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The first three chapters of The Phantom Creeps were riffed in season two of Mystery Science Theater 3000, in the episodes Jungle Goddess, Rocket Attack U.S.A., and Ring of Terror. Footage from the serial was used in the 1982 video for Automaton by the Canadian band United State .
May 16, 2014 · The Phantom Creeps begins quite strongly, individualizing its central villain and giving him a memorably dramatic “origin” in the serial’s first two chapters. However, its narrative becomes much more ordinary in Chapter Three, in which the three-way struggle for control of the meteorite fragment begins; this struggle sidetracks Zorka’s ...
In The Phantom Creeps, Dr. Zorka (Lugosi) hopes to take over the world with three inventions, all derived from a strange, recovered meteor. He has a belt that makes the wearer invisible and he commands a giant robot with a snarling, metallic face.
The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves.
“The Phantom Creeps” is not really a movie, it’s one of those Saturday matinee serials that used to run ahead of movies, which, as film scholar and experimental blunt-force podiatrist Annie Wilkes reminds us, remained popular in American cinemas through the 1950s.
Review: Dr Alex Zorka (Bela Lugosi) is a scientist with big ideas and a grand ambition: nothing short of ruling the entire universe! To that end he has invented an array of gadgets that will give him incredible powers so that no one will stand in his way, from his towering "iron man" robot to his exploding mechanical spiders to his invisibility ...
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The Phantom Creeps is 1939 Sci-Fi Horror 12-chapter Film Serial directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A Goodkind. It involves a military officer ( Robert Kent ) going after a rogue scientist ( Bela Lugosi ), who is determined to use his personal stock of Applied Phlebotinum and Mad Science to get revenge on his enemies and enrich himself.
