OLD CHEESY SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- This time, it's cheesy old science fiction movies from the 50s and 60s.
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Terry, do not speak disparagingly of the Bat-Rat-Cat-Spider. He was an icon to many of us in his Solarized magnificence.
He took his daddies advice and diversified into other related professions. (what?)
The Rat Cat Bat Spider is a better actor than Nora Hayden.
@@terrytalksmovies Be kind to Nora Hayden. She did the best with what talent she had. There are too many contemporary actors/performers who are thrust upon us with less talent. Who told them they could tell joke, sing, dance or act?
@@terrytalksmovies It is a classic.
I love William Schallert as Ambassador Barris in "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode of StarTrek TOS. The abuse he takes from Captain Kirk just cracks me up. I also remember William Schallert as the elderly Admiral Hargrave, the former chief of CONTROL, in "Get Smart".
Schallert was always reliable.
Schallert was also the voice of Milton, an animated toaster in commercials for Pop-Tarts toaster pastries...
It was mentioned that Franken was on the Dobie Gillis show, but so was Schallert, as Mr. (later Professor) Pomfritt.
@@jamesbarrett9466 Franken played obnoxious rich kid Chatsworth Osbourne Junior.
@@patrickdrazen8411 I remember Milton the toaster very well.
John Hoyt -and the original doctor on board the Starship Enterprise I think.😊
Correct, he was Dr. Phillip Boyce, a voice of reason during "The Cage" which got remade into "The Menagerie."
Also the three-armed alien in The Twilight Zone's "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
He was!
Gerard Mohr not only did the voice for Reed Richards but also, the same season (1967-68) on another network, for a different producer, he did the voice for Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan on the Superman-Aquaman Hour. His voice acting high point was probably his work on the Phillip Marlowe radio series.
Thanks for the additional info. He was also on an episode of Lost In Space.
@@terrytalksmovies Essentially, playing the devil . . . . Paradise Lost it wasn't, but Mohr was alright. A good, competent pro.
Yeah, _The Time Travelers_ is cheesy enough to harden your arteries, but I remember watching it on TV as a kid and being quite upset when the spaceship intended to take the remnants of humanity to Alpha Centauri (with photon drive!) got destroyed. 😢
Spoilers! 😁
Yep, this!
"Detour", surprisingly fun.
"The Time Travelers" turned on a 10-year-old me. Mind blown. The ending is still pretty good for the time (and budget).
It definitely used the budget and resources exceptionally well.
There was a either remake or copy of it called Journey to the Center of Time which I thought was really bad. I always enjoy watching The Time Travelers and the sun bathing scene, I was young when it came out, being 66 now. Here is how I would rank the movies
1. The Time Travelers
2. The Angry Red Planet
3. Man from Planet X and Beyond the Time Barrier tied for last place.
William Schalleret seems to look like Ming the Merciless in the Man from Planet X, personally I would put 'Unearthly Stranger' in this list. I think the UK made a lot of good SciFi movies back then even if they were a bit cheesey. Good review
I didn’t have much to say about the quartet of cheesy science fiction movies when I first watched this video but I do want to thank you for putting me on to the movie, Detour. I found it to be a genuinely excellent movie with a top notch story, solid performances and many outstanding directorial flourishes.
Detour is so great. Ann Savage is totally, wonderfully ruthless in it.
Edgar G. Ulmer also directed The Black Cat from 1934, which is arguably the best Karloff and Lugosi pairing. It is quite apparent that his connections and budgets waned from there. I do love all of these silly films though 😅
Well,he pretty much got himself blacklisted after falling in love with the wife of a member of the Laemmle family!
The Black Cat is wild!
@@terrytalksmovies It really is! That final year before they couldn't get away with those kind of plot elements.
Enid Fields's daughter won TWO Oscars, actually -- one for NORMA RAE in 1980, and one for PLACES IN THE HEART in 1985 (which prompted her memorable speech, "You LIKE me! You Really LIKE me!"). She was nominated in 2013 as Mary Lincoln in LINCOLN, but didn't win.
Never liked her much to be honest. Not my type and she always seemed uncomfortable on screen.
@@terrytalksmovies - as Sally Field gets older her characters seem more febrile, but I loved a lot of her younger work.
OTOH, I hate to get on a gender bias trip, especially given "Crazy Lady" is one of the few decent roles older female actors can get. Also, given her background, I'd be a bit twitchy myself!
@@timeliebe She was in some interesting movies, notably The Wat West, one of the last great Hollywood Westerns, directed by Jack Ford's godson.,
Just love the title Terry! Maybe the sub-title should be “comfort food for the eyes, brain and heart”. I love heresy sci fi more than the polished serious stuff.
I like both. I'm versatile.
What about the amazing fact that I’m named after Sally Field!? Great video, looked and sounded great. As always, you know your stuff!
Thanks chickie.
Teflon actor...I almost died laughing...that is the perfect description of Clarke...and I'll use that term moving forward, with your permission of course. "Red Planet Mars" is totally off its head and I love it for it's outrageous audacity. It's not a good film, but it's a lot of fun. The worst sin a film can commit is to be boring, and it's certainly not that. Whenever Gerald Mohr talks to Hayden I practically smell the Marlboro's and bourbon.
