Horror Films of the 1950s That Will Blow Your Mind

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[@Wickedwican-49]

Loved all those movies. Better than the ones now!!

[@walterfechter8080]

I recall walking home from a friend's house after viewing "Night of the Demon" for the first time. It was on a mild and windy night in early October. As I walked along the lonely country road, I kept my eyes on the tops of the trees which flanked the road from both sides. "Night of the Demon" also featured some elements of film noir. It was an effective thriller which I never forgot!

[@Deephouse_Gent66]

@walterfechter8080 - I agree! I didn't see this film until I was in my 30s (I'm 58 now) and I thought it was one of the creepiest films I'd ever seen. Cool special effects and haunting as hell!

[@walterfechter8080]

@@Deephouse_Gent66 👍

[@ChuckShillingford]

Rich, you're a man after my own heart. Although I'm a bit older than you (75) I have a deep enduring love of all the films that you mentioned here. I saw House of Wax when it was first released with the 3D glasses and, although I was just going on 4 years old, there are snippets that play back in my mind's eye. Thank you so much!

[@geraldmartin7703]

Saw it in the theater with my mother when I was five. The 3D paddle ball flying into the audience had me ducking behind the seat.

[@roncaruso931]

I've seen all of these classic 1950s horror films on TV in reruns. They are fantastic.

[@nickimontie]

Lots of greats! One of my favorites is The Monolith Monsters. It made 9 year old me afraid of rocks for a while😊

[@Angrymuscles]

I listened to your recommendation on Christmas movies, mother and I watched Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Christmas Day. It was a real hit, we both revelled in its badness and pure joyous character. Thank you sir, it was a solid pick from you and helped make this Christmas appropriately ridiculous.

[@sidwalker4194]

Nice selection of films. However, I'm surprised you didn't include 1959's "The Tingler" with, who else, Vincent Price. I remember certain theatres being hooked up to make the movie experience more memorable lol. Keep up the great work, us Grey beards (I'm 72) truly appreciate you.

[@CAMacKenzie]

Either Vincent Price or Peter Cushing seemed to be in all of them. They should have made a movie together.

[@alienmindwarp3455]

​@CAMacKenzie they kind of did. Scream and Scream Again - 1970. Though they don't have any scenes together. But in 1983 House of Long Shadows, they do.

[@JRTodd]

Very nice! Excellent group of movies.

[@Primus54]

Hey Rich, as we’re the same age I suspect we got exposed to many of these films around the same time… the early to the mid-60s? My recollection is that the Universal horror films from the ‘30s and ‘40s were having a renaissance which I fully embraced including buying, painting and assembling the models of the monsters. As a result I didn’t think much of the British Hammer films at the time because they couldn’t use Universal’s trademarked makeup and likenesses. I learned to appreciate them all these many years later.

[@peter-n9w5j]

🎄Merry Christmas Rich! Every one of these is a personal favorite of mine. Most of them overcame miniscule budgets to become genre classics.🎄🎄

[@Deephouse_Gent66]

As much as I love these films, as a kid, I could never take seriously a werewolf wearing his high school jacket. FIEND W/O A FACE remains one of my all-time classics from this era. Same for BODY SNATCHERS. NIGHT OF THE DEMON was an exceptionally creepy film that I did not discover until I was in my 30s. Great video, as usual.

[@vonzigle]

Thanks!

[@RerunZone]

Thank you so much for your generous support, @vonzigle!

[@reneerichburg8023]

There should be a TV just for these old movies👏❤️💕😍🥰 because I love watching these old ones. And Mr Price and the rest I love them all❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍

[@robertsteele-is4ug]

when ever i would watch Night of the Demon the hairs on the back of my neck would stand up and say RUN

[@SutraRein-xy4qr]

“It’s in the trees, It’s coming!” Kate bush’s fav film..........

[@PhilipTomlinson-e4y]

YES!!!

[@rahkinrah1963]

We saw House On Haunted Hill at the theatre in downtown L.A. I was 5 or 6. That skeleton came out over the audience. It sacred everyone!

[@MLBrooks-g3u]

I loved that they gave the skeleton acting credit. There never was anyone like Vincent Price - absolutely unique.

[@emwa3600]

@@MLBrooks-g3u 1993's MATINEE features a Wm Castle-esque producer (excellent portrayed by John Goodman) who is driving around the country, delivering his laet monster film - MANSTER - along with the in-theater props (under the seat buzzers, theater-screen to projector-booth wires for his flying creature, along with a MANSTER costume/suit to be worn by some local teen (a usher, on this one night). It's a wonderful gem of film, a great salute to the showmanship that these low-budget films enjoyed.

