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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: Alien precursor     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Nov 27, 2021 - 4:56 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Just a heads-up that It!...Space airs on TCM at 8pm ET tonight...    Posted:   Nov 27, 2021 - 10:29 PM     By:   joan hue   (Member) Yep Howard, this movie was a precursor to Alien. I did see it in a theater, and it provided some scares. Alien truly frightened me when I first saw it in a theater. I think I had my eyes closed through half of the movie. (And my ears plugged.)    Posted:   Nov 28, 2021 - 6:40 AM     By:   dragon53   (Member) Another inspiration for ALIEN was PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQLymFdQl6M    Posted:   Nov 28, 2021 - 8:05 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) I saw IT! in a theater too--Chiller Theater. Several times. As a youngster. This viewing was the first time since and 1st widescreen. Remembered the names of the guys that got killed and Marshall Thompson, of course. Didn't watch again Alien that followed immediately. The memory of seeing the Director's Cut at the cinema remains vivid.    Posted:   Nov 28, 2021 - 9:41 AM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) Another inspiration for ALIEN was PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQLymFdQl6M I watched the clip and it brought a big smile to my face that the reviewer used Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" in the background. It was suitably creepy in this context.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 5:54 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) Rats! I missed it this time around! I love this movie! I was too young to see it in the theater, but I did try to watch it in ~1963 on the late night Friday night scary movie when I was 8. When It snuck on board the rescue ship and they showed those scaly feet, it was too much for me and I had to bail. I couldn't take it and I almost never got to sleep that night! It was many years later that I finally got to see it all the way through. For all its flaws, it is well done, especially for its day. The premise that Col. Carruthers was a murderer is a great setup for the introduction to the movie. I expected them to have it set up that his character would somehow be the last one seen with crew members before they were killed to keep the murderer angle going. Marshall Thompson was great in it and I was glad to see good ol' Dabs Greer in it as well. And, I was glad they were able to save Gino Finelli, especially since he went on to write those great songs in the 70s A great score by Sawtell and Shefter, recycled from Kronos (1957)? And Joan, I convinced my wife to watch Alien with me in ~1986 on VHS. She made it through, but we had to sleep with the closet light on, and I don't think she ever forgave me for it!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 7:26 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) My parents took me to see Alien in the theater on first release, I wasn't even 17. I don't know what they were thinking. I don't think any of us knew what kinda movie we were going to see. Then again they took me to see Jaws when I didn't even have armpit hair yet. In retrospect they really liked to traumatize me!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 8:37 AM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) My parents took me to see Alien in the theater on first release, I wasn't even 17. I don't know what they were thinking. I don't think any of us knew what kinda movie we were going to see. Then again they took me to see Jaws when I didn't even have armpit hair yet. In retrospect they really liked to traumatize me! I think it's possible that your parents were confident that you had the emotional and psychological stability to process the experiences in a proper, normal fashion. I say this because as a boy my mother gave me extraordinary leeway to explore whatever pastimes or hobbies I wanted, and I tend to see that as my mother showing a similar confidence in my processing abilities. (Of course, she still said "no" to plenty of things, but she trusted that I would always be as responsible as I could.) I'm in a very analytical mood this morning!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 8:40 AM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) And, I was glad they were able to save Gino Finelli, especially since he went on to write those great songs in the 70s I hope everyone else can see what a good, smart joke this was. Good on ya, Dawg!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 8:46 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) My parents took me to see Alien in the theater on first release, I wasn't even 17. I don't know what they were thinking. I don't think any of us knew what kinda movie we were going to see. Then again they took me to see Jaws when I didn't even have armpit hair yet. In retrospect they really liked to traumatize me! I never have known why, and never thought to ask before they both passed away, but my parents would allow me to stay up on Friday nights watching horror movies (mostly those from the 1950s) on our local TV channel even though I usually would be scared sleepless after doing so. They had to know I was watching those movies, but they never stopped me. I'm glad they let me watch, but it must have been annoying to them that I'd turn on the hall light (which shone into their bedroom) before going into the bathroom for fear that a monster would get me. And anyway, what is it about lights and bedsheets that protect you from monsters?    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 9:29 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) @ Oct and Jack- In retrospect as an adult I totally agree. I think its good children in their development years are exposed to scary moments and imagery. Its how we learn to cope under stress and see we can survive under almost any challenging situation. My parents were pretty liberal in what films and TV shows I could watch growing up. They did spare me The Exorcist though, I was left home with a babysitter for that one!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 10:03 AM     By:   joan hue   (Member) And Joan, I convinced my wife to watch Alien with me in ~1986 on VHS. She made it through, but we had to sleep with the closet light on, and I don't think she ever forgave me for it! I can relate to your story. The first viewing was really scary!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 2:12 PM     By:   chriscoyle   (Member) I watched the beginning of Alien on TCM, what a marvelous opening. From the opening music to the slow pan down the corridor of the dank spaceship. The archaic computer monitor with that screeching sound is haunting and portends the menace to come. Alien has really aged well. I like IT too. It may have been one of the first monster on the loose on a spaceship films but I bet it is a pretty common storyline in early Sci-fi fiction.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 2:25 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) I've given the old memory banks a thorough search and have to say no, it wasn't a common storyline and that's why IT! has stood out for me all these years. I mean the closest that comes to mind is Forbidden Planet with the link that everyone has been murdered except Morbius (and daughter).    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 2:32 PM     By:   chriscoyle   (Member) I’m referencing Sci-fi literature not films. Sci-fi screenwriters don’t just watch films. Often they love reading sci-fi.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 2:36 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Ah, should have read through before engaging keyboard. Mea culpa.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 4:21 PM     By:   joan hue   (Member) but my parents would allow me to stay up on Friday nights watching horror movies (mostly those from the 1950s) on our local TV channel even though I usually would be scared sleepless after doing so Ditto. I'd lie awake most of the night thinking a monster was in my closet. I went with my husband to see JAWS in the theater, and it really scared me...then. Later it played a lot of TV. I didn't realize that my 9-year -old daughter was downstairs watching JAWS. Before that we always water skied in our rivers. After she saw JAWS, she refused to water ski. Telling her it wasn't salt water did no good. You never know how scary movies will affect kids.    Posted:   Nov 30, 2021 - 8:52 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) but my parents would allow me to stay up on Friday nights watching horror movies (mostly those from the 1950s) on our local TV channel even though I usually would be scared sleepless after doing so Ditto. I'd lie awake most of the night thinking a monster was in my closet. I went with my husband to see JAWS in the theater, and it really scared me...then. Later it played a lot of TV. I didn't realize that my 9-year -old daughter was downstairs watching JAWS. Before that we always water skied in our rivers. After she saw JAWS, she refused to water ski. Telling her it wasn't salt water did no good. You never know how scary movies will affect kids. That rings true for me as well. My aunt would never take a shower after she saw Psycho; only tub baths. I remember reading that some children were so traumatized by Jaws that they required therapy. I recall that a girl that lived out West had nightmares about the shark swimming thru the desert sand to come get her. I do hope your daughter got over it.    Posted:   Dec 1, 2021 - 6:23 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) I had a nightmare after seeing Jaws in the theater. I had a throw rug in my room and I dreamt the shark jump out of the rug and towards my bed. I woke up screaming.    Posted:   Dec 2, 2021 - 4:50 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) After she saw JAWS, she refused to water ski. With me it was bathtubs.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Alien precursor    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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