Go for it!
You forgot to mention that was the famous Forrest J. Ackerman doing a cameo as the scientist turning the circles into squares in The Time Travellers.
Ackerman was known for grooming young women, so to hell with him.
@@terrytalksmovies not known to me! That's terrible news. I thought he was a much beloved figure.
I love cheesy Sci Fi for nostalgia reasons. It reminds me of my carefree days in Brooklyn as a precocious child.
Same here although I grew up in Queens.
@Hugo Pritchard
Me too! Grew up in Bensonhurst. I lived for my adventures in Coney Island. My first job was at Nathan's! And they gave us free lunches!
Yep. Brooklyn in Sheepshead Bay.
@@epsteinisms1483 I love Coney Island!
@@PhiloYT1 Now they call my neighborhood Prospect Heights. I lived on St. Marks Avenue near Vanderbilt Ave. I went to the Majestic Theatre to see those cheesy movies all of them Terry talked about. The Majestic is now the Museum of Salsa and Latin Music
Great stuff Maynard!
A stellar production as always Terry. It was so good to see you review The Time Travelers.
Thank you kindly!
(your take and analysis on hammer's epic Karnstein/carmilla trilogy would be prime, b.t.w.)
"The Angry Red Planet". Still has the most jazziest end credit music ever.
It's an odd score but it works.
It always seems to me to be a source for Alien (1979).
I've always liked 'The Time Travelers', although for many years I had conflated its plot with 'World Without End' (Rod Taylor, huzzah!) until I finally saw both movies again as an adult. Interesting to note that TTT features SF writer, editor, and agent Forrest J. Ackerman in a small role.
Met Forry once in San Diego, but I've heard some unfortunate things about him in recent years which were really disappointing.
Ackerman was the mind behind “Famous Monsters of Filmland” - which I’m sure you know, but that mag was an ongoing fascination for me, ages 10-13 - as I was not allowed to watch anything “scary”….
If the scientist in the 2nd one stopped off in 2020, he could've brought Corona back to the 50s and started exactly what he came back to warn of
True.
that carnivorous martian plant in 'red planet' is at least as memorable as the fantastic 'ratabatspidercrab'; quite the sci-fi odyssey
Did everyone just telepathically agree on ratbatspider (the crab part is new to me) because I've never heard it called anything else.
@@coyoteboy5601 think it was a 'famous monsters of filmland' crib from the 60's.
There's also the carnivorous plant which has a strangely female design.
I love sci fi based on aliens capable of interstellar travel whose spaceships are so fragile they crash on earth
A lot of that is probably informed by lost aviators in the first half of the 20th Century. "What if it was an alien..."
@@terrytalksmovies : Yeah, I can see that. Storytellers draw elements into their work from the world they know, even when the stories are fantastical and filled with bug-eyed monsters from the 8th dimension.
Entertaining as ever although you are hard on one of my guilty pleasures (Angry Red Planet). When I was a kid of less than 10 I was scared by a scifi movie and turned it off before the end. It haunted me for years but I couldn't remember the title so I ARP was recommended by the video store owner as a possible fit for my description. It wasn't the movie, that was The Wizard of Mars (now THAT'S so cheesy it has John Carradine as the villain as if anyone could be scared of that old ham) but I loved ARP for all the reasons you criticised it, the scream, the effects, the amoeba.... lol and Gerald Mohr helped.
P.S. Did you know that they give sh*t smoothies to orphaned baby koalas to kick start their gut bacteria?
There are also therapies like that for people to get their gut bacteria fixed. It's a simple but smart solution.
The buget of $250,000 is impossibly low
Improbably yes, impossibly no. 😀😉
Those were good “Cheezy” movies! I really loved “Angry Red Planet” the “Cheezyness” of the FX were what made the movie for me! Still one of my favorite Classic Sci-Fi movies! 😃👍
Yep. When I'm in the mood, cheesy is the only thing that will scratch the itch.
Another fun show! And again we have the posters for the movies including Atragon! We always look forward to seeing you on the weekend!
Thanks @doomo. Glad I can entertain you.
Excellent tutorial! I am now inspired to watch all four shows. Thanks for the advice!
My pleasure, Bob.
I've been looking for a sci-fi movie I watched a few years ago but can't remember the name. It was a dystopian film, I only remember one scene in a home filled with book that were forbidden for anyone to own. There were three actors running and looking for a way to escape and found the house where an older man lived to get advice. I think that was the plot but I can't remember. If by chance you come across a movie with a similar plot, could you let me know? I have searched all the sci-fi movies on YT and have not been able to find it. I only wish I had saved it. For all I know it could be from a TV series?
Can anyone help?
Let us forgive Ms. Hayden her thespian shortcomings. I recall watching this movie as a younger fellow and particularly noticing a scene of Ms. Hayden climbing down a ladder on the spaceship and being particularly impressed with her backside.
Gluteal substances!
