I fell in love with classic monster films of the 1930s and 1940s and the sci-fi films of the 1950s through seeing them on TV when I was a kid. I'm 70 now, and love them still!
I must add more. The Day of the Triffids is one of my favorite British sci-fi films. I remember seeing the trailers for this movie back in the sixties and thinking this is horror at its best. I simply must see it! Horror and sci-fi films were the glue that held my world together. When I started absorbing Hammer films I was done for and happy to be there.
Those of us who experienced the 60's first hand, know that it was a time that will never be seen again. I guess every person who grew up in their particular decade can say the same, but, we were young enough to still stay enthralled by the times and our innocence to some degree. Thanks Fred for bringing up so many smiles and memories.
As a man who turned 5 in 1969 and began watching TV monster movies at that age, as well as experiencing the 60's crossover that went into the 1970's up until around 1980, I totally agree that we both lived in great decades, as the TV shows, magazines, and model kits you guys had were passed right down to my time. We lived in different times, but some of you you guys were still teens in the 70's as guys like me were around the age you guys started watching this stuff at. You got the full dose in your day, and I got damn near the whole thing in my time, so it's all good. Those were great days for us!
Just like the 70s, 80s, whatever...time marches on, we get older & things change. I also was a child of the 60s obsessed with the monster/sci fi thing & really dig these retrospectives. But even at my age I enjoy & look forward to the new stuff.
HA !!! LOVE IT !!!! :) When I was a wee lad in the 60's THIS stuff was the BEST !!! The campy horror flicks, I couldn't get enough of them. And the skeletons on the Jason and the Argonauts , outrageously awesome !!!
Hey I am one year older than you but wow you realy bring back the GREAT years I miss that time and thank god I wont be here in 20-30 years from now everything has gone to shit
Fred, we share the same time frame. I too was into monsters, dinosaurs, model kits, comics, television shows, cartoons, later on drag racing, girls, and all those wonderful diversions that still excite my mind. It was so good back then.
Thanks for making this. I was 10 when Dinosaurus came out I still have the Dell comic book for that movie! That was 58 years ago doesn’t seem that long ago! The comic has held up well.
I was fortunate enough to have Supernatural Theatre and Chiller Theatre from New York on Saturday nights. I lived in northeastern part of PA. Loved the aurora model. I had only Frankenstein. My best friend and I also got the monster mags.
Great collection, used to get dropped off at the movies on a Saturday and watch triple headers, all the B monster and creature movies. So bad- they were good.
Way cool! You and I are about the same age and I remember watching most, if not all of the films you showed here. I'm from northeast Ohio, and our go-to guy for watching monster movies was a guy called Ghoulardi, in the mid 60s. He still has a bit of a cult following. Good job!
The 'monster kids' era lasted a good 20 to 25 years, from around 1954 to 1979, when it was rapidly dwindling. So, it basically spanned the entire Baby Boom generation - from the mid '50s, when the earliest Boomers were 8 to 10 years old, up until the late 70s, when the younger Boomers were in their early teens. Its peak was between the early '60s and early-to-mid '70s. The first real blow to the era came by the mid-to-late '70s when Spielberg and Lucas rode on their earlier low-budget successes and thrusted upon the public mega-budget, mainstream horror and sci-fi films like 'Jaws', 'Star Wars', and 'Close Encounters'. These over-hyped, family-films dramatically altered the expectations of audiences and threw the film budget situations into an appalling, unnecessary level. Ironically, even the sophistication of Kubrick's '2001' in 1969 and the televized moon landing hadn't effected the innocence of the era (although low-budget sci-fi suffered a bit, drive-in horror remained big) as much as the hyper-produced, corporate-fueled, convoluted movie-making of Spielberg and Lucas by the late '70s. Added to that, at around the same time, the slasher movies like 'Halloween' and 'Friday the 13th' added a new level of commercialized, voyeuristic gore and took the trend away from 'monsters' and into lunatics with sharp instruments ('Psycho' in 1960 and Mario Bava's giallos of the mid '60s never saturated the horror genre, as they were merely one-offs and didn't produce umpteenth sequels! They were a PART of the craze, not a virtual replacement!). Then, of course, the advent of cable t.v. like HBO and SHO and MTV sealed the fate of the era, as the simplicity of the 6 or 7 t.v. channels was coming to an end. Moreover, the veteran horror movie actors were either getting a bit too old or passing away by the early 1980s, leaving no worthy newcomers to fill their shoes - or should I say fangs? For many people, when WPIXs 'Chiller Theater' suddenly stopped airing on Saturday nights, in 1982, that signalled the end. But let's face it, 'twas inevitable anyway; for by the early '80s, the last of the Boomers were in their teens and were switching over to MTV's Madonna, who was bumping and grinding her way to fame, and Michael Jackson who was doing his own kind of moon-walking while grabbing his crotch. Yes, the 'monster kid era' was rapidly losing to the corporate monsters who would soon usher in a nightmarish reality that would make make even the six-fingered 'Chiller Theater' intro look like a scene from Mary Poppins! Yes, the nightmarish world of political correctness, infomercials, and Orwellian control-freaks eas here!... The true horrors had arrived. But alas, the Monster Kids live on... and their warm memories of summer and the late nights of viewing these timeless gems shall live on in their youthful hearts... for as long as they shall live. But the innocence, relentless entertainment, and freedoms of those wonderful decades must not be erased when we pass on - WE MUST KEEP IT ALIVE FOR THE YOUNG, who were born after the era of 'less is more', with our conversations, our writings, our artwork, our memorabilia... so that the new generations can discover the beauty of creativity, imagination, simplicity... and freedom from destructive, corporate propaganda!... Just as the torch was passed onto the 'Monster Kids' by elders like Forrest J. Ackerman, Vincent Price and John Zacherly... so.must we pass on the torch to the new generation. For if we don't, then what will they have as a legacy to look back on but... Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus... and Rap!!!... AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!... Now THAT is far too frightening to even contemplate!
Holy crap, your childhood pretty much mirrored mine. I had Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Creature, King Kong and Godzilla Aurora model kits, as well as the Flying Sub, the Seaview, the Spindrift and of course, the Enterprise, Klingon, Romulan ships with Space Station K-7, several Eagle Transporters............ Comics wise, I also had every issue I could get of Marvel's "Where Monsters Dwell", "Where Creatures Roam", "Monsters on the Prowl", "Creatures on the Loose", and the "Fear" annuals. And, of course, every new issue and back issue of FM I could get my hot little paws on......I remember going into the bathroom and turning the lights off to watch the Creature's glow-in-the-dark head glowing in the dark, though, when I built the model, I used the non-glow parts.
