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FloydPinkerton
Since: Nov, 2010
24th Jun, 2011 12:22:45 AM
That would be the 1966 film Island of Terror, starring Peter Cushing. The spaghetti is a dead giveaway.
71.107.62.198
Since: Dec, 1969
24th Jun, 2011 12:37:55 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Thank you! Looked up the title and found a still of a "spagetti shot"! So comforting to know I didn't imagine the whole thing!
"ISLAND OF THE...?" A low-budget sci-fi movie that aired on TV when I was growing up in the Seventies. People on an island menaced by creatures—can't recall if they were aliens or the product of an experiment gone wrong. Here's the gimmick: they looked like giant tortoise-shells with long, snake-like heads. They didn't move very quickly, but they were silent and unstoppable and multiplied frequently (splitting in half, revealing a spagetti-like interior.) If they "got you" they'd suck all the moisture out of you—or some nonesense like that. I guess they mostly got you in your sleep, or by stealth—certainly there were no chase scenes!
Ring any bells?