My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is The Time Machine with Rod Taylor back in 1960. As for horror shows, The Creature from the Black Lagoon was thrilling!
When Taylors character gets on the machine and it starts running forward instead of back, the dead Morlock decaying was so realistic. I wonder how they did that.
The Incredible Shrinking Man is a masterpiece, especially his speech at the end. The studio wanted a happy ending, which was typical for the time, but the producer and writer stood firm against it.
The spider scene absolutely terrified me when I was a child. I was maybe three or four years old, and we went to it as a family. That black widow so freaked me out that my mother had to take me out into the lobby.
@@historybuff66 I understand that the ending was a matter of some dispute at the studio. The producers thought the ending was a downer, and pressed strongly for a happy ending in which the main character grew back to normal size. But the director argued strongly for the ending they had already shot, and ultimately prevailed.
Many years ago, I and a couple of friends were having a snack or something together and one of us turned on the TV to a showing of Crawling Eye. We turned off the sound and made up the dialogue as we watched. If that little girl is still alive, we really owe her an apology.
When I was a kid in the early sixties, they played movies on Saturday at the Boys Club of America. I watched many classic sci-fi movies sitting on the wooden floor that doubled as a skating rink as the projector ran. At the end of The Fly, the little man's head is crying out, 'Help me. Help me. It remains one of the most frightening scenes in movies I have seen in the last 60 years.
I think my favorite horror movie from way back when was "The House on Haunted Hill". On one hand it was really frightening and on the other, funny. It was creepy and stylish and anything with Vincent Price in it was always great. He was one of my favorite horror movie actors. 🙂
@@MikeHunt-c5p Who was that? When I hear, "creepy little guy with the bug eyes" I think of Peter Lorre (died 1964) or Marty Feldman (died 1982), so I'm forgetting someone.
My brothers and I used to watch these movies on "Fright Night" with Sammy Terry. It was a local Indianapolis program rebroadcast from Bloomington, Indiana. There is still a "Sammy Terry" but it cannot be the same man. We watched all of these movies on that program, and some classic sci fi. 😊👍
Awesome collection ! I remember these oh so well and enjoyed them immensely ! The one that stood out to me when I was a kid that I watched alone that ended up giving me nightmares was "From Hell It Came"(1957) It was released: 1957-08-25 & Directed by: Dan Milner, Stars: Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins. It's about a wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump. Please showcase this in a future episode as it's was carried as horror. From what I've read is that it was made in India, but it's all in English. Thanks ! ~ Rick
I sure remember watching "Monster On Campus" on the channel 10 afternoon movie. This movie had everything. Guy turning into a savage animal; another guy gets killed with a hatchet; cool booby trap set up to capture the monster on camera; even a giant dragon fly!
Very interesting. Thank You. Those are the type of movies I watched when I was a kid on Saturday nights. Some channels still show them. I think there's a law that requires TV channels to show low budget horror films on Saturday nights.
Another excellent group of wonderfully campy B movies that scared the crap out of me growing up in the late 1950's. I know I've seen them all but I haven't seen Monster on the Campus in several years so I'll have to check it out again. I don't know if you recall Chester Morris (The She-Creature) from a series of 1940's movies where he played the lead role of reformed jewel thief "Boston Blackie". They weren't Sci-Fi movies but they were enjoyable to watch. Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
The Man who Turned to Stone was pretty creepy. The second Quarter main film, The Enemy Within was my favorite. I seen it once as a child then recently on TH-cam and it still holds up. It, The Terror from Beyond Space is another favorite.
Yes, "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" 1963 definitely one of the scariest films I've ever seen, with a horro that stays with you. Especially the rumored alternate ending.
Initially I was thinking of "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes", but that was from the 60's. Off the top of my head for 50's Sci-Fi, especially Sci-Fi Horror (leaving out the well known ones like "The Blob", "Godzilla", "Them", etc.) I'll say... "Invasion of the Saucer Men" "The Killer Shrews" (starring Rosco P. Coltrane... I mean James Best) "The H-Man" (Sort of "The Blob" meets "The Incredible Melting Man"... except that this one came first) I know there's a lot more, but I can't remember at the moment.
"Circus of Horrors" scared the crap out of me in the late 50s. The friend I went to see it with didn't last beyond the first minutes before he fled from the theater into the lobby and never came back in. (His mother just sat and ate her popcorn - horrible woman.) Honestly I don't know how I made it through.
