Anyone did 50s and 50s-type sci-fi, daddios?

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

I love goofy invasion movies, especially th ones that are basically horror movies--you know, guys in rubber suits chasing girls. Anyone got any favorites? Some of mine....

The Blob, It: The Terror From Beyond Space, Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, The Thing From Another World, Invisible Invaders, The Creeping Unknown, Queen of Blood, Teenagers From Outer Space...and how about the far-out zanies like Devil Girl From Mars and Cat Women on the Moon? Anybody else got any favorites?

[sugar shane]

You can't leave out classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers! I predict that one day soon there will be a big-budget remake of one or both of these flicks. Oh, and the original Blob was awesome. The monster invading the movie theater while all the kids were watching horror flicks was genious(did I spell that right?). It must have creeped out the actual movie audiences back in the day.

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

Originally posted by sugar shane
You can't leave out classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers! I predict that one day soon there will be a big-budget remake of one or both of these flicks.

Yes, I think you're probably right. But is it just me or are rubber suits a lot more "suitable" for this type stuff than CGIs?

I love Gort in Day the Earth Stood Still. Ever see the episode of Freaks and Geeks when Sam went trick or treating in a cardboard box with tinfoil on it and said he was Gort? Great stuff.

I always felt sorry for the poor old bastard in The Blob who got the goo stuck on his hand.

[sugar shane]

There was a movie called "The Tingler", I think it may have starred Vincent Price, with a spider-like monster in it that sent tingles up it's victims' spines before it killed them, anyway- I read that as a publicity stunt and to heighten the movie goers' experience, certain seats in the theaters were equipped with devices that vibrated, or"tingled", and people were planted in the audience to jump up and scream"Oh my God, it's on me!!!!!" or whatever, during the climax of the film when Price turned to the camera and informed the crowd that the creature may be loose in the building. Never seen it, but I remember reading about it as a kid. I doubt those types of wacky hijinks would fly these days, but it's an interesting concept.

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

Yeah, crazy William Castle actually wired the seats in the theaters showing The Tingler to shock people. Great stuff. Check out the DVD of his original 13 Ghosts---it comes with these little red-lensed glasses call Ghost Viewers that enable you to see the ghosts in the movie. I love that stuff. In the original House on Haunted Hill, he sent fake ghosts flying out over the audience. Man, I wish I hadn't missed out on stuff like that.

[juanhacko]

I guess I was lucky.
Back in the early 90's when I got my first VCR They were running that stuff all night--Three to a tape and every commercial was for a telephone sex line!
"The Tingler" did star Vincent Price, and the TINGLER looked like a giant grubworm which attached itself to one's spine--and when someone screamed the tingler died.
One old lady was unable to speak or scream and they fished a live tingler out of her back--ugh.

"The House on Haunted Hill" was good too--An indoor pool full of acid--the corrosive kind
"The Bat" with Agnes Moorhead (Endora) and Vincent Price was also great.

[Vampenguin]

Originally posted by juanhacko
I guess I was lucky.
Back in the early 90's when I got my first VCR They were running that stuff all night--Three to a tape and every commercial was for a telephone sex line!
"The Tingler" did star Vincent Price, and the TINGLER looked like a giant grubworm which attached itself to one's spine--and when someone screamed the tingler died.
One old lady was unable to speak or scream and they fished a live tingler out of her back--ugh.

"The House on Haunted Hill" was good too--An indoor pool full of acid--the corrosive kind
"The Bat" with Agnes Moorhead (Endora) and Vincent Price was also great.

You may just be my favorite member. Itz nice to see another Vincent Price fan around here.


My faves would be all the Vincent Price ones mentioned, plus:

The Blob
Teenage Zombies
Horror Express
Any Godzilla Movie

[Vodstok]

I love any and allmovies shown on MST3K. Okay, well , most of them.

Didnt teenagers from outer space have a lame-assed, inexplicable "twist" at the end when the good guy suddenly, for no reason, turns into a bad guy?

[valblood]

A lot of joyous moments and memories from 50's sci-fi.

