Jack Arnold – Stream On Demand

‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ – beauty and the beast on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, giant monsters, Halloween, horror, SVOD 12/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jack Arnold’s horror classic introduced one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.

‘It Came From Outer Space’ – an alien visitation on Peacock

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, Peacock, Science Fiction, SVOD 11/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ominous title aside, this 1953 science fiction classic is one of the more optimistic movies about visitors from the stars, and in its way was an inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T.’

‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, SVOD 01/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

The title may sound like pure pulp but The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Jack Arnold’s screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel The Shrinking Man, is compassionate, intelligent, and the most metaphysical American science fiction film until Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scott Carey (Grant Williams), just a guy on a daylong boating excursion, drifts […]

Jack Arnold directs the 1958 science fiction cult film 'Space Children,' with

‘Space Children’ on Amazon Prime and The Paramount Vault

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Cult Movies, Science Fiction 06/27/2016 Sean Axmaker

Space Children (1958) is one of the most intriguing science fiction films of the Cold War: part alien invasion thriller and part anti-nuclear message movie, with the children of Earth essentially conscripted by a throbbing disembodied brain from outer space to sabotage a nuclear test. Director Jack Arnold and William Alland collaborated on some of […]