Tag: Sci-fi

It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Archived Reviews

  Robert Gordon directed a little more than the average creature feature from screenwriters George Worthing Yates and Hal Smith, because not only feature the talents of Ray Harryhausen’s special effects, but that it gives Faith Domergue’s role as an independent professor (more on this later). Yates truly understood the new dimension of horror with creatures…

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Alien: Covenant (2017) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Archived Reviews

  Fans and critics penned much about Alien: Covenant and the franchise itself, with the consensus that the latest movie falls into the favor of the fans, and while not making everyone happy, and that’s true for any fan of a series, can’t please everyone. Ridley Scott gave a solid sequel to Prometheus [2012], and…

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Color Out of Space (2019) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Film Reviews

Before one dives into the film there’s a few things to unpack first, among them when it comes to adapting authors their favorites among the horror genre, King, Poe, Barker and of course H.P. Lovecraft, and then there’s the understanding of cosmic horror subgenre. This last part becomes a slight confusion, for some, this is…

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The Final Countdown (1980) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Articles

Time travel films always present an interesting ripple in the horror sci-fi crossover, with fascination on the topic of recent Happy Death Day (2017), fans honestly forget all the rest, among them Army of Darkness (1992), The Terminator (1984), the comical My Science Project (1985) and of course Back to the Future (1985), which filters…

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DeepStar Six (1989) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Film Reviews

This might be the strangest concept to understand, DeepStar Six plot is very similar to Leviathan and it is also one of six creature feature underwater films to find itself dated 1989 through 1990, which doesn’t count any films involving sharks or those type of predators. In Hollywood and indie studios, trends start, and producers…

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Leviathan (1989) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Film Reviews

Sometimes in the horror genre a common theme appears over the series of years, for example a slasher movie catches the box-office attention and a slew of others flood the market, well in 1989, a weird element occurred, namely three movies with similar plots all taking place many miles down in the oceans. Those films…

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Ghostbusters (1984) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Articles

I afforded the opportunity to watch director Ivan Reitman’s classic 1984 Ghostbusters flick, it like Gremlins released on the same day, was something I missed at the theaters when I was a child; if one wonders why, wait for my autobiography. Needless to say, I have seen it countless times on the small screen, enjoying…

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Replace (2017) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Film Reviews

The phrase ‘body horror’ captures the fans attention, the eyes widen with delight, motionless faces become gleeful smiles, for those unaware it goes far past the conceptual term of method acting which has the actor enduring some serious modifications. Often it’s used with David Croneberg’s movies Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), or the flick Bite…

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Mold! (2012) By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Archived Reviews

Director Neil Meschino’s Mold, his first feature horror film, is a disgusting yet unique throwback to the 1980s filmmaking with an exquisite messy gore-fest in the sci-fi genre that satisfies all horror fans. In addition, an incredible treat for the b-movie audience that craves this type of production, the legendary actor Edward X. Young (Mr….

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Matango (1963) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Film Reviews

After nearly 10-years from the acclaim of Godzilla (1954) and many other films involving mega-sized monsters director Ishiro Hondo, brought another horror film, in the form of what would later become known as body-horror (think of Bite [2015] and The Fly [1986]) and is based on the story “Voice in the Night” by William Hope…

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