# What Old Horror Movie Is This? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066 "2007-09-30T21:03:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZomZom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zomzom/32/5620_2.png) [@ZomZom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZomZom)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066/1 "2007-09-30T21:03:37Z")
I’d like to know the name of an old (1950’s or earlier I think) black-and-white horror film that I saw several times as a kid in the 1970’s. There are blob-type monsters about the size of a bean-bag chair that split in half and divide, all gooey. They are dormant during this process and the terrified humans can step around them at these times. I remember one scene where one of these things landed on the back window of a car, terrifying a woman inside. The car was very old (1930’s maybe) and the windows had rounded corners. I think the monsters might have been dropping out of trees, too. That’s about all I remember. Thanks in advance in the unlikely event that someone finds this to be enough information to identify the film! ---
**Author:** ![beowulf573](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@beowulf573](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulf573)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066/2 "2007-09-30T21:17:29Z")
[Island of Terror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/) ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066/3 "2007-09-30T21:18:41Z")
Your descriptions sounds a whole lot like [Island of Terror](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060548/), which has blobby monsters that split in two. There are scenes in which the blobs drop from trees, and at least one scene in which they land on a car. But this movie is in color. Could you have seen it on a B&W television? ---
**Author:** ![ZomZom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zomzom/32/5620_2.png) [@ZomZom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZomZom)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066/4 "2007-09-30T21:30:20Z")
I think _Island of Terror_ is it! I didn’t remember the tentacles or the bumps on the monsters (or that it was in color) but this seems too close to not be it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulf573](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@beowulf573](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulf573)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066/5 "2007-09-30T21:43:52Z")
I’ve been wanting to see this again for years, I haven’t seen it since I was a kid in the 70’s and would watch the 3pm movie after school. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-horror-movie-is-this/421066/6 "2007-09-30T22:12:55Z")
That movie put me off chicken noodle soup for years!