On May 31st Film Chest Media will release a 3-disc DVD set of 12 Sci-fi B-movies released in the late 1920’s and up until the late 1960’s. Most of these films, if not all, have found their way onto a number of DVD sets much like this one over the years. In general I’m a fan of these sets. They usually offer a lot of bang for your buck and until we get them on Blu-ray (not likely, but possible for some) this is the best way to pick up most of these films. I haven’t seen on 12 films on this set, but Roger Corman’s The Wasp Woman is quite enjoyable and Metropolis is a winner, though that is the one film here that I know is available on Blu-ray.

Long story short, if you don’t own these films and you like older sci-fi fare, this is worth looking into. Full list of films below!

Teenagers from Outer Space – 1959
Dir. Tom Graeff
A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons.

Metropolis – 1927
Dir. Fritz Lang
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

The Amazing Transparent Man – 1960
Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
A crazed scientist invents an invisibility formula. He plans to use the formula to create an army of invisible zombies.

The Giant Gila Monster – 1959
Dir. Ray Kellog
A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community with a heroic teenager attempting to destroy the creature.

The Phantom Planet – 1961
Dir. William Marshall
After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet’s exotic atmosphere.

Destroy All Planets – 1968
Dir. Kenji Yuasa
Gamera the Flying Turtle falls under the spell of evil aliens, but two children free him and he returns to fight the aliens’ monster, Viras.

The Atomic Brain – 1963
Dir. Joseph Mascelli
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

The Brain that Wouldn’t Die – 1962
Dir. Joseph Green
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend’s head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

The Killer Shrews – 1959
Dir. Ray Kellog
On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane.

Phantom from Space – 1953
Dir. W. Lee Wilder
An alien being with the power of invisibility lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by government authorities.

The Wasp Woman – 1959
Dir. Roger Corman
A cosmetics queen develops a youth formula from jelly taken from queen wasps. She fails to anticipate the typical hoary side-effects.

Attack of the Giant Leeches – 1959
Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don’t believe them.