1960s Science Fiction Movies You Should See
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- For a time when technology limited what could be done with special effects, the 1960s produced a whole lot of really interesting genre films. They weren't really the big budget tent-pole blockbusters of their time, but they punched well above their weight when it came to ideas and story.
So what are your favourite hidden gems of 1960s science fiction cinema? Let me know in the comments.
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I am trying to find out a title sic for movie a space opera I only saw a few opening scenes what I remember is a fleet spaceships flying in formation 1 malfunctions crash land on a jungle planet 1 survivor rescue ship land 20 years later if I remember it right the ship were flying Soviet types it was in color any help to find the title would be a great thanhs
Anyone able to help out?
Sounds like "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" ('66) with John Agar. Not to be confused with "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" (68), with Mamie Van Doren & lots of footage from the great '50's Russian film "Planet of Storms".
You put too much contradictory info in, what is Soviet style, and a malfunction? I thought maybe Enemy Mine. But it wasn't a malfunction and I don't get the Soviet reference... It's the only one I remember with a ship being stranded for years and a rescue, but that was two different ships from either side of a war.
Finally got to see Soylent Green a few months ago. Edward G. Robinson's final performance. Knowing he was dying in real life, EGR accepted the role where he was dying at the end. That was commitment, and a great movie.
EGR was a fine actor and an art collector.
That scene made me cry all the more because of him.
And it is not ruined by the Simpson's where Abe goes to a suicide parlor and asks to listen to big band music to images of police beating up hippies.
It is great and what I thought was forgotten until a comedian mentioned it recently. "Soylent Green, it's people!" "Yeah we know, we're trying to go vegan"
Robinson was originally going to play Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes and Charlton Heston went as far as filming a makeup test scene with him. But Robinson’s doctors overruled him and he had to drop out
WOOT! Happy to see Quartermass in the list.
It was a TV series rather than a movie, but you really have to talk about "The Prisoner" when exploring this genre...
There's a chance of that. Adding it to the list.
I AM NOT A NUMBER -- I AM A FREE MAN!
"Fahrenheit 451," "Fantastic Voyage," "The Planet of The Apes," and "The Time Machine" (1960)
I would add "Crack In The World, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Island Of The Burning Doomed (Night Of The Big Heat)."
In the description under the video, it says these aren't the "really big budget tent-pole blockbusters" so they are forgiven for these omissions.
Yeah i feel your list is much better lol
@@jacquesjtheripper5922 -- Thank you.
TIME TRAVELERS was pretty good !
Being in the USA I saw "Quatermass and the Pit" as Five Million Years to Earth. It's one of my favorite Science Fiction films, right up their with "The Power", "Forbidden Planet" and "This Island Earth." The British seem to always take Science Fiction more seriously and aim their productions at people who are adults. The US productions seem to be aimed at very young children, for the most part. The Power hardly ever gets a mention, yet Michael Rennie is one of the most interesting villains in this film. "Island of Terror" is another little mentioned film, but it may be ranked more as a horror film.
I didn't like Privilege at all. I did like "Secret of the Telegian", "Atragon", as well as "The Attack of the Mushroom People" also in the 60s. There is also, "Ikarie XB-1", "The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", and "The Flesh Eaters", and "The Night Caller From Outer Space" which featured Michael Cain's first wife.
One of the early well presented robots was in "Planeta Bur" which Roger Corman apparently purchased rights to and used parts in two rather bad films. Ikarie XB-1, Voyage to the End of the Universe, and Planeta Bur represent a more serious tone of science fiction than most.
To this day, I find Quatermass and the Pit one of the most existentially frightening sci-fi movies I have seen. It's slow, atmospheric, and has an almost Lovecraftian vibe while still being quintessentially 60s "British".
Yep, it builds the reveals and the tension extremely well.
It was very good and suspenseful...until they brought out the giant grasshoppers! 😆
@@whiskeyvictor5703 I don't know. I think they worked rather well.
@@jaimeosbourn3616 The tagline for the movie should have been SOMETHING EVIL HAS COME OUT OF HOB'S END!! 😁
@@whiskeyvictor5703 Bit lengthy. Plus 5 million years to Earth has a nice ring.
A video with some new movies on it and not the same movies everyone else talks about in endless videos. Thank you.
