It’s conventional wisdom that these horror and sci-fi movies were ‘encouraged’
to generate xenophobia in the US population at the start of the Cold War.
Aliens were always dangerous. A notable exception was ‘The Day the Earth Stood
Still’ which challenged this trend.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
www.soultheft.com
> On 11 Jan 2016, at 5:34 am, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There were lots of good scary movies in the 50's and 50's. I still like
> to watch "Tarantula", "Them!", "The Black Scorpion", "The Deadly Mantis" and
> other creature flicks, especially when Ray Harryhausen did the animation like
> in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms". I recently got to watch "The Land
> Unknown", which I vaguely remembered seeing just once.
>
> But I think the creepiest was a Japanese horror flick called "The H-Man",
> where gelatinous humanoids passed through the Tokyo sever system, dissolving
> people whenever they touched them.
>
>>
>> "War of the Worlds" for me. I was 10.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>>
>>> When I was a kid "Forbidden Planet" scared the sh#$ out of me.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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