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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Ancient Computers
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:18:59 +1100
It’s conventional wisdom that these horror and sci-fi movies were ‘encouraged’ 
to generate xenophobia in the US population at the start of the Cold War. 
Aliens were always dangerous. A notable exception was ‘The Day the Earth Stood 
Still’ which challenged this trend.
Andrew Fildes
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www.soultheft.com



> On 11 Jan 2016, at 5:34 am, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     There were lots of good scary movies in the 50's and 50's.  I still like 
> to watch "Tarantula", "Them!", "The Black Scorpion", "The Deadly Mantis" and 
> other creature flicks, especially when Ray Harryhausen did the animation like 
> in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms".  I recently got to watch "The Land 
> Unknown", which I vaguely remembered seeing just once.  
> 
>     But I think the creepiest was a Japanese horror flick called "The H-Man", 
> where gelatinous humanoids passed through the Tokyo sever system, dissolving 
> people whenever they touched them.
> 
>> 
>> "War of the Worlds" for me.  I was 10.
>> 
>> Chuck Norcutt
>> 
>>> 
>>> When I was a kid "Forbidden Planet" scared the sh#$ out of me.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
>     - Hunter S. Thompson
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