Five Crazy Science Fiction Movies

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hi and welcome back to the channel

this video is going to be a grab bag of

science fiction movies i've already

watched recently

that are worth checking out um if you're

seeing them for the first time good

if you haven't seen them for a while

maybe it's time to stick the disc in the

slot again

what do you get if you put alien

quatermass in the pit dracula

the end of star trek the motion picture

and the pet house

video scene from amazon women on the

moon in a blender

you get life force made by cannon films

under the medical golem and yorum globus

regime

this movie is as mad as a cut snake

a pimped out european space shuttle

heads for halley's comet

and finds a 150 mile long spaceship

hiding in the tail of the dirty snowball

for no apparent reason

the astronauts board the hr

gigger-inspired ship

and find the desiccated corpses of giant

space bats as

as well as three naked people in sealed

tubes

the male astronauts are instantly

smitten by the sight of an 18 year old

matilda may

package like a barbie doll i'd say she's

perfect

i've been in space for six months and

she looks perfect to me

the female astronaut is like this weeks

later the shuttle has gone silent as it

approaches the earth

and is met by another shuttle which

brings the pre-packaged aliens to london

later the sole survivor of the shuttle

tom carlson played by steve rails back

lands in texas in an escape pod

just as the investigators in london find

out that the sky-clad alien woman

is a vampire who sucks the life force

out of people until they look like a

dehydrated willem dafoe

the main investigators looking into the

soul suckers are colonel kane a supposed

sas

officer played by rudy peter firth and

dr falada played by frank finlay

railsback astronaut soon joins them and

the interesting thing about steve rales

back in this role is that he has

one emotional note frantic he slips out

from under

she'll escape the writing of every

character in this movie is thinner than

the corpses

it's kind of a relief when patrick

stewart turns up as the head doctor of a

mental asylum

he tries to put some vitality into his

small role and he also gets to have his

first

on-screen movie kiss with steve rails

back

the movie doesn't end well for patrick

stewart's character

as our heroes fly back to london

everything has got to help the aliens

and their soul suck victims are messing

up the city

life force energy is swirling around

like a 1970s laser light show display

falada figures out how to take down the

aliens which would stop everyone in

england having their soul sucked out of

them

as happened in real life when boris

johnson tried to handle covert and

brexit at the same time

the special effects are fairly good for

the 1980s with john dykstra running the

show

but the scripting is all over the place

and anything to do with human beings

is really poorly written the whole

movie's concept is pretty crazy it's

based on a novel by colin wilson called

the space vampires

you've got a naked space teenager crazy

astronauts

sas guy with average muscle tone and

patrick stewart having his blood sucked

out of his nostrils

and the weirdest thing of all is that

the movie score

is written by henry mancini yeah the guy

who did breakfast at tiffany's

and the pink panther

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once you start looking at japanese

