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Island of Terror

Peter Cushing horror movie, in which a remote Scottish island starts to become overrun by creatures that eat your Skellington, that were made in a secret government lab on the island.

I first saw this many years ago, and fell in love with it immediately. The creatures aren’t exactly sophisticated effects, but they work well enough looking entirely alien.

But what I really enjoy is the mystery angle, as the islanders band together to tackle the problem, and eventually find a solution, by applying the scientific method. Well. Kinda. As much as a low budget 1966 creature feature horror might allow.

The whole shebang would make for a terrific short run RPG, for something like World of Darkness.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


The Fremen ambushes on the Spice Harvesters make little sense. All the close up infantry stuff occurs. They do relatively little to the Harvesters - certainly no sign of shields being knocked out. Then the Laser Dudes pop up and absolutely muller the Harvester and its Carry All. Which begs the question “what was the point of the close up infantry stuff?”

I get the Lynch one takes often outrageous liberties with the source. But it’s still the better, and more entertaining, movie.

Literally all of this is explained in the movie. The harvesters don't have shields because they attract the worms. The infantry engage to bring down the air support so that the guys with the lasers don't get mowed down instantly when they fire.

Le Samourai

Can a stylish hitman in 60's Paris escape both a dogged police inspector and a ruthless ex-employer?

A film very heavily skewed towards style over substance, it looks good but the very minimalist plot and storytelling gets a little odd at times (It's never really explained how Jef ended up on the polices radar in the first place, and the sheer amount of resources the inspector can throw at pursuing his hunch is a tad unrealistic to say the least!).

It makes for an entertaining watch, but is perhaps a bit disappointing if you were after something a bit meatier.

It's Halloween. Time to watch some thematic fare.

Last Action Hero (1993)

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Hamlet, there's a lot of death, then there's actual Death, and a dude called the Ripper. I'm pretty sure it's a horror movie.

So I guess a bunch of folks were confused by it at the time, but thirty years later I think it can rightly be called a classic. Fun movie start to finish.

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

The name made it sound like a horror movie, but it turned out to be a comedy about Vinnie Jones doing Vinnie Jones things while making a Vinnie Jones face. Also some subplot about a crazy vegetarian photographer going off the deep end for no apparent reason with a bit of slapstick on the side.

Well, so it might have been intended to be a horror movie, but I laughed. A lot. It was good fun. But probably not in the way the makers wanted. I don't know.

I really liked Midnight Meat Train. Vinnie Jones is OK for the role (but possibly a bit too much Vinnie Jones for it too, but I like to see Vinnie Jones in films). It also convinced me that Bradley Cooper works well as a protagonist. (pretty sure I've seen it after Limitless, but I have a HUGE disliike for that film). I went into the film knowing nothing, enjoyed the ride

Also fun to see Ted Raimi splatted again.

He’s always good value as a character there to be splatted.

 Sigur wrote:
I really liked Midnight Meat Train. Vinnie Jones is OK for the role (but possibly a bit too much Vinnie Jones for it too, but I like to see Vinnie Jones in films). It also convinced me that Bradley Cooper works well as a protagonist. (pretty sure I've seen it after Limitless, but I have a HUGE disliike for that film). I went into the film knowing nothing, enjoyed the ride

Spoiler:

and it doesn't happen too often that films go all out Lovecraft on us in the end.

I like Vinnie Jones, but I think he played a British gangster one too many times for me to accept him in a different role. Which this one definitely is.

Agreed on the spoiler. I think that was well done.