Cool monsters we watched in the 70s!

Everything from The Creature from the Black Lagoon to The Groovie Goolies! In the 70s monsters were everywhere!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, busheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.

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Do do do do?

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That's nothing the seventies? What am I doing?

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Bom boom boom.

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Boom for its golden in Alaska.

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It's gonna be gonna be he gonna be gold in Alaska.
He was hot and Florida. Somebody rewind that tape what
that astronaut saying?

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That was an astronaut?

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Oh I don't know.

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I never realized I was an astronom. It could have been,
could have should.

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Have been, even though we never have been to the
moon before. You know that was all fake? Oh whatever ever, Okay,
welcome to our second episode of the seventies Buzz podcast,
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it's been a weird, weird little period.

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Hen it's been a weird month. Yeah, so, but May
is always a weird month for me.

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Well now and now June, Yeah, well, I guess we're
still in May. You'll be You're not gonna be back till.

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June June seventh, June.

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Seventh, Todd going off to his off to Alaska.

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So June June, what the heck? The thing looks funny there. Oh,
I'll be going I don't know seventh or each I'll
be back in time for seventy is Buzz podcast.

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Live Facebook live. Yeah, so we don't really have any
messages because we answered those on the first podcast.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
We did tonight last week. We did that last week
last week exactly so which was tonight, which was tonight.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
So so Dave missed a lot of episodes.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Where are you?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
We don't know what Dave is. Dave's gotten busy, and
Gretchen we answered last week, and Larry and everybody and
that was so anyway, So I don't want to make
everything about Disney.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
But you're going to Disney the.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, but the New Epic Universal, well this isn't Disney.
So the New Universal Epic Amusement Park has a section
called Monsters, which was kind of one of the big
things I was looking forward to because growing up in
the seventies I loved monsters, and so I heard all

(03:46):
this talk about there's the area called Monsters, and there's
going to be a Frankenstein ride, and there's Dracula and
Mummy and gosh, who else was h was that part
of one of the right King Kong? I can't even
remember now. But so the so I was really looking
forward to the monsters section of epic. I will say

(04:10):
it wasn't as cool as I wanted it to be.
They could have used more. There was like wasn't enough.
There was no monsters except on the ride, So there.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Wouldn't like Count Dracula wouldn't like walking around. You couldn't
give him a hug and he would have to hug
you exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
That's what I wanted Frankenstein or even a Frankenstein statue.
But there was no visible monsters. Although at one point
than visible man was in the park and you're laughing

(04:51):
and you're laughing, but no, it was the invisible man
with the bandage around his face so you could see him.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Wasn't not the Mummy?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well not because in the movie so he could be
seen he wrapped bandage around him. Sure in the movie
and there and in the ride the Frankenstein Ryde, there's
a guy that plays Igor. He was walking around every
now and then. But I wasn't there for Igor. I
was there for monsters the home. No, he was more

(05:22):
like what the professor what's his name in Back to
the Future, his hair and.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Doc Brown.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, he was more like a character like that. For
some reason. He wasn't like the old timey egor.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh, I'm disappointed in Epigret.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Now, I know.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I just wasn't. I wasn't thrilled by monsters. But that's
why we're talking about monsters. Because I like the idea
of monsters in the seven. Yes, because again, like I said.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
So, those people need to be listening to this podcast.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
They need to listen to suggestions. Yes, because they could
have monstered it up way more than it's monstered.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
There wasn't a freaking Steign's monster walking around with bolts
on his neck and big thick shoes.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
The only time you could see Frankenstein is if you
were on the ride Francise Monster, which was kind of yeah,
which was kind of disappointing. I wanted there to be
like monster stuff everywhere, and there just wasn't. And then
I was looking for monster T shirts and there wasn't
really any really super There was one. I did buy
a monster T shirt, but it had like little baby monsters.

