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I like the 1951 version. It's one of the first movies I bought. I have two copies of it. I bought the first copy so long ago that it's Beta format.
Who would have thought that the walking veggie was played by Marshal Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke fame....James Arness......brother of Peter Graves.
One thing about the 1951 version that was new was the fact that the characters talked over each other. I don't recall seeing that in films before. It was not a case of one character making a statement and then the next character making a statement. They were all talking at once....just like in real life.
The original was more "spooky" than the new version.
I like the original Thing too. Plus Boris Karloff's Mummy and Lon Chaney's Wolfman, and let's not forget The Creature From The Black Lagoon When I was a kid (50's) my Dad bought an old, second hand TV that he put up in our semi finished attic. I would watch up there on Saturday nights when the local TV stations would run old horror and science fiction movies. Sometimes Dad would watch up there too when we'd watch "professional wrestling". (Remember Bruno Sanmartino and Haystacks Calhoun? ) I still remember in The Thing when they were waiting for the monster to come into their electrified entrance way. Sitting up in the attic in the dark ...
Great picks..I'll have to show off another classic...
Awww, Godzilla and Mothra mentions but Gamera gets no love. I love you, Gamera. Mostly because if I were an 8-year-old making up a giant monster, even though jets coming out of the legholes of a thousand foot fire-breathing turtle so he can fly--straight and in circles like a discus--makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHATSOEVER... well, me, the 8-year-old, that's what I'd imagine...for a thousand foot fire-breathing turtle. And I love that his creators were total 8-year-olds!
We used to gather around a little TV...we had it in our bunk house/fort and ran an extension cord from our parent's house. Gamera was on a lot and we got a kick out of it...WE CAN'T FORGET GAMERA in this!!!
Awww, Godzilla and Mothra mentions but Gamera gets no love. I love you, Gamera. Mostly because if I were an 8-year-old making up a giant monster, even though jets coming out of the legholes of a thousand foot fire-breathing turtle so he can fly--straight and in circles like a discus--makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHATSOEVER... well, me, the 8-year-old, that's what I'd imagine...for a thousand foot fire-breathing turtle. And I love that his creators were total 8-year-olds!
Gamera is a huge turtle? I didn't know that. I guess that is why fans are so shell-shocked by his movies.
The scariest monsters, to me, look like regular kids. I'll go with Damien from the first and second Omen movie, that sociopath kid from the Law & Order: SVU episode with Kyle MacLachlan that lured a little boy to his death and that other Law & Order kid that lured a little boy away from his home, made it look like a rape, and stuck a battery in his mouth to recharge him.
The scariest monsters, to me, look like regular kids. I'll go with Damien from the first and second Omen movie, that sociopath kid from the Law & Order: SVU episode with Kyle MacLachlan that lured a little boy to his death and that other Law & Order kid that lured a little boy away from his home, made it look like a rape, and stuck a battery in his mouth to recharge him.
LIKE a wolf in sheep's clothing...a different kind of fright.....from the "little Monsters" . Like Linda Blair in THE EXORCIST....
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When I was a kid (50's) my Dad bought an old, second hand TV that he put up in our semi finished attic. I would watch up there on Saturday nights when the local TV stations would run old horror and science fiction movies. Sometimes Dad would watch up there too when we'd watch "professional wrestling". (Remember Bruno Sanmartino and Haystacks Calhoun? 
) I still remember in The Thing when they were waiting for the monster to come into their electrified entrance way. Sitting up in the attic in the dark ... 
. I had NO IDEA about the wrestlers being in the movie...thanx for the info!
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