BS: Favorite 50's horror film...

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: number 6
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 10:22 PM

"On the Beach" ...It may not have been a horror movie ... but it certainly scared the hell out me when I was a kid and it kept me up at nights.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 10:07 PM

I was excited to pick up a cheap DVD of Man From Planet X which is again more of a science fiction movie. For a super spooky cheap horror film from that era (not sure of the year it came out) Carnival Of Souls scares the Hell out of me no matter how many times I watch it.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 10:02 PM

I think that was "The Monolith Monsters". Interesting idea, that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 09:21 PM

What was it, it was an English film about a meteorite that when it got wet would grow to towering heights and fall over thus spreading it over the countryside in a great migration.
The downside was, if you touched it your hand would start to trun to stone and gradually spread thoughout your body.

???

It gave me nightmares for weeks when I was only 3.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 09:18 PM

Oh, yeah: "Dr Terror's House of Horrors"

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:53 PM

"Invisible Man" with Claude Rains had a scene with a train wreck which scared me, but for the horror film genre I'm a fan of Vincent Price: "The Fly" "The House On Haunted Hill" (the one with the huge concrete vat of acid)

and let us not forget "Mr Sardonicus"

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:46 PM

Attack of the 50 ft woman and the Triffids double feature at the drive in.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:44 PM

Them.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:27 PM

"cack" value?

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Chris Green
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 08:22 PM

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. A genuinely unsettling film. For sheer cack value, though, It Came From Under The Sea kicks the ass off all of them (apart from Plan 9 from Outer Space, obviously!)

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 07:26 PM

"The Day The Earth Caught Fire"

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:53 PM

I have now read some reviews of "Invaders from Mars" (a movie I was unaware of till Martin mentioned it...can't remember if I saw it back then in the 50's or early 60's). Sounds like a very effective sci-fi horror film, low on budget but big on atmosphere.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:24 PM

If "horror" means "scary" then The Day the Earth Stood Still gets my vote though it's really science fiction,. All I know is that it scared the shit out of me. I first saw it on television around the time of the Cuban missile crisis when it looked to my twelve-year-old eyes like we were going to wipe each other off the map any day. So along comes this seemingly invincible guy from another planet who tells us that if, by chance, we don't destroy our planet they'll destroy it for us if we start shooting our little bombs into outer space. Gee, thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 06:22 PM

"The War of the Worlds"

It was in black and white. Scared the heck out of me when a cat in an alley knocked over a metal garbage can lid while I was walking home. Ran for blocks. It was dark out at the time. The movie cost $.25 to watch and I recall getting a bag of chips, pop and chocolate bar for another $.25. Must have been around 1957 or so.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 05:57 PM

The original Invaders From Mars from 1953 starring Jummy Hunt and Arthur Franz.

an absolute classic.

I love many films of this genre. the Scifi channell misses the boat not playing them. I enjoyed the versions shown on Mystery Science theater 3000, also.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 05:52 PM

I think mine was the Aurora too.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 05:49 PM

The Creature FTBL had to be one of the best, all right. As kids, we loved that one. I had a plastic figure of the Creature, made by Marx. Pretty cool. There was the Aurora model kit of him too.

Subject: RE: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 05:40 PM

The Thing - but that would be classified as science fiction.

The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

Subject: BS: Favorite 50's horror film...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 05:35 PM

Most of them are a mixture of creepy and unintentionally funny. If you like dinosaurs and oversized bugs, ya got those. If you are creeped out by shapeless things, you've got the Blob. All kinds of possibilities.

I can't decide which one I like best, but how about you?