Sci-fi Friday - They Live (1988)

John Carpenter's 80's sci-fi b-movie classic, They Live seems all the more topical given the recent economic meltdown whose effects are rippling across the globe tearing jobs out of the system as it goes. As IMDB puts it;

"Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued."



Also the movie has one of my favourite quotes.

"Nada: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum. "

Sci-fi Friday - Them!!!!

A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs!

"Nuclear tests in the desert result in the growth of gigantic mutant ants who menace cities in the American south-west as a team of investigators and the army search for a way to control their spread in this Cold War-era monster film."

IMDB

Sci - Fi Friday (delayed)

A little late, I know but yesterday was quite hectic, what between writing articles, editing videos, processing photos, having an interview and teaching. But without further ado is this week's addition to Sci-Fi Friday, Howard Hawk's 1951 classic The Thing from Another World. As IMDB puts it;

"Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!"





What makes this movie stand out from its "guy in a monster suit" contemporaries is the witty dialogue and interesting ideas.

For other classics such as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and The Brain That Wouldn't Die check out Classic Cinema Online.

Sci-fi Friday

I thought that I would start a new idea. Every Friday I will post a full length sci-fi movie or TV episode. They will be the kind of things that you don't usually come across in your local video club or perhaps haven't been shown for years on TV channels, so don't expect Star Wars or anything else so mainstream.

To start off with here is Quatermass and the Pit (1967) which I saw when I was young and remember scaring the living daylights out of me.

"While digging a new subway line in London, a construction crew discovers first: a skeleton, then what they think is an old World War II German missle. Upon closer examination the "missile" appears to be not of this earth!"

From Imdb

If you have any suggestions or know of sites which stream such movies online, let me know.