Monday, November 5, 2018

AMC's Visionaries : Eli Roth's History of Horror - Killer Creatures (2018)


Made for AMC , airing November 5th in the US.
Season 1. Episode 5.
The story : Monsters in the movies are metaphors for many things.
They can represent the things from our wildest fantasies and also be reflections of ourselves.
But what happens when nature turns on us .
What we see as friendly and harmless suddenly becomes a threat to our well being.
Movies shown and/or mentioned here are ; 
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)
John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975)
Joe Dante's Gremlins (1984)
Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (2017)
Andy Muschietti's It (2017)
Lewis Teague's Cujo (1983)
Joe Dante's The Howling (1981)
Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014)
Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958)
David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986)
Tommy Lee Wallace's It (1990)
Michael Dougherty's Godzilla : King of the Monsters (2019)
James Whale's The Invisible Man (1933)
Luca Bercovici's Ghoulies (1984)
Stephen Herek's Critters (1986)
Mick Garris' Critters 2 (1988)
Joe Dante's Gremlins 2 (1990)
Michael Dougherty's Krampus (2015)
Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (1931)
James Whale's Frankenstein (1931)
Joe Johnston's The Wolfman (2010)
George Waggner's The Wolf Man (1941)
Jack Harold's The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack's King Kong (1933)
Stars John Landis , Mary Harron , David Arquette , Stephen King , Eli Roth , Quentin Tarantino , Daniel Kaluuya , Mick Garris ,  Andy Muschietti , Barbara Muschietti , Diablo Cody , Greg Nicotero , Rob Zombie , Michael Dougherty , Joe Dante , Steve Niles , Victor Lavalle , Tippi Hendren , Tony Timpone  , Chris Dumas , Ernest Dickerson , Elijah Wood , Leonard Maltin , Slash , Dee Wallace , Joe Hill , Edgar Wright , Leigh Whannell , David Skal , Doug Jones , Catherine Hardwicke
Directed by (& story written) Kurt Sayenga
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES/HALLOWEEN

"Fears are never just imaginary."

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