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Toasted Almond · #31 05-05-2006, 11:09 PM

Chiller Theater was where it was at. Jon Zacherlie was (probably still IS) the real deal. Weird to the gills. Good looking too!

I was generally not afraid of anything I knew I could outrun. When I was scared, smoke came off those sneakers. The Creature? I could crawl faster. Frankenstein? Not a chance of touching this kid. The Mummy? I'd run backwards two steps ahead of him and shoot rubber bands in his face.

I was scared shit of...

The Wolfman
Bela
The Thing (James Arness)
Rodan (The parts Cleve mentioned are burned into my head forever. Goro was the guy who got separated from the rest of the guys and saw the grubs getting eaten.)
Godzilla
Little girls who can spin their heads around 180 degrees. There's something really wrong about that.

#32 05-06-2006, 04:42 AM

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Tarantula (1955)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) / Revenge of the Creature (1955) / The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

for some reason B&W is scarier than color

I like these also, especially "The Thing From Another World", and "The Creature Walks Among Us". Jeff Morrow, who was in "The Creature Walks Among Us", "Kronos", and another one of my favs, "This Island Earth" was one of my favorite B movie actors. Also loved Mara Corday, who was featured in "Tarantula", and "The Black Scorpion". If no one has seen "The Black Scorpion", give it a shot. While it's low budget shows through at times, it still has some eyepopping stop motion effects supervised by Willis O'Brien. Watch for the seen where the guy gets pulled off off a telephone pole by one of the giant scorpians. Scared me to death when I was a kid, and still a potent seen. Also, the underground sequence is good, with a variety of giant creatures. Great sci-fi fun from the fifties!

#33 05-06-2006, 04:46 AM

Pardon some of my bad spelling in the above post. It was 5:30AM, and I was getting ready for work!

RussinOhio · #34 05-06-2006, 07:09 AM

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I like these also, especially "The Thing From Another World", and "The Creature Walks Among Us". Jeff Morrow, who was in "The Creature Walks Among Us", "Kronos", and another one of my favs, "This Island Earth" was one of my favorite B movie actors. Also loved Mara Corday, who was featured in "Tarantula", and "The Black Scorpion". If no one has seen "The Black Scorpion", give it a shot. While it's low budget shows through at times, it still has some eyepopping stop motion effects supervised by Willis O'Brien. Watch for the seen where the guy gets pulled off off a telephone pole by one of the giant scorpians. Scared me to death when I was a kid, and still a potent seen. Also, the underground sequence is good, with a variety of giant creatures. Great sci-fi fun from the fifties!

Oh yeah! "Black Scorpion"....freaked me out as a little kid. The scene where the guy gets pulled off the telephone pole by the giant scorpion is STILL cool & creepy to watch! I love that old classic. I can never think about a scorpion without thinking of that movie.

Russ

#35 05-07-2006, 04:58 AM

Yeah, one of my favs. Borders, at my local mall, has "The Black Scorpion" reissued on DVD. I own this and many of these other movies discussed here on DVD. Ebay is also a great source for these films. It's awesome having these childhood memories permanently preserved on DVD!

Jim Eck · #36 05-07-2006, 09:13 AM

How about Elvira, The Mistress of the Dark.

We had a local Saturday night horror show that showed a lot of the great old movies, put on by one of the local siding companies, The Acre Creature Feature.

As a kid it wasn't really a monster movie but about the scairiest movie I remember was Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. I hide under a blanket for a lot of that movie.

Jim

JerryM · #37 05-08-2006, 03:20 PM

One of greatest titled movies ever--the 1958 classic, I Married a Monster From Outer Space.

I remember seeing a double feature of that with The Blob. Must have been 6 years old, and I was scared out of my wits.

#38 05-09-2006, 08:15 AM

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One of greatest titled movies ever--the 1958 classic, I Married a Monster From Outer Space.

I remember seeing a double feature of that with The Blob. Must have been 6 years old, and I was scared out of my wits.

Oh yeah, how could I forget that classic! Tom Tryon as an alien, great John P. Fulton disintegrating ray effects and awesome alien creature make-up make "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" a classic '50's sci-fi movie. Speaking of effects by John P. Fulton, has ayone seen another '50's classic that he worked on called "The Colossus Of New York"?

holmesuser01 · #39 05-09-2006, 05:11 PM

I recently rented all of the Hammer Corporation remakes of the classic horror films. They are all really fun to watch. "Horror Of Dracula" (1958) scared me to death when I saw it in 1964 at a drive-in. It all came back to me when I saw the DVD's, which, by the way, looked fantastic, except for the first theatrical reel of Horror of Dracula. From reel 2 on, it was sharp as a tack!

Grainger49 · #40 05-09-2006, 05:19 PM

Does Forbidden Planet count?????

Sandy G · #41 05-09-2006, 05:45 PM

I remember the 1st horror flick I saw was some turkey-"The Evil of Frankenstein"- or something. Believe it was 1964, I would have been 7. Don't remember being scared-of course, my mommy & my daddy were on either sides of me...no bad ol' monster would have DARED tried to get me !!! <grin>

#42 05-09-2006, 07:04 PM

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Does Forbidden Planet count?????

You bet! Academy award nominated for "Best Special Effects" in 1956 and lost out to "The Ten Commandments". Great sci-fi! I love the scene where the ship creates it's own eclipse with Altair 4 at the beginning of the movie. Also love the tour of the technical wonders left by the long gone Krell.

Jim Eck · #43 05-10-2006, 04:43 AM

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You bet! Academy award nominated for "Best Special Effects" in 1956 and lost out to "The Ten Commandments". Great sci-fi! I love the scene where the ship creates it's own eclipse with Altair 4 at the beginning of the movie. Also love the tour of the technical wonders left by the long gone Krell.

Leslie Neilsen, Robbie the Robot, James Drury and Anne Francis (Hottie) all went on to further their careers, great movie!

Jim

#44 05-10-2006, 10:48 AM

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Leslie Neilsen, Robbie the Robot, James Drury and Anne Francis (Hottie) all went on to further their careers, great movie!

Jim

Yeah Jim. Wasn't Anne Francis gorgeous? Love the outfit she wore in that movie.

Grainger49 · #45 05-10-2006, 12:44 PM

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Leslie Neilsen, Robbie the Robot, James Drury and Anne Francis (Hottie) all went on to further their careers, great movie!

What, no mention of Walter Pidgeon and Earl Holoman (Police Woman)?

Holoman is the cook!

Yeah, I loved that movie. I saw it when it was first out when I was a kid. Warped me for life!