[@emwa3600]

I had a vague childhood memory of the skeleton rising from acid-pit, but it was twenty years later before I saw the film in full-cognition. "Wait - this is a murder mystery!" I never realized that, and oh what fun.

[@Rockhound6165]

Little did they know when they made Horror of Dracula in 1958 that both Christopher Lee and Peter Crushing would also star in the greatest sci-fi franchise of all time when they starred in Star Wars(1977) and Attack of the Clones(2002) decades later.

[@TimMacPA]

New sub and I gotta say, I love the content. Hammer horror of the 50/60/70's is the stuff I grew up on. They need to give some 4k UHD lovin' to Hammer! Please I'm begging the Bluray gods!

[@dangeroreilly2028]

I forgot Elisha Cook Jr was in "Haunted Hill" movie with Vinnie. He was character actor in SO many movies over So many years, and plenty of them were big, well-known movies. Later, he was on tv too.

[@geraldmartin7703]

His gun duel with Jack Palance in Shane is memorable.

[@emwa3600]

Elisha Cook Jr was, like you, a dis-remembered name but I always remembered there was a ghostly narrator to this film. "Oh no! Sydney Greenstreet sold him down the river in MALTESE FALCON, on to have him accept a gatekeeper's fate-!!." Of course, I'd also discover Elisha as the not-long-for-life erstwhile husband in Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING. Poor Elisha. He FINALLY got the treatment he deserved as the Mob Boss "Ice Pick" in the 1980s MAGNUM P.I. "That's more like it!"

[@StarSurfer55]

I watched most of these on KTBS, Shreveport Dialing for Dollars theater. It came on at 3;30 every weeekday. I did not get off the bus home until 4;15 so I always missed the start of the movies.

[@Curtis-d8j]

House of Wax, was also Charles Bronson's first movie role. Back then he used his real name: Charles Buchinski.

[@danf321]

Great fun movies. IMHO missing were 13 Ghosts, Monolith Monsters, The Blob, Quatermass Experiment, Earth vs The Flying Saucers, This Island Earth (50’s??) and a few others.

[@danf321]

Oh, and add Invaders From Mars and Day The Earth Stood Still… two of the best 50’s movies ever.

[@Rockhound6165]

Earth vs Flying Saucers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and This Island Earth are sci-fi movies and not horror. 13 Ghosts and the Blob certainly warrant a mention.

[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

Thanx for reminding me. Grant Williams did 'Monolith' and "ShrinkWrap Man'. "This Island Earth" is top quark, def. My commentary long. Despite the great Niall MacGinnis as evil smiling sorcerer, that film badly damaged by dreadful visual devil or 'demon'...Tourneur avait bien raison. Some monsters are scary to us young, a silly waste as adults...rubber swim gear...whereas some are cute for adults...Kynaston Reeves "Fiend Without a Face, the cute 'Brain Munchers', reminiscent of rather better ant alien criminals in an Outer City Limits'.sued by Heinlein for plagiarism... 'Brain from Planetoid ArousE'...Agar shiny eyes still work. I mentioned how Marcel Hillaire and Vincent Price were in multiple wax museum and mad scientist stuff...Get Smart, Twilight Zone Outer Limits for Marcel. Charles "Bronson" Buchinski scary in first "House Of Wax"...later comedy thug in Hepburn and Tracy "Pat and Mike"...Hep beats up on him! Hammer, whose other non horror movies vary in quality, starting in B film noir, early 5s....were first to use FANGS...bodacious babe enhancing. Please mention actors' names more...mad scientists Whit Bissell, John Hoyt...shrink wraps to miniatures, like the glass enclosed comedy variety...King, Queen and Bishop, of Ernest Thesiger's 'grown from germ plasm' in 'Bride Of FranklySteined" Robert Harris, whose role in "Mirage" equals Matthau's turn as detective...playing off HIS roles in "Charade" and the tragic Kirk Douglas modern western, "Lonely are the Brave"? Will Schallert as comedy side-kicked...'Archie Bunker is truck driver at end. I largely prefer the campy humor of William Castle...Hammered Horror takes itself too seriously, to frighten, causing theater cuddling...humor, as with all intended to bridge adult understanding, humor and nostalgia with the fresh literal reactions we had when younger, is better for the overtly unbelievable. Am 73... for example, 1953 "Invaders from Mars" and "Incredibly Shrinking Munchkin'...and "The Thing"...mesmerized me when very young. Now I see easily 'Invaders' meant to BE Jimmy Hunt's nightmare, simplified....Leif Erickson and Hilary Brooke! Carolyn Jones was in two such films, with Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy and King Donovan in the equally Heinleinesque 'Invasion of the Puppet Taskers'. earlier. wax on, wax off. And look at that shine...'and a desert topping'. Tanx loadz. "

[@markmccann5711]

What about 13 ghost's mate it was so good.

