As the 1950s were drawing to a close a science fiction entry would explode on the screen and bring the world one of cinema’s most disturbing creations, in a movie that wasn’t so much about “mad science” as it was “Oh my god, that is so gross” science. That film would be director Kurt Neumann’s…
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The Thing (1982) – Review
In 1951, producer Howard Hawks and director Christian Nyby adapted John W. Campbell Jr.’s novella Who Goes There? into the science fiction classic The Thing from Another World, unfortunately, practical and visual effects of the time were not able to pull off the shapeshifting alien monstrosity from Campell’s story and this resulted in James Arness…
The Thing from Another World (1951) – Review
With the arrival of the 1950s the horror genre was slowly moving out of Gothic castles and beaker-strewn laboratories into the wider world of the atomic age, and with that came irradiated monsters and visitors from outer space. Launching this cinematic change was the Howard Hawks film The Thing from Another World, an entry that…
Lost in Space: Hunter’s Moon (1967) – Review
If you spend enough time “lost in space” as the Robinson family were – three full seasons – it’s not surprising that they’d run into one of the oldest story tropes in fiction and that would be adaptations of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” In this third-season episode of Lost in Space,…
The Running Man (1987) – Review
There have been many screen adaptations of the works of legendary horror writer Stephen King, some that have resulted in great movies like The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me but we’ve also had to suffer through the likes of Dreamcatcher and The Dark Tower, but in 1987 the world was treated to a film…