(06:30):
It had all the monsters, but like his little baby
characters like cartoon and it said Monsters and then on
the back it showed all their backs. That's the only
T shirt I bought in Monsters. I was wanting like
a big cool Frankenstein face, and there wasn't one.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
They didn't have swag. They had shwag, but it wasn't
It wasn't good swag.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
It wasn't cool. I don't know. I was a little
disappointed in the Monsters. I was not. I liked Epic.
I wasn't bowled over with the Monsters.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
So Monsters was a part of Epic, not the whole Epic.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Right, correct, it was. It was one of the many
I don't know what they call them many parks. So
every ride, if every ride in that area was themed monsters, okay,
but again I think the whole area needed more Monsters.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay. So between Disney and Universal, how many.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Rides are there, oh, boy, in all eight parks or
I'm gonna say seven parks because the eighth park is
a water park. You can't really count the rides on
it because it's different. I don't that's a good question.
I do know that at Epic we rode every ride
in one in one day, because you know, it's a

(07:51):
new park, and I'm sure they're going to be adding
more and more rides. Magic Kingdom, there's I have no
idea how many rides are in Magic Kingdom. There's a lot. Hm,
So I don't know. We were we wrote a lot
of rides and we didn't even ride everything, but we
I bet we rode ninety of all rides in all
seven parts.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Cool. So all right, so hang on, we're on seventies bus.
We're on seventies. Don't let me get off track here
talking about monsters, Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. So so anyway, I thought, well, let's we've talked
about scary characters before. I think we have a whole
episode on scary characters, which might be a little bit
of a repeat. But I just want to talk about
like monsters, monsters, seventies monsters that we and and and
I've got a whole bunch of stuff related to monsters.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
And the thing about when you're like researching monsters or
like monster movies, that freaking Google just throws you into horrors. Yeah,
and I'm like, not all you know. I mean, I
guess you could call the bad guys in some of
the horror movies. Monsters. Definitely, you can some of them,

(09:05):
but I mean, like carry that's a horror maybe, but
there's no monsters.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah. I tried to keep mind to like monsters, the
traditional monsters.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, like you know, a creature from Black Goon, Yeah
like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
So, but we got to stress stress that what we're
going to be talking about wasn't all created in the seventies. Oh.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Absolutely, A lot of these.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Creatures were created in the thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, the
sixties were kind of a highlight of the monster era,
and then some of them even delved over into the eighties.
But the best monster stuff was in the seventies. And
why is that, mister Wheedler goes, that was the greatest thing, man, Yes,
it was. And the first thing that I think of

(09:54):
when I think of monsters is those models, the diromas,
the well, yeah, the monster model dioramas. Because my uncle,
I think, had the whole that's our rook. I had
the whole, sad and at some point he gave several
of them to me, the creature from the Black Lagoon, Wolfman,

(10:16):
and Frankenstein. Okay, he gave me those three.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I can't I had either wolf Man or Frankenstein, and
I could not remember which one it was, so I thought,
you know what, I'm going to google that and there
are pictures of them and see if one of them
will spark my memory.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I couldn't find. I couldn't find the one that I
have in my mind. Oh really yeah, maybe it was
a different brand. I don't know. It was like I
would almost think it would have been Frankenstin's Monster because
I liked him more than I did wear Wolf And
there was like a you know, because it's like a scene.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, there's like like with Frankenstein. I think there's a
dirt pile, a grave and a head stone at the end,
and he's standing on the his feet went into like
footprints of the dirt which helped him stand up.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah. I could not find that. Huh something maybe I did. Well.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Here's so the company was Aurora Plastics. So if you
type in google Aurora Plastics Monster Models seventies, it'll pop. Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh. I came across some of us, and some of
those are extremely expensive. Because I even went to Etsy.
I was looking and some of those Aurora Aurora dioramas,
they were like three four hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
The ones from the seventies.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well that was old. The older ones, oh.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
From I guess they are kind of from the sixties. Yeah.
I just thought it was because my uncle. So they
came unpainted, and you got you know, you got to
use model paints and paint them kind of the way
you wanted to. My uncle he was into that stuff,
and so the the ones that I got were like
super detailed and cool and and so that's kind of

(12:00):
what got me. My uncle was kind of who got me,
And those models are kind of what got me interested
in monsters in the seventies. Here's a list of the
notable Aurora monster models. There was Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman,
the Mummy. Oh, I had the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
I think I might have said that, Doctor Jekyl, as

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Mister Hyde, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, King Kong, Godzilla,
and Phantom of the Opera.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
So out of those which ones, how many of those
did you have?

