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more about #1950s stillmanbrian: Vintage space toys (particularly robots and ray guns) have a long history. The first toy robot -- called Lilliput -- was produced in Japan in 1938. Pr... more » gods-n-clods: Last year in the San Francisco Airport was a lovely exhibit of retro futuristic toys/games/ect from the turn of last century onward. I think some of t... more » bluehinter: I've got #12 sitting next to my computer at home. Sadly, Spaz-Bot lost his ability to walk and shoot sparks over 20 years ago (he also tends to list t... more » Mecharine: Im glad Go Nagai came out with Mazinger Z , otherwise we would still be stuck with these freakish designs. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: #4 is so saucy! Mm mm. Uh, wait, what? more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I'm certainly interested, although I'll be mentally removing all the color so it's B&W. There was a movie back in the 80's -- possibly called "Str... more » compcarp: This sounds fun. If you like this type of genre - do yourself a favor and get, "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavre" It's a wonderful homage to all those che... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: I think that, if you use CGI to make an intentionally-wobbly flying saucer, then you are, indeed, attempting to be ironic. "Playing it straight" is wh... more » alphanumeric1971: God, this thing looks like a DTV movie or something produced by the Sci-fi channel. Plus, have you ever noticed it's only white people who reminisce a... more » tamoko: Oh my god... I actually saw this movie on Creature Double Feature as a kid.. I thought the drilling machine was cool - and even then I knew the suicid... more » -
#retrofuturism
The Trippy Robot Toys of Yesteryear
Children of the 1950s might have delighted in the battery-powered robots lining their toy shelves, but the real gems are the boxes they came in, depicting alien scenes of our multicolored, sparking, smoking, and missile-launching robot future. More » -
#alientrespass
Alien Trespass: The Ultimate 1950s Nostalgia Trip
The X-Files helped revolutionize science fiction back in the 1990s. Now X-Files producer R.W. Goodwin is going back to the original source material - 1950s flying-saucer flicks - for his new movie Alien Trespass. More » -
#foundfootage
An Underground Volcano Symbolizes Our Hobbesian Doom
I kind of love this sequence from 1951's The Unknown World, where a scientist decides to die by underground volcano, because the human race will just self-destruct anyway. It's nakedly political, and dementedly awesome.
