Great Childhood Horror Films

[Scott]

Growing up in the 70's and watching CHILLER THEATER  and MONSTER MOVIE MANTINEE were some of my best memories. Here were some 20 of my favorites during those early 70's years:

The Crawling Eye
Giant of the Unknown
I Was a Teenage Frankenstien
The Flesh Eaters
13 Ghost
Them !
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Blob
It Came from Outer Space
Tarantula
The Collosso Man
Horrors of the Black Museum
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Birds
Williard
The Crazies
Konga
All Godzilla Movies
The Gargantuans
Frankenstien (My first television memory was the one were he throws stuff into a firery pit)

[Susan]

I hate to admit it but I used to enjoy the 3D features they would have, where you buy those special glasses and adjust your tv set and sit and go blind seeing red and blue for the next 2 hours.

[The Burgomaster]

When I was a kid back in the 1970s, we used to have CREATURE FEATURE and TALES OF THE UNKNOWN here in the Boston area. Some of my favorites were:

* WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS
* FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN
* THEM
* CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE
* MONSTER FROM THE SURF
* THE BEGINNING OF THE END
* MONSTER ZERO
* INVASION OF THE STAR CREATURES
* ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE

Ahhhhh . . . memories . . .

[AndyC]

Back in the early 80s, City TV, out of Toronto, used to have Not So Great Movies (their prime-time movie show was Great Movies). On Sunday afternoons, and late at night for a while, they'd run stuff like King Kong vs. Godzilla, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Creeping Terror, Hercules in New York and other such gems. They did a pretty good job of promoting some of these in advance. When they showed Plan 9, they ran spots promoting it as the worst movie ever made. Hercules was shown when The Terminator was cleaning up at the box office. City actually did a pretty good job of promoting the whole "so bad it's good" idea.



Post Edited (09-29-03 13:21)

[Scott]

ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE sounds great. I wonder if I ever seen it.

MONSTER FROM THE SURF is going to be playing during AMC's MONSTERFEST around Halloween. It will be playing once somewhere between 12am and 6am.

That is the name of it WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS. Really liked that one.

[freelancePatsy]

I grew up in the '80s...

The Howling
Alien
The Boogens
Creepshow
The Thing (John Carpenter's)
Heavy Metal
Clash of the Titans