Anyone remember a movie similar to Angry Red Planet that had a monster with a spherical body, perhaps one eye, with multi legs in place of the rat/crab/spider monster? I think I saw that movie playing on the TV at a gas station in Canadian Texas one 1970's summer night as I passed through. Been on a quest to find that movie for many years. Thanks! Enjoy the videos.
Anyone?
@@terrytalksmovies Terry, really enjoy your videos and would like to thank you for making them. I also would like to apologize for addressing my comment to "anyone" instead of you.
@@terrytalksmovies That beastie sounds a bit like the Crawling Eye or as it was titled in the UK The Trollenberg Terror
Yeah! I would always watch a lot of those old horror sci-fi movies when I was a teenager. They were good time killers. Some like the amazing colossal man, them, films like that.
Popcorn movies are comforting.
Again a good selection. Time Barrier and Travellers I have seen and remember, but Planet X and Red Planet are on my shelf. A cute sidebar with Planet: A new dentist I was seeing for the first time found out I was a fan of Cheesy Sci-Fi, and asked if I knew a space film that had a creature who was kind of like a rat, bat, and I cut him off and said spider. He was shocked that I knew it ( me too, that he knew it. He was quite a bit younger than I) MGM Midnite Madness DVD's were a thing then, and I had recently bought a copy of Red Planet (also my copies of Planet X and Planet of the Vampires. I bought most of their output, but the label didn't hang around too long) I bought a copy of Red Planet for him, and I never had a painful dentist visit again...
And though I couldn't prove it, or verify it if I tried, when I was five or six, there eas a titan-haired actress who was a Special Guest Speaker at the Southern Baptist Church my parents and I attended in the early
60's. StarStruck kid that I was, I listened with rapt attention as he was there to speak about the moral cess-pit that was Hollywood. She did mention a Sci-Fi film she was in, but after she ranbled on for hours about her terrible abuses by the industry, my parents left before I could meet her. My memory says she was Nora Hayden, but of course I have no wa of verifying it. Although the book you mention does seem in kind with her experiences I remember her speaking about. Needless to say, the pastor apologized the following week, and she was never spoken of again.
Well, that's my (possibly) true story of my encounter with Nota Hayden as a child, though I 'll never know if it was her...
Thanks again for the trip down possible memory lane, and my affection for the Angry Red Planet. and as a young Gay man my delight when I saw Gerald Mohr's appearance in Funny Girl some years later...
Gerald Mohr was a stud. 😀 That's a weird and wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it.
Merry Anders of the "Time Travelers" might be better known to your fans as policewoman Dorothy Miller from the 1960s Dragnet series.
I've seen her in a couple of movie roles and she was a solid actress.
Here's a bit of trivia. In Beyond the Time Barrier, the dungeon or pit where all the futuristic mutants are kept and from which they escape looks a lot like stock footage -- because it is. It's taken from a Fritz Lang movie (or actually movies) -- released in the U.S. as Journey to the Lost City - but as two movies overseas as Tigress of Bengal and The Indian Tomb - of course in Lang's movie, it's a dungeon full of lepers which are ultimately freed to cause havoc - but it works out either way.
The Indian Tomb is great!
It was nice to see THE TIME TRAVELERS mentioned, because it's one of the few reasonable films that Forrest J Ackerman ( Uncle Forry ) gets a role in. As an actor, he's a good editor of FAMOUS MONSTERS, but it's nice to have a moment of his life captured when he was still fairly young. He's in your video at 23:20 , turning circles into squares.
Yep. Met him once.
I remember that the "twist" ending of The Time Travelers was used in several time travel movies of the 50s, right down to the sped up scenes.
It was. The drum beat on the soundtrack really lands it.
Man From Planet X 1951 I was seven when I saw it on TV in 55. It was eerie, the space ship was mysterious. What did I know of the Moors? I was angry at the way they mistreated the Alien. I liked the way he hummed. The Angry Red Planet. 1959 I saw when I was eleven. It was everything I could want from Mars. I was not such an acting critic as I was a monster fan. the Rat Bat Spider was the best popcorn gorger yet. For fine black and white cinemascope look to The Land Unknown. 1957, Television couldn't do that. .
Every time I see black and white cinemascope I wish the movie was in Technicolor, too.
You know when a movie is really bad because you have to watch it to the end!
Yep. Sometimes you need to see where the pieces land in a trainwreck.
