Hi everyone,
I checked movies from early 1900's (from Metropolis till now) but there are so much good movies that you cannot see everything.
I'm asking to the movie-freaks out there, are there any other recommended old cult sci-fiction movies with a strong story like this one ?
Thanks,
Greetz,
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I just remembered a great one (When Worlds Collide) and, would you believe, both it and the Incredible Shrinking Man are being remade this year. Why can't they leave these gems alone?!
shareI must chime in here, since I can think of nothing that gives me greater pleasure than watching these old films. I have to say I agree with each and everyone's suggestions. I enjoy the "campiness" of so many of them. i too LOVE "I married a Monster..." & "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" who knew anyone else even saw these films!!!! A few you guys didn't mention are: "The Monolith Monsters" ~ BBC production of "The Day of the Triffids" ~ "The Last Man on Earth" & "The Tingler" w/Vincent Price.~ "Fiend Without a Face" ~ also a movie (not red planet mars) where the entire time they were on the planet the film was red. Anyhow that's my 2 cents.
shareBride of Frankenstein (usually seen as Horror, but it is a great SF film, too).
2001 a space odyssey — Hej! It's old! (Saw it the other night for the umpteenth time and loved every second of it).
The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Gritty Brit kitchen-sink Sci-fi. Sweaty drama with a great script.
RocketShip XM. Saw this at the cinema early 1960's. Was old already then. Made a huge impression on me. An early sci-fi film with a thought provoking ending. Has the misfortune of being bundled into the "turkey" category from time to time, but I have a feeling it would hold up, if seen with kind eyes.
Things to Come. Brit 30's sci-fi. Impressive film for its time.
Team Europe
The movie you refer to is probably "The Angry Red Planet"
shareI'm with you. I love the cult sci-fi/horror classics (b-grade or otherwise) from that era. WWII and the atom bomb spurned a heap of them. I grew up watching many movies like this one in the 1960's before Romero (director) gave us Night of the Living Dead in 1968. I'm sorry, but I cannot help with the movie titles but I would love to see more of them on TV. Some of them are slowly being released on dvd but there were so many, I fear we will never see them all again.
Cheers
Here's some that are a little less known.
This is not a Test
The Lost Missile
The Magnetic monster
X-The Unknown
You can get a box set real cheap that's got "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "It Came From Outer Space", "The Thing from Another World", this film and 3 other 50s Universal Studio classic Sci-Fi films.
Some British stuff is worth a look, especially the Quatermass films (but the 60s Doctor Who films are pretty much kids stuff).
The British Hammer Films put out a few outstanding Classics in the 50's:
THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT
QUATERMASS II (aka. ENEMY FROM SPACE)
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN
Nigel Kneale wrote the excellent scripts. He and Richard Matheson were first-class writers, still unmatched today.
Great selection of movies everyone :) I can't wait to track down some of these movies and buy them. However, there is one particular movie that I have tried to track down for quite some time now. "The Green Slime" (1968). I saw this on TV some years ago one early morning when I couldn't sleep, and I haven't been able to forget it. It is one of the worst movies I've seen if you think in terms of script, acting and special effects, but it was just altogether very pleasing and great fun to watch. I know it has acquired cult status since, and the Theme music for it is one of my personal favs. To anyone of you guys who are not only interested in the best of the best SF/horror-movies this one is worth a watch :)
"If it can be thought, or written, it can be filmed" - Stanley Kubrick
Last film seen: The Incredible Shrinking Man (8/10).
"The Monster That Challenged the World" (1957) is an "A" grade "B" movie - it does much with a low budget and has an amazingly well-done monster.
shareFinally someone mentions this one! Considering that probably 90% of all SF movies made in the 1950s were monster movies this one has what (in my opinion) must be one of the most believable monsters of all - an undersea caterpillar-type creature made large by atomic radiation (weren't they all?). If you could suspend your disbelief about a creature that was obviously being pushed around on a wheeled platform this creature was truly creepy - not laughable AT ALL. All in all, a very realistic threat in a very believable (and intelligent) movie.
shareI agree with so many of these suggestions! I'll try not to repeat any:
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Match it up with "Demon Seed" for a mini-marathon.)(Add "2001: A Space Odyssey" for a full-fledged computers-gone-bad marathon.)
Invisible Invaders (1959) ~ low-budget sci fi whose concept far predates "Night of the Living Dead" (reanimated corpses through an SF, not occult, influence)
Space Master X-7 (1958) ~ Shades of "The Andromeda Strain"! (original ONLY!)
Planet of the Vampires aka Demon Planet ~ very influential on "Alien"
Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (already mentioned?)
These Are the Damned (1963)
The Colossus of New York
Crack in the World
Donovan's Brain
The Blob (1958)
Kronos (1957)
I'm happy to see "The Space Children" mentioned! This made such a dent on me when I was about 7-8 years old when I saw it at the drive-in. Also, "The Monster That Challenged the World" definitely is capturing more attention, and I see it aired far more often than it ever was. "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" is another one I saw at the drive-in and have always loved. Let's hear it for "The Monolith Monsters", too, and "This Island Earth" AND "I Married a Monster from Outer Space"! (Even the TV remake of "Married" is rather good.) The others have named some very good ones to view.
These aren't quite up to par with some of the others but might be worth a look:
The Flesh Eaters
Queen of Outer Space
Teenagers from Outer Space
Journey to the Seventh Planet
Caltiki: The Immortal Monster
~~MystMoonstruck~~
Plenty, check out all that have been mentioned and try attack of the Puppet People. I know it sounds silly, but it’s actually good.
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