[@danf321]

@ I’m taking about the original movie. It had silly effects and silly 3-D effects, but like “House on Haunted Hill” the acting and production value carried the silliness to be very watchable. With the 3-D glasses given to theater goers, this was a great William Castle gimmick movie.

[@garyabbott3861]

I saw all of these when they were new! I remember many in 3-D. I'm 83.

[@lmboh8585]

I have seen all of these except Night of the Demon. I will add that one to my watch list! Thanks for compiling these for us 😀

[@tylenoljackson9378]

It'll be easier to find it titled "Curse of the Demon". The former is the UK version without any cuts.

[@davidrosler5413]

The British version is the only one to watch. Columbia cut out all the atmospheric subtext. Its an absolutely sublime supernatural theater. The book "Beating The Devil" is a superb and sophisticated recounting of the making of the movie generously peppered with quotes from the participants.

[@jamescampbell39]

@@davidrosler5413, please read the novella Casting The Runes, which the motion picture is based on. It is an interesting read and was written by M R James.

[@davidrosler5413]

@jamescampbell39 i've heard of it, of course, but where to find it? BTW I had a huge, gorgeous, long but shiny-haired black cat who was great whom I named PROFESSOR JULIÀN KARSWELL.

[@geraldmartin7703]

I prefer the shorter U.S. cut. Hostile villagers is a cliche I can do without.

[@OldPirate1718]

As a kid in the 60s on Friday nights, Creature Features came on at 10:30 pm after the news...usually 1 movie as tv channels back then went off the air at midnight. My parents wouldnt let me watch them until I was 10 years old. 😂

[@lovingmayberry307]

Did you know Michael Landon's real name was Eugene Horowitz? After he got his first acting job he decided to change his first name to "Michael." He got "Landon" out of the phone book.

[@Rockhound6165]

From Collings Lake, NJ where he was a high school football star.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Wow,that explains a lot-when l found out that he was Jewish,l thought to myself:”Landon doesn’t seem like a Jewish name.”

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Rich.

[@RebecaLawrence-w6e]

This is a good video. Talking about the monster movies in the 1950's I was a Teenage Werewolf is a good video. A young Michael Landon was good as Tony. The boy that became a werewolf. Christopher Lee made a great Dracula. To this day. I still call Christopher Lee Dracula.I do enjoy classic movies and tv. I'm a 90's kid. The X Files. I enjoy movies with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and many others. Have movies I like to watch. The 1953 version of War of the Worlds is one of my favorites. A long with invasion body snatchers. A true classic never goes out of style. ❤️🐺🧛🦇🧟🦖

[@John-x7r7p]

Great classics 👍🏻 I'm a movie fan

[@reneerichburg8023]

U DID A AWESOME JOB. I LOVE THESES OLD MOVIES 👏👍👍🥰😍💕❤️ BRING BACK MEMORIES 👏👍👍👍

[@pmsusana]

Horrors of the Black museum deserves honorable mention also.

[@frankgesuele6298]

I saw all of these growing up. Such fun.

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

Hammer Horror is still the best!! *Bang! Hammer!* 🔨 -James Rolfe

[@markmccann5711]

Fantastic as usual mate ,l remember sitting up with my brother or best friend on Friday nights watching all of those flicks ,such fun in a different world, thanks again mate .

[@lesliemarshall3764]

Great Picks. I wonder what Tourneur’s version of Night of The Demon would have looked like without showing the demon. I think it would have made a good horror movie into something truly unique; a Noir Horror.

[@sharonellis8776]

I have 6 of these classic movies. I love Hammer, Universal monsters. xx

[@charlenevarada--Stargazer]

I still say "The Blob" was the worst as I imagined it coming through vents, doors, sinks--anything that had an opening! No kidding, that movie had me freaked for weeks!😮

[@ricklupien7598]

Body Snatchers by far the best

[@johnradovich8809]

A masterpiece. Don Siegel made many great films.

