More Recent Viewings............................

[Scott]

KILLERS FROM SPACE (1954) - Weird eyed aliens come to earth because their sun is going out which has caused their eyes to bulge out (due to lack of light). They prepare an amry of incects on earth in the caves near a atomic bomb test sight. Peter Graves stars as the human is used by the aliens. The aliens are the best part of this film.



THE SNOW CREATURE (1954) - An expedition gets side tracked when one of the guides has to search for his Yeti abducted wife. Our team manages to capture him and bring him to Los Angeles. The best part of the film are the shadowed and distant Yeti images. He likes to come in and out of the light in many scenes.



WHITE PONGO (1945) - Not a bad little film and story. It seems that people of the 40's were fasinated with jungle exploration. Another expidition in search of an intelligent white ape near the Congo River. The ape is uncovincing, but I remember a white ape film as a kid that left quite an impression on me. Maybe this was the film.



THE MANSION OF MADNESS (1972) - From the same director who brought us ALUCARDA this Mexican film is about an asylum were the patients run the place and keep the doctors in cages. The film is ok, but nothing special in my opinion. The opeing and closing scenes are neat with the carriage riding through the country side. Check out ALUCARDA as it is much much better film.



THE MAGNIFICIENT SEVEN RIDE (1972) - Who doesn't like Lee Van Cleef as he stars in Yul Brenners place as Chris. This time Chris finds his bunch from a couple prisons as Chris incidently helps out an old friend. Another good Western to seek out.



GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICIENT SEVEN (1969) - The best of the THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN sequels. I really enjoyed this film even if George Kennedy wasn't my idea of one to play Yul Brenners role, but he did manage to make this film work. They had a good assortment of characters for this Western including a young Emilio Zapata who tags along with the knife thrower. They also have one guy they find in a sideshow with only one good arm and another with TB. Again I really enjoyed this film and it's cinematography.





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[Menard]

What we really want to know is if you survived OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES. (heh..heh).

You mentioned ALUCARDA which I really liked. At times the story is a little disjointed, but who cares. With the amount of nudity, blood, and some genuinely disturbing scenes, it really works; at least it did for me.

Sorry that I went off topic.

[Scott H.]

Oasis of the Zombies was a breeze to watch. It was slow, yes, but not painful. Of all the zombie movies out there, Virus or Night of the Zombies. An amazingly slow zombie movie using footage from other movies and stock footage from what must have been unused National Geographic reels. At one point a woman dons a painted face and walks among the natives of a tribe without a shirt on and bullseyes around the nipples. Yet another movie where "SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD" doesn't register to the guy with the gun. Pathetic.

-Scott H.

[peter johnson]

Hey Scott -- How do you manage to illustrate your postings here with such cool graphics, etc.?
I'd like to post the occasional graphic, but don't know how to make the message board do this.
The times I posted shots of me in the giant iguana head, I had to get Andrew to help.
peter johnson/denny crane

[trekgeezer]

Hey, in color the Killers from Space look like seriously demented Teletubbies (they are demented enough already).

I want to know where Scott gets the movie posters that you can hot link to. Everytime I try they disappear from my post.

[Menard]

Hey Peter

You can link to an image by using the same technique for posting bold or italics. Just put img and /img in brackets at the beginning and end of your link to an image. The image will then load when the post is accessed. The image has to be hosted somewhere else and linked to the post. A good way to get images to post is to do a Google image search, click on the image you like, click on show full-size image, then copy and paste the link for the image to your post. I don't know if any images can be uploaded or not.

[Mitch McAfee]

Hi Scott - did you watch the SNOW CREATURE on DVD or tape? If on DVD what was the print like? It's a film I've never seen before - though I do have an original one sheet poster of it in my collection :)

KILLERS FROM SPACE on the otherhand, I've seen dozens of times. My local station would play this almost monthly back in the 80's. From memory, this was directed by the same Wilder who made PHANTOM FROM SPACE (and I don't mean Gene).

[trekgeezer]

Menard, I know how to link an image, but a lot of sights don't allow hot linking because it bites into their bandwidth. I just wondered what sight Scott gets them from.

Mitch, Snow Creature was also directed by W. Lee Wilder. He is the brother of the famous director Billy Wilder.

[Menard]

I know you do Trek Geezer. I was replying to Peter's question on how to do it.

[Scott]

Havn't received OASIS OF ZOMBIES yet from Netflix, but soon it should come. ALUCARDA is a great Mexican film. I really liked that one. It's definately a wild film.

[Scott]

Peter, I must have missed the giant iguana head post. Where is it?

TrekGeezer the key to making sure your image appears is finding sights that don't block the image. Don't use the easy to find pages as they are usually business sites that will block your effort. I use images from other movie fan sights as they don't usually care about blocking access to their bandwidth.

You can also just save image and upload the images onto your own website and link to your own site for the image post. That way you don't infringe to much on other peoples sites.



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[Scott]

The print to SNOW CREATURE is decent from the 50 Sci-Fi Classics Collection. (not sure why Snow Creature is considered Sci-Fi, but it's part of the collection as are Hercules films. In the Hercules films the color is faded).

By the way KILLERS FROM OUTER SPACE and SNOW CREATURE are in b/w, but the poster is in color.

Willie Wilder directed both KILLERS FROM OUTER, PHANTOM FROM SPACE, and SNOW CREATURE. He only did a few films compared to his more famous brother.



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[peter johnson]

I scanned a picture of me in The World's Greatest Giant Iguana Mask, holding a shotgun, sometime a year or so (Maybe 2 years ago?) ago & Andrew put it on the letters board.  I can't even remember the topic!!  I think it was costumes & Halloween as an adult, etc.
Thanks for the info, Menard, but I was really interested in how people manage to get pictures of their Pet Scorpions, etc., to be visible here on our little letters board.  It has to be possible!!
peter johnson/denny crane

[Menard]

Try TinyPic.com. You can upload your image and they will host it for free. Then you can put a link in your post to the image you uploaded.

[Scott H.]

How to places like that stay open? They have no means of revenue other than banners, and banners do absolutely nothing. I have never bought anything from a banner, nor have I been influenced even on a subconscious level by any banner ad.