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

[marsattacks666]

Blood Moon-1976

[Monsters For Sale]

Invaders From Mars, 1953 - Title says it all.

First time I saw this movie (on TV) I found the soundtrack's combination of musical instruments with a chorus very eerie and the simple stage setting of the trees, fence and sand pits wonderfully impressionistic - like the spare sets in Son of Frankenstein.  The simple set for the police station is delightfully disorienting.

The end always gets me.  So classic.

I think this dopey little movie is generally underrated.  It don't gotta be elaborate to be effective.

[Mike Scott]

Invaders From Mars, 1953 - Title says it all.

First time I saw this movie I found the soundtrack's combination of musical instruments with a chorus very eerie

I still find it wonderfully eerie!    Nothing scarier than a dissonant chorus!

[Memphremagog]

Terror Of Mechagodzilla(1975)
Giant From the Unknown(1958)
Man Made Monster(1941)
Horror Island(1941)

[Mike Scott]

I like the last two more than the first two. 

[Lunkenstein]

Invaders From Mars, 1953 - Title says it all.

First time I saw this movie (on TV) I found the soundtrack's combination of musical instruments with a chorus very eerie and the simple stage setting of the trees, fence and sand pits wonderfully impressionistic - like the spare sets in Son of Frankenstein.  The simple set for the police station is delightfully disorienting.

The end always gets me.  So classic.

I think this dopey little movie is generally underrated.  It don't gotta be elaborate to be effective.

A long time favorite.

"It's the boy!"

[Monsters For Sale]

Sleepaway Camp, 1983 - Someone is killing Camp Arawak visitors off one-by-one.  Who can it be?  Judging by the way most of the counselors and some of the campers are behaving, it could be just about anyone.

This movie always makes me grit my teeth for the first 15 minutes or so.  It's the awful acting and  grating New York accents.  I just can't stand people who pronounce the letter "R" as "ah".  (Imagine a pirate saying "Aah" instead of Arrrr".)

I like the Blu-Ray much better than I did the movie when I first saw it in the theater - not sure why.  Never seen any of the sequels. 

A nice addition to the summer-camps-are-deadly silliness.

[Creepy]

I watched House on Sorority Row last night. It was an okay minor slasher.

[marsattacks666]

Blood Feast-1963
My Bloody Valentine-1981

[Monsters For Sale]

The Cold Equations, 1996 - A military astronaut is sent on a lone rescue mission carrying a direly needed vaccine to a mining colony on a distant planet.  His tiny one-use, disposable rocket is stripped to the bone with just enough fuel for a safe landing.   There is a problem.  He has discovered a stowaway aboard.  There will not be enough fuel for the trip.

This made-for-TV version of the story suffers from one major flaw.  The stowaway is so unlikeable that any moral conflict seems artificial.


I much prefer the "X-Minus One" radio show telling of this tale from the 1950's.

A classic story on a low budget.

[Mike Scott]

His tiny one-use, disposable rocket

How tiny could it have been if another guy was able to stuff himself in? Why didn't the first guy notice him right away?

[Monsters For Sale]

How tiny could it have been if another guy was able to stuff himself in? Why didn't the first guy notice him right away?

The stowaway hid underneath the floor grate.

(You really want consistency in sci-fi stories?)

[Mike Scott]

The stowaway hid underneath the floor grate.

It's bigger that I thought, then. 

Check out the Wiki on that title.

[Monsters For Sale]

It's bigger that I thought, then. 

Check out the Wiki on that title.

I did.  I wanted to know what radio show I remembered hearing the same basic plot on so many years ago.

[Monsters For Sale]

Night of the Comet, 1984 - Girls just want to have fun in the shopping mall in the aftermath of a comet that turns most of the population to a red dust.

Silly vehicle for Catherine Mary Stewart - with much more even teeth than she sported in "The Last Starfighter" from earlier the same year.  Sci-fi aimed at capturing the teenage female audience.

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Night of the Blood Beast, 1958 - Goofy looking space monster takes up residence in Bronson Canyon Cave - despite that plan never seeming to work out for previous interplanetary/interstellar invaders.

So simple it is actually fun.  Multiple alien spawn live inside dead human astronaut 20 years before Ridley Scott's "Alien".


(They happen to sit next to each other on the same shelf - That's why.)