Posted on 12/11/2018 5:00:27 AM PST by vannrox
Of course, in retrospect, it is hilariously bad, but...
When I was a kid I remember going to the Broadway theater to see this. Was when they ran it continuously all day. I think I stayed to see it three times. My mother was furious I was gone for so long.
I love these old sci-fi & monster movies, but only is they haven’t been ruined with the snarky comments from Mystery Science Theater 3000
Lampooned?
Ahhh, when movies were movies!!!
The dialog is great.
So was Ann Francis!!
LOL, that too. I enjoyed the early versions of MST, but kinda lost interest by the time the got around to MST 3000.
Excellent movie. References to one of Shakespere’s works (not sophisticated enough to know which one...).
On the other side of the coin, there’s “Queen of Outer Space” with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eric Fleming (of “Rawhide” fame).
Grade “B,” but it’s in color!
Another good one is “This Island Earth.” Also in color.
Everyone should obtain the script for this movie and read it. It will prepare you for a typical day of a Nancy Pelosi lead House of Representatives.
A remake or re-shot scenes showing the Buzzard to actually be an alien controlled space ship from a bigger ship launching more buzzards from beyond the moon.
The old 1950s si-fi movies were great! Even when they were bad and silly they were GREAT compared to today’s PC si-fi films.
This was released by Columbia Studios, the same studio that released the great Ray Harryhausen films. Should have contracted him to do the bird, but they ran out of money before the special effects were made.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) arguably the worst movie hollywood ever made.....so bad, it’s good.
(When I was a child, I was not allowed to watch horror movies. Older children in the neighborhood, however, told me all about Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man, and what I imagined was far more horrifying than the movies were, when I finally saw them.
So I watched a few horror movies with my children, notably The Giant Claw, and ridiculed them, so that my children would see them as funny, or at least absurd, and not frightening. I think it worked.
I was actually following my mother's lead. When I was a small child, a program came on the radio about a woman who sold her children. When it came on, unexpectedly, it was too late to avoid the subject; so she laughed at the subject matter, making fun of even the possibility of selling your children. It turned into a comedy for us, and she completely disarmed the potentially frightening subject matter.)
I love this movie!!!!!
If nothing else it has more entertainment value than the last 5 Star Wars or last three Alien movies.
The Creeping Terror (1964) comes to mind as the worst or 2nd place for worse.
This was a VERY SCARY and well written movie to Sunday-afternoon 12-year-old me... until the FIRST HILARIOUS MOMENT THEY SHOWED THE PUPPET. I read that the film originally planned to have Ray Harryhousen do the movie monster... then ran out of cash, and went with a “effects firm in Mexico”
The "Giant Claw" was one of the favorites.
So was "From Hell it Came." And "Invaders from Mars."
Several Japanese monster movies too.
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