But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.

People have loved monster movies much further back than 50 years ago, as the longevity of the Godzilla series shows quite plainly (and there were even monster movies before the start of that one). The ...

They have been making monster movies basically since the beginning of the medium. Universal has been making movies of that ilk for almost as long. Since the 1920s, Universal has been making monster ...