Instead of remaking yet another superheroes movie, maybe Hollywood should concentrate on the B-grade classics. I for one would love to see a remake of the GIANT CLAW. Wouldn’t you?
You have got to consider that movies like this were produced in the era of outdoor movie theaters where less than 50% of the audience actually watched the movie at all. The windows of the car were likely so steamed over that they couldn’t see the movie if they occasionally glanced at it.
I remember watching that in the 60s.
One of my favorites was ‘Attack of the Crab Monsters’.
Rather watch this than most of the crap coming out of hollywood these days thats for sure.
You can actually see the fishing line pulling his bottom jaw open. Great stuff!
I love these old B-grade monster movies. Never saw this one though.
My friends and I in High School used to hit up the outdoor movie theaters back when that was a thing. Wasn’t unusual to find something like this playing.
And the leading lady (Mara Corday) who played Sally is still alive!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179408/?ref_=tt_cl_t2
Definitely one of the best worst movies ever.
Awesome, in a very painful way.
IT’S BIGGER THAN A BATTLESHIP!
Giant Shrews is great too!
I saw that movie when I was very little, and it scared the hell out of me...at that age, it doesn’t take much. I might have been four or five at the most...
It stuck with me for a long time...
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
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.
(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.
Any movie that has its monster attacking in Archimedes spirals only is fine with me.