What do vegetarian lesbians, murder, and invading aliens have in common? The obvious answer would be Norman J. Warren’s cult classic Prey, a dark and twisted film that takes the audience on a claustrophobic trip with a trio of characters that are two parts Lewis Carrol and one part Hitchcockian. There have been many alien…
Tag: science fiction
Assimilate (2019) – Review
There have been many adaptations of Jack Finney’s classic science fiction tale The Body Snatchers, where alien organisms arrive on Earth and quickly proceed to duplicate the inhabitants, but as this has now become almost a subgenre, I see no problem with anyone taking another swing at the bat. Right off the top, I’ll state…
Voyagers! (1982) – Review
Today, if you turn on Netflix or Cable television, you’ll most likely come across at least a half-dozen shows involving a variety of heroes travelling through time to fix history, including such shows as Timeless, The Librarians, and the Travelers, yet back in the 80s this was a relatively rare concept for television. Other than…
The Terminal Man (1974) – Review
Based on one of Michael Crichton’s “techno-thrillers,” The Terminal Man deals once again with men of science crossing the boundaries of the natural world and the dire consequences such actions eventually lead to. The basic premise of this film involves the use of computers and brain surgery to, if not heal damaged brains, at least…
The Blob (1988) – Review
In movies, the effect of a meteorite hitting the Earth will most likely consist of one or two things: either we will see widespread catastrophic damage — tidal waves sweeping across major cities — or, if the meteorite in question is of a smaller scale, it will have undoubtedly brought an alien threat from outer…