Monster Gallery: The Thing (1982)
Main Article: The Thing From Another World — Part 1 | Part 2 |Part 3
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The Thing From Another World – Part 3
Watchin’ Norris in there gave me the idea that… maybe every part of him was a whole, every little piece was an individual animal with a built-in desire to protect its own life. Ya see, when a man bleeds, it’s just tissue; but blood from one of you Things won’t obey when it’s attacked. It’ll… Read More The Thing From Another World – Part 3
The Thing From Another World – Part 2
The Thing is first seen imitating a Swedish Norwegian dog. The part was played by a trained animal actor — a half wolf, half Alaskan malamute dog named Jed, trained by his owner Clint Rowe. He performed in most sequences with the exception of the beginning chase scene, where another dog, painted to be indistinguishable… Read More The Thing From Another World – Part 2
The Thing From Another World – Part 1
Is that a man in there or something? “I first became aware of a movie called The Thing when I saw the original film,” said John Carpenter. “It was 1952 and I’d been about four or five years old. I think I saw it on a re-release. It was one of those films that, as… Read More The Thing From Another World – Part 1
Monster Gallery: The Howling (1981)
Main Article: Howling Beasts
Howling Beasts
In adapting Gary Brandner’s 1977 seminal horror novel The Howling director Joe Dante hired John Sayles — a writer he had already collaborated with on Piranha — to completely rebuild the story, after the first drafts — written by Jack Conrad and Terence H. Winkless — proved unsatisfying. “One guy tried to adapt the book,”… Read More Howling Beasts
Monster Gallery: Deep Rising (1998)
Main Article: Beast of the Deep Sea
Beast of the Deep
Finnegan turns as the DANCE FLOOR and the D.J. BOOTH EXPLODE as SOMETHING RISES UP from below them. His eyes widen. And there it is — The huge, horrible, mutated, mucus-covered, sucker-faced HEAD OF THE CREATURE. A giant mutated protoplasm. Jutting up from a breach in the floor. The trunk of the Creature, the part… Read More Beast of the Deep
Mimic Terrors
“Nature is a strange thing, I learned. You learn that very clearly when you work in a museum. You realize how nature uses the art of camouflage.” -Donald A. Wollheim, Mimic The original Mimic short story, penned by Donald A. Wollheim and first published in 1942, was widely different in both plot and tone to… Read More Mimic Terrors
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