Forbidden Planet was loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Great movie! Some other really well made Sci-Fi/monster movies: War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and of course King Kong, Frankenstein. I liked The Incredible Shrinking Man too.
Some of the real cheesy ones can only be seen these days on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD collections.
I watched the earth vs the spider the other night and it was epic. Did you know spiders made howling sounds? They also make webs out of hemp rope.
Watch Beginning of the End where giant grasshoppers attack the city. Real cheesy special effects. The Killer Shrews was pretty cheesy too but had an enjoyable cast of misfits.
They have a channel on Roku, 24/7. I can’t remember my favorite one they parodied. It was about a scientist that received plans for a communicator from outer space. He eventually joins a group of other scientists trying to save a dying planet. They did an excellent job making fun of it.
I believe you're talking about This Island Earth, the device being an interocitor. The aliens all had big foreheads.
MST 3000 is great. Makes me laugh out load, the commentary is very funny. The episode of The Brute Man is hysterical.
A few more that I have seen. The Indestructible Man, starring Lon Chaney Jr. Die Monster Die, starring Boris Karloff. Man With The X Ray Eyes, starring Ray Mallan. The Brain That Wouldn't Die. War of The Colossal Beast, the sequel of the Amazing Colossal Man, That one scared the hell out of me when I was a little kid LOL.
[QUOTE="War of The Colossal Beast, the sequel of the Amazing Colossal Man, That one scared the hell out of me when I was a little kid LOL.[/QUOTE] Not a Sci-fi flick but the one that scared me when I was little was “The Haunting” 1963. Slow start but once it gets going it’s great. No blood, gore or monsters just a decent cast, story line and excellent camera work. I give it two thumbs up.
I used to catch my horror and sci-fi movies on a Friday late night program called "Shock Theatre" in Chicago as a kid in the late '50s and early '60s, which ran from 10:00 to midnight. It was hosted by a fellow named Marvin and his wife "Dear". They also had a band on the show named Marvin & the Deadbeats. Even to a kid who was having the begeezus scared out of him, Marvin was kool. Svengoolie was a buffoon compared to Marvin.
When I was very young we had Dr. Shock, he usually had his baby daughter on with him who he called Bubbles. Late on Saturday night around 10:00 was Horror classics, hosted by a guy called Wee Willie Weber. Great memories of watching these movies as a kid and being scared, thrilled and enjoying.
FYI. TCM is playing all the teen angst films this month. The “docu dramas” of the miss understood youth. the B movie teens in jail stuff.
The teen angst films are scarier than B horror films because of the terrible acting and plot lines. For example: No Time To Be Young - Robert Vaughan & Roger Smith Juvenile Jungle - Corey Allen Boy Slaves Dragstrip Girl - Fay Spain & Steve Terrell The Party Crashers - Connie Stevens & Mark Damon
I always get a laugh seeing Vic Morrow and Sydney Poitier playing high school kids in the movie Black Board Jungle. Sydney kind of pulled it off but Vic looked older than Glen Ford even though he was actually 26. I guess he could of flunked 2nd grade 9 times. I did know a guy that could legally buy us beer freshman year of high school.
When I was a kid I was allowed to stay up a little late on a Friday night. That movie scared the crap out of me. Yea terrible and yet so good.
When I was 12 years old my parents went bowling on Friday night, I stayed home with my younger sister, the original Day the earth stood still movie came on and it scared the crap outta me, my sister was asleep and when my parents got home I had every light in the house on. That movie is a classic and I have watch it many times in my life, it's one of my all time favorites. HRP Klaatu barada nikto.
As far as the cheesy B movies, some are better than others but I am a sucker for them, I have a lot of titles on DVD and actually watched Hot Rod Gang at 4AM this morning, cool roadsters, too much Dowop music but the cars is what makes the movie interesting. HRP
Thats cool Danny. I love all of those flicks as well. I still watch Hot Rods To Hell on DVD now and again. LOL.
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