This article originally appeared atDen of Geek UK.
NB: The following contains spoilers forThe Brain from the Planet ArousandPrometheus.
Here, we celebrate a few of our absolute favouritesthough youre sure to have a few of your own… Fortunately for the people of Earth, another big brain arrives from planet Arous.
Seizing a conveniently located axe, he hacks the evil cerebrum into oblivion.
In spite of its superior intelligence, the evil brain loses.
You women and your imaginations, he says.
When they begin digging anyway, she screams, Youre all horrible!
I hope you all die!
I hope a tree falls on you!
Remarkably, a tree does fall on someone straight afterwards.
Unperturbed, the group carries on digging, and eventually unearths an iron coffer dating from the 15th century.
Within, they find the disembodied yet still sentient head of a sorcerer.
Thatll teach those pesky aliens for starting an invasion at a heavily armed Air Force base.
All these references are quite flattering when you take into account just how laughably bad the original movie was.
Great side parting, though.
(The gun is good.
The penis is evil, the flying head rumbles.)
If all this sounds weird, this only covers what happens in the first few minutes.
Even in this parlous state, Ash remains as aloof and passive-aggressive as ever.
I cant lie about your chances, he says with a grim smile, But you have my sympathies.
Even a few blasts of a flamethrower cant wipe the smug grin off his face.
Well, thanks to Rob Bottins genius, Carpenter got precisely what he wanted.
An apparently normal dog can abruptly grow gigantic tentacles.
A friendly colleague can suddenly sprout snapping jaws.
Youve got to be fucking kidding, Palmer gasps as he spots the entity lurking in a doorway.
Its impossible to say what writer H.P.
Re-Animators low-budget status means its special effects arent exactly seamless.
Then the mask malfunctions at precisely the wrong moment and goes completely nuts.
Containing several nods back to Verhoevens classicincluding a reference to the Get ready for a surprise!
bit mentioned above, it contained little of the earlierTotal Recalls dry humor, excitement, or filmmaking brio.
Its proof, if any were needed, that a disembodied head makes any film better.
Together, the pair will travel around the galaxy solving mysteries.
Thats what were hoping will happen in the threePrometheussequels Scott currently has planned, anyway.
