(or some variant thereof) and Im there.
In the same way, Ive always been a sucker for sideshow banners promising The Human Jellyfish!
Alive on the Inside!
The problem is, as with those sideshow banners, the promises rarely pay off.
But still they keep promising, and still I keep buying my tickets.
Scan through the newswires any random day and its amazing weve survived this long.
The movies help us realize this on a grand scale, experiencing the worst possible scenario by proxy.
Like all thinking people, he takes hisApesfilms very seriously.
They are the superior race and we are hopeless.
No stupid virus let them win, they owe it all to their superiority.
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That got me thinking.
Okay, just so youre warned, there are no giant frogs inFrogs.
Taking another look now, its not nearly as bad a film as I recalled.
Ray Milland plays the same arrogant, crotchety rich old bastard hed play throughout the decade.
This time hes an aging patriarch who lives on an estate on an island in the Louisiana bayou.
So there you have it, and you’re able to guess what happens.
Soylent Green (1973)
In Richard Fleischers adaptation of Harry Harrisons novelMake Room!
Nope, it was his own plain old dumbness.
By insisting on driving cars everywhere and breeding like bunnies, hes scratched the ozone layer completely away.
The plots irrelevant here.
When given no other options, chickens and rats will resort to cannibalism too.
To its benefit in the scuffle,Kingdom of the Spiderswas set apart by three things.
Second, regular sized tarantulas are a helluva lot creepier than bobcats and giant ants.
Then there was the ending.
InKingdom of the Spiders, well, not so much.
Shatner is in fine form as a large animal vet (!)
Then you get to what remains one of the greatest final shots the genre had to offer.
Thats all Ill say except it makes it clear we dont have a rats ass chance in hell.
Virus (aka Day of Resurrection) (1980)
I love Japanese disaster movies.
When they set out to do their version of Irwin Allen, they pull out all the stops.
Then you get the disaster itself.
Or I should say disasters.American disaster films of the 70s were always satisfied with just one disaster.
An earthquake, a capsized boat, a high-rise fire, and thats it.
But Japanese filmmakers always cram in as many disasters as they can.
Kevin McCarthy pounding on passing cars screaming Youre next!
still haunts me with its utter hopelessness.
No matter I guess, given it was too late anyway.
The pods had won.
Wed more than lost the fight with the invaders, we were willing captives.
Well, god bless him for trying I guess.
Phase IV (1974)
Ants have always made for the perfect threat to mankind.
No matter how many cans of Raid you go through, there are always more ants waiting.
Who knows WHAT they might pull?
But no sinister ant film can compare with Saul BassPhase IV.
Burn up a dozen Triffids and the next day thousands return to take their place.
I am, you are, and chances are good your mom is, too.
College kids are no longer aware there was even a world without cell phones and the internet.
Together withDemon Seedits the ultimate early expression of a justifiably suspicious attitude toward our ever-accelerating technological advances.
Its purpose is to make completely rational decisions on questions of national security.
Well, then, see, the damn thing starts thinking on its own (damn artificial intelligence!
The HAL 9000 aint got nothing on Colossus.
Or maybe we couldnt, and thats the problem.
Guess we deserved it.
Hes got a point.
Romero offered nothing of the sort.
We try for a bit maybe, then run and hide and bicker and hope they cant find us.
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