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All Sci-Fi member Rick Smith has posted several enjoyable stories about his "monsterkid memories" from seeing vintage sci-fi moves. I fold him he should publish a book, and I even created the cover for it!

Here's a small example of his anecdotal tales.

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Frankenstein 1970 (1958)



I saw this at my local movie house at a Saturday matinee in 1960. I had seen the trailer a week or two earlier and, as you suggested, it looked pretty neat. But the main focus of the trailer, and definitely the aspect which impressed me was all the KARLOFF stuff!

I had, of course, heard of Boris Karloff, even though I wouldn't see my first issue of FM for about 5 or 6 months, and though I'd never seen any of his movies, I knew he was a big freakin' deal in the monster world.

Watching the movie, though, I found it hard to wrap my head around the notion that this bent, white-haired old man was the great, scary Karloff.

The movie was, of course, not good. And I knew it even then. But, at least, I'd seen the great Karloff.

Nostalgia is a funny and powerful thing. Though I didn't care for this movie in 1960, and though I realize that it's quite poor — still — it makes me smile. It takes me back to being ten years old at the LeRose Theater. So the movie stunk, so what? I was ten years old and had a lifetime of monster movies in front of me.





Nostalgia is a funny and powerful thing. Though I didn't care for this movie in 1960, and though I still realize that it's quite poor — still — it makes me smile. It takes me back to being ten years old at the LeRose Theater. So the movie stunk, so what? I was ten years old and had a lifetime of monster movies in front of me.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)