# Movies that Time forgot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 10, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164 "2026-04-10T12:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/1 "2026-04-10T12:23:17Z")
I think I’ve written about this before – movies that I used to see on TV all the time, but which disappeared into oblivion. In this case I’m thinking about the horrible, cheap horror and monster films from the 1950s that used to be the staple of “horror host” shows. And, in particular, WPIX’s _Chiller Theater_ on channel 11 in Ne York in the 1960s and early 1970s. The REAL early ones, when the show opened with a montage of scenes from these very films, not the later one with the stop-motion animated six-fingered hand. This one: > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17AHdNvrk5o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17AHdNvrk5o) A few of thos movies are well-known and you can see them on streaming services or DVD, like **Plan Nine from Outer Space** or **Killer from Space**. But most of these flicks seem gone forever. I never saw them broadcast on cable TV, or on VHS, or on DVDs, or on current streaming. And yet I thought all those venues were inexhaustible maws simply aching for cheap content to fill the time and sales figures. Movies like: **The Cape Canaveral Monsters** – aliens take over corpse bodies, plan nine-like, in order to mess with our space program. They’re stopped by hot-rodding teenagers who build hydrogen bomb using plastic belts (really!) **Voodoo Island** – Boris Karloff slumming it in a movie about an island with zombies and man- (or at least child-) eating plants **Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman** – People still remember thos one because it had one of the greatest movie posters of all time: > **[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_50_Foot_Woman#/media/File:Attackofthe50ftwoman.jpg)** > > Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 independently made American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers. It was produced by Bernard Woolner. The screenplay was written by Mark Hanna, and the original music score was composed by Ronald Stein. The film was distributed in the United States on May 18, 1958 by Allied Artists as a double feature with War of the Satellites. > The edited Allied Ar... The movie couldn’t hope to live up to this – the special effects are woefully sub-par even for a 1950s cheapie like this. The backgrounds keep bleeding through the images of the giant man and woman. The spaceship is basically a dot of light. The giant rubber prop hand is obviously a giant rubber prop hand. The remakes and parodies (The Daryl Hannah 1993 TV-movie, _attach of the 50 fot cheerleader, Attack of the 50 foot Centerfold._ Heck, even the contemporary parody _The forty foot Bride of Candy Rock_ – Lou Costello’s last film) had better effects. Directed by Nathan Juran, who had directed _The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad_ and _Jack the Giant Killer._ **The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake** **The Neanderthal Man** and **Monster on the Campus** , which feel like the same film. **Giant from the Unknown** **The Cyclops** – Bert I Gordon movie in Cinemascope, but still with rotten effects. The makeup, though, was pretty impressive, and super-creepy to me as a kid. It’s in the opening montage linked to above. The film had Lon Chaney, Jr., but the highlight is Duncan Parkin’s Cyclops. He only made two movies, and they were both Bert I. Gordon movies in which he played a one-eyed, mentally challenged bald monster who dies at the end (the other was _War of the Colossal Beast_). He was definitely typecast. **The Ape Man** - Bela Lugosi in a cheap movie about a scientist who plays with hormone extracts from apes. Curiously, it’s got the same premise as **The Ape** , which starred Boris Karloff as the scientist (but which was never on Chiller Theater). It’s rooted in what was actual research at the time – using extracts from apes to try to cure polio. **Plan Nine from Outer Space** – arguably the Gold Standard of bad 1950s fantastic cinema. It’s bad, but at least it’s _entertainingly_ bad. **The Black Sleep** – People who say Bela Lugosi couldn’t find work in the 1950s overlook films like this, which also had Tor Johnson (from Plan Nine) and a definitely slumming John Carradine. **The Manster** – a Japanese-American co-production about a Japanese mad scientist and his experiments on people. He injects an American businessman with a serum that causes him to grow an eye on his should, that eventually becomes a second head. This film probably influenced the 1989 film _How to get Ahead in Advertising_ (really!) **Killers from Space** – Peter Graves long before Mission: Impossible as a test pilot who observes an atomic bomb test and gets kidnapped by aliens. MST3K shoulda done this one. They didn’t, but _The Film Crew_ did. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/2 "2026-04-10T12:36:01Z")