Can we talk briefly about the fact, not only that John Hoyt was the zillionaire in the wheelchair in When Worlds Collide, but that he was directing the construction of a rocketship Space Ark just like his character Varno in The Time Travelers? Talk about typecasting! I unconditionally love John Hoyt, though, so I'm all for his playing Space Noah twice. Sadly, about all that interests me about Angry Red Planet are some of the names involved. Watching it, I had to wonder if producer Sidney Pink was deliberately trying to suggest his own name by way of the Cinemagic. I also theorize that Iris Ryan is almost always called Irish as somebody's tribute to Irish McCalla, TV's Sheena Queen of the Jungle during the 1950s and star of She Demons. Of these four I give an honorable nod to The Man From Planet X but I love love love The Time Travelers. (Someone else must have loved it too, enough to blatantly rip it off -- even stealing footage from the mutant attack upon the starship -- in Journey to the Center of Time.) TTT is so "science-fictiony." Post-apocalyptic wasteland! Mutants! Androids! A starship! And of course time travel. I'm a names freak, and there are examples here of bland names which can be twisted to either good or evil. In When Worlds Collide, Hoyt plays the ruthless Sydney Stanton. In the delightful science fiction movie The Man in the White Suit, Alec Guinness plays quirky but benevolent chemist Sydney Stratton. Sydney Stanton bad, Sydney Stratton good. Got that? (Oh, and to pile on the typecasting, Stanton is also the name of the snarling pushy industrialist in the Time Travelers ripoff, Journey to the Center of Time. So don't trust any Stantons.) Finally, I was stunned to see Patty Duke's dad play the evil Dr. Mears, and got confused when Benjaman (deliberate misspelling) Mears turned up as the hero in the Stephen King novel (and fun TV adaptation) 'Salem's Lot. One Mears is an abuser of an alien visitor, but the other is a bold vampire killer. Got that? It can get a bit tricky. I've blathered enough. The Bond is a bit controversial, especially in how it ends, but you should be fine with Shang Chi. That's it, be well, have fun.
I'm going to enjoy them both. 😀
Steve Franken was one of the great underrated comedians in US film and tv. He appeared in just about every sitcom in the 1960s through the 90s, but he's most memorable as the drunken waiter in the Peter Sellers' film THE PARTY. BTW, Vilmos Zsigmond's first regular film work was on the low budget Arch Hall, Jr. flicks - he's credited as "William Zsigmond" at the time. Checkout THE SADIST, his very first feature film - a surprising shocking film, and the best work by Hall (which of course isn't saying much).
Franken was funnier than Sellers in The Party. That blackface thing is a deal breaker for me. Franken's physical comedy skills were superb.
Terry? Have you already done 'The Magnetic Monster'? (It's on Amazon Prime.)
It has an interesting story about the expensive looking prop/set *Deltatron*
I did GOG and mentioned The Magnetic Monster.
Cheesy Scifi is my favorite kind of scifi.
Plenty of it out there to watch.
The Man from Planet X is more historically interesting than cinematic. It was the first "alien" movie that broke away from the Flash Gordon model of the universe. It came at the dawn of the shift of "oh those silly science fiction boys," to "wow, atomic power is a real thing." Related to cheap pulps, science fiction was now being sought after by legitimate publishing houses. Yes, cheap, yes made in 6 days, but the plot is more sophisticated than most of your 50s SciFi movies that would follow. For THAT (and maybe that alone) it is worth a viewing.
17:00 - Another thing you forgot to point out is how many of these "working class engineers all had Brooklyn accents. This was such an established trope (even back in the radio days of X-Minus One) that I am always surprised Scotty of Star Trek was not from there or the Bronks. Fun movie anyway.
It is a fun movie, but Norah Hayden's acting is amazingly bad.
@@terrytalksmovies Oh yes, that is a given.
I watched "The Man from Planet X" and found it to be another attempt at serious scifi.The problem is the costume worn by the alien. Corny! Another unrealistic episode is how detectives from London suddenly show up 30 seconds after sending a message by flashlight to a moving ship. Totally unrealistic, the Army shows up another 30 seconds later. It is a free movie check it out.
Yep people should watch it for historical reasons.
can you tell me any of the tips Nora has in the book, like eating a certain food the day before or what to say to a woman when meeting them or anything useful?
Bottom line: good guys always come last.
I didn't know TMFPX was made in the USA.
9:47 I liked The Time Travelers. *Forrest Ackerman!!*
Forrest J. Ackerman made an appearance in THE TIME TRAVELERS.
He did.
I have this set but have only watched the later 2 films which I recalled from Saturday afternoon TV. Have to get round to th first 2 films which I've never seen.
You really should, @taker68 .
A lot of these cheesy sci-fi films from the 50s and 60s are still superior to a lot of the crap that comes from :Hollywood" today. They are just pure escapism and entertainment. Throw all of your science, logic, and reality out the window, Just grab a big bowl of popcorn, a soda, squish yourself into your chair and watch the films. Just enjoy, enjoy, enjoy and when you have finished watching you can go back to the real world with a smile on your face and a warm feeling in your gut.
It is possible to like both old and new movies. There are quality films on both sides of that divide.
@@terrytalksmovies That is true. I still prefer the old films. I have seen a lot of films over the years and do enjoy a good action film. Many of these films I can watch a second time but older stuff I can watch 3 or 4 times a tear. Casablanca is one, even though it was made before I was born. The old 50s, 60s Sci-fi I grew up on and have some of those. Watched the old version of The thing a few months back. Seen it many times. The remake I have only seen once. It is all a mater of our own tastes. When I saw Vladimir Sokoloff in the credits I new he was "the old man" before you posted it. However I can not tell you who played Captain America in the Marvel films. All a matter of what sticks in your mind. And I enjoyed your review of these 4 films. I could watch them all again, especially Angry Red Planet.
I have a pretty good Idea how those future guys are using their time with those androids with the 0 mouths in The Time Travelers.
