movies to watch while we wait

Xtro...... loved this when it came out really weird film. A family of three live in rural Britain. Sam Phillips (Philip Sayer), his wife Rachel (Bernice Stegers) and their young son Tony (Simon Nash). One evening when Rachel is out a mysterious light appears in the night sky and Sam disappears. People believe he has just run out on the family. Only Tony knows what really happened but no one believes him. Three years after the disappearance of Sam, Tony still pines for his father. His mother Rachel has taken up with another man, photographer Joe Daniels (Danny Brainin). The fractured household also includes a sexy French babysitter Analise (Maryam d'Abo). They live in a small apartment in the city. An alien crashes to earth and approaches the farm where the Phillips had previously lived in. The cottage is now inhabited by a woman (Susie Silvey). The alien attacks her and covers her mouth with an appendage and pumps something into her. In the morning she wakes and the alien is dead. As she goes into the kitchen she suddenly feels sick. Her stomach swells and she dies as she gives birth to a fully grown man – Sam. Sam makes his way to the city – somehow able to find where his son now lives. He reintroduces himself to the family and despite the obvious tension with Joe is allowed to stay. Tony catches his father eating his pet snake's eggs and runs away. Sam catches up with him and tells him that the aliens changed him. He puts his mouth to his son's neck and injects chemicals into him. He wishes to change his son so he can take him back with him. Tony finds he can make his wishes reality. His toy clown becomes a dwarf. His toy soldier becomes a life-sized plastic soldier who kills a neighbour with its bayonet. Analise has a male visitor Michael (David Cardy) alone in her room. They are disturbed as Tony demands that she play with him. His toy clown knocks her out and he presses his mouth to her side and injects chemicals into her. Meanwhile, a toy tank chases Michael around the apartment shooting live ammunition. Analise is transformed. She is in a cocoon in the bathroom with green rubbery eggs coming out the bottom of the cocoon into the bath. The clown collects these eggs. Tony and his father return to the cottage, pursued by Rachel. A bright light from the sky shines on them and Rachel sees Sam and Tony transformed into alien beings. The two aliens disappear into the night sky. Rachel returns to the apartment and finds the fridge on its side. She opens the fridge door. The fridge is filled with a green semi-liquid substance. In it are several rubbery eggs. She picks an egg up. It seems to move. Suddenly an appendage bursts out covering her mouth. She falls to the floor with the egg pumping something into her mouth. The camera rolls back and the door closes on them. Xtro was briefly vilified as a video nasty, especially due to a particularly graphic scene early in film wherein a woman gives birth to a fully grown man. However, it was granted an uncut video certificate by the BBFC shortly after its successful cinema run. The film was released on DVD three times in the United States by Image Entertainment.[2] The first DVD of the film was released in 2005 as a double feature with sequel Xtro II: The Second Encounter. The second DVD was released in 2006 as a standalone release. The third DVD was released in 2007 and was a triple feature alongside Xtro II: The Second Encounter and Skeeter. In Britain the entire Xtro trilogy was released in box-set, remastered anamorphic widescreen with 5.1 for Xtro II and an interview with director Harry Bromley Davenport covering the production of all three films.

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[img]http://mfc.com.mt/filebank/imagebank/Poster%20Inseminoid.jpg[/img] reminds me of my shear excitment at the dawn of the video nasty.

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OMG the Xtro Id forgoten that & the Inseminoid thats the one where the girl is raped by an alien with a glass dick and you see his semen enter her god that film was tacky

[img]http://actors.pick2web.com/pics/937565/nakedlunch.jpg[/img] the naked lunch a great book and not a bad film.... also has the star of screamers also a decent sc fi.

yeah hucker but dont you just have the urge for a guilty pleasure .

rape and scfi nothing new how about demon seed [img]http://www.williamahearn.com/demonseed2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bpIUlXG_4hg/Ttyyio8EgLI/AAAAAAAAAX4/J8fPrA7TnPo/s1600/videodrome.bringhell.com+%25283%2529.jpg[/img] videodrome a classic i loved as a youth.

