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John C Winfrey

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Here's your newest horror and sci fi movie question. Its very obscure like some in past. I don't think too many of you have seen the hundreds I did back then. LOL.Read each description and stars and match with film:
1. this one was really terrible, as the star is cursed and he is sitting and relaxing and he turns into a horrible monster-starred R. Clarke
2. man is holding shotgun on the lovers in the water, then you hear motorboat noises, and the monsters grab and pull them under. Then the man with the shotgun looks scared and yells "Oh my God!!!!!!!!"
3. they hide in the sewers in LA, its foggy and somehow no one can see them-starred Robert Hutton in this classic
4. Broderick Crawford is carried off by the monster in this very poor film-also stars Robert Hutton
5. alien from another world who looks just like we do, very human, has come to save the earth, lots of fog in various scenes-starred R. Clarke again, he made a bunch of these really poor films(this is not Day the Earth Stood Still, sorry)
6. man with rubbery suit on and one with rubber stripes on his face, victims of radiation poisoning-starred Richard Denning. Really bad, co-starred Paul Birch.
A. Man from Planet X
B. Invisible Invaders
C. Monster From Green Hell
D. Day the World Ended
E. Slime People
F. The Vulture
G. Attack of the Giant Leeches
H. Hideous Sun DemonThere you go. J.
posted 12-04-2004 04:15 PM PT (US) 
Graham Watt

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John, I haven't seen many of those films, but I'll use my intuition -Perhaps Number One is HIDEOUS SUN DEMON? I saw that one. Great bit when the doctor tells the wife "Well Miss, I'm afraid it's about your husband. He's turned into something... scaly."
Number Four must be THE VULTURE. Haven't seen it but I'm sure I read that Broderick Crawford was in it. Poor Brod.
Now just guessing wildly - Number Three in the foggy LA sewers. THE SLIME PEOPLE.
Number Five, Robert Clarke as human alien - INVISIBLE INVADERS.
Number Six, rubber radiation people - DAY THE WORLD ENDED.
Number Two, Shotgun boat monster - MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL.
The more I think about it the more I think I'm wrong on most. But I still think I'm right about THE VULTURE.
posted 12-05-2004 08:31 AM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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Actually, you got some right. I will wait to see if anyone else wants to try. J.
posted 12-05-2004 10:35 AM PT (US) 
Graham Watt

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Wait, wait! Somehow I have had a supernatural vision and I think that the motorboat gun-violence scene was actually maybe ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES. Honest, I'm not cheating, I'm not doing any book-browsing nor nowt, I'm just lying back and letting all my horrific childhood of book-wafting waft all over me once more.And I think you could all wake up and get posting here. Come on, get your feet wet. Wimps. Schmucks. Rome wasn't built in a day. I didn't get where you are today worrying if or if not Lionel Atwill was actually George Zucco. Jump in. Feet first, I mean head first. I'm not surprised you're all unhappy, snivelling wrecks. Get a bloody backbone! Make that bed! Think your mum's gonna be around to make that bed for you when you're sixty-four? "Oh momma, he said I was a dork for liking monster movies." WELL WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT? ANSWER those questions that John put up! I got them ALL wrong, and I'm PROUD of it!
Crackerbarrels, the lot of you.
posted 12-07-2004 03:20 PM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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Yeah, those motorboat leeches are so laughable. And where that guy sees them in water and yells and then later he kills himself in jail(hanged himself). How ridiculous.There sure were a lot of those really bad ones, huh? Some were very funny.
I first started seeing horror films on Nightmare-on Channel 11 who showed all the older Universal films with no credits and cut off first few mins to make them fit. They were hosted by Gorgon(Bill Camfield) who usually got killed at end of each one. This was in FT Worth. One year around 1960 lots of kids around Ft worth went over to the station on the freeway there and saw him in person. LOL>
He also hosted Slam Bang Theatre on 11 in afternoon and played Icky Twerp. Where they showed the Three Stooges and serials like Junior G Men of the Air with the Dead End Kids etc in early 60s. That was one of the best independent station in the country back then.
I also saw many, many on late night TV on Channel 8 and in 1962-1964 on Sci Fi Theatre on Channel 5.
The place I saw the most though was at the Sunset Theatre in White Settlement from 1958 to 1964 or thereabouts. I saw tons there. That buildiing is now a car repair place.
The very first ones I saw at movie was back in 1954 This Island Earth and possible the Creature movie.
and on 11 in 1962-64 saw things like Them and Invaders from Mars etc.
NBC also showed Day the EArth STood Still around 1960 on one of its big movies. Saturday Night at Movies or something like that.
We saw Godzilla and Giant Claw at the theatres downtown in FT Worth-Hollywood and Palace in late 50s. Terrible films. LOL. That claw was one of the worst. I saw the promo on TV before we went to see it. I said "toys" LOL. And I was only about 8 then.
I saw this at Sunset a few years later too.John.
Three favorites from TV I saw were The Creeping Unknown with Brian Donlevy, Robot Monster and It Terror From Beyond Space all on late night on Channel 8-Dallas. All around 1960.
posted 12-08-2004 04:24 PM PT (US) 
Graham Watt

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John, not many people are dropping by, so I think you can post the right answers now.I said -
1-H
2-G
3-E
4-F
5-B
6-DI know some of these are wrong, so tell us wot's right!
Of the other movies you mention, I did see THE CREEPING UNKNOWN. That was THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT in Old Blighty, wasn't it? If so, it was a great film, really unsettling. Early low-budget Hammer movie, gritty, terse and realistic. Loved it, a classic. And with a superb James Bernard score. Economics dictated it was just strings, but it was one of those situations where he had to work with ingenuity rather than money, and, as is so often the case when talent triumphs... he triumphed!
Saw ROBOT MONSTER too. Another kind of "classic" altogether. I'd love to get the beers in and watch this again. Elmer Bernstein, no less!
Also saw IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE. Precursor of ALIEN, of course. Quite a respectable little movie despite everything, though I don't really remember it. So forget what I just said.
I saw my first horror movies on Scottish TV. They had a series of Friday night movies under the banner title "Don't Watch Alone". This must have been about 1970/71 or thereabouts. Got really scared watching HOMICIDAL and, especially HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. I was about ten, but my parents let me stay up in the name of Art.
Most horror movies, even the most innocuous ones, were rated X in Britain, so I had to wait until I looked older before I saw my first in the cinema. Must have been about 13 or 14 years old (I didn't look 18, but I found a soft target at the movie house). My first on the big screen was probably THEATRE OF BLOOD (great Vincent Price film) on a double bill with Hammer's VAMPIRE CIRCUS. I felt so grown up watching those things.
posted 12-12-2004 03:19 PM PT (US) 
John C Winfrey

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Graham, you got them all right except for Giant Leeches. Thats the motor boat/shotgun one.I saw House on Haunted Hill at the Sunset in early 60s and Theatre of Blood in Europe while serving there at the theatre in Wurzburg.
ONe of my favs is It Terror from Beyond Space. Marshall Thompson in it. The creature savagely beats this one man. Picks up a man(which looks like a rag doll in the shadows) throws him down and starts hitting him one hundred miles an hour. Very funny.
Take care, J.
posted 12-19-2004 02:53 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