[@0therun1t21]

11:12 That's what I need to appreciate a monster, emotions or an interesting back story/good science. I'm bored by monsters that just wanna eat you.

[@Trenchycoat101ify]

I would put Godzilla on that list as well.

[@glennso47]

The 4-d Man was my favorite horror movie.

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

Horror Films of the 1950's that will Blow Your Mind: 1. I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) 2. Horror of Dracula (1958) 3. Fiend without a Face (1958) 4. House of Wax (1953) 5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 6. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 7. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) 8. The Mummy (1959) 9. House on Haunted Hill (1959) 10. Night of the Demon (1957)

[@elfthreefiveseven1297]

The music in Creature From The Black Lagoon was composed by Henry Mancini. I have a CD of his music, and was listening to it late night at work, on a night when I was working alone, and the music is just plain scary.

[@geraldmartin7703]

Try his frenzied score to "Lifeforce". One of my favorites.

[@johnjett1274]

Great Job Rich! We're so lucky we grew up when we did.

[@johnmassung]

I would say that this is one good darn list!

[@dbitgood1]

Hooray for William Castle!

[@emwa3600]

The two films NIGHT OF / CURSE OF THE DEMON have delivered one the great pairings in film-festivals, usually on separate nights. But without the leadership of both Torneau and Hal E. Chester, audiences would never have the option to prefer one or the other. It sparks a lively debate on-line and in lobbies and nearby coffeeshops. "Why not have both?!!"

[@emwa3600]

Also, I think FIEND WITHOUT A FACE was one of those British Quota films, which had an American actor or two on-screen to help offset British war-debt to the US. In this case, it was Marshall Thompson (who?!!) but he made a name himself in these rather ensemble-esque films. George Raft had one... Pat O'Brien had a few - er, two?: In one, his American presence on London on some crime-case was paired with a young Lois "Miss Moneypenny" Maxwell.

[@pamelacurl8342]

All great movies.

[@CAMacKenzie]

Trying to imagine the progression...I Was a Teenage Werewolf...Bonanza...Little House on the Prairie...Highway to Heaven.

[@glennso47]

I know about demons. I used to attend a charismatic worship center. Oh look! There’s one under my chair. How cute is that? I even was told that I had a demon of intelligence! I wish I could have had more of those.

[@imnoone492]

House of wax was also the first horror movie with a stereo soundtrack…

[@davidrosler5413]

Producer Hal Chester was right to establish the existance of the demon from the start. Without it the movie would have been a reasonably good mystery. By establishing the dangèr up front, the movie is a tense and atmospheric suspense thriller.

[@geraldmartin7703]

Impressive looking demon. Godzilla size.

[@davidrosler5413]

@geraldmartin7703 yeah, that giant, slathering, smoking face must have been at the time, as film historian William K. Everson described it, a real Lu-Lu.

[@richarddemuth7077]

Saw ALL but "Fiend Without a Face", but it's a lot like "Attack of the Brain Creatures" from the same decade.

[@JamesSmith-mz5rz]

When movies were movies, enough said!!!

[@bennyjernigan1654]

I saw The Return of Dracula in 1958. It scared me so bad I cried. The movie was black and white. The only color was when they staked the female vampire in the heart. The blood gushed out red, Yikes! That's when I cried. I was 6 years old.

[@retriever19golden55]

I'm 65, and as a kid used to watch Monster Movie Matinee on a local channel, Syracuse, NY. The show was hosted by a TV personality dressed up like a vampire, think he called the vampire Vic Demon (pronounced De-moan), or some such. Anyway, one movie scared me half to death, cannot remember the title, but I can still see a skeleton, in a frilly dress and sun hat, swooping down on someone (Me! It flew right at the camera!) outside in a garden, in broad daylight! Anyone else remember this or know the title?

[@andreichivu7653]

The Fly 1958 ?

[@characterunderconstruction5891]

Didn't like none of the Hammer Films but all the black and white movies I loved.

[@paulhill8245]

I watch Night of the Demon every Halloween Night.