live-action movies that emulate anime

you go down a rabbit hole of what the

[ __ ] it's hard to pull yourself out once

you start

from 1989's tatsuo the iron man with its

janky life-size stop-motion animation

and low-res black and white aesthetic

through the 2004 adaptation of the 1970s

anime cutie honey

and the 2006 live action giganto movie

tetsujian 28 the movie

that stuff will mess with your head if

you let it which brings us to naboro

iguchi's robo geisha

in the movie yoshi is cinderella to her

sister kikue who is a geisha

meanwhile a pair of tengu female cyborg

assassins

are knocking off politicians and

businessmen in imaginative ways

the tengu are mind-controlled slaves of

the kageno corporation

which runs an army of female assassins

and who's to say large corporations

don't anyway

the families of the mind control killers

form a revolutionary movement against

the corporation to get their daughters

and granddaughters back

and they eventually team up with yoshi

both yoshi and

kuwait become cyborg robo geishas with

butt saws

machine gun boobs and other unexpected

enhancements

using some sketchy cgi and a lot of mad

imagination iguchi's comedy science

fiction action film

is over the top wonderfulness you even

get some mecca action too

as the craziness escalates iguchi makes

these low budgets and semi-rural

locations of virtue the cgi looks

incredibly basic but that's the visual

aesthetic the movie is going for

you accept it in the same way you accept

astra boy's windmilling arms

robo geisha mocks and uses the

traditions of japanese culture in some

satirical ways

and i find the low budget clutchiness

this kind of cinema a lot of fun once

you watch rabbi geisha you can go on to

vampire girl versus frankenstein girl

machine girl

and a whole spectrum of other silly

over-the-top tokusatsu action comedies

if they're outside your usual viewing

habits just

knock back a couple of beverages and

ride the weirdness

jack shoulders 1987 science fiction

actioner

holds up really well in 2021 michael

nuri plays a homicide cop called beck

who teams up with kyle mclaughlin's

ostensible fbi agent gallagher

to track down a serial killer who likes

fast cars and hard rock music

the insane part is that the perp is an

alien parasite moving from host to host

to indulge

its every whim and carl mclaughlin is

another alien riding in the body of a

yuppie

who is tracking him down if he is the

right pronoun

strangely and most wonderfully within

this buddy cop action flick

there's a subtext about what it is to be

human the script has a really nice sense

of escalation even though it starts out

with a daytime car chase through

downtown la

the alien really likes ferraris there's

lots of squib work and really solid

practical special effects by kevin

yeager

that sell the parasite and the yucky way

it transfers from one host to another a

lot of people remember this film for

claudia christian playing a stripper

shooting up the cops and taking a nose

dive off a building but that's the least

of this movie

the slow growth of beck's realization

that his new partner is more than just a

weirdo from seattle

is really well done both michael nouri

and carl mclaughlin are solid

there's something about top-notch 1980s

practical effects that transcends craft

and turns it into art

and knowing how to use them sparingly to

serve the story without drawing the

audience out of the narrative

is another part of that art modern cgi

heavy movies could learn

this less is more lesson all the actors

playing the host of the parasite

deserve some props as well well before

vince and dinofrio are men in black

these actors nailed it they add a

weirdness to the hidden that makes it

really work

the hidden is a science fiction action

that respects both the genre and the

audience

and re-watching it was a lot of fun

this movie was a directorial debut of

john carpenter

and it's a micro budget science fiction

comedy which started out as a

usc student film made between 1970 and

1972.

in 1974 it was expanded to a feature

film with an ultimate budget of

60 000 in the 22nd century the scout

ship

darkstar has the task of finding

unstable planets that threaten future

human colonization

and vaporizing them with ai-equipped

robots

20 years earth time into the mission

things are starting to go wrong

the captain was killed and placed in

cryonic suspension

where he's still able to talk to the

crew and the four other crew members

have gone insane while dealing with

ongoing malfunctions

crises and personality clashes

the crew also have an alien pick kind of

like a beach ball with claws like the

creature from the black lagoon

which almost kills pinback played by

danai bannon

abandon later went on to work on alien

blues thunder the return of the living

dead and life force

mostly as a screenwriter pinback's

battle with the alien is funny with a

solid sense of comedic suspense and

escalation

the astronauts in dark star are the

exact opposite of the two astronauts in

2001 a space odyssey

in kubrick's movie the astronauts have

no personality at all

and in dark star they all have too much

personality

for the budget the special effects are

exceptional

muffin pans appear as chest plates on

spacesuits

and under lit ice cube trays form part

of the control consoles

for clutch together sets they really

still look good to this day

darkstar was a perennial midnight movie

back in the day

with a country in western theme song

benson arizona a spaceship designed by

the king of mid

20th century futuristic design ron cobb

and some computer screen displays that

look pretty good dark star is a fun and

imaginatively presented comedy that

retains the naive feeling of a student

film

for anybody's first movie it's a pretty

good effort

in alien invasion movies there's usually

rich empowered white guys who save the

world

but in joe cornishes attack the block

that narrative gets flipped on his head

in the best way possible

jody whittaker before she was doctor who

before her nose job

plays sam a nurse who is robbed on her

way home from work by a group of

teenagers

who live in the same tower block as she

does the tower block is called windham

towers which is a nod to john wyndham

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she gets away as a meteorite center

punches a nearby car

and a chimp-sized alien runs out and

claws the face of moses

the leader of the gang played by john

boyega the movie is set on guy fawkes

knight so the meteorite is mistaken for

fireworks chase and kill the chimp like

alien

they then take it up to ron played by

nick frost

the local drug dealer who has a pot

plantation in his flat

then a whole bunch of the meteorites

fall and fast

deadly gorilla-sized aliens emerge all

looking for the first alien and

anyone who touched it the movie nods to

water hills the warriors

and it's got a solid cast of young

actors including franz dramee and luke

treadaway

take the block works because it flips

the traditional narrative of alien

invasion movies

and it folds in some valid social

commentary

in a balls to the wall action movie

without slowing the pace of the film

down one tiny bit

joe cornish is currently in

pre-production for attack the block 2. i

don't know anything about the sequel yet

so i'll wait for the trailer before

judging it the first movie however does

everything right and has some aliens

that are truly original

and really terrifying so that's five

movies for you to watch or re-watch if

you'd like to

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