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I've written essays about Alien and the Stranger and posted both on my Facebook page (Phil Cole) and Tsu.co (@Ford5555). The Alien article is easiest to find online at Actionelite.
Neither essay involves this approach. My Alien essay deals with the unusual sequence in which the characters die, defying all traditions.
My essay on the Stranger was more directed to the disturbing praise of Karl Marx, the over-the-top performance of Orson Welles, and of course-the problem with so many movies even to our present: a leading lady with no real identity except to be there.
Remember in Alien the real villain is not the alien. It's the corporation and their undercover representative.
Alien is science-fiction only because the spaceship and robot are more advanced than ours. No one invents anything. No one in that cast could have invented anything if they tried.

 

So are you mourning Wes Craven much right now?

 

Thanks, can you help me get paid by writing on the subject. I'm in imminent danger of homelessness.

 

I think the problem with Stephen King movies is that most of us see the movies after having read the book. And at least for me almost all movies are a major letdown after the book. As for my choice of a favorite the most horrifying movie I ever saw was Freaks, although I am not sure everyone would consider it a horror movie.

 

You'd probably enjoy (if you haven't seen it) of my favourite movies, 'Dead Snow':
[video=youtube;R19KagZyU40]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19KagZyU40[/video]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Snow

Nazi Zombies - what's not to love?!

 

There you go. And I liked "Carrie". The slasher/cutter movies don't do it for me.

 

Freaks would be terrifying if it were told from the woman's perspective. Imagine how she must have felt when she first met those people, then slowly came to feel superior, thinking they couldn't possibly harm her.
The film was complicated because it was mostly a showcase for the real actors. Her story was just to make it a story not a documentary. We were never supposed to worry about her.

 

I don't know much about Virus but I know a lot about her. Since both parents were actors she was pushed into the career.
I saw her on an episode of Columbo as a Donut waitress who forces him to throw out a donut he bought elsewhere as he chats with a suspect. She had the mean look on her face a pretty girl couldn't give credibly.
Any young actress could have played her part in Halloween and Halloween II but she gave the full intensity she had learned and was upset her acting was ignored.
Her next 2 films demanded talent-and nudity. She didn't enjoy the fact that after exposing her body she was suddenly getting critical acclaim as a serious actress.
Meanwhile her association with Halloween led to her role in Terror Train and a lesser actress would have continued.
Since 2 veteran actors are heavily featured in Trading Places, nudity was not expected and her gratuitous topless spot thrilled young boys in the early era of videotapes. She exposed herself a fourth time in the art house drama Love Letters.
These were not sex scenes however. In that film she was posing for a photographer she'd fallen in love with, parallelling a discovery about her mother.
As an exercise instructor in Perfect she avoided nudity and in A Fish Called Wanda she persuaded John Cleese that the scene would be funnier if he was nude and she was not.
She reunited with Dan Aykroyd in the My Girl movies, but as in Halloween, no one was watching for her.
The credibility that she was at no point naked in True Lies is stretching, as the film was playing off her body as much as possible. By then she was nearing 40 and had to know her career was soon to fall silent.
Then came the absurdity of Halloween H20. Trying to revive that franchise, reuse her and give her mother a small part showed just how desperate everyone had become.
I suspect this Virus a year later meant she was now willing to spend many years back in horror as long as her part retained some dignity. Have you seen her in a film since? I haven't.

 

I'm not afraid of zombies 'cos I can run faster than they can. Actually I can walk faster than they can run - if they could! I think that's what I mean!!

 

I'm not afraid because now matter how fast they run, I make sure there's always someone with me who runs slower than I do.

 

El Orfanato (The Orphanage) 2007
Only very rarely will I watch a movie for a second time but I did so this week. The Spanish have a special talent supernatural stories and Mexican director, Guillermo Del Toro, is masterful at creating a spooky atmosphere. "The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an orphanage. Laura plans to turn the house into a home for disabled children, but a problem arises when she and Carlos realize that Simón believes he has a masked friend named Tomás with whom he will run away." (Wikipedia)
For authenticity, if you do not understand Spanish, this film is best viewed with subtitles. You might not want to watch it alone at night but if you do, I guarantee you will need a handkerchief.

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Ever hear of blasters? Check out Znation or read this random review ; 'Z Nation' Season 2 Spoilers: Episode 3 Synopsis Released; What ...
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2 days ago ... "Z Nation" Season 2, episode 3 will see Murphy (Keith Allan) rejoin Operation ...Bite Mark as they discover a new breed of zombie. ... the Zs are attacked by superfast zombies known as Blasters that eat your face right off; and they are introduced to an.... .

I like this made for TV series a LOT better than the walking dead and its spawn offs. Its faster moving and the camera techniques and angles are pure art for TV fare (pun intended). Hell Z nation would be good big screen stuff....
REVA

 

If you liked this you might like Frankenstein's Army. The Good Doctor, Dead Nazis, Brutal Soviet soldiers, much hilarity ensues

 

In re Zombies, am I the only one who is just SOOO tired of them? I thought they were a passing thing but now it seems they're a whole new subgenre. I mean, yeh, reanimated corpses who want to eat the living and now everybody's a reanimated corpse and so the (*)(*)(*)(*)ing what. I thought Vampires were tiresome but this is just beyond belief

Has no one in the horror field had an original idea since 1990 or what? Are the only monsters that exist Vampires, Werewolves or Zombies. Any good weekly Dr Who shows more originality than the entirety of "horror" movies for the last 20 years IMO

 

Back in the 90s I counted the number of film and tv stories for each major monster and decided I'd reached a lifetime quota, so I've seen little of the new ones since.
On Zombies I have a new thought though.
The first Zombie movies, like White Zombie (1934) feature dead people revived but not motivated except to obey orders from a hypnotist type.
The first Night of the Living Dead film was more about incest than hunger and the corpses never got a satisfactory meal.
The newer Zombies can apparently talk and are insatiably hungry for brains.
What if any form of brains (including calves' brains available in many butcher shops) was enough and one meal a week sufficient?
They could then be much like vampires, using all their skills and knowledge from life to try to resume life as before.

 

"The Exorcist" is a classic horror film. I am so happy that I own a signed movie poster from "The Exorcist" with the autographs from the major stars.

 

Actually it's already been done. The BBC had a show called In The Flesh, in which Zombies, with a medical treatment, could be cured, and get their minds back and more or less live normal lives.

[video=youtube;3uAJklDka_U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uAJklDka_U[/video]

 

Is it safe to assume you're a fan of Son of Dracula?

 

Yes, I remember "Son of Dracula" when I was a kid and I do own that movie on DVD.

 

Thanks, I also just replied in another 6thread and the two may intersect when we discuss that film.
I guessed because Lon Chaney Jr (playing Dracula Jr.) calls himself Count Alucard.
If I'm not mistaken the story takes place in Louisiana and he actually marries and converts the leading lady.
How come they didn't require a birth certificate or blood test before issuing the marriage license?

 

Lon Chaney Jr. was good as Count Alucard. Yes, they did escape the blood test. Oh well, vampires get away with anything.

 

As I recall Barnabus Collins once managed to steal a blood sample from the doctor's office. it wasn't for a marriage license because he never got that far as a vampire.
My question is, does the recent Supreme Court decision mean that vampires, zombies and other reanimated persons could also marry in the US.
Also did you notice the inconsistent political correctness in Son of Dracula?

 

Shock Cinema > Horror> B Movies

 

No marriage for them. God hates fangs.