# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/61 "2026-04-14T17:25:58Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Frankenstein Conquers the World I’ve posted this before, but anyway. . . In one episode of the old “Gomer Pyle” tv program, there’s a scene where he’s standing outside a movie box office, and they have a sign promoting the current showing “KEN CONQUERS THE WORLD,” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/62 "2026-04-14T19:26:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > _War of the Gargantuas_ is a little less common. I don’t think most people who see it realize that it’s a sequel to _Frankenstein Conquers the World_ Even before I knew of _Frankenstein Conquers the World_, I assumed _War of the Gargantuas_ was a sequel. The latter is a much better movie, IMO, the second best kaiju film Toho released in the 1960s only beat by _Invasion of Astro-Monster_ (Always _Monster Zero_ in my heart) which was WotG’s bill mate at the drive-in. Cool factoid about _War of the Gargantuas_: Tarantino modeled the fight scene between Uma Thurman and Darryl Hannah in _Kill Bill_ after the Gargantuas. [![](https://terrordaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/picmonkey-collage.jpg?w=1040) ](https://terrordaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/picmonkey-collage.jpg?w=1040) ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/63 "2026-04-14T19:58:16Z")
There was a movie that was on one of those late night movie shows the networks used to have called Embryo. I remember very little about other than it was about a scientist growing a woman in a lab but it had an embryonic dog in a jar that freaked me the hell out as a little kid. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/64 "2026-04-14T20:39:03Z")
Houlihan and Big Chuck were the presenters of these movies every Friday night in the ‘70s, interspersed with some locally made comedy skits. Those days aren’t coming back. It’s just as well. ---
**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 14, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/65 "2026-04-14T20:53:04Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > There was a movie that was on one of those late night movie shows the networks used to have called Embryo. I remember very little about other than it was about a scientist growing a woman in a lab but it had an embryonic dog in a jar that freaked me the hell out as a little kid. I never saw it, but I saw the case for the video. It starred Rock Hudson and Barbara Carrera (who was the Bad Girl in the James Bond movie _Never say Never Again_). If you want a more upbeat movie about a scientist cloning a woman, try **Creator** , starring Peter O’Toole as a Nobel Laureate cloning his dead wife. It’s a surprisingly witty film that never veers into horror. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/66 "2026-04-14T21:54:36Z")
I watched **The Crawling Eye** twice. The first time, I was about six. After the first few scenes, us kids had to go to bed. Our house was small and the interior doors were kept open. Hearing the show, while in the dark, was very scary. Watching it as an adult - - not scary at all. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/67 "2026-04-14T22:00:13Z")
War Of The Gargantuas has long been a favorite of mine, from the ill-fated shipmate shouting “Hey, you guys!” in the beginning to the ill-fated singer’s clothing being spit out on the street to the Gargantua battle cry…that to me has always sounded like “Shit!!!”. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/68 "2026-04-14T22:07:33Z")
You haven’t earned your cred as a kooky hip band until you have covered “The Words Get Stuck in my Throat”. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2026, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/69 "2026-04-15T02:29:07Z")
I had an Air Blaster when I was a kid. It lasted long enough for me to give it to my friend’s son. The rubber gasket or whatever you call it finally gave way. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/70 "2026-04-15T03:37:25Z")
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die > **[The Brain That Wouldn't Die](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_That_Wouldn%27t_Die#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DDuration%3A_1_hour%2C_22_minutes%2CKurt_dies_from_his_injuries.?wprov=sfla1)** > > The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title The Black Door but was not theatrically released until May 3, 1962, under its new title as a double feature with Invasion of the Star Creatures. > The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means of keeping human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's se... and The Man Without A Body > **[The Man Without a Body](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Body?wprov=sfla1)** > > The Man Without a Body (also known as Curse of Nostradamus) is a low budget 1957 British second feature horror film, produced by Guido Coen and directed by Charles Saunders and W. Lee Wilder. It stars Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall and Nadja Regin. A wealthy American man with a brain tumour plans to replace his brain with that of Nostradamus. > The film was released theatrically in England in 1957 on a double bill with the Japanese film Half Human (1958) and a year later in the ... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/71 "2026-04-15T09:13:22Z")
> [@Hakushon](#): > > Master of the World It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen this but I rather liked it. It was an improvement over the Jules Verne novel which relied too heavily on someone driving at 150-200mph as being “too fast to see” (to be fair, the novel was written in 1904). Also: every film is better with Vincent Price in it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/72 "2026-04-15T09:47:36Z")
