Childhood Favourites

[WingedSerpent]

Any giant monster movie.
Cleveland TV staples Big Chuck and Little John
Danger Mouse and its spin-off Duckula
Pinwheel (Nikelodeon's Sesame Street rip-off)
The Muppet Show
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There's a couple of cartoon movies I remember watching and liking, but for the life of me I can't remember what they were called.

[InformationGeek]

Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Small Soliders
Men in Black
Jumanjii
Flubber
Ace Ventura
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Star Wars 1 & 6
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Pokemon: 2000
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Live Acted)

[metalmonster]

Some Of My Favorite Movies As A Child That I Still Love Today



Muppet Treasure Island
The Lost Boys
Hook
Salem's Lot
Power Rangers The Movie
Halloween 4
friday the 13th part4
friday the 13th part 5
friday the 13th part 6
friday the 13th part 7
friday the 13th part 8
anaconda
101 dalmations

[justin]

I grew up with these & still love 'em to this day:

WILLOW
HOWARD THE DUCK
THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
SHORT CIRCUIT
GREMLINS
& of course the original STAR WARS trilogy
& INDIANA JONES trilogy

[ghouck]

Cleveland TV staples Big Chuck and Little John

I remember them, in fact, I remember them when it was "Hoolihan and Big Chuck", I believe Little John was a cameraman or a director.

Back then (late 70s, early 80s), they used to play "Silent Running" once a year, and would announce it a month or so ahead of time, and even have a contest to see who could make the best models of the robots. They used to play "The Abominable Dr Phibes" once a year also IIRC.

[lester1/2jr]

Back to the beach
young sherlock holmes
Wildcats

[RCMerchant]

more....
The WIZRD OF OZ
MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Kiboqw_0g

the BLOB (1958)
TORA!TORA!TORA!
I'TS A MAD MAD MAD WORLD
The THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT
the CRAWLING HAND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZSe4tDphE

[Thorn Is]

Neverending Story
Secret of Nimh

[BoyScoutKevin]

Thank-you for all the responses. I do think they show what a variety of films we enjoyed as children. As in my case, I think many of them cannot be defined as "children's films," but yet we all turned out to be normal. Well, on second thought, I'll exclude myself from the last sentence.

[jimmybob]

Godzilla.

That is all.

-Jimmybob

[SkullBat308]

Night of the Living Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street
Ghostbusters 1&2
Gremlins 1&2
Evil Dead 1&2
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Batman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Alien
Aliens
Halloween
Friday the 13th

[Allhallowsday]

Hmmm... these were all events in my house when they came on, and I still like them all a lot except maybe NICK RAY's entry:
THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD
THE SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN 
CARNIVAL OF SOULS 
THE WIZARD OF OZ
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 
THE MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS 
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD 
THEM!
TARANTULA   
WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) 
KING OF KINGS (1961)

[Newt]

Ben Hur
Miracle on 34th Street
ANY Vincent Price movie.
The Seven faces of Dr Lao
The Man in the White Suit
The Great Escape
The Guns of Navarone
The Mummy (1932)
Hammer films!

Most of the 'kid' movies (and others) listed already came out *after* I was no longer a 'kid' - technically.  These are faves from my childhood.  I would sit and watch them whenever they came on.  Every time. (And a few more that don't come to mind right now: loved war movies, Tony Randall, David Niven and Alec Guinness. Not to mention Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi!)  The Wizard of Oz was a family tradition but I cannot claim any real affection for it.  Some scenes scared the spit out of me.  For a while there, all the family/kid films seemed to be about animals dying: like there was supposed to be drama and a life lesson in each one.  Hated those.  You guys don't know how good you have had it!

No VCR's back then: it was an *event* when a movie you enjoyed was on TV at a time when you were allowed to watch!  It was a real treat to stay up late with my dad to catch a bad movie.

[RCMerchant]

Hmmm... these were all events in my house when they came on, and I still like them all a lot except maybe NICK RAY's entry:
THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD
THE SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN 
CARNIVAL OF SOULS 
THE WIZARD OF OZ
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 
THE MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS 
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD 
THEM!
TARANTULA   
WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) 
KING OF KINGS (1961)

Gee- I juwst relived my child hood reading your list! 

[voltron]

Friday The 13th 1-4
Gremlins
Pieces (I loved this as a kid, rewatched it recently and questioned my mental health)
Nightmare On Elm Street 1 & 3
Re-Animator
Mother's Day (my cousin was totally freaked out by this movie as a kid and still has trouble watching it to this day)
Demons (loved the tunes...)
Return Of The Living Dead (great soundtrack as well)
Creepers (aka Phenomena) - FLASH OF THE BLADE!!!!
Really, any horror I could get my little hands on.