Invasion of the B-Movies: 1950s Sci-Fi So Bad They're Good

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[@fiorenzointagliata3252]

. 14:17 robot monster

[@HarryBJones-ce2iz]

I’m 89. I still love B movies. Watch as many as I can. Always loved Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi.

[@rhinox3474]

Most of these movies are my late night guilty pleasures. The crawling eye when Forrest Tucker yells at the pilot "Do as you're told" always cracks me up

[@paladin56]

Just goes to show that even Lee van Cleef had bills to pay.

[@jamesweemsdishman]

I knew that was Lee Van Cleef!😱

[@frankgesuele6298]

Watch him & Earl Holliman as a hit team in The Big Combo.

[@OptimiSkeptic]

3:22 I never realized how iconic those uniforms would be! That was almost instantly recognizable to me from Forbidden Planet, 1956.

[@BusterBrown-i2j]

Also used in a twilight zone episode.

[@carlozabbia1157]

I was born in '49 and these have always been some of my favorite movies, especially those by Roger Corman. Keep up the good work.

[@zaphod100]

The mens uniforms in Queen of Outer Space are recycled from Forbidden Planet

[@Lumibear.]

So are a couple of the props and one of the dresses, they really raided that dress up box.

[@carlbruschnigjr1757]

As were the weapons.

[@PREPFORIT]

you are right !

[@MinhThu-xn2bt]

& the uniforms of the civil defense in The Time Machine (1960)

[@RWildekrav66]

Good eye !

[@bwilliams463]

The first 50s B-movies I bought on VHS for my collection were 'The Killer Shrews' and 'The Giant Claw,' sometime around 1990. I hunted the department store bargain bins sporadically until a guy I met in college in 1993 introduced me to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000,' and then my mania was ON.

[@larrydavis3645]

Try to imagine watching these films as a young child; you might become scared because I took all of them seriously.

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

I remember seeing Rocketship X-M on TV. On a Saturday afternoon, I'm guessing in about 1958 or '59. I was about 7yo. It was exciting and terrifying.

[@ve2vfd]

The dudes in Queens of Outer Space mugged Leslie Nielson's crew on the United Planets starship C-57D. :)

[@bluedoober9194]

My wife always scratched her head when I watch a lot of these cheesers. It’s cool to see so many other people like watching them too. Of course it brings back childhood nostalgia but some of the best all-time comedies are old horror/sci-fi flicks. I have a big collection of these on DVD, so I say to my fellow B movie fans to carry on the tradition and be proud of your cheesiness.🧀👏🏻

[@geraldmartin7703]

Maybe it's because I was a kid in the 1950s that I looked past the miserable execution and concentrated on story, themes, characters, and favorite actors. In short, I rarely got smug about these movies.

[@palerider964]

It's hard to believe that Peter Graves could only get these schlock movie roles on the heels of Stalag 17.

[@richardjones4466]

He's also in Night Of The Hunter!

[@tomryan914]

That'll teach him to be a stoolie!!!

[@palerider964]

@tomryan914 😊👍

[@JohnJ469]

And he went on to eat fish as an airliner Captain.

[@MrBsbotto]

​Nice one, tom!

[@VanLat7]

Seems that Peter Graves and Beverly Garland were the king and queen of the 50's B movies

[@patriciaaturner289]

3:12 Just noticed that the men’s uniforms are the same as the ones in Forbidden Planet.

[@JZsBFF]

The fact that those 50s b-movies were appreciated at the time and get mocked these days only demonstrate that people had more imagination to fill in the blanks in those days than spectators nowadays who can't think for themselves anymore.

[@clarencewalker3925]

Agreed.

[@RSEFX]

Why do so many of these "reviewers" spend so much time trying to be cleaver at the expense of the efforts of others so fervently, and so often? Looking for faults and laughing at others? Maybe fun once in a while to be amused by the likes of ROBOT MONSTER or ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN, but....to keep repeating this useless practice rather than maybe seeking out the better points and creative resourcefulness of some of these films has become sooooo old hat and worn out. Maybe it's just my opinion, but I often admire what was done. Making films is not easy. I think these are generally more fun to watch for what they accomplished rather than what they failed at. Some truly have little to no thing to inspire positive comments, but a lot of the films here ROCKETSHIP X-M, MAGNETIC MONSTER are examples) have a lot going for them worth nothing rather than ragging on so much. Again, just an opinion.

