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July 11

song on the radio?

I heard a song with the lines "good friend(s) saying "let me out" "why can't we all get along, get along, get along, (etc.)"

What song wa that? Dubious Status ^{How's it going?} 13:21, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Could be Under Pressure, by Queen and David Bowie. DuncanHill (talk) 13:24, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

giant single-celled organism horror film

Chlamydomonas

There is a black-and-white B-movie horror film about giant single celled organisms about a meter long and the shape of a cowrie which undergo bilateral fission. The movie may or may not have been set on an island. Can anyone identify it? Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 16:55, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Caltiki – The Immortal Monster ? (haven't seen it) ---Sluzzelin talk 18:39, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the guess, had never heard of that movie. You could possibly confuse the two from the plot description but, based on clips of the monster at youtube, it is definitely not Caltiki In the movie I am thinking about the creatures have a well-defined shape, again, similar to that of a cowrie shell, and I remember them being light in color, kind of like giant egg-shaped garden slugs. μηδείς (talk) 19:01, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

• Perhaps The Blob? --M@rēino 19:15, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

The monsters in Invasion of the Body Snatchers match the OP's description - see this clip after about 0:45. Tevildo (talk) 19:46, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

OH, come on, what do you take me for, not knowing The Blob or Invasion of the Body Snatchers! :D LOL! No, this is a low budget black-and-white very much B-movie that was broadcast in the Philly TV market in the 70's as part of the "Creature Double Feature" with very well defined cowrie-shaped unicellular monsters that were shown splitting lengthwise like unicellular organisms, after, I presume, ingesting one victim. I believe they had a poisonous sting. They moved like slugs. They were obviously eukaryotes and not amoebae. Picture a three foot long Chlamydomonad with one flagellum. μηδείς (talk) 20:16, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Possibly Island of Terror? (my last guess :-) ---Sluzzelin talk 20:19, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Actually, that might be it, although I do remember the movie being black and white--but also on an island, and the single flagellum from here looks familiar.

Hmm, from this trailer which shows the monster I think the stories are similar, but not identical. I remember the creatures being protoplasmic, not hard shelled. I remember the movie being older and cheaper, but the form of the monster and its replication every 12 hours is very close. μηδείς (talk) 20:32, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I found what I found with the help of IMDb and TV Tropes : At IMDb, I used keywords, genres, and the sort-by-release-date function, for example "blob" + "monster" in the "Horror" genre gives 11 hits. The earliest one is X the Unknown. You let your memory play the keywords (right hand side, scroll down a bit). For TV Tropes, you might find something listed among the examples for "From a Single Cell", "Blob Monster", "Nigh Invulnerability". There's even a page on "Island of Terror" itself. ---Sluzzelin talk 02:45, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, that is helpful. I had mostly been searching youtube and google. The more I think on it, the more I do believe Island of Terror must be the film, although the production looks better than what I remember. I may have seen it from a B/W print or on a B/W TV. I'll have to see what it looks like when the organisms divide, that will be the clincher. Now I just have to manage to find an available copy. μηδείς (talk) 02:56, 12 July 2011 (UTC)