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I cant comprehend why the monsters and aliens are all so big in the Hollywood movies. They are all so huge and sprawling. A small compact vicious monster will be so much more interesting. I remember a TV movie of the 70s which had a lady bring a small sculpture of long face with large jaw and teeth from Africa and kept on her mantelpiece in her apartment. At night it came alive and tried to eat the lady who even managed to flush it but the monster bit through the commode. It ate the door and chased the woman. This movie was better than all those featuring sprawling huge monsters.
I am waiting for sophisticated little monsters.
Bitingly
Bill
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A pretty cool movie, for its time, which had a small creature which inhabited everyone - it grew in size along your spine, depending upon just how scared you were - it went away once you screamed.
A cool aspect of this movie, is that it was the first movie that I am aware of that had LSD in it. (Vincent Price took it to bring on fear and paranoia and to get him good and frightened - he was a scientist who was investigating fear and its effects on the human body.) This movie was made in the early '60s.
I got in huge trouble for showing my daughter this one.
She loved it, but she had trouble sleeping for a week, and my wife stopped me from showing her any more scary movies for months.
(My daughter finally whined enough to her, that she relented and now I have someone to go to horror movies with!)
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...called the Zanti Misfits, had foot long ants with human-like faces and murderous tendencies. Unnervingly scary. With Bruce Dern. I know it's just a TV show, but it scares me just thinking about it.
She is now a huge horror movie fan just like her dad!
(Although that particular episode did scare her a bit.)
Those ants scared the livin' shit outta me as a kid, I had nightmares for weeks! I also remember "The Tingler", which was essentially a guy's hand that had been cut off. It would drag itself across the floor when chasing you. Really corny, but it scared me silly as a 10 year old.
Another one that really got to me was the "Earwig" episode of Night Gallery. The thought of having your brains eaten from the inside is horrifying to me. And you're absolutely right, monsters don't have to be big to be scary...
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That "Tingler" description you refer to sounds similar to the "Terror in Teakwood" episode on the Boris Karloff "Thriller" series, wherein a jealous pianist steals his dead rival's hands (and fits them over his own hands - like gloves!) in order to play his rival's "unplayable" sonata. Unfortunately, the stolen hands have a mind of their own, and they too start crawling by themselves along the floor before inflicting their retribution! Another thing that I love about this episode is that it invokes and relishes all the clichés of classical music.
nightmares for me.
was way creepy. I remember those ants.
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Chucky is funny, spooky, and sometimes shocking. Makes you not want to ever be in a room with a doll after lights out. Puppet Master delivers grossness in small ways. All the above are amusements not films.
Kids can be small monsters, right?
...how about Gremlins, Critters 1 and 2?
Gremlin size is what I mean. But there were too many of those in the movie. A monstrous ET sized alien would be good who would destroy that phone.
Cheers
Bill
Staring Karen Black. That was the third of 3 stories (hence trilogy). More of the suspense/horror genre (hence the Terror) than SciFi.
Kaiju have always been big, its easier to demolish cities that way. :-)
Different purposes, frequently different target audiences.
Jack
That bit was by far the best of the 3, each being about 30 minutes long. I believe the movie is available on DVD.
Jack
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