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Vintage Sci-Fi Art: Robots, Aliens, Monsters and Hot Women

manolith.com — From the 1950s to the 1980s, sci-fi films were pretty bad: bad acting, bad special effects and overall lackluster villains. This was, however, and era in which movie posters were still pieces of art in an of themselves. They were pulpy, and they featured strange-looking robots, aliens and monsters.

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  • popzero, on 04/17/2009, -0/+31Sigh. Monsters and robots get all the girls.
  • johnwiz, on 04/17/2009, -0/+17robots want clean kitchens too
  • vtbarrera, on 04/16/2009, -0/+11There are some freaking classics on that list.
  • nervoustwit, on 04/17/2009, -0/+10The Human Bat vs. The Robot Gangster ??? Why am I hearing this for the first time?
  • X9001, on 04/17/2009, -1/+8I love this sort of *****
  • goatworship, on 04/17/2009, -0/+7Why are evil robots so obsessed with human females?
  • therusher, on 04/17/2009, -2/+8dugg for the URL:
    "and-hot-bitches/"
  • RealmDown, on 04/17/2009, -1/+6I'm not punching this one up at work, but as a Galaxina better be there. RIP Dorothy Stratton

  • drgmdp, on 04/17/2009, -0/+5the birth of tentacle porn http://static.manolith.com/wp-content/uploads/2009 ...
  • inactive, on 04/16/2009, -1/+6as usual the french do it best here
  • digitalArtform, on 04/17/2009, -0/+5Femdom from Another World?
    She Came to Bring them Pain?
    They Came Because She Made Them?

    I want to see that one.
  • sqint, on 04/17/2009, -0/+5
    actually:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44 ...
  • Gr00ver, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4Monsters and robots 'take' all the girls.
  • inactive, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4One name, one movie- Barbarella.
  • thisUserEye, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4They might be corny be at least they were being inventive, that in itself is hard to find with the onslaught of regurgated sequels in our time.
  • inactive, on 04/17/2009, -0/+3Invasion of the Saucer-Men aliens are actually the inspiration for the design of Morbo on Futurama.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU94q9xoMr8&fea ...
  • darkowl02, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2i like the robot with feelings she will always have to obey my commands!
  • Samurai77, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2Seriously where has this movie been all my life?

    I got me some researching to do to get that one.
  • Smokeydabear, on 04/17/2009, -1/+3This guy obviously doesn't know ***** about Plan 9 from Outer Space.
  • unsigneddigger, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2You can get several of those posters on t-shirts at the Sci-Fi museum in Seattle. It's definitely worth visiting. (Sorry if this sounds like an advert)
  • Wakkyweed, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2SEE Teenagers vs. the Saucer-Men!
    SEE Disembodied hand that crawls...!
    SEE Night the world nearly ended...!

    Man, I gotta see that movie.
  • rif42, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2Exactly, that one was missing.
  • doctechnical, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2While I'll admit that before "2001" good science fiction movies were as rare as hen's teeth, but there were a few gems. Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Andromeda Strain (NOT the ***** sci-fi channel miniseries, the '69 movie). And some of the old movies were fun to watch (even though the plots were silly) just because Ray Harryhausen did the stop-motion animation for the monsters.
  • UnFriendlyFire, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1"Feminist Fembots from Femtopia"
  • spongefrogdigg, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Takes me back to a time when Boys read something more interesting than FHM
  • graemee, on 04/17/2009, -1/+2I don't know what to think about it, but I've seen all these films.
  • graemee, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1and how. Having watched it "cold" on TV. I thought it was pure camp and not a serious attempt at a film.


  • gatorfree, on 04/17/2009, -2/+3The first time I saw Forbidden Planet I kept waiting for Leslie Nielsen to say: "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley."
  • skintigh, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Weren't all of those posters done by local artists that had no affiliation with the movie? I recall learning that they were hired by the individual theaters to make promotions, and most never saw the movie they were depicting...
  • mlc1138, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1Agreed!
  • KalZakath, on 04/17/2009, -2/+3Ah, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Such an amazing film :D
  • LostOnion, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1The lady that the Green Slime has a hold of looks like she's enjoying it.
  • wolfing, on 04/17/2009, -1/+2I wish there was one in which the woman was carrying the fainted man in her arms :)
  • nem0, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1That Isotope Men robot sure has a lot of eyes.
  • crashbang, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Invasion of the love robots has got to be one of the most awesome things I have ever seen.
  • pelesinferno, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1wow i had no idea that women were so commonly carried away swooning by...well everyone. at last Galaxina can stand on her own, thats a bonus. maybe its because she's some kind of robot?
  • drlha, on 04/17/2009, -1/+2Because man created them!
  • shauntacular, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Galaxina will be in my dreams tonight!
  • merdiesel, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1I will definitely be rasterbating a couple of these. Great find!
  • Nicoon, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1so in short, it's a movie about parenthood?
  • Nicoon, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1And yet the Japanese are the ones who are notorious for the tentacle porn...
  • punkcat, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1it is.
  • doctechnical, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Crap. I clicked that at work and now I have to clean out my cache :)
  • doctechnical, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1"Inspector Clay is dead...murdered...and somebody's responsible!"

    Truly an awe-inspiring movie. If you're a real fan of Ed Wood movies and you haven't already scene the "Ed Wood" movie (with Depp), find it.
  • rif42, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Robot Monsters: Gorilla with a skeleton-face wearing a Russian cosmonaut helmet.

    Oh man, who came up with this kind of concept?
  • thepicklebot, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1I adore these poster designs, and it's great to see how they influence current pop culture
  • drgmdp, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1lol wut
  • depro9, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1This could be in the list also.

    http://www.impawards.com/1999/posters/iron_giant_v ...
  • novakaine, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1Almost buried for dissing on the Creature From The Black Lagoon but dugg for pulp goodness.
    Seriously, the Creatures costume is just badass.
  • fredy035, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1I liked "The Human Bat V. The Robot Gangster."
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