[@pookieizzy7]

I feel that horror today isn't as it was back then especially as far as the US is concerned. However if you were to watch anything from Japan or Korea, they keep the embodiment of what classic horror is about, be it of the visceral, psychological, or natural, it can still do the job. Thing is with me and horror, it's the atmosphere that needs to get my attention and not for the sake of being scared but for the sake of getting my gears grinding to build something of that nature onto paper. I feel that survival horror needs to go back to where its roots were formed from the suspense aspect. Like for example, Romero's Dead series. Like you need to build a story around a situation that seems unwinnable at first until you have to go so deep, you go completely zen on survival. I've even gone so far as watch some mature anime series and the essence of how horror is supposed to be.

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

And don't forget Donovan's Brain and The Monster of Piedras Blancas .

[@redfaux74]

I remember seeing Fiend Without a Face years ago. I made a DnD series on it. There is another movie I wish I could find. Maybe about witches? They levitate their enemies 5 feet into the air, causing them to rotate in circles helplessly, while blood comes out of their eyes, fingers, etc?!? Like a highly positive pressure effect? Anyone know what I'm talking about? 😢

[@geraldmartin7703]

The Fury (1978)? Not witches; but telekinesis.

[@redfaux74]

@geraldmartin7703 - I'll check it out. Thanks. Edit..... No, that's not it but I'll watch it. I think the one I'm looking for is more witches. Not positive tho. The way they kill is like TK but it doesn't seem to be called that or be a psychic thing. And I think it may be older than 1970. But again.... not sure. It seems it might be black and white.

[@christophernewhouse5832]

I liked the video I'm 27 years old & enjoy seeing the past 2 view the future in the present. Also horror movies that can or already happened are the most influential through fear & intimidation something governments utilize to distract the publics perceptions in which causes people to vote 4 what they believe is the problem enabling politicians to vote for constituents policies to get advertising revenue

[@MrQuaazga]

This movie was called, "Curse of the Demon" where I was from.

[@burf90]

I'd add The Crawling Eye (aka The Trollenberg Terror) and The Brain that Wouldn't Die. Though technically The Brain that Wouldn't Die is from the 60s (1962). Still good, though.

[@robertbrescia3196]

The Brain That Wouldn't Die was actually produced in 1959. It's a bit of a tired rehash of several older movies along the same theme. However, its production values and direction are inferior to say the least. Not to mention the acting. The climax is a bit grotesque. As one reviewer put it, the movie took three years to reach an appalled public.

[@burf90]

@@robertbrescia3196 While all that is no doubt true, I still love it and it stays on my personal list.

[@glennso47]

The latest elections are like that. Who can be trusted? 😮

[@jamescampbell39]

Remember Who Do You Serve, and Who Do You Trust?

[@BusterBrown-i2j]

Get a life

[@glennso47]

Frankincense Monster? 😮

[@glennso47]

Michael Landon was the teenager Warewolf.

[@patdaley1622]

What about Caltiki,the Immortal Monster??It was a flesh eating Blob!!

[@josemoreno3334]

There all grate and scary movies. Classics all. Boooooooo. 🎃

[@dbitgood1]

Boris got there first in the original The Mummy.

[@MLBrooks-g3u]

The narrator has a thick Baltimore accent. Ask him to say "Aaron earned an iron urn."

[@joelspringman523]

Michael Landon was the original Teen Wolf.

[@stanleybest8833]

I much prefer cheesy flicks like Teenagers from Outer Space, and relentless horror like War of the Worlds. Clay, rubber, and mood music makes me feel stupid.

