It’s hard to believe that a mere 22 years divide the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Philip Kaufman’s 1978 remake. They look so different! They could almost have been made on separate planets! By way of modern comparison, … Continue reading They Get You When You Sleep! Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jack Finney started as a magazine writer working mainly in the genres of crime and thrillers, but it was his first full-length science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1955) that was to prove his breakthrough work. It was popular enough … Continue reading They’re Here, Alright! You’re Next! Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Warning: Contains Spoilers! The main problem with the 2011 version of The Thing – the third movie adaptation of John W. Campbell’s 1938 short story Who Goes There? – is that it doesn’t really know what it wants to be. … Continue reading It’s Not Human… Yet! The Thing (2011)
In 1976, Warner Bros acquired the rights to remake the 1951 RKO Radio Pictures production The Thing from Another World, but weren’t that excited about the project because science fiction was still considered a niche interest genre. It’s often incorrectly … Continue reading Man is the Warmest Place to Hide! John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
The August 1938 issue of the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction featured a short story which initially seemed unremarkable, but which has gone on to be one of the seminal works of American science fiction. Who Goes There? was credited … Continue reading Keep Watching the Skies! The Thing from Another World (1951)
Supernova is a bad sci-fi movie. In fact, it’s pretty much the metric by which all bad sci-fi movies are measured. I mean, sure, you can look at Robot Monster or Plan 9 from Outer Space and they are clearly … Continue reading Thar She Blows! Supernova Revisited
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Since Black Mirror started on Channel 4 in 2011, there has always been a lot of lazy journalism that describes the series as a modern Twilight Zone; because it’s an anthology series with sci-fi leanings and that’s … Continue reading Black Mirror Season 6: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! M. Night Shyamalan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inconsistent directors. In a career with more peaks and troughs than a pig farm in the Andes, he’s directed everything from solid gold classics like The Sixth Sense … Continue reading Old: Review
I’ll be honest here; I’m not a great reader of Stephen King’s books. Not because I‘ve anything against them, quite the opposite; the ones I’ve read, I’ve really enjoyed. He just has so many books and I like to spread myself pretty thinly as a reader. Having said that, from what I have read of his, I can fully see why he is regarded as the world’s greatest horror author. A lot of writers think that horror is all about blood and violence and the visceral human fear of being hunted and killed, but Stephen King realises that all of … Continue reading ‘Later’ by Stephen King: Review
The name of Hammer Films is now inseparably attached to classic horror, but this occurred more by financial necessity than artistic choice. Throughout their 60s heyday, the studio were trying to get all manner of projects off the ground, their … Continue reading Return to the Lost Continent!
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