Colossus: The Forbin Project - One of the movies that shaped modern sci fi.
Which came out in 1970
@@terrytalksmovies Yes, but people forget that the period known as the sixties, didn't hit it's peak until about 1973.
@@Agorante By definition the 60s was the period from Jan 1 1960 to Dec 31 1969. Of course you as the "expert" can have a different opinion but we will not oblige, OK?
@@XwpisONOMA
You sir, do not have much feeling for language. I also doubt that you personally experienced this period. If you had you would understand exactly what I meant.
@@XwpisONOMA Here in the States, the Viet Nam war is one of the big definers of the 1960s decade. That war pretty much ended in '72, though the clean up lasted till '75. I think a nice healthy "average" would be '73. Also, the music, which was largely folk rock, protest rock, and the like until approx. '73, whereupon it changed to stadium rock like Queen, Heart, Rush, ACDC, Black Sabbath, etc.
Get ready to have your mind blown, xwpic, ovuha. The 1980s actually started in '79, with New Wave music. If you think about it, New Wave defines the '80s better than anything. Yes, the first overtures of Punk were heard in the mid-70s, but punk didn't really get going till about 1979.
I've always loved "The Time Travelers" and "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" and, oh yes, "The Wizards of Mars."
The list of 7:
0:11 The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
2:25 La Decima Vittima (1965)
4:21 Barbarella (1968)
6:44 The Power (1968)
8:34 Alphaville (1965)
10:18 Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
12:10 Privilege (1967)
I saw Quatermass and the Pit as a child in the 70s, it scared the crap out of me. Great sci-fi.
It is. Nigel Kneale was a he'll of a writer.
I saw it in the 70's too and it really really scared the crap out of me - I was staying at my Grandmother's place in the Australian countryside which made it even scarier being a city boy and normally I would sleep in the outside bungalow but I was on the couch that night petrified
I saw all of these when they aired on US television, but they were only shown once, sadly.
I saw it as a kid but really wasn't able to properly understand or appreciate it. Now many decades later, I enjoy it.
Yeah, I obviously knew Quatermass as "Five Million years to Earth" in the U.S., and I swear one of my local channels showed it twice a year in the 1970s, at least. It was weird as hell but I must have watched it more than a dozen times when i was a kid.
I quite agree. Just remember, the original television series had virtually the same plot but was ten years earlier. It was, and still is, groundbreaking, taking science fiction from a spaceman version of cowboys and Indians to real science. Without Quatermass, sci-fi would still be b-movie Flash Gordon!!!
Saw this as a kid and it scared the s**t out of me. Loved it.
I’ve seen both versions, but I like the u.s. version better.
If ever a sci fi flick needed to be remade with modern CGI effects it should be Quatermass and the Pit. The whole concept of the story is brilliant and outshines any of the more recent rubbish like Arrival or Prometheus.
One of the Best Sci-Fi movies of the 1960's was Fantastic Voyage. It is right up there with movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes.
They were all popular films, but were they the best?
I like it more than those two movies.
Don't remember any nudity in Barbarella, just a teasing frustrating striptease, it was just a really boring colourful surreal spectacle.
We do have something in common - our love of Hammer films. This one is brilliant, the way the spacecraft is slowly uncovered and the tension just goes on building. Great!
I thought Quatermass And The Pit was pretty scary because of the idea of an ancient terror from the past invading the present time.
Very happy to see Quatermass get some love.
He's a really interesting character. I also like Andre Morell's iteration in the BBC mini-series. Always liked Morell as an actor. I think Hammer is planning a reboot as well.
"The Satan Bug" (1965); some can say is more a thriller than science fiction, but it combines both genres. Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack will sound ages in your mind!
Good film. I like John Sturges and George Maharis.
@@terrytalksmovies agreed! a good film to watch during a pandemic!
In terms of fun, mod 60s style, I would add Wild Wild Planet, The Green Slime, Zeta One, and Moon Zero Two.
I really liked British Science Fiction
such as Dr. Who, Blake's 7, and Red
Dwarf along with Arthur Dent in the
Hitchhikkers Guide to the Galaxy, along
with the Quattermass stories. I have
seen 5 Million Years to Earth several
times over the years, which seems to be
appropriate now with humanity's push
to go to Mars.
Yep. What could possibly go wrong with crazy billionaires going to Mars?
