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Something similar to Aliens.Anything good out there?
Thanks!
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Much more of a real horor flick that the sequel which was more of an action flick.
I always like The Blob for a non-to-serious sci-fi/horror.
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From Dusk Till Dawn (Quinton Tarentino)
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A musical sci-fi horror movie and comedy. It has it all.
If you want something like Aliens try James Cameron's other sci fi movies. I like the original Terminator best.
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Both the original (w/ James Arness of "Gunsmoke" fame as the monster) and the remake (w/ Kurt Russell as the main character)."The Green Slime" is good for a hoot if you get off on oldies with rocket models on strings, etc.
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Brilliant film, Cold War paranoia at it's best. The other question is DID Howard Hawks produce AND direct this classic, OR did screen credited director Christian Nyby? Either way 5 stars, Joe Bob says so!
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With james Woods as the head vampire killer.
It added a nice spin to the usual vampire bullshit.
Nice special effects with lots of vampires being "staked"
YECHy
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The movie is a pale imitation of the book IMHO, but I'm biased because I know the author, John Steakley, and the book all too well! In this particular novel John featured quite a few of his friends as characters (i.e., by name, no less, with their permission), and I have the dubious honor of saying that my somewhat illustrious character survived to the end of his book. :o)Here's a bit more trivia. I met my wife, Roxanne, as an indirect result of John's book. We were both guests at a Dallas area space science & SF convention 11 years ago, but we'd only met casually. However, she came up to me at a dance the second night of the conference and floored me by asking the following question: "Is it true that you go through women like an International Harvester through a wheat field?" For those who haven't read Vampire$, that was a line spoken by the character John dubbed "Cherry Cat" [Note: My middle name, which I also sign my work under, is Cat; he combined that with the last name of fellow artist and mutual friend David Cherry, brother of the highly regarded SF author C.J. Cherryh. John based the character of Cherry Cat on my somewhat *ahem* overblown reputation with women and David's former career as a corporate law attorney in Oklahoma.] Anyway, to make a long story longer, after I picked my jaw up off of the floor and the laughter subsided Roxanne and I started dating and the rest is history!
So, YECH, as you can see, there's a lot more to the story of Vampire$ than John Carpenter's paltry effort.
And as usuall the book is better,i'll have to take your word on that.But I will.
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American Werewolf in London,
"V" - a really good (IMO) made for tv series,Not counting those already mentioned by audiophilander,
my guilty pleasure favs are Hidden and Puppet Masters
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Sci-fi
: Day The Earth Stood Still (Michael Rennie)
The Thing (the 50's original)
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Horror:
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Nosferatu (Max Schreck - 1922)
"M" ... Peter Lorre (1930; a pyschological horror film of a man (Played by Lorre) who is a child-killer, and the hunt by the Police & underworld for him).
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For a film that pokes good natured fun at Horror films, "Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein" (Stars Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi as "Count Dracula"; Glenn Strange as "Frankenstein"; Lon Chaney, Jr. as "The Wolfman".
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"Nosferatu" & "Abbott and Costello meet..." are on DVD.
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Besides the first two Alien movies, there's...Pitch Black
Supernova
Starship Troopers
Total Recall
Dark CityEarth-bound SF with horror elements
Blade Runner
Terminator
Terminator II
Predator
Tremors
AI - Artificial Intelligence
Metropolis (Fritz Lang silent era classic)Note: AI has more subtle, internally perceived horror.
Of those I've listed the scariest is probably Pitch Black. BTW, ideally Dark City would be viewed back to back with Fritz Lang's Metropolis (i.e., the restored version which will be released on DVD around the first of next year).
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