BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)

Subject: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 07:34 PM

You've probably seen this before, right? Well, I think it's time you saw it again. Yes indeedy. ;-) Get set to be terrified to the max by THE GIANT CLAW!!!!!!!!! (and supporting cast) I loved these movies when I was a kid.

The Giant Claw!

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 07:47 PM

I, on the other hand, could barely watch them, because I could see the flaws so clearly...even at age 8-12.

"They can't do THAT!....that's stupid."

Now, "The Thing"....that was scary!

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 08:04 PM

"Not the CRAW! - The CRAW!"

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 08:15 PM

Well, of course it was stupid and unrealistic stuff, Bill. That's part of the fun. Sheer escapism. Seriously, I think I only ever knew one kid above the age of 7 or 8 who was dumb enough to believe the stuff in those monster movies...and I don't mean me. I mean Spaw. Yeah, he was a total sap at that age. Believed anything he saw on film. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 08:29 PM

I was not very good at being a kid....*wry grin*.... I didn't like the silly 'jokes' they told and was very picky about my heroes & monsters.

I WANTED my escapism to be at least theoretically plausible...(Superman had a 'scientific' explanation...Captain Marvel was dumb.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 08:49 PM

I know exactly what you mean, Bill. I was like that too as a kid...about almost everything. VERRRY serious and rational like a little adult. It drove the other kids nuts. But I made one exception: for monster movies. Part of the fun was seeing the giant holes in the plot.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 09:39 PM

Caltiki was the scariest movie I ever saw when I was a kid. I had nightmares for a long time after I saw it. I still get a knot in my stomach when I think about it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: number 6
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 09:50 PM

The scariest movie I saw as kid was "On the Beach" ... so terrified of the total annhilation of humanity I couldn't sleep for many nights afterwards.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 09:54 PM

Holy shit!!! The Blob with a Mayan twist. That is pretty scary. And believable too, eh, Bill? Who could not believe that thing is real? We are talking maximum credibility on this one.

I can hardly believe I never heard of Caltiki before. How did I ever miss it?

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:06 PM

What about this one:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Moosehead-Breweries-Limited-638219.html

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:06 PM

Ummm...Caltiki, that is.

Yeah, "On The Beach" truly was frightening, 6. But we're talkin' about monsters here, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:07 PM

Holy FLIP, Ed! Shane has got to see that Moosehead.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: number 6
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:14 PM

talkin about monsters L.H. .... the scarriest and biggest monsters are humans! Think about about eh. Jeeeezuz H.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 10:21 PM

Caltiki can be purchased on DVD.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 09:30 AM

I never heard of the Giant Claw until just now. Thanks LH for bringing it to our attention. I don't know how that never got onto the various lists of worst movies ever made.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 09:36 AM

The ultimate turkey of sci-fi stars are own Kendall Morse - "Lobsteroids". It is so bad, it's good.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 09:41 AM

The Giant Claw .... attacks Saint John, N.B.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 12:10 PM

My sister and I watched "It's Alive" this weekend. I remember being freaked out seeing it as a kid but all we did was laugh and make fun. Funny how a few years can change your perception. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 12:19 PM

I can remember being terrified by Monoliths. I saw it about a year ago and laughed out loud. Cheesy story line, pathetic special effects and downright silly ending.

The original "Invaders From Mars" terrified me. It still holds up well when compared to the really remanke with Karen black (?).

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 12:57 PM

I remember one called "The Giant Behemoth", which was one of those "Dinosaurs returning to life in modern times" movies, and, I believe, a British production. It scared the daylights out of me, although "Behemoth" was a new word for me, and I was disappointed to find it wasn't about a giant moth. Also, looking back, I realize that "Giant Behemoth" is sort of redundant. Are there small behemoths?

And, although everyone I know has seen "The Crawling Eye", I somehow missed it. I hear the monster was pretty cheesy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 01:35 PM

" Are there small behemoths?"

Guy I knew saw an ad seeking applicants for "circus midget". He said he was gonna apply.

"What?", I said..."You are 6'4" and 275 lbs.!"

"Exactly!", he said, "I'll be billed as The World's Largest Midget."

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Amos
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 02:15 PM

As the Guardian Keeper of the Gates of All Things Unreal, you have done stellar service this day, Little Hawk, by dragging this mental ordure into the commons room for public inspection.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Sep 09 - 10:36 PM

Thank you, Amos. I love you, man. If you were a woman I'd propose a little tête-à-tête at either your place or mine... ;-)

Bill, that friend of yours is clearly a brilliant man. Did he go on to do great things at the circus? Along similar lines, I launched a local business in the Orillia area called The Elephant Finder. It's a service that finds your lost elephant(s) for you. We have never yet failed to find a lost elephant, and our proudest boast is that we do NOT use peanuts. We find elephants in non-allergenic ways that are environmentally friendly. Our success rate so far is NO failures in ZERO attempts....a perfect record! This is after five years of business covering ALL of Simcoe County, Ontario.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 12:16 AM

Surely whenever someone loses an elephant in Orillia, the lost elephant can invariably be found waiting in line at the drive up window of the nearest Tim Hortons. Eh!

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 01:46 AM

That seems rather likely. As soon as an elephant is lost we shall investigate all the Tim Horton's drive-throughs in the town.

This means we'll need to hire at least 7 more people, and that means more than doubling our present staff.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 02:04 AM

I would think at least 14 more people. Two would be needed for each location. One to lead the elephant, and the other to hold the elephant's coffee and tea biscuits.

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 10:56 AM

The one that scared me into immobility was The Blob. I was watching upstairs on the "bad" TV as downstairs my high-school aged sisters had a wild party and our parents, prudently, had left the premises, I must have been about 10, and I was fairly literally petrified... caught between 2 terrors, the Blob and the idea of running to my sisters and admit to being a scaredy-cat in front of all their friends...

Subject: RE: BS: The Giant Claw (and lesser monsters)
From: Amos
Date: 29 Sep 09 - 11:03 AM

What an ignoble dilemma!! OF course, you COULD have changed the channel...



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