Mario Bava's "Planet Of The Vampires" from 1965. The cinematography is a beautiful example of an artist working within the limitations of the era and there are elements of the narrative that would inform later classics like "Alien" and "Event Horizon".
I’ve seen this and it is get.
Right! Must see Eye-Tie Sy-Fy
The original title, and the one it had when I first saw it was far more appropriate as there are no vampires in this film. The original title was "Demon Planet." And it was a precursor with the chest bursting idea long before that device was used in Alien. Alien was based, in theory, on two different A.E. Van Vogt stories.
Demon Planet was certainly one of the most stylish Science Fiction films and it's twist ending was very typical of that period of time as well.
@@technocrat4613 Planet of blood 1966 is even closer to the alien vibe with an eerie female space vampire murdering the crew of a spaceship returning to earth.
Another one would be the last man on earth with Vincent price.an low budget Italian made cover of Richard mathesons I am legend.pretty faithful to the book.
Five Million Years to Earth is one of my top 10 Sci-Fi movies. The plot is never rushed but slowly unfolds and builds. In may ways it reminds me a of a mixture of Sci-Fi and Film Noir. The acting is superb.
Yeo, the escalation is well handled to keep the audience engaged.
4am and im loving this. thanks random guy
I like your choice of Creation of the Humanoids. Some fascinating ideas in it.
Definitely. It's also surprisingly rewatchable, too.
Plus it also has Dudley Manlove, the alien from Plan 9 who uttered the great cinematic line "Because all you of Earth are idiots!". No truer words have ever been spoken .
The image at 2:48 is the amazing original Pennsylvania Station, as it is being torn down. The scale boggles the mind.
I recently watched all of the Quatermi, and it was a very rewarding experience.
It's nice to binge sometimes. Glad you enjoyed them.
Wow! I hadn't thought about 'The Power' in years. And, yes, it was very trippy and the music was truly haunting.
My top favorite science-fiction films of the 1960s
1. The Time Machine (1960)
2. The Planet of the Apes (1968)
3. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
4. The Day of the Triffids (1962)
5. Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
6. Mysterious Island (1961)
7. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
8. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
10. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
11. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
12. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
13. Village of the Damned (1960)
14. X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963)
15. Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
16. The Illustrated Man (1969)
17. Crack in the World (1965)
18. Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)
19. Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
20. They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
21. The Terrornauts (1967)
Great list.
@@terrytalksmovies I forgot to add one more film to the list.
First Men in the Moon (1964)
Thank you. Smile! :)
An IMDB list for sure. Think I'll look at Terry's more eclectic choices.
@@fredkelly6953 Eclectic should be my middle name.
I wish more of these were streaming, especially Alphaville. I just discovered your channel and I'm making lists. Thanks for giving me some new ideas!
My pleasure.
Mea culpa. Only just discovered this list. Don't know how I missed it on my first troll through your videos. Enjoyed it immensely.
Thanks 😀
I actually watched "Quatermass and the pit (1967)" on tv in the early 70s when I was young, but never knew the name of it. So, thanks. Still freaks me out.
Time for a rewatch. 😀
What about John Frankenheimer's 'Seconds'? Considered part of his Paranoia trilogy (The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May and Seconds). Seconds concepts of body exchange, transplantation, cosmetic surgery etc are freakily of the now, a genius movie and certainly Rock Hudson's finest performance.
Good pick!
@@terrytalksmovies I'm loving your channel Terry, reminding me of loads of things I watched as a kid in the 70's and 80's. Loved the Dr Phibes video, I'm trying to find 'Theatre of Blood' (Vincent Price and Diana Riggings) Shakespearean Actor and daughter murder his critics in deaths from Shakespeare's Tragedies. Thanks Mate for some boredom breaking.
@@Cynicalian zavvi.com.au have Theatre Of Blood. The price is okay, too.
Quatermass & the Pit is among my three favorite Hammer, and I feel like I got something new out of the movie at least the first four times that I watched it. I've been a fan since I first saw Five Million Years to Earth on The CBS Sunday Night Movie years ago. Would it be fair to assume that, like me, you prefer the Five Million Years to Earth poster to the Quatermass and the Pit poster? "Leaping. Leaping into the skies!"
I didn't know the Great Tyrant was voiced by Joan Greenwood. I am obsessed with her voice. I love her in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Also in The Man In The White Suit.