[@JZsBFF]

@@RSEFX Quite an interesting take you have there and it's a VERY valid point of view. I've got nothing against amateur reviewers but when their attitude becomes one of condescendency then I'm inclined to think that their thoughts reflect best the silliness of their OWN product/philosophy (judgment is easier than reflection) which took little to no effort to produce, compared to those 50s movies. Those 50s movies give/gave me more thrills than many recent movies/franchises.

[@PREPFORIT]

I agree.

[@ronschlorff7089]

Right, and kids (like me) could read back then too!! So, that helps develop their "imagination"! ;D

[@lw1343]

You "young people" today think those props and special effects were laughed at because you're used to modern cinema technology, But for us youngsters, they worked. We did analyze for flaws.

I miss guide strings on spaceships.

[@Mark-td5ux]

So much more imaginative than anything today and they steal the old ideas like the Terminator and the Thing.

[@TheChadxiii]

James Cameron used two twilight zone episodes to come up with the idea for terminator and the the thing is a remake....

[@Mark-td5ux]

@@TheChadxiii The original Terminator was an episode of the Outer limits in 1963 with all the parameters identical to the 84 Michael Ansara was the Terminator called Kwala..

[@TheChadxiii]

@@Mark-td5ux yes sorry outer limits not twilight zone, demon with a glass hand and soldier

[@paullevine1813]

One of my favorite 50s monster film i must admit is The TrollenbergTerror & even today those Crawling Eyes are still pretty fun & creepy & it was a well-done film for the time. Who wouldn't love the lovely Janet Munro & ole Warren Mitchell as the professor. They may have been cheap & cheesy, but they are still a blast to watch. You probably covered The Attack of the Crab Monsters in a different segment i have not yet seen but what a fun movie that one is. I grew up in the 60s & 70s, so all these were always on one of the creature features of the day. Yea today's horror is intense as hell, but these oldies still have that magic silliness we love.

[@jeffagain7516]

Fully agree my friend with all you've said and my hat's off for you mentioning 2 specifically that I truly love; Trollenburg Terror and Attack of the Crab Monsters! Though the critters are campy, the script and dialogue is tight and well delivered in both! So happy I was finally able to add them to my Blu-Ray/DVD collection! :)

[@potrzebieneuman4702]

Amazing how in 1956 movies such as It Conquered the World and Forbidden Planet could come out of the movie industry at the same time.

[@ronschlorff7089]

yup, but budgets dictate quality, at least then. Now, big budget sci fi movies mostly stink, and they bomb!!

[@peterwyetzner5276]

I like how there's a computer called MANIAC, playing on early computer names like UNIVAC and ENIAC. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story in which the machine is called IPECAC, after a medicine that encouraged vomiting.

[@debrapaulsonphotography-da4857]

I saw "The Killer Shrews" on tv when I was a child and it scared the bejeebus outta me. You don't get the full effect without the weird sound the shrews made - I can still imagine it all these years later. Totally creeped me out. And people barricaded in a small building on an island with ravenous shrews chewing thru the walls? How much more trapped can ya be?

[@civwar64bob77]

Me too. Don't tell me they're just dogs made up! My 7-year-old brain knew they were real killer shrews!

[@lucarvbraganca9766]

Roger Corman was The King of the B Movies.

[@US_Joe]

Fantastic post - great stirred memories. Thank you sir ! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@DanielBrodowski-g2n]

Loved this video I remember watching all these stinkers but you forgot one of my all time favorites. Invasion of the saucermen

[@mrsmissy2669]

Wow, I thought I had seen them all, but you always come with more! Such nostalgia.

[@ErrolConner-p8p]

I noticed " She Demons " starred Irish McCalla, who was known at that time for playing television's " Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ". Great list of " So bad, they're good " gems.

[@ronaldculley]

What? Plan 9 didn't make the cut? Outrageous, lol.

[@HassoBenSoba]

Maybe it will get an episode all its own.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@HassoBenSoba it's on one called "worst sci fi movies of the 50's". Also, folks, check the movie "Ed Wood" who was the director of it and stars Johnny Depp. It's pretty good, even if you don't like the actor!! LOL ;D

[@stevemastnick5034]

I always thought the giant alien in the 50 Foot Woman looked like Dwight D.Eisenhower doing some extra acting work.

[@ankhpom9296]

The 1950s was the golden era of sci fi movies.

[@MalachiWhite-tw7hl]

Would have loved to have been around then and gone to drive-in theatres and restaurants.

