![]() Donald Pleasence (who was in Carpenter's "Halloween" and "Escape from New York") plays a the priest who hires a physics professor portrayed by Victor Wong (who also worked with Carpenter in "Big Trouble in Little China") and a team of various "experts" to decode the mystery. The story starts off with a priest who passes away before he can explain to a cardinal what his role was within a local church, which involves a key, diary, "an ancient canister containing an evil looking liquid" and a book written in a collection of languages. If you’re looking a top notch, low budget, bad yet good movie, than with this you have struck gold wrapped in grime. Not if it's one fighting crime in the Garden State.”, so you’re not expected to take it too seriously. ![]() ![]() One of the taglines for the film is “Not all monsters are scary to people. Even Melvin/The Toxic Avenger, has little dialogue but again, this isn’t supposed to be an award winning drama. The budget is estimated at under half a million, so if you’re looking for high quality special effects, you won’t find it here. Truth be told though, they will have you laughing with how unrealistic they look and how the actors carry them out. There is child head crushing, dog shooting and blind girl raping scenes, that all sound pretty terrifying and awful. Though the story line of this movie has been used time and time again, how it s carried out is truly yet oddly unique. This event then transforms Melvin into an over-sized pile of mutated muscle who uses his newly obtained strength to fight the bad and save the innocent. Labeled under the "horror" genre though it is really anything but, "The Toxic Avenger" tells the story of a nerd, Melvin, the mop boy at the health club of Tromaville, who after being tormented by his peers, has an accident that lands him into a vat of nuclear waste. Giger (which won him the 1980 Academy Award for "Best Visual Effects"), the heroine of the movie, Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver in her breakout role) surprises everyone as she progressively increases her level of badass with her gutsy moves as the film goes on. With the story taking place on the set designed by surrealist artist, H.R. After the ships computer translates the message as a caution and not an S.O.S., it's all down a black hole from there. The movie is not only labeled under the genre of sci-fi but horror as well and this is the turning point in the story where that become apparent. Captain Da llas (Tom Skerritt) leads his crew into a detour to the planet to investigate. The movie begins with the tugboat of a spacecraft named Nostromo returning back to Earth but their trip home gets interrupted when they receive an alarming signal from a neighboring planet. Before such fumbles though, there was the 1979 film Alien. Clearly, the man is capable of great things but none of them include a shaved head Demi Moore. As a director though, his resume spans from Thelma and Louise and Gladiator to G.I. Those being developing my love for Harrison Ford (who starred in his 1982 film Blade Runner) and securing science fiction films a place in my heart for life. Personally, Ridley Scott has done two great things for me. ![]() With the release of the biggest sci-fi movie of the summer thus far (sorry MIB 3), Prometheus, I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and watch the film that put director Ridley Scott on the map. Apparently this only works if Hearthstone is in the background and the collection is open.Purchased at a local thrift store in June 2012 It will pick up the hearthstone instance and start uploading correctly.
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