#sci-fi classics

When a group of unknowing thrill seekers volunteer for what they think will be the experiment of a life time, they set out to achieve the ultimate ability to read minds and expand their memory. But this group gets more than they bargained for when the experiment goes horribly wrong.

imdb tagged this as a ‘psychotronic film’ i havent the faintest clue what that means.

i hope its better than brain twisters.

wow this starts off with some weird music in the background. i dig it.

it’s also, i think, the nicest print we’ve seen on any of these (though slightly off center)

this is another movie where the score is just completely unhinged

‘amazing use of 'recorder and gong' soundtrack’ @villainpunk

the long lost third blues brother

some real great imdb credits

this hairstyle is a lot

the reverend says ‘woman’ when he sees a picture of a cemetery and we’re taking bets on dead wife, dead mom, or serial killer.

after the first half hour not much has happened, this is a slow film that feels like its trying to be DEEP and not doing a good job at it?

about halfway through... i have no idea what’s going on and im very bored. i am reminded of previous brain film, brain twisters

confused and bored.

we’re all convinced big hair lady’s big hair is getting bigger.

there has been no mind reading yet

there’s a very sudden dramatic confession from one lady and i am just boggled.

‘maybe y'all should've gone to therapy instead of to the brain machine’ @villainpunk

best line of the movie: “YOU STAY AWAY FROM ME YOU... SCIENTIFIC BITCH”

they made the brain machine angry, i think

ok wait i think the brain machine reads their minds maybe?

SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND THEY ACTIVATE A FAILSAFE AND THE FAILSAFE IS CRUSHER WALLS???

‘WHY DOES YOUR PSYCH EXPERIMENT HAVE THIS' @gwenfrankenstien

and then suddenly minnie lee hangs herself??????? there are like six people in the same room with her HOW DID NO ONE NOTICE?

‘Everything happens so much’ @bioelectriccell

‘conspiracy theory that this MOVIE got gov't funding to make the idea of mind control experiments seem dumb’ @gwenfrankenstien​

there’s a new best line in the movie.

“YOU’LL HAVE TO KILL ME BEFORE I DIE.”

and then he explodes.

rated no/no on the beetsometer. please dont watch this its boring and disjointed and baffling. im putting a link to it but i do not reccomend. this feels like it lasted forever and also like the last 10 minutes was all we watched

‘this movie was a brain machine experiment’ @villainpunk​

January 2nd marked the centenary of Isaac Asimov’s birth in Petrovichi, in the former USSR. 

If you are reading this blog, which is a blog about fantasy and science fiction, then you are probably already a fan of Asimov, or at the very least you are aware of his writing. You’ve probably seen the films “Bicentennial Man” with the late Robin Williams and “I, Robot” starring Will Smith, but did you know that Isaac was such a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction and wrote on such a variety of subjects, including poetry, letters and post-cards as well as novels and short stories that he is the only author whose works are included in 9 of the 10 categories of writing of the Dewey Decimal System, the system by which libraries categorise the written word. This is the system that allows you to find the book you’re looking for when you head to your local library. (If anyone actually does that any longer?) This, in itself, is a rather amazing fact for any writer.

If you are into science fiction, then you also probably know that Asimov also came up with the three laws of robotics in his works, which state:

1.     A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2.     A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3.     A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

Although we are given a foreshadowing of these laws in previous works, it was in the short story “Runaround” (1942) that they were first introduced.

The idea of a robot or mechanical humanoid form was not Asimov’s, of course. The word “robot” comes from the Czech language and was introduced to us by Josef Capek in his play “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, (1920) but Asimov took Capek’s idea and ran with it. It was Asimov who invented the word “robotics”, defined in the OED as “The technology or science of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots and similar automatic devices.”

