Last Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi Movie/Show You Watched

[Mord]

Starry Eyes
A,B,C's of Death 2

Just saw "Starry Eyes" last night. I kinda liked it (I think).

[neonnoodle]

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla....about as good as I thought it would be!

[scarey1scd]

Quartermass And The Pit

[marsattacks666]

Bride of the Monster

[Howler]

Just saw "Starry Eyes" last night. I kinda liked it (I think).

I had the same reaction to it.

[Monsters For Sale]

"The Vampire", 1957. 

Starring John Beal, Coleen Gray, Dabbs Greer, Kenneth Tobey, James Griffith, Paul Brinegar, etc.  Wonderful old character actors' faces. 

I didn't discover this one until a couple years ago.  I think much of the appeal of this simple little tale lies in the fact that we get to see so much of 50's neighborhoods with lots of older homes that are probably long gone by now.  (You would have to have roamed such neighborhoods as a 50's kid to appreciate the warm feelings that they stir in this old codger.)

[neonnoodle]

Very true, Monsters for Sale.  I was watching that very film a few days ago--and I love seeing those neighborhoods.

It's similar to the way I enjoy certain H. G. Lewis  films for their 1960's furniture.  Some films have a time stamp on them that is as interesting as any other aspect of the film.

I think you see it more in the cheaper films, too--a lot of big studio, big-budget movies are shot on sets and do not show much, or any, of the real world.  Cheapie flicks cannot afford such indulgences, so you tend to see what the world actually looks like in those.  Carnival of Souls--no sets to speak of in that.  Its creepy chills come partially from the fact that those places are real.

[Monsters For Sale]

Very true, Monsters for Sale.  I was watching that very film a few days ago--and I love seeing those neighborhoods.

Can't you just imagine trick-or-treating in that neighborhood in a homemade costume?  It would have been much darker than today and decorations were much simpler - just die-cuts and jack-O'-lanterns.  Every house with a lit porch light was fair game.

(I like the cheaply made Our Gang shorts more for the glimpses of 30's neighborhoods than the dumb stories.)

[neonnoodle]

Ha ha!  I did my share of trick-or-treating in dark neighborhoods with spooky old houses, and it was a tremendous amount of fun!  Ah, those were the days.  And yeah, those older Our Gang films--they generally couldn't afford sets, so you saw a lot of the Los Angeles/Santa Monica/Culver City area as it looked at that time.  All that farmland is gone, built over, covered with skyscrapers and office buildings!  These films are a precious document of things as they were.

[Count_Zirock]

MST3K Vol. XXXII, Disk One, "Space Travelers" (a.k.a. "Marooned," 1969).

[Joeynines]

The creature walks among us.

[neonnoodle]

The Fat Albert Halloween Special (1977)

...initially because I recently bought a couple of animation cels from this show, and I wanted to see where they were featured.  But the special was also just plain fun to watch, too.  It's an older show, so the story concerns the kids trick-or-treating in their own neighborhood, and we get a lot of spooky local atmosphere.  Pretty neat stuff.

[marsattacks666]

The Fog (1980)
Videodrome

[Mord]

  The Following & Stalker - TV shows by Kevin Williamson, creator of the Scream movies.

[marsattacks666]

Cannibal Holocaust