Mantrap (1953)

 

 

A wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer. 

 

OK, but standard crime mystery with a Noir touch and some good b/w cinematography.

 

Maltin*1/2: "Tame detective-capturing-elusive killer plot."

 

 

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

This isn't really a good movie - the plot itself is hilariously silly - but it has an (unintended) dreamlike,  surreal quality to ist scenes and situations, so I'll have to admit it's one of my guilty pleasures since my childhood.

Halliwell*: "Rough and ready adaptation of a famous sci-fi novel, sometimes blunderingly effective and with moments of good trick work."

Maltin**1/2: "Variable special effects."

Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.