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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.
Yes, that film did have a nice busty but well clothed babe.
Hokey monsters with a silly ending and goofy dialogue.
As a child, I'd think- Oh No! Not the professor!
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What I do not understand is the flat title~ should it not be America Vrs The Flying Saucers ?
Remember that flick Earth Vrs The Spider?
Should have been titled: American Town Vrs The Spider.
After they kill him, and the heroes are on the spaceship, they just sort of forget his murder.
Just a slick horror film, not sci-fi, horror suspense.
Read the book by the late Jack Finney 1978 edit.
I see the clones as doppelgangers, which makes it a horror film. The fact that they are from space is the same as saying they are from a netherworld.
Just watched ‘Them!’ this past weekend. Fun. Fun.
Love brain films - Donovan’s Brain was good, so was Brain From Planet Arous.
Two great films that for some reason are little known in the States: Quatermass and the Pit (AKA Five Million Years to Earth) and Day of the Triffids.
And lest we forget all the giant critter films, how about Them! (best of them all), The Giant Gila Monster, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Tarantula, Earth vs. the Spider, The Deadly Mantis, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Night of the Lepus, The Monster That Challenged the World, Frogs...and so many more Creature Feature/Chiller Theater/Saturday afternoon bug-eyed monster delights....
I don’t remember the name of it, but there was a sci-fi movie back then with the radiation of a comet causing a black sludge to come and wreck things, eat people, etc. It wasn’t the one with the military guys discovering it in a crack in the earth. It was something else.
Anyone?
OH! One scene showed a scientist being swollowed by the thing, then a skull popped back out.
One of the all-time greats with James Arness as The Thing. A man-sized blood-sucking limb-regenerating intelligent... vegetable! And the scientists in that flick remind me of the global warming alarmists of today.
This one scared the heck out of me when I was little.
Are you sure it was not the The Andromeda Strain or the BLOB ?
Some really cool B movies were the Jason and the Argonauts Ray Harryhausen movies.
Nope. Neither.
It wasn’t “X” the unknown, either.
It MIGHT be from a movie called, “Caltiki - il mostro immortale” but I can’t find it on YouTube -except the trailer.
Ping to self for later reading...
LEPUS and FROGS were 70’s flick! It was in that dreadful decade B-movies lost their innocence and charm.
The T&A and left-wing messages(Piranna, Barracuda, Humanoids From The Deep) took over entirely-- a nasty trend that continues to this day.
Also, when they first arive on the Red Planet and are walking through what look like tall trees... until one of them moves. Yikes.
Of course it all just looks like campy humor these days. But what a bargain in 1959. Two feature films, 6 cartoons, two serials (Batman or Dick Tracy), plus previews and newsreels - all for 25 cents.
You remember one point wrong, it was not the scientist who got swallowed by the giant amoeba creature and spit out as a skeleton but his treacherous friend, he pretends to be his friend but has lecherous intentions on the scientist-hero's girlfriend.
The villain gets contaminated by this creature and his inner corruption comes to the surface and he tries to kill the hero.
The monster in this movie is an ancient creature that dwells deep in the earth and was responsible for wiping out the Mayan civilization overnight.
Now that I think of it, Dean R. Koontz's PHANTOMS is clearly based on this movie.
If you've not read that 1983(not the 1998 film) book of his, then do so now.
It is in my opinion his best work.
The creepiest part of that movie is the scene where that little girl feaks out and screams “It’s Them, Them”.
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