[img]http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-v/videodrome_poster_04.jpg[/img]......... Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and singer Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers the signal's source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent organic hallucinations. The film has been described as "techno-surrealist".[1] Max Renn (James Woods) is the president of CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography and gratuitous violence), Max is on a seemingly endless quest for something that will break through to a new audience. One morning, he is summoned to the clandestine office of Harlan (Peter Dvorsky), who operates CIVIC-TV's pirate satellite dish which can intercept broadcasts from as far away as Asia. Harlan shows him Videodrome, a plotless television show apparently being broadcast out of Malaysia which depicts the brutal torture and eventual murder of anonymous victims in a bizarre, reddish-orange chamber. Believing this to be the future of television — (staged) snuff TV — Max orders Harlan to begin pirating the show. Appearing on a talk show, Max defends his station's programming choices to Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry), a sadomasochistic psychiatrist and radio host, and Professor Brian O'Blivion (Jack Creley), a pop-culture analyst and philosopher who will only appear on television if his image is broadcast into the studio, onto a television, from a remote location. O'Blivion hijacks the interview and delivers a speech prophesying a future in which television supplants real life. Max dates Nicki, who is sexually aroused when he shows her an episode of Videodrome and coaxes him into having sex with her while they watch it. Max goes once again to Harlan's office, where Harlan informs him the signal delay which caused it to appear to be coming from Malaysia was a ploy by the broadcaster. In fact, Videodrome is being broadcast out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Max tells Nicki of his discovery and she excitedly goes to Pittsburgh to try and audition for the show under the guise of a business trip. When Nicki fails to return to Toronto, Max contacts Masha (Lynne Gorman), a softcore feminist pornographer with long-standing ties to the porn community, and asks her to help him find out the truth about Videodrome. Through Masha, Max learns that not only is the footage in Videodrome not faked, but it is the public "face" of a political movement with unspecified but apparently violent goals. Masha further informs him that O'Blivion knows about Videodrome. Max tracks down O'Blivion's office to The Cathode Ray Mission, a mission where homeless individuals are provided food, shelter, and clothing, and encouraged to engage in marathon sessions of television viewing. He discovers the mission is run by O'Blivion's daughter, Bianca (Sonja Smits), with the goal of helping to bring about her father's vision of a world in which television replaces every aspect of everyday life. Later, Max views a videotape in which O'Blivion informs him that "the Videodrome" is a socio-political battleground in which a war is being fought for control of the minds of the people of North America. Shortly thereafter, Max begins experiencing disturbing hallucinations in which his torso transforms into a gaping hole that functions as a VCR. Bianca tells him these are side-effects from having viewed Videodrome, which is in fact the carrier of a malicious broadcast signal that causes the viewer to develop a malignant brain tumor. O'Blivion helped to create it as part of his vision for the future, but when he found out it was to be used for malevolent purposes, he attempted to stop his partners; they used his own invention to kill him. In the year before his death, O'Blivion recorded tens of thousands of videos, which now form the basis of his television appearances. Max is contacted by Videodrome's producer, the Spectacular Optical Corporation, an eyeglasses company that acts as a front for a NATO weapons manufacturer. The head of Spectacular Optical, Barry Convex (Leslie Carlson), has been secretly working with Harlan to get Max exposed to Videodrome and to have him broadcast it, as part of a crypto-government conspiracy to morally and ideologically "purge" North America, giving fatal brain tumors to "lowlifes" fixated on extreme sex and violence. Convex then inserts a brainwashing video tape into the "VCR" in Max's torso. Under Convex's influence, Max murders his colleagues at CIVIC-TV, and later attempts to murder Bianca O'Blivion, as Videodrome considered these victims threats to its mission. Bianca manages to stop Max from assassinating her by successfully 'reprogramming' him to turn against Videodrome, in the hope of destroying the project that led to her father's death. On her orders, Max kills Harlan, then tracks Convex to a trade show, where he shoots him to death in front of a horrified crowd. Afterwards, Max takes refuge on a derelict boat in an abandoned harbor, where Nicki appears to him on a television. She tells him he has weakened Videodrome, but in order to completely defeat it, he has to ascend to the next level and "leave the old flesh." The television then shows an image of Max shooting himself in the head, which causes the set to explode, splattering the deck of the ship with bloody, human intestines. Imitating what he has just seen on TV, Max says his final words, "Long Live the New Flesh", and then shoots himself. A deleted scene from the film provides background on the origin of Videodrome. In that scene Convex tells Max about the "Image Accumulator," (which is the device placed on Max's head during his meeting with Convex) an experimental new form of night vision that can work in zero-light conditions. When the developers played the recorded footage from the Accumulator, they saw things that could not have been there. They conclude these phantom figures were hallucinations of the test volunteers, inexplicably recorded by the Accumulator. Further research of the test volunteers revealed they had developed a brain tumor, which externalized their hallucinations, but more specifically, granted them reality warping abilities, which Max refers to as "brain damage". The same signal used in the Image Accumulator was then used to create Videodrome. David Cronenberg recalled how, when he was a child, he used to pick up pirate television signals from Buffalo, New York, late at night after Canadian stations had gone off the air, and how he used to worry he might see something disturbing not meant for public consumption. This formed the basis for the plot of Videodrome.