The Crawling Eye

In a lot of ways Aliens is a remake of that movie. I would go with The Thing. I would love to get another great monster movie.

I also liked "The Blob" (original) with Steve McQueen.

"It, the terror from beyond space" ( aliens blueprint ), Forbidden Planet, Them, Tarantula, The Thing ( all 3 ), 20 million years to earth, lots more I can't remember.

I love the classics.

I was in the back row, trying to remain calm...When someone three rows ahead of me..said..."here it comes."...it was the scene where they are caring for the guy who had the alien on his face..he seems to have recovered and they are at the table eating................(now I will not tell the rest)...but it was an incredible movie..from then on..and yes, I was scared ...sh*tless.......................................so........................

When Aliens..came out some years later......and I read a review by Roger Ebert, about how scary it was..I said no..I don't go to no theater this time...and here is what I did............I waited till it came out on tape, then played it from right before the ending, to the ending..then a little farther back and so on. So, I knew the ending before I knew the beginning..Who wants to be scared sh*tless again................so............even though I took precautions........There is a scene in a lab, where one escapes..and grabs someone...and guess what..I was scared sh*tless even though I took precutions..Maybe Aliens is the best..but I still like ...THEM...

I was just a little kid back then so I never saw Alien in a theater during its original run. I can only imagine what it must have been to buy a ticket for it thinking it was a sci fi film like Star Wars only to watch something completely different. Some moviegoers probably had nightmares for weeks.

Some artwork and other mentions from what I remember, you could buy a "Nostromo" hat and other goodies.

I knew what it was (kinda) and was in the theater the day it came out.

Mind blowing great flick the first time, especially for the year/period.

I saw the 1982 Thing for the first time doing oil charters below the Pribilof islands in the Bering Sea in 84, didn't know what to expect, only one awake of 3 on board, loved the original, so I watch at night on a 110 foot boat 125 miles north of Dutch harbor at night in the middle of a storm tied to an anchor downwind of the drilling rig.

Oh shit......

so good, realistic and FREAKING SCARY!

the 1982 remake?

The prequel is pretty good too, and links well to Carpenter's. Now, they just need a sequel!

Godzilla

At least the real Japanese Toho ones, with the rubber suit!

Hate the CGI ones, they just do not have the personality.

I love all Japanese monster movies, Rhodan, Mothra, Ghidra etc.

I have most of them.

Something about the scream of Godzilla!

And I love the low tech productions.

CGI just gets too over-the-top for me sometimes, I find it gets boring.

I prefer all of the old handmade stuff, real miniature sets... you just don't see that sort of creativity these days.

Yeah, I am getting old. I am a child of Ghoulardi....

I like dial phones too.... I have an Erica phone!

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You gotta' love this stuff!

"Destroy all monsters!"

I have been hoping for a return of practical effects and stop motion.

Of course, the Robot Chicken stuff on Adult Swim is pretty entertaining. They do stop motion quite well.

The Japanese rubber suit monster masterpieces were mostly live real actors, with a couple of exceptions in some scenes.

It had to be hot and brutal.

The original Godzilla actor just passed away in early august.

Nice piece here, and in a few other places.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/08/542198902/haruo-nakajima-the-original-godzilla-actor-dies

the 50s. It was my grandparents and it was the beginning of phasing out operators and party lines.

in the original Japanese version it is far superior to the Raymond Burr edited version. Really gave a scope of the of the human loss and suffering.
The newest Godzilla(Shin) is an interesting take on the character but a little to time spent much bureaucratic drama for my liking.

a metaphor for nuclear war

It's sort of the distilled essence of monster movie. "What kind of monster?" "Oh, I don't know, fuck it - just make it a blob."

"A blob of what?"

"Who cares? It's just a big scary blob."

Not much to it,,,,but.................GIANT GRASSHOPPERS TAKE OVER CHICAGO...!!!!!!!!!!

good for a laugh, if you can find it somewhere...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050177/

And it really was terrific. It worked extremely well and I enjoyed it a great deal..
...thanks for mentioning King Kong.......

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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)



Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira)[Note 1] is a 1954 Japanese kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. It is the first film of the Godzilla franchise and the first film of its Shōwa series. The film is directed by Ishirō Honda, with a screenplay by Honda, Takeo Murata, and Shigeru Kayama and stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as the performers for Godzilla. Nakajima would go on to portray the character until his retirement in 1972.

In 1956, TransWorld Releasing Corporation and Embassy Pictures released Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, a heavily re-edited "Americanized"[6][7][8][9] version of the original film with additional footage featuring Raymond Burr. In 2004, Rialto Pictures gave the 1954 film a limited theatrical release in the United States to coincide with the franchise's 50th anniversary.

I have recently watched all four (original. 70s, Jackson, and Skull Island) and it is still the best.

the remake was really lame.

was the first one that came to mind. I know I watched some of the slime creature type things but they didn't stick with me.

Psycho, The Birds and Rear Window.

An outer space version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Although now that you've pointed it out, it's so obvious.

7? Years ago, James Cameron was said to be involved, had completed script, was stolen and put online, end of project.

Was emphasizing Alta's female id/magic?

Read that they had written another but nothing since then.

My all time favorite.

It is totally unnecessary!

What's with Hollywood? No new material?
Apparently.

Nothing wrong with the original. Nothing!

It had to have influenced Roddenberry

I think the first film to use electronic music for the full sound track.

That would be undoubtedly true, first electronic score. But then one has to ignore Bernard Hermann's truly wonderful film score for The Day the Earth Stood Still which featured a Theramin. At least Hermann stuck his toes into the water. (I am a huge Bernard Hermann fan.)

Bebe and Louis Barron

I think the first use of Theramin, at least in American films, was in Hitchcock's Spellbound, Miklos Rozsa.

