TCM Drive-In Double Features For JUNE

[Mike Scott]

It was made so cheaply . . .

Most High School plays have bigger budgets!

[Monsters For Sale]

       THURSDAY!     THURSDAY!     THURSDAY!

It's the LAST Thursday in this series of Drive-In presentations.  Looks like they saved a good group to top it off.

Please note that I added a special feature documentary that was not included on the original posting.

Remember the times shown here are Pacific Standard Time, for the benefit of us West Coast monsterkids.



June 30

  5:00 PM - The Blob
  6:30 PM - The H-Man
  8:00 PM - The Magnetic Monster
  9:30 PM - X - The Unknown
11:00 PM - The Thing From Another World
12:30 AM - IT! The Terror From Beyond Space
  1:45 AM - Watch the Skies!*



*  "This 2005 TCM original documentary explores the history of the science fiction genre beginning in the 1950s.
      Features interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ridley Scott."

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If you need to taper off from all the fun we've been having with these, here are some listings for the July 4th Weekend:


July 1

  6:30 AM - Hunchback of Notre Dame (Laughton)
  8:30 AM - Canterville Ghost (Laughton)
11:45 PM - Frankenstein 1970
  1:15 AM - Frankenstein Created Woman


July 2

10:30 AM - Five Million Miles To Earth (AKA Quatermass & the Pit)


July 3

  5:00 PM - King Kong (1933)
  7:00 PM - Mighty Joe Young (1949)


                                                   HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

[Moonshadow]

July 2

10:30 AM - Five Million Miles To Earth (AKA Quatermass & the Pit)

OH my gosh!!! I LOVE this film!! Thanks Adam!!

Also thanks for pointing out the Watch the Skies documentary and the other good flicks coming this weekend. Since we're now hitting temps of 115 here in the desert, I plan to stay inside most of the long weekend -now I have things to watch!

[Mike Scott]

8:00 PM - The Magnetic Monster

Finally! Been waitin' all month for this one! But how much longer will I have to wait for the Ivan Tors sci-fi trilogy to appear on DVD?

[Gasport]

Me too, Mike! Was SO happy to finally burn myself a copy on DVD...Also got H-Man, but wasn't too thrilled with it. Recording X The Unknown as i write this...not gonna make it for It, The Terror From Beyond Space which i wanted most of all. It's on at 3:30 AM! Oh well, there's always next time...

[Scatter]

Me too, Mike! Was SO happy to finally burn myself a copy on DVD...Also got H-Man, but wasn't too thrilled with it. Recording X The Unknown as i write this...not gonna make it for It, The Terror From Beyond Space which i wanted most of all. It's on at 3:30 AM! Oh well, there's always next time...

Elizabeth had me watch "IT, The Terror From Beyond Space" a couple nights ago. Man, that movie ROCKED!! I love me some 50s "B" sci-fi!!

[FACTO2]

IT holds up quite well.  Just gotta get past the little stuff like setting off grenades and shooting guns in a pressure sealed space ship.  Outside of that, it's still a classic monster movie.

[Monsters For Sale]

I liked the whole last night.

It was great to see Magnetic Monster and X -The Unknown.  I was a little bummd that The H-Man was shown full screen instead of the original 2.35:1 ratio.  But it wasn't that great a movie.  It was interesting to see it right after watching The Blob.

It was cool knowing UMA members all across the country were sitting down to share the same movies at the same time.

Thanks for a fun month TCM. 

[Scatter]

IT holds up quite well.  Just gotta get past the little stuff like setting off grenades and shooting guns in a pressure sealed space ship.  Outside of that, it's still a classic monster movie.

Hell John, that's what MAKES it a classic monster movie!!

[king_ghidorah]

Hell John, that's what MAKES it a classic monster movie!!

It's pretty good but I prefer its relatives The Creature from the Black Lagoon and the original version of The Thing.

That being said I saw this movie as a kid and I absolutely fell in love with it.  I think for an entire week afterwords I pretended I was the monster when I was on the playground...

So you guys just reminded me that I need to add this to my collection, thanks 

[Mike Scott]

I was a little bummd that The H-Man was shown full screen instead of the original 2.35:1 ratio. 

Get the "Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection". It has the US and Japanese versions in 2.35:1 anamorphic.

[Moonshadow]

Is anyone else really missing our Drive In Thursdays? That was so much fun, getting excited to go home and catch some classic (and not so classic) sci fi and monster films. I'm thinking maybe I should email TCM and let them know how much I liked it.

[Unknown Primate]

Oh yeah, you're not alone - I wish it was year round!

[general gruesome]

Oh yeah, you're not alone - I wish it was year round!

same here, Drive-In films are my favorite

[Monsters For Sale]

Man, I am feeling the same way!

Makes me wish they had really done Double Features.  We wouldn't have had to stay up so late to see them all, and it would still be going on.