Sunday, December 14, 2008

GOOD MORNING

Default Monster


Alright movie buffs and cinephiles. I have a question.

How did the dripping, snarling, coiling mother-creature from Alien (1979) become the default monster for all sci-fi horror flicks forever after?

Bad genre film after bad genre film has the same snarling, coiling, dripping body-eating mother-creature at the bloody heart of the story. These creatures all always female. What does that say about the nut jobs who write and produce these things? And they all came from the same rack in Costumes and Species Effects.

Is it simply that there are so many left-over parts in various trucks and crates that you move the one eye from one side of the scaly head to the other and hope no one notices?

Come on, Kids. 'splain me...

NY Times Quote of the Day

"It’s a wonderful time, a great evangelistic opportunity for us. When people are shaken to the core, it can open doors."

THE REV. A. R. BERNARD, pastor of New York’s largest evangelical congregation, on the economic downturn.

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