Great, great classics from that era! Nothing better back then than to take your old coupe with your girl on a Saturday night to a Drive In double fearure. She gets scared and you are there to protect her.
as i misremember, at one time dragonflies _were_ two feet; or they had a two-feet wingspan. if you can't trust the "Primeval World" diorama in Disneyland (originally part of the 1964 World's Fair), ?what _can_ you trust? (1:56-1:58)
one film or short story I saw 40 years or more ago. Not sure if it was english usa 1950s 1960s. Very Alien looking creatures. A man lies in a hospital bed, has a bedside light projected onto a wall. There are transparent Amoeba typ creatures projected onto the wall. They are talking to him, asking him to join them, a nurse comes into the ward and knocks the light to one side, so the images of the creatures are lost. Later on he has an ear operation and can't hear them any more and goes back to his wife. I have never seen it since and can't remember what it is called.
It was about 1960, I was 5 and allowed to stay up late. We watched a 50's sci-fi movie whose name I can't remember but the monster was a giant eyeball. Weirdest thing I remember seeing as a kid, and I remember not being afraid because the idea of a giant eyeball who only eats your arms and legs was so ridiculous I couldn't possibly be afraid. I've tried to find it, not very hard, I think it's called "The Crawling Eye", 1958, starring Forrest Tucker. Anyone know the flick I'm talking about?
Bernard Kowalski looks a lot like Larry Cohen. Favorite sci-fi movies as a kid? Five Million Years to Earth The Brain Eaters Destroy All Monsters Monster Zero
my hives are back... I saw the She-Creature when I was about 9 and it seriously scared me... Seeing it many decades later on TH-cam, I see that it had a blatant sexual sub-text but when I was nine it went right over my head.
CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS SCI-FI MOVIE WHERE A FORMLESS CREATURE LIVED IN A CLIMATE CONTROLLED CHAMBER AND ALIENS WOULD INSERT CANISTERS TO FEED IT.
the one that had me hiding my seven year old eyes was. The Day The World Ended 1955 it delivered. Scary three horned mutant. Just the coming attractions for, The Crawling Eye. gave me nightmares. I was ten when my folks dropped me off to see The Fly, It impressed me what gave me nightmares was the hydraulic Press spattered with blood. I saw the Return of the Fly. when it came around . I was surprised Vincent Price took the role. It was half the budget of the original. Filmed in black and white. I always thought the fly head was three times too big. The original had the right look. It had a few scary parts but long on the talk. Enjoyed it better when I got a DVD and viewed it as an adult. Still the Original rules, Cronenberg should have used a housefly, like the book, not a fruit fly.
oh, yeah. don't forget the ' Hideous Sun Demon ' or ' Fiend without a Face '. and ' It Conquered the World ' with scream queen Beverly Garland and Lee Van Cleef ! also the sci-fi ' Rocket Ship XM ' with Lloyd Bridges. and more favs.
I thought Attack Of The Giant Leeches was absolutely atrocious. What a waste of plastic trash bags to "dress" the giant leeches. Nothing like seeing a bunch of poor bayou "trailer park trash" (LOL) being attacked by leeches. Yvette Vickers, playing her usual lush role, married to a fat slob store owner was pretty unrealistic (she also played a lush in "Attack Of The 50' Woman"). It was the type of Sci-Fi movie we usually threw our empty (sometimes empty) popcorn boxes at the screen during our kiddee matinees back in the day.
Great filmmaking is all but gone, given over to the eye candy of computer-generated scenes. One of my visual favorites of the old school was "Them!", the 1954 giant ant movie. In that opening scene a little girl (Sandy Descher) who is a mute survivor, is laying in an ambulance while the attendant (William Schallert, Patty Dukes "father") and cop (James Whitmore) talk. Out of sight comes the chirping noise of a mutant, and while both men look away for the source the little girl sits bolt upright, a tight closeup of her voiceless terrified face silently telegraphing to the audience the horrors to come- and then she slowly reposes as if slumbering in a coffin while the sound fades on the wind; the two men unawares and having entirely missed that telling moment shared exclusively with us, the viewer. A short and simple yet powerfully effective scene that conveys so much with so little and virtually no dialog is definitely a lost art nowadays. ☺
The 50s were such a great time for Horror & Sci-Fi movies!👍👍
My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is The Time Machine with Rod Taylor back in 1960. As for horror shows, The Creature from the Black Lagoon was thrilling!
When Taylors character gets on the machine and it starts running forward instead of back, the dead Morlock decaying was so realistic. I wonder how they did that.
Have you ever seen Creature in 3-D?
