Ash, that transmission... Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S.
-Ripley
When you get right down to it, Alien is a "B Movie" made with "Triple A Movie" sensibilities. The story in one broad stroke is a crew of people on a ship getting killed off one at a time by a creature. A story doesn't get more "B Movie" then that. I think the problem ended up being that every single person involved with the…
They're coming for you, Barbara!
-Johnny
The birth of the modern zombie. It's often that Night of the Living Dead is simply mentioned as the first modern zombie film and almost all the praise goes to Dawn of the Dead as the greatest zombie film ever made. Night deserves much more praise then that.
The rules of the modern zombie is engraved in pop culture. My 9 year old stepdaughter knows what a zombie is and she's never witnessed a…
I should have read my horoscope this morning.
-Maindrian Pace
It’s one of those movies you quickly realize with each passing moment that you’ve been watching what it inspired all your life from the Beastie Boys to Quentin Tarantino.
Written, directed, produced and starring H.B. Halicki. Sadly, I learned after why I had never seen one of his films before as he died 15 years later in an accident while making Gone in 60 Seconds 2.
As I’m sure almost…
Happy Stephen King Day!
Raising my rating by half a star. I have total nostalgia for this as I loved it as a kid. It’s by no means a great film, but every time they come out with another one of these the original keeps looking better and better.
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Degrees of Separation from Last Movie:
-Children of the Corn with Linda Hamilton
-Was in The Color of Courage with Laurie Murdoch
-Was in Carrie
Roar!
-Shark
Instead of doing a review I will just point out the crap that inhabits this film.
- The shark roars like a lion.
- Mario Van Peebles does a Jamaican accent
- The shark swims from New York to the Bahamas in less then 3 days.
- This is the sequel that popularized the tagline "This time it's personal!"
- African Americans feet apparently look Caucasian under water
- The god damn shark is hunting one family, even…
