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John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Universal International made these two films and used the same house in both, with different scenery and filler(different backdrops and matte)around it. Choose the two films: 1. This Island Earth, Monster from Green Hell 2. Invasion of the Saucer Men, I Was a Teenage Werewolf 3. Boy Who Cried Werewolf, Beast from Haunted Cave 4. The Creature that Walks Among Us, Tarantula 5. Earth vs. Flying Saucers, Starship Invasions Super bonus question: Which movie in the list above featured criminals on the run cross country on skis who run into a vicious brain-sucking monster Who manages to kill all the villains but spares the two good people? Film featured a very effective score in it for a really lousy B film by Fred Katz. Good luck friends. Keep smiling, J>
posted 06-23-2002 06:04 PM PT (US)

Dylan Standard Userer	Hello John, I know that the answer to the super bonus question is "The Beast from Haunted Cave." The first question I'm just a tad bit fuzzy on (though I'm almost positive it's not 1, 3, or 5), but I will guess that the answer is 2...if this is the answer, was it the farmer's house from Saucer Men that was also Michael Landon's house in Teenage Werewolf? It's been a long time since I've seen Werewolf (would like to see it again, maybe it will be on AMC this Halloween). Best Regards John, Dylan
posted 06-23-2002 11:52 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	Okay John, I think Dylan's right about that Fred Katz film. Katz also did some really low budget early Cormans. A BUCKET OF BLOOD is a marvelous little movie, really clever and uproariously funny. But I'll go for another answer to the main question. Let's see, you say it was a Universal International release? I think some of the ones on the list were from Columbia, like EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS. And STARSHIP INVASION was late 70s. Was that the one with Christopher Lee and Robert Vaughan? No, the one that rings most true for me would be CREATURE WALKS AMONG US and TARANTULA. I think the hairy eight-legged horror sat on top a house in that one. Maybe the same house as in CREATURE? Just guessing again, and just trying to be different from Dylan.
posted 06-24-2002 01:03 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Dylan, Beast from Haunted Cave is correct. Pretty bad, huh? It reminds me a little of the snake movie, the Mamba, that killed all the bad guys in the film with Sterling Hayden, Oliver Reed and so on, in early 80s. Somehow it knew all the bad guys in that room and went for them. And when it was wrapped around Kinski and he was on the balcony trying to shoot it, the cops shot him one million times. REally funny. J.
posted 06-25-2002 04:08 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Hey ok, Graham, good going there. Yep, you got it. Creature and Tarantula. The house is in the swamps in the Creature and in desert of course in the ohter. This was on at some theatres as a twin bill and I was not the only one who noticed it was the same house. Yes good on the others too. Columbia films on some. And yes, Starship Invasions the silly docu drama with Vaughn giving us every explanation and theory about flying saucers then. It was funny too. EXC. You and Dylan both receive Gold Star accommodations of valor. J.
posted 06-25-2002 04:12 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	John, STARSHIP INVASIONS was a docu-drama? I'm thinking of a low-budget Canadian movie from about 77 with Vaughan and Chris Lee. Lee looked a bit silly as an alien in it. Haven't seen it, but it doesn't sound too promising, except maybe for the fact that it has a score by Gil Mell�, one of THE great underrated composers. Robert Vaughan was also in, I think, HANGAR 18, about a UFO cover-up. Is that the one you're thinking of?
posted 06-26-2002 12:34 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Yes, Graham, that is the same film. I saw it in 1977 at the theatre in College Station when it first came out. It made me laugh it was so bad. I call it a docu-drama, along the lines of 13 Rue Madeleine and other films like that where they lecture you and show you all kinds of stuff in there and make the story the backdrop kinda. The story is more secondary than what the propaganda or theories, etc, they are trying to feed you. I call lots of films like that a docu-drama. Best, J.
posted 06-30-2002 03:56 PM PT (US)

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