I couldn’t tell you what this movie sets out to accomplish, or even what exactly happened by film’s end. I can tell you, however, that I enjoyed every minute of it. If there’s ever an online sale of props from this, I am prepared to put up my life savings for that enormous brain. Anyone wanna go halvsies?
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Lifeforce 1985
Ah, the 1980s. It was a simpler time: a time of magic, miracles, demons and gods. A time when a cult horror director could commandeer a $25 million budget to construct an amalgamation of thoughtful British science-fiction and American horror. A time when Steve Railsback was considered a viable leading man. I speak of the infamous flop Lifeforce.
Loosely based on Colin Wilson’s novel The Space Vampires — fairly on-the-nose for a title — director Tobe Hooper and screenwriter Dan…
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From Beyond 1986
Where would horror movies be without slime? It’s the perfect go-to method for disguising effect flaws while making the audience squirm with disgust. Enter From Beyond, the movie that puts the “goo” in “goopy.” Its chief monster, the dimensionally disfigured Dr. Pretorius, almost puts John Carpenter’s Thing alien to shame with its overall shape-shifting malleability and gallons of ooze.
As if that weren’t enough, the movie as a whole is an excellent exercise in mad science, sadomasochistic inventiveness and squirrelly…
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