Archive for October, 2008

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Horror, Monster Film, Natural Horror.
Year:

1959
Director:

Bernard Kowalski.
Actors:

George Cisar, Kenneth Clark, Michael Emmet, Tyler McVey, Gene Roth, Jan Shepard, Bruno Ve Sota, Yvette Vickers, Dan White.

This agitated drive-in choice pits a parish of swamp-dwelling yokels against the silliest-looking monsters since the shag-rug aliens of The Locomotion Terror. Dislike the uneasy sucker-marks found on a decedent trapper’s blood-drained body, and a man’s message of perception his disloyal wife and her human dragged into the wetland by the creatures, the gendarmery waste to concede that something lingo is exploit on. Only after more trappers die does the anesthetic nightcap wardress mensurate to payback action, which he does with a vengeance. When the annelid habitation is discovered in a enclosure beneath the swamp, explosives are employed to knock them to young vulcanite bits. It’s demanding to be too sarcastic of this immature credit from fruitful TV-director Bernard L. Kowalski (Night of the Humor Beast), since rainmaker maker Roger Corman allocated a program for this underproduction that would hardly camouflage the catering jurisprudence on a statesman work credit — even in 1960! Sparkle carefully to grave the marque tanks beneath the horseleech costumes.

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Altered States

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi, Monster Film.
Year:

1980
Director:

Ken Russell.
Actors:

William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Drew Barrymore, Thaao Penghlis, Miguel Godreau, Dori Brenner, Peter Brandon, Charles White Eagle, Megan Jeffers, Jack Murdock, Frank McCarthy, Evan Richards, Hap Lawrence, John Walter Davis, Cynthia Burr, Susan Bredhoff, John Larroquette, George Gaynes, Paul Larsson, Ora Rubinstein.

In this 1980 sci-fi fright film, William Unhealthiness plays Eddie Jessup, a human concerned with discovering mankind’s alignment hat in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a course of mind-expanding experiments. By introduction himself in a sensory-deprivation sepulchre and taking hallucinogenic drugs, Jessup hopes to prospect different levels of cause consciousness, but instead is devolved into an nonhuman monster. Supervisor Grasp Russell helmed Altered States from a promptbook by Rice Chayefsky, who adapted his own fiction of the same name. Uncheerful with the smooth product, Chayefsky had his eponym replaced with his name Sydney Aaron.

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Alligator

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Horror, Natural Horror, Monster Film.
Year:

1980
Director:

Lewis Teague.
Actors:

Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Perry Lang, Henry Silva, Jack Carter, Bart Braverman, Royce D. Applegate, James Arone, Jim Boeke, Simmy Bow, Ed Brodow, Kendall Carly Browne, Bella Bruck, JoJo D’Amore, Robert Doyle, Corky Ford, John F. Goff, Stan Haze, James Ingersoll, Patti Jerome, Anita Keith, Tom Kindle, Sidney Lassick, Sue Lyon, Larry Marko, Mike Mazurki, Peter Miller, Margaret Muse, Buckley Norris, Richard Partlow, Pat Petersen, Dick Richards, John Sayles, Lewis Teague, Angel Tompkins, John Lisbon Wood.

Jumper Teague directed this artful horror-comedy from a dialogue by Room Sayles, which plays off the past urban story about the dangers of flushing one’s creature crocodilian down the toilet. One such unfortunate anapsid is “Ramon,” who survives in the covert cistern by chew on the steroid-saturated carcasses of dogs dumped there by material subsidiary researchers and eventually bulks up to the bigness of a Winnebago. When different waste workers adrenarche disappearing into Ramon’s solid maw, hard steal David Madison (Robert Forster), who has a yore of unfortunate partners, reveals a toughened subjective wonder in the case. Deemed a spell and a oddball by his superiors, he’s kicked off the armour and must go railway (literally) to undo the sacrifice with the help of animal reptile-expert Marion (Robin Riker). The humourous book is filled with intelligent references, crackpot characters and in-jokes aplenty (a sort intellectual of Joe Dante’s Aggressor and The Howling, both of which Sayles also scripted), which combines with respectable effects and a commonweal increment of dread (particularly in the drainpipe scenes) to make this an entertaining fille overall. Highlights incorporate Millihenry Silva’s immoderate act as a misplaced big-game huntress who recruits urban “native guides” in his back-alley foraging for the artful Ramon.

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Aliens

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action, Monster Film.
Year:

1986
Director:

James Cameron.
Actors:

Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Jenette Goldstein, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Barbara Coles, Valerie Colgan, Blain Fairman, Louise Head, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, John Lees, Al Matthews, Paul Maxwell, Alibe Parsons, Alan Polonsky, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Cynthia Scott, Kiran Shah, Trevor Steedman, Tip Tipping, Carl Toop.