@@earlleeruhf3130 They had plastic skeletons and made the skin out of wax, then melted it.
@@davidlafleche1142 Thank you for you response That is pretty clever.
The Incredible Shrinking Man is a masterpiece, especially his speech at the end.
The studio wanted a happy ending, which was typical for the time, but the producer and writer stood firm against it.
The spider scene absolutely terrified me when I was a child. I was maybe three or four years old, and we went to it as a family. That black widow so freaked me out that my mother had to take me out into the lobby.
Yes, what happened was they followed Richard Matheson’s novel basically.
@@historybuff66 I understand that the ending was a matter of some dispute at the studio. The producers thought the ending was a downer, and pressed strongly for a happy ending in which the main character grew back to normal size. But the director argued strongly for the ending they had already shot, and ultimately prevailed.
I simply LOVE any B movie with "Attack of..." As the start of the title. ❤
Or, "The crawling..."
Same here.
...the Killer Tomatoes."
"Attack of the Attackers That Attacked Earth!" was quite a gem.
All of these were great little films. So many 1950s sci-fi movies it is hard to pick just one.
"The Trollenberg Terror" ("The Crawling Eye") was one of my favorites and so memorable!
with F Troop Forrest Tucker. 😂
Many years ago, I and a couple of friends were having a snack or something together and one of us turned on the TV to a showing of Crawling Eye. We turned off the sound and made up the dialogue as we watched. If that little girl is still alive, we really owe her an apology.
I love this narration.
When I was a kid in the early sixties, they played movies on Saturday at the Boys Club of America. I watched many classic sci-fi movies sitting on the wooden floor that doubled as a skating rink as the projector ran.
At the end of The Fly, the little man's head is crying out, 'Help me. Help me. It remains one of the most frightening scenes in movies I have seen in the last 60 years.
One of the things I like about your vids is that-unlike the majority of online folks-you understand Shakespeare's, "Brevity is the soul of wit."
I haven’t seen any of these. Your narration is both calm and also sliiiightly sinister. Nice vid.
More SCI-FI classics I remember very well great vid 👌😊
Invasion of the Body Snatchers and I Married a Monster from Outer Space are two of my favorites, as well as The 4D Man.
I'm really happy I subscribed to your videos, you bring back some really wonderful memories, God bless you.
My Saturday afternoon at the local theater - $0.50 to get in, $0.10 for popcorn, and $0.15 for a cook. Always a double header!
I think my favorite horror movie from way back when was "The House on Haunted Hill". On one hand it was really frightening and on the other, funny. It was creepy and stylish and anything with Vincent Price in it was always great. He was one of my favorite horror movie actors. 🙂
I had a major crush on Vincent Price when I was a young girl.
Remember the creepy little guy with the bug eyes ? He passed away only 2 or 3 years ago
@@alicewilloughby4318 I'm a straight man, and I totally get that.
@@MikeHunt-c5p Who was that? When I hear, "creepy little guy with the bug eyes" I think of Peter Lorre (died 1964) or Marty Feldman (died 1982), so I'm forgetting someone.
It's fun to hear all the sciency sound effects in these that have been used in so very many things, too!
A great review of those weird movies 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😄 I love the 1950’s….but…for the scifi movies…I make an exception….😄😆😁
Some of my favorite “Mystery Science Theater 3000” episodes!
Good episode. Thanks.
My brothers and I used to watch these movies on "Fright Night" with Sammy Terry. It was a local Indianapolis program rebroadcast from Bloomington, Indiana. There is still a "Sammy Terry" but it cannot be the same man. We watched all of these movies on that program, and some classic sci fi. 😊👍
I saw all of these as a kid in the '70s on the local late night creature feature. Love 'em to this day.
Appreciated the photos of the actors.
Saw "Return of The Fly" in the theater when I was a kid. Gave me nightmares.
Awesome collection ! I remember these oh so well and enjoyed them immensely ! The one that stood out to me when I was a kid that I watched alone that ended up giving me nightmares was "From Hell It Came"(1957) It was released: 1957-08-25 & Directed by: Dan Milner, Stars: Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins. It's about a wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump. Please showcase this in a future episode as it's was carried as horror. From what I've read is that it was made in India, but it's all in English. Thanks ! ~ Rick
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS-----YOUR COMMENTARY IS HILARIOUS.
Fantastic voyage
I sure remember watching "Monster On Campus" on the channel 10 afternoon movie. This movie had everything. Guy turning into a savage animal; another guy gets killed with a hatchet; cool booby trap set up to capture the monster on camera; even a giant dragon fly!
