In Star Wars, the bars are bustling
with alien creatures.
Not exact matches
Barkun devotes several chapters to the recent evolution of this hybrid superconspiracy theory, which includes a variant — derived from 1920s pulp fiction
with an assist from Tolkien — in which the conspirators are not space
aliens but reptilian
creatures from Inner Earth who take on human form.
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.
Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter
with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to
creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle
alien suns.
During this time, there was a lot of «evolutionary experimentation»,
with many ancient communities dominated by
alien - looking
creatures unlike any of their modern counterparts.
In the cult sci - fi horror flick Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, anti-hero convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) crashes onto a rather unsettling
alien planet infested
with horrific flying bat - like
creatures hell - bent on eating Riddick and the rest of the surviving crew.
The unholy horde of monsters,
creatures, monstrosities, cagey ghosts, bats, demons, one well received Jurassic owner, a facetime loving Jason, clowns, cowboys,
aliens, Hellboy and the mad marionette
with his lovely doll - face lady came across the stage.
But it's memorable and beautiful, worthwhile simply for diving into an
alien world and letting it carry you away
with its sometimes adorable, sometimes breathtaking
creatures.
Think of the Mos Eisley space cantina in «Star Wars»
with all the
alien creatures but no where near as good and
with terrible costumes.
Once there, they must deal
with the planet's evolved animal species and an
alien creature if they wish to escape the movie planet.
Quite a bit of blood n gore as viking males get torn apart by a reasonable looking
alien creature, kinda like a large neon lion
with more teeth.
The vamps aren't really like traditional vamps more like
aliens or
creatures and not really effective for me, without their spooky romantic appearance they seem more like animals and you don't connect
with them, but I guess that's the difference here.
As the
Alien, players discover what it's like to be the scariest, most murderous
creature in the universe,
with the ability to traverse any surface at lightning speed in order to get close enough to unleash its deadly claws, tail and teeth.
By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original
Alien film and its sequel
Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of
creatures for the human characters to contend
with.
The backstory beats the hell out of the present - tense plot, a routine affair in which a well - meaning doofus working for the Man is infected
with a virus, starts turning into an
alien himself, and falls in
with the oppressed
creatures.
You see, while previous Predators —
alien creatures with superior hunting skills — came to Earth and harassed military men in the jungles of Central America, the current Predators have instead abducted a handful of humans and dropped them on another planet, to be hunted for sport and entertainment.
Together
with her husband, CDC director Dr Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and an incredulous cop (Charles S. Dutton, the closest the film comes to comic relief), Susan investigates, at which point the film starts to successfully mimic
Aliens, as Susan faces off against the giant
creatures and the supporting cast (including a youthful - looking Josh Brolin) gradually get picked off.
With a lengthy career on special effects, makeup, and
creature crews, Magee worked on major blockbuster films like Sam Raimi's Spider - Man, Jurassic Park III, and
Alien vs. Predator.
These more - for - more genre epics try to fill every corner
with hundreds of
creatures (this film contains over 600 various
alien monsters) to the point where is stupefies whatever plot they are selling.
With «Guardians Of The Galaxy» now less than two years from release, the studio is starting to get the cast in place for what is easily the most ambitious project on their slate (it has an
alien tree
creature and a pistol - wielding, talking raccoon, guys), and a ridiculously long laundry list of actors have been revealed as possibilities to star.
For those of us who have seen the two predecessor's in there glory know that what made us so enthralled
with the cinematic extravaganza wast he fact that the
alien was unpredictable; and in John Carpenters case the unknowing of who or what the
creature was or its origin was just amazing and full of spontaneity.
The global patience of what to do
with the
alien population is coming to a boiling point, so the government contracts the private corporation Multi-National United (MNU), to handle the welfare of the
alien creatures.
The movie, set in 8th - century Norway, follows
alien warrior Kainan (Jim Caviezel) as he crash lands on Earth along
with a fearsome
creature known as the Moorwen,
with the bulk of the storyline detailing Kainan's efforts at insinuating himself within a local Viking tribe and leading their subsequent charge against the aforementioned
creature.
Ridley Scott married haunted house tropes
with SciFi
creature feature scares to create maybe the greatest
alien horror of all time.
Faced
with an escalating crisis as the
creatures multiply and spread, the team must somehow eliminate the seemingly unstoppable
aliens.
Strahovski was cast as the mother to Tremblay's character, a troubled young boy accidentally drawn into the conflict
with the fierce
alien creatures by her ex-husband, played by Holbrook.
Ripley learns the tragic news that she is the only survivor, and worse, she finds evidence that one of the
alien creatures may have stowed away along
with her.
