猩球崛起

　　茫茫宇宙中一颗无名星球上，生活着体形悬殊的两种生物。占主导地位的是戴格斯人，他们身形巨大，拥有极高的文明和智慧，可以使精神摆脱肉体自在游弋；与之相对的是奥姆斯人，他们具有地球人的外表和身形，社会形态原始落后，在戴格斯人面前有如蝼蚁，于是当仁不让成为这些巨人的奴隶和玩物。奥姆斯人具有顽强的生命力和繁殖能力，他们的数量与日俱增，造成了统治者的困扰。于是，一场针对奥姆斯人的剿灭战随即展开。这本是一场微不足道的如同剿灭害虫的行动，但一个不起眼的奥姆斯人改变了双方的格局。泰尔是被一个戴格斯女孩豢养的奥姆斯男性宠物，他通过主人的教学机器学到了戴格斯人先进的科学文化知识。偶然机会，泰尔逃离戴格斯家庭，成为了领导奥姆斯人对抗统治者的领袖……　　本片荣获1973年戛纳电影节特别奖。

　　Based on the novel by Karel Capek, the prominent Czech writer of the early 20th century who coined the word robot for his play R.U.R., the story revolves around a discovery of Krakatit - a powerful explosive - by Prokop, an experimental scientist who, following an accidental explosion in his lab, slips in and out of delirium. When he realises that, in a delirious period, he has given the formula for making Krakatit to one of his colleagues, he tries to find the man, who does not realize how dangerous a thing Krakatit is. In the process, he nearly gives his discovery away again to foreign interests, a group of anarchists, and even greater forces of darkness...

　　Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.　　In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.　　The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.

　　Post-nuclear-war dramas centering on a small group of survivors now constitute an entire genre in science-fiction films. All of them, in some way or another, can be traced back to this seminal film from 1951 in which five people deal with the possibility they are the only human beings left alive on the planet.　　While most of the later movies exploited this possibility for B-movie thrills, "Five" adopts a quiet, contemplative tone which some may find dull but which thoughtful viewers are more likely to find, for want of a better word, haunting. There is something about this movie which gets under the skin and which lurks in the corners of the mind long after it's over.

　　小男孩在爬上一个电缆高路标塔时触电。他长大后，发现自己在暴怒时会有零星的电从拳头中飞闪出来。在东京的别处，也有一个电子奇才，他碰巧是个嗜好电子武器的义务警员。当两人互相引起彼此的注意时，一场无法避免的大战即将把整个城市点燃……几乎是对传统影像技术的颠覆和批判，浅野忠信在片中饰演的的人物，能操纵电流，和爬虫类动物对话。浅野忠信再次发挥自己的疯狂张扬的演技，把角色演绎成了一个热烈、颓废、压抑的狂徒。并足以向著名的《铁男》挑战。

　　小松左京の同名SF小説を原作に、超能力を持つ諜報員・エスパイたちの活躍を描く。当時の技術で、果敢に超能力を表現しようとする試みが光る。田村、マリア、三木の3人は、国連の秘密組織’“エスパイ”で働いていた。エスパイとは、超能力を悪用する逆エスパイと戦うための超能力者を養成する機関である。やがて、東西冷戦の要・バルトニアの首相暗殺計画をめぐって3人の活躍が始まる……。

　　有个惊吓过度的小女孩在沙漠游走，唯一吐出的只有一个字：怪物！任何50年代恐怖片迷都会马上告诉你，她所指的”怪物”就是巨蚁，那是在当地核子试爆后的副产品。这些巨蚁非常有组织，嗜肉且体型巨大，约有8到20呎，它们群聚在洛杉矶的下水道系统，彷若一个巨大的蚂蚁园区，准备好要接管这个世界。要和这些怪物对抗的人类精英是新墨西哥警署探员詹姆斯惠特摩，联邦调查局代表詹姆斯亚尼斯，和一对由埃德蒙关恩和乔安妮威尔登所饰的父女档昆虫学家。

　　British Army radiation drills at a remote Scottish base attract a subterranean, radioactive entity of unknown nature that vanishes, leaving two severely radiation-burned soldiers... and a "bottomless" crack in the earth. Others who meet the thing in the night suffer likewise, and with increasing severity; it seems to be able to "absorb" radiation from any source, growing bigger and bigger. What is it?? How do you destroy a thing that "feeds" on energy?

　　The monster, which looks like a nastier version of "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy lighthouse town. The superstitious lighthouse keeper is worried for the safety of his beautiful teenage daughter, so he leaves food for the monster, who dwells in a nearby cave. When bodies wash up ashore, the locals take notice.

　　A girl flees her orphanage in a paranoid belief that otherworldly forces are after her. She seeks refuge in the remote town of Fate, Texas, but is met with hostility. The residents are about to enter her Hell.

　　「フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣」の姉妹編。クローン生物のフランケンシュタインが、より怪獣的になり、分裂によって山の怪獣サンダと海の怪獣ガイラの2体に分かれる。心優しい兄のサンダと人間を食う凶暴な弟のガイラが、骨肉相食む死闘を演じる。2匹の死闘は都市を中心に展開され、従来脇役に徹してきた自衛隊が、今回は生命の細胞までも焼きつくす殺人光線兵器・メーサー光線砲戦車を登場させ、互角の闘いを演じる。この日・米合作によるフランケンシュタイン2部作は、当時の怪獣ブームから、人間不在の怪獣トーナメント化した怪獣映画に一石を投じたが、本流にはならなかった。