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PREDATOR is 28
20 and 30 something Horror movie fans are continuously agog at just how good late 1970s and 1980s Horror movies were. When you watch many of these movies, certain now defunct studios keep re-appearing in the opening credits: AVCO (PHANTASM, THE HOWLING, SCANNERS, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK), ORION (MAD MAX, THE TERMINATOR, FRIGHT NIGHT, ROBOCOP), New Line (THE EVIL DEAD, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, CRITTERS). The major studios from Paramount to Warner Bros. could barely keep up and Universal Pictures was so adrift they wouldn't know a hit movie if they had one, and were known in that era for inanely misjudging how to guide, promote, or distribute the movie they had, and repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory (John Carpenter's THE THING, VIDEODROME, FIRESTARTER, TREMORS).
When it came to movie studios and Horror and Science Fiction, the risk-taking minis were constantly kicking the big budget majors right off of the screens.
There was just one thing the majors had that the minis didn't: An enormous back-log of long tail money making movies spanning nearly a century, and the cash to buy the minis out. Which brings us to PREDATOR.
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JURASSIC WORLD is 10
Well, it was no JURASSIC PARK or even LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK for that matter. And when Steven Spielberg didn't have a Michael Crichton penned novel for a blueprint, he floundered worse with JURASSIC PARK III in 2001 than Jan de Bont did with 1999's THE HAUNTING (and Jan had the novel for a bluprint!).
In addition to being his otherwise awesome self, Spielberg had access to the best experts money could buy and, for well over a decade, none of them had anything worth the expense of a big budget sequel.
At one point though, I'm guessing some folks among the Comcast cronies looked at what Michael Bay was doing with TRANSFORMERS, pulled their lips from their lattes and sighed, "Instead of visionary bullshit like Crichton and Science, how about we make a movie for the public school audience, based off of our Jurassic Park toy commercials from back in the 1990s?"
Perhaps from such inspiration, JURASSIC WORLD was born!
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JUNE 11 |
THE OBLONG BOX is 56
Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in an Edgar Allen Poe story?
Yes please!
It was censors, not the make-up techniques of the day, that limited the realism of the more grotesque disfigurements in this 1969 movie of corruption, betrayal, murder, racism, romance, and revenge. The cast and crew were all at the top of their form when they brought audiences, THE OBLONG BOX.
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35 Years of Brian Yuzna's SOCIETY
The 1980s was, for some, a time of identity confusion and Body Horror, ushered into the Horror fan's realm by the likes of David Cronenberg and John Carpenter, who reigned. But just as David and John's early Horror movies were in a place most audiences weren't prepared for, Indie auteur Brian Yuzna (FROM BEYOND, RE-ANIMATOR) capped off the decade with his masterstroke that many remain unprepared for: SOCIETY.
For Horror fans who have heard of Screaming Mad George but have yet to see what is so Screaming Mad about his practical effects make-up work? This is the movie that earned him his name. Believe me when I say that clips and stills on social media aren't enough. Talk to me after you've seen this movie in full!
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JURASSIC PARK is 32
32 Years ago audiences were awed by something the actors in this movie couldn't see: the most realistic dinosaurs in cinema of that time: JURASSIC PARK.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Actor Ivana Baquero (ROMANSANTA: THE WEREWOLF HUNT, ROTTWEILER, FRAGILE, A CHRISTMAS TALE, PAN'S LABYRINTH, THE NEW DAUGHTER, ANOTHER ME, GELO, FEEDBACK, HIGH SEAS [TV], BLACK FRIDAY!) is 30.
Actor Adrienne Barbeau (THE DARKER SIDE OF TERROR [TV], THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, SWAMP THING, THE THING [1982], CREEPSHOW, CANNIBAL WOMEN IN THE AVOCADO JUNGLE OF DEATH, DUE OCCHI DIABOLICI, BURIAL OF THE RATS [TV], THE CONVENT, RING OF DARKNESS [TV], GHOST ROCK, UNHOLY, WAR WOLVES, GOD OF WAR III [VG], HALO 4 [VG], TALES OF HALLOWEEN, BEYOND THE EDGE, DEATH HOUSE, HOAX, GATES OF DARKNESS, HELLBLAZERS, UNEARTH), is 80.
Adrienne shares a June 11 birthday with her THE THING alumni, Make-up artist, Brian Wade.
Look for Adrienne in the upcoming 2025 Horror Thriller, THE PITCHFORK
RETREAT. Also stars Tony Todd (CANDYMAN, THE CROW, FINAL DESTINATION [all], HATCHET) in what may be his last role. Also in 2025, THE DEMON DETECTIVE. And in 2026, ODDITIES.
Look for her upcoming 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025? Horror Thriller, BRING ME THE HEAD OF LANCE HENRIKSEN.
UPDATE: 15 years after its projected 2010 release date this movie is still in Production
and so still unreleased. 2025 will be the last mention of BRING ME THE HEAD OF LANCE HENRIKSEN.
Actor Joshua Jackson (SCREAM 2, APT PUPIL, URBAN LEGEND, CRUEL INTENTIONS, THE SKULLS, GOSSIP, I LOVE YOUR WORK, CURSED, FRINGE [TV], SHUTTER, INESCAPABLE, DR. DEATH [TV], FATAL ATTRACTION [TV]) is 47.
Make-up artist Brian Wade (PIRANHA 2: THE SPAWNING, GALAXY OF TERROR, THE THING [1982], PSYCHO II, STRANGE INVADERS, THE TERMINATOR, HOUSE, THE BLOB [1988], A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4, GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, FRIGHT NIGHT PART 2, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5, THE EXORCIST III, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, BLADE, IDLE HANDS, HOLLOW MAN, HELLBOY, THE OMEN [2006], A SOUND OF THUNDER, FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, BABYLON A.D., SOLOMON KANE, PSYCHE 9, RESIDENT EVIL: AFTER LIFE, TEEN WOLF [TV], AMERICAN GODS [TV], WESTWORLD [TV], THE WRETCHED, SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, DOOM: ANNIHILATION, BEAST MODE, ARMY OF THE DEAD, NIGHT SWIM, MAXXXINE, SHELL, MONSTERS [TV], SALEM'S LOT [TV], GROTESQUERIE [TV], and way more) is 63.
Brian shares a June birthday with PSYCHE: 9 alumni, Colleen Camp and his DOOM: ANNIHILATION alumni, Phillip J. Roth.
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