Five Kick Ass Final Girls Of The 1970s

So far so good, in this series I have outlined the women of horror, that have kicked some major big bad evil killer butt from the 1980s to the 2000's and since it has been a while i thought that it might be kind of fun to do the 1970s!

Now the truth is, is over the decades there have been a ton of amazingly talented women that have taken on some of horror movies worse villains, and so it was hard to cull it down to 5, but here is what I believe them to be:

At number 5: Kyle Richards (Eaten Alive).

Kyle Richards as seen in, 'Halloween' (1978). 

Kyle Richards... Now you might not think it... I mean last I heard, Kyle Richards has mostly been doing reality tv these days, but when she was a kid, she did a lot of horror movies, and in each one... (At least the ones that I have seen,) she has last to the end of each one of them... And thus I think she definitely deserves a place!

For more information on Kyle Richards, please check out these scene from: Eaten Alive (1977):

At number 4: Linda Bliar (The Exorcist).

Linda Blair in, 'The Exorcist' (1973)!

Now let's be honest here, The Exorcist is one of the most famous horror movies of all time, and with Linda Blair having starred in the first two, she definitely deserves her place in this listing of 5 kick ass final girls of the 1970s!

For more information on her work, please check out these trailers for: The Exorcist (1973) & Exorcist 2: The Heretic (1977):

With number 3 we have: Marilyn Burns (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).

Marilyn Burns as, 'Sally Hardesty' in one of the most famous scenes in horror movie history in, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'!

Marilyn Burns... Now I am sad to say that this amazing talent, who really did a majorly awesome job of being a final girl in the 7os, as well as having maintained a role in horror movies ever since, has past away earlier this year, but if you haven't seen her work, you should, she totally rocks in just about everything she did!

For more information on Marilyn Burns, please check out this trailer for: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974):

Next up on the block, at number 2: Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters).

Sigourney Weaver in, 'Alien' (1979)!

Sigourney Weaver, her role in the Alien movie series has been truly prolific, and after having been in 2 prolific Science Fiction series (the Alien movie series, and the Ghostbuster movie series,) she is definitely one that is worth mentioning for her role in helping bring the Alien movie series to the world in 1979!

For more information on Sigourney Weaver, please enjoy this trailer for: Alien (1979):

And finally, at number 1: Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween).

Jamie Lee Curtis as: 'Laurie Strode' in, 'Halloween' (1978)! 

For Jamie Lee Curtis, I am mentioning her here, because besides the fact that she helped create a series that to the day is still beloved by fans all over the world, her work in the horror movie world in both the 70s and 80s was truly remarkable!

For more information on Jamie Lee Curtis, please enjoy this trailer for: Halloween (1978):

The truth is, is there are a ton more, but I would personally say that these girls truly kicked some bad boy butt (or some monster butt)!

Alien: Resurrection (1997) - Movie Review

Official Score = 1 Devil 

Alright, I hate to say it, but some times movies need a new fresh look (or in some case the final nail in the coffin,) before that franchise destroy's itself with shitty campy movies that just destroy itself!

A couple of examples of this are:

1. Halloween 2 (2009). Now the truth is, is I liked this movie, but this movie showed that the remake series of John Carpenter's classic movie series was already beginning to head down the wrong path...

2. The, 'Sleepaway Camp' movie series... Now here is a great example of a classic slasher movie franchise that just did not listen to itself... What I mean by this, is that the first 2 movies were true B-Movie exploitation genius... But the sad truth is that the third in the series, where as it was good, was starting to head in that direction of over done campyness, and the 4th one... Well to say the least was there...

And that is just a couple of examples, another one being, Alien: Resurrection (1998):

You see, this movie, which brought back Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters) for her final performance as, 'Ellen Ripley', was over exaggerated... The guns were ridiculously oversized, the story concept, (a story of how Ellen Ripley is brought back to life through cloning centuries in to the future in an effort to bring the, 'Alien' species back to life, (to use as weapons...) A great story concept right?) Well the truth is, is the story was poorly written and unbelievable...

Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) with her, 'Xenomorph' off spring... The birth of a mistake...

The truth is, is that the only 3 things that I liked about this movie was the fact that Sigourney Weaver came back to series, and some classic 90s talent like, Winonna Ryder (Edward Scissarhands) and, Brad Dourif (Child's Play) came in to the film...

And the last thing that I liked was that this piece of garbage got the studio's to take the series in a different direction and brought Ridley Scott (Alien) back to direct, Prometheus (2012)... A prequel to the first one... (For those of you who don't know, Ridley Scott was the maestro that helped bring this prolific series to life!)

In the end, if you haven't seen this movie yet, but are a fan of the series, but haven't seen this movie yet... I would say, 'do so'... It is one of the series (but if you are going to expecting the same type of epic that made the first 3 so good... The you maybe disappointed... If you go in to it expecting nothing... Well you never know!)

Alien 3 (1992) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

When I was a kid one of the movie series (at this time there was only 2), that I used to watch with my Dad and sister alot was the Alien movie series... Why you might ask... Well simply, besides the fact that both the first and the sequel were both action packed scare fests, they also both had some truly awesome casts that did an amazing job!

Unfortunately though, as time moved on, we have gotten together less and less to see these movies, and the truth is, is that most of these movies (especially since Sigourney Weaver has left the series), have kind of grown to be pretty bad... I have kind of strayed away from the series... But when all is said and done, this movie that I am about to review, I find to be the first of the movie series to really begin the slow descent in to cheesydom that most franchises seem to go... That movie being, Alien 3 (1992).

Written by: Walter Hill (The Warriors) & David Giler (Fun With Dick And Jane) & Directed by: David Fincher (Fight Club). Starring: Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Charles S. Dutton (Gothika), Charles Dance (Last Action Hero), Paul McGann (Doctor Who), Brian Glover (An American Werewolf In London), Ralph Brown (Wayne's World 2), Danny Webb (Henry V), Christopher John Fields (Jurassic Park) & Lance Henriksen (The Terminator).

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Hopefully Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and this batch of convicts are up to the task of destroying this new Alien threat![/caption]

This movie tells the story of how after the events that happened in, Aliens (1986), The Queen Alien had managed to produce one more offspring that had managed to attach itself to the pods that housed, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Hicks (Michael Biehn), Bishop (Lance Henriksen), & Newt (Carrie Henn).

Well the ship ends up evacuating the crew in an escape vehicle, that ends up crash landing on a Prison planet... Well, Hicks ends up dying from the impact, Newt ends up dying because of becoming an incubator for a new Alien, Bishop becomes un-serviceable, and the only survivor really is, Ripley!

Well in the end, with a new Alien brought to this new planet, it looks like it will be up to Ripley and the Prisoners on this planet, to stop the Alien before the Alien can use them to start a new Alien race!

In the end, this may not be the best of the series, but it certainly is not the worse... And really is the last of the better movies in the series before the slow decent... Well up till Prometheus anyway...

http://youtu.be/9vnjQPcrcZI

Aliens (1986) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_415" align="alignright" width="350"] Official Score = 4 Devils[/caption]

Written by: James Cameron (The Terminator), David Giler (The Money Pit), Walter Hill (The Warriors) & Directed by: James Cameron. Starring: Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Carrie Henn (Alien Evolution), Paul Reiser (Mad About You), Lance Henriksen (Millennium), Bill Paxton (Twister), Michael Biehn (The Abyss), Jeanette Goldstein (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), William Hope (Captain America: The First Avenger), and Al Matthews (Tomorrow Never Dies).

This movie is an interesting one to me, you see usually sequels tend to not to be as good as the original movie… They usually have overblown special effects, a bigger cast, and an over the top story that seldom is ever as good as the original… This movie to me is not one of those!

