First Appearance: The Creeping Flesh (1973)
So there's this Victorian scientist (Peter Cushing) who's trying to find the origin of the species man, he finds a big weird skeleton in New Guinea which he naturally brings back to his lab in England to study. While washing the skeleton he notices that putting water on it makes it grow flesh, of course. He decides to look up some of the legends of New Guinea and obviously discovers that the skeleton is that of some super evil god monster who will destroy the world when it gets wet. Only that wasn't supposed to happen for another 3,000 years when the natives of New Guinea would have sufficient technology to fight it.
This leads the scientist to the assumption that blood from this monster is the source of evil, which means evil is a disease which can be inoculated against if you had the proper serum. So he makes the anti-evil serum and then, since his wife (who was a bit loose) went crazy and he's afraid the same thing will happen to his daughter, he injects the untested serum on his daughter. As you probably guessed this wasn't the best idea the doctor had. Oh and the scientist's got a jerky step brother (Christopher Lee) who runs the sanitarium the scientist's wife was incarcerated in and is entering the same science competition the scientist entered. Pretty good atmospheric horror flick if you're into those Hammer style horror movies.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Frankenstein
First appearance: Frankenstein (1931)
My second all time favorite of the Universal Monsters. I think I liked every one of the Frankenstein flick. Also no matter what they say the monster IS called Frankenstein. The doctor is called Victor, Victor Frankenstein. That's just the way it is with these things so get over it.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Blind Dead
First Appearance: Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
What's better than zombies? Blind, intelligent, skeletal zombie knights with beards. I'm kind of disappointed I only discovered this series recently. I've only seen two of them so far, Tombs of the Blind Dead and Return of the Evil Dead (way to make sure people know its a continuing series with the titles guys, the last two are called The Ghost Galleon and Night of the Seagulls), so far the second one is the best. check them out when you can. Trivia: at one point the american distributor tried to re-write the first blind dead movie into a sequel to Planet of the Apes they changed the title to "REVENGE OF THE PLANET APE"
Trailer's for the second one cus its more awesome.
What's better than zombies? Blind, intelligent, skeletal zombie knights with beards. I'm kind of disappointed I only discovered this series recently. I've only seen two of them so far, Tombs of the Blind Dead and Return of the Evil Dead (way to make sure people know its a continuing series with the titles guys, the last two are called The Ghost Galleon and Night of the Seagulls), so far the second one is the best. check them out when you can. Trivia: at one point the american distributor tried to re-write the first blind dead movie into a sequel to Planet of the Apes they changed the title to "REVENGE OF THE PLANET APE"
Trailer's for the second one cus its more awesome.
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