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blackbiped	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#41	[-]
May 8 06 10:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If they ever do a sequel they can call it FROM HELL IT CAME--BACK!!! Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
Renfield	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#42	[-]
May 9 06 12:56 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Or just To Hell With It. Joe "Renfield" Meadows HORROR-WOOD Webzine http://www.horror-wood.com
HalLane	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#43	[-]
May 9 06 10:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How did that review go that was published when the film was new: "FROM HELL IT CAME, and to hell it can go."
BijouBob8mm	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#44	[-]
May 9 06 11:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	OK, it's hokey...but I'd buy a DVD of it in a flash!
PJAceto	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#45	[-]
May 9 06 12:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Its available in DVD-R form from Creepy Classics. I bought it recently and the transfer is pretty good.
dr gogol	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#46	[-]
May 9 06 3:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Whenever I'm a little blue, I reach for FHIC. Absolutely hilarious. I don't know what I like best, Tod Andrews stilted delivery (he seems to take awkward pauses in the middle of sentences), or the "native savages", with their slicked back hair and clean shaven faces, intoning broken english with nary an accent! Here is a great review, really hits the nail on the head... www.jabootu.com/fhic.htm
Lunkenstein	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#47	[-]
May 11 06 1:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I always liked this one. As a kid, I thought the Tobanga was a cool, nasty-looking monster. Creepy how you see part of it growing out of the ground at first, then later, finding it has a heartbeat. Both it and the quicksand scared me. First saw the film with my dad when I was around 9 or 10. I really liked it, but I had to refer to it as "the one with the Tobanga", because I felt I'd be cursing if I said "*Hell*", even if it was part of a title.
blackbiped	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#48	[-]
May 11 06 2:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* because I felt I'd be cursing if I said "Hell", even if it was part of a title. I wasn't even allowed to say THAT DARN CAT. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
Lunkenstein	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#49	[-]
May 11 06 2:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	LOL!!!!!
Bill Warren	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#50	[-]
May 11 06 5:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was always amazed when movies somehow got away with titles like "Helldorado." I felt that the Powers That Be (or were) were asleep at the switch, or something. I also used to puzzle over courtroom scenes in which actors playing witnesses swore "so help me God" to tell the truth. As a child, I assumed such oaths were binding, or something, and decided that the actors must have their fingers crossed. When I first saw GONE WITH THE WIND in about 1959, I was almost dazed by Gable saying "I don't give a damn." It seemed like a monumental breach of tradition.
Ted Newsom	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#51	[-]
May 11 06 8:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tobanga /Tobonga makes a neat guest appearance in a 1959 AA crime thriller ARSON FOR HIRE. Steve Brodie is chasing the heavy through a "lumber yard" (actually the Allied Artists lot, formerly Monogram, subsequently KCET TV in LA). They round the corner and have a punch-out right beside the old sap-sucker. Mark McGee invariably puts this clip on his party tapes, for two reasons. First, that damned tree. Second, the hero swings a 2x4 at the heavy and really cleans his clock, with a genuine non-actory "Oww!" There's an abrupt cut to a closer angle, presumably after several minutes of apologies, first aid, and cursing. Atta boy, Brodie!
Renfield	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#52	[-]
May 11 06 9:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For some reason, the word "Hell" used in a film's title just seemed to be okay by the censors...there were a number of films made in the classic Hollywood years with "Hell" in their titles, viz., Hell Is for Heroes, Hell's Angels (the Howard Hughes III aviation flick), Monster from Green Hell, Retreat, Hell!, etc. Joe "Renfield" Meadows HORROR-WOOD Webzine http://www.horror-wood.com
Rakshasa	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#53	[-]
May 11 06 9:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Great story, Ted! Joe, don't forget The Dead End Kids in "Hell's Kitchen".
blackbiped	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#54	[-]
May 11 06 10:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I wish I could remember the movie and the line, but there was an old John Wayne western in which a character (I think it was Gabby Hayes) used the word "Hell" in a very casual way. I guess "Hell" wasn't considered to be that bad by the Hays Office. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.
dr gogol	HELL	#55	[-]
May 12 06 6:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	David Manners utters the "H" word in "The Mummy" in reference to the scroll of Thoth. It shook my 8 yr. old psyche because I really thought it was a taboo "swear" word. It must have been the context, I mean "Go to hell!" is a lot different than "....it seems to have the power of the demons of hell in it" (to paraphrase Manners).
The Mighty Kraken	Re: HELL	#56	[-]
Jun 28 06 1:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"H-E-Double hockey sticks!" - Radar I've long known about and searched for this obvious classic, but it has thus far evaded me. Oh, Tambongo, you are a wily one!
SteveZodiak	Re: HELL	#57	[-]
Jun 28 06 1:25 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Simply a great late night flick. Deliciously bad. Today is only Yesterday's Tomorrow
Jay Maggio	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#58	[-]
Jul 1 06 2:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jay here: Defender of the oldies,when I was a kid (long ago) "From Hell it Came" scared me, true today I am sure f/x people could really run with this one,but there 's just something about that black/white effect,and that grotesque tree, well it "grows on you." Being a kid, I didn't pick up on "racy " little story line,until I was older; wasn't the chief's wife "messing around with the medicine man,thus creating the Nabanga who came for revenge? oh well, haven't seen it for you, think I'll haunt the video stores,see if they have a copy. thanks,JM
Zombie Dad	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#59	[-]
Jul 2 06 4:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Whoever that is playing the tabonga, the performance is a little wooden. I love movies which are so bad that nobody believes you when you try to describe them to those who haven't seen them. This, of course, is one of them. Now, without intending to change the direction of this thread, I'd vote for Al Mulock's death in TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE for Best Death In Quicksand, followed by that nasty old couple in THE NIGHT HAS EYES and the unfortunate cavalry guy in RUN OF THE ARROW. May the tabonga, tabanga, tobanga, tobonga wobble on forever!
Rakshasa	Re: From Hell it Came (1957)	#60	[-]
Jul 2 06 7:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Tobonga was OBVIOUSLY using the Stanislovsky method while pitching people into the quicksand....

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