You see this movie had a great cast which brought back Sigourney Weaver (who played Ellen Ripley in the first movie) and told the story of how after the hell that she went through on board the Nostromo fighting the first Xenomorph attack, she ends up drifting through space for centuries in the Nostromo’s escape craft’s Hypersleep chamber!

Now when she gets back, she ends up losing her status within, ‘The Company’ when they learn that she is the only one that has survived the attack on the, ‘Nostromo’ and all of her crew is killed by the Xenomorph…

After she loses her status in the company and is relegated to loading freight on to ships that are coming in and out of the company’s space station near Earth, she also ends up finding out what happened to her daughter centuries ago, and ends up falling in to a deep depression… That is of course until Carter Burke (Reiser) pays her a visit…

[caption id="attachment_896" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Carter Bruke (Paul Reiser) and Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) not longer after Ripley is rescued from the, 'Nostromo' escape vehicle![/caption]

You see Burke got it arranged to have a colony installed on to LV426 (the planet where Ripley and the Nostromo had originally picked up their Alien passenger that ultimately ended up destroying the Nostromo, it’s crew, and ruining Ripley’s life!)

Now the Colony has stopped communicating with the company back at home and Burke is putting together a team of Colonial Marines (an elite military unit that works with the company) to head to the planet to check on the colony, and since Ripley had been their centuries ago, Burke decided to bring Ripley along as an advisor on the mission… (and despite her better judgment decides to head off with Burke and the Marines…)

In the end, Burke, Ripley and the rest of the Marines will get more then they bargained for when they make it to the planet and Ripley comes face to face again with the Aliens that ruined her life!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Ripley is about to go head to head one more time in, 'Aliens (1986)![/caption]

Now you wouldn't think it, but this movie in my opinion maybe one of the few sequels that are as good (if not better than the original), and I think that is in large part due to the fact that the first two Alien movies were directed by Directors who would later become Science Fiction Masters! (Ridley Scott for Alien (1979), and James Cameron for Aliens (1986)!)

Another thing that I really liked about this movie is the special effects… I mean like most sequels, the special effects are bigger and more splashier… (these are, but they are done really tastefully.)

The cast of course was utterly phenomenal in this (as they are in most of the other movies that I have seen them in…)

And in all truth, the story was awesome! I mean I always love Sci-Fi, but I also love how they put an element of drama and deceit that was all believable and very well done!

In the end, this movie is an amazing good time and if you haven’t seen it yet, then you might give it a try… I think you might really like it!

http://youtu.be/XKSQmYUaIyE

5 Sci-Fi Movies For Christmas

With Christmas coming up here in a couple of weeks, I would be remiss if I didn't mention what I thought would be 5 great Sci-Fi movies that I thought that you guys would like if you are looking for something to watch with your family, or if you are spending Christmas this year by yourself or, if you’re looking for something for the Sci-Fi movie fan in your life!

At number 5 we got: Mars Attack! (1996):

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] President James Dale (Nicholson) as he is being held hostage by a Martian![/caption]

This movie is awesome! I mean if, with a great cast that includes people like, Jack Nicholson (The Terror), Pierce Brosnan (Of James Bond fame) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Ed Wood). Rather you are a fan of classic Science Fiction and are looking for something to watch by yourself or with your family this year for Christmas, than you are going to love this movie… Simply put, it is a spoof of the classic Sci-Fi invasion movies that came out between the 1950s – 1970s!

At number 4: Bicentennial Man (1999):

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Robin Williams asthe robot, 'Andrew Martin' in, 'Bicentennial Man' (1999).[/caption]

If you’re a Sci-Fi fan, and you are looking for a movie that is fun for the whole family (young and old alike), then this one is a great heart -warming (and oft times funny) tale that stars Robin Williams (Insomnia), and tells the tale of a Robot who starts off as a servant to a family, and ends up finding that he wants more and ends up going on a journey to try and discover his humanity!

