Alien: More Than Just a Horror Movie

Femininity can come without sexualization. The 1979 science fiction and horror film “Alien” directed by Ridley Scott shows the whole world that this is true, while still being a successful movie that has nothing to do with femininity in the plot. The film follows Ripley(Sigourney Weaver) and her crew mates on the spaceship Nostromo as…

Vacation In The Mountains, Think Again.

If you ever dream about a winter vacation in a beautiful mansion in the Rocky’s, you will never envision the same dream after watching “The Shining” that was released in 1980.   The movie was based on a Stephen King novel which many argue were not identical in production.  Although the fear and drama were extremely…

The Villains Take Over: An Analysis of Batman Returns

“It’s the so-called normal guys who always let you down. Sickos never scare me. At least they’re committed.” -Batman Returns (1992) Batman Returns is the sequel to the 1989 film Batman.  The film starts with Oswald Cobblepot  (Danny Devito) being abandoned as an infant due to having a weird appearance. His parents put his crib…

A Dance To The New Era

      FLASHDANCE                                                            1983 DIRECTED BY ADRIAN LYNE STARING JENNIFER BEALS   On April 15, 1983 the release of “Flash Dance” a romantic drama film…

Quintet 1979

Quintet was released in February 9, 1979 and was Directed by Robert Altman. The main cast includes Paul Newman , Bibi Andersson and Brigitte Fossey. How the storyline goes is a bit different from most conventional movies. Now how the movie goes it takes place in a post apocalyptic frozen wasteland. Where one either lives…

Terror at the Prom

If you thought your high school years were a horror wait until you see this film. Stephen King’s novel Carrie found its’ way to Hollywood royalty status when Brian De Palma worked it into a film that has, as an article by publication Cinephilia & Beyond stated, “aged like the best French Wine”. It goes…

They’re All Going To Laugh At You

The film Carrie was directed by Brian De Palma and released in 1976. The movie is based off a novel written by Stephen King. According to Anton Bitel, writer for Little White Lies, Carrie was “…Based on Stephen King’s first published novel, from 1974, and in fact the first cinematic adaptation of that well-read author, Carrie dramatises all manner of…

IT…COULD…WORK!!!

The young doctor Frederick Frankenstein, an American neurosurgeon, tries to escape the stigma bequeathed by his grandfather, who created years ago a horrible creature. Leaving his girlfriend (Madeline Khan) in the United States, Frederick travels to Europe where he will meet his new male bug-eyed servant, Igor (Marty Feldman) and female assistant Inga, (Teri Garr)….

Mel Brooks’s Blazing Success

The movie Blazing Saddle is a western comedy that was directed and written by Mel Brooks. The film carries on by poking fun at sensitive topics that back in the day were hard to watch. There was many times in the movie they would say black slang or call the Indians dumb. This kind of…

The Hotel from Hell

              The Shining has received a lot of backlash because it was different from the novel that Stephen King wrote. A lot of people loved how The Shining was written, along with other Stephen King novels and for the movie to differ so greatly from the novel, it caused a lot of problems. Stanley…