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(sf horror movie)Starship Troopers:Traitor of Mars-could have been better?!

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The first Starship Troopers movie by Paul Verhoeven back in 1997.was for me one of the best sf horror movies. The war between humanity in a kind of totalitarian regime against the giant space bugs became one of my favourite movies. The sequel and the third part were weaker but still enjoyable. The fourth installment in the franchise was the first to be the full animated cartoon movie and it brought back my faith in this franchise because I liked it a lot. I was eager to see this fifth installment, again in the form of animated cartoon movie.

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I was happy when I read that Casper Van Dien returns once more giving voice to the main character of the series, now colonel Johnny Rico who is now training raw and green Martian recruits in shitty backwater sattelite of Mars. He is not happy with it, but being the good soldier he is, he does his job and keeps his thoughts to himself. Mars colonists strive for independence from the rest of the Federation and political tensions rise up…His old friend Carl Jenkins, now a fugitive has a mission for Carmen Ibanez and all three old friends find themselves between the two fires when the bugs attack the planet and the brilliant Sky Marshall wants to destroy the planet…Well, thats it for the summary. The story is a bit political thriller, a bit old school war sf horror and the movie doesnt lack action, but there is just somehow missing. You know the feeling when you eat a plate of plain pasta without anything, without even salt, it is edable but not tasty. This movie is like that. For me, this is by far the worst rendition of the five movies. I dont get the hallucinating Rico parts on the planet with Dizzy Flores and the somehow too naive and quickly ended movie. Could have been a lot better.

 

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(vintage horror movie)AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS(1973.)

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Everyone who is with this zine from the start knows my love for horror movies, horrorpunk and horror subculture. Here is one of the vintage horror movies from my collection that I have watched recently.

The story is almost classic: Young noble Charles Fengriffen and his wife Catherine marry and move to his old castle. On their wedding night Catherine gets attacked and raped by an invisible force. The strange events unravel around the castle and dead bodies pile up, and as the time for baby birth draws near, Catherine wonders…is she carrying demon child?

This movie has it all, the classic gothic story about the vengeful ghost, witchery and some gore as it was done in the 70-ies. If this was Italian horror by for example Lucio Fulci or similar authors, the gore scenes would surely be a lot more emphasized. This way, the movie heavily leans upon the atmosphere and the scary parts are shorter but more intense. From the viewpoint of modern horrror fans, this one looks ridicilous but from the point of Hammer horror fans or the fans of the movies like they were made back then this one is a decent flick.

The movie was directed by the experienced hand of Roy Ward Baker, known for other great horror movies of that time such as “Asylum”, “Monster Club” or “Vault of Horror”. The cast is awesome featuring horror movie legend Peter Cushing and also Herbert Lom and not to forget Patrick Magee or the beautiful Stephanie Beacham. If you are a fan of horror like this, you will love this one.

 

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Horror movie vs horror book battle vol 1:The Exorcist

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This is the new category featured in my zine, and it is in my opinion the interesting one. I always love to ask people from the horror scene, which is better, is it the movie or is it the book upon which the movie was based.

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This first episode we will talk about The Exorcist. I believe that every self respecting horror fiend saw the William Friedkin classic movie at least once in their lifetime. There are two sequels and a prequel, also two seasons of the tv series but we will keep our minds on the first one. Many dubbed it the scariest horror movie of all times, which is in my opinion much overrated, because for me The Sentinel and for instance Omen or Burnt Offerings were a lot scarier than The Exorcist. The cast in the movie was awesome, especially young Linda Blair who became horror icon thanks to the role of possessed girl Regan and no matter where she starred afterwards she always remained equalized with this movie. The music and dark atmosphere of the movie were also awesome as was the great ending. So, that makes it one of the all time classics of the genre which will withstand every test of time.

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Moving onto the novel. The late William Peter Blatty did not write and publish much in terms of quantity but this novel which I read last week was awesome and it managed to have the same dark and brooding atmosphere as the movie. The only thing that the book has and movie has not is wider scope of some characters who dont appear in the movie at all or are marginalized like Swiss housemaid and her husband, or detective Kinderman, who appears a lot in the novel. But it is normal that they cut that out in the movie to make it more fluent and interesting to the cinema goers focusing mainly on one storyline and avoiding the substorylines. The book has the same ending as the movie, so nothing changed like the movie makers sometimes do. Happily this one was not the case.

In the end, what can I say? The movie and the book are equally great and that just doesnt happen a lot, so after our first horror movie vs horror book we can say:

Horror movie 1:Horror book 1-the match was a draw!