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The 1950's: The Golden Age of Sci-fi

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A great decade that spawned many good sci-fi films and many atrocious ones
too; a number of these movies involved being invaded or attacked by aliens
or being attacked by irradiated mutant creatures, people and even mud! It
has been said by cinematologists that many of these movies reflected our
national cold-war fear of insidious communist infiltration and outright nuclear attack.
The following is a list of the better films, ranging from excellent to
fairly good, arranged chronologically:
1951: The Day The Earth Stood Still; The Thing From Another World.
1953: War Of The Worlds; Invaders From Mars; It Came From Outer Space;
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
1954: Them!; Godzilla-King of the Monsters.
1955: This Island Earth; Tarantula.
1956: Forbidden Planet; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Creeping
Unknown; X-The Unknown.
1957: 20 Million Miles To Earth; Kronos; The Black Scorpion.
1958: It! The Terror From Beyond Space; The Fly; Fiend Without A Face;
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers; The Blob; I Married A Monster From
Outer Space; Rodan.
1959: The Angry Red Planet; Return Of The Fly.
Of course, there were many duds; e.g., "Attack of the Giant Leeches";
"The Mole People"; "Attack of the Crab Monsters"; "The Brain From Planet
Arous"; "The Crawling Eye" and "The Giant Claw" (which gets my vote for
worst special effects). - AH

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I'd pick "The Creeping Terror" for bad special effects. TAFKA Steve 00:38:56 9/05/99 (0)
MST 3000 did my favorite joke about Mike Nelson's audiophile hobby during their showing of "Creeping Terror". Mike is happily listening to his Nakamichi CD player with a conrad-johnson preamp and amp and DCM speakers while the music from the teenage dance hall scene in the film is playing. The music is incredibly repetitive and boring and the robots leave in disgust while Mike smiles happily away listening to horrible audiophile music.
You must watch Mstery Science Theater 3,000! Scott Woebcke 21:26:02 9/04/99 (1)
Great show full of awful sci-fi movies. You'll love it if you havent scene it. Check it out ont he Sci-Fi Channel.!
- Re: You must watch Mstery Science Theater 3,000! AudioHead 12:25:37 9/05/99 (0)
  Thanks for the reminder, Scott; I watch Mystery Sci Theater back in 93 and
  94, can be quite funny with the commentary. However, I generally got my
  fill of those horrible movies back in the 50's as a child, I just had no
  way of being selective at the Saturday afternoon features; in fact, I
  actually enjoyed and was scared by some of the ones I laugh at now! Such
  is the naivete of childhood.
  The first film I ever saw (1953) in a theater was "The War Of The Worlds";
  never got to see the Martian death-ray attack scenes, was always hiding
  under the seat! My Dad just laughed. - AH

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