Was Zontar. I must have been six or seven when I saw it on tv- I remember being scared to death and having bad dreams... I just heard a reference made on E.R. which prompted me to look it up. I'm disappointed that it's not available on video anymore. I'd like to see what scared me as a child!
shareActually it is available on DVD. It is one of the 50 horrible films in the set called "50 Movie Pack - SciFi Classics" marketed by TreeLine films. They list a website www.treelinefilms.com but I bought mine at Big Lots. Good luck.
shareRight ! My friends and I have copies of that set...at least I think it's the same one. We are going through the films one-by-one and all writing comments at the IMDB on them.
share[deleted]
That set is *beep* junk! Treeline is one of the worst companies out there too real good advice! If u really wanna enjoy the film, get it on The DVD Double Feature released by Retromedia & Image Entertainment back in 2005. Which it was released with The Eye Creatures (1965) Buchanan's other Made For T.V. Remake. But that was a remake of Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957). I didn't really care for the original it was like a spoof or parody. Buchanan's is much more serious & it was done on a Z-Grade budget under 30,000 Dollars too! Even though the DVD has The American International Television Logo & Music for both Films missing. Which always appear at the beginning of all of Buchanan's Made For T.V. 60's American International Films. Buchanan is The Ed Wood of Texas I think he is awsome & a much better Director then Ed Wood. 3 thumbs up for Buchanan! also he was alot more normal & not a cross-dresser like Wood. He was obsessed with women too that's why he made the Sci-Fi Cult Classic "Mars Needs Women" (1966) (M>TV). With Tommy Kirk & super sexy 60's chick Yvonne Craig. Which she was playing Barbara Gordon & Batgirl on the 60's T.V. Series Batman at the same time. She stopped off in Texas for a quick paycheck. Which she appeared in that no budget Buchanan Schlock Sci-Fi Cult Classic! :)
shareYes, It was mine too! The first time my parents let me stay up to watch Shock Theater (the late-night creature feature every Saturday on WSJS Ch12 in NC) they were showing Zontar. It was around 1969 and I was probably ten years old. I still remember how creepy the movie was, I think partly because of the quality of the film stock and the lighting, but the flying robot bat/lobster thingies were damned scary too.
share[deleted]
You can watch / download it at archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/Zontar_Thing_From_Venus
OMG- this was MY first scary movie too! I just saw it for the first time in probably over 40 years! I LAUGHED at the production quality!! I'm amazed at how much it scared me as a kid..
There's a child psychology study there somewhere..
...hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.share
LMAO! I replied to my own original post! I posted that SO long ago, i'd forgotten about it!
...hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.share
LOL! mtarshis, I love your post, especially because it sounds like something I might do some day. You sound like you have a healthy sense of humor, something not seen all the time on boards these days. Thanks for the healthy laugh!
--
Find your pet peeve at http://www.screenit.com; mine is the f-word.
How did this NOT wind up as a feature film on Mystery Science Theater 3000? Best Brains really fumbled the ball with this one.
WARNING:
The following contains Spoilers!
(not really; the movie is pretty much spoiled on its own... no way that I could 'ruin' it anymore than the director did, himself.)
I liked how NASA was comprised of 3 scientists, 2 gate guards and 1 general working in a tiny little room.
And why did they have those giant pipe valves on the computers (and at shin-level? Ouch!)
Oh, and how about how quickly you can fly from high orbit above the Earth, to Venus, and back in less than a day! Took a lot longer for "First Space Ship On Venus," as I recall.
There were a few more points that I wanted to make, but my head hurts from watching it, so I'm going to go lay down for a while. Maybe the pain will go away as the film recedes back into the black, spiraly vortex of my memory. I can only hope, anyway.
Don't ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
- Fleetwood Mac, "Oh Well"