Biography: Mel Welles |
A writer turned actor/director, Mel Welles is one of the most enduring cult figures from '50s exploitation pictures. Welles moved into films after careers in New York theater and wrestling promotion in Canada, and arrived in Hollywood at just about... more
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2 (1989)
Cast: David Carradine Charles B. Griffith
Tags: Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure Fantasy Family
Length: 80min
When a group of evil, power-hungry people take over a trio of kingdoms, it is up to a young magician to free his lands from their rule. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Invasion Earth: The Aliens Are Here! (1987)
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Alien Film Comedy Science Fiction
Length: 84min
Invading aliens seek to control the minds of viewers at a sci-fi film festival in this monster spoof. The aliens hope to numb the minds of the unsuspecting viewers and change them into zombies. Clips from many of the science fiction favorites of the...
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
Cast: Jackie Coogan
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Comedy
Length: 100min
This is a crazy horror-film spoof in which the enthusiastic leads provide laughs just by the strength of their characterizations alone -- and because they are obviously having fun. Oliver Reed is Dr. Heckyl whose lumpy face is so ugly it has kept...
Length: 86min
Mel Welles, best remembered for his portrayal of skid-row florist Mushnick in Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors, occupied the director's chair for Joy Ride to Nowhere. Leading ladies Leslie Ackerman and Sandy Serrano play two bored suburbanites...
Cast: Joseph Cotten
Tags: Creature Film Costume Horror Horror
Length: 84min
This lurid but entertaining Italian/Spanish twist on the Frankenstein legend begins with Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) being assisted in his research by his sultry daughter Tania (Sara Bay). The doctor's first attempt at a stitched-together...
Tags: Science Fiction Horror
Length: 85min
Mel Welles, who faced the wrath of a man-eating plant as florist Gravis Mushnik in Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors, moves to the other side of the camera to direct a film featuring even more specimens of carnivorous plant-life. Cameron Mitchell...
Cast: Jonathan Haze Jack Nicholson Dick Miller Jackie Joseph
Tags: Satire Horror Natural Horror Horror Comedy
Length: 70min
Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to Roger Corman's black comedy A Bucket of Blood (1959). Jonathan Haze plays Seymour Krelboin, a schlemiel's schlemiel who works at the...
Length: 75min
In this crime drama, the FBI seeks a novelist, and former gangster, living in Mexico. They need him to testify in front of a Senate committee. He is also hunted by hit men, sent out by gangsters angered by the name-dropping the author does in his...
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Cast: Russell Johnson
Tags: Thriller Horror Science Fiction Natural Horror Creature Film
Length: 62min
A group of scientists arrive on a remote Pacific island to investigate what became of the previous team, which was sent out there as observers of American hydrogen bomb tests and disappeared without a trace. They island is uninhabited and devoid even...
Cast: Roger Corman Mel Welles
Tags: Psychological Thriller Historical Film Horror Mystery Supernatural Horror
Length: 75min
Legendary shlockmeister Roger Corman and long-time collaborator Charles B. Griffith attempted to cash in on the popular 1950s surge in Bridey Murphy reincarnation mania with this confusing and throughly weird thriller. It begins with researcher...
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