#SciFi#ScienceFiction#70sSciFi#80sSciFi#BookCovers
I need help. My brain remembered a SciFi book I bought at a used book shop when I was 13ish
I can't remember the title, it was may something like The Sea Monsters, The Sea Devils
One of the main characters was a woman who was friends with these large sea creatures. All I can remember is a scene where they show up on the beach, drop her off /to live with her own kind/ and she panicking and pleading for them not leave her there.
Cover art was def 70's maybe early 80's style it had one of the features, and I think her in a light colored wetsuit/dry suit
If you know of a director of old sci-fi books or an archive of sci-fi book covers please please please let me know I can't get my brain to stop obsessing about it
#80sSciFi#SFFilms
Well. They can't all be winners.
The most remarkable thing about "Bad Taste" (1988) is that the guy responsible for it was able to produce "The Lord of the Rings". Early Peter Jackson!
It's absurdly gross and grossly absurd, but seeing as that was clearly the point, was it really "bad"? 🤔
Gore effects about par for the horror genre. Some fairly impressive pyrotechnics. The alien costumes aren't terrible.
Convincing enough to make you sick, but not to make you believe it.
So, I am watching the original miniseries, "V" (for the first time). Somehow I missed this when it came out.
Surprised by how well-made it is, actually. I was expecting it to be MUCH cheesier than this.
The parallels with the QAnon conspiracy universe are kind of chilling, though. Feels almost like this was the playbook they cribbed from: conspiracy of scientists, withholding findings because of "research grants". And of course, the aliens disguised as humans.
So this one is a Disney movie, and it does feel like it, although it's a big step up from "Escape to Witch Mountain" which I watched when I was on the 70s.
This is the first time I've seen this one, though I've seen the cover and stills before.
Of course, the spaceship is clearly an early CG effect, which is very cool. A lot of the standard tropes, but this was a fun movie.
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#80sSciFi#SFFilms
"Howard the Duck" 1986
Long before "Iron Man", this Marvel character was brought to the big screen by George Lucas, not long after his success with the "Star Wars" trilogy, and with special effects learned from those movies.
The animatronic puppetry and Phil Tippett's stop motion work were really top notch for this pre-CG film.
Sadly, the comic timing and writing were not as impressive, and the world was not yet ready for anthropomorphic animals to be taken seriously.
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Campy, very low budget. Computer graphics FX & titles are clearly PC/EGA or Amiga graphics.
And the space effects shots are literally just clips of FX shots from the Battlestar Galactica series. There is NO mention of this in the credits. I don't know how this escaped lawsuits, unless maybe because it was produced in South Africa.
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"Re-Animator" (1985), based apparently on the short story, "Herbert West-Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft. Another story with ties to Frankenstein -- similar premise and philosophical issues, at least.
I was surprised to find this wasn't very camp at all. It's really a pretty good movie. And the horror definitely succeeds.
Very gross and disgusting of course, but well-written and well-acted.