With all the cute people around in tight pants? Nah.
i haven't ? seen any of these , but the Man from Planet X, which might be real, sounds like ET ripped it off, a small alien has a broken ship and uses psychic powers to manipulate humans into helping him get home
Not psychic powers, technology.
I remember seeing "the time travelers' on TV as a kid on late night Saturday when sci-fi was aired; it took me forever to find the name of the movie. Fun fact--it was remade in 1967 as "Journey to the Center of Time"
Journey To The Centre Of Time is a really weak remake of it.
@@terrytalksmovies Sort of a "re=imagining" by someone who worked on the original, I guess.
Wow. Pretty crazy comments. Of course, since I was very good friends of (among others) Ib Melchior, Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, members of the Ulmer family, Nora Hayden etc, some of this went down like, uh, down the wrong pipe. But I'll refrain from stating all my very big differences of opinion on most of these struggle-budgeted films (a term I use rather than the over-used and personally hated "cheezy" term, sorry).
But a couple of points by way of correction: The big inverted pyramids in BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER were constructed of muslin stretched over 1x3 wooden framework. Not sure where you got the bamboo and parachute idea. Parachutes WERE indeed used, but for another purpose entirely: They were hung all around the huge building in which the rather large sets for this film were shot in order to dampen the echoes that proved to be a problem for recording dialogue (some of that echo still remains, as I'm sure you can hear).
A bit too complicated to fully explain the intent and method employed to create the (intended dream-memory) effect for the Mars scenes in THE ANGRY RED PLANET. It was related to, but not purely solarization. (The mermaid sequence in HEAD, btw, was not solarization either, but a technique called posterization, which involved exposing a positive in one color, and the negative in another color onto a separate piece of film...perhaps not a very good description of it, but maybe it'll help describe the difference.) As far as ANGRY PLANET again, the Mars scenes were not shot in color, but in black and white with pretty hard directional lighting (by Stanley Cortez) and assigned the color orange in the final assembly print.
Producer Norman Maurer (a fine artist/illustrator) did all the artwork that appears in the film, including those city shots (as opposed to Alex Toth, who only did the storyboards).
TIME BARRIER was shot by a union crew, but was able to take advantage of low rent for the building that acted as the sound stage, and general support services (plus use of students from Southern Methodist University, Baylor and others as extras and misc. help).
We all have our own individual reactions to whatever the heck we let our eyeballs gaze upon, so little point to going over that (tho I will say that I thought PLANET X was quite beautifully shot by another classic DP, John Russell, and overall feel it to be--with some exceptions---a handsome film that looked a lot better and larger budgeted than your usual $39,000. movie.)
Yes, I can agree with some of your observations (and glad you didn't repeat the incorrect story that TIME BARRIER was shot on a "standing futuristic exhibit at the Texas State Fairgrounds"), certainly as far as some of Sid Pink's dialogue in ANGRY PLANET, which Ib was unable to delete. (As far as PLANET X, Bob had to struggle with that dialogue, as did everyone in the cast: dialogue was written by the British Aubrey Wisberg who was nothing if not extremely verbose! ---his writing partner was terribly frustrated by that. I have some letters from him, and they are, not surprisingly, piled high with wordage! Screwing up any one of those long long-winded spiels in the film made everyone tense, fair amount of that tension apparent in the performances. Re-takes were a pain in the side of the budget that the director and production manager made everyone well aware of )
I have to remind myself that one man's hidden gems is another one's cheap rhinestones.
But I have blabbed well enough for 40 commentators!! Shutting up now. I both hissed and enjoyed your commentary!---I guess maybe that IS a form of entertainment! Thanks for the video.
Thanks for all that information. I apologise for getting a few details wrong. Always happy to be corrected.
Gerald Mohr was a very magnetic guy. He played a character called Morbus who tricks Dr Smith into thinking he's Satan in Lost in Space and he did it in a very hip, swinging way rather than just reciting his lines like some guest stars. Like so many of his generation, taken too soon by heart disease.
His voice was great, too, just like Les Tremayne.
@@terrytalksmovies Les Tremayne the general from War of the Worlds and he played mentor in the live-action SHAZAM TV series and I think he did a bit of animated character work as well. You got me with the Star Trek lore I thought the Doctor before Mcoy was played by Paul Fix who was Micah Torrence on The RifleMan.
You touched on a subject that rather interests me. Horror show hosts from other countries. Any chance of diving deeper?
It's not a focus for this channel and I only know the local ones, but I hope someone does it.
Excellent insight. Have yet to see the Man from Planet X, but have seen the rest. Actually saw The Time Travelers at the theater. The latter was rated "C" for Condemned by the Catholic Church... at least in Michigan for the then high sexual content, most notably the "keyboard" sequence. For the time, it was pretty darned risque. Thanks for your post.
My pleasure. A C rating sounds like a stamp of quality to me.
@@terrytalksmovies Didn't find out about the rating until after I saw the movie. Aside from burning in hell...I thought the movie was pretty good.
