Adam Barraclough is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Hi-Fructose magazine as well as at crowndozen.com
One of his earliest movie memories is going to the drive-in with his parents when he was seven and staying awake in the back seat for the second feature to see The Road Warrior. When asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he replied "Godzilla". This still remains his life-goal.
Obsessions include sci-fi, horror, toy culture and lowbrow art.
He can be found tweeting acerbically @GentlemanSin
Though I haven’t seen the full run of the franchise, I was very impressed by these five, particularly in their ability to appropriate genre and to add fresh blood to the Power Rangers formula.
Yes, this is a blockbuster action film and teen romance, but thanks to careful allegiance to the source material and a screenplay that carefully balances social commentary with more conventional storytelling, it manages to do more than simply pander to a target demographic.
Day of the Dead is often seen as the black sheep of George A. Romero’s original zombie trilogy. For fans and the hardcore however, Day of the Dead may be the best of the bunch.
In an alternate universe very much like our own, few people have ever heard of Jason Voorhees but everybody knows horribly burned summer camp killer Cropsy!
On paper, it sounds like any number of such films that flourished in the late 70’s-early-80’s slasher boom. In execution, there’s a reason why it’s still remembered today.
I’ve always considered Lifeforce to be a genre-fan’s slam dunk: written by Dan O’Bannon (Alien, The Return of the Living Dead) and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist).
Season Six may also be the filthiest season yet, and I cannot urge you enough to seek it out in its unedited, uncensored format so that you can enjoy all the raunchy fun.
Reality TV is a narcissistic cesspool, the lowest-common-denominator in entertainment and a harbinger of humanity’s eventual descent into a hellish nightmare from which we will never escape.