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
WAR OF THE WORLDS
THIS ISLAND EARTH
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
CONQUEST OF SPACE
INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS (as others have stated)

[Sam The Egg]

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[Hate_Breeder]

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[Sistinas]

Dr Kelvinstien went over to reelhorror.com and cried about how mean we were.What a bitch!

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Dr Kelvinstien went over to reelhorror.com and cried about how mean we were.What a bitch!
He's got a point. People aren't exactly friendly over here.

Anyway, I love that 50's cheesy crap!
This island earth is brilliant, even though the monster only appears at the end.
The thing from another world's another good one, but my alltime fave has to be The Blob! The whole idea is just fantastic.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

I loved "this island earth"

[MichaelMyers]

Spider Baby.

[idoneus1957]

I watched lots of sf movies from the 50s on tv when I was a kid.
Remember "Them" which kicked off the whole giant insect thing? That sort of film ended with Night of the Lepus. Giant killer bunny rabbits! And it wasn't even a spoof.

[LuvablePsycho]

I loved Night of the Living Dead (zombies taking over the earth) and on MST3K I loved the riffs of Horrors of Spider Island and Teenagers from Outer Space.

[Sculpt]

I watched lots of sf movies from the 50s on tv when I was a kid.
Remember "Them" which kicked off the whole giant insect thing? That sort of film ended with Night of the Lepus. Giant killer bunny rabbits! And it wasn't even a spoof.
I seem to remember watching one of the giant insect movies with my family during primetime television, would have been in the mid to late 70's. The one I seem to remember was giant scorpions attacking from under the ground.

There is the 1957 film The Black Scorpion that fits that description, but I remember it being in color and more modern. Maybe that was the one we saw, but it seems a bit unlikely that would be a primetime TV film. Was there a more modern (color) version, maybe made for TV?

I might be confusing that with Empire of the Ants (1977) with Joan Collins. I don't doubt that made it to primetime TV and my family watching it. But I'm quite certain the film was giant scorpions. ::big grin::

[idoneus1957]

Check out the 1970s movie "Night of the Lepus" .

Giant killer bunny rabbits. It's not even a spoof.

[idoneus1957]

What's that movie from the 50s about giant praying mantises? In one shot, where the giant insects are supposed to be crawling all over a skyscraper, you can easily see that it's just a photograph of a skyscraper. that's cheezy.

[idoneus1957]

Yes, I was right. thank goodness for imdb.com. The Bat, with Price, is a remake of a silent movie from 1926.

For silent suspense, you can't beat "The cat and the canary."

[idoneus1957]

It isn't a Castle movie, but I saw a Japanese science fiction movie in a movie theater (1970?) where they gave members of the audience little models of the monster made of a plastic that felt kind of creepy.

To get back to 3D: I saw a movie called "Eyes of Hell", where this guy has this old Indian mask and, whenever he puts on the mask, he kills people while hallucinating. the hallucinations are in 3D, and when he puts the mask on you are supposed to put on the 3D glasses.

I believe it was a re-release of a movie originally titled The Mask.

[Sculpt]

It isn't a Castle movie, but I saw a Japanese science fiction movie in a movie theater (1970?) where they gave members of the audience little models of the monster made of a plastic that felt kind of creepy.

To get back to 3D: I saw a movie called "Eyes of Hell", where this guy has this old Indian mask and, whenever he puts on the mask, he kills people while hallucinating. the hallucinations are in 3D, and when he puts the mask on you are supposed to put on the 3D glasses.

I believe it was a re-release of a movie originally titled The Mask.
Sounds wacky.

[idoneus1957]

There was one called The Monolith Monsters where the monsters were some kind of giant growing crystals from space. If you touch one, it sucks out all the water in your body.

In the opening song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) sings "I know Leo G. Carroll/was over a barrel/when Tarantula took to the hills."

Yes, Tarantula was a pretty decent giant-insect movie. I also liked it because it featured Leo G. Carroll. In the 1960s t.v. series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., starring Robert Vaughan and David McCallum as the two spies, he played the boss. Sort of the equivalent of M in the James Bond movies. Carroll plays a similar part in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest."

[idoneus1957]

I forget the title, but my public library has a book of sf and horror stories they made movies from. Like The day the earth stood still is based on a short story called Farewell to the master. It's fascinating.