Just yesterday, we talked about movie monsters and how they have evolved over the years. Many movie monsters have been remade, prequel-ed, or sequel-ed of late and well, another movie monster is about to make a comeback to the big screen. The upcoming film, The Thing, is a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 of the same title.
Set three days before the original movie’s events, it centers on paleontologist Kate Lloyd and a team of Norwegian scientists who discover a crash spacecraft frozen in the Antarctic ice. Anyway, whether or not you’ve watched the first movie with Kurt Russell won’t dampen the impact of this creepy crawler. Don’t just take our word for it, check out the trailer. The Thing slithers to the big screen on October 14.
Lost junkies out there must be gnawing their fingernails to stubs, as the six-season series draws to a close. Fans won’t be disappointed, as ABC announced that the originally planned 2-hour finale is going to be extended by another half hour.
There are loads of mysteries left unsolved so there’s a lot of anticipation riding on that last Lost episode. Is the monster really a cloud of murderous nanobots? Is the plane crash really the pilot episode of a really twisted reality TV show and are the survivors really the unwitting housemates?
One thing’s for sure though, the fan questions, arguments and theories about the show may all be answered, rebutted, and proven/debunked in the span of 150 minutes, but then again, I somehow doubt it.
Will it ever be safe to go back in the water ever again? Not if Syfy can help it.
After Dinocroc, a monster reconstituted from the DNA of an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile, and Dinoshark, a half dinosaur-half shark that snacked on tourists at a Mexican resort, the cable channel is all set to serve another toothy monster dish: Mega Piranha.
For those unfamiliar with Syfy’s propensity towards sci-fi premises that boggle even stoned-out minds, mega piranhas are man-made mutants designed to be bigger, meatier and tastier. They were meant to provide the people living along the Amazon River with something else to eat other than Tapir McNuggets.
However, as if on cue, the x-fishes escaped to Florida and turned the tables around on humans. I did not see this coming at all.
By the way, former teen music sensation Tiffany plays Professor Sarah Monroe, a member of the science team who created this hot mess. You can catch Mega Piranha, if you dare, on Syfy this April 10th.