# Favorite 50's SF/Monster flicks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253 "2005-05-10T17:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/21 "2005-05-11T01:31:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “Ay haide her. Ay _hay_ dot Quvinn!” Nitpick- Queen Of Outer Space was in color. The OP asked for black and white films. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/22 "2005-05-11T01:40:01Z")
The Thing. It, Terror from Beyond Space. Tarantula. and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/23 "2005-05-11T13:14:50Z")
More cheesy flicks: 1.) **Killers from Space** – another _Chiller Theater_ perennial. Peter Graves stars as a test pilot who blanks out after flying over an atomic test site, only to wake up in a hospital bed. The first hour of the film is padding and filler, but it develops that he crashed and was brought back to life by aliens who dress in _Zombies of the Stratosphere_-style spandex jumpsuits with head coverings and have pop eyes. The pop-eyes are so obviously ping pong balls with magic-markered pupils that it’s painful. The Spandex suits are cruel to the heavier aliens. Their leadeer looks as if he was paid in beer. There’s some passable 1940’s science fiction drawing and animation of the alioens’ homeworld and their invasion plan that they show Graves (whose character is “Doug Martin”), although they take “Space Platforms” literally, showing ships on a flat platform floating in space. Graves escapes, but finds a “zoo” of enlarged lizards and insects that kills some more time. Eventually, Graves figures out that if he cuts off the power ast the local power plant, it will shut down the containment field on the aliens’ Warp Core (or whatever they were calling it back then. Evidently the aliens were stealing power from the local land lines. Always have a backup generator!) This results in a nuclear explosion, destroying the alien base. The explosion, seen through a window, rattles the blinds. 2.) **Invassion of the Saucermen** – this was actually based on a pretty clever science fiction short story, “The Space Frame”, much of which got into the film. But it was buried under the dumb stuff everyone remembers – big-headed aliens enciounter teenages outside town. They have alcohol for blood and detachable hands with eyes on them that can move by themselves, and the aliens explode when you shine lights on them! The alien costumes, by the never fully appreciated Paul Blaisdell, are _great_! The film was remade incredibly badly as **Invasion of tthe Eye Creatures** (Or Invasion of The _The_ Eye Creatures, if you believe the closing credits). 3.) **Target Earth** – Interesting little paranoid movie about a handful of people remaining in a city after alien robots with killer death beams in their heads invade. Based on a story by (I think) Manly Wade Wellman. It’s an intriguing setup, and worth watrching if you haven’t heard about it before. But they don’t really _do_ anything with it. Eventually the Army figures out that if you beam ultrasound at the robots you fracture the tubes in their death rays. Next invasion, the aliens are going solid-state. 4.) **Invisible Invaders** – John Carradine shows up in a film that looks like dress rehearsal for **Night of the Living dead** – incorporeal aliens invade by inhabiting the bodies of the dead and advancing stiff-armed and stiff-legged on the cities of the world. I like that all the zombified bodies wear suits. This is a _formal_ invasion. Eventually, the Army discovers that if you beam ultrasound at them, the aliens are forced to leave the bodies and condense as a little blob of marshmallow fluff. Boy, this movie and the last one and Beginning of the End – the Army can get rid of anything by driving around jeeps with loudspeakers on them. Next invasion, the bad guys’ll bring ear plugs. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/24 "2005-05-11T16:48:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Nahhh! I’m just not as enamored of it as a lot of other people are. > > A Partial cheesy list: > > 1.) **Plan 9 from Outer Space** – you _knew_ this was gonna be on this list! But it’s _not_ the worst movie of all time. It is well and truly bad, but it doesn’t bore, and some moments (Tor Johnson rising from the grave, Vampira in her crooked “scary” pose next to a dead tree) are genuinely moving. > > 2.) **Robot Monster** – like P9FOS, it’s not boring and occasionally original. With a score by Emer Bernstein!!!