[DemforBush]

I saw Journey to the Seventh Planet when I was a little kid visiting my aunt in Indianapolis. It was on some late night movie show called “Sammy Terry” with this ghoul guy doing shtick inbetween segments of the movies. Fun stuff.

Planet of the Vampires was pretty cool, and you’re right: it *definitely* was a huge influence on Alien:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUXlc8lLEzY

Some others from that era I enjoy are

The Green Slime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk

Robinson Crusoe on Mars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaHJvF59Fg&feature=PlayList&p=06639747D61FC953&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6

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)

[Osnome]

Back in the 70’s when I first saw these flick s here in Los Angeles, the horror night was hosted by some guy named Seymore, then Grimsely, then Elvira in the early 80’s

[Osnome]

>>The Green Slime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk
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I saw that flick before, the only interesting spfx were those on Luciana Paluzzi(she was that evil babe in 007's Thunderball) and they were only chest high:-)

Green Slime was to be the first film ever excoriated by Mystery Science Theater 3000, but it was never broadcast.
Instead the first was The Creeping Terror with F-Troop’s Forrest Tucker.

[Osnome]

>>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

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The Green Slim movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid watching this, and THE BLOB