The design and execution of the CG - beasts is largely successful,
with the furious
creatures creating agreeable trouble as they take to land and air to steal humans, giving off a slight
Alien vibe as they reveal an extra pair of hands from their chest cavity.
Non-humanoid
alien creatures are shot
with rockets, leaving behind bloody bodies.
At the same time, Howard the Duck rolls into the same town where the
alien is hiding and some kind of The Fly hi - jinks ensues because the two Marvel characters become one terrifying
creature that has the murderous tendencies of the Merc
with a Mouth, and the cynical intelligence of Howard the Duck.
Whether a vampire, a mutating
alien, a ghost, another vampire, a Hellboy or a labyrinth full of
creatures, del Toro does have a preoccupation
with monsters.
The decision came after 8 rounds of voting involving a close runoff among several top films including Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER about the rescue of an
alien creature from the clutches of cruel scientists in a cold war
with the Russians, and also earned a BEST ACTRESS AWARD for Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady whose sympathetic performance spoke volumes.
While that franchise has moved on without her — most recently to the upcoming
Alien: Covenant — Weaver is bringing her powerful onscreen presence to a different kind of
creature feature
with A Monster Calls.
Both artists often tell stories about misunderstood children finding connections
with misunderstood, fantastical,
alien creatures.
However Cloverfield is nothing else but a disaster movie like Poseidon or The Towering Inferno mixed
with a
creature feature like Godzilla or
Alien.
includes footage of Bruce Greenwood in MoCap dress as the
alien, designed and redesigned ad nauseam by Neville Page, who struggled to please both Abrams and Spielberg
with a
creature that ultimately reeks of compromise.
The film was also awarded
with a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects for the creation of the
alien,
creature, and robot voices (Benjamin Burtt, Jr.).
In Capsized, your ship crash lands on a mysterious
alien planet and you must navigate through perilous environments and fight blood - thirsty
creatures to save your crewmates and escape
with your lives.
General Cypher Raige (Smith pere) is the legendary head of the Ranger Corps, a military unit tasked
with combating
alien creatures called «ursas»: H. R. Giger - y monstrosities that have no eyes but can (literally) smell fear.
In this timeframe, the
alien creatures have upgraded themselves
with the DNA from other species, essentially making them stronger, smarter, and deadlier than previous predators.
The movie's story is mostly under wraps, but will see several of the lethal
creatures hunting humans including Boyd Holbrook and Trevante Rhodes» military men, Olivia Munn's scientist and Keegan - Michael Key's character, who teams
with the others to fight the
alien hunters.
Director Andrew Stanton buckles the swashes tightly
with all manner of
alien creatures, daring rescues and a beautiful princess (Lynn Collins) who proves every bit the hero's equal.
The film is like a tropical hybrid of
Aliens and The Thing, and there is a moment in this film where the team is in peril
with one of the
creatures in The Shimmer that simply ranks as one of my favorite horror moments in the past decade.
«Conception and Design: Creating the World of District 9» (13:18, HD) includes interviews
with Ivey, prosthetics effects supervisor Joe Dunckley, Weta Workshop lead concept designer Greg Broadmore, Weta design & effects supervisor Richard Taylor, Weta lead
creature designer David Meng, Image Engine visual effects supervisor Dan Kaufman, Tatchell, Berg, Kliptown liaison David Bloem, and Embassy Visual Effects visual effects supervisor Robert Habros, while «
Alien Generation: The Visual Effects of District 9» (10:18, HD) features Blomkamp, Habros, Kaufman, Cope, Dunckley, Copley, and Embassy Visual Effects on - set VFX supervisor Winston Helgason.
Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) works in «
Alien Affairs» at Multi-National United, and he's charged
with the evicting the
creatures from their seedy locations.
The movie begins
with a plot involving some military types attempting to train
Aliens to do their bidding, but once the
creatures break free, it is once again Ripley and a ragtag crew (this time a bunch of interstellar smugglers, including tough waif Call, played by a game Winona Ryder) trying to exterminate them.
We'd already seen a movie
with one
alien chomping down some folks, and then we watched a whole bunch of
creatures in what was essentially a war movie.
First appearing in the comic book series as an
alien costume worn by Spider - Man in Marvel «s The Amazing Spider - Man # 252 in 1984, it was several years before the
creature left Peter Parker and merged
with photographer Eddie Brock, forming the antihero known as Venom.
Taking the role of Isaac Clarke, players will explore an old spaceship that is filled
with the most grotesque
alien creatures.
Six years ago a NASA probe brought back samples of
alien life, but when it crash - landed the probe «infected» a large swathe of Mexico
with seeds that grew into enormous
creatures that look like octopi (that's plural for octopus) which walk on land.