goofiest monsters - From Hell It Came (1957) Discussion

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[–] youroldpaljim 19 years ago

I recall seeing a direct to video movies made in the eighties where the monster resembled a giant melted candle but I can't remember the title.

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[–] richard-865 19 years ago

How about the mutant monster from "Day the World Ended"? Or the giant walking carpet from "The Creeping Terror"?? Two of my favorites...

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[–] youroldpaljim 19 years ago

Yeah the Carpet monster was pretty silly. I was just thinking the silliest/professionally constructed monster has to be THE MONSTER FROM THE PIEDRAS BLANCAS. It is technically well constructed and looks scary as hell, but makes no sense in terms of marine adaptation (ie Hands, Feet, flaired nose are all wrong for a sea creature) Compare the Creature From The Black Lagoon (his look makes sense; webbed feet and hands, no nose, fish like teeth etc) to Monster Of the Pie4dras Balncas and you will see what I mean. Maybe I should post this on that films site.

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[–] brian-btapple 9 years ago

Sure, the monster from the Creeping Terror was by far the worst ever!

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[–] richard-865 18 years ago

Oh yeah - the monsters from HOPB were great, as was the movie itself. A Del Tenney classic! And let's not forget the creatures from "The Green Slime". And of course the giant Big Bird look-alike (except black-and-white, not yellow) from "The Giant Claw" (which was already mentioned). This list could go on for a long, long time...

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[–] rharrison-6 18 years ago

My (least) favorite goofy monster? The title creature from 1961's God-awful "Repsillycus", er I mean "Reptilicus." I don't even know how to describe the goofy looking, silly, boring, flying thing.

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[–] richard-865 18 years ago

I'm not sure that they ever showed Reptilicus fly in the flick, but it definitely had some stupid looking little wings. Which, if it didn't fly in the movie, made even less sense that it had them! Wasn't there a "Reptilicus" comic series back in the 60's? Or maybe it was called "Reptisaurus". Either way, it had wings and it did fly...

The Manster was really scary to me as a little kid, until years later I realized the extra head resembled a carved coconut! But that eye on the shoulder...YIKES!

Revision: 07/03/07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilicus

After typing in "Reptilicus" and going to Wikipedia, I found out that in the original uncut Danish version, the creature did fly. Also found out that Reptilicus was a short-lived comic that evolved into the almost equally short-lived Reptisaurus comic I seem to have this vague recollection of.

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[–] rharrison-6 18 years ago

"After typing in "Reptilicus" and going to Wikipedia, I found out that in the original uncut Danish version, the creature did fly. Also found out that Reptilicus was a short-lived comic that evolved into the almost equally short-lived Reptisaurus comic I seem to have this vague recollection of."

Reptilicus was a comic book?! I hope it was better than that dreadful film. I don't know why I hate Reptilicus so much, I can only say that for me it was boring, the monster looked stupid and the film didn't fall into that "so bad it's good" catagory. For me Reptilicus ties with "The Giant Claw" for worse sci-fi B movie of all time."

I loved "From Hell it Came." After I first saw it (around 8 or 9 yesrs old), everytime me and the other neighbour kids played "monster" I wanted to be the monster so that I could be the suffling, lumbering Tree Monster.

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[–] espan 18 years ago

You can't forget the homicidal pastry of GINGERDEAD MAN. As voiced by Gary Busey. Seriously.

The best part is that you'd sort of expect a cookie capable of slaughtering multiple victims to be a giant, mutant gingerbread man or something, but no -- it's about a foot tall.

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[–] richard-865 18 years ago

I have not seen GINGERDEAD MAN. Have to put it on my list of "must-see" bad flicks...

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[–] captainapache 17 years ago

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned the paper mache/parrot/alien from NIGHT OF THE BLOODBEAST yet.

It's a pretty good 50's sci-fi outside the lame monster with a storyline where the alien implants it's young into human victims(sound familiar, Ridley Scott?)

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[–] doowopfan 17 years ago

I saw the gingerbread man movie on the shelf but didn't get it. Is it worth it?
Totally unrelated but have you seen Uncle Sam? It has the world's longest potato sack race.

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[–] Xcalat3 16 years ago

the claw!

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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[–] babettegillette 15 years ago

The puppet monster from Phantom From 10,000 Leagues(1955) and the mechanical flying bats from It Conquered The World(1956).

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[–] pc-privconfounder 13 years ago

Am I to assume that no one on this thread has seen Robot Monster? The so-called monster is a guy wearing a gorilla suit and a deep sea diving helmet--what could be goofier than that?

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[–] Alpha-60 13 years ago

Octaman

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067515/

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