(The Magnificent Seven, among very many others). But still laughably bad. > > 3.) **The Cape Canabveral Mnsters** – aliens take over dead bodies to sabotage misile launches! Teenagers stop them by (I kid you not) building a hydrogen bomb from plastic belts. > > 4.) **The Invisible Boy** – The sequel to **Forbidden Planet**!! (Didn’t know there was one, did you?) Done in black and white, starring Robby the Robot and Richard Eyer (who would go on to be the Genie in 7th Voyage of Sinbad) > > 5.) **The Monster that Challenged the World** – giant killer snails invade Southern California! Walk for your lives!! Pretty good production values and some wonderful moments when they don’t take themselves too seriously. Starring Humphrey Bogart’s sidekick from The Treasure of Sierra Madre. > > 6.) **Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman** – Bert I. Gordon made The Amazing Colossal Man in response to The Incredible Shrinking Man, and later this cheapie came out with a giant woman. Unbelievably cheap special effects (you can frequently see through the giant people) > > 7.) **The Crawling Eye** (AKA **the Trollenberg Terror** ). Long before F-Troop, Forrest Tucker played in a series of British science fiction films. Besides this, there was The Cosmic Monsters and The Abominable Snowman of the Himalays. But this one is the cheesiest, with octopoid one-eyed invaders from Outer Space in the Alps. Like so many monsters in British SF movies of the time, these Took Over People’s Minds. In their octopus form, they were gross, and tore off people’s heads. I sometimes get the feekling that the British saw them as threatening not because they were ooky monsters from Outer Space, but because they weren’t British. > > 8.) **The Killer Shrews** – giant shrews, played by dogs dressed up in fake shrew heads and pieces of carpeting. They almost kill off a group of people living on an island. > > 9.) **The Black Sleep** – when everyone talks about the awful films Bela Lugosi made in the 1950s they invariably talk about the Ed Wood films, but they ignore the fact that, between those Ed Wood films, Bela made this clunker with John Carradine and Tor Johnson and a collection of freaky-looking people. Boring but weird. > > 10.) **The Manster** – Japanese/American co-production about a Japanese scientist who experiments on members of his family, turning them into monsters (there must have been some very strange SBIR grants in those days). running out of familial subjects, he injects a visiting American with a serum that causesw his tyo grow another head and go on a killing spree. Probably the inspiration for How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Given your screen name, I knew you would post big time. Glad you did!Comments on some of the films on your list: The Crawling Eye–Another fave of mine. I used to love Forrest Tucker bark, “DO AS YOU’RE TOLD!”. This was also the first MST3K to air on cable-and the only one I’ve never seen! The Manster–taped this one off TNT Monstervision a few years back–still love to watch it. Invisible Invaders–This one scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Much as I enjoy the Romero-esque flesh eating zombies, I sorta missed the days when zombies just walked aroung “stiff-legged”. Just the idea of the dead coming back to life was a scary enough premise in my childhood (I’m 48, BTW). A few more that haven’t been mentioned yet: The Giant Claw–“I’ll never call my mother-in-law an old crow again!” The Day the World Ended–“Rick’ll teach him a lesson” Giant From the Unknown–with Bob Steele, another F-Troop alumnus. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/25 "2005-05-11T17:16:17Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 2.) **Invassion of the Saucermen** – this was actually based on a pretty clever science fiction short story, “The Space Frame”, much of which got into the film. But it was buried under the dumb stuff everyone remembers – big-headed aliens enciounter teenages outside town. They have alcohol for blood and detachable hands with eyes on them that can move by themselves, and the aliens explode when you shine lights on them! The alien costumes, by the never fully appreciated Paul Blaisdell, are _great_! The film was remade incredibly badly as **Invasion of tthe Eye Creatures** (Or Invasion of The _The_ Eye Creatures, if you believe the closing credits). Futurama’s newsmonster Morbo was a very obvious tribute to the aliens of this film. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/26 "2005-05-11T17:21:29Z")
Thanks, **want2know**. And I’ll second **The Giant Claw** – how could I have missed mentioning _that_? Easily the dumbest-looking monster from the 1950s. The story goes that they ran out of money after all the primary shooting and had almost nothing left at the end to spare for the monster (they tell essentially the same story about **Prophecy** – the one with the stupid-looking monster bear). The stars were probably mortified when they saw this one. About **Killers from Space** – I’m sorry that MST3K never did this one. They would’ve had a field day. If you make it through this one, dig up a copy of **Zackerly’s Horrible Norror** it has _outtakes_ from **Killers from Space**!!! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/27 "2005-05-11T17:35:37Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Thanks, **want2know**. And I’ll second **The Giant Claw** – how could I have missed mentioning _that_? Easily the dumbest-looking monster from the 1950s. The story goes that they ran out of money after all the primary shooting and had almost nothing left at the end to spare for the monster (they tell essentially the same story about **Prophecy** – the one with the stupid-looking monster bear). The stars were probably mortified when they saw this one.\*\*!!! There’s a quote from star Jeff Morrow about half-way down [this review](http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/liz_tgc.htm). For an amusing contrast, compare the poster art at the top of the review with the photos of the monster as he actually appears at the very bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/28 "2005-05-11T19:24:53Z")