It Came from Outer Space ---- 1953 , seeing this as a kid in the 1960's and it was pretty scary back then!
Always loved "Curse of the Faceless Man" with Richard Anderson.
Very interesting. Thank You. Those are the type of movies I watched when I was a kid on Saturday nights. Some channels still show them. I think there's a law that requires TV channels to show low budget horror films on Saturday nights.
Another excellent group of wonderfully campy B movies that scared the crap out of me growing up in the late 1950's. I know I've seen them all but I haven't seen Monster on the Campus in several years so I'll have to check it out again.
I don't know if you recall Chester Morris (The She-Creature) from a series of 1940's movies where he played the lead role of reformed jewel thief "Boston Blackie". They weren't Sci-Fi movies but they were enjoyable to watch. Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
For a kid growing up in the 70's who saw them on Friday's late night show, they were just as terrifying.
Attack of the Giant Leeches gave me horrible nightmares as a child 😂
my favorite is “the Leach woman”.
My Wife ?
The Man who Turned to Stone was pretty creepy. The second Quarter main film, The Enemy Within was my favorite. I seen it once as a child then recently on TH-cam and it still holds up. It, The Terror from Beyond Space is another favorite.
I was seven when my aunt took me to see The Legend of Hill House! I wouldn't even blink at these.
And where would all of these movies be without the trusty Theramin?
Very true.
the man with the x-rays starring Ray Milland
Yes, "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" 1963 definitely one of the scariest films I've ever seen, with a horro that stays with you. Especially the rumored alternate ending.
My gosh, I haven't thought of Monster on the Campus in almost 40 years.
I don't think I've seen #1, but except for the swamp-set one, I've most recently seen these films on "Svengoolie".
Initially I was thinking of "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes", but that was from the 60's. Off the top of my head for 50's Sci-Fi, especially Sci-Fi Horror (leaving out the well known ones like "The Blob", "Godzilla", "Them", etc.) I'll say...
"Invasion of the Saucer Men"
"The Killer Shrews" (starring Rosco P. Coltrane... I mean James Best)
"The H-Man" (Sort of "The Blob" meets "The Incredible Melting Man"... except that this one came first)
I know there's a lot more, but I can't remember at the moment.
This isn't a list of strangest 50s sci-fi movies, it's just a typical month of Svengoolie programming.
I love Svengoolie
Quite true.
Can't it be both?
I've seen only two of those films. If I had seen them as a child, I would have been so scared I would probably never go to another movie.
Classics
The Fly and return of The Fly, botherd me when I was 8.
That would be back in 1965.
I like the fly, but it didn't bother me until the poor manfly was caught by a spider
"Circus of Horrors" scared the crap out of me in the late 50s. The friend I went to see it with didn't last beyond the first minutes before he fled from the theater into the lobby and never came back in. (His mother just sat and ate her popcorn - horrible woman.) Honestly I don't know how I made it through.
Great, great classics from that era! Nothing better back then than to take your old coupe with your girl on a Saturday night to a Drive In double fearure. She gets scared and you are there to protect her.
Hypnosis, age regression, reincarnation: Remember "The Search for Bridey Murphy?" A more-or-less non-fiction tale.
Doesn't the fool know to keep his fingers away from the business end of that fish ?
Guess not
I have seen all of these really fun movies on Saturday Night horror movie shows.
as i misremember, at one time dragonflies _were_ two feet; or they had a two-feet wingspan. if you can't trust the "Primeval World" diorama in Disneyland (originally part of the 1964 World's Fair), ?what _can_ you trust?
(1:56-1:58)
5:36 Time-travelling James Cromwell.
Your parents must have been an amazing couple, to give you an insight in to these amazing films.
one film or short story I saw 40 years or more ago. Not sure if it was english usa 1950s 1960s. Very Alien looking creatures. A man lies in a hospital bed, has a bedside light projected onto a wall. There are transparent Amoeba typ creatures projected onto the wall. They are talking to him, asking him to join them, a nurse comes into the ward and knocks the light to one side, so the images of the creatures are lost. Later on he has an ear operation and can't hear them any more and goes back to his wife. I have never seen it since and can't remember what it is called.
Have you done Frogs.
The Twonky (1953) & Queen of Outer Space (1958) were odd but likeable.
My Father would take us to the drive in on Friday and Saturday nights. The movie that scare the s**T out of me was Calitiki.
