At the Earth's Core

[The Infernal Mr Adams]

The first 12 minutes of this film is PERFECT....great great Steampunk elements...(cool digging machine which has a great Bridge set)...and then they arrive at the earth's core and suddenly it becomes a bad rubber monster movie. The weird thing is, though, that Doug McClure and Peter Cushing are awesome...very good performances....its just those damn rubber monsters

Regardless, its still a fun movie.

[Cory]

I can't wait to see this one when Lent is over and I can buy the DVD ^_Q

[The Infernal Mr Adams]

Let me know what you think, Cory. It is still a fun film even though it gets kind of cheesy sometimes.

[Brigand]

Doug McClure IS Mr 1970s Steampunk/Victorian Era-Actor.

The Land That Time Forgot
At The Earth's Core
Warlords Of Atlantis
The People That Time Forgot

Classics, all of them.

[Tinkergirl]

I've got the Doug McClure boxed set, and I have to say that To The Earth's Core was amazingly cheesy!  Perhaps I'm not as used to it yet, but oh my - even I thought Mr Cushing was going a bit far!  Loved him though, I have such a weak spot for the absent-minded professor archtype.  Not so much for Doug McClure though.

[kiskolou]

I saw this when i was 6, and i think it is what subconciously implanted steampunk into my head.

[Brigand]

I saw this when i was 6, and i think it is what subconciously implanted steampunk into my head.

Absolutely! I was discussing this with a friend just recently. My love of all things under the great steampunk parasol was definitely sparked by this film when I saw it on its release in 1976, at the age of eight. Credit must also go to George Pal's The Time Machine, and to a lesser extent, Robert Stevenson's The Island At The Top Of The World.

However, it was only within the last year or so that I came to realise that a whole sub-culture of like-minded individuals existed, and that there was even a defining term to encompass the genre.

[S.Sprocket]

However, it was only within the last year or so that I came to realise that a whole sub-culture of like-minded individuals existed, and that there was even a defining term to encompass the genre.

"My father says that everybody you see, everyone you talk to is asleep.  There are only a few people that are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total, amazement."

*shrug* I call them "steampunks"