Dear Sci-fi Freaks,
As the imdb has lots of filmfreaks,i wonder if anyone could give us a sort of
top 10 (or top 5 ;) of the best Sci-Fi movies around the 50's.
I saw the great spider invasion,but found it bad,maybe some other but DECENT titles like Them! ?
Thanks!
My top sci-fi movies of the 50's in no particluar order
1. Them
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still
3. Godzilla King of the Monsters
4. The Thing Froma Another World
5. Forbidden Planet
6. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
7. The Creature From the Black Lagoon
8. The Monolith Monsters (Unsure if in the 50's)
9. Invasion of the bOdy Snatchers
10.Rodan
11.Tarantula
12.The Blob
That's my top 12 or Dirty Dozen
My favorites
1. The Day the Earth Stood Still
2. Them
3. Forbidden Planet
4. This Island Earth
5. The Blob
6. The Beast from 20000 Fathoms
7. It Came from Outer Space
8. The Mysterians
Can't come up with any more :)
1. War of the Worlds
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. The Thing from Another Planet
4. Them!
5. Enemy from Space
6. Earth Versus the Flying Saucers
7. It Came from Beneath the Sea
8. Invaders from Mars
9. I Married a Monster from Outer Space
10. The Man from Planet-X
honorable mention: Not of This Earth (I have never seen this movie, but it is supposed to be a better than average si-fi flick)
Special Honorable Mention: On the Beach (Only technically speaking a si-fi movie, but a much better movie than most of this low-rent genre)
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
Great list. I agreed with 9 of your 12.
add:
The Day the World Ended
War of the Worlds
20 Million Miles From Earth
The Fly
Incidentally, did you notice Leonard Nimoy as a soldier?
we'd get dropped off at the Saturday-afternoon lineups at the local movie and two or three of those would ALWAYS be on the menu..along with all the concession-stand stuff we kids could afford ...(remember when you could AFFORD POPCORN????)...LOVED "The Blob"
shareI want to replace Rodan with The War of the Worlds.
shareok, you're allowed.
shareMy favorites are:
1. The Day the Earth Stood Still
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. Them!
4. The War of the Worlds
5. The Thing From Another World
6. Gojira (Godzilla)
7. The Fly
8. Journey to the Center of the Earth
9. Creature from the Black Lagoon
10. Invaders from Mars
1. Them!
2. Incredible Shrinking Man
3. Tarantula
4. War of the Worlds
5. The Spider
6. Godzilla
7. Black Scorpion
8. Creature from the Black Lagoon
9. The Blob
10. Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
There's just too many to choose from. There's atomic mutations, there's space voyages, there's alien invasions, there's all the stuff based on Verne or Welles, and the like, there's Disney's great fantasies like Absent Minded Professor, there's Harryhausen and Obrien, there's Quatermass, there's just too much good stuff!! Here's mine, and it's emphasis is on SciFi influenced horror types of films. Not in any particular order of favorites.
1. The Thing From Another World (Sci Fi! Horror! Western?)
2. The Quatermass Experiment (Creeping Unknown)(The Spooky London Fog)
3. The Monolith Monsters (What a Soundtrack!)
4. The incredible Shrinking Man (That Philosophy)
5. Kronos (Cheesy and Cheap, and still really well-done)
6. Them (GI-Ants afraid of NOTHING)
7. Tarantula (Except maybe this!)
8. The Trollenberg Terror (Crawling Eye)(The Eerie Foggy Alps)
9. X the Unknown (The Scary Scottish Fog)
10 Fiend Without a Face (That Creepy Foggy Canada)
That's the 50's, Now here's the 60's
1. Last Man on Earth (Price vs night of the the living dead)
2. Quatermass and the Pit (5 Million Yrs to Earth)(Creeping beneath London)
3. The Day of the Triffids (Crawling above London)
4. Night of the Living Dead (remember, weird space radiation caused zombies)
5. The Earth Dies Screamimg (You gotta see it to believe it)
6. First Men in the Moon (Best Harryhausen SciFi Adventure)
7. Crack in the World (Great idea, good execution)
8. Fantastic Voyage (Another great idea with good execution and Raquel)
9. Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava!!)
