Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

telegrafic First of all let me say the title of my review is not for the film itself but for the excellent blu-ray 3D edition that has returned the film its brightness. Superb colors, amazing 3d deepness quality. This IS true 3d and one of the best 3d restorations I have ever seen that is a joy for the viewer. This does not mean the film has other interests apart from the visual one. Filmed in George air force base near California, it has an interesting - and atypical for a sci-fi movie- plot. In fact, the opening scene in the cryogenic research lab. is one of the best frightening ones I have seen in movies. Do not expect monsters or aliens here but a more subliminal, whodunit mistery story that frightens in a more subtle, permanent way. I also like the fact that many scientific artifacts and tests done in the base are shown and briefly explained -although some of them are not too accuracy real like radiation travelling straight- like being in a sort of scientific tour. That probably will defraud viewers who expect a terror film, which is not, at least in its typical form: here, terror flows underneath. Ivan Tors, who wrote the script, was a sci-fi fan and avid reader of Scientific American, so he did not want to do a monster film but one scientifically accurated and with a realistic futuristic basis. The secret base where the action takes place is a sort Nasa precedent four years before it was created in 1958 developing a space station that enables man to live in space. And, by the way, it does not takes place in outer space -as both opening and ending titles may suggest- but in an underground base in the New Mexico desert. Nice job by Richard Egan as a security expert who comes to investigate several murders and sabotage in the base, Herbert Marshall as chief scientist and the rest of the cast, taking their roles seriously. If you have the chance to watch this film in a big 3D tv screen you will really enjoy it and I do strongly recommend it. Also not to miss the blu-ray 3D extras that include interesting interviews with director Herbert L. Strock explaining how he could film a 3D movie having monocular vision (like André de Toth, who also directed 3D movie House of wax) or finding Tors script too documentary toned, and with master 3D cameraman Lothrop Worth and a blink of the highly interesting restoration process (where not only the bright colors and deepness can be seen but also the editing process of removing film marks and stains or cutting unaccurate angle views such as hanging microphones seen by mistake and the difficulties finding left side negative print -that had been missing for years-and the hard process to manage matching it properly with the remaining right eye negative, since it was very deteriorated). You can see in NOVAC computer a precedent of Hal 2001. Not for everyone, you will enjoy this film if you prefer feeling frightened more than watching it. If you like this film you will probably enjoy Forbidden planet as well. As bonus, a rarely seen tandem-rotor McCulloch MC-4C helicopter appears in the film. One of the first movis with an helicoper in it. And finally, for those who are interested in ancient mithology and history, Gog and Magog ("the land of Gog") are respectively the names of the governor and the region linked in the genesis to the apochalipsis and final judgement. So you may have an idea of the roles they play in the film. Final note: in the original trailer -added as an extra in the 3D blu-ray edition- we can see an aparently deleted scene: chemist scientist fiancée approaching her stealthily. By the way, guess who put the atomic powder in the device?

moonspinner55 There's a saboteur afoot at a secret government facility in the desert; a professor from the Office of Scientific Investigation and a female agent seek answers to the malfunctions which have resulted in the deaths of top scientists. Producer Ivan Tors, who also gets an original story credit, loved mixing science-fiction with science-fact, but perhaps gets too carried away here with his love of teaching science (the tour of the facility's many laboratories constitutes nearly half the film's running-time). While the exhibitions and scientific theories are certainly interesting, the technical jargon becomes monotonous. Nicely-produced on a low budget, and with some suspense near the finale, but--as a thriller in the sci-fi genre--it lacks a good old-fashioned charge of excitement. ** from ****

Michael_Elliott Gog (1954) *** (out of 4) A security expert (Richard Egan) is at a secret laboratory where they are experimenting with possible space travel. They're also working on a couple robots and soon various doctors end up dead and it's clear there's a murderer running loose. GOG is a pretty talky little picture yet it does a very good job at holding ones attention from start to finish. When the movie started I wasn't really sure where it was going to go but director Herbert L. Strock handles the material quite well and makes the film worth viewing. As with many science fiction films from this era, there's some laughable moments today and especially when we now know about time travel and various other things that they were just guessing at when this movie was made. Some of their thoughts on these subjects are pretty funny today but this doesn't take away from the movie. I was really surprised to see how little action there really is. Usually when you have a movie like this full of dialogue it gets bogged down and becomes very boring but that doesn't happen here. I think the idea behind the story was interesting enough and the actors good enough to where they could keep the viewers attention. Egan does a great job in the leading role and his serious performance certainly helps you feel as if these events are really going on. Constance Dowling is good as the woman with a crush on him and we get strong support from Herbert Marshall and John Wengraf. The two robots really don't look scary at all and today they'll probably be more campy than anything else. Still, GOG has enough going for it to make it worth viewing for fans of the genre and this era of science fiction.

davebeedon I was perhaps seven or eight years old when I saw "Gog" in the 1950s. The story was only somewhat comprehensible to me; although I understood that the laboratory was some type of research facility, it was unclear to me why things were going haywire. The jet flying overhead was a mystery: where did it come from, who was in it, and what was it doing?The scientific devices were fun to watch, especially the "ray" weapon. Being unable to grasp the concept of sabotage, I didn't appreciate why the device was not operating as designed. But what had the biggest effect on me was the action of the robots. Their running amok in the lab scared me to death. Maybe I picked up on the terror of the lab's occupants.The combination of confusion and fear made watching the movie (on TV) unpleasant but fascinating. It would be fun to see "Gog" now, knowing what I do about the plot, the actors, and the Cold War era in which it was made.