Hi Fred! I'm only 53, and while I didn't live thru the 60's like you, I first got introduced to the Friday and Saturday night horror films when I was 5 in 1969. And from that time, my youth was spent watching Creature Features (WNEW 5, New York) and Chiller Theater (WPIX 11 New York) as well as many other showcases that were on UHF, like Nightmare Theater on WPHL 17 (Philadelphia.) Aurora Monster Kits and Famous Monsters Magazine? YOU BET!!! I remember going to the local Five and Dime store and getting Dracula or The Mummy for 2 bucks (as well as the other monster kits that were around that price). I now have a mix of original Aurora kits (boxed and assembled) as well as many Polar Lights repros from the mid-to-late 90's revival. However, for the mix of monster films, science fiction shows, and monster magazines, the early to late 70's was the pot O' gold that started to wane around 1980. Short and sweet, while I didn't live thru the 60's like you, I started my life;'s journey in the late 60's and got just as much of the fun as you had as much of it was still in full swing in the 70's. Regardless of our slight age difference, we still managed, individually, to live in what the Smithereens described in one of the songs as "The Last Good Time". From Lost In Space to Aurora kits and monster magazines, and UHF goodies normal stations didn't have, we had it all! Thank you so much for this wonderful trip down Memory Lane, and I hope you keep up the good work! Your fellow Monster lover, Kain
Great to hear from you, Kain. I don't know why we love monsters more than we should, we just do. Hey, the sequel to this video is coming out tomorrow, so look for it. Less trailers, more scenes directly from the movies. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Oh wow, I can't wait, Fred. But in the meantime, my thoughts drift back to those early days..coming home from kindergarten on a lovely, warm Spring Friday and having my older cousin Jimmy coming over for the weekend. We would head to the grocery store with my mom, my grandma and Jimmy's mom (my aunt Dottie) and we'd load up the cart with goodies for our weekend monster viewing, as well as picking up the latest issue of Weird, Tales From The Tomb, or one of the other B&W pulp rags that sent parents into cardiac arrest with their shocking levels of violence. Then there was the trip to the Five and DIme for the Aurora kits! Then there was the trip to the Polar Cub ice cream stand in Whitehouse, NJ and back to the house to put the groceries away and spend the whole weekend playing, putting models together and watching monsters! I'm getting a bit teary-eyed as we speak so I'll stop for now, but know they were damned GREAT days nearly 50 years ago..
Oh yeah, good old Bob Wilkins, with his bifocal glasses and his ever-present cigar! I spent some time in CA in the 80's and watched Wilkins on the small TV set in my hotel room. I went to LA to see the metal scene and what a scene it was! I'll never forget it. Having a monster movie to watch in the hotel room seemed top put a nice cap on everything!
"CHILLER THEATRE" For me,the scariest part of that show was the theme music. (I'm not talking about "CHILLER" with the "animated hand" rising out from nowhere--I'm talking about the show opening with scenes from various horror movies with the scariest music I ever heard--that music gave me nightmares.)
Great video. Brought back a lot of memories growing up! My brother and I both built the Aurora monster collection models. I was born in 1955 and he was born the next year. The Outer Limits used to scare the hell out of us. LOL!
Some of my favorites...even today!!! I was nine years old when "Dinosaurus" came out.... about the same year as "Gorgo!" I still have the original comic book by Charlton Comics! It was available for a dime during the film's premiere week! I saw "Day of the Triffids" at a local drive-in theatre, and it scared the willies out of me! A world struck blind by a meteorite shower; falling prey to carnivorous, walking plants! The only story that john Wyndham wrote that exceeded the creepy terror of the triffids was the strange community of super, mind-reading alien children in "Village of the Damned!"
I'm about a year younger than you, apparently. I remember all of these treasures. 'Saw 'Day of the Triffids' in the theater, in '62. I remember thinking, "Aw, good JOB, kid," when the boy on the plane asked about the pilot being blind. I also wondered what the passengers thought they were going to accomplish by getting up and blundering around like blind bugs on a griddle! Our Bay Area afternoon horror fest was called, 'The Big Show' and aired on KGO Channel 7, out of Frisko. It ran everything from 'Robot Monster' to 'Bride of Frankenstein.' LOVED it! It used a soaring, string filled piece of library music as a theme, which was recycled to open and close the evening news, a few years later. I always thought that there was a subtle message in that; if you didn't buy the guy in the gorilla suit and the fake helmet, don't buy THIS, either! I, too, had the toy dinosaurs, the Spook Cards, and the Aurora models. 'Took second place, locally, in the '64 Aurora/Famous Monsters contest. Wonderful days.
I was born in 1961 and remember all these great times. I think the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's were great decades to grow up in before we all became too 'Political' and before Cable and the Internet caused everyone to lose their minds and common sense. Kids actually PLAYED OUTSIDE and used their IMAGINATIONS and you didn't 'Know Too Much' before you were ready for it. Don't get me wrong, modern times are great but, I wouldn't trade anything for the times I had then.
born in 1956, grew up in West Roxbury (the "greater" Boston area), remember all of these great old movies, bought all of the Aurora model kits (never bother painting them). plug collected all of those Outer Limits cards, etc. And remember seeing Jack the Giant Killer and the Mysterians at the local matinee, and pretty much every monster movie I could watch on local TV, plus a great new invention -- extra stations! -- we used to have just the three networks and PBS -- then at some point we started to get a whole new bunch of local stations like 56 and 48 with their own local Saturday matinee movies and Ultraman and I still remember vividly all of those Bert I. Gordon movies like Beginning of the End and The Spider and Amazing Colossal Man -- made super cheaply but with vividly memorable moments that stuck with me for more than fifty years.
FredFlix Thanks again. I was only 3 back in 1967, but between the film clips, your own comments in the video ,and the excellent posts from other people in the comments section its like I was old enough to remember what it was like back then.Who needs CERN when you have FredFlix for time traveling! (-:
FredFlix Guess what? I'm watching The Outer Limits on broadcast OTA TV right now. The episode is called The Sixth Finger! Seeing it on Comet Network. I love the original series and even the 90s version was decent.
I caught a minute of that! I don't like them stretching it out to fill the screen though. MeTV showed that episode this year and only stretched it (or enlarged it) a bit.
I had to rewatch this one again !! I have always loved GORGO, it was top notch for our age, and all those cool Aurora model kits, seems every T.V. show had a tie in model, it was just scraping up 98 cents to have a treasured model of your favorite T.V. or movie show. Was that Jet Pack the coolest thing a kid ever saw, and it was real; never seeing Thunderball till years later, seeing John Robinson jet around on that, was the best, but it was only used only in extreme emergencies. Outer limits had a different viewpoint, seemingly than Twilight Zone, perhaps it was the way it was filmed, but it had a more cerebral factor, maybe, where it made you think more, where Rod would seem to tug at your heartstrings, more. Wow, Fred, you had' Out of this World', around here we had the local' Fright Night' with the Fear Monger and later the Syndicated 'Creature Features' with that master of the Macabre, the epitome of evil, the most sinister man to crawl on the face of the earth, "SEYMORE" ! Race Bannon had the cool factor of over 10. Sons of Hercules, GAD, that was shown here also, along with the schlocky aforementioned Fright Night. Harryhausen effects are the best, I still prefer the watch those instead of the C.G.I. that is prevalent now. Guy Williams was the standard for the best dad figure, plus he was Zorro !, I found Capt. Sinbad on a VHS tape recently, I had never seen it before. One Million Years B.C. with Raquel, damn, that poster of her must have adorned the walls of so many teens, I remember they still sold it in the back of the magazines like the Warren magazines and National Lampoon. And any Hammer film was always a welcome treat; my favorite, Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reed. Geeze, Fred, this was a top notch memory booster, ...you're the best, Fred.