@@terrytalksmovies Yes. The Man in the White suit is Science fiction masquerading as something else. I love it.
I LOVED Barbarella!! Esp the poor angel
Shout out to: Village of the Damned; Day the Earth Caught Fire; Robinson Crusoe on Mars and First Men on the Moon.
Absolutely. Maybe they don't have that, er, "groovy vibe" that the commentator was casting upon the entire decade.
The "Midwich Cuckoos" was a significant novel and was made into Village of the Damned. Barbara Shelley, is as always, a joy to watch. The sequel was terrible though. The image of the white haired and their irises turning white to indicate they were using their psychic powers was always thrilling. The remake of this film, was horrible though.
@@technocrat4613 I disagree about the sequel, children, village is the better film but children is very entertaining with always dependable good acting by British actors. Just my take.
Valley of the Gwangi was Harryhausen's masterpiece IMO. Some of his most painstaking animation went into meshing Gwangi with the live actors on horseback.
The detail work surprised me even when I saw it as a kid. At that age it looked totally believable.
The 10th Victim and Barbarella.. Andress vs. Fonda, nice doublebill that.
True. Both fun, funny movies.
I’d add “Icarus-XB1”, directed by Jindrich Polak, a really interesting take on the day to day of a pioneering crew going to explore a new planet, and “Je t’aime, je t’aime” a total mind blowing exploration of time travel and its potential consequences by the incomparable Alain Resnais. If you include medical sci-fi in your lists, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1966 “The Face of Another” is a great film.
Ikari is good, too. There's so much forgotten groovy 1960s science fiction that needs revisiting.
Icari-XB1 is terrific fun and feels like a precursor to Star trek (multi-generational gendered crew on a ship simply to explore) and each third of the film feels like a separate chapter...like episodes, but they do build on each other and the story veers between whimsy, melancholy and horror, and has some exceptional style and cinematography/editing. original story by Stanislav (Solaris) Lem but not sure how close it is to the book/story.
thanks for directing me towards the Resnais film- definitely gotta find that. sounds very "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Thanks for this trip down memory lane. Never saw Privilege or The Power, but will try to find them. The others were staples for my brother and me growing up. I had forgotten about The 10th Victim. Great movie. Reminded me of Rollerball.
You might find The Power on tubi.tv if it's available where you are. I'm glad you liked the video.
Hmm... just caught a glimpse of the repurposed leather spacesuits from planet of the vampires.
Good spotting. We interviewed the designer of those costumes back about 25-ish years ago. He still had the costumes, and related stories about their design. I wish I'd asked about other films he was involved with.
Quatermass and the Pit: yes!
Saw Barbarella and the Green Berets in an outdoor theater double header. lol ... my mother was hoot trying to tactfully block my view all the while grumbling about Jane.
The Power, I had all but forgotten about that movie. Could only remember some bits and pieces of it, so thanks for the mention of it.
The Green Berets is a much more damaging movie than Barbarells IMHO. You should try to find The Power, it's interesting.
@@terrytalksmovies can't argue on the the damage factor but in 1969, well, as you probably know, things where a bit different. Yes, I'd like to find The Power and revisit it.
I love the idea of a 1960s John Wayne/Jane Fonda double bill.
Quatermass was decades ahead of its time. When two scientists accept that Martians interfered in human development to colonize Earth by proxy:
Quatermass: "What if we realized that our civilization was doomed, perhaps through climate change, what would we do?"
Ronay: "Nothing. We'd just go on squabbling as always."
Yep Nigel Kneale was brilliant.
To add to this must watch quirky list:
Planet of Vampires. Just for the minimal budget extravaganza this film is. Truly stunning what Bava accomplished.
Panic in Year Zero. A nuclear war movie that is actually well done and very enjoyable.
Quatermass and the Pit (5M miles to Earth in USA) - I saw this when I was very young in the UK. Parents were not sure i should watch it but they had a few bottles of wine in them so I did. I had serious nightmares. It is a brilliant movie. And some of the others here look fantastic, gonna check them out. Great list. tx.
My pleasure.
The Power, Alphaville and Quatermass and the Pit are three of my favorite SF films of all time. I actually wrote a book on Quatermass! I love Quatermass! :)
So do I. Except Brian Donlevy who was a shouty mess.