10. The Time Travelers (Wild and weird ending...ending...ending...)
The 1970's:
1. Colossus, the Forbin project (Yeah, TV, but it's HAL back on earth)
2. Soylent Green (Heston deserves one on the list)
3. Star Wars (Of Course!)
4. Close Encounters (You had to be there, either abducted or in a 1978 theater)
5. Westworld (The real Terminator No. 1)
6. Phase IV (Another see it to believe it, THEM without GI-ants)
7. Capricorn One (See it but DON'T believe it)
8. Phantasm (remember they're shipping humans to an alien world)
9. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (rehashed first half but great last half)
10. The Andromeda Strain (Murphy's Law at work to destroy the planet)
And the 1980's:
1. Scanners (Ahh, Cronenberg)
2. Empire Strikes Back (Better than the first, uhm, fourth)
3. Superman II (Better than the first, and the fourth, and the third)
4. Robocop (Ahh, Verhoven)
5. Warning Sign (didn't see it yet? Best loose virus since Andromeda Strain)
6. Dune (Ahh, Lynch)
7. Endangered Species (Seems to get better and better as time passes)
8. Star Trek 2 (Super, slam dunk, after merely fair opening feature)
9. Star Trek 4 (They had to dunk again after the third one)
10 Bladerunner (Ahh, Ridley Scott shows how to do better than ALIEN)
The 90s aren't old enough yet!
Everyone always forgets THE DEADLY MANTIS.
"True Evil never really dies, it merely changes it's face."
Here's what I think:
10. When Worlds Collide
9. It Came from Outer Space
8. The Quatermass Experiment
7. The Beast from 20,000 fathoms
6. The Fly
5. Tarantula
4. Them!
3. The Thing from Another World
2. The War of the Worlds
1. The Day the Earth Stood Still
These are standouts not just for the production values, but the really entertaining scripts.
1-The day the earth stood still
2-Forbidden Planet
3-Invasion of the body snatchers
4-Thing from another world
5-Incredible shrinking man
6-Earth vs. the flying saucers
7-I married a monster from outer space
8-Invaders from Mars
9-Them
10-Earth vs. the spider
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In no particular order: The Day the Earth Stood Still Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Incredible Shrinking Man Godzilla (The original version without Raymond Burr inserts) Invaders from Mars The Fly The Thing Forbidden Planet Them Rodan How about enjoyably bad Sci-FI movies from the 50's and 60's? This Island Earth Teenagers from Outer Space Attack of the 50 ft Woman Dinosaurus The Land Unknown Mothra The Blob Can't think of title: giant crepe suzette kills astronauts one by one on spaceship. Zsa Zsa Gabor is the queen of Venus! Any movie involving a spaceship with at least one spaceman from Brooklyn on board
shareA girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
thanks a lot.
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
thanks a lot.
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A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
thanks a lot.
My DVD Collection :
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=dman988
Still waiting. Been years.
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Very good, Louis. Short, but pointless.
1. Them!
2. The Thing From Another World
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still
4. Creature From the Black Lagoon
5. Forbidden Planet
6. War of the Worlds
7. The Blob
8. Tarantula
9. It! The Terror From Beyond Space
10. This Island Earth
There are still so many I have yet to see, I love these old sci-fi movies
AMAZING CONTRIBUTIONS BY EVERYONE.
Anyone have room to add THE TINGLER to their list?
samuri5/Mark
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Perhaps not intentionally so, but is Plan 9 from Outer Space not a true classic? I still fear the destructive power of the solamanite bomb!!!
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I think mine would run something like this:
1. Forbidden Planet
2. THEM!
3. War of the Worlds
4. The Monster That Challenged the World (the best of the THEM! derive
5. The Beast from 20000 Fathoms
6. The Thing (from Another World)
7. Kronos.
8. It Came From Outer Space
9. The Day The Earth Stood Still
10. The Blob
I'd also like to give honorable mention to the 4D Man and the Monolith
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The thing tha keeps TFOS from being great is the damn Gargons or whatever.
They're lobsters!!
I just watched Teenagers From Outer Space.
Yes, it deserves a spot on the list!
World Without End and Manbeast ("Hairy Creatures With Human Desires!" ) also earn honorable mentions, as does The Neanderthal Man (complete with the funniest stuffed, cheap carnival tiger with fake giant "saber teeth" jammed into its mouth for quick shots of the monster -- well worth a dvd freeze frame! Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in.
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