Posted on 06/08/2009 10:56:33 PM PDT by Osnome
I like the b-movies of the 1950's and 1960's the best.
Little or no foul language, not too much violence, and the wacky cheesy monsters they created. Today it is all femminazi superbimbos in charge, tons of CGI effects, and they are all produced in Canada :-Z
Last night I watched a sci-fi flick from 1962 called: Journey To The Seventh Planet, that had some really hokey monsters- one of which was a one-eyed dinosaur creature with rat-like features and big three fingered claws. This film was created by the same team that made ANGREY RED PLANET of 1959. Ib Melchior wrote that flick and this one and many others. Ever see 'Planet Of The Vampires' 1965 by Mario Bava? That film was inspiration for ALIEN.
On the east coast it would have been Zacharly. Bulliagee!
>>The original War of the Worlds (no link, sorry);
and The Incredible Shrinking Man (not really a monster movie, but I liked the battle with the house spider)
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Around thirty years ago they made a spoof remake of that film called ‘The Incredible Shrinking Woman’ that had a lot of toilet humor.
Richard Matheson wrote ‘Incredible Shrinking Man’- I think.
I wonder if he is still alive- he was when that Will Smith vehicle I AM LEGEND
The Crawling Eye with Forest Tucker. The Brits made some good ones too! The Giant Behemoth. One om my favs!
I remember the former very well but not the latter.
Was not ‘X’ a British flick?
Are you referring to The man from Planet X?
In Chicago it would have been Goulardi
>>Anything from Hammer films used to scare the sheet out of me as a kid.<<
DON’T FORGET -AMICUS-
They made some good ones too.
Zacharly was cool, he always had these funny bogus experiments. His greeting was Bullilagee! We had chiller theater every saturday night on tv.
No, I mean X’ The Unknown~
some protoplasm from a deep crevace rises with radiation.
Man From Planet X was British too.
I thought it was boring.
Never have seen Devil Girl From Mars, I wonder if I can get it from NetFlix...
Really, you were not scared by the Rat-Bat-Lobster-Spider monster?
Then again when I saw that flick years later I thought it was cute.
I think Goulardi blew up toy soldiers and his motto was
“stay sick”
I know the movie. A mudddy looking sludge. The man from Planet X was made in the 30s.
How can we forget “Attack Of The Crab Monsters”!
JJ61
It did have a Samuel Becket-like existential dreadfulness, I'll grant you. But being stuck in that rocket with that bore of a "comic relief" was worse.
The bore? You mean that fat crewman who loved his sonic gun?
Was it not a relief when he got absorbed and dissolved by the giant martian amoeba?
They used that very same scene in Journey To The Seventh Planet- in some editions.
The edition I got from NetFlix cut that shot out.
Good memory! Yes, it's all about a radioactive mud creature that terrorizes a Scottish village.
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The man from Planet X was made in the 30s.<<
Dead wrong!
The Man From Planet X was made in the 1950’s...
It is as simple as that....
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