name of old sf movie- invisible monster??
bori...@my-deja.com
people who find some EGGS in the desert.
They hatch and an invisible monster starts attacking them.
Regards Adrian gib...@bigpond.com.au
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Michael Martinez
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>Would anyone know the name of and old 50/60's movie about these
>people who find some EGGS in the desert.
>They hatch and an invisible monster starts attacking them.
Was it set in Mexico?
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bori...@my-deja.com
Not sure where it was set.
Desert somewhere. At one time they were in a canvas covered truck
and it was ripping holes init, and you would see footsteps in the
sand appear( typical cheap special effects)
In the end they sprayed it with paint or powder.
Just wanted to find the name to see if If I could get on Video.
Regards Adrian.
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Michael Martinez
>Michael
>Not sure where it was set.
>Desert somewhere. At one time they were in a canvas covered truck
>and it was ripping holes init, and you would see footsteps in the
>sand appear( typical cheap special effects)
>In the end they sprayed it with paint or powder.
>Just wanted to find the name to see if If I could get on Video.
>Regards Adrian.
Unfortunately, the kind of movie you're describing probably was made during
the 1950s, and back then the B studios churned out lookalike movies pretty
fast. We used to watch them late at night on television in the 1970s. The
most popular motif was probably the post-holocaust story where a gangster
and his girlfriend and some Handsome Young Stranger showed up in a remote
valley where a retired US Navy Veteran and his Lovely Daughter had holed up
during the war. The Lovely Daughter was waiting for her fiance (named
"David" in two of the films) to join them.
Of course, "David" turns out to be a radiation-mutated monster no longer
capable of speaking, the gangster gets the hots for the Lovely Daughter and
kills his girlfriend when she realizes what he's up to, "David" kills the
gangster, and Dad usually gets wounded (sometimes mortally) in the process.
And they're all afraid of the rain, because they think it will bring down
the radiation, but when the rain finally comes it's "pure" water and it
acts like acid on all the mutated creatures. :)
Anyway, I have seen a movie like the one you describe, but don't remember
the title and have been unable to find any references to it on the Web. I
have had the impression it was set in the Mexican or southwestern US
desert, but I could be completely mistaken on that point. There was a maid
or housekeeper (perhaps named Maria) who was Mexican. She goes outside at
night to do something (maybe bring in clothes from the clothesline) and
senses the monster. It's running around the yard leaving footprints and
the Clueless Caucasians inside can't do anything but argue, smoke
cigarettes, and load rifles.
The closest plot summary I ran across was for a movie set in Greece called
"El Sonido prehistorico" (made in 1964). The English title was "The
Prehistoric Sound". Also called "Sound from a Million Years Ago" and "The
Sound of Horror".
Although the movie was made in Spanish, the English titles probably mean it
was dubbed, and there is indeed a character in it named "Maria", although
Calliope is the housekeeper (and if this is the movie, she was probably the
character I was thinking of above).
The cast credits I found on the IMDB (which is HIGHLY unreliable) are:
James Philbrook Dr. Asilov
Arturo Fernández Pete
Soledad Miranda Maria
José Bódalo Mr. Dorman
Antonio Casas Andre
Ingrid Pitt Sofia Minelli
Lola Gaos Calliope, the housekeeper
Francisco Piquer Stravos
Steve Cross
>
>Not sure where it was set.
>Desert somewhere. At one time they were in a canvas covered truck
>and it was ripping holes init, and you would see footsteps in the
>sand appear( typical cheap special effects)
>In the end they sprayed it with paint or powder.
>Just wanted to find the name to see if If I could get on Video.
>Regards Adrian.
Once on TV about 1965 or so, I saw a BW movie called "Kaltiki, the Invisible
Monster." The climax is in a cave. It is set in Mexico, and at one point the
Mexican army attacks the monster, without success.. I don't remember how it
ended. Maybe they did throw paint on it. I dunno.
Steve Cross
Stephen DeMay
Michael Martinez
>How did you research plot. I would really like to know. Stephen
I partially answered this in email, but I'll post a more complete response
here.
Although I usually disdain the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/)
because so much of the information there is erroneous and unverified, it was,
unfortunately, the only resource I knew of which would let me search for
movies by plot.
Using the plot search, I worked with collections of key words like "desert"
"invisible", "monster" "invisible", "creature" "desert", etc. and scanned the
list of results for movies which looked like they might be what I was looking
for.
Eventually, I came up with a handful of movies and went back and read the plot
descriptions in detail. Eventually I decided the "Sound from a million years
ago" title (I'm recalling this from memory, not replicating the search)
sounded familiar and since it was in English I figured it must have been the
movie I had seen years ago.
Stephen DeMay
happen frequently with WEBTV SD
John Frearson
Regarding the old B movie referred to at the top of this thread (eggs in desert, invisible monster on the truck roof etc) did anyone fond anything definitive about the movie?
Cheers
John