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Good Movies / Re: I Married a Monster from O...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 07:59:04 AMDefinitely a better-than-average sci-fi B-movie of the period. Despite the sensational title, it's not a "bad" movie at all.
#13
Good Movies / Re: 100 movies with a NAME in ...
Last post by bob - Today at 07:26:58 AM59 Iron Man
#15
Good Movies / Re: 100 movies with a NAME in ...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 01:38:47 AMon that note...
58. DRACULA (1958)
58. DRACULA (1958)
#16
Good Movies / Re: 100 movies with a NAME in ...
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 12:54:08 AMI can't believe we haven't mentioned this already
57) Frankenstein
57) Frankenstein
#17
Good Movies / I Married a Monster from Outer...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 12:08:15 AM(For the record, I personally, did not.)
What a title, huh? Reaches right out and grabs your attention, doesn't it?
The actual movie is a lot more serious and less campy than the title would suggest, but before we get going on that, I want to mention why I even watched this in the first place.
When i was a little bitty tyke, my elementary school had a little store at the front where you could buy things like pencils, notebooks, glue, and all sorts of school supplies. They also had something that they might have thought was supposed to be erasers, but where actually just little rubber toys of monsters.
One of them, one of my favorites in fact, was this guy.
Naturally, since he was just something I bought for a quarter out of a little bin, I had no idea what it was, where it came from, or anything like that. He had no more backstory than a random little green army man or a MUSCLE thing.
But ain't that a great design?
It was literally decades before I found out the company that made these things just ripped off old movies for their toys.
The actual monster looks like this.
And I have to say that this may just be one of my all time favorite B-movie alien designs ever.
As for the movie itself, it feels heavily inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but takes it in a slightly different direction.
A woman is about to get married, but on the day of her wedding, she finds her husband has suddenly changed and is acting strange. Colder. Less familiar with things he used to know.
As she investigates, she discovers that an alien has taken his place. Worse, she doesn't know who she can trust because other aliens have taken the places of other people in town.
It seems radiation on their now-dead homeworld has killed all their women. So they plan to mate with earth women, once they figure out exactly how to genetically modify them (which is a nice touch. It's not just a plain taking the women, they have to alter them to make them compatible.)
However, when taking human form, the aliens get something they didn't expect. Human emotion. Another interesting part where this movie zangs where others would have zigged, is that this doesn't actually lead to any of the aliens turning on the others. They may be starting to udnerstand love, but it's not going to get in the way of their mission.
This movie actually manages to be a good metaphor for women being gaslighted or marrying some abusive manipulator that's decided to stop pretending to be something they aren't, and it actually does a fairly good job at that.
One complaint I do have though, is that they never give the aliens a name. They say they're from Andromeda but there's never a moment where they go "I am Gorgleplaza," or "It's the Thing from Planet Schoom!" I think lacking a good name has really held these guys back in the realms of sci-fi b-movie fandom.
They movie was actually released as the headliner in a double bill with another minor sci-fi movie you may have heard of at some point. It was called "The Blob".
What a title, huh? Reaches right out and grabs your attention, doesn't it?
The actual movie is a lot more serious and less campy than the title would suggest, but before we get going on that, I want to mention why I even watched this in the first place.
When i was a little bitty tyke, my elementary school had a little store at the front where you could buy things like pencils, notebooks, glue, and all sorts of school supplies. They also had something that they might have thought was supposed to be erasers, but where actually just little rubber toys of monsters.
One of them, one of my favorites in fact, was this guy.
Naturally, since he was just something I bought for a quarter out of a little bin, I had no idea what it was, where it came from, or anything like that. He had no more backstory than a random little green army man or a MUSCLE thing.
But ain't that a great design?
It was literally decades before I found out the company that made these things just ripped off old movies for their toys.
The actual monster looks like this.
And I have to say that this may just be one of my all time favorite B-movie alien designs ever.
As for the movie itself, it feels heavily inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but takes it in a slightly different direction.
A woman is about to get married, but on the day of her wedding, she finds her husband has suddenly changed and is acting strange. Colder. Less familiar with things he used to know.
As she investigates, she discovers that an alien has taken his place. Worse, she doesn't know who she can trust because other aliens have taken the places of other people in town.