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I had Frankenstein, Wolfman, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
And I just remember, by the time I had grown
up a little bit, all of them were like gone broken,
except for Wolfman's head and so in that big box.
I think Wolfman's head was in that big box for

(12:53):
years and I don't know whatever happened to it, But
that was like the last I don't know what happened
to Frankenstein. I don't know what happened to him. Yeah,
I remember I had him, because I remember exactly. I
remember I remember putting Frankenstein in the grave, standing there,
and I remember playing with the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
He had you could feel like his scales, yeah, when

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you were holding him.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh and speaking of that dude that I was looking
at pictures of him, that costume was like, to me,
ahead of its time. I got to really looking at it,
and some of the detail they had on that thing
that was that was because when did that come out?
Creature from Back and Good? I could have been forties.
I think maybe maybe at least fifties. I'm like, dang,

(13:37):
that's some good stuff they did back then. You know,
fucking Stein. They stuck a couple of bolts on his.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Neck and painted him green.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
You know what Dragula stuck teething? Oh yeah, yeah, no,
Creature from Back and Goon, right, And.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
There was also a lot of books and magazines. I
remember I had some magazines and some books that just
had pictures and stories of all the monsters Halloween masks.
It seemed like every you know, the silly plastic with
the string in the back. Yeah, there was always Frankenstein
and Wolfman and Dracula Halloween masks.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh sure.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
And then one of my favorite T shirts there was
the Monster Cereals.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh, franken Berry, frank Oh, Count Chocola.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
General Mills in nineteen seventy one introduced three enduring brands,
Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Booberry, and that was more of
a Frankenberry. But I like the Booberry T shirt better.
That was cool. So I was Count Schacula and I
wore that to one of the parks and I got

(14:46):
comments people say, Oh, I like your shirt, Oh, your
new one in Disney World. No, my Booberry shirt. I
was wearing my Booberry shirt in Disney World.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
But it's a new one. No, it's that old one.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
I've been wearing one I've been wearing for years, not
my Chuckleberries, but Booberry.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
But it's not it's not Vindage, is it. Oh?

Speaker 1 (15:07):
No? But it's probably too. I mean, you know, I've
been wearing it for two or three years, that's.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
What yeah to me?

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, yeah, no, these T shirts I wear right here.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
I wear all the time. There's a twenty eighteen number
on it there. They're seven years old. I wear them
all the time.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah no, yeah, I don't. I doubt they even made
T shirts back in the seventies of those characters.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh yeah, probably not so not not cereal. Yeah I
should have.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Though, Yeah. Uh what you got on your monstrous have
you got?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well? My very first while, like I said, was Creacher
from Blackagoon. That was a great movie, by the way,
I was. I really enjoyed The Mummy.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
The Mummy, the old Mummy guy.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
He was. I thought he was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
He is in the ride. He's only he doesn't like
have his own like ride or something in the park.
He's just in the Frankenstein. But yeah. Blood from the
Mummy's Tomb was a British horror film in nineteen seventy one,
and the Mummy was also part. He was The Mummy
was my favorite character. Do you remember the Groovy Goolies

(16:16):
right there?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I got it right there, Groovy Goolies cartoon, Groovy Gooley.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
So the Groovy Goolies cartoon came out with a set
of plastic characters, so they were about what's that three
four inches three inches three and a half.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's three right there.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
And every So I had the set of all in.
My favorite was the Mummy for some reason, I guess
the way it was shaped, or his feet were really
white at the bottom and he stood up really easy.
But so I had the whole set of the Groovy Gooley.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I love the Goolies.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, yeah, but again there was a takeoff on the Monsters.
We did watch the monsters.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
I forgot about the Mustards and the Adam.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
From the sixties, but we watched those all throughout the seventies.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, late seventies, late seventies. It might
be a little bit of a stretch. The monster. I'm
going to call it a monster. It was a monster
from Alien.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
It was a monster.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's definitely a monster. It's an alien monster, but definitely
a monster.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Did that think I think it had a name. I
think they may, it may. I don't think it had
a name in the very first one Alien, but I
think a couple of movies later than may have given
it a name. I don't know what it was, but yes.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Somebody out there, if you know the name, there's got
to be a person out there that's into all that.
I'm going to take it back to Frankenstein real quick.
So this is stuff that they made in the seventies
off of Frankenstein. Young Frankenstein nineteen seventy four. I love
that movie right there, even though it's a comedy.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
My favorite movies all the time.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Frankenstein The True Story was a British made for television movie.
Do you remember that one?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
No? I just laughing because I'm thinking about we talked
about the the the AI with the babies. Oh, there's
one with Young Frankenstein. Really and so the who's the
main character? His name the actor Gene Wilder, Gen Wilder.