[@kingforaday8725]

I love how in many of these movies the authorities would send in an expert to help out with a Doctor/Captain Jones, Smith, Brown, etc title. Of course when they were revealed they would be gorgeous and first name would be Elaine, Barbara, Betty, Martha, etc. Or the specialist would bring along his assistant, who of course would be his daughter, also gorgeous!! Naturally both would at some point be rescued and fall in love with the male lead character!!!

[@MinhThu-xn2bt]

But Davy Crockett lost to Marshal Matt Dillon when he admitted wetting his pants for seeing THEM !

[@MinhThu-xn2bt]

William Sloane's 1938 SciFi novel "To Walk The Night" has been adapted in a solid movie with a good story, starring John Neville. Sloane's other novel " The Edge of Running Water "(1939) was made into a 1941 chilling movie "The devil Commands" starring Boris Karloff.

[@seantlewis376]

As a child in Southern California, I remember channel 5 KTLA had Saturday afternoon show called "Creature Features" that showed most of these movies. It was great ridiculous fun with my dad, who did grow up in the '50s.

[@rodneydowney2561]

Actual review of Killer Shrews: "This Dallas-made potboiler barely climbs out of the home movie class."

[@vonzigle]

Thanks!

[@RerunZone]

Wow. Thank you so much for your support @vonzigle!

[@CelestialNav1]

I’ve seen every one of these B Movies. Too bad that they don’t show these B Movie Classics on TV anymore.

[@KevinRudd-w8s]

Here in the UK they do, there is a channel that specialises in 50s to 70s TV and movies. Most of these movies have been shown over the last year.

[@CelestialNav1]

@@KevinRudd-w8s Cool! 😎 What Channel is it? I lived in England in ‘71 and ‘72. There were only 3 TV Channels to watch in my area. (Sussex).

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@CelestialNav1 Right, the "good old days": 3 channels and always Something worth watching on TV; today, 300+ channels and Nothing worth watching on TV!! LOL ;D

[@BusterBrown-i2j]

No. Now they show C TV shows for 24 hours straight. Like "The Office!"

[@KevinRudd-w8s]

@@CelestialNav1 Sorry for the late reply, Britain now has a channel called Talking Movies (Channel 82) which is dedicated to nostalgia. They do not show anything that is less than twenty years old and most of what they show is from at least thirty years ago or older. You will not see the latest blockbuster on this channel, well not for another twenty or thirty years anyhow.

[@HassoBenSoba]

(7:15), etc...the disembodied head is played by actor Robin Hughes; fans of the Twilight Zone will recognize him as the title character in "The Howling Man" (1960). His career took a MAJOR step upward later in '58, when he was cast as Brian O'Bannion...a fairly big part...in Warner Brothers "A" production of "Auntie Mame", in which he shares a number of scenes with mega-star Rosalind Russell. But the good fortune didn't last.

[@AntoineC.FerbosI]

I remember several of these films. Giant Shrews/ 50 Foot Woman/ Wasp Woman and several others. Great movies as a young child. Thanks.

[@garyobrian3597]

Not gonna lie i would watch the heck out of these movies

[@rodneydowney2561]

Attack of the 50 foot Woman stars queen of the fifties B-movies Allison Hayes, also featured in The Undead, The Disembodied, and Zombies of Mora Tau.

[@Larkinchance]

The Brain-eaters.... Of course this 8 year old had to sit in the front row... As the lurid plot un-folded, I got claustrophobic seeing the main character slide down a tube inside of the cork-screw vessel. I could take it no further and I ran up the aisle to the safety of the lobby... Picture a frighten 8 year old wearing a trench coat and a fedora

[@kathleenmholland8055]

I've always enjoyed films like these. They're rather sad, being so awful. But I always tell myself, well, at least these actors and the crew could pay their rent and buy groceries for a while when they got work in one of these. My favorite "alien" of these was the.....thing....in "It Conquered The Wotld"....which I've always found highly amusing, with it looking like a traffic cone on some very bad drugs. WHERE did folk come up with the ideas for such characters? It also had two of my favorite people in it (Lee Van Cleef and Peter Graves), which makes it worth watching. Thank you for this very enjoyable video. You've got another subscriber! 😊

[@JamminClemmons]

NOTE: "It Conquered the World," at the ending scene, there was a shipping problem for a giant weapon that was designed to destroy the monster. That device was loaded on a flatbed truck and was stuck in terrible California traffic, being late for the final shot. That explains why the cheesy flare was used. Frank Zappa has a live song about it called, "CHEEPNIS." Seek it out.

[@willowwisp6401]

Well…… movie Special Effects had to Start somewhere.