It seems radiation on their now-dead homeworld has killed all their women. So they plan to mate with earth women, once they figure out exactly how to genetically modify them (which is a nice touch. It's not just a plain taking the women, they have to alter them to make them compatible.)
However, when taking human form, the aliens get something they didn't expect. Human emotion. Another interesting part where this movie zangs where others would have zigged, is that this doesn't actually lead to any of the aliens turning on the others. They may be starting to udnerstand love, but it's not going to get in the way of their mission.
This movie actually manages to be a good metaphor for women being gaslighted or marrying some abusive manipulator that's decided to stop pretending to be something they aren't, and it actually does a fairly good job at that.
One complaint I do have though, is that they never give the aliens a name. They say they're from Andromeda but there's never a moment where they go "I am Gorgleplaza," or "It's the Thing from Planet Schoom!" I think lacking a good name has really held these guys back in the realms of sci-fi b-movie fandom.
They movie was actually released as the headliner in a double bill with another minor sci-fi movie you may have heard of at some point. It was called "The Blob".
#18
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - May 20, 2026, 10:22:12 PMLast night I watched a film called INFLUENCER, about a young social media star on vacation in Thailand who strikes up a friendship with a local girl who may just be a little TOO interested in her. Cool movie, some neat plot twists at the end. 3.5/5
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Trevor - May 20, 2026, 10:15:02 PMQuote from: lester1/2jr on May 20, 2026, 03:25:33 PMA lady on CNBC just said that revenue growth was the "underpinnance" of something or other. I couldn't help but think of our friend Trevor.
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#20
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by chainsaw midget - May 20, 2026, 07:28:11 PMLisa Frankenstein (2024)
Lisa Frankenstein isn't a horrible movie, but it lacks the bite it should have. The movie is set in the 80s. Unlike a lot of modern movies that do this, it doesn't feel forced or anything. It just feels like they wanted to make a movie in the 80s.
A traumatized teenage girls who recently watched her mother get killed by an axe murderer, is trying to adjust to the new family she has. Her father married again months after her mother's death and her new stepmother is a real piece of work. Her father seems oblivious to this and emotionally absent. Her new stepsister ... is actually probabaly the best character in the movie. She loved having a new sister and does her absolute best to include her in everything and support her.
Anyway, the girl spends a lot of her time alone in an old abandoned cemetery. There's one grave in particular she enjoys. It has the stone bust of a hansom young boy that would have been about her age. One night that grave gets struck by lightning, and somehow this Victorian era corpse rises from the grave. Naturally, they slowly fall for each other.
There's not a whole lot of Frankenstein in this movie. She's no mad scientist. She does stitch a few parts back onto the zombie guy, but that never really feels like a major theme. The fact that her mother gets killed by an axe murderer also somehow never becomes a plot point. Even when other people are killed by an axe, it's not really brought up. It makes the movie feel like there were a few plotpoints that they just didn't bother with after they brought them up.
The movie almost feels like it wants to be Heathers by way of Edward Scissorhands, but never commits to one path or another.
Lisa Frankenstein isn't a horrible movie, but it lacks the bite it should have. The movie is set in the 80s. Unlike a lot of modern movies that do this, it doesn't feel forced or anything. It just feels like they wanted to make a movie in the 80s.
A traumatized teenage girls who recently watched her mother get killed by an axe murderer, is trying to adjust to the new family she has. Her father married again months after her mother's death and her new stepmother is a real piece of work. Her father seems oblivious to this and emotionally absent. Her new stepsister ... is actually probabaly the best character in the movie. She loved having a new sister and does her absolute best to include her in everything and support her.
Anyway, the girl spends a lot of her time alone in an old abandoned cemetery. There's one grave in particular she enjoys. It has the stone bust of a hansom young boy that would have been about her age. One night that grave gets struck by lightning, and somehow this Victorian era corpse rises from the grave. Naturally, they slowly fall for each other.
There's not a whole lot of Frankenstein in this movie. She's no mad scientist. She does stitch a few parts back onto the zombie guy, but that never really feels like a major theme. The fact that her mother gets killed by an axe murderer also somehow never becomes a plot point. Even when other people are killed by an axe, it's not really brought up. It makes the movie feel like there were a few plotpoints that they just didn't bother with after they brought them up.
The movie almost feels like it wants to be Heathers by way of Edward Scissorhands, but never commits to one path or another.