Staying up late on Saturday nights and watching Chiller theater, Sundays watching Science Fiction Theater, and Mon.- Fri. Million Dollar Theater to get my monster fix, Famous Monsters of Filmland.
God bless you, Fred: you remembered 'Valley of Gwangi'! And 'Blood Feast'!! And Famous Monsters!!! you & I would have been best friends in the 60's. I've seen 90% of every thing you've posted, and you got it right - you got everything right! I've been watching your channel all day long & dread running out of posts to watch. You're the best!!
Great vid Fred! I was born in '54 in NYC and was a faithful fan of Creature Features on WNEW channel 5, Chiller Theater on WPIX channel 11, and Supernatural Theater on WOR channel 9. "THEM!" is still my favorite from 1954.
Seeing this last night, realized you were down Charleston way. That segment where you had the intro to Out of this World brought memories of watching that! Thank you for that!
Anyone remember "Spook Cards"? That's what me and my friends called them, they were photo stills from old Universal monster movies, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, etc with a gag line at the bottom. One I recall was of the Creature Of The Black Lagoon splashing out of the water with the gag line "Who peed in the pool?!!" Which, looking back was pretty raunchy for the time. Of course there were the MARS ATTACKS bubble gum cards which were also pretty violent for the time. I say that but there was a set of Civil War cards that had blood and violence along the same lines.
Ah, to this day, "Medusa vs the Son of Hercules" has my favorite rendition of the Medusa. I also still love the mechanical lake monster built by Carlo Rambaldi. The "dripping water" story with the dead witch from "Black Sabbath" is still scary to this day. I have many of the films you show here on DVD or Blu-Ray, such as "One Million Years B.C." and 'First Man Into Space".
There were a lot more monsters on TV. There was The Invaders, Alfred Hitchcock's shows, and Boris Karloff's Thriller. Saturday morning had King Kong, Milton the Monster, Journey to the Center of The Earth, the microscopic monsters of Fantastic Voyage, and the 70s monsters of Valley of the Dinosaurs and Land of the Lost. Didn't see too many monster movies in the theater or drive-in, the last one I saw at the Tower Drive-In in Holdrege, Nebraska was Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. My current workplace is also at a former drive-in site, the site of the Grand Island Drive-In. When I moved to Grand Island in 1992, the screen was the only thing standing. Another drive-in in Nebraska that lasted longer was the Kearney Drive-In, which was open until a tornado destroyed it in 2008. The site of the Tower is now a self-storage facility.
Fred, I do not know where you get these great video clips. You bring me back to Saturday afternoon movies in the 60's and after creature features in the 70's.
At it again are you,freddie? Love all your vids, great mems. Stayed up all nite on friday watching all nite creature features, then cartoons till afternoon monster movies came on. Peeved my older brother cause he wanted to watch bandstand,HA!!
Your videos are wonderful, Fred - like little time capsules of the past, and my childhood etc. I've watched a number of them now. I was born in '65, and I saw "Night of the Living Dead" on a local TV channel around 1972 or '73, on a Saturday night - and the only reason I didn't crap my pants was that I was watching it with my dad, and he was a big tough guy, so I wasn't as scared of the zombies as I would be when I watched it alone a few weeks later. lol
Those classic monster flicks. I remember seeing "Gorgo" in our local theater for 50 cents. We watched "Chiller Theater" every Saturday night at 11:30 out of Pittsburgh, PA. The one movie I will never forget is "The Bat". Scared the bejesus out of me I had nightmares for weeks after seeing that movie.
We had a Chiller Theater in New Jersey (WPIX 11) and we also had Creature Features on WNEW 5 (New York) and WOR 9 had "Fright Night" at 1 AM Sunday morning, right after Vince McMahon's "Professional Wrestling Hour".
Vince McMahon's Professional Wrestling Hour ran from the early 1970's to the middle 80's. Fright Night itself went off the air around 1987 as well. Also, Chiller Theater went off in 1982 and Creature Features in 1980.
Our Chiller Theater didn't have that one, but Creature Features had it and it was a regular rerun. It also happens to be my very favorite Vincent Price movie, as well as my favorite fun-time haunted house movie. I would put it on a double bill with "Beast Of Dragstrip Hollow", just for that "fun move\serious movie" thing.
If you look carefully at the preview for "IT! The Terror From Beyond Space", you'll notice there are several subliminal messages superimposed in black over the video, such as "DON'T MISS IT!" and "SEE IT!". They only appear for a few frames each.
For me, growing up in Indiana we got our monster thrills from Shock it to Me theater and The Cool Ghoul, both broadcast on WXIX channel 19 out of Cincinnati every Saturday night.
I saw 'Black Sabbath' in a theater with a friend. When the dead woman was floating across the room, his head was buried in his hands. "I can't watch this!" he said from beneath his muffling hands.
Loved it. Gorgo is still one of my very favorite Monster flix. The first time I went to London as a teenager many years later I insisted on going to Battersea Park , just to say I had been there. Think I will watch it tonight!
Great video and these old show are amazing too.. Wish they would bring these back on ..wow I miss these .you done an excellent job on this..Thank you so much for your videos and everything you do...
Great video! I, too, was strong into 50's and 60's sci-fi and horror films and TV shows. A few of my favorites from the 60's were (1) The Angry Red Planet, (2) Journey to the 7th Planet, and (3) Reptilicus. I must say that the scariest movie I have ever seen was from the 60's: Night of the Living Dead, and I was 18 at the time. Though quite tame by today's standards, when the movie was first released, it really caused a stir of protests from people thinking it should be banned.
FredFlix you are welcome ! And it's pretty nice here. Honestly , I lived in S.C too..Cottageville , to be exact ...and except for the humidity , I quite liked it there 😊
I was a kid of the 60's, too. Every Saturday afternoon, my brother and I watched one of those movies. I still watch a lot of them now. I'm not growing up any time soon, I guess
I was born in 1953, this was my childhood too. Except you missed a few things that I remember. The George Pal movies. The comic book "Turok, Son of Stone" The H-Man, and The Tingler! Also I discovered H.P. Minecraft when I was in 9th grade.
“Curse of the Demon” aka “Night of the Demon” is a vastly underrated movie. Very unsettling to say the least. And the finale is really something as the demon rips the man who conjured him to shreds. And the cartoon “Jonny Quest”...a GREAT show.
Fred love it! Watched part 1 & 2. Question, I would imagine you watched one of my favorites from 1966 - War of the Gargantuas! One of my all time favorites!! How did that not make the list? Great work Fred - thanks again.
I’m a few years younger than you but remember well some of the things you showed. I saw “Gorgo” before “Godzilla”:and believed incorrectly that “Godzilla” was a rip-off of “Gorgo” when it was the other way around. And, like you, I loved dinosaurs. I recently turned 61 and I still collect them!
Ah, "Dinosaurus!", one of my all-time favs, it almost starred Steve McQueen as it was intended to be a duel release with "the Blob", but McQueen was supposedly such a pain in the ass to work with on that film that they got another lead for "Dinosaurus!".