Forbidden Planet was a break though film in many ways - credible attempt to portray an advanced alien civilization.

Hermann fan here. One word: Psycho. Could Norman being considered a monster?

Thanks!

Just for your pleasure, Pamelia Kurstin, virtuoso on Theremin, a TED Talk:

It said the theramin was not used in FP, they called them electronic tonalities that were made by another type of equipment.

I always thought it was a theramin.

The cast loved making the movie so much that when filming came to an end, they kept on acting.

Brilliantly insane!

one Saturday afternoon. I didn't sleep for a month! I wouldn't close my eyes without going down to the basement to check for pods!

The only other movie that freaked me out that much was The Tingler with Vincent Price. Me and a hundred other kids ran screaming from the theater halfway through! And I was 17 when I saw it!!! Sheesh!

I've since watched both on dvd and I honestly can't understand why they would have scared me at all. hehe.

I checked the basement for pods too.

lase in spiral form from his eye? It wasn't a Japanese movie which I saw on TV when I was very little. I've been trying to find it for years.

As for best monster movie, Them! is a great choice

EDIT: No, that's not it. I know the one you're thinking of, though. I can still hear that sound.

Idea what the movie was called!

Behemoth, maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Behemoth

I remember them being more sharp, but it was a long time ago, and I was very little. But starting at 0:49 looks like the "spiral" I remember, so I think you found it!

Thank you!

AKA Quatermass and the Pit.

But, now that you mention it....yes we are..(not me, of course) ..THEM

Frank Zappa wrote a song about that!

I was hoping some one would mention this.

"Cheepness, in the case of a monster movie, has nothing to do with the budget of the film ... although it helps" - FZ

Cheers
Drifter

and The Killer Shrews, with James Best,
and the only movie that could possibly be worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space,

The Creeping Terror, with Bela Lugosi (sort of).

Oh, and The Attack of the Giant Leeches, and the Green Slime, which had a really campy theme song.

I've got to agree with Them- I watch it from time to time.

The Terminator monster was quite effective.

Living in San Francisco, I'm partial to It Came From Beneath the Sea, about a giant octopus that attacks San Francisco.

I've really, really got to put in a strong plug here for Sharktopus, with a Roger Corman cameo, and Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, with a terrific cat fight between Debbie Gibson and Tiffany, and a dead-on character by Micky Dolenz.

The Monster That Challenged The World is better than you think it would be.

So is Punkinhead.

The Bride of Frankenstein is the best of the classic movies of that genre. What young guy, trying to negotiate the minefield of relationships, hasn't felt like the grunting Frankenstein Monster as he tries to show his love to The Bride, only to have her recoil in horror?

Our current real life monsters like Trump, Bannon, Putin, etc are more than 'scary' enough for me but I do enjoy watching this monster movie occasionally (usually with my grandson).

The Thing, Alien, Godzilla movies, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, way too many. One of my favorite memories of my childhood is sitting on the floor of the living room watching "creature double feature" on Saturday afternoons with my dad. Channel 56 out of Massachusetts.

Night of the Lepus. One of the great B monster movies!

I saw Bugs Bunny wearing a Napoleon hat shouting "Onward to victory, and GLORY!" And heard this

One of my all-time favorite dumb monster movies.

Most frightening thing is, we're living it. Hollywood has nothing on reality

Otherwise, give me John Carpenter's The Thing. The ending is awesome.

A tree stump terrorizes a group of atomic research scientists
Or, the modern remake....
Scott Pruitt terrorizes the EPA while fellow monster tree stump Rick Perry guts the Energy Department. ...

scared me to death as a kid because my mom was one of those who would slather cream all over her face at night before bed. I expected her to sting me and suck the life out of me before morning.

I forget the name.

And another one with radioactive maneating mutants that live in the radioactive fog.

A lot of the dialogue was cheesy and much of the story line was lame, but there were scenes, such as the dream inside the dream in the hospital, the initial attack on the moors and the transformation that were spectacular. The special effects and makeup were groundbreaking too.

I had a big crush on her back in the 70's. I thought she was sultry.

that noise those huge ants made...I'll never forget it!

K&R

I was 10 or so when the movie came to our small town. It was around Christmas, and I remember that year on Christmas Eve, just as I always did on that night, I stared up at the sky from my bedroom window. But that year, instead of looking for the Christmas Star, I was on the lookout for giant ANTS!

1). ALL of the black & white Universal monster movies, even the 70-minute "last gasp" flicks like "House of Dracula" and "House of Frankenstein."

2). Night of the Living Dead

3). Texas Chainsaw Massacre

4). The first 2 "Friday the 13th" movies. After that it was a steady downhill progression of the formula, more like self-parody than horror.

5). The Hammer Films revival of the Frankenstein / Dracula / Mummy movies, primarily starring Christopher Lee and / or Peter Cushing.

6). John Carpenter's first "Halloween" film. Honorable mention for "They Live."

it was about a tyrannosaurus rex that lived inside a hollow mountain and came out periodically to eat cattle and the odd person. I was 11 or so, and took everything literally, so of course I expected a monster to burst forth from one of the southern Appalachians and start ripping me to shreds. The same day I saw it, my brother and his wife took me and some other people for a picnic in one of the mountain state parks here in Georgia. I was too busy watching the surrounding peaks to enjoy the food. I have always just disappeared into whatever book or movie I happen to be perusing at the time, so worrying about a T. Rex attack seemed perfectly reasonable to me.

Really enjoyed watching this. I especially like it when the script found a way to explain where the mist and monsters came from that made scientific sense.

The 1953 original version with the floating alien ships
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I saw it at just the right age to scare the living daylights out of me. I watched it again not too long ago and the special effects are still excellent.