Alert emailer “DaveyR_98” suggests we discuss…
“Oldest-appearing ‘teenager”” in a film. One rule: no fair looking up the actor’s age, this is just by appearance. Also, be aware that the actors in “Ring of Terror”were supposedly in medical school – they would have been in their (ha ha) twenties, so they are not eligible. My candidate: the “supernaturally unappealing” (Mike Nelson’s verbiage, applied to a different actor) Mel Torme in “Girls Town”.
I’m expanding the discussion to include shorts, allowing me to mention Liz, the Romulan roommate in “Is This Love?”
What’s your pick?
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The guys in the band in “Earth vs. The Spider”. Especially the Conductor. He looked like a parent more than a student.
And as far as “Ring of Terror”…I think George Moffat and the truck driver who loved toenail clippings were the only ones who really looked too old for the role. The others could pass if you’re generous about it.
No. 23 has the episode right, but the man Landon has a fight with early in the film has to be in his mid-30s. The one who tried to kibitz him out of it. He even apologized, yeah that’s right, apologized.
For a short, I’ll have to agree with Liz the Romulan Roommate from “Is This Love?” She looks 40 at least.
None of the “Teenagers from Outer Space” looked like teens, although perhaps a teenager on their planet means something completely different than Earth teens. You know, like dog years.
Does that one middle aged aunt-like victim count from Teenage Strangler? Even Mike and the bots point out that she looked way older so if she was to be a teenager that was strangled, then my disbelief is not only suspended, it is floating away.
@48: I was just about to post Hobgoblins and you beat me to it. Were they supposed to be in high school? Maybe even asking that simple question is thinking far too hard than this movie requires, and trying to make sense of Hobgoblins is a foolish exercise in and of itself.
@55. The young people in Hobgoblins are probably just out of high school, so between 18-20 years old.
I think the Clippers from City Limits are supposed to be teens, however, many are shown to be sporting full beards and grey hair. Darrell Larson and John Diehl were not teenish looking, or even Rained-On (Raiden) Chong. Earth V Spider had pretty Old teens overall; and GirlsTown was full of 30-yr-old teens. However, many of the shorts had authentic teens, like What to Do On a Date, or Cheating, or Juv Delinquency. But then my parents looked 40 to me when they were in high school in early 60s.
Gotta go with the “Toh-Cha!” guy in Teenagers From Outer Space. Or was he supposed to be some kind of field trip in outer space chaperone? Still. Really old teenagers from outer space.
Just how old is ‘Winky’ supposed to be in the ‘Rocky Jones’ episodes? ‘Cause he looks pretty old for what i imagine his age to be.
Just about all of the Untamed Youth.
The Big Shot of “High School Big Shot” appeared a bit long in the tooth to be a HS senior, especially given the fact his suicidal father looked at least seventy.
And apropos of nothing, Mamie Van Doren can never drown. Think about it, won’t you? Thank you.
The characters in Ring Of Terror were supposedly in medical school which is post-graduate work, yet all the activities portrayed in the film outside the classroom are UNDERGRADUATE activities. No one is rushing fraternities and worrying about “keggers” or “mixers” with the passion of the “kids” in the film once they get to medical school, that’s all stuff one sees from people around 18 years of age at a 4-year college or university for undergraduate work. Medical school students are generally working far too hard to get their medical degrees for that much partying and undergraduate fraternity activities are far behind them if they ever participated in those by the time they get to med school. The movie has more problems than just the low budget and weak story, it’s implausible and poorly conceived on nearly every level.
These have probably already been said, buuuuut…
Yeah, definitely the Romulan roommate in “Is This Love?”, then there’s the teenagers from both outer space and earth, in Teenagers from Outer Space, the octogenarian teenager from Space Mutiny (you KNOW that’s what she was trying to play!), The Teenage Strangler worked out to be pretty old, and who can forget Elaine, the Den Mother of Party Beach?
@#62 (Mr. Bob) – Indeed, you make an excellent point… but now you have punctured (for me) the otherwise uncanny verisimilitude achieved by the perpetrators of “Ring of Terror”. (Gosh… I’ve experienced “ROT” many times over 20 years, and only just now has it dawned on me that the title refers to the “climax” of the plot! Just goes to show how our minds can employ powerful techniques to anesthetize us from extreme pain)…
same as #63 That Romulan chick was at least 35.
The “teenage” cast of “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”:
Servo: “Well, I was reading Modern Maturity…”
Ain’t no party like a Scranton party cause a Scranton party don’t stop!
Let’s not forget the teens in the short “What to do on a Date.”
Maybe we can give the Teenage Strangler a pass since the title is actually what smarty types would call ambiguity of scope. Is he a strangler of teenagers or a strangler that’s a teenager? Think about it won’t you?
It’s been mentioned before, but Troy Patterson was ‘Joe’ in Earth vs the Spider, who I believe is the guy the main kid borrowed a car from and was the band leader or whatever. He was 35 when the movie was made.
In 1958 Robert Vaughn made Teenage Caveman. He was born in 1932, making him 26 years of age at the time. Young, but hardly a teenager.
I have to agree with number #52 in the opening scene from I was a Teenage Werewolf it looked like Michael Landon was fighting with his guidance counselor.
“Hey, look, I’m sixty! But I’m still rockin.”
-Catalina Caper
Soultaker teenagers…