(18:29):
So they got these they got these babies and they're
dressed up and he's like, so you know he remember
the Abbey normal?

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, they got this one kid. This one baby's eyes
are real big and googly. It's the funny stamp thing.
I'm sorry, I got no. No.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
The AI. Yeah, have you guys noticed the AI babies?
Almost anything you can think of somebody has done an
AI video.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's a baby, It's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, they're pretty, they're pretty funny. The Horror of Frankenstein
was a movie in nineteen seventy and then Edgar Winter
had a little song called Frankenstein.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
That's a good song or yeah, yeah, so that I
remember that was that the album cover where he's like
all sparkly and stuff that my brother had that album.
I remember thinking that's a weird that guy's weird. But
it was a great music.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, they were a little bit out there. Don Dun Dun,
and then the other the other big characters we got
where Wolf were wolf Man were Wolves of London, recorded
by Warren Zevon in nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
London.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
I got a little bit of history on that song
real quick. I thought I'd throw in it in there.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
The song that started out as a joke by Phil
Everley of the Everly He told Warren in nineteen seventy five,
over two years before the recording session for Excitable Boy.
Everley had watched a television broadcast of the nineteen thirty
five film Werewolf of London and suggested to Warren that
he adapted the title of the song and for a

(20:18):
song and dance. Craze Zevon played with the idea with
his band members, who wrote the song together in about
fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Those are some of the best.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
All contributing lyrics were transcribed by Zevon's wife, Crystal. However,
none of them took the song seriously. Soon after, I
guess Warren was friends with Jackson Brown a Jackson Brown
took the lyrics and he actually started playing the song
in his concerts before Warren did really. And then a

(20:50):
guy named t Bone Burnett also performed the song and
the first leg of his Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder review
to her in the autumn of seventy five. His version
included alternate, partially improvised lyrics mentioning stars from classical Hollywood cinema,
along with mentions of Jimmy Hoffa adult film star, Marylyn Chambers,

(21:11):
and Linda Lovelace. And then they tried at least so
then when Warren decided to go ahead and record it
because it was becoming popular, he tried at least seven
different that sounds like Cheney ordered food. They tried at

(21:33):
least seven different configurations of musicians in the recording studio.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
This I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
They finally ended up with a guy named McVeigh and
mcvee and Fleetwood. They were contributors to.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Where Was of Wonder mister McVeigh and Mick Fleetwood, and then,
over ze Vaughan's objections, Electra Records chose Where Was of
London as the album's first single.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
He preferred Johnny Strikes Up the Band or Tenderness on
the Block. The song was a quick hit, staying on
the Billboard Top forty chart for over a month.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's weird, that's crazy. All those people had something to
do with us, it.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Is, yeah, crazy, and and several of them contributed to
the lyrics. So anyway, yeah, it was kind of so.
It was a joke and turned out to be probably
his only famous song that you'd ever know that.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
He sang, I'd like to hear Jackson Brown's version.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I would too. I wonder if he still plays it
onto it.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Sure it's out there somewhere on the webernet.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, we're gonna have to find that. So anyway, there's
a little other warrewhere of stuff real quick. The Beast
Must Die was a movie in seventy four. The Fury
of Wolfman in nineteen seventy and then a movie that
didn't come out until the eighties. But the book The
Howling was written in nineteen seventy seven, and there was

(22:56):
a comic Marvel, so you never know, this could end
up being a movie. Which one Werewolf by Night was
a whole comic series by Marvel about wolf Man. I
don't I was a comic kid and I don't remember
Werewolf by Night, but yeah, it was a whole Oh.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
There are a lot of comics that didn't you know,
didn't hit mainstream. Yeah, even even the ones that you
see on TV. I'm like, I don't remember that, but
they were Yeah, yep, that was cool. Yeah, okay, I
want to talk about monsters. Yeah, what about the Boggy Creek.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Monster, Uh, Boggy Creek Monster, Boggy Creek.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
That was pretty big around here because we have a
Boggie Creek.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, the Legend of Boggie Creek nineteen seventy two. That
was or it's also known as the f o u
k E Falk Monster. Oh fou, I haven't heard that. Yeah,
I don't know why, but that's that's also another name.
And then the was the swamp monster. There was a
whole period where there was a green swamp monster and everything,

