Note too, that most dinosaur films that didn't involve modern man, almost always featured cavemen. Lightning quick tongues forked at the tip zapped out and almost surely wrapped around someone's leg trying to pull them in. These Iguanas came with studio fins, custom colors, and a variety of miniature sets to trample upon. Dinosaurs were likewise great in the sense that they were almost always Iguana lizards with studio makeup. Spiders, grasshoppers, ants, and even a praying mantis became living legends on backdrop screens which enlarged them to the size of houses and buildings. Rarely did they ever act on their own without being enlarged by mankind through nefarious methods and dark research with-dare I say it again-atomic power. Insects were always the best subjects when it came to horror and sci-fi. "X" is one very stylish and creepy movie, and I loved it when I first saw it in 1963.
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One such movie was "X, the Unknown" where a blob of radioactive mud grows and moves through a small English village melting everything in its path. So what happens when natural catastrophes happen? Who's to stop a mysterious metorite from crashing into the desert and morphing into giant pillars of destructive sillicon-sucking force when rained on? What can you do about a planet like Bellus preparing to destroy the earth? Do we build a giant spaceship to flee to Zyrus in search of an habitable atmosphere and hold a lottery to take the ride? This is what I loved about these wonderful earth catastrophe films, for with just a little research, you could carve out a magnificent plot. Claude Rains was always a standout, but his voice overs brought about new clarity, and nobody could say "You fools!" like he. Those special effects were great, and his madness was excellent as it morphed into a vicious sense of humor once his invisible secret became known to all. One of my favorite mad scientists of all time was Griffin from "The Invisible Man". After all, what harm could it possibly do? Mad scientists were largely responsible for the world's mishaps, and usually had an "awakening" toward the movie's end as to just what they've "unleashed upon the world and mankind." I say let 'em make giant spiders, let 'em turn themselves into flies, let 'em create master races that terrorize towns. Yet, had it not been for these loveable whackos, we wouldn't have had those great plot engines, and Hollywood would have been short a few miles of real estate. Many times we have heard characters say things like "He's been messing around with atomic energy" or, "Who knows what he's unleashed in that laboratory" Concurrent themes such as mad scientists squirreled away in their laboraties carrying on secret experiments behind locked doors were the pyramidical food chain of the classic sci-fi genre. (There were also a few who were in it for themselves).
Someone always had to be messing with atomic energy, and there was always one guy who thought he had the world's problems solved. Were another factor into the nuclear-atomic theorem.
So, let us dive further into atomic radiation with. Most of these classics (particularly the American International Pictures releases) were so bad they were good! Insects, slithering creepy crawlies, and, every now and then, people got the star billing in these films that bookmarked the chapter of black and white horror and sci-fi into our young brains. Each one of these little "ium's" had there own part to play in the nuclear fission that became a cheap plot for even cheaper movies. There was radium, uranium, plutonium, and probably more that I can't think of right now. My monstercabulary was upped to new levels with words ending in "ium".
If it was "atomic", it either came from space, or was headed there. When I was a kid, the word "atomic" always sounded like outer space, and that's how I acquainted it. Mutant ants, giant scorpions, mega-lizards and leviathan leeches can all be chalked up to good ol' atomic radiation. In fact, if you were a kid about eight or nine years old in the 60's, you've probably come to embrace the words "Atomic radiation" with a high degree of trepidation. For most families, atomic radiation was still a grand mystery, and its powers seemed to be capable of anything, therefore, anything was possible. "Who knows what he's unleashed in that laboratory!"Ītomic radiation out of control was usually the catalyst for many of Hollywood's greatest monsters, earth changes, or supernatural entities.
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