One of the Martians looks like he just walked off the set of a cheap porn flick: [Santa Claus Conquers The Martians | Christmas Movie Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4DDmeCtEBU) ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/73 "2026-04-15T10:58:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Hakushon](#): > > > > Master of the World > > It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen this but I rather liked it. It was an improvement over the Jules Verne novel which relied too heavily on someone driving at 150-200mph as being “too fast to see” (to be fair, the novel was written in 1904). > > Also: every film is better with Vincent Price in it. To be even fairer, the movie was based on Verne’s _Robur the Conqueror_ and its sequel, _Master of the World_, but it’s really almost completely based on _Robur the Conqueror_, which is sort of _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_, only with a flying machine instead of a submarine. I suspect the filmmakers thought that “Robur the Conqueror” sounded like a movie about somebody like Genghis Khan. And, besides “Master of the World” sounds way cooler. There are no land-speeding cars in Robur the Conqueror. That’s the _Terror_ from Master of the World, which is also an ocean-going vessel. Th movie’s not really an improvement over _Robur the Conqueror, although the problem with that book is that it’s so much like 20,000 Leagues that you feel a sense of_ deja vu – brilliant inventor comes up with a revolutionary vehicle (in this case, a heavier-than-air flying machine that’s a sort of super-helicopter) and takes as prisoners a group of people including an expert who can appreciate what he’s done and takes them on a tour of the world in his machine, but won’t ever let them leave. One of the great things about the book is that Verne was far ahead of his time in choosing the material his _aeronef_, the _Albatross_, was made of. It’s not made out of aluminum, as you might expect (and as the vehicle used in _From the Earth to the Moon_ was fabricated of). It was made of _composites_! Yes, he really did use that modern-sounding material, although not the modern technology. At the time they were making railroad wheels out of fibrous material bound with filler and set under high pressure. It was surprisingly tough and gave a smoother ride than iron wheels. Verne chose it because it was both extremely strong and extremely light. Real-world aircraft designers didn’t start incorporating composites into planes until the 1950s, and they didn’t exploit it for its most desirable properties as an essential lightweight component until the late 1970s, with such human-powered aircraft as the _Gossamer Albatross_ and the _Daedalus_. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/74 "2026-04-15T11:26:59Z")
Another one that traumatized me as a kid was called A Mouse and his Child. It was a cartoon that ran often on HBO about a toy mouse and his son(?) who were alive (all the toys were alive Toy Story style) and linked at the arms. There is a scene where the rats who are the villains of the story pull apart a poor toy Donkey. I can still see him pathetically try to crawl away when they jump on him and pull him apart with wrenches in silhouette. I had a lot of stuffed animals as a kid and they all had names and personalities so this really hit me at that time but it’s a movie I don’t think anyone else remembers or ever heard of. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/75 "2026-04-15T12:52:22Z")
As a kid, I remember [The Enornous Egg](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311075/reference/?ref_=fn_t_1), about an egg that hatches into a triceratops, being shown every once in a while. Also, the Eiler-Bargy videotaped plays based on fairy tales, many featuring an actor who went by [Will B. Able](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-jack-and-the-beanstalk-will-b-able-hal-holden-1965-128535291.html). “Aladdin (1967),” “Jack and the Beanstalk (1965),” “Pinocchio (1965),” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes (1967)” for example. These came on rather frequently back in the old days. (In the pic of WBA as “The Giant,” he was not a particularly tall man, so they gave him a huge prosthetic head to make him look tall. ---
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For me it was Seymor and the slime wall. [Larry Vincent - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Vincent) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/77 "2026-04-15T16:24:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I watched this every Christmas when I was living in Toronto. It was usually on Sunday afternoons or late at night. I liked the way the Martians used Wham-O Air Blasters to block Earthlings’ memories. We saw a RiffTrax production of this once. Great fun! ---
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I’m going to say the original “War of the Worlds” movie released in 1953. I know our older members will disagree, but I’ve never met a person younger than 50 years old who even knew what I meant with the word, “original”. That may be because it is a very difficult movie to find on premium movie channels or streaming services. I have access to HBO, Starz, Showtime, Cinemax, Paramount, Prime, Netflix, etc, and it has literally been years since I’ve seen it televised on any of them. So, it’s not a movie you are likely to run into accidentally while your surfing movie channels. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/79 "2026-04-15T16:29:10Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > It was probably a made for tv movie: an ocean liner sinks, and manages to land right side up with minimal damage. The people on board create their own little civilization and live happily under the sea. It was as dumb as it sounds. Dunno the name. > > _Goliath Awaits_ and I think it was a mini series. It was borrrrrring. I liked it but it probably would have benefited by being condensed into one night rather than two. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_Awaits) says the runtime was cut approximately in half for the home video version. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164/80 "2026-04-15T16:36:39Z")
The Martians’ robot reminds me of a shrinking machine I cobbled together from refrigerator packing boxes for a homecoming review when I was in high school. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-time-forgot/1029164.md?page=5)