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Personally I like the classics: Forbidden Planet remains one of my all-time favorite films, and not just because of its tip of the hat to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Another old favorite is The House On Haunted Hill (the original with Vincent Price, not the remake with Geoffrey Rush). I also love the old Hammer Studios films, particularly a rare one with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and even Donald Sutherland titled Doctor Terror’s House of Horrors. Some more recent ones I’ve enjoyed include Slither, a dark, sick, and funny tribute to horror films of the 80’s, and The Descent. Film reviewer Chris Gore called The Descent one of the scariest films he’d ever seen–with good reason. There’s also Evil Dead 2, and its sequel Army of Darkness with the incomparable Bruce Campbell (whose Old Spice commercial is one of the funniest commercials ever made). Can’t think of your favorite science fiction or horror film? Here’s Richard O’Brien singing Science Fiction Double Feature to help jog your memory.
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I love both Pal’s 50’s version of War of the Worlds and Spielberg’s as well. Any Toho/Godzilla movie is sweet, and the nuclear-era 50’s giant insect films like “Them.” The “Creature From the Black Lagoon” comes to mind too. Ah, the good ol’ Hammer films…how ’bout “One Million Years BC” and “The Reptile” and “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth”…a film Spielberg paid homage to in the last shot of “Jurassic Park”?
War Of The Worlds: two great films and a great book too. All three show how different artists can take similar material in such different directions. My favorite Godzilla film remains “Godzilla Versus The Smog Monster”. Yes, it had a blatant anti-pollution message, but it was also nice to see the big green Tokyo-stomper as a good guy. I’ve heard rumors of a remake of “Creature From The Black Lagoon”, because, unfortunately, no good film goes unpunished. As for “One Million Years BC”, it’s a special-effects masterpiece and a fun film, but its true appeal can be summed up in two words: Raquel Welch.