The advantage to having shoved all my kids out the door is that my DVD collection contains most of these movies. And I have a few notations of ones I still need to get. Thanks for the ideas!
In 7th grade our school would sho us a feature film for one of our assemblies. We got to see Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Hammer horror at its best.
One movie never seems to get mentioned as a more serious horror film. Do any of you remember "Nightmare Castle" with Barbara Steele? That was a remarkably atmospheric (and violent) film for it's time. I'd first seen it at the age of 10 on WNEW 5's Creature Features, and was stunned by the amazingly violent conclusion. It stood out from the Universal Monster movies, and in a way, it was a coming of age for those of us raised on Frankenstein and Dracula or the myriad of Toho Godzilla films (as well as their other movies like H-Man and Human Vapor).
At a young age, I was getting one of my first haircuts in a barbershop. I was very shy and quiet until the barber made the mistake of asking me about my Cape Canaveral t-shirt. Then I wouldn't shut up. Really into the astronauts and space program then.
FYI the script and story rights to "It:The Terror From Beyond Space", a pretty neat film on its own, were bought by 20th Century Fox from MGM 20 years later. Fox remade it into a little picture called..."Alien"
Indeed they did remake it into Alien, with Marshall Thompson in the Ripley role as he too had the job of explaining the deaths of his crewmen to a jury of his peers. Thompson was a big star in his own right, starring in such other sci-fi shockers as "Fiend Without A Face" and "First Man Into Space."
FMoF was the best magazine ever. Aurora models were a huge part of my life (had them all, including the DC super heroes). The Outer Limits was terrifying. I remember that ABC was toying with the idea of airing it at a later hour because of all of the complaints they got from parents re: kids having nightmares and such. Saw ALL of the cheesy, low-budget flicks on Ghoulardi (the local horror movie host). Godzilla was always my favorite of the Japanese "giant" monsters...and that roar of his is still an alert sound on my phone. I was definitely NOT watching "OMY B.C." for the monsters! I liked War of the Colossal Beast (and its prequel, The Amazing Colossal Man) so much I bought a small reel of it (about 3 minutes worth of film) and played it over and over again on my parents' Bell & Howell projector. The Hammer films were really well-done and I certainly enjoyed all of the scantily-clad females in those films! Thanks for another great journey into my youth!!!
I also had that 8mm reel of War of the Colossal Beast, G Money. It was great. I even put a soundtrack to it. I gathered some audio from other shows, edited it together on a cassette, and played the tape simultaneously with the running of the film and showed my parents.
I loved dinos too as a kid..what really blew my mind was when I went to the Museum of Natural History and saw how big these things really were--Holy *$#@!!
3:38 Gorgo tears down his own sign in Times Square. :). 13:17 Gotta Love Gorn! (And blow him up!) :) And the last one: two horror greats, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing (he’s best remembered for a pair of Dr. Who movies in the 1960s and his last horror film, as Governor Tarkin in 1977’s “Star Wars” :) ).
Did you get to watch Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot? Nothing but monsters in that!! I know you saw Ultraman, too!! I was born in 1965, but I got to experience pretty much the same as you in the 70's, thankfully!! Cable TV destroyed much of this though. Television lost much of it's "innocence" with the onset of cable.
The Hammer films were the BEST.Still are.Yes,there was Karloff,Lugosi,Chaney & others,but I'll take Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee every time.Also,Vincent Price was a favorite.
I agree, Jan. (Try to say "Hammer mummy movie" three times fast. You'll be able to do it,but it sounds funny.) Vincent Price is one of my top 5 actors of all time.
Did you use any of the glow-in-the-dark parts that came with the Aurora models? I collected them all too - watching this was almost like watching my own biography. Great stuff!
Outer limits was so ahead of its time. They show it now on METV late Saturday night. Great writers and actors plus the monster was played many times by Supreme Court Justice William oDouglas son. Unfortunately the programmers screwed the producers over. After a hit first year they moved it in year two to the weekend. Younger audience went out and it was blown away in the ratings against Lawrence well etc. producers upset at cancellation but at least it had a nice run a few decades later with new episodes. The guy who created some of the monsters also worked on original Star Trek.
Awesome.. and yes . Famous Monsters of Filmland was and will always be the best monster magazine of all time. U rock Brother.
I fell in love with classic monster films of the 1930s and 1940s and the sci-fi films of the 1950s through seeing them on TV when I was a kid. I'm 70 now, and love them still!
I must add more. The Day of the Triffids is one of my favorite British sci-fi films. I remember seeing the trailers for this movie back in the sixties and thinking this is horror at its best. I simply must see it! Horror and sci-fi films were the glue that held my world together. When I started absorbing Hammer films I was done for and happy to be there.
Those of us who experienced the 60's first hand, know that it was a time that will never be seen again. I guess every person who grew up in their particular decade can say the same, but, we were young enough to still stay enthralled by the times and our innocence to some degree. Thanks Fred for bringing up so many smiles and memories.
You're welcome, stendec 5762.
As a man who turned 5 in 1969 and began watching TV monster movies at that age, as well as experiencing the 60's crossover that went into the 1970's up until around 1980, I totally agree that we both lived in great decades, as the TV shows, magazines, and model kits you guys had were passed right down to my time. We lived in different times, but some of you you guys were still teens in the 70's as guys like me were around the age you guys started watching this stuff at. You got the full dose in your day, and I got damn near the whole thing in my time, so it's all good. Those were great days for us!
Just like the 70s, 80s, whatever...time marches on, we get older & things change. I also was a child of the 60s obsessed with the monster/sci fi thing & really dig these retrospectives. But even at my age I enjoy & look forward to the new stuff.
HA !!! LOVE IT !!!! :) When I was a wee lad in the 60's THIS stuff was the BEST !!!
The campy horror flicks, I couldn't get enough of them.
And the skeletons on the Jason and the Argonauts , outrageously awesome !!!
Hey I am one year older than you but wow you realy bring back the GREAT years I miss that time and thank god I wont be here in 20-30 years from now everything has gone to shit
Fred, we share the same time frame. I too was into monsters, dinosaurs, model kits, comics, television shows, cartoons, later on drag racing, girls, and all those wonderful diversions that still excite my mind. It was so good back then.
Thanks for making this. I was 10 when Dinosaurus came out I still have the Dell comic book for that movie! That was 58 years ago doesn’t seem that long ago! The comic has held up well.
I had the comic, too, but I never saw the movie.
I was fortunate enough to have Supernatural Theatre and Chiller Theatre from New York on Saturday nights. I lived in northeastern part of PA. Loved the aurora model. I had only Frankenstein. My best friend and I also got the monster mags.
Great collection, used to get dropped off at the movies on a Saturday and watch triple headers, all the B monster and creature movies. So bad- they were good.
Way cool! You and I are about the same age and I remember watching most, if not all of the films you showed here. I'm from northeast Ohio, and our go-to guy for watching monster movies was a guy called Ghoulardi, in the mid 60s. He still has a bit of a cult following.
Good job!
