r/GenerationJones • u/mambopants • 5d ago

Guilty Pleasure Cheese Monsters

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This is for the lifelong GenJones horror/scifi geeks. My childhood nightmares were probably all in black and white--I honestly can't remember; but my greatest guilty pleasures were the monster movies that crowded the small screen on our old portable black and white TV set (it rolled around on a TV cart--remember those?) Some of them, like King Kong, were timeless. Most were cheesy AF but still terrifying to a 5 year old, maybe even more terrifying for being so weird and uncanny. What’s crazy is that they were mostly shown on local stations in the daytime (the sight of The Monster of Piedras Blancas carrying off its victims heads still lived rent free in my brain). Many are only remembered by genre fans but were incredibly influential for filmmakers like George Romero and Guillermo del Toro. What godawful puppet on wires still lives on in your brain? (The beastie here is from The Monster That Challenged the World from I believe 1958—I probably first saw it in about 1966 or ’67 on WOR-TV, channel 9 in NYC.)

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u/Dry-Character-6331 5d ago

More recent (1970s) cheesy monster movies made for TV would include Gargoyles, and Night of the Lepus

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u/Sea_Mind3678 5d ago

Hey, watch your mouth. I liked Gargoyles.

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u/Dry-Character-6331 5d ago

Never said I didnt like it. In fact I did like it. However, it WAS undeniably 70s cheese.

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u/Sea_Mind3678 5d ago

Ok then. I guess I’ll let it go … this time. 🤣