**The Pit and the Pendulum** with Vincent Price. Set in a 16th century spanish castle with a mysterious murder, ghost and violent deaths. This was shown regularly when I was a kid, not seen it in years. Vincent was really creepy scary in his prime. ---
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**The Pit and the Pendulum** is far from a _horrible, cheap horror and monster films_, it is well regarded with a high Tomato Score of 89%. Also, come every Halloween TCM or someone else plays it again. * * * * * * There was also Creature Features, I think locally it was on WOR channel 9 in the NYC market. They had movies like: **Tarantula (1955)** A giant guess what? **The Giant Claw (1957)** Nope, not a crab, but a giant alien bird? Bigger than a Battleship? Really crappy special effect? .[Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y88r8pbSqQ) ---
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Isn’t Tim Burton trying to do a re-make of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, with Margot Robbie? ---
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Most of the crappy old monster films I’ve seen were via MST3K or similar, like **The Giant Gila Monster** (1959). I was going to mention crappy newer monster film [**Q** (1982)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(1982_film)) about a Quetzelcoatlus monster living in the Chrysler Building and eating New Yorkers (somehow unnoticed). I saw it on television at some point and found it quite stupid (although not as stupid as its tagline “It’s name is Quetzalcoatl… just call it Q, that’s all you’ll have time to say before it tears you apart!” which implies you’re somehow going to spell out the name). Michael Moriarty and David Carradine star. And yet somehow it’s earned a 72% positive rating on RT, so I dunno… ---
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Aside from the low-budget monster movies, the main movie I remember seeing as a kid that has mostly disappeared is [The Long Ships (1964)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057259/). The two things that everyone remembers: They’re looking for a giant golden bell (The Mother of Voices), and, enemies of the Moor (Sidney Poitier) are forced to ‘ride the steel mare.’ IYKYK. Another is the 1959 remake of [The Blue Angel](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052638/reference/?ref_=fn_t_2). It used to air rather frequently as filler material on Sunday afternoons and late nights. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I saw the original. ---
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> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **The Manster** – a Japanese-American co-production about a Japanese mad scientist and his experiments on people. He injects an American businessman with a serum that causes him to grow an eye on his should, that eventually becomes a second head. This film probably influenced the 1989 film _How to get Ahead in Advertising_ (really!) I always wondered where Sam Raimi got this idea from, when in _Army of Darkness_ Ash swallows one of his mini-clones, and it starts growing out of his shoulder, beginning as a single eye, then a head, then finally a separate body. ---
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I wouldn’t exactly call it “forgotten,” but **Airheads** used to air constantly on Comedy Central and is now available to watch on no streaming services whatsoever. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/9 "2026-04-10T13:55:06Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > **The Pit and the Pendulum** is far from a _horrible, cheap horror and monster films_, it is well regarded with a high Tomato Score of 89%. > > Also, come every Halloween TCM or someone else plays it again. > > * * * > > * * * > > There was also Creature Features, I think locally it was on WOR channel 9 in the NYC market. > > They had movies like: > **Tarantula (1955)** A giant guess what? > > **The Giant Claw (1957)** Nope, not a crab, but a giant alien bird? Bigger than a Battleship? Really crappy special effect? .[Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y88r8pbSqQ) Agreed – Pit and the Pendulum is one of Roger Corman’s AIP Edgar Allen Poe flicks with Vincent Price. I’ve got them all on DVD – they’re not hard to find, and they do show up occasionally (Not all Corman Poe films had Price, by the way, and Price appeared in some Poe films that had nothing to do with Corman.) **Tarantula i** s, I agree, rarely shown. It had a bigger budget than Bert I. Gordon’s _Earth vs. the Giant Spider_. It also had Leo G. Carroll and – reportedly – a young Clint Eastwood as the pilot that napalms the bug. Pretty good flick, all things considered. **The Giant Claw** is a spectacularly bad film, all because of the super-crappy effects, which embarassed the actors,and rightly so. This is a great movie to riff on. I’m amazed MST3K never did this one. (The only good effects in the film are the ones they stole from Ray Harryhausen’s _Earth vs. the Flying Saucers_) Creature Features played on WNEW channel 5 in New York when I was a kid (WWOR Channel 9 had Supernatural Theater and Million Dollar Movie. None of these had Horror Hosts) ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/10 "2026-04-10T14:02:12Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Aside from the low-budget monster movies, the main movie I remember seeing as a kid that has mostly disappeared is [The Long Ships (1964)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057259/). The two things that everyone remembers: They’re looking for a giant golden bell (The Mother of Voices), and, enemies of the Moor (Sidney Poitier) are forced to ‘ride the steel mare.’ IYKYK. I love this flick, as I like most “cultural clash” movies. I don’t recall another Vikings + Middle Eastern People film until **The 13th Warrior**. Suprisingly, The Long Ships is based on a novel that practically considered a national epic of Sweden, Franz. G. Bengtsson’s _Red Orm_ (also called _The Long Ships_). It was published in two parts in 1941 and 1945, and was once the most widely-read book in Sweden. I read it in English translation from a copy that was published as a tie-in to the movie. It’s really good. The movie is a loose adaptation of part of the first part. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, a mystery, and a huge bell. Exotic tortures (“riding the steel mare”) – what’s not to like. The movie’s intro and titles were done in a splashy style by Maurice Binder, better known for doing the title sequences for James Bond movies. When I put this on (Of _course_ I have copy) my wife listened to it briefly and scornfully said “Is that supposed to be Viking music?” Well, no, but look at _Ladyhawke_. ---
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> [@Gyrate](#): > > I was going to mention crappy newer monster film **[Q](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(1982_film))**[(1982)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(1982_film)) about a Quetzelcoatlus monster living in the Chrysler Building and eating New Yorkers (somehow unnoticed). I saw it on television at some point and found it quite stupid (although not as stupid as its tagline “It’s name is Quetzalcoatl… just call it Q, that’s all you’ll have time to say before it tears you apart!” which implies you’re somehow going to spell out the name). Michael Moriarty and David Carradine star. > > And yet somehow it’s earned a 72% positive rating on RT, so I dunno… It’s considered a “Cult Film”, and has a cadre of devoted followers. It has its own chapter in the book/magazine **Re/Search #10 – Incredibly Strange Films.** > **[Incredibly Strange Films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredibly_Strange_Films)** > > RE/Search No. 10: Incredibly Strange Films is a book about American underground and other films. It was guest edited by Jim Morton, with associate editor Boyd Rice, in the RE/Search series edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, originally published in 1985 and expanded in 1986. > Among the subjects covered are the work of filmmakers Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank Henenlotter, Larry Cohen, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman, Ed Wood, Radley Metzger, Joseph W. Sarno, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V.... For a low-budget film, it’s not that bad, especially considering that the stop-motion scenes (which are very well done) were shot _after_ the rest of the movie, which made it difficult to properly integrate them into the movie. ---
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> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Isn’t Tim Burton trying to do a re-make of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, with Margot Robbie? It’d be interesting if he did. But the original is still not easy to come by. That’ll probably change if Burton does remake it. ---
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A lot of these used to show up on hosted ‘creature features’ - USA Up all night, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, local tv stations with their own ‘horror hosts’ (we had two, dearly beloved). Commander USA on TBS back in the 80’s showed some doozies I’ve never seen again, but not all junk. A lot of the more obscure Hammer horror movies, Captain Kronos, Twins of Evil, and Simon, King of the Witches. Currently Svengali, syndicated Saturday night show, features a lot of this kind of movie. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman has been shown several times, as has Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Amazing Colossal Man, and several Roger Corman EAP movies with Vincent Price. Occasional Hammer horror movies, too. ---
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Nevermind, not relevant to OP. ---
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> [@salinqmind1](#): > > A lot of these used to show up on hosted ‘creature features’ - USA Up all night, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, local tv stations with their own ‘horror hosts’ (we had two, dearly beloved). Commander USA on TBS back in the 80’s showed some doozies I’ve never seen again, but not all junk. A lot of the more obscure Hammer horror movies, Captain Kronos, Twins of Evil, and Simon, King of the Witches. Currently Svengali, syndicated Saturday night show, features a lot of this kind of movie. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman has been shown several times, as has Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Amazing Colossal Man, and several Roger Corman EAP movies with Vincent Price. Occasional Hammer horror movies, too. Yeah, my point was that these showed up on Chiller Theater and similar horror-hosted shows. So i’d sometimes see them on Monstervision on TNT later on. I didn’t see Svengoolie before he showed up on MeTV, so I don’t know what he showed, but he’s generally showing a higher class product these days - the Universal horor films from the 30s and 40s, more recent films with real budgets – and fewer of the poverty-row low budget cheapies like _Voodoo Island_. Interesting point, by the way – the standard history is that horror hosts started showing up when Columbia’s _Screen Gems_ TV subsidiary released its _Shock!_ package of mainly Universal horror films to TV in 1957, and _Shock II_ a year later ( [Shock Theater - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_Theater) ) But when I saw the Universal horror films on TV in the 1960s _they didn’t have horror hosts!_ The movies were simply shown on Creature Feature or whatever without an introduction or hosting. The movies I saw with a host (_Zacherley_, to be specific) were on _Chiller Theater_, and the movies were typically the ones I list in the OP. Zacherley would not just do the “bumpers” surrounding commercials – he’d cut himself into the movies themselves (he had done this on the late movie on WABC in New York a year or two earlier, and on a Philadelphia station – as “Roland” – before that) But he wasn’t hosting _Frankenstein_ or _Dracula_, at least not on Chiller Theater. I saw the Universal films on WNEW’s (channel 5) _Creature Feature_. On WWOR’s (Channel 9) Million Dollar movie I saw **King Kong** **Carnival of Lost Souls** **The Crawling Eye** **The Giant Behemoth** …. among others. ---
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It seems to me that old sci-fi and horror films aren’t really forgotten, thanks to mystery science theater and the continuing popularity of the genre, and our cultural love of “so bad it’s good”. The real forgotten films are the run of the mill melodramas and romances that were churned out fast and cheap by the studio machine. People still watch “The deadly Mantis” and “ From hell it came”, if only for laughs. Nobody remembers (for example) “The bullfighter and the lady” (1951, Robert Stack, Joy Page), even though it was nominated for an Oscar. ---
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TCM has been a pretty good source of some oddball monster/horror movies. This month, they’re showcasing Roger Corman films on Friday nights. Tonight (4/10) they have _The Masque of the Red Death_ with Vincent Price, and two low budget Peter Fonda b&w films. Last week they had _The Beast With a Million Eyes_, another Corman film that, despite its obviously low budget, hammy acting, and minimal special effects, had an interesting alien invasion story. TCM had dozens of schlockey films around Halloween. I recorded most of them then, and just now I am almost done watching them all. And as the OP suggested, many are indeed forgettable. ---
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The Cape Canaveral Monsters- I watched it as a kid. My dad laughed at the part where one admonished the other about having to reattach an arm again. The thing that I noticed was the hilly Canaveral landscape! ---
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> [@salinqmind1](#): > > A lot of these used to show up on hosted ‘creature features’ - USA Up all night, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, local tv stations with their own ‘horror hosts’ (we had two, dearly beloved). Commander USA on TBS back in the 80’s showed some doozies I’ve never seen again, but not all junk. A lot of the more obscure Hammer horror movies, Captain Kronos, Twins of Evil, and Simon, King of the Witches. I first saw Captain Kronos on _Commander USA’s Groovie Movies_ that aired on the USA Network on Saturday or Sunday afternoon in the mid to late 1980s. But I also remember those other movies through a variety of other horror host programs. Oh, boy! Other than MST3K, I can’t remember the last time I watched something with a horror host. ---
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> [@JohnnyEcks](#): > > It seems to me that old sci-fi and horror films aren’t really forgotten, thanks to mystery science theater and the continuing popularity of the genre, and our cultural love of “so bad it’s good”. No – you’d think so, but my point is that, although there are plenty of bad old flicks still being lampooned on MST3K and Svengoolie and the like, there are still a great many that are not preserved in that fashion, and are hard to come by in any form – DVD or streamin or whatever. From my list in the OP, consider **The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake**. I finally did find it on a DVD anthology, but I haven’t seen it in eons. In fact, it’s on DVD with another on my list, **Voodoo Island**. I’ll probably ick it up, out of nostalgia. But I don’t see it in any of the usual places. > **[Amazon.com: Voodoo Island/The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (Midnite Movies...](https://www.amazon.com/Voodoo-Island-Jonathan-Midnite-Feature/dp/B000787YRW)** > > VOODOO ISLAND: Master of the macabre Boris Karloff delivers a rare non-monster performance as the leader of an investigation of mysterious disappearances on a South Pacific island that is the proposed site of an exclusive resort. But after a few... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164.md?page=2)