[@HocusFocusProductions]

I never thought the problem with Monster from Green Hell was the FX. It was the plodding stock footage scenes

[@joestrike8537]

How could you leave out “The Alligator People”? Love his rubbery scaly suit!

[@dolphinsrr]

This is only the first video!

[@zaphod100]

There was a sequel to The Killer Shrews made in 2011 starring original cast member James Best( Rosco P Coaltrane from Dukes of Hazard)

[@Firebrand55]

Ah..the good ole days of wide-eyed, popcorn munching, squeals of delight and horror. The last thing us teens wanted then was a jolly good script, great acting and a cohesive plot line!...that was for cinema goers who thought too much...and....these film actually earned money already!

[@larrydavis3645]

Rocketship X-M was to go to the moon at first and then trip to Mars was an accident.

[@geraldmartin7703]

Worse, in "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953), the duo actually only go to New Orleans.

[@glennso47]

They didn’t have gps back then.

[@lancerevell5979]

Captain a relative of "Wrong Way Corrigan"? 😅

[@lancerevell5979]

Captain a relative of "Wrong Way Corrigan"? 😅

[@v2joecr]

Them! from 1954 came to mind when I saw the title of this video.

[@ronschlorff7089]

he has that in a "best classics" themed vid.

[@peterwyetzner5276]

Maybe "mild inconvenience" should become a subgenre of horror movies.

[@gorymarty56]

Queen of outer space took alot of Forbidden Planet wardrobe. Lol

[@richardcathcart2952]

a C-GRADE sci-fi horror: "Night of the Lepus". giant Bunny rabbits terrorize.....no one.

[@IvorPresents]

Oh yes..

[@richardmohr9218]

Lepus was from the 70's

[@nstooge]

I love those old movies.

[@dawg065]

These were and still are my favorite kind of movies. Sure the effects look cheap and hokey. but that's what gave these movies their charm. We've become so spoiled with cgi nowdays.

[@neighborhoodcatlady6094]

Loved the Beginning of the End. One of my favorites as a child

[@gtlfb]

You're a bit unfair to "Magnetic Monster". I found it pretty intriguing, and it builds to a very exciting climax. Oh, and that first monster is not a carrot, it's okra.

[@geraldmartin7703]

The scenes in the underground atomic reactor at the end were actually lifted from the 1934 German sci-fi movie, "Gold". Note when actor Richard Carlson switches clothing and is transformed into the protagonist in the earlier film.

[@gtlfb]

@@geraldmartin7703 Thanks for that tidbit, I’ll have to look for that movie.

[@nasabear]

@@geraldmartin7703 The first time I saw Magnetic Monster I wondered why the visual effects suddenly got so much better! Then I learned how they'd used footage from "Gold". There is some Grade A Deco Punk work in those sequences, right out of Metropolis, or Things to Come.

[@dolphinsrr]

Actually he said it was a cucumber!😂

[@ronschlorff7089]

Okra? Now I'm really scared!! LOL ;D

[@anderskihlberg]

Thank you, interesting to have the chance to look at these clips. From Sweden with love.

[@Kneon_Knight]

Alright, enough! "Decapitated head." So the head had its head cut off?

[@jimiscnc3750]

It conquored the world was the subject of a frank zappa song called Cheepnis.

[@ronschlorff7089]

LOL, Zappa, and his kids, just walking around in a wood, looking lost, like one of these movies featured here would be a good B movie, low budget, no costumes or makeup needed, just a bit of dialog from Frankie!! LOL LOL LOL ;D

[@scottthomas3792]

I have seen all of these movies...I think the venusians in " Queen of Outer Space" are beauty pageant winners of the time, but I'm not sure about that. There's one called " It: The terror from Beyond Space" that supposedly inspired " Alien"...

[@ronschlorff7089]

Good movie, and pretty much the template, minus the "criminal" element, for "Alien", as you said!

[@bertbinion7420]

I enjoy Rocket Ship XM. Watch it now and then.

[@HassoBenSoba]

Me too. Its rather laid-back, fatalistic approach is one of its assets, I think. And the ending is quite remarkable.

[@ronschlorff7089]

One I have in my vid collection, ok story, good acting, ...that's pretty much it.

[@renardfranse]

how about the attack of the crab monsters? LOL

[@Laceykat66]

Thank Drive-in Movies for a lot of these gems. You can make all the cheap and fun movies you want but you need to screen to show them on. How many of these classics do you think Radio City Music Hall showed ?? 😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great job as usual.

