With the release of Piranha 3D this weekend (August 20th) it seemed only right for us here at ‘Attack from Planet B’ to list our top animal attack movies in recognition to those toothy blighters.
Nature is a harsh beast and will through anything at us to maim, kill or devour us. From giant killer snakes to rampaging bunnies, so here for all you nature lovers and try huggers out there here is our list of what nature really wants to do to you.
So enjoy, discuss, disagree and comment.
An amateur astronomer witness, what he seems to believe at first as a meteor stick out in the desert one night. On closer inspection he sees what he thinks is an alien spacecraft along with its terrifying crew, but will anyone believe him?
What did he see? Was it aliens or just a trick of the light? If it were aliens, why are they here and what do the want? Do they mean us harm and if so can anybody stop them? All these questions will be answered and more in this great piece of science fiction by Jack Arnold in ‘It Came from Outer Space’.
A mad man running into a police station, screaming that the world is being taken over and that “They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next!”, is not your everyday occurrence. Dr Miles Bennell is that ‘mad man’ and has seen things that people would not believe, recounts his story to the police.
In this landmark film from 1956, director Don Siegel gives us one of the most well known and best loved sci-fi’s of its time, often copied but never bettered, we bring you Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The head warden of Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon has yet again let some of the depraved and deranged of the ‘straight to DVD’ world to escape into the general populous.
We have offerings from the east, with the Japanese again supplying some top class dungeon fodder. From the states we have intergalactic shenanigans and buxom slave girls and from Europe we have Kim’s Dungeon Breakout release to make it a truly international affair.
There are many other films that have been reviewed by Kim, which can be found in the August issue of Empire Magazine (uk).
The People at The B Movie Celebration invite you to celebrate B Movies, celebrate the people who made these movies and those who continue to make these movies.
These people have taken on the banner of advancing the art of the motion picture and they like their predecessors must be celebrated.
So please join them in Franklin Indiana, September 24th-26th for the Fourth Annual B Movie Celebration
On 7th August Cigarette Burns Cinema will be invading the Rosemary Branch’s theatre and screen some of the best horror shorts they could find, a wonderful mix of zombies, ghosts, brutal killings, sexy ladies and twisted murders await you in our den of video nasties.
They can promise you that you have not seen the majority of these films. And certainly not on a nice lovely big screen.
So if you want to find out more read on…