Once upon a time i watched an old black and white film about an alien come to earth in a bullet shaped ship.
All i can remember is a scene where a woman sneeks up to the ship/capsule at night to look into the only portal. And that the creature inside could only come out in a heavily fortified enviro suit.
For some strange reason this movie scared the bejesus out if me. Probably because i was maybe 13 or 14 at the time.
B-movie buffs, help me out here. I would like to see this one again if i can find it.
Plan 9 from outer space?
Day the earth stood still?
Nope, not it. Sorry.
Dig deeper, but you may have the time frame about right. Not sure how old it was when i saw it.
It Came From Uranus? sorry couldn't resist ;D
Have you slogged through this list? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films:_1950s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films:_1950s)
I found one I saw as a kid in the 1950's while in Saudi Arabia....20 Million Miles From Earth
They used to hang a tarp up on the fence surrounding the basketball court in the Aramco compound ......at night outside and play movies
That one seriously creeped me out as a kid because the night time sky in the desert was an incredible close-up show, in and of itself....
I remember the desert sky gave you a distinct sense that you were no longer on the ground looking out at the distant sky/universe.....it was not something "out there".....
there was an immediate awe-inspiring quality of closeness to the cloudless arid sky...the distance was gone
it had a way of showing you that you were part of it...you were actually in "Space" traveling in the middle of it......
floating through Space while standing on the surface of some object
watching an impossible number of stars, constellations, the incredible busyness and activity...comets, meteors zipping about
a moon so large you felt you could jump up or lean out and almost touch it
how tiny you were in the face of it
and yet still how important you were because you were getting to see and feel all of it
and be part of it
Quote from: Charlief on March 13, 2011, 08:51:30 PM
Plan 9 from outer space?
If "Plan 9" scared you, at any age, you have much deeper and serious issues. ;)
People in those days didn't know any better Speed. They were terrified when they heard War of the Worlds on the radio and thought it was real.
:p
I need help with an old movie too.
It was around 1968 to 1971. I was spending the night at my grandmothers and have always remembered a clip form a movie on TV.
A man is walking away from a Ferris wheel and is on fire. It is dark and that is all I remember. I have always wondered what movie that was. May have been a tv show, not sure.
Quote from: Little Monkey Toes on March 14, 2011, 06:56:08 AM
A man is walking away from a Ferris wheel and is on fire. It is dark and that is all I remember. I have always wondered what movie that was. May have been a tv show, not sure.
This one?
1941, The Sinking of the Ferris Wheel.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL3X_txAkgI&feature=related#normal)
(maybe a decade later)
;D
Quote from: IZ on March 14, 2011, 06:36:08 AM
People in those days didn't know any better Speed. They were terrified when they heard War of the Worlds on the radio and thought it was real.
:p
When I was a little kid I went with some friends to the local cinema and watched something called "The Creature with the Atom Brain" It was so scary I went and hung out in the theatre lobby, occasionally getting up the nerve to sneak a peak at the screen.
That movie stuck in my head ever since and last year I rented the DVD with one of the "kids" I watched it with the first time. The second time around it was one of the dumbest and silliest movies I've ever seen and I can't imagine anyone at any age getting scared from it.
When I was a kid one of the TV channels used to air all sorts of old horror/monster movies, and my Dad and I would watch them every weekend. Some of them freaked me out.
The original "The Fly" was one.
No doubt all that early exposure to bizarre flicks had an effect on how I turned out. [evil]
Just remembered,
When she was looking inside there was the usual/expected green glow.
And when she glanced away for a second and then turned back to look again, IT was staring back at her from the inside.
Quote from: hooligan machinist on March 13, 2011, 08:46:14 PM
Once upon a time i watched an old black and white film about an alien come to earth in a bullet shaped ship.
Quote from: hooligan machinist on March 14, 2011, 08:26:39 PM
Just remembered,
When she was looking inside there was the usual/expected green glow.
???
;D
It is possible that my mind added the green over the years. ;D
The interior was illuminated.
How's that D? :)
actually I recall that they did manually add color to B&W films in some instances
for the decades going back to the early 20th century
so it is possible that the green was actually there
Quote from: hooligan machinist on March 14, 2011, 08:26:39 PM
Just remembered,
When she was looking inside there was the usual/expected green glow.
And when she glanced away for a second and then turned back to look again, IT was staring back at her from the inside.
This scene is actually very familiar to me. My bro was a HUGE sci-fi buff growing up and the TV was always glued to these movies. I'll remember it in some spontaneous moment. Stand by.
Quote from: Langanobob on March 14, 2011, 01:24:38 PM
When I was a little kid I went with some friends to the local cinema and watched something called "The Creature with the Atom Brain" It was so scary I went and hung out in the theatre lobby, occasionally getting up the nerve to sneak a peak at the screen.
That movie stuck in my head ever since
When I was a kid..growing up in the 70's..my parents took me to double features at the drive-in every week. The second movie was typically a horror flick, i.e.: The Hills Have Eyes, Rabid, Texas Chain Saw, The Omen, The Exorcist, etc. Then my step-dad took me to see Alien. WTF?! After that..my real dad sent me the 15" Alien with the glow-in-the-dark head and articulating jaws. That scared the bejezus out of me in the middle of the night! That thing was worse than the clown in Poltergiest! My parents wonder why I snuck upstairs to be by them in the middle of the night all the time. :-[
Anyway..can't think of an old movie I saw at the $.01 double feature my cousin and I used to go see on Sat afternoons. It was in color and all I remember was a tree with tunnel it where some kind of troll..or something like that..lived. When I think of that movie..I always think of Darby O'Gil and the Little People but that wasn't it. Any ideas??
Quote from: IZ on March 15, 2011, 04:36:16 PMThat thing was worse than the clown in Poltergiest!
Clown? Have you seen Killer Clowns from Outer Space?
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVXJ1nYG0U#normal)
JM
I picked up Killer Klowns on DVD a while back in a bargain bin. A true classic. [thumbsup]
Alien was another one that freaked me out big time as a kid.
Yeah, I was a bit older when that came out. More comical.