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Spine-Chilling Spores and Vicious Vegetation – A Gallery of Cinema’s Scariest Killer Plants
In the pantheon of memorable movie monsters, pestiferous plantlife has to rank just about last. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, mummies, mad scientists and their creations, golems and other artificial men – all of these can lay claim to having appeared in numerous classic films. Yet how many horror movies featuring frightful flora and fiendish fungi achieve [...]
The Invasion (2007) – Science Fiction Film Review
With three previous screen adaptations, Jack Finney’s venerable novel INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS would seem to have exhausted its cinematic potential – especially when the third version, 1993’s BODY SNATCHERS, turned out to be a disappointment – yet THE INVASION shows there is still potential life in the old pod people premise (even if that [...]
Clint Eastwood praises pod film
With THE INVASION opening this Friday (a remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, first filmed in 1956), I thought I would dip into the archives for a relevant tidbit. In July of 2005, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launched a tribute to late director Don Siegel with a screening of the [...]
