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« on: October 12, 2006, 10:14:03 PM »

My other thought for the title of this one was "It's all over, but you have time to read the paper."

In 1966 an aircraft crash caused the explosion of the conventional part of two hydrogen bombs, contaminating part of Spain.  Now, radioactive snails have been found.  Tell me this is not perfect fodder for a b-movie.  Especially when an official says, "We don't know what's down there."

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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2006, 12:09:29 AM »

Oh yeah!

I hope their aren't any sharp toothed fast moving snails!
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2006, 12:21:52 AM »

Okay, Giant Bunnies we got --
Giant Ants, Giant Grasshoppers, etc. etc. etc.
But the only Giant Snail I can recall in a movie is in the Rex Harrison "Dr. Dolittle", which I think was Disney --
We NEED a Giant Snail movie!!
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Invoking the "Dr. Dolittle" film makes me reflect on the fact that none of the great childrens' books have really been given life onscreen.  If you actually read Hugh Lofting (Dr. D.), or Milne, or Henry Travers (Mary Poppins), you find worlds that are far funnier and scarier than what has made its sanitized way to film.
I would love to see a REAL "Mary Poppins" film, with Mary being the nasty sort of supernatural elemental spirit she is in the books -- Julie Andrews she ain't, folks . . .
I don't care how old you are, pick one up and really read it -- These books were meant to be read aloud to English children & needed to keep the adult reader entertained as well.  Harry Potter owes much stylistically to Mary Poppins.
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2006, 04:53:34 AM »

Giant snails with corrosive slime trails! Someone call SciFi, or better yet ....Don't! Whoever they'd farm it out to would screw it up.

REVENGE OF THE ESCARGOT: Payback is slow and chewy!

I forget, do snails drown in beer like slugs? If they do, we have the deus ex machina to save the day in the end and a built in product placement opportunity.

There was a large snail puppet on the 80s kids show "Pinwheel". But all it could do was bore kids to death, what an annoying show.
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2006, 07:25:01 AM »

Hey guys, it's already been done. Don't forget "The Monster that Challenged the World". Tim Holt and the US Navy have to fight off giant sea mollusks (sure they looked more like caterpillars, but what the heck).
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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2006, 01:30:47 PM »

How about giant slugs?
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/lastdays/index.html

Didn't giant snail-like creatures feature in Uzumaki?   I'm not positve as J-horror is not my thing.
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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2006, 03:47:18 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2006, 04:18:39 PM »

Somehow I knew Scott would come up with a picture.
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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2006, 01:55:32 AM »

As much as I do admire the relentlessness of Scott, "The Monster That Challenged the World" is established early on as a Sea Cucumber, and not a mollusk.
"Mollusk", by definition, requires a shell or exoskeletal structure of a sort --
This is a big, scary, worm-lookin. thang . . .
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« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2006, 06:40:27 PM »

I have to admit that I thought the "Monsters that Challeged the World" were snails as well.  I remember one being crushed in the gates of a lock during the movie.

These creatures are hideous mutant radioactive Spanish snails of glowing toothy death!
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