Bad movies are an addiction

[wraithfodder]

I got the absolute utter B&W scifi classic, Brain from Planet Arous, from DeepDiscountDVD.com - great place, by the way.

So, watched an X-Files (still one of the best scifi shows) then we popped in this classic. Oh man, for the days of no cellphones, FedEx, or logic. The leading lady (Sally) freaks out in the cave when a bug or something goes by, but seems to have no problem when she and dad stumble over the week-old body of her friend. You'd think the smell would have alerted them to the corpse. Anyway, at that point the good brain (looks just like the bad brain - see LJ icon above) approaches them with a plan, and they just wilingly go along. I mean, if a floating alien brain came to you, would you take its word just like that? So anyway, the good brain shows up at their house the next day and needs to possess a body (at least it asks, unlike the BAD brain, which has taken over our hero who gets to ham it up horribly as he blows up plastic model airplanes, I mean, real airplanes, cough cough, in the sky). Anyway, Sally and dad mull over who should house the good brain. Sally looks at the dog and suggests him (his name is George). I snicker and go "yeah, George won't sue you for this either cuz he can't talk!" Oh yeah, bad brain is Gore, an egomaniacal floating brain with delusions of taking over the planet (the usual), and the good brain is Baal (or Ball, since it has no arms it can't write its name).

Anyway, it's a horribly bad flick with genuine amusement factors for how bad it is, but sad to say, it's much more amusing than 90% of the movies SciFi shows.

However, next on my must-get list will be Giant Behemoth (LOVED that movie), Gorgo (both UK flicks of giant dinos mashing up the countryside). Both are priced well. However, another classic, Fiend Without a Face, about invisible hoppy brains killing Canadian scientists (do I see an SGA plot in that??) is over $30! Yikes! I mean, even the original Blob is pricey. Hate that they price these gems so high.

Comments

[nebbyjen.livejournal.com]

Must admit to having some old funky sci fi movies in the house so I totally understand how fun it is to sit and veg over them. Did you check out Ebay for your Fiend movie? If you can stand VHS, there's a pretty cheap copy available that you could always put on a dvd.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fiend-Without-a-Face-VHS-Arthur-Crabtree_W0QQitemZ290133177972QQihZ019QQcategoryZ309QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

[bbuttercup.livejournal.com]

I love the old B&W's too. One on my favorites is "Monolith Monsters." Tiny rocks turn into giant monoliths that invade by growing so large they fall over and each new little rock grows into another monolith. A slow but steady progression that no one seems to be able to escape from. Oh, and they suck all the moisture from living things, turning them to stone :o)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I should check eBay. Thanks!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember that. Massive, slow-moving monoliths moving toward the city. I remember movies like this used to play all the time on TV. Now it's once every twenty blue moons they show up. :(

[illman.livejournal.com]

Oh man, for the days of no cellphones, FedEx, or logic.

Heh, that's the impression I sometimes get with the classic Doctor Who episodes.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I miss the old days of the "Monster Matinee" and the "Creature Feature" on UHF. There also used to be a monster movie on right after school on weekdays back before they moved the afternoon news up to 4:30 (they used to do theme weeks of all vampire movies, or all Godzilla movies, or all zombie movies, or whatever). I haven't seen a good bad movie in ages. I used to sit and mock them with my parents in the days before MST3K.

My favorite is Food of the Gods. It came from the '70s era of "message" monster movies that were incredibly stupid but took themselves painfully seriously. But how can you take Marjoe Gortner being attacked by a gigantic plastic rooster head on a post seriously? (And if you look in the background, you can even see the shadow of the guy wielding the gigantic plastic rooster head on a post.) It's so mind-bogglingly bad, it's good.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Million Dollar Movie on channel 9 (er, can't recall who it was way back then) used to show movies like "Attack of the Crab Monsters" Monday through Friday, each night! I mean, if you missed it Monday, you could catch it Tuesday, or just watch it five days in a row, which as a kid I'd do with the better bad movies.

Chiller Theater, Monster Matinee. All relics of the past, alas. And Godzilla movies every Sunday afternoon.

I sorta remember "Food of the Gods," but I guess thankfully blocked it from my mind. I do remember "Empire of the Ants," a perfectly awful movie. THEM! is still the classic giant ant movie.

[gaffer42.livejournal.com]

Um...got them all. And watched them all. Big D is a fan of old 50's sci-fi, and I developed the taste in self defense.

There are - well - other ways to get them. We bought Brain from Planet Auros and Fiend without a Face, also 20 Million Miles to Earth (yay Ray Harryhausen) and Six Million Years to Earth (a Quatermas movie that can still give me a shiver!)

Try Donovan's Brain, Angry Red Planet, Kronos, This Island Earth, War of the Worlds (without Tom Cruise, and not the series either), Forbidden Planet (natch)...

Oh, so many, and all great fun!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh my, you just ran over the movies of my childhood ;) Oh yes, original War of the Worlds (NOT the Tom Cruise remake).

The old ones, even if they're cheesy at times, are so much more fun than the new blood and gore remakes.