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Zombie Dad		#101	[-]
(12/10/08 11:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Hey Gorilla, you should also post these on the Classic Monster Art Challenge thread this month. They fit the theme. ZD
Gorilla At Large		#102	[-]
(12/11/08 11:20 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Zombie Dad wrote: Hey Gorilla, you should also post these on the Classic Monster Art Challenge thread this month. They fit the theme. ZD Thanks ZD - I will! I can't find the thread - can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again! Last Edited By: Gorilla At Large 12/11/08 11:23 AM. Edited 1 times.
Zombie Dad		#103	[-]
(12/11/08 1:11 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	It's in the Horror Comics and Art section, Gorilla. ZD
Gorilla At Large		#104	[-]
(04/06/09 10:52 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Anybody ever seen this still or know the story behind it? Was this just used to promote the movie in Europe? The Crawling Eye looks different in this shot of it at the hotel - looks more like it was jabbed with a hot poker and deflated!
capmonte		#105	[-]
(04/06/09 12:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I've always thought it looks more like a crawling marshmallow than an eye in that pic. "The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"
TServo4		#106	[-]
(04/06/09 12:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Since the original was a matte, it wouldn't surprise me if they took the shot on set, blue screen and all, and the crawling eye was simply just painted in by some artist who hadn't seen the final product. Note how it looks literally like an iris turned sideways. J. Theakston The Central Theater, Passaic, NJ
Edkkakumon		#107	[-]
(04/06/09 5:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	It's likely the still shot was done before the final monster design. Quote of the month: " It's passed on; This parrot is no more; It has ceased to be; It's expired and gone to meet its maker; This is a late parrot; It's a stiff; Bereft of life, it rest in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daises; It's gone round the corner and joined the choir invisible; This is an ex-parrot", dead parrot sketch, Monty Python
Gorilla At Large		#108	[-]
(04/06/09 5:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Take away the black pupil in the eye and make the whole thing solid and it reminds me of the creatures in Island of Terror that came out in the 60's....
Ted Newsom		#109	[-]
(04/07/09 1:25 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I think it looks more like The Crawling Sphincter. Yuck.
Andrew Kidd		#110	[-]
(04/07/09 12:06 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I decided to fact check the claim in the VD booklet that director Quentin Lawrence was a former nuclear physicist, and sure enough, it seems to have been true. He held patents for improvements in both nuclear reactor technology and television equipment (see here and here as well).
Buzz Dixon		#111	[-]
(04/07/09 12:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Ted Newsom wrote: I think it looks more like The Crawling Sphincter. Yuck. IT CAME FROM URANUS And the sequels would be FIRST MAN IN URANUS, KEEP WATCHING URANUS, CRACK IN URANUS, and THE NIGHT URANUS EXPLODED (or as they would say at Fark.com, "asploded"). Last Edited By: Buzz Dixon 04/07/09 12:28 PM. Edited 2 times.
Edkkakumon		#112	[-]
(04/07/09 11:33 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	It also makes me think of the giant alien being from Evolution. It's about the right shape, just with tentacles instead of legs. Quote of the month: " It's passed on; This parrot is no more; It has ceased to be; It's expired and gone to meet its maker; This is a late parrot; It's a stiff; Bereft of life, it rest in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daises; It's gone round the corner and joined the choir invisible; This is an ex-parrot", dead parrot sketch, Monty Python
skelton knaggs		#113	[-]
(06/26/09 7:17 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Here's a curious little plea I've thought up. Are there any of our British brothers or sisters here at CHFB, that might be old enough to have seen the original BBC TROLLENBERG TERROR? Since all evidence of this show has been lost to the video dustbins of time...It sure be cool if you could tell us what the monsters looked like.
Koukol 5		#114	[-]
(06/26/09 8:14 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	skelton knaggs wrote: Here's a curious little plea I've thought up. Are there any of our British brothers or sisters here at CHFB, that might be old enough to have seen the original BBC TROLLENBERG TERROR? Since all evidence of this show has been lost to the video dustbins of time...It sure be cool if you could tell us what the monsters looked like. Hiya mate! Wow were they cool looking! They don't make em like... OK..i'm not British and... I didn't see them.
bipolarber		#115	[-]
(06/30/09 11:15 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I can see it now... the guys making "Lost Skeleton" and the rest do a parody... "The Crawling Noses"... "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Edkkakumon		#116	[-]
(06/30/09 11:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	At the end of Skeleton, there's a future title proclaimed; Trail of the Screaming Forehead. They did a parody trailer for it. Quote of the month: " To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer," anonymous
bbra		#117	[-]
(07/04/09 9:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Before this thread totally degenerates in to bad jokes :-). let me say that Trollenberg/Eye is well worth watching. One aspect I like is the un-British use of government firepower. Like lots of American movies from that era, we have the air force screaming to the rescue, in this case shots of a totally neat Canberra bomber (I think it's a Canberra B.2 or maybe a Mk 15) that strangely mutates to a Meteor nightfighter for one shot. The Canberra was a great flying plane and has a chance to show its aerobatic capabilities ion the movie. The Royal Air Force to the rescue!
Rivergoat		#118	[-]
(07/05/09 5:59 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I'd have to watch my DVD again, but while the box says "The Crawling Eye," The title on screen is "The Trollenberg Terror." I don't recall the eye/marshmallows looking much different than the version I used to watch on TV as a kid. Either way, I will always think of this movie when Forrest Tucker's name in mentioned....
Edkkakumon		#119	[-]
(07/05/09 11:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	When I was young, I saw the film with my dad. He's a fan of planes, and he took only a couple of looks at the planes before identifying them correctly. Quote of the month: " To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer," anonymous
Bill Warren		#120	[-]
(07/06/09 12:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Rivergoat wrote: I'd have to watch my DVD again, but while the box says "The Crawling Eye," The title on screen is "The Trollenberg Terror." I don't recall the eye/marshmallows looking much different than the version I used to watch on TV as a kid. The one on DVD is the version you used to watch on TV as a kid. What people are curious about is what the aliens in the original teleplay looked like. It was a completely diferent production. and the aliens were referred to as "Ixodes" (which has an obscure meaning). Here's a link to the IMDb page for the TV serial: "The Trollenberg Terror" (1956)

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