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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth newer movie about how humanity lost its grip on the world and how the apes rose to domination of the planet. I have seen all the other of course, but I’ll be damned if I can remember every detail about them. I can’t. What I do know is that they follow a logical path. First Ceasar, the ape who finally said NO, is subdued. Later...
The Man from Planet X is an American Sci-Fi movie from the 50s. It all begins with a voice-over telling us that we’re about to see what happened and what chain of events that led us to this moment. So, the narrative has already started when the movie starts. Right away it’s obvious that this is a real low-budget film. There are scenes where the background is obviously a painting and the sets are built...
Dune: Part Two is more or less a direct continuation of the first part. A second part that I was looking forward to seeing when I saw the first one. I felt that the story was only half told when the first part ended. As I said when writing about the first part I’m a fan of David Lynch’s adaptation of the story and I know that isn’t a popular view. People say it’s incomprehensible...
Primeval is in short about the discovery of these anomalies that occur here and there in Britain. They connect time and space between the present and the distant past. And when I say distant past, I mean just that. It’s millions of years and there are all kinds of creatures on the other side. Mostly what we would call dinosaurs. I’m not sure it the visualisation of them is truly accurate all the time but...
Monolith is a special movie. What’s special about it, among other things, is that there’s only one actor onscreen. Everything else is just voice-acting over the phone. There are other films like it of course. Films where we only see one actor or when the set is quite limited to one place. On the top of my head, I think of Buried where Ryan Reynold is buried alive and needs to find a way to...
Gods of the Deep is an Alien clone of sorts in a specially constructed submarine for extreme depths. I don’t know why I didn’t notice it right away on the covert art, but Gods of the Deep is clearly a Lovecraftian tale. The whole thing just screams about ancient Gods and from what you’ll see it’s almost impossible not to think of Cthulhu. But that’s not all it is. I think it’s actually a blend...
In Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Kiss is the largest music attraction in the world and they’ve come to play in this theme park. Meanwhile, Abner Devereaux, the park’s developer, gets even stranger ideas than usual and is ultimately fired by his old friend who happens to also be the owner of the park. He plans his gruesome revenge! His plan to replace the famous rock group with his own creatures and use...
I wanted to write about Godzilla, or Gojira for a long time. It may not be the mother of all monster movies but it’s not far from it. Few films have had such an impact on the monster movie industry. It would be interesting to research a bit but it is my firm belief that without this movie, there wouldn’t be many of the giant monster movies we see all over the place today. Of...
It doesn’t really show on the poster art above, but Star Crash has a pretty similar font as another famous science fiction movie that came out a year prior to this. Of course, it’s a cash-in on Star Wars. There, I said it! The similarities are there, but they are also absent. Star Crash doesn’t claim to be a reality long ago in a galaxy far away. It pretends nothing. It’s just a story that...
I’m one of those who actually enjoyed David Lynch’s attempt at Dune from 1984. I know it does not stand in high esteem among most people but I never had a problem with it. I’ve even heard rumors that David Lynch wanted to take his name from it because it didn’t represent his vision. I would sure have wanted to see Jodorowsy’s Dune but in the meantime, I’ll settle for this. I recognize the story...
I will refer to this movie as Metalstorm although its full title is Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. Pretty long title that seems unnecessary to wear my keyboard down with. I should have realized that it was a movie for acquired taste when I saw that Charles Band was involved in it. Not that every movie he has touched over the years is awful but they’re kinda like “special”. With that said, I like to...
What is Cell Count? well… If you get the disease you’re as good as dead. Russell’s wife Sarah’s got it and she has no chance of surviving whatsoever… except for the chance Dr. Brandt offers Russell. He has the choice of seeing his wife suffocate by her own blood and vomit and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the hospital costs or joining in with his wife in a little experiment. Dr. Brandt is...