(24:07):
and they even came out with swamp Thing comic book
d D. Swamp Thing. Yeah, remember he had his own
comic book.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Wow. Yeah, I told you a story about me going
to the movie theater the Chief to see Boggy creep
Ye with my sisters.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh yeah, that's right, and you went outside.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I got bored because it was stupid. Yeah it was.
It was stupid on outside.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Just I liked it.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
I would like it today, But when I was oh yeah, yeah,
I guess I didn't appreciate it. Again, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, we got Dracula and vampires. Remember the little series
of nineteen seventy nine called Salem's Lot, Oh yes, based
on a Stephen King with the Hutch David Soul follows
a writer who return He turns to his hometown and

(25:01):
discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires. And then
there was Blacula. I love Blacula from nineteen seventy two.
It was, yeah, blaxploitation horror film.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Now the thing about Blackula is I watched a little
bit of it last night. Going into it. You think
it was. You would think it was blacksploitation, you would
think it would be almost comical, but it wasn't. I

(25:35):
mean it was. It was actually kind of a love story.
I don't remember watching it, but I got schooled on
it last night. It was. It's kind of a sad deal.
He was like almost a nice vampire.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, it says eighteenth century African prince who was turned
into a vampire later locked in a coffin by Count
Dracula in the count's castle in Transylvania in the year
seventeen eighty after Dracula refuses to help suppress the slave trade.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't think I've ever seen it.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I haven't. I know, I haven't seen it, but yeah,
and it was. It was. I think it was pretty underrated. Actually,
I want to almost kind of watch it.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Might have to check it out. There was the movie
Dracula in nineteen seventy nine, which one, well the one
right before Halloween because Donald Pleasants was in it.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
He wouldn't Dracula was.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I think Frank Longilla. Oh yeah, and Lawrence Olivier was
in that as well. And then there was Count Dracula
in the nineteen seventy horror film. So you had Dracula
all over the.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Sirs, so much Dracula in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Well, and then the whole vampire thing came back. It's
kind of it's funny how everything's kind of cyclical. Here's
one of our favorite I don't know if you have
it on your list over there, nineteen Do you have
any any monsters from nineteen seventy from a movie starring
Joan Crawford, Ohroll, Trog one of our favorite monsters from

(27:17):
this say, if you are out there and you listen
to this podcast and you have not seen Trog, shame
on you go look up Trog. Even if you have
to watch it on YouTube. Go watch Trog.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now. No, I didn't have Trog, but I did have
the Little Murdered, the Little Monster dude, and Terror of
Trilogy of Terror.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
That dude was almost as scary as Trog.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah. I remember watching Trilogy of Terror and it scared me.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
It was a little it was It wasn't as much
horror scary as it was creepy. Yeah, it's just creepy.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah. I mean there wasn't a lot of blood and gore, yeah,
or hardly any at all. But and it was a
TV It is made for TV.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
If I remember, I think Trog was too really, I
think Trog was a TV movie.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
That Poor Lady was her name, Joan Crawford, Poor John Crawford.
That's just sad. That's just sad.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
King Kong King, which can call well nineteen seventy six,
of course.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh with jess a good.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Lang Lang, Oh my gosh, ye Jeff Bridges, Oh she was.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
That was a good king call.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
I kind of liked it. It was a good I
still watch it every time it comes on. I'll watch
it for some weird reason.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Matter of fact, that's probably my favorite king, just because
I heard it was my favorite until the Kong Skull
Island came out.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I love Kong Skull Island. It's a it's a good one.
I don't but even the Jack Black King call, I
like them all.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I've got a that is I like. I like movies, yes,
And then there's a Godzilla.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Is that cong Gozilla? Right there?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Godzilla almost can't say King Kong without saying Godzilla exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Now there's or King Kong versus Godzilla. But then Godzilla
had his own set of movies where he fought all
kinds of Oh.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
My god, if you if you like, google like the
top twenty monster movies of the seventies. I think Godzilla has.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Been of them, most of them.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, yeah, zombies Done of the Dead, Don of the
Dead eight, Right, I'm a I'm a zombie guy.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
You can't. You can't make a zombie movie that I
won't watch.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, I yeah, there's there's so many. But what's it
wasn't in the seventies. But what's the one with uh,
Simon Peg? It's comedy almost, it's.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh, yeah, Sean. I'll even watch Sean of the Dead.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
I'll watch anything with Simon Peg and his buddy. I
never can't remember the buddy's name, the heavier guy.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, it's Yeah, it's a good, funny movie. But it's
got a zombie s which makes it even better.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, what are we going to do here?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
A kind of a western zombie westerns with the Simpson brothers.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh that's right, yeah, because they did alien westerns. Yeah,
aliens aliens.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, Cowboys versus Alien. Yeah, that was a good show.
It's actually pretty good. I don't know why you can't
do a zombie I'm sure there's a zombie, a spaghetti
zombie western out there somewhere, which is what ours would
have been. But still it needed to be done.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Well we still do it.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
H kind of going back to the whole kid thing.
Do you remember Freakies?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh yeah, Cereal.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, little Freakies. In the nineteen seventies, Finx during a
gang of colorful oddball monsters who lived in freak in
the Freakies Tree. The corn cereal was a hit among kids,
but despite its catchy jingle and mascot squad, it didn't
last beyond the decade.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Freakis had a jingle.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't remember the jingle, but I it had all
the little plastic characters you could collect. I don't I
don't think I ever. I don't know that I ever
ate Freaky Cereal.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I did it's it was like any other cereal, sugar
and yeah, you putting up sugar or something.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
And it all tastes good. Fund there real quick, another
one here. I'm sure Blockhead is out there saying say it,
Say it, say it? What Sigmund and the Sea Monster?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
I just I hang on my curious ballad right, the Goldies.

