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...Came From Outer Space--Friday at 1:25, 4:15, 7:10 and 10 p.m.; with Creature From the Black Lagoon at 12, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 and 11:30 p.m., Saturday...
...they were afraid that horror movies would give me bad dreams. They were right, of course, but I watched them anyway. This movie, with the possible exception of The Blob, was the best bad horror movie they ever showed. Being presented this weekend, along with Creature From The Black Lagoon, in 3-D. It has the quintessential horror plot: The good guys are in a space-ship in outer space when they discover that a monster is on board. No place to run. You can approach this film three ways. You can be a pseudo and jeer out loud...
...AUDIENCE FOR this movie, like the crowd that showed up at Blue Lagoon, seems about equally divided between young folks, who howl at the dialogue, and middleaged women, the sort who look as if they frequent the Gothic Books section of their local drugstore, and who sit in awed silence, except for one matron in front of me, who yelled serveral times for the hooting teens to shut up. These plain women believe in the movie, in its fantasy look at beautiful young girls. And they obviously approve of its moral message, which is the centerpiece of this movie. They...
...played while all the actors go moony-faced. About the only cliche of '40s psychodrama movies that is missing is a dream sequence by Dali. If the producers want this one to succeed in today's market, they will have to retitle it. Creature from the Blue Lagoon Meets Ordinary People ought to doit...
Lectures to teen-agers on the harmful effects of cigarettes most often go in one ear and out the other. So to plug their antismoking message, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided on a role model: Actress Brooke Shields, 15 (Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon and the soon-to-be-released Endless Love). But before Brooke had a chance to give her peers a puffless primer, the proposed $68,000 federal campaign was extinguished. Said HHS Chief of Staff David Newhall III: "I did not have sufficient confidence that the majority of smokers would be discouraged." The announcement...