That wasn’t the only word Asimov introduced into the English language, however. He also gave us two more important scientific words – “psychohistory” (the theory that the history of large populations is statistically predictable, based on psychological theories of human and social behavior) and “positronic” (originally a technological device that provides a robot with a consciousness recognizable to humans.) This word became important in science because a sub-atomic particle was later named a “positron” and the word “positronic” then took the meaning of an adjective to describe anything related to positrons.

Another fact that many Asimov fans might not know (I certainly didn’t until I was researching for this blog) was that he also wrote smutty limericks. He wrote lewd lines by the dozens and ended up publishing 5 volumes. Here’s an example of one of these dirty limericks.

There was a sweet girl of Decatur Who went to sea on a freighter. She was screwed by the master -An utter disaster- But the crew all made up for it later.

With regard to his personal life, Asimov was an atheist and became president of the American Humanist Association, an organization which promotes (among other things and very simplistically) the idea that people don’t need a god to be good. Although he was tolerant of other people’s religious beliefs, he hated anything superstitious or pseudoscientific being passed off as “real science”. He also once wrote this quotation,

“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul”.

In this matter, I could not agree with him more!

I also discovered a number of audio versions of Asimov’s works on Youtube which I definitely intend to check out. I suggest you do too, my readers.

Thank you for reading.

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A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.

we all got real excited about space lobsters

I love the days when space aliens were just guys in weird clothes who talked funny. there’s also a really neat UFO design here

This movie feels so on point for a 50s movie that I would be tempted to pin it a parody but nope this is a genuine film from 1959.

a dog gets raygunned at the start and turns into a small skeleton. i do love the sci-fi classic of ‘raygun that turns a man into bones’ tbh

this is the highest quality print we’ve seen yet

i cannot emphasize enough how perfectly stereotypical a 50s sci fi movie this is its so wonderful

the giant lobster in the later part of the film is really wonderful. we love and appreciate giant lobster.

anyway this is a short post but its a good, slightly goofy movie and im rating it good/yeah so check it out

emoji of the film: smugbastard

A DON DOHLER FILM

The soundtrack is a bop! legit great

Wastes NO TIME getting to the point, everything turns wild like ten minutes in. this is described as hillbillies hunting an alien and oh my god the entire family is just. comical. i love their acting.

‘’I'm pretty sure Don Dohler is actually an alien and all of these movies are him trying to covertly reveal himself to us’ - brandon notonthisplatform

Everyone in this movie is SO 80s it hurts. also shoutout to hillbilly dad joe’s shirt window.

‘recurring theme in these movies: all the men are just some guy and all the women have amazing hair.’ - @gwenfrankenstien

there’s a lot of plaid in this

best character: hateful annie.

This is such a goofy film but it feels very earnest. These people were out to make this movie and by gum they did it. everyone is giving it their all.

‘This is hillbilly Predator’ - brandon notonthisplatform

we were all theorizing the round thing that the alien was carrying was an egg but it is not an egg and thats disappointing

its kind of refreshing that the alien isnt just here to MURDER. he's chill if you’re not shooting at him

Also everyone keeps calling him THE SPACEMAN and its great.

There’s a handful of really good shots in this film. not many but they’re there

I love the ongoing hillbilly family drama throughout the thing? its so weird in contrast to the spaceman events. like... it feels like the spaceman is playing second fiddle to the family drama or just was the tipping point its REALLY SOMETHING

and then the movie just fucking ends very suddenly????  i feel like they lost the last ten or so minutes of the movie and just went 'actually its fine'

of note: we get credits for this one! we don't usually get credits.

alien dude is pretty cool we like him

carol is also pretty cool

therefore: ship of the film: carol x mold alien. this was declared about fifteen minutes in. and just got reinforced at about the 50min mark.

Everyone really wanted moldy spaceman and carol to get together.

emoji of the film: bigiron.emoji

Rating: pew/pew pew. p fun, goofy, has a surprising amount of charm in regards to the alien. surprise ending??? of some manner of surprise. did actually like this one. fun times.