Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

The Flame Barrier (1958)

The Flame Barrier poster
Directed by
Paul Landres
Genre
science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman goes into a jungle to search for her missing husband. She and her guides encounter a strange glowing barrier and a dangerous alien creature.

datedlow-budgetmildly suspensefulstraightforwardblack-and-whitepredictableaction oriented

What happens

The Flame Barrier is a 1958 American jungle adventure/science fiction film produced by Arthur Gardner and Jules V. Levy, directed by Paul Landres, and written by Pat Fielder and George Worthing Yates. The film stars Arthur Franz, Kathleen Crowley and Robert Brown. It was released in the U.S. on April 2, 1958 by United Artists as the bottom half of a double feature with The Return of Dracula (1958). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?