The 'monster kids' era lasted a good 20 to 25 years, from around 1954 to 1979, when it was rapidly dwindling. So, it basically spanned the entire Baby Boom generation - from the mid '50s, when the earliest Boomers were 8 to 10 years old, up until the late 70s, when the younger Boomers were in their early teens. Its peak was between the early '60s and early-to-mid '70s.
The first real blow to the era came by the mid-to-late '70s when Spielberg and Lucas rode on their earlier low-budget successes and thrusted upon the public mega-budget, mainstream horror and sci-fi films like 'Jaws', 'Star Wars', and 'Close Encounters'. These over-hyped, family-films dramatically altered the expectations of audiences and threw the film budget situations into an appalling, unnecessary level. Ironically, even the sophistication of Kubrick's '2001' in 1969 and the televized moon landing hadn't effected the innocence of the era (although low-budget sci-fi suffered a bit, drive-in horror remained big) as much as the hyper-produced, corporate-fueled, convoluted movie-making of Spielberg and Lucas by the late '70s. Added to that, at around the same time, the slasher movies like 'Halloween' and 'Friday the 13th' added a new level of commercialized, voyeuristic gore and took the trend away from 'monsters' and into lunatics with sharp instruments ('Psycho' in 1960 and Mario Bava's giallos of the mid '60s never saturated the horror genre, as they were merely one-offs and didn't produce umpteenth sequels! They were a PART of the craze, not a virtual replacement!). Then, of course, the advent of cable t.v. like HBO and SHO and MTV sealed the fate of the era, as the simplicity of the 6 or 7 t.v. channels was coming to an end. Moreover, the veteran horror movie actors were either getting a bit too old or passing away by the early 1980s, leaving no worthy newcomers to fill their shoes - or should I say fangs?
For many people, when WPIXs 'Chiller Theater' suddenly stopped airing on Saturday nights, in 1982, that signalled the end. But let's face it, 'twas inevitable anyway; for by the early '80s, the last of the Boomers were in their teens and were switching over to MTV's Madonna, who was bumping and grinding her way to fame, and Michael Jackson who was doing his own kind of moon-walking while grabbing his crotch. Yes, the 'monster kid era' was rapidly losing to the corporate monsters who would soon usher in a nightmarish reality that would make make even the six-fingered 'Chiller Theater' intro look like a scene from Mary Poppins! Yes, the nightmarish world of political correctness, infomercials, and Orwellian control-freaks eas here!... The true horrors had arrived.
But alas, the Monster Kids live on... and their warm memories of summer and the late nights of viewing these timeless gems shall live on in their youthful hearts... for as long as they shall live. But the innocence, relentless entertainment, and freedoms of those wonderful decades must not be erased when we pass on - WE MUST KEEP IT ALIVE FOR THE YOUNG, who were born after the era of 'less is more', with our conversations, our writings, our artwork, our memorabilia... so that the new generations can discover the beauty of creativity, imagination, simplicity... and freedom from destructive, corporate propaganda!... Just as the torch was passed onto the 'Monster Kids' by elders like Forrest J. Ackerman, Vincent Price and John Zacherly... so.must we pass on the torch to the new generation. For if we don't, then what will they have as a legacy to look back on but... Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus... and Rap!!!... AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!... Now THAT is far too frightening to even contemplate!
Holy crap, your childhood pretty much mirrored mine. I had Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Creature, King Kong and Godzilla Aurora model kits, as well as the Flying Sub, the Seaview, the Spindrift and of course, the Enterprise, Klingon, Romulan ships with Space Station K-7, several Eagle Transporters............ Comics wise, I also had every issue I could get of Marvel's "Where Monsters Dwell", "Where Creatures Roam", "Monsters on the Prowl", "Creatures on the Loose", and the "Fear" annuals. And, of course, every new issue and back issue of FM I could get my hot little paws on......I remember going into the bathroom and turning the lights off to watch the Creature's glow-in-the-dark head glowing in the dark, though, when I built the model, I used the non-glow parts.
Hi Fred!
I'm only 53, and while I didn't live thru the 60's like you, I first got introduced to the Friday and Saturday night horror films
when I was 5 in 1969. And from that time, my youth was spent watching Creature Features (WNEW 5, New York) and Chiller Theater (WPIX 11 New York) as well as many other showcases that were on UHF, like Nightmare Theater on WPHL 17 (Philadelphia.)
Aurora Monster Kits and Famous Monsters Magazine? YOU BET!!! I remember going to the local Five and Dime store and getting Dracula or The Mummy for 2 bucks (as well as the other monster kits that were around that price). I now have a mix of original Aurora kits (boxed and assembled) as well as many Polar Lights repros from the mid-to-late 90's revival.
However, for the mix of monster films, science fiction shows, and monster magazines, the early to late 70's was the pot O' gold that started to wane around 1980. Short and sweet, while I didn't live thru the 60's like you, I started my life;'s journey in the late 60's and got just as much of the fun as you had as much of it was still in full swing in the 70's.
Regardless of our slight age difference, we still managed, individually, to live in what the Smithereens described in one of the songs as "The Last Good Time".
From Lost In Space to Aurora kits and monster magazines, and UHF goodies normal stations didn't have, we had it all!
Thank you so much for this wonderful trip down Memory Lane, and I hope you keep up the good work!
Your fellow Monster lover,
Kain
Great to hear from you, Kain. I don't know why we love monsters more than we should, we just do. Hey, the sequel to this video is coming out tomorrow, so look for it. Less trailers, more scenes directly from the movies. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Oh wow, I can't wait, Fred.
But in the meantime, my thoughts drift back to those early days..coming home from kindergarten on a lovely, warm Spring Friday and having my older cousin Jimmy coming over for the weekend. We would head to the grocery store with my mom, my grandma and Jimmy's mom (my aunt Dottie) and we'd load up the cart with goodies for our weekend monster viewing, as well as picking up the latest issue of Weird, Tales From The Tomb, or one of the other B&W pulp rags that sent parents into cardiac arrest with their shocking levels of violence.
Then there was the trip to the Five and DIme for the Aurora kits! Then there was the trip to the Polar Cub ice cream stand in Whitehouse, NJ and back to the house to put the groceries away and spend the whole weekend playing, putting models together and watching monsters! I'm getting a bit teary-eyed as we speak so I'll stop for now, but know they were damned GREAT days nearly 50 years ago..
Kain Nosgoth Creature Features with host Bob Wilkins was a local fave in the bay area. good memories.
Oh yeah, good old Bob Wilkins, with his bifocal glasses and his ever-present cigar!
I spent some time in CA in the 80's and watched Wilkins on the small TV set in my hotel room. I went to LA to see the metal scene and what a scene it was! I'll never forget it. Having a monster movie to watch in the hotel room seemed top put a nice cap on everything!
"CHILLER THEATRE" For me,the scariest part of that show was the theme music. (I'm not talking about "CHILLER" with the "animated hand" rising out from nowhere--I'm talking about the show opening with scenes from various horror movies with the scariest music I ever heard--that music gave me nightmares.)
