When I wrote a post recently about the collapse of negotiations between Mandate and DreamWorks over a deal that could have led to a Steven Spielberg-directed remake of the Korean cult thriller "Oldboy," I expected to get feedback from Spielberg...
Previous installments here, here, and here. Farber: "Howard Hawks's science-fiction quickie directed by Christian Nyby; fast, crisp and cheap, without any progressive-minded gospel-reading about neighborliness in the atomic age; good airplane take-offs and landings; wonderful shock effects (the plants that...
Berlin - Twenty years after popular uprisings swept away decades of Communist rule across Eastern Europe, Hollywood and studio bosses in the West are still trying to come to terms with the changes unleashed by the implosion of the Evil Empire. Chris...
Go away. Why won't you go? Did you forget how? The gate is right there. Go on, go. Scram. Beat it. Scoot. Begone. So why are you still here, now? Oh, right. You actually came here hoping to get something from me. Knowing full well that I am impoverished, that all I have is myself, my blanket and my personal charm, you still came to take something away from me. Well, I have to break it to you, you can't...
Polar Paranoia and Generic Invention: The Thing (From Another World) (1951) By Roderick Heath Directors: Christian Nyby Jr. and Howard Hawks Christian Nyby’s The Thing (From Another World), which portrays a battle with an alien life form in an...
Some film-related items. Attack of the remakes. Does the world really want a live-action Akira or another Logan’s Run? Can The Thing be improved upon? Flash Gordon without Brian Blessed? Er, Romancing the Stone? A gallery of bewildering foreign film...
I love this scene: the discovery and "explosive digging" of the flying saucer in Christian Nyby's The Thing from Another World (1951). Produced by Howard Hawks. "this scene is presented with the entire isolated music soundtrack by Dimitri Tiomkin, one of the eeriest and strangest soundtracks ever created for a sci-fi movie. With lots of theremin, the music suits perfectly the outer-worldly...
Bloody Disgusting beat the trades to the punch two weeks ago but this morning the upcoming The Thing prequel-remake has been thrust into the web-weary gaze of the crusty and blog-fearing by getting a story in Daily Variety (though even they ran it first on the web, last night). After agreeing that Matthijs Van Hejningen has been appointed as director and that Ronald D. Moore’s screenplay for...
The studio that was built on horror back in the 30s,wants to reach back into the past and remake a 1950s horror classic, The Thing. Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks made the original The Thing from Another World, about a...
Directed by: Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks; Written by: Charles Lederer, Howard Hawks & Ben Hecht; Based on the story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr.; Starring: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer & James Arness.
Family ties Bong Joon-ho's Gwoemul ( The Host , 2006) is terrific stuff, as much for being a family movie as for being a horror flick, but that's pretty much the secret appeal of almost any classic creature. James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) is really about parental responsibility and the neglect of the offspring; Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is about the abused child's development of an operating...
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