Sentences with phrase «alien body horror»

The show has always been at its best when focusing on the intrinsic freakiness of that alien body horror — and at its worst when doing anything else, be it the family woes of alcoholic, divorced scientist Eph (Corey Stoll) and his romantically - entangled colleague, Nora (Mia Maestro), the noble - thief origins of good - hearted (and bad - assed) gangster Gus (Miguel Gomez), or the detours to the sinister Stoneheart Group boss Eldritch Palmer (Jonathan Hyde), who craves immortality.

Not exact matches

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

If you're a brittle star, the answer turns out to be quite well (for an echinoderm)-- although it's a little complicated.The blunt - spined brittle star (Ophiocoma echinata) looks like a claymation creature from an alien horror movie as it moves its disk - like body along the sea floor with unexpected agility.

It ranks with The Thing and Alien as one of the best sci - fi / body horror mashups of all time.

There's some business about alternate dimensions (or, more precisely, alternate universes), some Alien - style body horror, bits of metal and flesh that take on lives of their own, even the occasional hint of time travel.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

Winstead's wide - eyed cringing in the lead doesn't give the film much personality — particularly by comparison with Kurt Russell's shaggy swagger in the 1982 version — and the concepts and visuals that don't come from Carpenter instead come from Ridley Scott's Alien, or David Cronenberg's body - horror films.

King's traumatic accident does go some way towards explaining the body horror of the piece — it is easily King's most scatalogically obsessed work, with explosive bowel parasites (the colourfully - named «shit weasels»), a phallic serpent armed with a vagina dentate, and one hero consumed by cancer and another by alien possession (the revolt of the physical).

It nods in the direction of a number of other films — The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Arrival, Alien even — but never leans on them too heavily, creating a story and an environment of its own where exquisite, near - hypnotic beauty exists side by side with gruesome horror.

In moments of horror, Garland evokes the gnarly creatures of Alien and Predator and moments of body horror that wouldn't be out of place in a Cronenberg film.

Two ways I would love to see this go down: a more reserved, isolated space - horror title similar to Alien: Isolation, or a more intense body - horror like Dead Space.