Anyone else like old late night creature features?

[sweetviolenturg]

Tonight I watched a triple feature of BUG, FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD & WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS because I couldn't sleep. I do that quite often. Stay up very late watching movies until all hours. And, quite often they're old monster movies from my youth. And, the three that I watched tonight were old favorites of mine.
BUG was from 1975 & I saw it at the drive-in with my parents when I was a kid. It's the old thriller about a strange species of roach that spills out of the earth after a quake & the carnage that they cause because they're able to start fires. There are several grim set pieces of folks being burned alive by the nasty critters but perhaps the most disturbing scene is when they first come out of the crevasse & attack a cat. It bugged me as a kid ( no pun intended ) & the scene is still just as effective 40 some odd years later.
FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD is the 1965 Japanese film featuring a giant Frankenstein's monster because... well, why not? LOL. And, GARGANTUAS is the 1966 sequel to FRANKENSTEIN in which the monster's twin offspring run amok across Japan battling one another. Both films were two of my absolute favorite monster movies. Even more so than Godzilla's many exploits in his movies.
I don't always watch old creature features when I stay up into the wee hours like this. On other occasions, I watch more modern horror films or Asian action films whatever I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I even mix & match the genres. Anything to occupy my eyes & my brain usually while I'm also here on Sherdog & elsewhere on the web in order to placate my ADD. Some might hate dealing with ADD & insomnia like I do but I make it entertaining for myself.

 

[Phr3121]

Anyone else like old late night creature features?

Indeed. Those that involve creatures of this kind...

 

[Phr3121]

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I rarely go back further than the 70's these days but I've never seen Bug, I'll be adding that to my list.

I like creature features, I watched Piranha just last night. Alligator is another of my favorite movies.
I do love a Bigfoot movie though, Creature From Black Lake, Boggy Creek, Sasquatch, Snow Beast, Legend Of Bigfoot etc.
Grizzly 1 and 2 as well, these are the sort of movies I watch late at night to fall asleep to.
Either that or real slow burning haunted house movies like Changling, Legend of Hell House, Burnt Offerings, Let's Scare Jessica etc etc

 

[I am your real dad]

Yes

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I actually watched The Blob just the other night with a group of friends.
Genuine tension built throughout the film until that famous scene in the theater.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I actually watched The Blob just the other night with a group of friends.
Genuine tension built throughout the film until that famous scene in the theater.

I love both versions of that movie

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I love both versions of that movie

Never seen the late 80's (?) one

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Never seen the late 80's (?) one

It's decent enough, little extra gore, tongue firmly in cheek, just what you'd expect from an 80's remake really

 

[sweetviolenturg]

I rarely go back further than the 70's these days but I've never seen Bug, I'll be adding that to my list.

I like creature features, I watched Piranha just last night. Alligator is another of my favorite movies.
I do love a Bigfoot movie though, Creature From Black Lake, Boggy Creek, Sasquatch, Snow Beast, Legend Of Bigfoot etc.
Grizzly 1 and 2 as well, these are the sort of movies I watch late at night to fall asleep to.
Either that or real slow burning haunted house movies like Changling, Legend of Hell House, Burnt Offerings, Let's Scare Jessica etc etc

I just watched THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE & LETS SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH as a double feature one night last week courtesy of my Shudder subscription.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

It's decent enough, little extra gore, tongue firmly in cheek, just what you'd expect from an 80's remake really

And if you make a serious film remake of The Blob it's wrong.
Needs tongue in cheek. But a little extra gore probably sells the monster better as a threat.
We just couldn't find the original horrific, or scary, at all.
It was quaint and almost adorable.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I just watched THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE & LETS SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH as a double feature one night last week courtesy of my Shudder subscription.

What did you think of them? Both have a nice atmosphere to them, I think I may have slept through the end of Jessica though, I can't remember what happened

 

[hillelslovak87]

Indeed. Those that involve creatures of this kind...

wood tie to radiator.

 

[hillelslovak87]

And if you make a serious film remake of The Blob it's wrong.
Needs tongue in cheek. But a little extra gore probably sells the monster better as a threat.
We just couldn't find the original horrific, or scary, at all.
It was quaint and almost adorable.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

What did you think of them? Both have a nice atmosphere to them, I think I may have slept through the end of Jessica though, I can't remember what happened

Well, with JESSICA the entire film is so dream-like that even if you didn't fall asleep during it you'll feel like you did. It has a very ambiguous ending with Jessica floating in the boat seeing dead people? ghosts? vampires? floating in the water alongside her.
I love the movies atmosphere but a clear plotline it doesn't have.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Well, with JESSICA the entire film is so dream-like that even if you didn't fall asleep during it you'll feel like you did. It has a very ambiguous ending with Jessica floating in the boat seeing dead people? ghosts? vampires? floating in the water alongside her.
I love the movies atmosphere but a clear plotline it doesn't have.

Jeez I definitely drifter off then, I don't recall that at all! I'll have to revisit one day.

Have you ever seen Robert Altman's Images? That's a trip of a movie

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Jeez I definitely drifter off then, I don't recall that at all! I'll have to revisit one day.

Have you ever seen Robert Altman's Images? That's a trip of a movie

No, I've never seen it. I'll keep an eye out for it in the future though.

 

[neverwas]

im starting to think that @sweetviolenturg is, in fact, me! the bit of BUG that got to me was bradford dillman trying to explode the roaches in the pressure chamber. i also love the old horror films,im a complete mark for creature features, love creature from the black lagoon to the point of getting a 3d version.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

im starting to think that @sweetviolenturg is, in fact, me! the bit of BUG that got to me was bradford dillman trying to explode the roaches in the pressure chamber. i also love the old horror films,im a complete mark for creature features, love creature from the black lagoon to the point of getting a 3d version.

Judging by your avatar we may, in fact, be doppelgangers of a sort because I've got a cat that I named Harley Quinn. LOL.
And, yes, as stated in my original post here, I love all things horror & monster from the old to the new. I have since I was a little kid of about five-years-old & I saw Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY for the first time.
I'm looking forward to talking to you more in the future. Peace.

 

[Plissken]

Yes, and horror hosts and horror/sci-fi themed nights. Monstervision, USA Saturday Nightmares, USA Up All Night, AMC and TMC themed late night shows, etc. When local channels and Superstations were all that was on aside from cable those networks used to show cool monster, kung fu, and Three Stooges marathons on Friday Nights, and Saturday and Sunday afternoons.