"The Giant Claw."
That’s one of the best “so bad it’s good” movies ever! A giant turkey buzzard from another galaxy, surrounded by an anti-matter shield. I love it when Mara Corday finally figures out why the creature may have come to earth. “It came here to build a nest!”
Has anyone in this thread mentioned another Mara Corday film, The Black Scorpion? A giant scorpion attacks Mexico City after a volcano eruption frees it from its underground lair. The military ends up fighting it in the Mexico City soccer stadium.
And from Japan, the very creepy Attack of the Mushroom People. A bunch of people on a yacht end up blown off course, and onto a deserted island, by a storm. There, they find giant mushrooms which turn anyone who eats them into a living, walking mushroom. I think American TV producer Sherwood Schwartz must have seen this film prior to creating Gilligan’s Island. The people on the yacht include the skipper, his first mate, a rich dude, an egotistical actress, a sweet “girl next door” type, a professor....sound familiar?