Beach Ball with Claws

First appearance: Dark Star (1974)

Follow the mission of the crew of the planetary demolition space ship Dark Star.
John Carpenter's first feature film written by Dan O'Bannon (who also stars).
If it wasn't for this movie we wouldn't have Alien, Red Dwarf, or that cool stretchy star field thing we see in Star Wars when they activate their Hyper Drives.

Happy Birthday John Carpenter!

Today's the birthday of one of my favorite directors. In tribute, here's all the Monstars I did inspired by his films in one handy image.

Nada

First Appearance: They Live (1988)

A drifter discovers a horrible secret about the reality of the United States and decides to do something about it. A film that once again proves the superiority of Rowdy Roddy Piper. This is the second time this movie has made it to this blog. PREVIOUSLY

Michael Myers

Fist Appearance: Halloween (1978)

One Halloween, Little Mikey Myers dresses as a clown and kills his older sister. he spends the next 15 years in a mental institution staring at a wall waiting for October 30, 1978 to take a drive to his home town of Haddonfield, Illinois and teach some babysitters to do a better job of baby sitting. His Psychiatrist knew this was going to happen but still couldn't stop him.
I like to revisit this series every Halloween. Once every couple of Halloweens, I'll watch the entire franchise in one sitting, it pretty much takes all day.
Rob Zombie eventually tried his hand at remaking Halloween. It wasn't terrible but he decided to focus on what makes Michael tick. This had the unfortunate side effect of making him a little less scary.
This is the second time I've tackled Mr. Myers for this series. Since he's probably my favorite of the classic slashers, it probably won't be the last time.

Blake

First appearance: The Fog (1980)

One hundred years ago on April 21, (1880) a bunch of jerks stop a rich man named Blake (who was a leper) from establishing a leper colony on the outskirts of Antonio Bay, California. First they took the gold he offered to buy the land he was going to use and then they cause the ship carrying Blake and his buddies to sink in the bay.
Now (1980) on the 100th anniversary of the shipwreck and founding of the town a heavy fog rolls in from the bay! Is there something in the fog? What's causing all the weird phenomena happening around town?
GHOST PIRATES?! Maybe. Whatever is in the fog is killing a lot of people. Is anyone safe. PROBABLY NOT!

Pretty good ghost story from John Carpenter. Remade in 2005 as a really terrible teen horror movie.
Check out the original it's spooky and atmospheric and Carpenter's score is pretty creepy too.

Dr. Sam Loomis

First appearance: Halloween (1978)

Good ol' Dr. Loomis. Why is it nobody ever listens to the psychiatrist in charge of weird psychos? I guess if they did Halloween would have been a really short movie about a bunch of baby sitters fooling around in the houses of their employers.

I've always found the Donald Pleasance's delivery of the line "I shot him Six times!" at the beginning of Halloween 2 really funny. Its the way he runs the words together into one word then enunciates perfectly "I said," then crams all the words together again.

I've added the little animated voice bubbles just for something extra for Halloween. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!