# ID the 'noodle monster' '50s science fiction film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-noodle-monster-50s-science-fiction-film/713548 "2015-02-24T22:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-noodle-monster-50s-science-fiction-film/713548/1 "2015-02-24T22:33:40Z")
At least, I think it was '50s. I kind of remember seeing it on TV when I was about five in the '60s. I don’t remember much. ISTR that the monsters were kind of like the Horta on _Star Trek_. They were shaped that way, and they had tentacles. You killed them by bashing their heads/bodies open (with an axe?). Inside it was like they were filled with cooked macaroni. This might have been a black-and-white '50s horror movie I saw when I was a kid. Or it might have been a B&W dream I had when I was five. Does it sound familiar? Was it a movie, or was it a dream? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-noodle-monster-50s-science-fiction-film/713548/2 "2015-02-24T23:20:06Z")
Reminds me of The Creeping Terror, where the monster has been described as a “walking carpet.” [Here are some photos](http://www.haroldbakker.com/personal/The_Creeping_Terror.php) of the cinematic endeavor, from someone who enjoyed it way too much. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-noodle-monster-50s-science-fiction-film/713548/3 "2015-02-25T00:02:59Z")
That would be my vote, too. But the brain creatures in “Fiend without a Face” did creep along on their spinal cords which might give a “noodley appendage” aspect to them. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-noodle-monster-50s-science-fiction-film/713548/4 "2015-02-25T00:11:07Z")
[Island of Terror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/) The monsters grab you with their tentacles and use them to suck out your bones. Loved it when I was a kid and didn’t hate it as an adult. ETA. Oh, and the reproduced by splitting in two leaving a big pile of spaghetti. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-noodle-monster-50s-science-fiction-film/713548/5 "2015-02-25T00:19:41Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > [Island of Terror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/) > > The monsters grab you with their tentacles and use them to suck out your bones. Loved it when I was a kid and didn’t hate it as an adult. > > ETA. Oh, and the reproduced by splitting in two leaving a big pile of spaghetti. [That](https://pluckyoutoo.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/iot-thing2.jpg) looks like [it](https://vintage45.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/island-of-terror-1966-the-silicate.jpg)! 🙂 1966, though. I would have sworn it was older.