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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
Am getting a box of 'Sci Fi Classics' for christmas - it contains the original Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It Came From Outer Space, This Island Earth, Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man - oh, and Tarantula. I noticed most of the films were directed by Jack Arnold. I'd not realized he'd been responsible for so many of my childhood favourites, and I've not seen 'It' ever. Anyone any thoughts, memories? I was sad to see the blokes last directed thing was an episode of The Fall Guy in 1980... (The whole collection seems a steal, btw - £16 in this case) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I absolutely love each and every one of those films, Tony. Arnold also directed The Incredible Shrinking Man - a teenage favourite of mine; I actually wore out my old VHS copy. Arnold had a real golden spell in the 1950s and was responsible for some classic genre films. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.241.252 |
As Barry Norman would say, swipe me they're all stonkers... | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.240.155.122 |
I had a plastic toy Mutant from This Island Earth when I was young. It was cool. The movie? Well, I've only seen the MST3K version, so I can't comment. But that sounds like a pretty sweet set. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.241.252 |
I loved THIS ISLAND EARTH when I saw it as a lad on tv - it formed part of a set of 'fifties sf films that were, to me watching them on tv at the time, perfect. Others included FORBIDDEN PLANET, THEM!, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, INVADERS FROM MARS and WAR OF THE WORLDS. A couple of these are less than perfect when viewed as an adult, but they got to me at an impressionable age, so I still love 'em! There are many more great films from that era but these ones seemed to click with me somehow. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.241.252 |
Damn you Tony - your post made me look up some sets on Amazon, so I bought these for a laugh over a beer or two:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horror-Classics-Collection-Movie-REGION/dp/B0001HAGTM/re f=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228784582&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/SciFi-Classics-Movie-Pack-REGION/dp/B0001HAGU6/ref=sr_1_ 2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228784649&sr=1-2 ...and look at this - 100 films for 20 quid - they've got to be grim! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horror-Classics-Movie-Pack-REGION/dp/B000NVIGD4/ref=sr_1 _1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228784669&sr=1-1 | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.240.155.122 |
Here's the site of the packager: http://www.millcreekent.com/search.asp?starg=c&prodcatid=34 And for those not inclined to click through, here's the list of movies in this set: 1. Amazing Transparent Man, The 2. Ape Man, The 3. Atomic Brain, The 4. Attack of the Monsters 5. Bat, The (Silent) 6. Beast from Haunted Cave 7. Blood Tide 8. Bowery at Midnight 9. Brain Machine, The 10. Bride of the Gorilla 11. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The 12. Chloe, Love is Calling You 13. Condemned to Live 14. Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride 15. Creeper 16. Creepers 17. Crimes at the Dark House 18. Crimes of Stephen Hawke, The 19. Crypt of the Living Dead 20. Curse of the Headless Horseman 21. Death By Dialogue 22. Devil Bat, The 23. Devil Monster 24. Devil's Daughter, The 25. Devil's Messenger, The 26. Devil's Partner 27. Don't Look in the Basement 28. Don't Open Till Christmas 29. Eegah 30. Evil Brain from Outer Space 31. Ghost Walks, The 32. Good Against Evil 33. Hands of Steel 34. Head, The 35. Horror of the Zombies 36. Horrors of Spider Island 37. House of Danger 38. House of Mystery 39. House of Secrets 40. How Awful About Allan 41. Invasion of the Bee Girls 42. Island Monster, The 43. Kong Island 44. Legacy of Blood 45. Legend of Big Foot 46. Long Hair of Death, The 47. Mama Dracula 48. Man with Two Lives, The 49. Manos: The Hands of Fate 50. Manster, The 51. Midnight Phantom 52. Midnight Shadow 53. Midnight Warning, The 54. Moon of the Wolf 55. Murder in the Red Barn 56. Murder Mansion, The 57. Nabonga 58. Never Too Late 59. Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The 60. Night Fright 61. Night of the Blood Beast 62. Night Tide 63. Night Train to Terror 64. One Frightened Night 65. Passenger to Bali, A 66. Phantom Creeps, The 67. Phantom Express, The 68. Phantom, The 69. Prisoners of the Lost Universe 70. Rattlers 71. Rogues Tavern, The 72. Sadist, The 73. Savage Weekend 74. Scared to Death 75. Severed Arm, The 76. She Gods of Shark Reef 77. She-Beast, The 78. Shock 79. Sisters of Death 80. Slave of the Cannibal God 81. Snow Creature, The 82. Snowbeast 83. Sound of Horror 84. Spare Parts 85. Strange Adventure, A (1956) 86. Strangers of the Evening 87. Tales of Frankenstein 88. Teenage Zombies 89. Terror Creatures from the Grave 90. Torture Ship 91. Trauma 92. Unsane 93. Vampire's Night Orgy 94. Voodoo Black Exorcist 95. Walking Nightmare, A 96. War of the Robots 97. Wasp Woman, The 98. Werewolf of Washington, The 99. White Gorilla, The 100. White Pongo | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.240.155.122 |
Oh, they have a few other sets too -- I'm not sure how much overlap there might be. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.189.50 |
I have a few of these 50-movie sets: Horror Classics, Sci-Fi Classics, Nightmare Worlds, Chilling Classics, and so on. There's a lot of cheesy, low budget stuff on them, but also some good stuff, and they're cheap. I still haven't got round to watching most of the stuff on them. Tony, it's a coincidence you mentioning Jack Arnold. I just watched It Came From Outer Space (story by Ray Bradbury, apparently) again, and it's still great fun. I'm very fond of Creature from the Black Lagoon too. It was one of my favourite films as a child. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Unsane? Isn't that an alternate title for tenebrae? One of the great Italian movies IMHO | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.241.252 |
Unsane? Isn't that an alternate title for tenebrae? Yep, 'tis Argento's film:- "An American writer arrives in Rome to work on his latest book and finds himself in the center of a murder investigation. A deranged killer is drawing inspiration from the author's books to commit his murders and the deaths include people closely associated with the author. Teaming up with a police inspector, the author desperately tries to track down the killer before another murder can strike those around him. " | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
For £20 that set's a damned good buy even if there's only another 4 good films in there. which out of 100 shouldn't be too difficult. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.241.252 |
The 100 film sets are each made up of two similarly themed fifty film sets from the same company, so there's certainly overlap there! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Check out Masters of Darkness! Just don't tell Joel that one of the sets has Vincent Price on the cover! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
'White Pongo'? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Sounds like a great film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038246/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
Voodoo Black Exorcist; http://www.vimeo.com/761199 Is this not Tarantino's next film? (and go to 5.46 for the biggest laugh all day...) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I recently saw THE TOMB OF LIGEIA, one of the first Corman Poe films, with a young Price before he started camping it up. It's bleak and terrifying, a glimpse of what the whole series could have achieved if those involved hadn't got too clever for their own good. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
A lot of the Corman Poe films were made on the same set and if you watch in the correct order you can see how the set becomes more and more complicated as the budget for the new film simply adds to the existing set rather than build a new one. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
We need more of that attitude today! I did a talk on Corman at college, about economics and entertainment, how quality need not be scrimped when counting your pennies. It wasn't as good as it just sounded there. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
A film expert friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, described Corman (appreciatively) as "a little bit waaay, a little bit wuuur". | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
He was! But look at some of the directors he gave us. And he sounds nice. |