# Things I learned from Monster Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941 "2017-10-04T13:09:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/41 "2017-10-04T21:07:11Z")
Apparently '50’s style monsters gave off an aura that made it impossible to run fast. When all else fails send in Godzilla. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/42 "2017-10-04T21:18:48Z")
If you’re the last uninfected man on Earth, YOU’RE the monster! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/43 "2017-10-05T00:30:54Z")
Your fellow humans might not be what they appear. (The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/44 "2017-10-05T00:55:30Z")
If the have the right sunglasses, you can see the monsters. (they live) Sent from my K92 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/45 "2017-10-05T06:51:38Z")
In the 50’s, giant insects emitted shrill, high pitched electronic noises. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/46 "2017-10-05T08:21:20Z")
If the parasite living in your spinal cord tingles, screaming will prevent it from growing to a monstrous size and killing you. Also, don’t surgically remove a corpse’s Tingler. Nothing good can come of it. —_The Tingler_ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/47 "2017-10-05T08:27:13Z")
Further to my observations about Tinglers, a free-ranging Tingler will shrink from the screams of a roomful of people. This raises the question of whether the screams of a companion will neutralize a Tingler which is active in an individual incapable of screaming for themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/48 "2017-10-05T10:36:36Z")
This thread reminds me how when I was a kid the months the movie “It Came From Hollywood” was on HBO were some of my favorite months. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/49 "2017-10-05T11:45:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > This thread reminds me how when I was a kid the months the movie “It Came From Hollywood” was on HBO were some of my favorite months. If you liked _It Came from Hollywood_, try to dig up copy of _Zacherly’s Horrible Horror_, a similar collection of Bad Monster Movie Moments hosted by horror host John Zacherle, who died a year ago this month. I understand there’s an expanded version on DVD > **[Horrible Horror (Video 1986) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134729/)** > > 1h 50m | Not Rated Not only does this feature scenes from Bad Movies, it includes outtakes from _Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein_ and _Killers from Space_, TV and movie interviews, trailers, and the like. It also includes this gem (excerpted from Horrible Horror – you can see Zacherley cut in there) from a promo for the movie _Dracula A.D. 1972_: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/SiSCkG1LEMA/hqdefault.jpg "The Oath") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiSCkG1LEMA) ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/50 "2017-10-05T16:05:38Z")
Helicopters are incapable of maneuvering out of range of giant apes throwing trees (Kong: Skull Island). Lawnmowers make excellent weapons against zombies (Dead Alive / Braindead). ---
**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:** [October 5, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/51 "2017-10-05T16:53:21Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Helicopters are incapable of maneuvering out of range of giant apes throwing trees (Kong: Skull Island). Not to mention that classic 1976 Korean film **APE** , in which he finishes by giving the crashed helicopter the finger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjA8IrIDkBM > **[Ape (1976 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape_(1976_film))** > > A\*P\*E, released in South Korea as King Kong's Great Counterattack (Korean: 킹콩의 대역습; RR: King Kong eui daeyeokseup), is a 1976 monster film. An international co-production between South Korea and the United States, the film was produced by Kukje Movies and the Lee Ming Film Co. (South Korea) and Worldwide Entertainment (U.S.), and was shot in 3-D using the Space-Vision process. Directed by Paul Leder and featuring special effects by Park Kwang Nam, the film stars Joanna Kerns, Rod Arrants and Alex... ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/52 "2017-10-05T19:36:53Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Helicopters are incapable of maneuvering out of range of giant apes throwing trees (Kong: Skull Island). Well, that’s not exactly something you can prepare for - there are only moments between ‘hey, thats a giant - TREEEEEEEEEEEE’ ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/53 "2017-10-05T21:08:26Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Lawnmowers make excellent weapons against zombies (Dead Alive / Braindead). Party’s ova. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/54 "2017-10-06T00:18:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Dropo** : > > Upon capturing a giant monster, best to make sure it doesn’t have an even bigger mom who’s gonna be mighty PO’ed (Gorgo). [That one has a long pedigree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf). ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941/55 "2017-10-06T02:29:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > [That one has a long pedigree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf). Ever see this version? > **[Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) ⭐ 6.8 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082478/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31)** > > 1h 28m As I recall, it is crudely animated - and no monster mom - but lots o’ wit and philosophizin’ make it very clear who the real monsters are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-from-monster-movies/797941.md?page=2)