At number 3: Spaceballs (1987):

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="501"] John Candy as, 'Barf', Daphne Zuniga as, 'Princess Vespa' and Bill Pullman as, 'Lone Starr'[/caption]

At number 2: The Ghostbuster movie series:

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in 'Ghostbusters' (1984)[/caption]

Let’s be honest, this movie series is legendary, with a great cast (which includes the likes of: Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts, and Rick Moranis), these movies have great and hilarious story lines! In the end, no matter if you are alone this year or with your family this year for Christmas, then this one could be a good fit for you… (I know it is for me)!

At number 1: The Back To The Future Trilogy:

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378"] Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox in the, 'Back To The Future' series![/caption]

In my opinion this movie series is just about the perfect series to watch for the Holidays! I mean it is hilarious, it has a great cast (including Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd) and it is a movie series that both Kids and Adults love!

In the end, I know that most of these movies are Sci-Fi Comedies, but the truth is, is that Comedies are great, and all of these movies would be fun for Christmas rather you are alone or with your family and if you are looking for something for the Sci-Fi movie fan in your life, than hopefully this will help you with your decision!

http://youtu.be/m0idkvjPcz8

http://youtu.be/z5YMEwX2-88

http://youtu.be/2JaJG1fXHpM

http://youtu.be/RexxlFwWtSI

http://youtu.be/9u4FHmId-Y0

Alien (1979) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_415" align="alignright" width="300"] Official Score = 4 Devils[/caption]

The Alien series... What can I say about this series? I mean one for one just about every major player in this series' careers have been helped by this series, including Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters), Ridley Scott (Prometheus), Dan O'Bannon (Total Recall), and even Walter Hill (The Warriors) to name a few!

Now as for Alien.... I personally think this movie is fantastic because I found the special effects to be so realistic that the various Aliens that were created for this movie could be what at least some of the Alien life that is out there could be like in real life!

I also found that the writing was fantastic, and the story was great!

I also found that the acting was so realistic that one could almost say... (A look at the future of space travel maybe?)

And that is just a small fraction of what makes, Alien great!

Written by: Dan O'Bannon and Directed by: Ridley Scott. Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt (The Rookie), Veronica Cartwright (Invasion Of the Body Snatchers), Harry Dean Stanton (Repo Man), John Hurt (1984), Ian Holm (The Fifth Element), Yaphet Kotto (Freddy's Dead), Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton (Phase IV), and Eddie Powell (The Oblong Box).

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="485"] Some of the crew of the, 'Nostromo' as they are prepping to investigate the, 'Moon' that, 'Mother' sent them to![/caption]

Alien tells the story of how during their ride home, 'Mother' (the name for the computer on the freighter, 'Nostromo'), wakes up the crew from being in hypersleep to investigate a distress signal that she has detected!

So they take their Drop Ship down to investigate this call.

When they arrive on the planet, Captain Dallas (Skerritt) takes a team that includes, Lambert (Cartwright), and Kane (Hurt) to investigate the location of the signal... Now while they are there, Kane is attacked by an Alien that latches itself on to Kane's face!

Now in a hurry, Dallas and Lambert take Kane back to the ship, but Ripley (Weaver), won't let them in until they have gone through quarantine, (at this point both Lambert and Dallas are in a panic to get their shipmate in to the sickbay.)

So their carryon android, 'Ash' (Holm) decides to break quarantine and let Dallas and their team on to the ship!

Now after Dallas and the crew get Kane to the sickbay onboard the mother ship and discover that they can't get the alien off of his face without killing Kane, the Alien comes off by itself!

So Kane and the crew of the ship decide to sit down to a meal before heading back to hypersleep. While they're eating their meal, a new Alien bursts out of Kane's body (killing him). Now the crew of the ship are going to have to capture this Alien, before the Alien begins to feed off the rest of the crew!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="460"] Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) as he is about to meet his end![/caption]

If you guys haven't had a chance to see this movie yet, or if you haven't seen this movie in a while, then this one is more than worth it!

http://youtu.be/LjLamj-b0I8