@@terrytalksmovies Yes, he was a casting decision which upset Nigel Kneale and many of the fans. Has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Duuuude, you really know your shit! I thought I knew mine, but you're recommending films I've never even heard of! That makes me so damned happy. Now, to track them down!
High compliment indeed. Thanks!
Thanks, man. Very much appreciate your insights and point of view.
I'm so enjoying your postings, sir.
My pleasure. 😀
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) was an absolute delight. For a low budget feature it was amazing. It was an interesting prediction of the singularity-a fusion of machine and the essence of humanity. The fears of human extinction was a sentiment expressed in the plot a well. The prejudices in the form of fear embodied in the anti-robot faction show an undercurrent of race and race-mixing current at he time. In the climax when the character Greggus finds he is android with a human mind, seems like a KKK member who finds he has black ancestors-though doesn't have African features. That doesn't wouldn't remain a white supremacist, but his thinking would had to change. Too bad it couldn't be re-made today.
It could be remade today. Look at "I Robot", Detective Spooner, what if he learned at some point it wasn't just some of him that was mechanical. He might not have had the same reacton as Greggus.
Awesome video! There are a couple here I still need to see. Thanks Terry!
Thanks Dave. I'll keep mentioning them if you keep watching them.
Thanks for the recommendation for Creation of the Humanoids. Some corny acting, but great ideas about the human condition still explored in more recent TV shows like Battlestar Galactica and Westworld. Great hidden gem!😊
Thanks 👍😊
The Time Travelers is decent. The scientists eventually get trapped in a time travel positive feedback loop.
"Invasion" (1966), with Yoko Tanni and Edward Judd; the story was re used by the writer for "Spearhead from Space", the Dr Who serial. "Dopplergänger" (1969), a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson movie that is one of those "failure in their time but cult movie today"!
Weird, interesting movie.
Quatermass and the Pit scared me to death the first time I saw it despite me thinking it was a bit amateur, it was when the alien force started taking over the locals that got me lol
It's a wonderful build up to a great ending. Also, the Martians look creepy AF.
The two I’ve seen and definitely worth your while are:
- Alphaville (1965)
- Quatermass and the Pit [Five Million Years to Earth] (1967)
Another I recommend is:
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
It's definitely a fun movie.
It was released in 1956 (and this is a 1960's list), but Forbidden Planet is one of the best sci-fi films in that era of film-making, in my not-so-humble opinion. It seems to have been quite ground-breaking back then with its visual effects. I enjoyed seeing Leslie Nielsen (Yes that Leslie Nielsen - The one from the Naked Gun series) in a dramatic sci-fi role. Also, Robby the Robot became a cultural icon that persists even today in diverse story media.
It's also one of my favourite Shakespeare adaptations.
@@terrytalksmovies Cool. I first saw the movie as a kid and never made that connection when I read Shakespeare in school. Just dumb, I guess. Thanks.
@@OneTrueWord no. I loved FP for years before I found out it was an iteration of The Tempest.
I saw a Robby the Robot toy in the store Christmas 2020. I was astonished that someone still considered it kid-relevant after all this time.
Forbidden Planet had the Walt Disney studios providing the visual effects like the Id monster(which would appear again years later in the animated film Beauty And The Beast), the Krell technology, the laser effects.
I have surprisingly strong views about the value of Barbarella. Pretty tremendous, in my view.
An angel has no memory. 😊
Fabulous list! Cheers!
Great list. QuarterMass and the Pit is in my top 10, I display its DVD case on my media shelves.
Here is a rare one from 1972, ZPG or Zero Population Growth with Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. Dystopian future flick not unlike Logan's Run and Solyent Green. I have never seen Creation of the Humanoids, gonna check it out tonight.
Creation of the Humanoids is a great hidden gem. Enjoy.
@@terrytalksmovies Again, I am struck by how nothing good is new. Have you seen the Animatrix piece Second Renaissance? Animatrix when created was an attempt to fill in some backstory for the Matrix series. Second Renaissance was at least inspired by if not directly copied from Creation of the Humanoids. Looking forward to watching that again with some friends. Thanks.
“Gun bra” and it’s a small step to evil fembots, baby!”
Invasion of the Karens
Matchstalkman Why not Bragun?
I'm trying to imagine how that would even work.
