It had something to do with a … ghost horse. Horse ghost. Ghost of a horse. Something like that. An early scene has a bunch of people burying a dead pony, at night, for some reason. (Other than “It’s dead.”) Sometime later, a construction site over what is apparently the unmarked grave of this horse experiences an earthquake. Superimposed over this is the horse’s head, and a loud whinnying is heard.
What’s the scene that stuck with you?
Near the end, the protagonists are trapped in a house, and this carousel horse has gone AWOL and is trying to batter down the door.
My wife is an aficionado of cheezy TV horror movies and she has never heard of anything like this.
I probably saw it in 1964. I saw it with my father in NYC (I think at Radio City Music Hall - did they ever show movies there?). I do know that it was the B movie on a double feature with “Robinson Crusoe On Mars” which came out in 64.
Who was in it?
No idea.
Typical 50’s monster movie. The monsters were giant slabs of rock with short stubby legs.
What’s the scene that stuck with you?
There’s a point where group of people are on an upper level of a city building looking out into the street. I think they’re about to go out into the street when one of the rock monsters steps away from a building across the street. It had blended in so well that it wasn’t noticeable. Almost gave my 8 year old self a heart attack.
Did they ever show films in Radio City Music Hall? Yes, they did. They quit showing films there on a regular basis in 1979, but they still occasionally show movies. I’m answering this question because, bizarrely enough, I saw a movie there in 1964. It was weird that I went there because I grew up on a farm in Ohio. That year was one of the relatively small number of vacations my family took, and we saw The Unsinkable Molly Brown there. The Rockettes performed beforehand:
Thanks for the suggestion on my “lost” sci-fi movie, GuanoLad. That’s not the movie, but another thread got me checking the link and I found it, literally: It! The Terror from Beyond Space. No wonder it creeped me out: the basic plot was reworked into Alien.
I remember this movie with the “nuclear device in the basement” very well! It was “Panic In The City” starring Howard Duff and Linda Cristal. It’s from 1968, and you can find new and used copies on DVD on Amazon.
Describe a movie you saw and liked as a kid but can’t remember its title
There may be some movie you saw at such a young age, or else are unable to remember its name, but you really liked and would like to know its title. Just try to give as much info on it as you can and maybe we can figure out what it must have been. Or at least make some decent guesses.
When did it come out? Pre-1950. Saw it at a Saturday matinee as a young kid in the 1940’s. (Yes, I’m that old.) Not saying I liked it, but remembered its ugly atrocities all my life, but didn’t recall its title.
Who was in it? Didn’t remember.
What plot if any do you remember? Africans being kidnapped and shipped to America, then rebelling on a slave ship.
What was special to you about it? Seeing the slaves get deep-sixed in chains by their slavers to avoid being discovered by the pursuing authorities. I wondered about the movie in later decades, through the Civil Rights struggle and a college course in African-American History at B.U. in '71 and a degree from Shaw U in the '80s, but couldn’t recall its name. Learned later in life that the first ship to bring slaves to America in the “triangle trade” was the Desire, built in Marblehead, Mass.
Any other clues you can think of? Seeing similar actions in Stephen’s Spielberg’s Amistad 50 years later made me wonder if he had seen it.
Then lo and behold it was released on dvd a couple of years ago and I bought it.
*Slave Ship *('37) with Wallace Beery. Well worth it for anyone. interested in African-American History.
I was born in 1993 and i watched it on Tv somewhere about 1999.
The movie is about a creature that is similar to the Xenomorph, as i can recall
The plot is set in a jungle or a forest and some people are trying to catch it
The main protagonists are some man and a girl
I remember a scene where they befriend a boy who gives an amulet to that guy but was later killed by a monster after a bunch of traps they have set for it in the forest failed to work
I also remember that the monster had orange sight and in one scene they have put a cow in a cage as a bait for it
There is another scene where that boy is hiding from monster in some underground tunnels
In the end, i am not sure, but i think the monster somehow was shot by that man and exploded
I have attempted this before with unsatisfying results, but would love to find the movie and watch all of it.
It is a black and white “horror” film shown on 60’s afternoon teepee. The movie was likely made in the 40’s or early 50’s. The actors seem to have been English. I was about 8, so what did I know.
At the end of the movie, after the mystery was solved, the main cast walked offscreen, leaving the villan, presumably dead on the floor. But…
The villan stands up and says, “I AM THE MANIAC”, and proceeded to threaten the viewers if they told the end of the movie to anyone. As I recall, he threatened to come to your house and “slit your throat.”
I swear, it terrified me and I didn’t tell the tale until about 30 years later. I think I am safe because that maniac is probably pretty old now.
I’ve been trying to remember two movies for years… #1) I saw this movie on TV in 1971 or 1972
Who was in it? Dean Martin? (or other Matt Helm type)
What plot if any do you remember? I think this was a spy type comedy. I remember a girl riding on the front of a bicycle (I think near a fountain) and her shirt/dress rips and her bra says “Help Me”.
What was special to you about it? I was pretty young and thought it was pretty risqué at the time.
#2)
When did it come out? Saw on late night mystery or sci fi theater in 1967 at my 1st grade slumber party.
Who was in it? Don’t know.
What plot if any do you remember? Really eerie mansion style home, scientist, plant (possibly in atrium area), that was either blood sucking or carnivorous.
What was special to you about it? Scared a bunch of 6 year old girls to death!
Thank you in advance! Very interesting board!!
Any other clues you can think of? black and white
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