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Classic low-budget science-fiction, fantasy & horror films that you like?

Redfern said:
Was "Colossus: the Forbin Project" the first time we heard what is now considered the "Cylon" voice?
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If you mean a voice filtered through a vocoder, that effect was used 3 years before Colossus in the theme song to Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. A similar effect was used to create Cyberman voices in Doctor Who episodes from 1966-69, although it involved placing a device in the mouth to generate a pure tone that the actors would modulate with their lips and tongues like normal speech.
 
That's one Gerry Anderson series I've not yet had the opportunity to watch in earnest, so I'll take your word on that. As for the Cybermen, I'm guessing you may be speaking of "Tomb of the Cybermen" in particular? Meh, it's arguably similar, but certainly not an exact match, not to my ear, at least, especially since it involved a very different technique.
 
Yes, I know it's not the exact same technique, which is why I said "A similar effect was used" and then went on to explain how it was different.
 
If it was made in the 50s, is black & white, and has either atomic mutated monsters or UFOs, I love it. I've got a collection of them. :)
 
Irwin Allen's City Beneath The Sea (1971) complete with re-used Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Flying Sub.
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Galileo7 said:
Irwin Allen's City Beneath The Sea (1971) complete with re-used Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea Flying Sub.
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I always liked that movie - but to be fair; it was a TV movie, and WRT TV budgets at the time, wasn't 'low budget'. :)

It's why I didn't mention "Colossus: The Forbin Project" as it two wasn't 'low budget for its day. I was just getting into the computer field when it was released and one thing that's always impressed me about it was that the way they were showing people interfacing with it prior to it 'gaining sentience' and joining with/taking over the USSRs 'Guardian' was very accurate for its day.
 
Noname Given said:
I always liked that movie - but to be fair; it was a TV movie, and WRT TV budgets at the time, wasn't 'low budget'. :)

It's why I didn't mention "Colossus: The Forbin Project" as it two wasn't 'low budget for its day. I was just getting into the computer field when it was released and one thing that's always impressed me about it was that the way they were showing people interfacing with it prior to it 'gaining sentience' and joining with/taking over the USSRs 'Guardian' was very accurate for its day.
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DUEL was also TV movie so CITY BENEATH THE SEA fits the criteria.:biggrin:
 
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Getting to borrow DEC equipment in return for displaying the DEC logo was, if I remember correctly, huge for getting Colossus made, keeping it low(er) budget. Picked this up somewhere in James P. Hogan, who worked for DEC before going full-time, I think.
 
Admiral2 said:
How did all of you miss this one:
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It's even got Cap'n Jellico in it!
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I swear that Bender's car form in the Futurama episode where he becomes a werecar looks like the car in that.
 
Awesome Possum said:
Krull.
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That was anything but a low-budget movie. Per Wikipedia, "The film's huge budget ballooned mainly due to the designers having to make numerous alterations to the sets corresponding to the heavily evolving script." It cost $30 million dollars, almost as much as Return of the Jedi in the same year, but it made back barely over half that at the box office, so it was a huge flop.
 
The Ultimate Warrior (1975) staring Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow and William Smith.
Set in the then future 2012 in a New York devastated by disease, pollution and starvation.
I've read critics reviews that have dubbed it the 'First Kung-Fu Science Fiction Film' and 'Mad Max before 'Mad Max'.
I don't know about the 'Mad Max' part; there were lots of movies prior to 'Mad Max' about a lone stranger coming into town, trying to save everybody.
If anything, it feels more like a Western with Yul Brynner playing a variation of 'Chris' from 'The Magnificent Seven'.
Also, Yul Brynner is remarkably fit for 55 years old when this movie was filmed.
 
Admiral2 said:
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It's even got Cap'n Jellico in it!
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I have that movie on DVD. I remember watching it on television back in the day. I find that movie oddly compelling for some reason. I think that the cemetery scene was longer in the broadcast version. The Car was also designed by George Barris who did the Batmobile and the Munster Koach.
 
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