"Half-man! Half-monster!" Opportunistic Himalayan explorers return a captured yeti to L.A., where it escapes in the midst of a debate between customs and immigration (who could blame it?). Careful viewers will note that the Himalayan sherpas are speaking Japanese.

A nuclear scientist (Peter Graves) is hijacked by aliens to facilitate their invasion of Earth. A prophetic script predicts the age of video-conferencing. The overly earnest Graves and laughable alien costumes make this a gem.

The mad scientist meets the Western, complete with white-hatted hero. A scientist's radium-tube invention is used by robbers to crash and plunder mail planes until the scientist's daughter and an FBI agent ride in to save the day.

This howler tells the age-old story of the mad scientist who turns his gardener into a wolf-like creature to take revenge on those who scoffed at his work. Incidentally, he'd also like to take over the world with an army of such creatures.

"Only Hell could breed such an enormous beast. Only God could destroy it!" reads the tagline. Get ready for an allegory in which desert barn-dancers meet a scaly end for their wicked, wicked ways.

Thought by many to be the first sci-fi film, it's remembered for the iconic image of a rocket landing in the eye of the Man in the Moon.

Every time you see a chilling movie that challenges you to guess what really happened, thank Robert Wiene, director of this near-perfect horror flick about murder, insanity and creepy uncertainty.

Sticklers will point out that this is actually three episodes of Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Stop us if this sounds familiar: Earth is under attack by bad guys hiding on a distant moon. (When are we going to outlaw those things?)

Not Desperate Housewives, but dogs dressed as huge, ravenous shrews. This is the poor man's Island of Dr. Moreau, and stars James Best, better known as Roscoe P. Coltrane of The Dukes of Hazzard.

Fritz Lang's frightening futuristic vision ranks among the all-time greats. In a dystopian future, the world is divided between the upper-class thinkers and the lower-class workers. The Lord of the thinkers dispatches a robot replacement for the workers' Queen in order to foment a rebellion that will result in the workers' demise.