The Alligator People (1959) – A classic B-movie that hits all the bases. You’ve got a framing story that allows Men of Science to tell you what it all means; a plucky heroine, searching for her husband who disappeared on their wedding night; a mysterious family manor hidden deep in the bayou; a scientist who’s so drunk on the possibilities for a helping humanity that he overlooks the big ethical concerns with playing God (not to mention proper experimental procedure regarding human subjects); makeup effects that, while not convincing, are definitely adequate for conveying what they want to portray; and Lon Chaney Jr. as a drunk of questionable moral standards (quite a stretch, I know).
Miss Go (aka Miss Conspirator) (2012) – A young Korean woman with all sorts of neuroses accidentally gets in the middle of two organized crime syndicates trying to cheat each other on a drug deal — fake drugs for fake money. Plus, she falls for the undercover cop who’s wormed his way up to a trusted position in both syndicates (who each think he’s their own mole in the other organization). Oh, and let’s throw in an internal affairs investigation of possibly dirty cops. That spells FUN!
The Magnetic Monster (1953) – Spoiler: There’s no “monster.” That’s merely the personification of an odd isotope which, when bombarded with handwavium radiation, becomes a unipolar magnet that consumes electricity and grows exponentially in magnetism and radiation (good Lord, the credits actually list a “consultant” for this faux-physics?). Only the stalwart “A-Men” — agents of the “Office of Scientific Investigation” — can stop its power growth before it destroys the world! But of course, we can trust them to do it; after all, the lead is Richard Carlson, he who wields Science as the sword of justice in It Came From Outer Space (1953) and Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) (and who returned as another “A-Man” in Riders to the Stars (1954)).
Only nominally directed by Curt Siodmak, this movie features a metric crapload of footage borrowed from the 1930 German sci-fi film Gold; in fact, the third act is 95% edited from Gold, requiring the protagonists to put on inexplicable hats and coats so they can match the borrowed footage.