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You forgot “THEM!” 1954 one of my favorites.
The Fly (although it bordered on comedic)
The Mummy (1932) - Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky (opening credits)
It’s amazing how well the special effects in “Forbidden Planet” hold up for a movie more than a 1/2 century old!
Godzilla, King Of The Monsters, and themes. This list is worthless without it!
Forbidden Planet is the best of them, in my view. Timeless story (Shakespeare's The Tempest), amazing special effects, wonderful imagination on the part of the director, writer, and technical crew.
Oh, and Anne Francis, wearing clothing that appears - in some scenes - to be just a few atoms thick.
“They Came From Outter Space”
Whenever I visit my parents, my dad will invariably be in the living room with the remote for the DVR in hand. He will call me to see something he has all lined up... I then hear the theme music for The Thing playing... and I yell to him from the kitchen “CLOSE THE DOOR!”
Which movie from the late 1940s to about 1961 had a scene in which the astronomical observatory had developed a major telescope that recorded images of the Earth when it was in the Dinosaur age? It didn’t make scientific sense, but it was an intriguing takeoff of the time dilation effect. I only saw a few minuted of this movie on a black & white television set in the very early 1960s. I’ve often wondered which movie it was and what they did with the rest of the show.
“Not Of This Earth”, 1957
Five (1951). Five people left alive on the Earth, one woman and four men.
Another Liberal fantasy film....