I was a teenager in high school in the very early 70's and one of favorite shows to tune into each Saturday was called "Science Fiction Theater"
Great video. Brought back a lot of memories growing up! My brother and I both built the Aurora monster collection models. I was born in 1955 and he was born the next year. The Outer Limits used to scare the hell out of us. LOL!
Thanks for your comment, Jack.
Some of my favorites...even today!!! I was nine years old when "Dinosaurus" came out.... about the same year as "Gorgo!" I still have the original comic book by Charlton Comics! It was available for a dime during the film's premiere week! I saw "Day of the Triffids" at a local drive-in theatre, and it scared the willies out of me! A world struck blind by a meteorite shower; falling prey to carnivorous, walking plants! The only story that john Wyndham wrote that exceeded the creepy terror of the triffids was the strange community of super, mind-reading alien children in "Village of the Damned!"
Fun little trip down memory lane. Thanks, FF. I'm gonna watch me some Outer Limits tonight, just cos you got me in the mood!
I'm about a year younger than you, apparently. I remember all of these treasures. 'Saw 'Day of the Triffids' in the theater, in '62. I remember thinking, "Aw, good JOB, kid," when the boy on the plane asked about the pilot being blind. I also wondered what the passengers thought they were going to accomplish by getting up and blundering around like blind bugs on a griddle! Our Bay Area afternoon horror fest was called, 'The Big Show' and aired on KGO Channel 7, out of Frisko. It ran everything from 'Robot Monster' to 'Bride of Frankenstein.' LOVED it! It used a soaring, string filled piece of library music as a theme, which was recycled to open and close the evening news, a few years later. I always thought that there was a subtle message in that; if you didn't buy the guy in the gorilla suit and the fake helmet, don't buy THIS, either! I, too, had the toy dinosaurs, the Spook Cards, and the Aurora models. 'Took second place, locally, in the '64 Aurora/Famous Monsters contest. Wonderful days.
I enjoyed your comment, TOTK.
I was born in 1961 and remember all these great times. I think the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's were great decades to grow up in before we all became too 'Political' and before Cable and the Internet caused everyone to lose their minds and common sense. Kids actually PLAYED OUTSIDE and used their IMAGINATIONS and you didn't 'Know Too Much' before you were ready for it. Don't get me wrong, modern times are great but, I wouldn't trade anything for the times I had then.
born in 1956, grew up in West Roxbury (the "greater" Boston area), remember all of these great old movies, bought all of the Aurora model kits (never bother painting them). plug collected all of those Outer Limits cards, etc.
And remember seeing Jack the Giant Killer and the Mysterians at the local matinee, and pretty much every monster movie I could watch on local TV, plus a great new invention -- extra stations! -- we used to have just the three networks and PBS -- then at some point we started to get a whole new bunch of local stations like 56 and 48 with their own local Saturday matinee movies and Ultraman and I still remember vividly all of those Bert I. Gordon movies like Beginning of the End and The Spider and Amazing Colossal Man -- made super cheaply but with vividly memorable moments that stuck with me for more than fifty years.
It was a time and a way of life that will never be repeated, prodprod.
FredFlix
Thanks again. I was only 3 back in 1967, but between the film clips, your own comments in the video ,and the excellent posts from other people in the comments section its like I was old enough to remember what it was like back then.Who needs CERN when you have FredFlix for time traveling! (-:
Ha! Thanks, watershed44.
FredFlix
Guess what? I'm watching The Outer Limits on broadcast OTA TV right now. The episode is called The Sixth Finger! Seeing it on Comet Network. I love the original series and even the 90s version was decent.
I caught a minute of that! I don't like them stretching it out to fill the screen though. MeTV showed that episode this year and only stretched it (or enlarged it) a bit.
Mothra vs Godzilla/ Godzilla vs The Thing is one of my favorites. Love Godzilla films.
I had to rewatch this one again !! I have always loved GORGO, it was top notch for our age, and all those cool Aurora model kits, seems every T.V. show had a tie in model, it was just scraping up 98 cents to have a treasured model of your favorite T.V. or movie show. Was that Jet Pack the coolest thing a kid ever saw, and it was real; never seeing Thunderball till years later, seeing John Robinson jet around on that, was the best, but it was only used only in extreme emergencies. Outer limits had a different viewpoint, seemingly than Twilight Zone, perhaps it was the way it was filmed, but it had a more cerebral factor, maybe, where it made you think more, where Rod would seem to tug at your heartstrings, more. Wow, Fred, you had' Out of this World', around here we had the local' Fright Night' with the Fear Monger and later the Syndicated 'Creature Features' with that master of the Macabre, the epitome of evil, the most sinister man to crawl on the face of the earth, "SEYMORE" ! Race Bannon had the cool factor of over 10. Sons of Hercules, GAD, that was shown here also, along with the schlocky aforementioned Fright Night. Harryhausen effects are the best, I still prefer the watch those instead of the C.G.I. that is prevalent now. Guy Williams was the standard for the best dad figure, plus he was Zorro !, I found Capt. Sinbad on a VHS tape recently, I had never seen it before. One Million Years B.C. with Raquel, damn, that poster of her must have adorned the walls of so many teens, I remember they still sold it in the back of the magazines like the Warren magazines and National Lampoon. And any Hammer film was always a welcome treat; my favorite, Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reed. Geeze, Fred, this was a top notch memory booster, ...you're the best, Fred.
Respect, love, and admiration to your lovely Mother! Cool of Dad to offer to stay, but Mom was the one being Ill! She must truly love you Both!
❤️❤️❤️
Staying up late on Saturday nights and watching Chiller theater, Sundays watching Science Fiction Theater, and Mon.- Fri. Million Dollar Theater to get my monster fix, Famous Monsters of Filmland.
God bless you, Fred: you remembered 'Valley of Gwangi'! And 'Blood Feast'!! And Famous Monsters!!! you & I would have been best friends in the 60's. I've seen 90% of every thing you've posted, and you got it right - you got everything right! I've been watching your channel all day long & dread running out of posts to watch. You're the best!!
I saw all these monster movies when i was a kid in the 1970''s
More great work from FredFlix ... I was ten years old in 1967 Bklyn N.Y.C. and I remember these sci-fi movies.
Thanks, Donald!
Great vid Fred! I was born in '54 in NYC and was a faithful fan of Creature Features on WNEW channel 5, Chiller Theater on WPIX channel 11, and Supernatural Theater on WOR channel 9. "THEM!" is still my favorite from 1954.
Seeing this last night, realized you were down Charleston way. That segment where you had the intro to Out of this World brought memories of watching that! Thank you for that!
Anyone remember "Spook Cards"? That's what me and my friends called them, they were photo stills from old Universal monster movies, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, etc with a gag line at the bottom.
One I recall was of the Creature Of The Black Lagoon splashing out of the water with the gag line "Who peed in the pool?!!"
Which, looking back was pretty raunchy for the time.
Of course there were the MARS ATTACKS bubble gum cards which were also pretty violent for the time.
I say that but there was a set of Civil War cards that had blood and violence along the same lines.
