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bipolarber	Well worn plots...	Lead	[-]
Dec 6 11 5:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is sort of a game/slash challenge... Think of a basic science fiction plotline, describe it in two or three sentances, then list at least THREE films that fall into it's parameters... Okay, here are a few examples: 1). Radiation in one form or another creates a giant mutation of insect life. Scientists investigating them manage to stop their proliferation just in time! Them! The Giant Mantis Tarantula! 2) A group of isolated people are confronted with strange creatures that are multiplying quickly. Island of Terror Night of the Big Heat Feind Without a Face 3) An astronaut crashes to Earth, and has become a monster on the loose. First Man Into Space Incredible Melting Man The Quatermass Experiment. How many can we think up? "[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
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Edkkakumon		#1	[-]
Dec 6 11 11:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	4. Aliens attack the planet, and scientist and the military find a way to stop them. Invisible Invaders Kronos Earth vs the Flying Saucers 5. An experimental drug or chemical turns a man/woman into a monster. The Wasp Woman The Werewolf The Vampire
gorgozilla		#2	[-]
Dec 7 11 12:51 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	6. A giant prehistoric reptile runs amuck in a large city: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS THE GIANT BEHEMOTH GODZILLA 7. Space aliens take on the form of humans: IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 8. Aliens are cyclopses: IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE THE CRAWLING EYE 9. Humans vs mutants after an atomic war: THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED WORLD WITHOUT END BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER
bipolarber		#3	[-]
Dec 7 11 1:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	10. Aliens attack Earth by bringing the dead back to life! Invisible Invaders Plan 9 From Outer Space The Crawling Eye 11. Aliens "take over" the bodies of living humans. I Married a Monster From Outer Space Invaders From Mars Battle In Outer Space 12. No one believes the kids about the threat. The Blob The Space Children The Day Mars Invaded Earth "[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
Monsterpal		#4	[-]
Dec 7 11 2:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The "No one believes the kids about the threat" category should probably include INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN.
Edkkakumon		#5	[-]
Dec 7 11 6:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	13. Aliens that are here to help or save us from ourselves. The Day the Earth Stood Still The Cosmic Monsters The Space Children 14. A human being grows to huge size. Attack of the 50 ft Woman Amazing Collosal Man The Cyclops
clore103051		#6	[-]
Dec 7 11 7:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Explorers discover a region where time has stood still and dinosaurs still roam: The Lost World King Kong Unknown Island The Land Unknown Valley of Gwangi The Land That Time Forgot EDITED TO ADD: Sorry, I forgot that I was in the 50s folder. Last Edited By: clore103051 Dec 7 11 11:13 PM. Edited 1 times.
pringly		#7	[-]
Dec 7 11 10:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	An angst ridden teenager is ultimately betrayed and turned into a monster by an adult: I was a teenage Werewolf Iwas a teenage Frankestein Blood of Dracula Frankesteins Daughter A nuclear bomb awakens an ancient form of life which then goes on a rampage to demonstrate the horror of the bomb: Beast from 20,000 fathoms Godzilla Rodan The Giant Behemoth
rvoyttbots		#8	[-]
Dec 7 11 11:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Astronauts find a civilization of women. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE MISSILE TO THE MOON SPACE SHIP SAPPY QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE Someone is almost instantly turned into a skeleton. MISSILE TO THE MOON HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE RIDERS TO THE STARS The comedy relief/sidekick doesn`t make it. THE LOST CONTINENT 1951 THE LOST WORLD 1960 THE ANGRY RED PLANET Last Edited By: rvoyttbots Dec 8 11 4:34 PM. Edited 8 times.
bipolarber		#9	[-]
Dec 8 11 5:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Don't worry too much about sticking rigidly to the 50's... the kind of movies we are discussing really took place from shortly after WW II, to about 1963-64... "[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
Grant		#10	[-]
Dec 8 11 5:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Do you think # 9 could include "Rocketship X-M"? They were Moon people, but they were mean to be "humanoid" before becoming mutants, which was the famous message of the story.
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rvoyttbots		#11	[-]
Dec 8 11 7:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Astronauts find out they are back on Earth/by end of film aliens arrive at Earth. WORLD WITHOUT END PLANET OF THE APES PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Edkkakumon		#12	[-]
Dec 9 11 12:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	22. Monsters/villains that kill by touch The 4D Man Hand of Death Terror from the Year 5000
bipolarber		#13	[-]
Dec 9 11 3:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	23. Monsters/aliens are invisible for most of the film, thus increasing the mystery, and decreasing the budget: Invisible Invaders Forbidden Planet Feind Without a Face Phantom From Space "[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
Monsterpal		#14	[-]
Dec 10 11 2:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE SOUND OF HORROR has a very economical invisible monster.
ryanbrennan		#15	[-]
Dec 10 11 4:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Someone's disfigured face, usually a woman's, has to constantly be restored through repeated skin grafts or injected liquid taken from other humans: EYES WITHOUT A FACE ATOM AGE VAMPIRE THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF
pringly		#16	[-]
Dec 10 11 6:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A body part from a maniac is grafted onto another person and eventually forces said victim to perform acts he would not do otherwise: Mad Love Hands of Orlak The Incredible two headed transplant Body Parts In a last ditch effort to save someone, a mad scientist finds someway to preserve their head untill a proper body can be found: The Brain that Wouldn't Die They Saved Hitler's Brain The Thing with Two Heads
skelton knaggs		#17	[-]
Dec 10 11 6:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Someone who never gets the girl Les Tremayne Bela Lugosi (at least in the 50's) Skelton Knaggs "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
Wich2		#18	[-]
Dec 10 11 7:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Lon Chaney Sr. Roy Orbison (Well, rarely in both cases!)
rvoyttbots		#19	[-]
Dec 10 11 8:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Monsterpal wrote: THE SOUND OF HORROR has a very economical invisible monster. also CAPTAIN SINDBAD
rvoyttbots		#20	[-]
Dec 10 11 9:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There is a nuclear explosion during the film KILLERS FROM SPACE BRIDE OF THE MONSTER THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN KING DINOSAUR
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