Talk about low quality. The make-up, costumes and what passed for special effects back then . . very amatierish and silly by modern standards. Remember the monsters-terrorizing-the-city shows? Godzilla, Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc. Some guy dressed up in a suit stomping through a minature set . . . about as believable as the sports maskots that bounce around on the sidelines now. Then again, fifteen years ago my sons thrilled to the "Power Rangers", whose villains stomped around in costumes about as silly.
Another funny thing was watching the old horror flicks. To see the Mummy dragging one leg like that, or Frankenstein with the robotic walk. I'd think, "They could never catch me, limping along like that!" One exception was "The Incredible Shrinking Man". I grew up fearing spiders, and the scene where the shrunken little man was pursued by the spider, and all he had to fight back with to prevent himself from being eaten was a straight pin. My father creeped up behind me during that fight and grabbed me. I jumped up three feet in the air from a sitting position!
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