Thanks for the link Miss Mapp. Indeed that was the silliest looking movie monster ever! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/29 "2005-05-11T20:01:14Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > Thanks for the link Miss Mapp. Indeed that was the silliest looking movie monster ever! Oh, he’s definitely up there. But, according to another one of my favorite B-movie review sites, there is one even goofier: [The 20 Goofiest Movie Monsters](http://www.schlocktoberfest.com/archives/nowff/foy_20goofiestn.html) It’s a matter of opinion, of course, but Guilala, the Japanese plucked-chicken monster, has to be seen. And there are some photos of other famous '50’s sci-fi monsters on that page. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/30 "2005-05-11T20:16:14Z")
1.) Great Link, **Miss Mapp** I’d wanted to mention **Attack of the Crab Monsters** , but I keep forgetting. Among other things, tyhis film is one of a number that feature Russel Johnson as a scientist, proving that he was born to play The Professor on **Gilligan’s Island**. 2.)Another one, with a really dumb-looking monster – **From Hell it Came** – bad guy gets reincarnated as a walking Tree Stump. It even has a face! It looks like the apple-throwing Trees from The Wizard of Oz gone bad! One reviewer reportedly said “And to Hell it can Go!”, but I suspect that’s apocryphal. It’s too good a line. 3.) **Unknown Island** is really from 1948, so it just misses the cutoff date, but I have to include it. It not only features the Worst T. Rex Costumes Ever, but the chief monster is this big hairy whatsit that looks like some kind of King Kong-style ape, but turns out to be a Giant Sloth(!!!) (To requote from The Monster that Challenged the World – "It’s a Giant Sloth! Walk for your Lives!) 4.) And then there’s the Evil TV set from **The Twonky**. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/31 "2005-05-11T21:35:13Z")
The OP asked for “cheapie,” not “cheesy” movies. On that basis, I nominate a truly excellent film with an apparently low budget (few special FX): The original **Village of the Damned.** (Released in 1960, hope that doesn’t exclude it.) I saw on TV in the '70s. Rented it a couple of years ago and what struck me most was what cold, emotionless automatons these Brits (not the alien-children, the adult humans) seemed to be. Absolutely nothing like the impression I get from, say, Monty Python or Benny Hill. Has British culture really changed that much since 1960? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/32 "2005-05-11T22:08:41Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The original Village of the Damned. (Released in 1960, hope that doesn’t exclude it.) Pushing the envelope a little further (1961) brings up [The Day the Earth Caught Fire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054790/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8c291cmNlaWQ9bW96aWxsYS1zZWFyY2h8cT0iZGF5IHRoZSBlYXJ0aCBjYXVnaHQgZmlyZSJ8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=18). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/33 "2005-05-12T00:32:34Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Pushing the envelope a little further (1961) brings up [The Day the Earth Caught Fire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054790/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8c291cmNlaWQ9bW96aWxsYS1zZWFyY2h8cT0iZGF5IHRoZSBlYXJ0aCBjYXVnaHQgZmlyZSJ8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=18). Wow, I’d almost forgotten that one. Edward Judd and Leo McKern, right?In my original post, I encouraged people to “push the envelope”. It’s great to see how many people remember these films. Not all 50’s (or early 60’s) SF films were Plan 9 or The Creeping Terror. Some of them were actually quite enjoyable given the budgets alloted to SF films at the time. One more: anyone remember “The Lost Missile”? I vaguely remember this film, concerning a missile flying around the world, wreaking havoc in its wake–without ever landing! I’m sure of the title–anybody else remember it? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/34 "2005-05-12T00:56:51Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Wow, I’d almost forgotten that one. Edward Judd and Leo McKern, right? Shot in the fleet street offices of the Daily Express, with its editor, Arthur Christiansen, playing the editor in the film. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/35 "2005-05-12T12:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > One more: anyone remember “The Lost Missile”? I vaguely remember this film, concerning a missile flying around the world, wreaking havoc in its wake–without ever landing! I’m sure of the title–anybody else remember it? See my first post – It was a Jerome Bixby film, one of three that he wrote in the 1950s. They’re all offbeat, annd worth watching. ---
