Your favorite classic Monster/Sci-fi movies that are NOT the big 7...

[Monster Bob]

NOSFERATU

KLAXAN/WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD

THE BLOB

CIRCUS OF HORROR

HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM

FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE

THE BRAINIAC

SPIDER BABY

HORROR HOTEL

THE DEATH CURSE OF TARTU

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS

THE HOWLING



Those are the ones that come quickly to my frosted mind...

[monsterphile]

M with Peter Lorre
The Corman/Vincent Price/Poe movies
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with Rains
the Laughton HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
FREAKS
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
THE OLD DARK HOUSE

[Jim Bertges]

I'll watch and enjoy just about anything that's not boring, but it is very difficult to select favorites from among such a vast array of wonderful choices. There are a few that thrilled and frightened me when I first saw them and have stuck with me over the years for various reasons--

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
THE WEREWOLF
KALTIKI THE IMMORTAL MONSTER
THE MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF

[Monster Bob]

Forgot THE WEREWOLF and TEENAGE WEREWOLF, but yup, those are in there, too.

[Penny Dreadful]

DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (March)
HORROR OF DRACULA
BLACK SUNDAY
M

Definitely some of my faves there.

[NekroDave]

Shawn, I think I long ago gave up trying to figure out why I like some things and you don't. It's still shocks me that you liked "Luther The Geek", too.

Ray, feel no shame about "Cannibal Holocaust"! It's one of my all time favorites!

Others I like, since we've veered somewhat toward the more modern, include Cemetery Man, Nekromantik (but you probably guessed that!) and Blood and Donuts. Back to the older, you can add The 4D Man to my previous list, as well as the superb British ghost film, "The Innocents".

Coffin Joe rules (we need a 12" figure, are you listening Sideshow?), but don't waste any more time on Jess Franco. About once a year I give him another try and he almost always lets me down. The only one of his movies I sort of liked was "Love Letters Of  A Portugese Nun". That said, I too love just about all horror and will probably continue to subject myself to his movies, so long as I don't have to pay money to do it.

[Dr.Terror]

Nosferatu

Mark of the Vampire

Return of the Vampire

At midnight I'll take your soul

Gargoyles

Seventh voyage of Sinbad

Dawn of the Dead

House by the Cemetery

The Beyond

Zombie

Shockwaves

Halloween 3

[Tom Smith Monsternut]

The Thing from another world
Invaders from Mars
The uninvited
Night of the living dead " the scariest movie ever made !"
War of the worlds
It the terror from outer space
Earth VS the flying saucers
Them
The Haunting

Just a few but all classics..
Best..
Tom

[raycastile]

I don't know what will come of it, but earlier this year I contacted every major action figure company and gathered information to give to Coffin Joe's people for the express purpose of making Coffin Joe action figures.  I did this at the request of his producers, so they are definitely interested in entering the toy market.  So maybe we will see some Coffin Joe toys in 2008.  Incidentally, there is a vintage large-size Coffin Joe doll that was produced at the time of the original films.  His son, Crounel Marins, confirmed that it exists.  It stood 12-14 inches tall.  Coffin Joe was heavily merchandised in the 60s.  But unfortunately, very little of that stuff survives today.

Coffin Joe rules (we need a 12" figure, are you listening Sideshow?), but don't waste any more time on Jess Franco. 

[kolchak4ever]

I'll go with a readers digest version.

The Thing From Another Wourld
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
The Deadly Mantis (and any other giant bug movie)
White Zombie
Night Of The Living Dead '69
The H-Man
The Boogieman Will Get You ( not horror, but Karloff and Lorie are a blast in it)
It! The Terror From Beyond Space
Godzilla ( all of them )

Dale

[NekroDave]

I don't know what will come of it, but earlier this year I contacted every major action figure company and gathered information to give to Coffin Joe's people for the express purpose of making Coffin Joe action figures.  I did this at the request of his producers, so they are definitely interested in entering the toy market.  So maybe we will see some Coffin Joe toys in 2008.  Incidentally, there is a vintage large-size Coffin Joe doll that was produced at the time of the original films.  His son, Crounel Marins, confirmed that it exists.  It stood 12-14 inches tall.  Coffin Joe was heavily merchandised in the 60s.  But unfortunately, very little of that stuff survives today.

That's great to hear. It would be fantastic to have a Coffin Joe figure. I do think he'd be best represented in 12" doll form though, regardless of who actually made it.

Regarding the vintage doll, wow, just like that I have a new holy grail! Dammit. lol.  I've looked pretty frequently for vintage Coffin Joe merchandise, but outside of one old poster never found anything. I passed on the poster since it wasn't for a horror film. It looked like an adventure movie. Might have been "Sexo E Sangue na Trilha do Tesouro", but don't quote me on that, my memory stinks. I didn't like it enough to go through the trouble of trying to find someone who spoke Portugese to help me with the auction.

[Nicole]

I don't know what will come of it, but earlier this year I contacted every major action figure company and gathered information to give to Coffin Joe's people for the express purpose of making Coffin Joe action figures.  I did this at the request of his producers, so they are definitely interested in entering the toy market.  So maybe we will see some Coffin Joe toys in 2008.  Incidentally, there is a vintage large-size Coffin Joe doll that was produced at the time of the original films.  His son, Crounel Marins, confirmed that it exists.  It stood 12-14 inches tall.  Coffin Joe was heavily merchandised in the 60s.  But unfortunately, very little of that stuff survives today.

To this day, I still don't understand how everything vintage that was related to Coffin Joe has fallen off the face of the earth like it has...it's kind of odd. Some time ago, irritated by the lack of a Coffin Joe action figure, I actually made my own, using a Mego body with a customized head and clothing pilfered from other figures. I even tediously glued thin strips of plastic onto the figure's hands to make the nails. It turned out okay, but it just wasn't...well, official. But hearing this news about future merchandising gives me hope. Maybe the day will come when I can walk into my local toy store and be able to buy a REAL Coffin Joe figure. Maybe even with eye-gouging action. No, definitely with eye-gouging action.

[NekroDave]

Yes! And it must come with live tarantulas!!!

Actually, and it sounds like Ray would know better than I, but I seem to recall reading once that much of his merchandising was forcibly destroyed due to the nature of his films and how they conflicted with the views of the time, particularly religious views. If true, it would certainly account for the lack of it today.

[Nicole]

So they forcibly destroyed his merchandise? I knew he was much hated by Brazil's military dictatorship, but I never knew they went that far. That's just horrible.

[raycastile]

I haven't heard about his merchandise being systematically destroyed.  I think it's more of a cultural thing.  The United States is kind of unique in the way we save old pop culture junk.  People in most countries just throw that stuff away.