[2] As a young man, Cronenberg attended the University of Toronto—first studying science, but eventually gaining his degree in Literature. Marshall McLuhan was a lecturer in media studies at the University during the same time (the early 1970s), and is often credited as an influence on Cronenberg's ideas for Videodrome.[3] Videodrome pioneered the flicker-eliminating technology used to film a television screen's images; before, film images were superimposed onto blank television screens. Videodrome used Betamax videotape cassettes because VHS videotape cassettes were too large to fit the faux abdominal wound.[2] Alternate titles of Videodrome were Network of Blood and Zonekiller. "Civic TV" is a reference to Toronto television station, CityTV, which in the 1970s and early 1980s was notorious for broadcasting soft-core pornography among its programming. One of Max's business partners is named Moses likely in reference to CityTV co-founder Moses Znaimer. The pornographic video Samurai Dreams, of which only a few moments are seen in the film story, was made specifically for the film. The five-minute film is in The Criterion Collection DVD edition of Videodrome.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/SocietyPoster.jpg[/img] Another guilty pleasure lol Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) seems to have it all. His family is wealthy and he lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills, California. He's popular at his high school, looks to be a shoo-in for class president, has a cute cheerleader girlfriend and owns a new Jeep Wrangler to drive around in. Despite this, he feels as though he does not fit in with his family or their high-society friends. When his sister's ex-boyfriend Blanchard (Tim Bartell) gives him a surreptitiously recorded tape of what sounds like his family engaged in a vile, murderous orgy, Bill begins to suspect that his feelings are justified. Bill gives the tape to his therapist Dr. Cleveland (Ben Slack) to listen to. When he comes back for his appointment, Dr. Cleveland plays the tape back for Bill. The audio has now changed and now merely contains the sounds of his sister Jenny (Patrice Jennings) enjoying her coming out party. Bill insists that what he'd heard before was real and calls Blanchard to get another copy. When he arrives at their meeting place, Bill discovers an ambulance and police officers gathered around Blanchard's crashed van. A body is placed into the back of the ambulance, but Bill is prevented from seeing its face. At Blanchard's funeral, Bill and his friend Milo (Evan Richards) discover that Blanchard's corpse either needed a lot of reconstructive work for display, or is not real. After the funeral and at the encouragement of his parents, Bill attends a party hosted by his upper-class classmate Ferguson (Ben Meyerson). There, Ferguson lasciviously confirms that the first audio tape Bill listened to—with the sounds of an orgy on it—was the real tape. Angry and confused, he leaves the party with Clarissa (Devin DeVasquez), a beautiful girl he'd been admiring. They have acrobatic sex at her house and Bill meets Clarissa's bizarre, hair-loving mother (Pamela Matheson). Bill returns home the next day and confronts his parents (Connie Danese and Charles Lucia) and sister, who are all in the master bedroom dressed in lingerie. With Dr. Cleveland's help, they drug Bill. As Milo secretly trails him, Bill is taken to a hospital. Bill awakens in a hospital bed and thinks he hears Blanchard crying out, but discovers that nothing is there. He leaves the hospital and finds his Jeep waiting for him. Milo tries to warn him, but he drives back to his house. Back home again, Bill finds a large, formal party. He is snared by the neck and Dr. Cleveland reveals all of the secrets he has been searching for. He is not really related to his family after all. In fact, his family and their high-society friends are actually a different species from Bill. To demonstrate, they bring in a still-living Blanchard. The wealthy party guests strip to their underwear and begin "shunting". The rich literally feed on the poor, physically deforming and melding with each other as they suck the nutrients out of Blanchard's body. Their intention is to do to the same to Bill. In a fight with Ferguson, Bill manages to pull the pliable Ferguson inside-out. With Milo and Clarissa's help—who is also of this alternate species, but has fallen in love with Bill—he escapes. Society was a success in Europe, but was shelved for three years before getting a release in the U.S.[1] Said director Yuzna in an interview: "I think Europeans are more willing to accept the ideas that are in a movie. That's why for example Society did really well in Europe and in the US did nothing, where it was a big joke. And I think it's because they responded to the ideas in there. I was totally having fun with them, but they are there nonetheless."[2] In 1990, Society won the Silver Raven award for "Best Make-Up" at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.

