Highest rated movie: Destination Nightmare (1958)
Lowest rated movie: Blood of Dracula (1957)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Herbert L. Strock? Cinafilm has a total of 45 reviews across 8 movies directed by Herbert L. Strock.
Movies from this director have generally received negative reviews and hold an average rating of 44%.
Destination Nightmare is Herbert L. Strock's highest rated movie, with a score of 56% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Herbert L. Strock is Blood of Dracula, with a score of 35% based on 9 reviews.
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 "pioneering" television career that began in the 1940s, Strock was involved with many television series including Highway Patrol, Sky King, Sea Hunt and Maverick.
Other directorial efforts included Blood of Dracula (a 1957 film in which a disturbed teenage girl at a boarding school becomes a vampire through hypnosis) and Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, which included The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars and Gog, shot in 3-D.
In 2000, Strock published a memoir, Picture Perfect.
Herbert L. Strock has directed films starring Whit Bissell, Roy Engel, Michael Fox and Malcolm Atterbury.
Herbert L. Strock has collaborated with these film directors: Curt Siodmak, George Waggner and Paul Landres.
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