forgoton classics - Sci Fi movies

shadron said:
Anyone ever see Cherry 2000? It starred Melanie Griffith.

Then there was The Tingler (Sci-Fi Horror).
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Melanie was cute (couldn't be anything else) in that.. and being a plane nut loved that fat-tired Airknocker she flew around in.
Speaking of XXXXXXX 2000's, "Deathrace 2000", Sly Stallone's debut was hilarious, with his "acting" confined to a perpetual sneer.
 
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Sabrina: Jealousy consumes me! What an awesome cache of old sff flicks! Please, for our sake, review each of them here as you watch them. I've seen a few of those, mainly on MST3K, but it looks like you're in for literally hundreds of hours of sff movie viewing pleasure!

Jono: Yes, Starchaser is terrific! I haven't seen it in years and years, but I remember if fondly as the movie that inspired me to begin writing my own first sci-fi stories when I was about 12. I would love, LOVE to see it again, and here you are saying it's on DVD at last! Sweet.

Alfaniner: Starcrash is the glue that holds my little group of sci-fi/fantasy/horror nerds together! To this day we have late-night parties that consist of watching, heckling and reciting the movie, sort of a Rocky Horror in the living room without the dress-up. My good friend, horror writer Stephen Romano, is so obsessed with this film that he researched and wrote a book about its making, interviewing most of the major participants who are still living. However, the stories proved so incendiary and embarrassing to those involved that he sadly had to shelve the finished product to avoid threatened lawsuits!

There is a ray of sunshine at the end of this story, however: His new book SHOCK FESTIVAL (look for it online!) is a fictionalized recounting of many of those stories, with names and events changed to protect the innocent and the guilty alike, and the stories spread over 100 (fictional) films instead of just the one. Steve also owns some original Starcrash artwork by Drew Struzan (known for his Star Wars prequel posters) that is absolutely gorgeous. In short: Yea, Starcrash!!!


alfaniner said:
The best bad movie ever -- StarCrash.
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Vortigern99 said:
Sabrina: Jeakousy consumes me! What an awesome cache of old sff flicks! Please, for our sake, review each of them here as you watch them. I've seen a few of those, mainly on MST3K, but it looks like you're in for literally hundreds of hours of sff movie viewing pleasure!
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Not sure what "jeakousy" is (teasing; I know it was a typo :p) but I'll be sure to do that! I've seen a few of that list via MST3K in the past (The Atomic Brain for one) but when I saw that in the store I was like, "dude, are you SERIOUS??? How do you have any copies of this LEFT?" I got the very last one in the store. :D It is available on Bestbuy.com though if you want to buy it for yourself; again, 100 movies for 30 bucks? That's a steal in any language!

They also had one that only had 50 movies, but I compared the lists on the two, and except for two movies, every single one that was in the 50 movie box was also in the 100 movie box, so it was well worth the extra 15 bucks. I might pick up the box version of the 100 horror movie classics that I spotted online as well; same price as the 100 sci-fi classics one, so well worth it. Might have a good selection there; I didn't look at the list.

ETA: Looks like a few repeats between the 100 Sci-Fi classics one, but still a kick-ass selection:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
The Bat (1926)
Phantom (1931)
The Midnight Warning (1932)
Strangers of the Evening (1932)
The Phantom Express (1932)
The Ghost Walks (1934)
House of Danger (1934)
Chloe (1934)
House of Mystery (1934)
Condemned to Live (1935)
The Midnight Phantom (1935)
Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
One Frightened Night (1935)
The Great Manta (1935)
The Crimes of Stephen Hawkes (1936)
The Rogue's Tavern (1936)
The House of Secrets (1937)
Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
Crimes at the Dark House (1939)
The Phantom Creeps [Serial] (1939)
Midnight Shadow (1939)
Pocomania (1939)
Torture Ship (1939)
The Devil Bat (1941)
Bowery at Midnight (1942)
The Living Ghost (1942)
The Man With Two Lives (1942)
The Ape Man (1943)
Nabonga (1944)
White Pongo (1945)
Shock! (1946)
Scared to Death (1947), MPAA Rating: NR
The White Gorilla (1947)
Studio One: A Passenger to Bali (1950)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Island Monster (1953)
The Snow Creature (1954)
Tales of Frankenstein (1954)
The Brain Machine (1955)
A Strange Adventure (1956)
Evil Brain From Outer Space (1956)
The Devil's Partner (1958)
Teenage Zombies (1958)
She-Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
The Head (1959)
Horrors of Spider Island (1959)
The Wasp Woman (1959), MPAA Rating: NR
Beast From Haunted Cave (1960)
The Manster (1961)
Night Tide (1961)
The Devil's Messenger (1962)
Eegah! (1962)
The Sadist (1963)
The Atomic Brain (1964)
The Long Hair of Death (1964)
The She-Beast (1965)
The Sound of Horror (1965)
Manos, the Hands of Fate (1966)
The Phantom of Soho (1966)
Terror Creatures from the Grave (1966)
Kong Island (1968)
Night Fright (1968)
Attack of the Monsters (1969)
The Amazing Transplant (1970)
The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman (1970), MPAA Rating: R
The Murder Mansion (1970)
The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave (1971), MPAA Rating: R
Curse of the Headless Horseman (1972)
Moon of the Wolf (1972)
Vengeance of the Zombies (1972)
Crypt of the Living Dead (1973), MPAA Rating: PG
Don't Look In The Basement! (1973), MPAA Rating: R
The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973), MPAA Rating: R
The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (1973), MPAA Rating: R
Voodoo Black Exorcist (1973)
Graveyard Tramps (1973), MPAA Rating: R
El Buque Maldito (1974)
Legacy of Blood (1974)
The Legend of Bigfoot (1975)
Rattlers (1976)
Savage Weekend (1976), MPAA Rating: R
Sisters of Death (1976), MPAA Rating: PG
Snowbeast (1977)
Rituals (1978), MPAA Rating: R
Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), MPAA Rating: R
Enigma Rosso (1978)
War of the Robots (1978)
Mama Dracula (1980)
Blood Tide (1982)
Tenebre (1982), MPAA Rating: R
Phenomena (1984), MPAA Rating: R
Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1984)
Night Train to Terror (1984), MPAA Rating: R
Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)
Spare Parts (1985)
Hands of Steel (1986), MPAA Rating: R
Death by Dialogue (1988), MPAA Rating: R
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Probably missed a couple, but I tried to highlight the repeats. And I'll stop being off-topic now. *G*
 
