Space Wars contained an article by Tom Rogers on Giant Monsters defending Earth from Alien Invaders. In Star Encounters, Tom writes about Brains and Blobs from Outer Space:
"Since 1933," Tom begins, "there have been about 30 films that have featured bodiless brains, outsized masses of living protoplasm and similar disturbing and unnatural things." He then goes on to cover classics of this subgenre, including The Blob (and the sequel Beware! The Blob!, a.k.a. Son of Blob), The Green Slime, and 27 other films (which for the sake of convenience I'll list in alphabetical order):
- Angry Red Planet
- The Atomic Submarine
- Barbarella
- Brain from Planet Arous
- Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
- The Colossus of New York
- The Crawling Eye
- The Creeping Unknown
- Curse of the Fly
- Donovan's Brain
- Enemy from Space
- Evil Brain from Outer Space
- The Final Program
- Flame Barrier
- The Flesh Eaters
- The H-Man
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Island of Terror
- It Came from Outer Space
- Journey to the 7th Planet
- Last Days of Man on Earth
- Not of This Earth
- The Space Children
- Space Master X-7
- The Unknown Terror
- The Vampire Bat
- X the Unknown
Oh my stars, I remember that Brains and Blobs article! I liked the Fass publications because they covered plenty of weird stuff. This included running what was essentially fanfiction with articles like "What If Jor-El Had Been Wrong?" and the amazing theory that Tusken Raiders were adolescent Jawas.
Haha, yeah, different Starman. There are four of them, edited from Japanese movie serials (usually two-parters). Since you watched Green Slime on YouTube, here they are there:
Atomic RulersFinally, because I'll take any excuse to post a Simpsons image, here is the poster for Treehouse of Horror XVII, which includes the segment "Married to the Blob," in which Homer morphs from morbidly obese into a giant blob and begins eating his way through (the citizens of) Springfield. Contains the best Dr. Phil cameo EVER (Hint: I'm not a fan).
Invaders from Space
Attack from Space
Evil Brain from Outer Space
They're all out on DVD, if they float your boat.
I can't help but clown Tom Rogers and his Very 70s SF Fan Pretensions, but I owe him a huge debt of gratitude. When they reprinted his articles a few years later as filler, he opened my eyes to a bunch of things. Granted, he hated almost all of them, but even talking about them was a start.
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