Ah, to this day, "Medusa vs the Son of Hercules" has my favorite rendition of the Medusa. I also still love the mechanical lake monster built by Carlo Rambaldi. The "dripping water" story with the dead witch from "Black Sabbath" is still scary to this day. I have many of the films you show here on DVD or Blu-Ray, such as "One Million Years B.C." and 'First Man Into Space".
There were a lot more monsters on TV. There was The Invaders, Alfred Hitchcock's shows, and Boris Karloff's Thriller. Saturday morning had King Kong, Milton the Monster, Journey to the Center of The Earth, the microscopic monsters of Fantastic Voyage, and the 70s monsters of Valley of the Dinosaurs and Land of the Lost. Didn't see too many monster movies in the theater or drive-in, the last one I saw at the Tower Drive-In in Holdrege, Nebraska was Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. My current workplace is also at a former drive-in site, the site of the Grand Island Drive-In. When I moved to Grand Island in 1992, the screen was the only thing standing. Another drive-in in Nebraska that lasted longer was the Kearney Drive-In, which was open until a tornado destroyed it in 2008. The site of the Tower is now a self-storage facility.
I might do a sequel on all the other monsters, Tim.
Thanks for the video, enjoyed it. Brings back memories. As a grownup, I was stationed in Charleston SC.
great stuff. i was born in may 1955 so can relate to all your videos. lived in indiana 1955-77 and north carolina 1977-2017
Fred, I do not know where you get these great video clips. You bring me back to Saturday afternoon movies in the 60's and after creature features in the 70's.
Glad you enjoyed it.
At it again are you,freddie? Love all your vids, great mems. Stayed up all nite on friday watching all nite creature features, then cartoons till afternoon monster movies came on. Peeved my older brother cause he wanted to watch bandstand,HA!!
Thanks, rugar 33.
Your videos are wonderful, Fred - like little time capsules of the past, and my childhood etc. I've watched a number of them now. I was born in '65, and I saw "Night of the Living Dead" on a local TV channel around 1972 or '73, on a Saturday night - and the only reason I didn't crap my pants was that I was watching it with my dad, and he was a big tough guy, so I wasn't as scared of the zombies as I would be when I watched it alone a few weeks later. lol
Those classic monster flicks. I remember seeing "Gorgo" in our local theater for 50 cents. We watched "Chiller Theater" every Saturday night at 11:30 out of Pittsburgh, PA. The one movie I will never forget is "The Bat". Scared the bejesus out of me I had nightmares for weeks after seeing that movie.
We had a Chiller Theater in New Jersey (WPIX 11) and we also had Creature Features on WNEW 5 (New York) and WOR 9 had "Fright Night" at 1 AM Sunday morning, right after Vince McMahon's "Professional Wrestling Hour".
Hmm. Vince McMahon's Professional Wrestling Hour. Wow how long ago was that if I may ask?
Vince McMahon's Professional Wrestling Hour ran from the early 1970's to the middle 80's. Fright Night
itself went off the air around 1987 as well. Also, Chiller Theater went off in 1982 and Creature Features in 1980.
OK thank you for the information.
Our Chiller Theater didn't have that one, but Creature Features had it and it was a regular rerun. It also happens to be my very favorite Vincent Price movie, as well as my favorite fun-time haunted house movie. I would put it on a double bill with "Beast Of Dragstrip Hollow", just for that "fun move\serious movie" thing.
My Dad and I loved watching this! Thanks Mr Fred!
You're welcome, Stephanie. Say hello to your dad for me.
If you look carefully at the preview for "IT! The Terror From Beyond Space", you'll notice there are several subliminal messages superimposed in black over the video, such as "DON'T MISS IT!" and "SEE IT!". They only appear for a few frames each.
If you can see them, they're not 'subliminal.'
For me, growing up in Indiana we got our monster thrills from Shock it to Me theater and The Cool Ghoul, both broadcast on WXIX channel 19 out of Cincinnati every Saturday night.
I saw 'Black Sabbath' in a theater with a friend. When the dead woman was floating across the room, his head was buried in his hands. "I can't watch this!" he said from beneath his muffling hands.
Loved it. Gorgo is still one of my very favorite Monster flix. The first time I went to London as a teenager many years later I insisted on going to Battersea Park , just to say I had been there. Think I will watch it tonight!
My father and I were late for Gorgo and came in after he was already captured. Luckily, my dad let me stay through the part I missed.
This is awesome, I love hearing your stories of what entertainment was shown to you in your childhood!
Thanks, Emily.
You're very welcome Fred😊
Great video and these old show are amazing too.. Wish they would bring these back on ..wow I miss these .you done an excellent job on this..Thank you so much for your videos and everything you do...
Thanks, Brenda.
Great video! I, too, was strong into 50's and 60's sci-fi and horror films and TV shows. A few of my favorites from the 60's were (1) The Angry Red Planet, (2) Journey to the 7th Planet, and (3) Reptilicus. I must say that the scariest movie I have ever seen was from the 60's: Night of the Living Dead, and I was 18 at the time. Though quite tame by today's standards, when the movie was first released, it really caused a stir of protests from people thinking it should be banned.
I think Night of the Living Dead stills holds up as one of the greatest horror films of all time.
Ha, 50 years have gone by, but I remember what he did with that giant syringe.
Thank you FredFlix.
LOL! Your poor mother! We were never allowed to watch the really gory stuff as kids. Thanks for sharing this with us. It was awesome!
I appreciate that, ddoyle11.
Oh my !
So many memories ! Good ones, too!! Thank you ! Looking forward to your next one!!
Happy Halloween from here on a mountain in PA.!!
Wish I lived on a mountain. Thanks, Cyndi.
FredFlix you are welcome !
And it's pretty nice here. Honestly , I lived in S.C too..Cottageville , to be exact ...and except for the humidity , I quite liked it there 😊
I was a kid of the 60's, too. Every Saturday afternoon, my brother and I watched one of those movies. I still watch a lot of them now. I'm not growing up any time soon, I guess
Don't you just love how The Valley Of the Dragons has no dragons in it...lol
The behemoth,the crawling eye,the tingler.
I was born in 1953, this was my childhood too. Except you missed a few things that I remember. The George Pal movies. The comic book "Turok, Son of Stone" The H-Man, and The Tingler! Also I discovered H.P. Minecraft when I was in 9th grade.
I was born in 1955 thanks for the memories
Those were the days for 'B" monster and Sci fi movies, still love em..... Thanks for the memories
You're welcome, 1956lakota.
“Curse of the Demon” aka “Night of the Demon” is a vastly underrated movie. Very unsettling to say the least. And the finale is really something as the demon rips the man who conjured him to shreds.
And the cartoon “Jonny Quest”...a GREAT show.
Fred love it! Watched part 1 & 2. Question, I would imagine you watched one of my favorites from 1966 - War of the Gargantuas! One of my all time favorites!! How did that not make the list? Great work Fred - thanks again.
I heart creature features
I’m a few years younger than you but remember well some of the things you showed. I saw “Gorgo” before “Godzilla”:and believed incorrectly that “Godzilla” was a rip-off of “Gorgo” when it was the other way around. And, like you, I loved dinosaurs. I recently turned 61 and I still collect them!
I'll always love dinosaurs.
@@FredFlix That's me also. I especially love the sauropods.