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You mavens of old Sci Fi have got to know this one! there was a real “el cheapo” monster flick form the 50’s , MADE IN DENMARK! It had a crappy monster that pulled down church steeples-and the danish army attacked the monster 9unsuccessfully0 with WWII bazookas. incredibly cheap, incredibly tacky…what was this flick called? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/37 "2005-05-12T14:28:25Z")
> [@](#): > > You mavens of old Sci Fi have got to know this one! there was a real “el cheapo” monster flick form the 50’s , MADE IN DENMARK! It had a crappy monster that pulled down church steeples-and the danish army attacked the monster 9unsuccessfully0 with WWII bazookas. > incredibly cheap, incredibly tacky…what was this flick called? It sounds as if you’re remembering **Reptilicus** , an oldie but goodie. It was actually in color, and the aforementioned beast was an obvious puppet. It shot badly-animated “acid sline” from its mouth, and its scaly skin was impervious to bulletsd, so they killed it by shooting a shell filled with poison into the soft lining of its mouth. I like the fact that the monster Grew itself from the tail that a drilling crew found in the ground (and at the end, you’re left withy the impression that it will regrow itself from a foot that got severed. Although there never was a sequel.) In the wake of this movie Charlton Comics started a “Reptilicus” series, although after the first couple of issues it became “Reptisaurus” I’ve heard that some of the worse-looking scenes of the film were excised before it hit the U.S. Based on what stayed in the film, these scenes must have been _really_ bad. > **[Reptilicus (1961) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056405/)** > > Reptilicus: Directed by Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink. With Bent Mejding, Asbjørn Andersen, Povl Wøldike, Ann Smyrner. After copper miners discover part of the frozen tail of a prehistoric monster in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to... ---
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Retisaurus comics: [http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=68411392280&snumber=1](http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=68411392280&snumber=1) > **[CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news.](https://www.cbr.com)** > > Covering comics, movies, tv like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/39 "2005-05-12T14:49:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It sounds as if you’re remembering **Reptilicus** , an oldie but goodie. It was actually in color, and the aforementioned beast was an obvious puppet. It shot badly-animated “acid sline” from its mouth, and its scaly skin was impervious to bulletsd, so they killed it by shooting a shell filled with poison into the soft lining of its mouth. > > I like the fact that the monster Grew itself from the tail that a drilling crew found in the ground (and at the end, you’re left withy the impression that it will regrow itself from a foot that got severed. Although there never was a sequel.) > > I’ve heard that some of the worse-looking scenes of the film were excised before it hit the U.S. Based on what stayed in the film, these scenes must have been _really_ bad. > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056405/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056405/) Continuing my new job in this thread of linking to B-movie reviews, I give you the famous and hilarious [Jabootu review of Reptilicus](http://www.jabootu.com/reptilicus.htm). Once again, by the difference between the poster art and the monster as it appears onscreen is interesting and extremely amusing. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253/40 "2005-05-12T17:15:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > See my first post – It was a Jerome Bixby film, one of three that he wrote in the 1950s. They’re all offbeat, annd worth watching. Thanx, **Cal**. You referred to it as “The Atomic Missile”–I was wondering if we were talking about the same film. BTW, I met Rex Reason (your namesake) and Russell Johnson at the MST convention several years ago. They were both very nice people. The thing was, you had to keep repeating yourself to Rex as he has become extremely hard of hearing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-50s-sf-monster-flicks/303253.md?page=3)