Another Edgar G. Ulmer movie worthy of mention was 1934's THE BLACK CAT, where he cleverly used modernist set design for his devil-worshipping villain's (Boris Karloff, in a rare utterly unsympathetic role!) home. Lugosi gets to play a hero for a change, albeit a tormented one who sadistically begins to flay the skin off Karloff's body (shown in shadow, but still pretty gruesome!) before he's shot by the horrified hero. One of the best Universal horror movies ever.
Ulmer should have been a huge name in horror moviemaking...unfortunately, he fell in love in love with producer Max Alexander's wife, Shirley -- the daughter-in-law of Universal honcho Carl Laemmle! They had an affair, she divorced her husband and married Ulmer, they became Hollywood outcasts and moved East to work in low-budget films for minority audiences. When they came back West Ulmer settled at Producer's Releasing Corporation, one of the most impoverished of the "Poverty Row" studios. Ulmer also directed BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER, near the end of his career.
Hollywood was such a cesspit for relationship grudges. Perry Como never got big in movies because he punched out an executive, too.
Looks like Atragon was also made into a cartoon as Super Atragon.
It was also the Gotengo in Godzilla Final Wars
I will have to rewatch Atragon.
@@terrytalksmovies I’ll wait for your review before I invest ❤️ love the show btw
I did watch "Time Travelers" and found it to be an above average "B" movie.Script and acting was convincing and surprisingly the sound track was good. It is an attempted serious science fiction movie whose props and in real time action runs a ground. Worth watching.
It really it. It's quaint now, but it's an honest effort.
I have a huge soft spot for Angry Red Planet. Don't ask me why. But I love it. Maybe it's that Nora Hayden is so easy on the eyes (but yes, an awful actress). Maybe it's Gerald Mohr's oily, cringe-making delivery. (He looks like he smells like stale cigarette smoke and has the body language of a 70 year old bartender). Maybe it's Les Tremayne's presence, because he's always awesome (although he has virtually nothing to do in this movie). Maybe it's the bizarre solarizing. Maybe it's the giant amoeba. Maybe it's....
Nah. It's all of it. Topped by the Bat-Rat-Spider. You can't hate a movie with one of those in it. More should be made.
The Bat Rat Spider is the MVP in the movie, along with the amoeba splooge on the windows.
@@terrytalksmovies Getting rid of the ameboid life form on the ship and on Gerald Morhs's arm was pretty clever using electricity to kill it. Also if memory services the martian was later used either in an episode of the Outer Limits or the movie The She-Creature. In the ARP movie, it was voiced by great voice actor Paul Frees.
These make me so damned happy.
Glad they did!
Great video, thanks! A cheesy science fiction movie I'd LOVE to see again is Point of No Return. No, not the 1993 film with Bridget Fonda. The 1976 Canadian film with such stars as Nicky Fylan and Cec Linder. I saw it on TV in Canada in the 80s and it's hilariously bad. Unfortunately apart from an IMDB entry there is almost no information available about it, and I highly doubt is was ever released for sale in any format.
Great suggestion! I'll add it to the list. Thanks.
For merch, perhaps you could offer a bottle opener fashioned after Naura Hayden's gaping scream. Surely this movie has lapsed into the public domain.
Nope.
@@RSEFX I was just in a silly mood when I wrote that comment (never actually thinking the movie is in the public domain). The frozen image of Ms. Hayden's scream affected my judgement. I am looking forward to receiving the 4-movie set so that I can experience the scream in its full glory.
I kind of enjoyed "The Time Travelers" on late night cable years ago and again when they riffed it on the Netflix reboot of MST3K. The ending is interestingly weird.
IKR? Mind blowing when I first saw it.
I saw it straight on Comet (before I knew Comet was largely owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, a company so Right-Wing they make Fox News look liberal!) before seeing it on MST3K, and...it's not a bad little SF movie with a mind-bending ending.
Have you reviewed any of the peplum movies? Some of those Hercules/Maciste flicks have an extra helping of cheese!
Peplum is on the list. I want to do some of the most mythological ones when I do.
If you haven't already you should check out "The Witch's Curse" from 1962. The story takes place in 17th century Scotland where an evil witch is tormenting an accursed town. A very young Maciste shows up clad in only a loin cloth, which fails to raise an eyebrow from the villagers, even though I'm pretty sure that a nearly naked buff young man would scandalize the town back then. Eventually Maciste has to fight the witch in Hell! Yes, it's that insane, but I really got a hoot out of it!
Man From Planet X was unfortunately hobbled by a miniscule budget and a unfortunate title. The concept was solid and unique, especially for the time it was made. Interestingly, the humans in the film come off as much more threatening than the alien.
I've certainly seen worse.
I've seen worse recently. 😀
When I was young, in the late 60s and early 70s, The Time Travelers often showed up with Cyborg 2087 on the nearby independent TV station's cheesy weekend Sci-Fi afternoon show. I know if theese "B" and "C" grade films hadn't been on television back then, it would have been a rather boring time on the small number of channels available to us.
Younger people don't know the pain of five TV channels. 😀
I've always loved Angry Red Planet because of its unashamed leaps of imagination. Rocket to mars, a curious martian, the giant rat spider, large carnivorous plants, rayguns, giant amoeba and associated horrible death, evidence of highly developed civilization, plus the angry red hairdo, the antiquated gender roles, and the grooving space age cocktail closing number which kind of outshines the movie, ending it all on bit of a contrasting upbeat.