I totally dig QUATERMASS AND THE PIT out of all of these - Hammer's QUATERMASS Trilogy has always been in my Top 100 Favorite Films since childhood - but I'm gonna make some other recommendations (outside of DR. STRANGELOVE, 2001 or PLANET OF THE APES, that is), a couple which are top personal favorites of mine:
- THE TIME MACHINE (1960)
- THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961)
- GORGO (1961)
- X - THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963)
- FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964)
- ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (1964)
I'm amazed that I've seen most of these movies already.
Me, too.
There's a kind of misunderstanding about earlier visual/special effects in motion pictures: It wasn't lack of ability and technology at the time, it was lack of money. Anemic budgets and penny-pinching limited what could be done from a technical/special effects standpoint in pre-Star Wars days. Producers simply did not invest the kind of money that was needed to pull off the effects needed. In fact, most films at the time could be considered to have been done on low budgets, especially SF and fantasy films, since they were considered more "niche" than mainstream. When studios/producers put some muscle into the effects end films like 2001 and FORBIDDEN PLANET delivered the needed punch. Great technology and talents were available, but weren't empowered financially to carry out all the potential that was sitting on the shelf.
Back then CGI stood for 'Can't Get It'.
Duran Duran! I love this movie the soundtrack is sublime
It's a blast!
“Quatermass and the Pit” was one of my all time favorite movies when I was a kid! Now it seems to be on some kind of “Ban” list here in the US… 🙄🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Another of my favorites from the 60’s was “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”. I hope to hear you stalk about that one. 👍
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is fun.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Island of Terror, Village of the Damned, The Gamma People, Quatermass and the Pit, Marooned, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Day of the Triffids, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Fantastic Voyage, Fahrenheit 451, Panic in the Year Zero! , Planet of the Apes, Last Woman on Earth, Last Man on Earth, Night of the Living Dead, Countdown.
Good choices! Thanks for adding to the list.
@@terrytalksmovies someone forgot to add the 1964 British science fiction film The Unearthly Stranger with john Neville. Definitely overlooked, with great black and white photography, solid performances and a tense plot plus great sound effects. You will not be disappointed .
@@randyacuna3248 I have it on blu-ray. Wonderfully creepy.
@@terrytalksmovies you seem to be the only one who has comment on it which tells me many people have not seen it. They don't know what they are missing. Terry, since you reach more people then I and say it's creepy, perhaps you put a deserved plug for this film. Every list of SF films usually ignores this overlooked gem.
I think these nail it in the groovy category. "2001: A Space Odyssey does deserve an honorable mention for it's appeal to those who took a trip of their own while filming.
If you're going to self-medicate, the Monkees' movie Head is a much better option.
@@terrytalksmovies "Planet of the Apes" was another movie with such appeal.
Quarter as and the Pit is a terrifying work of art
It really is.
Interesting list -- I'd forgotten about some of these flicks; another is a B-film I watched awhile ago -- "The Earth Dies Screaming" -- made on a shoestring but quite effective -- they knew how to tell a story back then! Cheers, wsj
The Earth Dies Screaming is great. Dennis Price with dead eyes is creepy AF.
@@terrytalksmovies -- & all in beautiful black & white -- which adds an element of both realism & fear! Cheers, wsj
Thank you for this wonderful list, which has several movies that I never heard of! I have two possible additions, though I am not sure if these films qualify as 'sci-fi': 'Seconds' (starring Rock Hudson), and 'The President's Analyst' (starring James Coburn). Both of these films have at least some sci-fi elements. (In particular, I think 'The Presidents Analyst' is a movie about the Internet long before there was an Internet.)
Both good choices. Seconds I should revisit after the To Be Watched box empties out.
Seconds is one of the best films of the sixties. I agree with your assessment about whether or not it's sci-fi- not really sure one way or another- though I lean toward no, it's not- especially because of the film's core intent.
OMG, someone mentioned "Seconds"!!!!!!! Basically, this awesome film contains the blueprint for how to get people like JFK and Jeff Epstein to do your bidding. Give 'em a sleeping pill, then film them "attacking" a hawt babe (who's actually a paid actress, acting like she's being deflowered), then show them this film, and threaten to release it to the authorities if they don't comply. Can you say "blackmail"? Made by the same director who filmed the original "The Manchurian Candidate."
