Castle. The students decide to spend the night in the castle to find out if it really is haunted - and meet the ghost of the Fourth Earl of Ambrose and various other spooks.

GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW (1959) Jody Fair, Russ Bender, Henry McCann, Martin Braddock, Elaine DuPont, Leon Tyler, Jack Ging; Alta Vista Productions / American International Pictures, 65 minutes. Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Lou Rusoff; Screenplay: Lou Rusoff; director: William Hole. A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls!

I SAW WHAT YOU DID (1959) Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Sarah Lane, Andi Garrett, Sharyl Locke, Patricia Breslin, John Archer, John Crawford; Universal Pictures, 82 minutes. Producer: William Castle; screenplay: William P. McGivern; director: William Castle. Two teenage girls occupy their time by randomly calling strangers, whispering "I saw what you did," and hanging up. When one of their victims turns out to be a man who has just murdered his wife, he thinks they witnessed the crime and sets out to find the girls and kill them.

WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS DORMITORY (1961) aka Lycanthropus, Ghoul in School, I Married A Werewolf Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens, Maurice Marsac, Maureen O'Connor, Mary McNeeran; Royal Film / MGM, 82 minutes. Screenplay: Ernesto Gastaldi (as Julian Berry); director: Paolo Heusch. The new science teacher, Dr. Julian Olcott, with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.

KONGA (1961) working title: I Was a Teenage Gorilla Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon, Austin Trevor, Jack Watson, George Pastell; American International Pictures, 90 minutes. Producers: Herman Cohen, Nathan Cohen, Stuart Levy; screenplay: Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel; director: John Lemont; Scientist Charles Decker returns from a plane crash in Africa with a species of carnivorous plant. He begins experiments on his chimpanzee Konga using a serum created from the plants that causes Konga to grow to immense size.

The "ghoul in school" lycanthrope from Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory;
She-Creature costume in Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow; Richard Kiel as Eegah!

NOTE:Plot summaries taken from pressbooks, The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Films and TV (Roger Keightley; Kevin Lyons, contributors), Scanner Communications, (c) 2000 - 2002, IMDb and from various internet video review sites.

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