Very twisted clip from John Carpenter’s The Thing. A chest that opens up and sports big, jagged fangs? The better to bite your hands off with! Ugly. Outstanding mechanical visual effects by Rob Bottin. All these monster effects had to be built from wire frames and then dressed to achieve the required look and then remotely made to function by one or more operators A lot of motors, wires, cables and what have you brought these monsters to life. Disney called them animatronics. They don’t make them like this anymore. CG is much quicker and cheaper.
Collection of clips depicting disgusting violations of the human body as The Thing (from another world, of course) starts to wipe out an icebound outpost of civilization.
Another trend setter. Carpenter’s masterpiece centering on the immortal, knife-wielding psychopath, Michael Myers. Much creepiness and terror as Myers stalks Jamie Lee Curtis and her friends. Lots of shadows, lurking, mayhem, frights. A true classic.
A guilty pleasure! Caveman is dug up in China by a scientific expedition and transported by train out of the frozen wastes. Unbeknownst to the expedition, an alien life presence has been trapped inside the prehistoric life form and it wants to make up for millions of years of lost time! Namely, turning anyone who gazes into its hypnotic red eyes into a zombified slave who does the alien’s bidding. A battle between us and them erupts on the train ride with the very future of mankind’s supremacy on this planet at stake! Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are teamed up once again in this wacky little fantasy flick.
A varied collection of unusual movie and music video clips.