Many of those elements appear in Forbidden Planet in what seems to remain more classy and competent. In Angry Red Planet, those elements there are there for the sheer shameless fun.
It is cheap-arsed fun.
Hey, a couple of months and you are hitting 10000 subscribers👍
I know. It's going well. Thanks for watching.
John Hoyt was amazing! He was of course the 1st Medical Officer in the Star Trek Franchise, not to mention one of my favorite Twilight Zone Episodes! & if I remember my Sci/Fi History properly... that's SF Icon Forrest Ackerman getting everything SQUARED away at 12:12.
Yep it is. John Hoyt was also a nudist.
@@terrytalksmovies Ya know... You learn something new every day!
@@terrytalksmovies ...Just not in any of his movies -- that we know of.
I might have seen bits of Beyond the Time Barrier, the others I've seen. We'll see if 2024 matches the movie. Angry Red Planet may have been appealing to young boys. In 1959 the belief was that's who science fiction movies was made for. The Time Travelers did have some interesting twists, for 1964. There's a video on RUclips that claims above a certain altitude on Venus the temperature is reasonable. A cloud city over a planet as hot a blazes? I didn't see The Man From Planet X until recently. I wonder the thoughts about the Alien from people who watched it when it was in the movies? I enjoyed the review. Thanks for posting.
There's also the possibility of life on Venus at those altitudes, which might make colonisation problematic.
@@terrytalksmovies It could make for great science fiction though.
Best topic ever! Cheese .. sorry cheers me up all the time!
Glad you liked it Yasi!
You should take a look at 1958's It! The Terror From Beyond Space which was the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Alien. Another good choice is 4D Man from 1959.
Alien's biggest influence was Planet of the Vampires,. I did a video about 4D man a while back. 😀
Ah! Worth keeping an eye out for. I'd go long popcorn futures if I found it. I always found it curious how these sorts of "cheesy" sci-fi films, and the stories behind them, assumed that The Apocalypse would happen in the near future. Atom Age Angst?
Stay safe! Go sane!
Sanity is always the best option.
I've seen all of these, on Saturday afternoon TV, in the 1970's.
TV used to be cool.
Wasn't Forrest J Ackerman in a cameo role in the movie?
Yep. One of the first examples of fan service.
Amazon Prime video offered most of these up for me after I watched some old favorites, Destination Moon, Plan 9 From Outer Space and Things to Come. "Oh, you like cheesy old science fiction! Let's see what else we can find…"
I was curious to see what Angry Red Planet was about. I remember the title from when I was a kid, but I don't know anything about it.
Here you are just in time to fill me in! Thanks!!
It's said Disney called their adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's "A Princess of Mars" "John Carter" because of a belief that any movie with the name "Mars" in the title is doomed.
I just watched "Beyond the Time Barrier" and enjoyed it much more than I expected to.
Amazon has "The Man from Planet X" for rent or purchase. I won't pay to watch that one.
They say they have "The Time Travelers 1964" but they say the video is "currently unavailable."
I'll check out Angry Red Planet later.
Thank you so much for turning me onto these!
My pleasure.
A PRINCESS OF MARS or JOHN CARTER OF MARS were both scrapped by mutual agreement because Disney and director Andrew Stanton agreed "Mars" would ensure a failure(!).
Then call it JOHN CARTER OF BARSOOM! Even if most people don't know what "Barsoom" means, they know it sounds weird and alien-y. Calling a movie JOHN CARTER sounds like it's the life story of Noah Wylie's character on ER....
@@timeliebe Yah, and it tanked anyway.
Please review 'The Earth Dies Screaming'. I like this type very much..
Become a patreon supporter at patreon.com/paleocinema and I might :-)
@@terrytalksmovies I was considering supporting your channel, but, After that.... 'Become a patreon supporter at patreon.com/paleocinema and I might' comment;. But instead it will go to Dark Corners Reviews. It would have been better to say something like 'Sure, I'll do that, consider becoming....etc... UNSUBSCRIBED
Preston foster was in the return of Doctor X
True.
Not true. He played in the original DOCTOR X. (RETURN OF DOCTOR X starred Humphrey Bogart.)
@@RSEFX I found him in Dr X online
Enjoyed your review. I just wondered if Irwin Allen borrowed some ideas from "The Time Travellers" to make "The Time Tunnel" which, of course, was a TV series. Wouldn't have put it past him.
He did.
He certainly didn't borrow much -- except the title -- from the novel "The Time Tunnel."
And don't even ask what happened to "Space Family Robinson" on its way to becoming "Lost in Space."
He stole from everywhere.
*lol* "manure milkshake"
I was looking for alternative wording. 😆
Good evening Terry
Evening!
Please put the title of the film on the screen while you speak about it. It really helps.
The titles come up as I start talking about them.
