FILMS DIRECTED BY HERB STROCK

Monster
1979
Brother on the Run
1972
The Crawling Hand
1963
Rider on a Dead Horse
1962
Devil's Messenger
1961
The Alaskans (TV Series)
1959
Men Into Space (TV Series)
1959
Bonanza (TV Series)
1959
77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
1958
How to Make a Monster
1958
Sea Hunt (TV Series)
1958
Blood of Dracula
1957
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
Colt .45 (TV Series)
1957
Maverick (TV Series)
1957
The Man Called X (TV Series)
1956
Highway Patrol (TV Series)
1955
Battle Taxi
1955
Science Fiction Theater (TV Series)
1955
Gog
1954
Riders to the Stars
1954
Magnetic Monster
1953
Sky King (TV Series)
1951

 

 

Herb Strock's steady hand helmed some the horror genre's most beloved double-feature fare with titles such as, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, The Crawling Hand, and Blood of Dracula. He broke into pictures shooting the Fox Movietone newsreels and soon began the arduous, educational climb through the editing departments of the major film and TV studios. His television work alone would require a discussion twice as long as the one which follows. Says Herb of his TV directorial career: "I did so many westerns I pleaded to get out from under the manure."

B MONSTER: How did you find your way into the science fiction and horror-film genres?

HERB STROCK: [Producer] Ivan Tors moved over to where I had been working which was Hal Roach Studios and was going to do a picture called The Magnetic Monster. So he hired me as associate producer and film editor. And I was editing the picture three days into production when Ivan and [director] Curt Siodmak had some kind of a falling out. I never knew what. And Ivan got me into the Directors Guild and insisted that I take over the picture.



"See the terror! Feel the shock! Live the horror!"
Blood Suckers/Blood Thirst

"Creeping horror from the depths of time and space"
Invasion of the Saucer-Men

"He was a country boy, but he played the
wildest strings in this mad town."

Wild Guitar


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