(32:21):
I like that guy, the Little Blue Dye.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I don't remember it. I mean, I remember the Freakys,
but the song doesn't.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, that's that's the Freaky's commercial.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
The song is not ringing a bell.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Nineteen seventy four. Yeah, Segmund and his Sea Monsters. No,
and the what is it?

Speaker 1 (32:45):
I can't remember it's it's Siegmund and the Sea Monsters.
Blockhead thought it was Sigmund the Sea Monster though back
in the day, so and she corrected us, but we
incorrect correctly corrected. That's where she got the nickname Blockhead.
If anybody's ever wondering.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, she had. Apparently her name was. Her nickname was
blockhead way before.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Us, well, she she named herself. She called herself Blockhead.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I don't call her blockhead. Yeah, you do all the
time every now and then. What about Tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, The Killer Tomatoes.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
I just thought that was the stupidest movie ever.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I don't know that I ever watched it.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
I didn't either, because it was too stupid. Yeah, I'm
holding back one.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh you are yeah, uh oh uh.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh really yeah, it was a monster in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Now there's a I do have to say, there are
like you said, you know, alien it was, and even
a lot of places called Jaws. I'm on look what
I got on. Yeah, I've got on a Jaws T shirt.
It's the the ship that sank, their ship that sank.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
What was the name of that ship, the Orc?

Speaker 1 (34:11):
The Orc?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Glad you remember, because I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, but yeah, So some some lists claimed Jaws was
I don't. I don't think Johns was a monster. Jows
was a shark.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah he wasn't.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Had he been mutative or magladon, yeah, I could, but
he wasn't. He was just a big shark, so he wasn't.
Really he wasn't a monster.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
No, it wasn't even a horror movie.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
No, no, So I don't I discount that. But uh so,
I don't know. I'm not sure what you got what
you're holding back over there, But my list is out,
so it's time to.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Divorce, okay. Oh oh, nineteen seventy four an F two fifty.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Bigfoot monster drug.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
No, that's it was a monster.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's a monster in the seventies. Bigfoot was big in
the seventies.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
I just did that.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
There was Bigfoot bigger in the seventies. Then Bigfoot is
big now?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh lord, no, oh gosh, no, have you seen some
of the stuff those guys can do.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
It's funn Yeah, I guess. Now there's reality shows and
oh they oh oh you mean the Bigfoot trucks. Yeah, yeah,
the trucks. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yeah, but no, no, and then Bigfoot, the creature Bigfoot,
that's totally different. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
So but yeah, there's a lot of other seventies I
just I kind of wanted to stick with the classics,
but there are a ton of different oddball you guys,
let us know your favorite oddball monster. Yeah, from the
seventies out there, And I know there was other comic
books that had monsters as.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well, full of them, full of them. I think we're
going to try to keep this episode a little shorter.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
We are because we're trying to get four done tonight.
So you guys said, U up a one more ago five,
eight oh far from one three, eight oh five or
buzzabus at media dot com.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Hit us up with your favorite.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Monster or monster memories. If anybody had a set of
the monster dioramas, let us know.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yes, I'd still like to find that one I had.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay, where are you out of here?