Favourite Classic sci-fi/Creature feature movies.

Another great movie, with a very moving scene with Hollywood legend Edward G. Robinson and a classic ending. A pretty grim story but it's subject matter is very thought provoking.

I've remembered another movie worth seeing Hammer's Quatermass and the Pit. Which is about the discovery of a spacecraft buried under London.
 
Clint also appears in another 50's monster movie: Tarantula. The story is about a giant spider (surprise surprise) which goes on the rampage until it's stopped by the airforce.

And flying the jet that stops it is the young Clint.

I love 1950's science fiction movies. Among my faves are:

The Day The Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of The WorlRAB, The Thing, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Earth Vs The Flying Saucers... great stuff
 
All the Quatermass movies are good, especially the the first 2, (The Pit is the 3rd) but the TV series of the Pit is amazing, so ahead of it's time, and pretty damn scary too. All of the tv series are available as a BBC box set, it's cheep too, though only 2-3 episodes of the first series have survived, but the price is good for just the Pit anyhow (and it is a lot better than the Hammer films adaption).
 
Not a movie but Nigel (Quatermass) Kneale's "The Stone Tape" scared the bejesus out of me on its original broadcast.
Even allowing for some hammy acting (particularly and unusually, from Michael Bryant) and neolithic production values, you'll still be amazed when the secret of the Taskerland ghost is finally revealed.
See it in black and white first if possible. Much creepier that way.
 
Big fan of the "Classic" US Sci-Fi features: War of the WorlRAB, When WorlRAB Collide, This Island Earth, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Them!, Invaders from Mars, It Came from Beneath the Sea, etc and of course the daddy Forbidden Planet. Also love the Dr Who & the Dalek films with Peter Cushing and the Toho Godzilla movies.
 
Agreed on all, I do have 'em all on DVD, and bluray for the Harryhausens, they look fantastic.

Yeah, Clint in Tarantula, you'd only tell from the eyes though, as he has an oxygen mask on.

I could watch these films on a loop, it is my favourite genre (obviously), but it's just the honest story telling, lean production and the naivety of 'em, and stereo-typical characters.... no need for introductions, we know who's who and who'll live and who will die!:D
 
I really must see Godzilla again soon. It's been years since I last saw it, in the early 90's. I was looking forward to the bluray, but apparently the image is terrible!! Shame. Can't remember if I've seen Mothra though, saw a load of 'em when they released a load of double VHS sets in the early 90's, but I think these may have been slightly later ones, Son of Godzilla etc.

I do listen to the Godzilla score fairly often though, it's really good.
 
Forbin Project, Andromeda Strain, Logans Run, Silent Running are faves.
Not sure if Soylent Green is classed as Sci-fi, if so another fave.

Worse one has to be Plan 9 from outer space:p
 
Its funny that only one of you mentioned Them! about the giant ants in LA.

Its an all time classic, one of the best ever made. The final scenes in the LA sewers are a gas!
 
Haven't seen Silent Running for years!! But, bought it on DVD for a quid at a local charity shop last week, on the pile to watch, looking forward to it, Bruce Dern is great, and after seeing 'Moon' which has similarities, it's another reason to see this again soon.

Despit the apparent kitsch value of Plan 9, I cannot watch it, it is just plain bad!!
 
Them! is one of the finest of the 50's monster movies, James Whitmore is amazing as the dedicated cop, even James Arness does a good turn, and Edmund Gwenn is always good as the grandpa like genteel scientist/boffin.
 
Not all really "creature features" but overlooked or hard to find gems:

The Unearthly Stranger

The Damned

Invasion

Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People)

Target Earth

The World, the Flesh & the Devil

Frankenstein Conquers the World (you can feel your grip on sanity loosening as you watch)

Die, Monster Die!

Nothing but the Night

Neither the Sea nor the Sand

Would You Kill a Child?

Encounter at Ravensgate

Blood Beach
 
Them! was a great movie, I loved the noise the ants made. And it featured another star in an early role - watch out for a young Leonard Nimoy in a small part.
 
It's obligatory at this point to mention the woeful missed opportunity that is "Rawhead Rex".
Rawhead deserves a decent remake: it couldn't possibly be any worse than the original.
He could've been England's national monster but ended up relocated to Ireland where, crippled by dismal fx, lack of funRAB and directorial imagination, he became just a guilty pleasure. A tragic loss to monsterkind.:cry:
 
I remember when I first saw Silent running as a kid, I was just as devasted at the end as I was when ET was in a coma:o
I've not seen Moon yet, I need to get around to watching it as heard some good reviews.
 
I'm sure I read this in a Clive Barker Books of Blood volume! Can't remember ought about it though. And I do remember seeing the video at our (then) local store, and having heard it was dire, gave it a wide birth.
 
Apart from a decent performance by David Dukes (who must've been drugged and kidnapped), one good scene of Rawhead bursting from his tomb and a (very)few shocks, it's a life-draining experience.
Imagine you're trapped on a plane which is definitely going to crash into a mountain in about 90 minutes: that's the impression this movie makes.
And yet . . . I love it.

Incredible as it may seem, it's not the worst Clive Barker adaptation (it's probably his best short story), that honour goes to the appalling "Nightbreed", (or "Hellraiser", or "Underworld" or "Saint/Sinner" or . . . well, you get the idea.:)
 
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