[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

My comments parallel. Permettez moi. " Despite the great Niall MacGinnis as evil smiling sorcerer, that film badly damaged by dreadful visual devil or 'demon'...Tourneur avait bien raison. Some monsters are scary to us young, a silly waste as adults...rubber swim gear...whereas some are cute for adults...Kynaston Reeves "Fiend Without a Face, the cute 'Brain Munchers', reminiscent of rather better ant alien criminals in an Outer City Limits'.sued by Heinlein for plagiarism... 'Brain from Planetoid ArousE'...Agar shiny eyes still work. I mentioned how Marcel Hillaire and Vincent Price were in multiple wax museum and mad scientist stuff...Get Smart, Twilight Zone Outer Limits for Marcel. Charles "Bronson" Buchinski scary in first "House Of Wax"...later comedy thug in Hepburn and Tracy "Pat and Mike"...Hep beats up on him! Hammer, whose other non horror movies vary in quality, starting in B film noir, early 5s....were first to use FANGS...bodacious babe enhancing. Please mention actors' names more...mad scientists Whit Bissell, John Hoyt...shrink wraps to miniatures, like the glass enclosed comedy variety...King, Queen and Bishop, of Ernest Thesiger's 'grown from germ plasm' in 'Bride Of FranklySteined" Robert Harris, whose role in "Mirage" equals Matthau's turn as detective...playing off HIS roles in "Charade" and the tragic Kirk Douglas modern western, "Lonely are the Brave"? Will Schallert as comedy side-kicked...'Archie Bunker is truck driver at end. I largely prefer the campy humor of William Castle...Hammered Horror takes itself too seriously, to frighten, causing theater cuddling...humor, as with all intended to bridge adult understanding, humor and nostalgia with the fresh literal reactions we had when younger, is better for the overtly unbelievable. Am 73... for example, 1953 "Invaders from Mars" and "Incredibly Shrinking Munchkin'...and "The Thing"...mesmerized me when very young. Now I see easily 'Invaders' meant to BE Jimmy Hunt's nightmare, simplified....Leif Erickson and Hilary Brooke! Carolyn Jones was in two such films, with Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy and King Donovan in the equally Heinleinesque 'Invasion of the Puppet Taskers'. earlier. wax on, wax off. And look at that shine...'and a desert topping'. Tanx loadz.

[@DrFrankNStein-sf2ww]

Am i a nerd for knowing all of these movies ?

[@tomryan914]

'King Of Kings' AKA 'I Was A Teenage Jesus' (stole it)

[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

amusing! My commentary longer. "Despite the great Niall MacGinnis as evil smiling sorcerer, that film badly damaged by dreadful visual devil or 'demon'...Tourneur avait bien raison. Some monsters are scary to us young, a silly waste as adults...rubber swim gear...whereas some are cute for adults...Kynaston Reeves "Fiend Without a Face, the cute 'Brain Munchers', reminiscent of rather better ant alien criminals in an Outer City Limits'.sued by Heinlein for plagiarism... 'Brain from Planetoid ArousE'...Agar shiny eyes still work. I mentioned how Marcel Hillaire and Vincent Price were in multiple wax museum and mad scientist stuff...Get Smart, Twilight Zone Outer Limits for Marcel. Charles "Bronson" Buchinski scary in first "House Of Wax"...later comedy thug in Hepburn and Tracy "Pat and Mike"...Hep beats up on him! Hammer, whose other non horror movies vary in quality, starting in B film noir, early 5s....were first to use FANGS...bodacious babe enhancing. Please mention actors' names more...mad scientists Whit Bissell, John Hoyt...shrink wraps to miniatures, like the glass enclosed comedy variety...King, Queen and Bishop, of Ernest Thesiger's 'grown from germ plasm' in 'Bride Of FranklySteined" Robert Harris, whose role in "Mirage" equals Matthau's turn as detective...playing off HIS roles in "Charade" and the tragic Kirk Douglas modern western, "Lonely are the Brave"? Will Schallert as comedy side-kicked...'Archie Bunker is truck driver at end. I largely prefer the campy humor of William Castle...Hammered Horror takes itself too seriously, to frighten, causing theater cuddling...humor, as with all intended to bridge adult understanding, humor and nostalgia with the fresh literal reactions we had when younger, is better for the overtly unbelievable. Am 73... for example, 1953 "Invaders from Mars" and "Incredibly Shrinking Munchkin'...and "The Thing"...mesmerized me when very young. Now I see easily 'Invaders' meant to BE Jimmy Hunt's nightmare, simplified....Leif Erickson and Hilary Brooke! Carolyn Jones was in two such films, with Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy and King Donovan in the equally Heinleinesque 'Invasion of the Puppet Taskers'. earlier. wax on, wax off. And look at that shine...'and a desert topping'. Tanx loadz.

[@JamesSimmons-d1t]

