# The Thing, It, She, and Them **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128 "2019-07-15T14:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/21 "2019-07-16T12:20:22Z")
I do have to recommend **It Came from Hollywood**. I agree with Machael Medved (whose work it was based on) that they messed up the execution, including a few actually pretty good films in there, but overall they have a great collection of Bad Films, and the commentary from the SNL/SCTV/Cheech and Chong “stars” actually helps, sometimes. If you get the chance, sit down with this and a copy of _Zacherly’s Horrible Horror_ – it’s the perfect gateway to enjoying Badfilm. There was apparently a made-for-TV sequel to _It Came from Outer Space_ called, appropriately **It Came from Outer Space II**. It sounds awful and I’ve never seen it. And I have to mention **They Came from Beyond Space**. I knew this was awful, but didn’t until know how awful, or why: 1.) It was made on sets left over from _Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD_. 2.) They did that because they ran out of money 3.) The reason they ran out of money was that they’ve used it all up making the movie _The Terrornauts_. The two films were released on a double bill. If you haven’t seen _The Terrornauts_, you won’t appreciate how ludicrous a statement that it. _The Terrornauts_ looks like a movie made on a budget of under $100. That any movie had to skimp _because_ they’d blown their budget on that film boggles the mind. But according to the Wikipedia page: > [@](#): > > Director Freddie Francis says that the producers had spent all their budget on The Terrornauts so there was no money left over for They Came from Beyond Space. The double feature failed at the box office and has been described as “the two worst films the company ever produced”. > **[They Came from Beyond Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Came_from_Beyond_Space)** > > They Came from Beyond Space is a 1967 British Eastman Color science fiction film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin and Bernard Kay. It was produced by Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky. The screenplay was by Subotsky, based on the 1941 novel The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph Millard. > The narrative follows the adventures of a scientist who tries to stop space aliens who are made of pure energy from enslaving humans in order to rebuild their s... Clearly, _The Terrornauts_ and _They Came from Beyond Space_ are the only films playing, ever, athe Hell Goggolplex. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/22 "2019-07-16T13:58:18Z")
There’s also the dreaded [She-it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vpNumcNUo). ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/23 "2019-07-16T14:16:39Z")
**The Thing that Couldn’t Die** Wonderfully bad movie about decapitated Conquistador-era magician. Very properly spitted by MST3K > **[The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052289/)** > > The Thing That Couldn't Die: Directed by Will Cowan. With William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone, Carolyn Kearney. A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers... ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/24 "2019-07-16T14:23:17Z")
Hadn’t heard of this one – came out two years ago. Effects look good, at least **It Came From the Desert** So we get giant ants a la "Them" with an "It" in the title. Everybody wins ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/25 "2019-07-16T14:24:30Z")
**It Came from Yesterday** – not familiar with this one, either. Movie from 2011 > **[It Came from Yesterday (2016) - Plot - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1342106/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl)** > > It Came from Yesterday (2016) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/26 "2019-07-16T14:25:38Z")
This one seems to pare at least the title down to essentials **It Came!** > **[It Came! (Video 1993) - Plot - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261753/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl)** > > It Came! (Video 1993) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/27 "2019-07-16T14:29:19Z")
I don’t want to know more about this one **It Came from Uranus** > **[S&N Films Movies : It Came From Uranus!](https://www.sn-films.com/movie.php?movie=ICFU)** > > Something has shot out from the molten core of Uranus and it is heading straight for the Earth! It is up to three of the world's top scientists, a reporter, a janitor, and a top secret rocket ship to save the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/28 "2019-07-16T14:40:58Z")
In addition to those films that are able to specify a definite “Thing,” there was also the rather more vaguely titled [Something Is Out There](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096134/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2), a high-rated NBC miniseries turned low-rated NBC series. It featured a cop and a beautiful alien (Bond girl Maryam D’Abo) teaming up to fight extraterrestrial crime. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128/29 "2019-07-16T15:21:56Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > In addition to those films that are able to specify a definite “Thing,” there was also the rather more vaguely titled [Something Is Out There](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096134/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2), a high-rated NBC miniseries turned low-rated NBC series. It featured a cop and a beautiful alien (Bond girl Maryam D’Abo) teaming up to fight extraterrestrial crime. I liked the way that subverted some common tropes. at one point, thinking that they might get rid of the whatchamacallum running rampant on the space ship, the Earth guy asks “Why don’t you use the Self-Destruct Mechanism on the ship?” To which the nice alien woman replies “Why would we put a Self-Destruct Mechanism on our ship?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-it-she-and-them/837128.md?page=1)