[@rob-v1y]

Man, Peter Graves would do anything.....but Lee Van Cleeve! Oh no Lee!

[@tomryan914]

With hair no less!!!

[@ronschlorff7089]

ya gotta eat!! ;D

[@ksharpe10]

Wasp Woman could have been a great Early Outer Limits episode for sure.

[@jamesivie5717]

I liked Rocketship XM. I admit the first 2/3 of the move were boring, but the scenes on Mars when the crew encounters the people and the subtle eerie music was realistic.

[@jn48-sc5ei]

I liked it too!! 😊👍👍👍

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@jn48-sc5ei me three!! ;D

[@jn48-sc5ei]

@@ronschlorff7089 😃🚀🚀🚀👌

[@PecosChico]

That small Illinois town was Chicago.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

EXCELLENT video!!! can't wait for part II !!

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

Invasion of the B-Movies:1950's Sci-Fi So Bad They're Good: 1. It Conquered the World (1956) 2. Queen of Outer Space (1958) 3. Beginning of the End (1957) 4. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) 5. The Thing that Couldn't Die (1958) 6. The Wasp Woman (1959) 7. The Killer Shrews (1959) 8. The Magnetic Monster (1953) 9. Rocketship X-M (1950) 10. Robot Monster (1953) 11. The Brain Eaters (1958) 12. Monster from Green Hell (1957) 13. The Crawling Eye (1958) 14. Not of this Earth (1957) 15. She Demons (1958)

[@worry2much]

I have seen all but 1 of these movies,Robot Monster to be exact. Even as a kid seeing this movie was "you gotta be kidding me" . Honestly thought the head of the gorlla suit got lost in the mail so they grabbed a diving helmet and went to full speed to the bottom of the batrel.

[@dolphinsrr]

Actually I like it better with the helmet! 😂

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@dolphinsrr yep, an upgrade for sure, in those days the monkey suit was passe', ...until POTA's of course in 1968. LOL ;D

[@robertbrescia3196]

Robot Monster is worth spending an extra night in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@robertbrescia3196 LOL, are they no cute chicks worth it here? :D

[@MinhThu-xn2bt]

2:26 QOOS has the most accurate prediction about our today's flat screen HD color TV !

[@AlanEmmons-qw6bg]

How about doing a bit on "Not of this earth", the original one I mean! I never saw the flick on the big screen but the commercials scared me when I was a kid when the creature jumped on peoples head! But I watched it on the Dumont we had with a round cathode ray tube, and we had one of the turn your TV into a color TV with the three level, green ,blue and red plastic covers. It was lame as hell but we loved watching it and larfing at its screwy effect. And the angry red planet was a classic to my young impressionable mind! Whoo ooh a whoo! My goodness you did it with not of this earth, THANKS! I never forgot the classic ending!!😳!! ?? With mr. Smith "if that's your real name?" And then he became an agent in the Matrix. Upward monster mobility!! Great stuff! More please😱😱??

[@carlbruschnigjr1757]

It was also remade in the 80's starring Traci Lords and featured her last filmed nude scene. All of her previous movies were supposed to be destroyed.

[@dockaos924]

Love old B movies 👍

[@georgespalding7640]

Poor Peter Graves and Lee van Cliff. They had to break into Hollywood by suffering through these unbelievably bad sci-fi movies. It's a wonder they didn't get a bad reputation after this.

[@glenchapman3899]

Clint Eastwood got his start the same way

[@georgespalding7640]

@ His first appearance was in the movie Revenge of the Creature, 1954. And then he had some other small parts in some other bad movies and then finally he had a more significant part in the movie The Blob. I think he was a lab assistant or something. And then suddenly he was a star in the TV showRawhide. I would love to read his biography someday. Many movie stars have lived incredible, colorful lives. If you ever get a chance and you like to read, read Charlton Heston's biography.

[@ronschlorff7089]

they cared more about paying rent and eating regularly then than their later "reputations" LOL LOL :D

[@lancerevell5979]

Good thing Van Cleef got into Spaghetti Westerns! 😎👍

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@lancerevell5979 Right. He, like other actors were "craftspeople" in those earlier days, and went anywhere they could get work. Not like today's, whatever you may call the "Hollywood crowd", but certainly not "craftsmen and craftswomen" producing good things. And yes, they also certainly made some "duds", in order to "keep beans on the table". :D LOL

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Vagely remember a few of those episodes🤔.

[@glennso47]

I Was A Teenage Warewolf which starred Michael Landon. I can’t imagine him in a horror movie after seeing him in Bonanza.

