This movie scared me when I was a kid. Sort of like The Tingler in that these flying creatures attached themselves to humans. I remember they made a sound or were killed by a sound. I seem to remember they kind of looked like small flying gelatinous crabs.
shareHello ricknot,
do you have an idea when this movie was made? 1960s, or rather 1950s?
When you mentioned the "small flying gelatinous crabs" I immediately thought about "Without Warning" (Jack Palance, Martin Landau) from the 1970s... obviously this isn't the one you are looking for, but I think it's such a B-movie gem I simply had to mention it :-)
There are several movie lists on wikipedia (headlines are, Alien invasion movies of the 1950s, and the like). Perhaps you could find the movie there?
I think I spotted an old Roger Corman movie "Attack of the Crab Monsters" somewhere in these lists... Could that be the one?
Kind regards
Andreas (123all4me)
Hi Andreas! Thanks for the assist. It was a late 50s or early 60s black and white film. They weren’t crab like as much as like gelatinous discs in the shape of a horseshoe crab, no legs or pincers. They made the humans docile and controlled them to some extent.
shareHello again,
thanks for prompt reply :-)
As an afterthought - in case you know any movie made around the same time, with similar plot elements: Try and search for it on amazon - I haven't been there for quite a while but I remember that, at the bottom of the page, there used to pop up "suggestions for further purchases", i.e. similar movies (it would work with other soirts of items too,like books, cds, etc.)... I think the wording is "Customers who bought this item also bought..."
Still, it's like the famous needle in a haystack, but maybe, sooner or later some cover art will look familiar to you...
Do you remember how good (or not good) the movie was made? What I mean to say is, there are some classics (War of the Worlds, for instance, and from a much more recent date, Independence Day; and there are hundreds (thousands?) of more or less crappy B-movies... these latter ones have sometimes a certain "style" of their own, though. I'm especially attracted by cheaply made animal horror and / or sci fi movies from the 1960s to the early 1980s :-)
Kind regards
Andreas
Thanks. I have looked on amazon and Wikipedia. It looks similar to The Brain Eaters but is scarier and you see the “monsters” more in the one I am thinking about.
shareHello again, Ricknot :-)
Have you got any solution to this one now? I wish I could help you with some suggestions - did some more browsing in the various movie lists on imdb, but of no avail...
At least your question had the effect that it "rekindled" my interest in the older, b/w, horror & alien movies which I hadn't cared about so much, for quite a while... Now I bought myself Jack Arnold's classic "Tarantula"... and let's see which others by Arnold are also available :-)
Have a good time -
Andreas (123all4me)
Andreas, I think I was combining two movies in my head, the brain eaters from the 50s and The Puppet masters from the 90s. Similar themes but over time they melded together.
shareHello Ricknot,
I think that has happened to me, too, sometimes :-)
"The Puppet Masters" sounds very interesting to me - despite some comments I read that it was "uninspired", "boring", whatever. If it has the great Donald Sutherland, I don't care about those negative critics!
(And I'd bet you like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - the remake - which has Donald Sutherland, too! Or do you prefer the original, made in 1956?)
I've seen the "Sutherland version" many years ago on TV and I'm almost sure that there wasn't any "Happy End" while the original version was slightly different. Here, the main character managed to escape from being "transformed" and to get in contact with the police; after a while, they believe him and I think after the movie ends it is supposed the Army will go in there and do away with the nasty alien creatures...
Regards
Andreas (123all4me)