I saw this movie in the early '60s, when I saw about 6 or 7. Meanwhile, drunken friend Joe(played amusingly by Frank Gorshin) takes one home, but is injected by an alien with a fatal overdose of alcohol, and the authorities don't believe the teenagers' story of alien invaders. Strangely, its hand falls off and comes to life on its own. Cahn directed this cult classic about a pair of teenagers on a date who accidentally run over a newly arrived alien. A flying saucer then blows up with the military in attendance and the aliens are done away with at the end by light, their weakness. More aliens then appear and kill one of the teens with an overdose of alcohol as revenge for their mate being killed. The local farmer doesn't like the teenagers using his land for snogging in their cars. In this one, a young couple accidentally run over an alien but its hand comes alive and terrorises people. Invasion of the Hell Creatures (also known as Invasion of the Saucer Men) (1957)Ī lot of the reviews on IMDb mention the aliens can detach their hands which attack people, for example: It's not an actual alien, but I think it otherwise matches. After realizing what he's doing, Paul takes the hand out to a junkyard with the intent of destroying it, and between a fever of over 100 and some hungry cats, the evil is defeated. Then the mysterious murderous force begins to infect Paul as well, and he attacks a Malt Shop owner and his own girlfriend. Paul himself is a prime suspect in the murder, but the two scientists arrive with their own theories. Soon, it becomes apparent to everyone (in the audience, at least) that whatever malediction had possessed the astronaut still possesses the arm, which promptly goes on a killing spree (said spree resulting in a grand total of ONE death). Against his girl's wishes, Paul returns to the beach and takes the arm home with him (for what reason, we're not told). Meanwhile, over in California, young med student Paul frolicks on the beach with his girlfriend when they happen upon the severed arm of the dead astronaut. The latest astronaut to fall to this mysterious syndrome manages to contact his scientist superiors just before doing himself in he alternates between pleas to "push the red" Self-Destruct Mechanism and violent urges to "Kill! Kill!" Finally the "red" is pushed, the astronaut is blown to shards and the scientists are still stumped. Even today, the cold, dead eyes of the sinister dummy serve as nightmare fuel.Is it possible you're thinking of The Crawling Hand?Īstronauts keep going crazy and blowing up on their way back to the ground, and scientists can't figure out why. In the film’s climactic ending, we’re introduced to a story involving a ventriloquist dummy that set the stage for just about every inanimate-object-that’s-actually-alive film moving forward. Connecting five different stories from British filmmakers and a wrap-around, the film is a psychological creepfest and delivers what is arguably the best work of director Charles Crichton. Dead of Night (1945)īefore horror anthologies became a subgenre of its own, there was Ealing Studios’ Dead of Night. It’s moody, it’s creepy, and while it may not deliver the scares today like it did then, a rewatch showcases an influence that can still be felt. The Uninvited boasts high-caliber acting performances and, crucially, practical in-camera ghost effects that rely on lighting, sound, and wind machines. That’s a crime: It’s one of the titles that Guillermo del Toro cites as having a major impact on his own filmography. What is perhaps one of the first haunted-house films to treat ghosts as legitimate threats and sources of horror, the British-made flick has largely gone unnoticed by American audiences.
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