Robert Burton

Karen Black stars in three bizarre horror stories, performing four different roles as a professor, a pair of twins, and a woman haunted by a doll.

Los Angeles is under attack from a horde of subterranean sewer mutants covered in slime and out to terrorize and take the City of Angels.

When a spaceship crash lands in Scandinavia, its aliens release a furry monster in the wilds that threatens geologists and takes a woman captive.

A passenger flight out of Vancouver crashes in remote mountains. On the ground, two lone survivors, a brother and sister perhaps 9 and 7 years old, gather food and blankets. In the air, bush pilot Vince Heldon (Howard Keel), the children’s father, guides his plane in a quest to find the downed aircraft. Meanwhile, against this backdrop of search and survival, another drama unfolds: pilot Nora Stead (Patricia Medina) arrives to join the search. She’s the ex-Mrs. Heldon, and her presence brings unresolved issues of that broken marriage to the surface while also creating problems for Vince and his new wife (Jane Greer). Joseph Lewis, who grabbed notice with his shoestring noir Gun Crazy, here guides another film admired for getting much from a small budget. Lee Aakers, soon to be famed for his role on TV’s The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, portrays the boy whose survivalist adventure includes confrontations with a mountain lion.

An honest sheriff attempts to save a boy who helped him capture a notorious killer as controversy grows over who deserves the bounty.