@@terrytalksmovies They're on the screen behind you, too, but I listen to your recordings instead of watching them. When you say the name of the movie, it slips out of memory immediately if the name isn't absolutely bonkers memorable (e.g. Amazon Women on the Moon). When you start talking about the movie, and it's interesting, I go "Whoa! That movie sounds interesting." I then look at the screen and you continue to talk about the movie and how good it is and then you move on to the next movie! What the hell is the name of the movie??? I then have to scrub back through the video and hope that it pops up (because it's not up for very long and I end up missing it). So, if you keep the name of the movie on the screen as you talk about the movie, when I find the movie interesting enough, I can see what movie it is.
Nice Pick Terry !
THE TIME TRAVELLER sucked me at the Time into
the Silver Screen.
I've got the MAN FROM PLANET X on a LaserDisc Box Set.
yeah .... that was a lovely Format.
LaserDiscs weren't a thing here, but I did see a few in thrift stores last year.
@@terrytalksmovies
LaserDisc was not big either in Europe incl. UK.
I jumped on it late, around 2010 because there was Title
which was not available on DVD or Blu Ray and the Audio
is on newer Discs uncompressed PCM and not lossy
Dolby Digital what you have on DVD.
Some Box Editions are fantastic & luxury Collector Dreams.
I bought Lots of them as it was still affordable ( not more now )
from ebay Japan and the US.
And the Players ( especially Pioneer ) are a Joy to use.
Love cheesy scifi Terry. Really enjoyed Mst3k take on 'The Time Travellers'. Hilarious.
I take mind straight up. MST3K is fine, but sometimes you need a straight shot in a shotglass.
@@terrytalksmovies Hardcore. (ツ)
Have you ever seen a movie called panic in the year zero?
Yep. The movie that inspired a million insane doomsday preppers.
@@terrytalksmovies [laughing] It probably did. It's actually a pretty good film, though. I was surprised. Went in expecting radioactive mutants and Frankie Avalon songs and came out with biker gangs kidnapping girls for sex slaves, gas riots, and (mercifully) Frankie doesn't sing once.
I love Time Barrier!
Me too. It has all the sixties groovy.
@@terrytalksmovies Yeah I had a crush on the cute girl with the ponytail when I was little.
I've seen 'Beyond the Time Barrier', and I'm almost sure that it was on RUclips so probably in the last eighteen months. Having to work from home has some advantages I guess 😂
And 'The Time Travelers' has come up on the ever more remote areas of digital TV over the years. That got a bit whacky at the end if I remember correctly
Yeah, it did. But it's an honest movie. They're trying to do right by science fiction and I think they succeeded in that.
I love Angry Red Planet! A real guilty pleasure.
Weird and hypnotically bad in places.
good review as always i watched the 1st 2 movies on here proper cheese but enjoyable cheese none the less
They are. Sometimes you need cheese.
@@terrytalksmovies agreed
Surprisingly I remembered them all.
A good waste of time.
Nice summary!
What wasn't Bill Schallert in?
Loved him in The Patty Duke Show.
@@terrytalksmovies Great character actor. When I read Stephen King's The Stand back in 1980, I saw him as Glenn Bateman, the retired professor . . . .
9:15 Prophetic... 😅
Nah, 2024 is going to be a great year.
From the start I was afraid you were going to include “This Island Earth,” (1955). I thought it was a very watchable movie, especially from that film era. Very entertaining for the first half or so, I thought, but turned somewhat disappointing through the rest.
This Island Earth was the first SF movie I ever saw. My uncles took me to a revival screening of it when I was very small.
I might ruin "This Island Earth" for you ... like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the script is such that if you removed the protagonists, the plot would have played out, ended, exactly the same way.
Far from Cheesy. An Ernest attempt of the studio to undercut the superior Forbidden Planet. I was into science fiction and read the book before I saw the movie. The big brained Mutants played too small a part.
@@softdorothy By intimating that I liked the beginning of the movie better than the later portions, I wanted to project the idea that my attraction was driven by the scientific gizmos and fantastic machinery-these and the settings that constituted greater special effects than I expected to see at that cinematic period. I was not impressed by the plot itself so much. You won’t spoil anything for me.
@@terrytalksmovies Not a bad story and some actors who either had talent (Russel Johnson, Robert Nichols), presence (Rex Reason) or both Faith Domergue (none of whom hit it big).
A 1050s Science Fiction story that is not utterly embarrassing or sententious.
Why _are_ triangles futuristic? It's still a thing along with hexa- or octo- gons.
Because we're all squares?
@@terrytalksmovies *giggle*
Don't worry too much about not seeing No Time to Die... :)
It's opening here on November 11, so I already bought my ticket.
I love cheese.
Fromage is my jam.
4EJ Ackerman has a cameo Snapchat n Time Travelers.
@Wade Heaton
Isn't that Ackerman doing the magic trick?
Yep but he was also a sleazy bastard, so there's that...
@@terrytalksmovies He was always very nice to me
Got that DVD set
It's staying in the collection.
What's that font you're using?
It's called Slackey. If you do a free font search you should be able to grab it. It suits the vibe I want for the channel.
@@terrytalksmovies
It's delightfully whacky.
Found it and downloaded it.
Thanks!
Ah yes, the smell of well aged cheese.
Old science fiction movies are an endless fromagerie.