One of my all times favorites is an old film called THE ASPHYX from 1973, while its not about aliens its still a sci fi movie i guess. Its about an English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx. Once the human soul is captured the person no longer fears death. WATCH THE TRAILER and tell me it didn't give you goose bumps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6R1Mz9FdA

ill check that one thanks uk alien thats a new one for me to.

i can remember watching it when i was 15, don't think i slept all night, really creepy

[img]http://bp0.blogger.com/_v0fV15P7uQo/SFOX-XPKaCI/AAAAAAAACUk/FPcaPCQc1pU/s400/shivers+n+rabid.jpg[/img] another dave cronenberg film along with the brood with oliver reed had big impact on me in my early teens.

How about "the fourth kind"? With milla jovovich. It sure scared me anyway. theres one scene in it where they talk about sumerian stoneart, and how it depicts "men in space-suites and oxygen masks, rockets that look like apollo".

The 2 Best damn Horror Movies {Since "the Version You've Never Seen"}I have seen bar none are as follows Both the "uneditited" vrsions of these by the way.... "28 weeks later" The scene in which the Husband finds his wife, kisses her, and thus turns and eats her alive inside of ten seconds was perhaps the single most disturbing and frightenting movie scene I have seen in the past 50 years. "I Spit On Your Grave" Easily The single most satisying horror film I have ever ever seen- it ain't even close !!!

There are only a handful of movies that have left me rather unable to sleep or actually afraid in the movie theater: Communion: when the alien peaks around the corner when the main character is in his hypnotized state (THANK KORPEN, nice profile pic) 4th Kind: not a good movie, but there were some parts that had me riveted. Fire in the Sky: where the character wakes up and sees the Greys as suits. Then one of the suits becomes active and attacks him, then the little pink guys get him. WTF!?!?!?! That's pretty much it. But other sci-fi movies: uh...DUNE?! Not the made for TV version. 2001, but not 2010 (the books are both so much better) Pitch Black: very fun, but not super intelligent. Both Ghost in the Shell movies (good luck following the 2nd one) E.Y.E.S of Mars (anime) Seriously, check this out. It has to do with the last surviving colony of humans on mars and how they die. Totally awesome, with a wicked ending. Really an unexpected ending.

Can't forget Silent Runnings

Altered States (1980) scared the crap out of me. [img]http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o612/Nephilim-LV426/Prometheus/Altered-States_1980.png[/img] The theme was that if you took a psychedelic bio-changing drug and went into an isolation tank, you physically regressed. When William Hurt came out of that tank and he couldn't speak because his voice-box was now ape-like...I was freaked...and enjoyed every minute of it...I won't spoil it, but he does go almost ALL the way back... [img]http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o612/Nephilim-LV426/Prometheus/Altered_States_tank.jpg[/img] I was a Bio major at the time and into the whole 'tapping into our genomes' thing that was just starting to happen...recombinant DNA etc. Of course in 1980 'Altered State' meant something else too... Sometime after I saw this movie I found a place where you could rent an isolation tank for an hour. I went in. I'll tell you I was just too damn nervous to relax and enjoy it. Just at the point when my skin started to lose all feeling, the bell rang...time was up... But I'll never forget it...or the movie.