Would You Still Be a Science Fiction Fan?
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I can watch the original Frankenstein and Wolfman movies, but the blood sucking Dracula Bela Lugosi just freaks me out.
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Amaris
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Yes indeed. ♥
Same. I do not like horror films. Granted, there are a few exceptions, but for the most part I do not like them, and that goes double for modern horror films.I can watch the original Frankenstein and Wolfman movies, but the blood sucking Dracula Bela Lugosi just freaks me out.
Here he is. I forgot there is also a talking frog in Tubby the Tuba.
Yup. Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman models.
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C57D
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Yeah and for me it was also the Aurora Tarantula, Voyage to the bottom of the sea Minisub, Land of the Giants Spindrift and the ship from the (can't remember the name of the) film about being miniaturised and put in a human body to repair a brain clot. Fantastic Voyage - maybe ??
Yep, Fantastic Voyage.
And I remember building a model of the cyclops from LOST IN SPACE, too.
I rewatched When Worlds Colide recently. It's held up really well, and I am amazed that it's never been remade...though 2012 with John Cusack is really similar in a way.
Whilst one can never say for definite, I would likely say es, but then again being a Brit we did have one Sci-Fi TV show on hat was on when I was gorwing up Doctor Who. Not to mention on the Beebs sister channel we had shows like Star Trek, Buck Rogers etc.. in re-runs.
Here he is. I forgot there is also a talking frog in Tubby the Tuba.
Is he related to Freddie the Flute?
I think so.
See also The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao, which is another personal favorite. The Time Machine is probably my very favorite Pal movie, though.
We should also mention Jack Arnold: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarantula, The Monolith Monsters, It Came from Outer Space, etc. Those movies were also playing constantly on TV around the same time as Star Trek.
...and George Pal's Conquest of Space (1955).
Before I watched The Green Slime the first time I thought that it would be really lame, but it was actually pretty good.
I remember watching Tomorrow's people and Blake's 7 as a child. I had no idea what was going on but still enjoyed it. The same with Star Trek reruns. I liked the Hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy as a teen. read the book and watched the BBC series.
(I was a 70's child and an 80's teen)
(I was a 70's child and an 80's teen)
Interesting fact: one of the co-scriptors of that film was the (only recently credited) Batman co-creator Bill Finger.
I have no idea when I became a science fiction fan but I think it's safe to say that I would have become a fan even if TOS had never existed. As a kid in the 70s, I enjoyed Star Trek and Lost in Space in re-run and the Planet of the Apes movies. Later in the 70s, it was Star Wars. I fondly remember the Buck Rogers TV show and the Flash Gordon cartoon as well as movies like Logan's Run and The Omega Man. Around the same time, I started watching Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits. I never really got into science fiction literature though. I was more predisposed to to fantasy novels.
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