name the monster movie

[Monsters For Sale]

 
One year after "Testament" - 1984.

[Mike Scott]

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[Monsters For Sale]

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Yeah.

I'll bet a lot of members haven't seen this one.  If you like movies like "The Day After" and "Testament"  you really should try to see this one.

You do have to get by the unknown British actors and English accents.   But once you do, it is a pretty engrossing movie.  It spends a lot of time building up to the actual homeland attack. But it is a long movie that devotes plenty of time to the aftermath.

If the U.S. churches thought "The Day After" was too intense for American audiences, this movie would have knocked their socks off.

This is the movie "The Day After" should have been.  It never would have played on TV in the '80's - it would have had to been a theatrical release.  It plays like a Helen Caldicott lecture come to life.

I recommend it.

[Monsters For Sale]

That last one was pretty obscure and hard to see.

Here is an easy one to make up for it:

[Mike Scott]

Some serial. Supposed to be good.

Do you know it?

I don't know it!

Let's ask Mikey!

Yeah!

(Mikey doesn't know, either.)

[Monsters For Sale]

You surprised me.  I thought you would name this one right out of the gate.

It was originally released as a serial - then edited into a continuous feature and re-released 8 years later under a totally different title.

Either title would be acceptable.

[Mike Scott]

I don't know serials all that well.

I'll guess "Zombies of the Stratosphere".

[Monsters For Sale]

I don't know serials all that well.

I'll guess "Zombies of the Stratosphere".

Nope.

I was lucky.  When I would attend 1950's kids matinees with science fiction double features, my theater usually included a serial and two or three cartoons.

[Mike Scott]

I missed serials by a few years. Never was much of a fan when watching them years later.

Is it "Flying Disc Man From Mars"?

[Monsters For Sale]

I missed serials by a few years. Never was much of a fan when watching them years later.

Is it "Flying Disc Man From Mars"?

Yep.  Came out in 1950 from Republic.   

It was re-edited into a continuous feature they re-named "Missile Monsters" in 1958.

Serials were a lot more fun in 12 to 15 minute increments viewed a week apart.  Watching chapters one after another can be kind of wearing.

[Mike Scott]

Watching chapters one after another can be kind of wearing.

I think that's the problem.

[Monsters For Sale]

I think that's the problem.

That - and I'm not 8 years old any more.  (Well, sometimes.)

[Mike Scott]

Here's another.

[Monsters For Sale]

"The War Game"?

[Dr.Cyclops]

The Day the Earth Caught Fire.