"Seconds" qualifies as sci-fi because those surgeries were not invented yet. I saw it for the first time in 2019, and it freaked me out! Two thumbs wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up.
The presidents analyst is one of the best films ever made.
@@kevinharkness2108 it is fun but I won't go that far. 🙂
I've always loved "The Power" and "5 Million Miles to Earth".
After looking through the comments, I would add "The Satan Bug". John Sturges directed, based on an Alister Maclean novel. 😎
I love The Satan Bug. I'm a big George Maharis fan.
@@terrytalksmovies There's another one that I watched a few weeks ago here on CZcams. The Bed Sitting Room.
I remember seeing this on TV when I was about 10 or 11, but I couldn't remember the name of it. I finally saw a synopsis on IMDb and knew it was the one I saw. It's REALLY bizarre.
We must be about the same age. I'm 62 and grew up on monster movies. Now I read SF almost constantly.
@@digitalbookworm5678 The Bed Sitting Room is a great satire.
digital, it's Years not Miles.
@@richardcramer1604 Yes it's been at least 35 miles since I've seen it. 😁
I enjoy them all very much
OMG! Check out -Colossus, The Forbidden Project-. One of all my time favorites! I watch it on a regular basis...The themes are more prevalent every year that passes. U know it's 1970, but I haven't seen any reviews about it.
I saw it 35 years ago for the first time. There's little in the 1960s and 1970s mainstream US cinema I haven't seen.
It's Forbin Project and it's a great film
My cousin, a nephew of my Mother was
an OB-GYN doctor, who passed away a few years ago. He told us once that Ursula Andres was at one time a patient
of his years ago.
Cool!
I have at least half these movies and now I’m going to get the other half.
Hope you enjoy them all!
Try to track down the brilliantly bonkers "the presidents analyst 1967" with james coburn involving pre-natal brain implants for all new born babies. No wonder the CIA shelved this one!
Creation humanoids I liked it very much, your choices are an absolute delight you have a flare for it, your analogies are and interpretation are awesome!
The 10th Victim was always one of my favorite movies.
It has a style all its own.
Lovely Barbara Shelley may she RIP 😥
I haven't seen all of these, but have plans to later! Good video!
Thanks! Enjoy the movies.
_"...also know as Brian Donlevy..."_
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I'll have to check out 'the power' & 'privilege'. The rest are great choices, especially quartermass & the pit. The original BBC TV series on DVD was a great watch too.
I agree about the BBC adaptations. You should be able to find The Power and Privilege on disk or around the *cough* torrents. They're both hidden gems.
@@terrytalksmovies Talking Sixties Science Fiction Productions. Then you could have added DOCTOR WHO and UFO ( UFO runs also still on CZcams )
The pilot episode BIRTH OF SHADO almost sounds like a prequal to the computer game XCOM UNKNOWN . As said UFO. BIRTH OF SHADO; put on the Net by FandersonUfo. for someone who might want to check it out.
When commenting about Brian Donlevy and drinking, I have to say he is excellent as bernard quartermass .
'Quatermass And The Pit' is brilliant - if you can, try and watch the 1959 BBC original, starring Andre Morell, and Cec Linder. When broadcast, pubs emptied, as people went home to watch it. The other two serials had done this as well, but not to such a great degree. It was a show where every episode was prefixed with a continuity announcement, on the lines of:
"In the BBC's opinion, the following programme is not suitable for children, or viewers of a nervous disposition."
I have the script books of the first three Quatermass stories, and as well as brilliant writing, they contain oddly creepy stage instructions, such as 'Creep in music' 'Sharp look offscreen', that sort of thing. My late parents, who would go and see a movie just because it bore the name 'Hammer' on the advert in the paper, saw this movie and were genuinely startled by it. They'd seen the TV show, of course, but the crisp editing down of a fairly wordy three hour serial to half that, and in colour, made a difference. When it was shown on TV years later, I begged them to let me see it, as their description of of it to me, aged about 12 then, was just too tantalising to miss. They let me, against their better judgement, and it scared the bejeezus out of me, as nothing else had, to that point, but I could not get the underlying big ideas out of my head. Still haven't, and they're still as troubling now, as they always were. My younger brother was exactly the same. The idea of 'Hob' at the end terrified him for ages.
