Favorite Sci-fi / Horror movies?

[jpgray]

There are plenty of "good" movies of the genre, but personally I love "It Conquered the World." It's a hilarious anti-Commie allegory Roger Corman production from the fifties. Some solid acting from B-movie stalwart Beverly Garland, Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef. Also a ridiculous Venusian carrot as the monster:



The ending Peter Graves speech is a real classic of self-important 50's preachery.

[enigmatic]

1. "Black Devil Doll From Hell" (1984)

Chester N. Turner is the Orson Welles Of Horror. Or something:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2008/10/black-devil-doll-from-hell-1984.html

[ghostsofgiants]

4. So wrong...so very wrong, haha.

[enigmatic]

6. I'm going to keep pushing this film until the masses have seen his genius!

I actually ripped a copy for a friend tonight to play at his Halloween party; it's going to be a highlight :D

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Haha, that is great.

[enigmatic]

2. "Seyton"

A shot-by-shot Turkish remake of "The Exorcist" on a no-budget dime:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2008/10/seytan-exorcist.html

[kentauros]

3. If you want "It's so bad it's good"

the winner will always be "Plan 9 From Outer Space" :D

If you want great and maybe even overlooked or relatively unknown to American audiences, then look no further than The Creeping Unknown/The Quatermass Xperiment, part of the Quatermass series of movies and British tv-shows :)

[doublethink]

5. Blood Car. n.t.

[tigereye]

8. Rear Window, Shaun of the Dead, 2001, Barbarella, Plan 9 and Ed Wood

come to mind. The Iron Giant is really good, too, although I'm not sure it fits into that category.

The one you mentioned sounds like fun, JP.


The Day The Earth Stood Still is great. I love those old black and white horror classics.

[kentauros]

10. Another great British SciFi that is also somewhat overlooked

is "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" :)

Another British one from Val Guest and with Dr. Quatermass is "5 Million Years to Earth". It does get into some of the horror and can be quite chilling...

I do love The Iron Giant. It's a favorite for scifi animation. Here's a list of other animated-scifi movies you might want to look up:

La Planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
Gandahar (Light Years)
Wizards
Heavy Metal
Rock & Rule
Titan AE
Akira
Steamboy
Metropolis (anime version)
Nausicaa

There's actually quite a lot of scifi anime out there, and plenty I haven't seen. Plenty I won't see as I do have some standards for quality ;)

[jpgray]

11. Nausicaa is one of the few animes I really enjoyed

The name-checked classics are always supremely imaginative and compelling, but many of them seem lacking in effective plot and characterization to my jaundiced Western eyes. Nausicaa has trouble with both, but succeeds more than say, Akira.

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. "5 Million Years to Earth"

That's an old favorite.. "The horn-ed devil!" :)

[kentauros]

9. Manos: The Hands of Fate

featuring: Torgo!

:P

[jcla]

12. Silent Running

with Bruce Dern as the astronaut who saves the forests. 1932 King Kong. Those 50's flicks were fun! What unreal fears. Mysty 3000 was one of my fav. shows. Brit fun.. "Day of the Triffids"

[jpgray]

13. The bots were cute! The Joan Baez music less so.

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[6000eliot]

14. 28 Days/Weeks Later

Children of Men is one of the best films of the past ten years.