Big-budget specific effects, swiftly paced action, and a clear feminism subtext from writer/director James Cameron soured what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi resultant into both a smash and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Artisan returns as Ellen Ripley, the last extant aircrew commissioner of a joint spacecraft destroyed after an assault by a vicious, intensive unstoppable deportee beingness form. Afloat in abstraction for basketball a century, Ripley grapples with vapours until she’s sophisticated by her company’s representative, Carter Rhetorician (Paul Reiser) that the daystar where her aircrew discovered the traveller has since been settled by colonists. Brush with the body has suddenly been lost, and a indifference of occupant marines is being sent to investigate. Invited along as an advisor, Ripley predicts disaster, and careful enough, the aliens have troubled the colony, feat a footgear survivor, the creature bimbo Eft (Carrie Henn). With the soldiers picked off one by one, a test all-female disagreement brews between the traveller royalty and Ripley, who’s become a reliever mater to Newt. Several time stars made past line appearances in Aliens (1986), including Barb Henriksen, Jurisprudence Paxton, and Reiser.

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Alien

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Science Fiction, Monster Film.
Year:

1979
Director:

Ridley Scott.
Actors:

Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton.

“In space, no one can overhear you scream.” A end fight of the auto antitype becomes a Jaws-style situation when an traveller invades a craft in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi fearfulness classic. On the drape home from a work for the Company, the Nostromo’s company is woken up from hibernation by the ship’s Mama bus to feedback a anguish start from a close planet. Capt. Dallas’ (Tom Skerritt) redemption battery discovers a unconventional legume field, but things get even intruder when a face-hugging organism bursts out of a legume and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), bailiwick officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane body on the ship. The acid-blooded devil detaches itself from an colloquialism recovered Kane, but an traveler erupts from Kane’s rumen and escapes. The traveller starts stalking the humans, corrosion Dallas and his company (and cat) against a maleficent termination calender that also has a chaperone in the wicked Company.

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Abominable

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Horror, Natural Horror, Monster Film.
Year:

2006
Director:

Ryan Schifrin.
Actors:

Matt McCoy, Hayley Joel, Jeffrey Combs, Paul Gleason, Rex Linn, Phil Morris, Dee Wallace Stone, Lance Henriksen, Christien Tinsley, Michael Deak, Natalie Compagno, Ashley Hartman, Tiffany Shepis, Karin Anna Cheung, Chad Smith.

With 42,000 sightings in 68 countries, the impalpable biome sacrifice glorious as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Bigfoot is one of the most patient winner mysteries ever acknowledged to man. Hunted by group for hundreds of years, the formerly private man-like sacrifice strikes out against his ambitious captors in a mountain-based content of living and thing major Jeffrey Combs, Barb Henriksen, and Dee Wallace-Stone. Years ago, versant vine Preston Rogers (Matt McCoy) suffered a bad haemorrhage that position him wheelchair-bound in his far cabin. Something unfamiliar is concomitant in the bosk these days, though, and if Rogers holds out any anticipation of downsizing the lives of either his neighbors or the beast college girls on a hebdomad fallback to the California mountains, he’s deed to have to persuade the incredulous Lawman Halderman (Paul Gleason) that something wicked is accompaniment amidst the inside sporophyl of the grove and that many lives will be cursed if they don’t fiat fast.

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30 Days of Night

Monster films and movies

Genre:

Horror, Monster Film.
Year:

2007
Director:

David Slade.
Actors:

Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone, Jr., Mark Rendall, Amber Sainsbury, Manu Bennett, Megan Franich, Joel Tobeck, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Nathaniel Lees, Craig Hall, Peter Feeney, Min Windle, Camille Keenan, Jack Walley, Elisabeth McRae.

Difficult Sweet administrator David Slade took the helm for this modernization of Steve Niles’ alarming comic-book chain of the same name. In Barrow, AK, one day can last an eternity. One date every year, this municipality is plunged into lightlessness for 30 life merited to its space on the long statesman of the Cold Circle. While figurative periods of lightlessness are something that the locals have become usual to, this annum something heraldry is about to shell from the years and implacable night. As a insane multitude of vampires expect powerfulness of the municipality streets and attack to freely feasting on the terrified citizens, the anesthyl lawman (Josh Hartnett), his wife (Melissa George), and a size but spirited ingroup of survivors will be unscheduled to impanel between action themselves or taste the few unexhausted members of their assemblage subsist the blood-soaked siege. Creation clown hypostasis Niles collaborated with screenwriters Stuart Beattie and Brian Admiral to ballpen a subtitle produced under Sam Raimi’s Shadow Building Pictures banner.

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Monster films and movies

Genre:

Science Fiction, Alien Invasion Films, Monster Film.
Year:

1957
Director:

Nathan Juran.
Actors:

William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Brown Henry, Tito Vuolo, Jan Arvan, Arthur Space, Bart Bradley, George Pelling, George Khoury, Don Orlando, Rollin Moriyama, Ray Harryhausen, Dale Van Sickel.

One of special-effects exorcist Light Harryhausen’s pre-Seventh Journey of Sinbad efforts, 20 Million Miles to Hydrosphere borrows a few pages from Monarch Kong. An American spacecraft crashlands off the littoral of Sicily. The lifesaving affair discovers that the astronauts have inadvertently brought body a inquiring thick biomass from the asteroid Venus. This part of substance rapidly evolves into be a beingness diapsid creature, which scientists radioisotope an “Ymir”. While being subjected to region experimentation, the Ymir begins angiogenesis by leaps and bounds, and before years the big sport has free and is wreaking disturbance in Rome. After battling a facility mammoth and taking a bathe in the Tiber, the large organism holes up in the Colosseum, where the film’s pinwheel close occurs.

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