All the month of October leading up to Halloween I’m going to be posting a series of random screengrabs from one of my favorite horror movies of all time: Night of the Living Dead.
Tag: halloween
31 days of The Thing from Another World #31
Happy Halloween!
The Thing about The Thing about The Thing
A few weeks back I re-watched the 1982 The Thing for the dozenth(?) hundredth(?) time. I was struck that three decades after its initial release The Thing still works from story to cast to setting and that the special effects of the movie didn’t look dated in the least. And last fall I re-watched the original 1951 The Thing From Another World and it’s still one of my favorites too. What’s not to love in the original’s post-WWII “aww-shucks good ol’ American know-how can whip anything when we put pull together” theme? Continue Reading >
31 days of The Thing from Another World #30
Somebody in this camp ain’t what he appears to be
I’ve been a big fan of the two sci-fi/horror films The Thing From Another World (1951) and the remake The Thing (1982) for many years now. Though both movies deal with the same subject matter, namely an alien invasion fought by the small crew of a far off base, each approaches the material very differently. Continue Reading >
31 days of The Thing from Another World #29
The “Thing” About Halloween…
The great thing about Halloween is that it’s the one time of year that lots of good sci-fi/horror films turn up on television — and I’m not talking about any of the recent Saw movies. I’m talking about classic sci-fi/horror, where the men are real-men who use large caliber weapons and flame throwers to send the beasts of hell back from where they came. My absolute favorite sci-fi/horror movie from this period has always been The Thing From Another World (1951). Continue reading >
31 days of The Thing from Another World #28
