31 odpowiedzi

1. Terry, your anti-Christian bigotry isn't funny. It's pathetic. Christianity has been since long before you were born and it'll be here millions of years after you're dead.

2. Cosmic Monsters is one of those movies that I'm not sure if I watched it. Some of the still pictures look familiar. The Abominable snowman is a character that didn't get much traction. In the '70s Bigfoot was popular in North America. Forrest Tucker is best remembered for his part in the TV series F-Troop. The '50s smoking scene I find most amusing is in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" where the doctors were talking about how good the alien looked for his age. Then the three of them light up cigarettes.

3. Nigel Kneale is one of my cinema/writing heroes…always trying to collect and consume his work. Forrest Tucker had an enormous penis?!! i'm sure his PR representative worked overtime to get that rumor out there! if there are any Yeti's out there i sure feel sorry for them…hunted and turned into constant documentary fodder!! it is a fun film though. a salt storm instead of snow…ouch!! and that was probably one of the more benign ingredients used over the years to emulate it! your review of Strange World of Planet X (Cosmic Monsters) makes me super keen to see if. Unavailable of this moment on Amazon (Australia) under either title, while copies of the poster ARE for sale.

4. The Abominable Snowman was my first Hammer film and remains my favorite almost seventy years later. It is the perfect example of a horror movie that shows you do not need gallons of blood to scare the audience.

5. Some of the other human "species" were basically Human, essentially, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis..

   Hammer was just becoming the Hammer we remember from the later '50s, '60s and '70s. I think it was the among the first genre movies Hammer did . . . . Was this around the time tucker did Trouble in the Glen, sort of a Scots version of the Quiet Man. (Of course, given Andrew McLaughlin, The Quiet Man was fairly scots, too.

6. That was the right thing to do as fare as getting set approval on the Temple.

7. Basically, at best, it was a "not-Yeti" . . . .

8. Forrest Tucker is like the only guy who did a Yeti movie, so that was actually easy . . . .

9. Thanks for highlighting these two films.

   The "Strange World of Planet X, has a lot going for it except for its low budget – even as a kid I felt let down by the climatic insect battle in the woods. It is the usual science gone bad movie with a dash of Quatermass and the Day the Earth Stood Still thrown in and maybe could be a good candidate for a TV series remake.
   On the other hand the Abomnible Snowman was a tv serial given the Hammer treatment and although slow buring is still very effective. Peter Cushing is his usual excellent self, but of the three British SF films Forrest Tucker did (these two and the Trollenburg Terror) I think this is his better performance.

   Both films make a good double bill , if you are looking for some late 1950's British SF

10. In terms of US titles being worse or better, I'd often looking up the literal titles of the Toho kaiju films which sound odd in English. Destroy All Monsters Japanese name is "Attack of thr Marching Monsters," for example. I prefer the American title there. I've seen The Abominable Snowmen, a pity the BBC TV version was wiped. I love Nigel Kneale's work, in some ways the Quatermass TV serials are better than the Hammer films. Doctor Who ripped off Quatermass many times and also The Abominable Snowmen with a story with the very same name with the Yetis being robots controlled by an alien intelligence. Heard of Cosmic Monsters, will look out for it. Do I heard Bach in the background?

11. I went right to Google and typed Cosmic Monsters, found it and loved it. I enjoy your vids.❤

12. The Snowman was Cushing's first Hammer movie. And the Snowman was shot in B&W Anamorphic Widescreen too. Cosmic Monsters I saw as a pre teen in the 1960's New York City Creture Feature channel. Very scary to this child at that time.

13. I feel Forest Tucker is like Mel Gibson, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Bela Legosi, Tom Cruise, Vincent Price and to some degree Humphrey Bogart. That is to say, he doesn’t have a wide range of acting personalities, and really just plays himself inserted into different roles. Do you know what I am trying to say?

14. Always sparks off lines of research…other films, other actors…great stuff, Terry !

15. I wish the BBC version of Abominable Snowman still existed. I'd love to see how they pulled that off live.

16. so Forrest was packing a log hey? the "..manifest destiny, christianity.." comment made me LOL.

17. You're right, Terry, that Forrest Tucker is a notch or two down from Stanley Baker but just think of some of the other 1950s sci-fi leading men they could have cast (Peter Graves, John Agar, Marshall Thompson) and count your blessings.

18. Once again perfect timing Terry. I'm currently sitting in my sick bed watching Cosmic Monsters on YouTube. Cheers for the heads up. This one has never been on my radar. A funny aside… I casually mentioned to my partner about Tucker's famous generous endowment. She sweetly said " it's not that important" as if she was trying to reassure me of any shortcomings 🫣

19. I really enjoy "The Abominable Snowman". The Blu Ray has standard definition drop-ins for cut shots. It's eerie; the shot of the Yeti's hands under the tent handling the rifles is still freaky to this day. I've never been able to find a physical copy of "The Strange World of Planet X" although I think it was released on Image or MGM's Midnight Movies collection.

20. I remember the impact Cosmic Monsters had on me as a kid watching it on TV. Pretty gruesome and violent compared to what I was used to.

21. Abominable Snowman is one of the few decent bigfoot movies. Really love that flick

22. Yep, there was a lot of foolish thinking in the 1950s. Wish we’d have left em behind. Love your work.

23. Reguarding “cosmic monsters “ you had me at (crashed UFOS)!

24. Am 78 and seen the Snowman to many times to count, awesome movie. 👍👍👍

25. I like both movies, but prefer 'The Abominable Snowman'. Forrest Tucker is okay… But Peter Cushing just blows his performance offscreen every time he appears. He does a nice little ad-lib, that threw the other cast members, whilst shooting a scene; when his character is examining something, instead of simply talking about it, he digs into a pocket and brings out a magnifying glass and some forceps, still saying his lines. The bit of business with the odds and sods out of his pocket weren't in the script – that was all Peter Cushing, who thought it would make the scene more 'real' – the sort of thing a scientist would do.

26. 19:00 Is it just me, or does Alec Mango look a bit like Carl Sagan? Lots of fun Terry. While I have seen Forrest Tucker in The Trollenberg Terror, these two movies are new to me. Thanks.

27. Sound like a couple I want to track down! Impressed with how production often worked out slick ways of hiding a small budget – that takes talent and skill.

28. Another cool review vid. Thanks! BTW, there's a version of Strange/Planet X that features what I think is the most graphically gory shot done for mainstream cinema up to that point – a giant insect literally eating the face off of a fallen soldier. Nasty. It comes completely out of the blue and is a brief but massive tonal shift in the movie. Instant X certificate stuff. I suspect it was an insert done for certain markets. I saw that version on TV ages ago, and I think it's floating around youtube somewhere along with the more "family friendly" version! Cheers. 👍

29. I think of The Trollenberg Terror/The Crawling Eye with these two alto Nigel Neil did not write it. Guess it's the Forrest Tucker thing. I agree Nigel Neil is an unsung stat of SciFi TV and films. I love the Quatermass BBC TV shows and the Hammer films that were made from them. Cheers

30. The only British Sci Fi movie I know with Forrest Tucker is The Trollenberg Terror (aka: The Crawling Eye) and yeah Stanley Baker is the choice of the two! Cheers! Oh and I'm seeing Liam Neeson's take on The Naked Gun this weekend – yeah, eye roll but it could be a sleeper hit!

31. Two of my favorite 50s sci Fi films