Directing
Herbert L. Strock
Born — Died
1918-01-13 — 2005-11-30
Place of birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
23 titles
Herbert L. Strock (January 13, 1918 - November 30, 2005) was an American television producer and director, and a B-movie director of titles such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), How to Make a Monster (1958) and The Crawling Hand (1963). Strock was born in Boston, and moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 13. By 17, while a student at Beverly Hills High School, Strock was director of gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood segments for Fox Movietone News. Strock graduated in 1941 from USC, where he studied journalism and film. During World War II, he served in the Army's Ordnance Motion Picture Division. He was assistant editor on the 1944 film Gaslight for MGM. In a "pi…
Known for
3.6A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Monstroid
1980
5.7When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
How to Make a Monster
1958
5.6The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
The Magnetic Monster
1953
5.6Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
5.9Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Riders to the Stars
1954
7.3Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.
Hurray for Betty Boop
1980
Behind the camera
3.6A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Monstroid
1980
3.6A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Monstroid
1980
5.7When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
How to Make a Monster
1958
5.6The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
The Magnetic Monster
1953
5.6Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
5.9Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Riders to the Stars
1954
7.3Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.
Hurray for Betty Boop
1980
5.8A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Gog
1954
5.5A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and the possible visit of aliens to Earth at sometime in the past
UFO Syndrome
1980
4.7In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
The Devil's Messenger
1962
3.2After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach. The boy takes the arm home, where it becomes animate and the alien force which animates it soon possesses his mind as well.
The Crawling Hand
1963
3.2After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach. The boy takes the arm home, where it becomes animate and the alien force which animates it soon possesses his mind as well.
The Crawling Hand
1963
4.0A black exploitation flick of the early 70's about a college/high school teacher who tries to intervene and rescue his student who is being pursued by the law. The professor happens to have sexual intercourse with at least 2 different women on his way to save his student. I've gotta love the title music track fr this movie, very 70's... "Brother on the run...etcetcetc. If you see t in the $3.00 video bin at your local video outlet pick it up for your own little amusement. It's not a must see, it's more like a "gotta see it to believe it" (in ways). Hehe.. the editor for this film should have been canned, (a hint) lay off the qualudes.
Brother on the Run
1973
4.9A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
Blood of Dracula
1957
10.0A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
Decisions! Decisions!
1971
5.0Three prospectors divide and bury their gold to safeguard it from warring Apaches. Cue a series of double crosses, triple crosses, chases, and shoot-outs as greed drives the three men to murder and betrayal.
Rider on a Dead Horse
1962
4.9Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they turn on each other.
Witches' Brew
1980
5.6In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
Battle Taxi
1955
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.
The Crawling Hand
1991
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.
The Crawling Hand
1991
8.0A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.
UFO Journals
1979
9.0A small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick donkey. Hearing the stories of St Frances on how he loved cared, even cured animals, comes up with notion "If he could just bring his donkey to the Vatican in Rome, and ask the Pope if he could just place him in the entombed Saint's Chapel, his spiritual presence would cure him. Some how he convinces the compassionate Father to take on this pilgrimage, against all odds.
The Small Miracle
1973
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Vernoy," and "Girl on the Road.'
Destination Nightmare
1958
