The Sci & Horror B-movies of Yesteryear

Osnome | 6-7-09 | poster

[Osnome]

>>Does anyone remember a movie that had a bunch of men on some space ship or space station and they were being attacked by this bee-like or waspy woman who would slowly walk towards the unsuspecting victim in some sort of trancy dance movement. The men would look away for a second and rub their eyes and when they would look she would be gone, but then show up again when they looked yet again in her direction? I cant remember the name because I saw it when I was around 5-6 yo and now I’m an old man.

Also has anyone seen “VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN?”<<

Last question first: No, but I have seen Woman Of The Prehistoric Planet(1966).

First Question: Planet Of Blood aka Queen Of Blood - created by Roger Corman in 1966 and starring John Saxon and Basil Rathbone.(Some say this is the original ALIEN)
This is the film that incorporates footage from that Soviet flick PLANET OF STORMS.

[Osnome]

>>And from Japan, the very creepy Attack of the Mushroom People. A bunch of people on a yacht end up blown off course, and onto a deserted island, by a storm. There, they find giant mushrooms which turn anyone who eats them into a living, walking mushroom. I think American TV producer Sherwood Schwartz must have seen this film prior to creating Gilligan’s Island. The people on the yacht include the skipper, his first mate, a rich dude, an egotistical actress, a sweet “girl next door” type, a professor....sound familiar?<<

I would say your conclusions are all wrong there.
The original name for this flick was MATANGO.

BLACK SCORPION had very good Stop-Motion-Animation,
which were created by Miles O’brien(King Kong).
Those underground monsters were the best and scariest.
Only one problem with this movie whose story and footage was filmed in Mexico-
all of the characters speak English all the time.
Those Mexicans speak damned good English.

[Osnome]

Well I am full of info:-)

[Osnome]

>>Space Mutiny stars Reb Brown, Cissy Cameron, Cameron Mitchell and John Phillip Law. The spaceship effects were lifted wholly from the original Battlestar Galactica TV series[3]

The director of Space Mutiny has stated on his website that he was called away from set due to a death in the family before filming began, and delegated directing duties to the assistant director. Contractually he was apparently unable to get an Allen Smithee credit.[4]. Some commentators began to compile rather large lists of continuity errors. The engineering areas of the ship were filmed in an industrial building with un-futuristic brick walls, windows and concrete floors, while the bridge looks remarkably like a vintage-1980s corporate office (non-shag, neutral carpeting; white particleboard desks; computers with 16-color ANSI displays, including one with a 5¼ inch floppy disk drive as an ID card reader). Kalgan’s “torture chamber” set features contemporary computer keyboards inexplicably mounted on the walls. The characters tend to wear the silver or white lamé outfits that were common to science fiction/futurist productions of the time, while many of the female characters wear spandex leotards.
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Yes I did see that piece of cr@p!
It was on Mystery Science Theater3000 a few years ago.
Boy was it boring..

[Always Independent]

Probably the setting and the cars in the movie got me thinking it was older. And the diving bell with a point on top probably helped. I actually liked the movie It was entertaining.

[puroresu]

I would say your conclusions are all wrong there. The original name for this flick was MATANGO.

Yep! I've got it on DVD! But it was always "Attack of the Mushroom People" when it aired on late night TV when I was a kid!

I always liked Mothra, too. Especially when Mothra enters Tokyo in caterpillar form, spins a cocoon on Tokyo Tower, and emerges as a moth. Then, in Godzilla vs. Mothra a couple of years later, Mothra lays an egg which gets put on display in a giant hothouse by a promoter. Godzilla tries to destroy the egg and the fight is on! I think they'll finally do a good DVD release of Mothra this fall as part of a set called Icons of Toho Sci-Fi.

[Clemenza]

“Hullo, I’m Butch. Dishy-dishy hair!”

[FreeManWhoCan]

You were correct. I saw the trailer online and she was doing that weird dance. This has to be it. I’ll go on ebay and order a cheap copy. Thanks for ending my 20+ year search!

[Osnome]

I do no remember that alien queen doing any dance.

Must have been on the trailer alone.

[4yearlurker]

Actually the name is Willis O’Brien. He invented 3D animation. His last movie was:”It's A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World. He animated the Firetruck ladder scene at the end of the movie.

[Osnome]

Interesting!

When you say 3D Animation, do you mean Stop Motion or Claymation?

Stop-Mo has been around to some extent for a hundred years.

That 1902 film ‘Journey To The Moon’ for example and before that ‘The Mechanical Butcher’. Both included some stop-and-go photography to create the SPFX.

[Osnome]

>>Plot summary for The Crawling Hand (1963)
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After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, a teenager finds a severed arm among wreckage on earth. Soon the thing returns to life to murder and posses the young man's mind.
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No, I have not seen this one~ seems interesting.

The plot was imitated in Laserblast(1979) and The Hand(1981)
The movie's story seems similar in concept to ‘First Man In Space’ (1958?)

[stbdside]

“Beast from Haunted Cave”

Had a fugly spider-like cobwebbed covered monster.

[Osnome]

>>Beast from Haunted Cave”

Had a fugly spider-like cobwebbed covered monster.
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Hmmm, not sure I've seen that- reminds me of a German film in which these American models are trapped on an island with a weird spider monster that infects a man and he goes crazy transforming into a spider/man creature.

If that is not it, you need to provide more details to jog my memory.

[shadowcat]

I remember the Hammer Films