It was about 1960, I was 5 and allowed to stay up late. We watched a 50's sci-fi movie whose name I can't remember but the monster was a giant eyeball. Weirdest thing I remember seeing as a kid, and I remember not being afraid because the idea of a giant eyeball who only eats your arms and legs was so ridiculous I couldn't possibly be afraid. I've tried to find it, not very hard, I think it's called "The Crawling Eye", 1958, starring Forrest Tucker. Anyone know the flick I'm talking about?
The Crawling Eye was based on the BBC TV serial The Trollenberg Terror, as I recall.
Bernard Kowalski looks a lot like Larry Cohen.
Favorite sci-fi movies as a kid?
Five Million Years to Earth
The Brain Eaters
Destroy All Monsters
Monster Zero
Some of the ones i like best are
The Blob
The Fly
The Crawling Eye
Creature From the Black Lagoon
"The She Creature" sounds loosely based on "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
I know those were supposed to be scary, but I couldn't help but laugh whlie watching. I wonder what that says about me?
Faster and more intense. I'm falling asleep.
Forbidden planet
2:05 >>
Were he of a practical mind, he'd have
let many more dragonflies feed on the
Flintstone Fish until he got a fleet of
natural helicopters.
my hives are back...
I saw the She-Creature when I was about 9 and it seriously scared me...
Seeing it many decades later on TH-cam, I see that it had a blatant sexual sub-text but when I was nine it went right over my head.
CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS SCI-FI MOVIE WHERE A FORMLESS CREATURE LIVED IN A CLIMATE CONTROLLED CHAMBER AND ALIENS WOULD INSERT CANISTERS TO FEED IT.
It sounds like it might be QUATERMASS II, AKA ENEMY FROM SPACE, a British Hammer film.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This island earth
the one that had me hiding my seven year old eyes was. The Day The World Ended 1955 it delivered. Scary three horned mutant. Just the coming attractions for, The Crawling Eye. gave me nightmares. I was ten when my folks dropped me off to see The Fly, It impressed me what gave me nightmares was the hydraulic Press spattered with blood. I saw the Return of the Fly. when it came around . I was surprised Vincent Price took the role. It was half the budget of the original. Filmed in black and white. I always thought the fly head was three times too big. The original had the right look. It had a few scary parts but long on the talk. Enjoyed it better when I got a DVD and viewed it as an adult. Still the Original rules, Cronenberg should have used a housefly, like the book, not a fruit fly.
You know you sort of sound like Vincent Price
Not a bad one in the bunch
oh, yeah. don't forget the ' Hideous Sun Demon ' or ' Fiend without a Face '. and ' It Conquered the World ' with scream queen Beverly Garland and Lee Van Cleef ! also the sci-fi ' Rocket Ship XM ' with Lloyd Bridges. and more favs.
Honestly normal leeches are gross and creepy by themselves.
Is that really you as a child? You were so damn cute!
I thought Attack Of The Giant Leeches was absolutely atrocious. What a waste of plastic trash bags to "dress" the giant leeches. Nothing like seeing a bunch of poor bayou "trailer park trash" (LOL) being attacked by leeches. Yvette Vickers, playing her usual lush role, married to a fat slob store owner was pretty unrealistic (she also played a lush in "Attack Of The 50' Woman"). It was the type of Sci-Fi movie we usually threw our empty (sometimes empty) popcorn boxes at the screen during our kiddee matinees back in the day.
Leeches suck i got a huge one between my toes which freaked me out ivquit wading in the river eithouy shoes.
"Curse of the Fly" was better than "Return of the Fly".
Them. Them.
Great filmmaking is all but gone, given over to the eye candy of computer-generated scenes. One of my visual favorites of the old school was "Them!", the 1954 giant ant movie. In that opening scene a little girl (Sandy Descher) who is a mute survivor, is laying in an ambulance while the attendant (William Schallert, Patty Dukes "father") and cop (James Whitmore) talk. Out of sight comes the chirping noise of a mutant, and while both men look away for the source the little girl sits bolt upright, a tight closeup of her voiceless terrified face silently telegraphing to the audience the horrors to come- and then she slowly reposes as if slumbering in a coffin while the sound fades on the wind; the two men unawares and having entirely missed that telling moment shared exclusively with us, the viewer. A short and simple yet powerfully effective scene that conveys so much with so little and virtually no dialog is definitely a lost art nowadays. ☺
Why in the Fifties in sci-fi movies the only thing that women do is screaming loudly?
Pretty girls in these videos!