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

Behind the camera

Monstroid poster
3.6

A 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

Monstroid poster
3.6

A 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

How to Make a Monster poster
5.7

When 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

The Magnetic Monster poster
5.6

The 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

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein poster
5.6

Professor 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

Riders to the Stars poster
5.9

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world

Riders to the Stars

1954

Hurray for Betty Boop poster
7.3

Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.

Hurray for Betty Boop

1980

Gog poster
5.8

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

Gog

1954

UFO Syndrome poster
5.5

A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and the possible visit of aliens to Earth at sometime in the past

UFO Syndrome

1980

The Devil's Messenger poster
4.7

In 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

The Crawling Hand poster
3.2

After 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

The Crawling Hand poster
3.2

After 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

Brother on the Run poster
4.0

A 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

Blood of Dracula poster
4.9

A 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

Decisions! Decisions! poster
10.0

A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.

Decisions! Decisions!

1971

Rider on a Dead Horse poster
5.0

Three 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

Witches' Brew poster
4.9

Three 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

Battle Taxi poster
5.6

In 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

No artwork available
NR

The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.

The Crawling Hand

1991

No artwork available
NR

The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.

The Crawling Hand

1991

UFO Journals poster
8.0

A documentary exploring the existence of extra-terrestrials.

UFO Journals

1979

The Small Miracle poster
9.0

A 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

No artwork available
6.0

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