Despite the great Niall MacGinnis as evil smiling sorcerer, that film badly damaged by dreadful visual devil or 'demon'...Tourneur avait bien raison. Some monsters are scary to us young, a silly waste as adults...rubber swim gear...whereas some are cute for adults...Kynaston Reeves "Fiend Without a Face, the cute 'Brain Munchers', reminiscent of rather better ant alien criminals in an Outer City Limits'.sued by Heinlein for plagiarism... 'Brain from Planetoid ArousE'...Agar shiny eyes still work. I mentioned how Marcel Hillaire and Vincent Price were in multiple wax museum and mad scientist stuff...Get Smart, Twilight Zone Outer Limits for Marcel. Charles "Bronson" Buchinski scary in first "House Of Wax"...later comedy thug in Hepburn and Tracy "Pat and Mike"...Hep beats up on him! Hammer, whose other non horror movies vary in quality, starting in B film noir, early 5s....were first to use FANGS...bodacious babe enhancing. Please mention actors' names more...mad scientists Whit Bissell, John Hoyt...shrink wraps to miniatures, like the glass enclosed comedy variety...King, Queen and Bishop, of Ernest Thesiger's 'grown from germ plasm' in 'Bride Of FranklySteined" Robert Harris, whose role in "Mirage" equals Matthau's turn as detective...playing off HIS roles in "Charade" and the tragic Kirk Douglas modern western, "Lonely are the Brave"? Will Schallert as comedy side-kicked...'Archie Bunker is truck driver at end. I largely prefer the campy humor of William Castle...Hammered Horror takes itself too seriously, to frighten, causing theater cuddling...humor, as with all intended to bridge adult understanding, humor and nostalgia with the fresh literal reactions we had when younger, is better for the overtly unbelievable. Am 73... for example, 1953 "Invaders from Mars" and "Incredibly Shrinking Munchkin'...and "The Thing"...mesmerized me when very young. Now I see easily 'Invaders' meant to BE Jimmy Hunt's nightmare, simplified....Leif Erickson and Hilary Brooke! Carolyn Jones was in two such films, with Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy and King Donovan in the equally Heinleinesque 'Invasion of the Puppet Taskers'. earlier. wax on, wax off. And look at that shine...'and a desert topping'. Tanx loadz.

[@NoName-zm1ks]

The Tingler! The Tingler! The Tingler!

[@raverdude0021]

I've seen them all back in the day. The "I was a teenaged..." movies SUCKED even back then. Fiend without a face was stupid. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was one of my top 3 favorite Sci-Fi. Curse of the Demon was my all-time favorite horror from back then. I have the videos for both that and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[@alg11297]

All good choices. Many of the Hammer films weren't released in the States until much later after they were released in the UK. The horror, in color, was deemed to be too intense and the women too sexy and revealing.

[@bluelou4612]

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[@wiseguymaybe]

You found found I Was A Teenage Werewlf one of the most enavating films of the 1950's???? Wasn't this presented as one of the worst movies ever made according to the MST3K theme song?

[@robertbrescia3196]

A scary movie on first viewing, especially if you were a kid. The premise is a bit honky. However, the movie is groundbreaking if one considers that it was the first American horror film made since The Beast With Five Fingers in 1946.

[@Curtis-d8j]

I think Christopher Lee was brilliant. But he didn't always get roles worthy of his talent.

[@michaelkelly5626]

earth vrs the flying saucers and inviable invaders

[@varanid9]

Actually, the pod people represented communism, not McCarthyism; the idea was to interpret that paranoia (later to be proven justified) of communist infiltration as an alien invasion of soul-less plants that, much like communists, exist for conformism. Also, I doubt that Hammer's "The Mummy" had any intentional subtext that depicted western archeologists as literal grave robbers as, at that time, it was mainly western academia that valued ancient history and such excavations were often done with the permission and, even cooperation, of the host countries.

[@jamescampbell39]

At the time the mummy was supposed to have been discovered, many archeological digs were paid for by private individuals. British Nobility was the main financier. Lord Canarvon comes to mind. Carter was not an archeologist but a cartographer. Archeologists in Egypt at that time would have been men like Flinders Petrie, who was sponsored by the British Museum in Cairo, or Wallace Budge an archeologist, but mostly an antiquities smuggler. Surprisingly using dynamite to open a tomb door or remove rock from a door was standard operating procedure, that's how Cushing character got crippled by such an explosion.

[@varanid9]

@@jamescampbell39 An antiquities smuggler?? I would hope that Mr. Budge, also being an actual archeologist, insured that his goods were well taken care of and reached the appropriate hands. I'm to understand that, in modern times, the bane of paleontologists are untrained fossil smugglers more interested in money than the welfare of their goods; some quite important finds have been bought from them, some of them badly damaged by crude extraction methods, the Spinosaurus coming to mind. One can only wonder what important scientific finds have been destroyed or ended up in avaricious, private hands.

[@ralphdeblasio2902]

The Hammer films make me yawn. I prefer the originals.

[@glennso47]

A gruesome premise that Kamala would have become the next president? 😱

[@daguard411]

Thank you!