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I Ratant said:
. Sly Stallone's debut was hilarious, with his "acting" confined to a perpetual sneer.
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<derail> I always thought Sly’s debut was in The Lords of Flatbush with some other soon to be well known types. </derail>
 
James Fox said:
<derail> I always thought Sly’s debut was in The Lords of Flatbush with some other soon to be well known types. </derail>
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Dunno.
He was atrociously bad in 2000. Couldn't have learned much about acting in "Lords"... but taking the off-course route that pitched all the spectators over the fence was the high point of his participation in 2000.
 
Yeah, Sly's debut was in a low budget porno, IIRC. Friend of mine saw the end of it at one point because he'd been watching a movie recorded on a VHS tape over the first half or so; at first he and his friend were going to turn it off, but caught sight of "Stud" and thought he looked familiar; imagine their shock when they got to the credits and saw Sly's name listed as "Stud"!
 
James Fox said:
I'm going uber-obscure here with Dr. Seuss's The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T from 1953. If you have children who have music lessons it's a must see.

Also, who ever it was that mentioned Wizards, YES!
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Not that obscure - shows up on TMC two or three times a year!!:)
 
shadron said:
Anyone ever see Cherry 2000? It starred Melanie Griffith.

Then there was The Tingler (Sci-Fi Horror).
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A) Yes, it did - and the concept was silly, and it wasn't nearly as R-rated as the info implied.:)

B)Never got to see it in a theater with the tingler setup in it, but have seent it a couple of times. Not a classic except in the "Mant" way.:)
 
autumn1971 said:
Yes!
Again, thanks to my dad, who taped every movie that came on HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, and Cinemax in the eighties. He literally had a three-ring binder with a list of his movies, three or four to a tape, organized by tape number (yes, he numbered every tape sequentially, I actually have number 2 in my possession, it has Apocalypse Now, Easy Rider, and Motel Hell on it, to give you an idea of how literally I meant "every movie"), as well as alphabetically by movie title. By the time the mid-nineties had rolled around, he had amassed a collection of well over three-thousand titles.
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Damn, I never knew I had a child!!! Oh wait, three ring binder. Oops, nope, mine was notebooks, 5 of them. Actually on the floor next to this computer's desk. ACTUALLY, mine is organized by title referring then to number. Last tape listed was #2250, but I made several hundred since then (1998) - BUT have moved to DVD. At the time, total films was ca. 8400 (the tapes include TV Shows, Specials, segments, music videos (good for using up the last few miniutes on a tape). Most SLP.
 
Sabrina said:
Yeah, Sly's debut was in a low budget porno, IIRC. Friend of mine saw the end of it at one point because he'd been watching a movie recorded on a VHS tape over the first half or so; at first he and his friend were going to turn it off, but caught sight of "Stud" and thought he looked familiar; imagine their shock when they got to the credits and saw Sly's name listed as "Stud"!
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Yes yes, I remember when I once accidently saw a low budget porno movie myself.
 
Naddig74 said:
Fairly relieved to find people who've seen They Live...I was beginning to think I might have dreamed the whole thing! :jaw-dropp
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This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.
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Oops. Wrong Carpenter film.
 
Sabrina said:
I recently made a purchase that may interest some of you. Found a case of movies for 30 bucks that contained 100 Sci-Fi classic movies. Although some were released in the early to mid-90's, so I'm not sure how exactly they can be considered classics, but regardless, here's the list of movies it contains:



I look forward to geeking out on cheesy sci-fi films very soon. :D
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They aren't classics, though some are funny enough - however almost half your movies are app. 20 minute serial chapters!!

For other Box O' Movies : (primary is similar SF/100/ cheap - 22.99): http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...d&field-keywords=100+Classic+Sci-Fi&x=17&y=20
 
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