Awesome work Fred, I loved this stuff back then.
Thanks, DGoodwin.
Remember those toy dinosaurs. My favorite was my blue-green Allosaurus.
_Drive-In theaters, and more, _*_from the days when suspension of disbelief, was not ruined by the internet._*
Ah, "Dinosaurus!", one of my all-time favs, it almost starred Steve McQueen as it was intended to be a duel release with "the Blob", but McQueen was supposedly such a pain in the ass to work with on that film that they got another lead for "Dinosaurus!".
First Man Into Space scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Yeah, I stopped wanting to be an astronaut after that.
Valley of the Dragons aka "Stock Footage: The Movie!"
Saw "Valley of the Dragons" just last week on Svengoolie.
Great monsters some I recall others I missed somehow
What great memories. Thanks again for sharing.
You're welcome, TimelordR.
Good job Fred ! Thanks for the memories. L👀KING FORWARD TO MORE.
Thanks, Mark.
The advantage to having shoved all my kids out the door is that my DVD collection contains most of these movies. And I have a few notations of ones I still need to get. Thanks for the ideas!
In 7th grade our school would sho us a feature film for one of our assemblies. We got to see Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Hammer horror at its best.
Wow, I'm really surprised at that because of the bloody scenes. That sounds like a great school!
FredFlix, yeah, next year they showed What Ever Happened To Baby Jane.
When I Retire I Gonna Get These on DVDs and be a Boy Again 3 -13 the 1960s.
One movie never seems to get mentioned as a more serious horror film.
Do any of you remember "Nightmare Castle" with Barbara Steele? That was a remarkably atmospheric (and violent) film for it's time. I'd first seen it at the age of 10 on WNEW 5's Creature Features, and was stunned by the amazingly violent conclusion. It stood out from the Universal Monster movies, and in a way, it was a coming of age for those of us raised on Frankenstein and Dracula or the myriad of Toho Godzilla films (as well as their other movies like H-Man and Human Vapor).
At a young age, I was getting one of my first haircuts in a barbershop. I was very shy and quiet until the barber made the mistake of asking me about my Cape Canaveral t-shirt. Then I wouldn't shut up. Really into the astronauts and space program then.
Excellent! THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD!
And as in your other comment, I too was into it more than anyone I knew.
FYI the script and story rights to "It:The Terror From Beyond Space", a pretty neat film on its own, were bought by 20th Century Fox from MGM 20 years later. Fox remade it into a little picture called..."Alien"
I thought it was either inspired by or just a plain rip-off. I didn't know Fox bought the rights. (Probably for a dollar.)
Indeed they did remake it into Alien, with Marshall Thompson in the Ripley role as he too had the job of explaining the deaths of his crewmen to a jury of his peers. Thompson was a big star in his own right, starring in such other sci-fi shockers as "Fiend Without A Face" and "First Man Into Space."
FMoF was the best magazine ever. Aurora models were a huge part of my life (had them all, including the DC super heroes). The Outer Limits was terrifying. I remember that ABC was toying with the idea of airing it at a later hour because of all of the complaints they got from parents re: kids having nightmares and such. Saw ALL of the cheesy, low-budget flicks on Ghoulardi (the local horror movie host). Godzilla was always my favorite of the Japanese "giant" monsters...and that roar of his is still an alert sound on my phone. I was definitely NOT watching "OMY B.C." for the monsters! I liked War of the Colossal Beast (and its prequel, The Amazing Colossal Man) so much I bought a small reel of it (about 3 minutes worth of film) and played it over and over again on my parents' Bell & Howell projector. The Hammer films were really well-done and I certainly enjoyed all of the scantily-clad females in those films! Thanks for another great journey into my youth!!!
I also had that 8mm reel of War of the Colossal Beast, G Money. It was great. I even put a soundtrack to it. I gathered some audio from other shows, edited it together on a cassette, and played the tape simultaneously with the running of the film and showed my parents.
I loved dinos too as a kid..what really blew my mind was when I went to the Museum of Natural History and saw how big these things really were--Holy *$#@!!
3:38 Gorgo tears down his own sign in Times Square. :). 13:17 Gotta Love Gorn! (And blow him up!) :)
And the last one: two horror greats, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing (he’s best remembered for a pair of Dr. Who movies in the 1960s and his last horror film, as Governor Tarkin in 1977’s “Star Wars” :) ).
You know that's not Times Square. Piccadily Circus, London.
FredFlix Noted. :)
Steam shovel attacking a dino? Sounds like an Alien movie 😁😁😁
Did you get to watch Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot? Nothing but monsters in that!! I know you saw Ultraman, too!! I was born in 1965, but I got to experience pretty much the same as you in the 70's, thankfully!! Cable TV destroyed much of this though. Television lost much of it's "innocence" with the onset of cable.
We didn't get Sokko but of course I loved Ultraman. I just forgot to include it.
33:50 A star is born and as well as puberty for lots of teen boys.
Poor Dana Andrews.
From "The Best Years of Our Lives" ..to.."The Curse of the Demon".
Probably drove him to drink.
Ha! At least Curse of the Demon became a classic. Not so with The Frozen Dead!
Yeah! Dinosaurs and monsters! Seems we had the same interest ...I also built a lab in my bedroom in the 60's...
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Cool!
Wow Fred, I'm amazed your parents indulged you with Blood Feast.
Very enjoyable. Don't forget Tarantula. Guess who the fighter pilot was????
33:45 The fake rock wall moves when bumped into it.
Great videos Fred, but this one needs to be a tad louder for us old farts.
Tech probs, Tom. But Part Two, coming Friday, should be fine.
Formidable .
Merci beaucoup !
You're welcome, Lino Lina.
We used to watch Sammy Terry's Night Mare Theater on Friday Nights when we were kids
Great stuff Fred, keep em coming!
The Hammer films were the BEST.Still are.Yes,there was Karloff,Lugosi,Chaney & others,but I'll take Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee every time.Also,Vincent Price was a favorite.
I agree, Jan. (Try to say "Hammer mummy movie" three times fast. You'll be able to do it,but it sounds funny.) Vincent Price is one of my top 5 actors of all time.
Might be interesting to see a bit about the various hosts and hostesses of late night tv.
You saw Blood Feast in its original run at the drive-in?!!!! And, yay, Jonny Quest!
Did you use any of the glow-in-the-dark parts that came with the Aurora models? I collected them all too - watching this was almost like watching my own biography. Great stuff!
" Black Sunday " and " Black Sabbath ", Mario Bava at his best.
Outer limits was so ahead of its time. They show it now on METV late Saturday night. Great writers and actors plus the monster was played many times by Supreme Court Justice William oDouglas son. Unfortunately the programmers screwed the producers over. After a hit first year they moved it in year two to the weekend. Younger audience went out and it was blown away in the ratings against Lawrence well etc.
producers upset at cancellation but at least it had a nice run a few decades later with new episodes.
The guy who created some of the monsters also worked on original Star Trek.
I'm an Outer Limits uber fan, MrGlenspace. My all time fave show.
"The PILOT! Is HE blind, TOO?" Nice WORK, kid! :-/