Seen it. 😀
Great video! 🍻 I saw about half of these movie and loved all of them, so I am going to assume I'll love the others too.
Some other personal 60s favorites are:
• Thunderbirds Are Go & Thinderbirds 6
• La Jetée
• The War Game
• Ikari XB-1
• Mr. Freedom
• Matango
• Seconds
My goodness Jane Fonda was gorgeous. Also, Quartermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth is a fantastic film years ahead of its time.
Yep
If you think Five Million Years to Earth was ahead of its time, consider that it is a faithful remake of a BBC serial made in 1958.
I did really enjoy "Five Million Years to Earth as a 10 year old. Forgot all about it until I saw it on TV about 10 years ago - still a good move and quire nostalgic!
This is a great list. The Power, one of my favourites, probably number 1 in this list (of those I have seen). Quatermas and the Pit, another favourite. The Creation of the Humanoids, also one I found engrossing, but it is so rarely on tv. I've been meaning to see Alphaville for decades, literally. I should search it out.
It's a little hard to get your head around at first but lean in to the weirdness.
@@terrytalksmovies , not to worry, I like weird.
I love Alphaville. I saw it when I was young, and it was so perfect, like noir sci-fi. It even has, as you say, an eeriness to it even though shot in Paris. Everything in the movie is super cool, even the black cars and strange rooftop shots. And the way Lemmy Caution is played is perfect, he seems almost disjointed from the world he is in.
Eddie Constantine played Lemme in a whole bunch of movies from the 1950s onwards.
There was "The Blob" which terrified me as a 4 year old when we were taken to the movies expecting to see The Three Stooges. Guess technically that's from the late 1950's though. Must be the reason I never saw most of the 7 movies you mentioned since I would not watch scary movies after that until I got much older!
Scary movies are children's versions of naughty films. They are taboo and kids love them.
@@terrytalksmovies I don't know, both my brother and myself were terrified for years after that! Would not watch anything potentially scary. Now that I'm an old fart, its not scary that bothers me as much as anxiety. I find even situation comedy too anxiety inducing. Maybe I need to go see a therapist :-)
My real childhood was scarier than the movies. I always saw them as safe scares.
@@terrytalksmovies I guess I was very lucky to have very much the opposite. Almost the canonical idyllic 1950's/60's suburban life with loving, secure parents. Maybe that was why I was so terrified by the movies. Hope your adulthood is safe and secure.
On a related note, as a 10 year old child, I got to pick the wallpaper in my bedroom at one point. And it was very much like that op art wallpaper at 3:38. My brother saw your video and because of that sent me the link
It's hard to be scared by 'Quatermass & The Pit' if you've heard The Goons do their version of the story, 'The Scarlet Capsule'..
They were great at desensitising people. 😉😄
How about _Crack in the World_ (1965)?
I love Crack In The World. There was a recent blu-ray release which is great.
My main criticism of The Power was its change of the end from the cynical book's ending to a cope out feel good ending.
Studios did that all the time in the 60s. It sucked.
Agreed. Otherwise pretty faithful.
Thanks!
I normally come to these sorts of videos expecting it to be a list of films I've mostly seen. Pleasantly surprised to discover some films I've not only not seen, but never even heard of, despite being an sf fan and voracious consumer of stuff like John Clute and Peter Nicholls Encyclopedia since I was a kid. I was surprised not to see "Danger: Diabolik!" in the list, because it fits in pretty well, and "The Final Programme", but when I looked that up it turned out to be from 1973 rather than the 60s.
The description of Privilege reminds me a bit of Wild in the Streets from 1968. A bit sci fi/comedy with Shelley Winters and Hal Holbrook, it deals with a panic-y view of 60s youth culture gone out of control.
Try to see Privilege. Very different from WITS.
another little gem is Ikarie XB-1
It is.
I also really like the original teleplay of _Quatermass and the Pit._ In fact, in some ways I prefer it to the Hammer theatrical film.
Another favorite off beat sixties sci-fi movie is the Czech film _Who Wants to Kill Jessie?_ It's got a wonderful premise and is a lot of fun.
Loving your channel! So glad I discovered it!
I'm glad you discovered it, too. 😀
Very happy to see Barbarella, The Power (love George Pal movies) and the Quatermass on the list. I have to admit though that I liked the serialized versions of Quatermass more.