[@ferreirj123]

It conquered the world was way better then it's remake, Zontar, the thing from Venus.

[@IvorPresents]

Almost a word for word, duplicate.

[@tomconner2326]

Zontar was so bad it inspired the Frank Zappa song "Cheepniss."

[@steventiger880]

Amazingly, "It Conquered the World" was remade in the 1960s as "Zontar, the Thing from Venus." Difficult to say which was worse.

[@michaelgriffith7033]

When I saw "It Conquered the World" when I was about 6, the monster really scared me.

[@cristiancastro8734]

Excelente video, muchas gracias

[@Xiy114]

Monster from it conquered the world looks like a modified traffic cone.

[@luvmuppets]

I hope the producers of “The Brain Eaters” bought the rights from Robert A. Heinlein. Sounds like a carbon copy of his novel “The Puppet Masters”.

[@paulforder591]

Correct indeed: Heinlein's novel, "The Puppet Masters" was the inspiration for "The Brain Eaters."

[@larrypatty8333]

I think he sued them for copyright violations.

[@arkhammedik]

Low budget, corny, yet they somehow seem to hold up to repeated viewings. I can watch these schlock flicks over and over, whereas I'm one and done with most big budget blockbusters.

[@ronschlorff7089]

one word why: Acting!

[@lorenzabrioni5256]

Grazie!! Un piacevole salto nel mio passato...

[@nooctip]

There is nothing to fear. The Zarlons are completely docile so long as my Terocerator is running in the green. But Prof. the dial is in the red. Ah. We may wish to relocate.

[@kenr4709]

I remember a lot of these movies, one of my favorite was attack of the bee women. It was so bad it was funny and the actors tried to portray the characters like they were in a real movie, the police chief wore a huge oversized police hat something like you'd see in Batman. It was so bad it was good. That's one of my favorite from the 50s. 23:40

[@bullettube9863]

Where is the "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes"? It's theme song is the best part!

[@MisterG2323]

Pretty sure I saw 'em all back in the days of Shock Theatre. Classic stuff to stir a kid's imagination!

[@stanleybest8833]

Much like these films are: 1. The Spider Inside Me, and 2. Beneathe the Twelve Mile Reef. Both films are on the Humanities Film Forum Must See List, and both are on KZbin.

[@glennso47]

The 4-D Man in 1959 was a great horror film that I remember. As a kid I saw it as a double feature with Mary Poppins.

[@dolphinsrr]

4d man was a sci-fi film.

[@dannyspitzer1267]

Good suggestions, thanks

[@Curtis-d8j]

Killer Shrews 9:48 stars James Best who would later play Roscoe P. Coltrane in Dukes of Hazzard.

[@rickhibdon11]

Magnetic Monster is great! In its day, it portrayed The REAL public fears of the 50's

[@rodneydowney2561]

It Conquered the World spoiler: It didn't.

[@ClutchCargo001]

That's what it wants us to think.

[@ronschlorff7089]

guess so, we are still here!! LOL

[@nobody6546]

🏆👍🏽👏🏆! I went with my Grand Pa ( had to: under age for movies alone) & watched IT CAME FROM 🧟‍♂️🛸! Was somSCARED!! Asked Grand Pa why he wasn’t scared!!??… he said,”… well.. I married your Grandmother… so Big Deal !” 😂😂😂

[@betamaxblocker]

At the very least, we got some fun Mystery Science Theater episodes out of several of these! Frequent 3 Stooges director Edward Bernds helmed "Queen of Outer Space." Apparently the work gave him ulcers...

[@Bargle5]

I spotted that the dress on one of the women in "Queen of Outer Space" was Anne Francis' from "Forbidden Planet".

[@robertbrescia3196]

In the old days, studios never threw anything away, including costumes. Lots of them were recycled into later films.

[@Mondo762]

Maybe somebody can help me. When I was a kid in the 50's, I remember a movie that had brains with spines attached flying around in the woods terrifying people. Any guess?

[@ClutchCargo001]

Fiend Without a Face. Not great, but definitely watchable.

[@ronschlorff7089]

yeah, but those things have moved onto the streets of San Francisco now!! ;D

[@JAMESLEVEE]

The Brain Eaters was loosely adapted from The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein. A much better (in terms of FX, but still bad) movie (with Donald Sutherland) was made in 1994.

[@billc4993]

I have seen most of these and a few are my personal favs.

[@jamesweemsdishman]

And Dukes, small typing screen.😵‍💫