so true sam

Dr Kelvinstien went over to reelhorror.com and cried about how mean we were.What a bitch!

He's got a point. People aren't exactly friendly over here.

Anyway, I love that 50's cheesy crap!
This island earth is brilliant, even though the monster only appears at the end.
The thing from another world's another good one, but my alltime fave has to be The Blob! The whole idea is just fantastic.

I loved "this island earth"

Spider Baby.

I watched them as a kid
 

I watched lots of sf movies from the 50s on tv when I was a kid.
Remember "Them" which kicked off the whole giant insect thing? That sort of film ended with Night of the Lepus. Giant killer bunny rabbits! And it wasn't even a spoof.

I loved Night of the Living Dead (zombies taking over the earth) and on MST3K I loved the riffs of Horrors of Spider Island and Teenagers from Outer Space.

I seem to remember watching one of the giant insect movies with my family during primetime television, would have been in the mid to late 70's. The one I seem to remember was giant scorpions attacking from under the ground.

There is the 1957 film The Black Scorpion that fits that description, but I remember it being in color and more modern. Maybe that was the one we saw, but it seems a bit unlikely that would be a primetime TV film. Was there a more modern (color) version, maybe made for TV?

I might be confusing that with Empire of the Ants (1977) with Joan Collins. I don't doubt that made it to primetime TV and my family watching it. But I'm quite certain the film was giant scorpions. ::big grin::

giant animals
 

Check out the 1970s movie "Night of the Lepus" .

Giant killer bunny rabbits. It's not even a spoof.

I can't remember the title
 

What's that movie from the 50s about giant praying mantises? In one shot, where the giant insects are supposed to be crawling all over a skyscraper, you can easily see that it's just a photograph of a skyscraper. that's cheezy.