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Children of the Corn
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Original 1984 theatrical poster

Directed by
Fritz Kiersch
Produced by
Donald P. Borchers
Terence Kirby
Written by
George Goldsmith
Based on
Children of the Corn
by Stephen King
Starring
Peter Horton
Linda Hamilton
R. G. Armstrong
John Franklin
Courtney Gains
Music by
Jonathan Elias
Cinematography
Joao Fernandes(credited as Raoul Lomas)
Editing by
Harry Keramidas
Distributed by
New World Pictures
Release dates
March 9, 1984(USA)

Running time
92 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$800,000
Box office
$14,568,589[citation needed]
Children of the Corn(also known as Stephen King's Children of the Corn) is a 1984 supernaturalhorror filmbased upon the 1977 short storyof the same nameby Stephen King. Directed by Fritz Kiersch, the film stars Peter Hortonand Linda Hamilton. Set in the fictitious rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, the film tells the story of an entity referred to as "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" which entices the children of the town to ritually murderall the adults to ensure a successful cornharvest, and a couple driving cross-country that get caught up in it. King wrote the original draft of the screenplay, which focused more on the characters of Burt and Vicky and depicted more backstoryon the uprising of the children in Gatlin; this can be seen in the 2009 version of this movie. This script was disregarded in favor of George Goldsmith's screenplay, which featured more violence and a more conventional narrative structure. Filming took place mainly in Iowa, but also in California. Seven sequelshave been produced.


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2Cast
3Reception
4Television remake
5Sequels
6See also
7References
8External links

Plot[edit]
In the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska, Job tells the story of how the town became haven for a group of young cultists. The economy of the town is mostly agricultural, and the town is surrounded by vast cornfields. One particular year the corn crop fails and the people of Gatlin turn to prayer in an attempt to ensure a successful harvest. A boy preacher, Isaac Chroner (John Franklin), takes all the children of Gatlin into a cornfield to speak to them about a bloodthirsty, paganisticincarnation of the Abrahamic Godcalled "He Who Walks Behind The Rows". Isaac, through his lieutenant Malachai (Courtney Gains), leads the children in a revolution, brutally killing all of the adults in the town. Over the ensuing years, the children take any adults passing through as sacrifices.
Three years later, Burt (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend Vicky (Linda Hamilton) pass through Nebraska while driving cross-country to Burt's new job as a physician in Seattle, Washington. As they travel in their car they hit a small boy out on the highway. This boy was one of the Gatlin children who tried to escape the iron hand of the death cult. The couple place his body in the trunk. They encounter an old mechanic, who is no help, as the children of Gatlin have employed him to lead all adults passing through to the town, but they betray him and kill him anyway.
Burt and Vicky finally end up in Gatlin, after searching for several hours for a phone. A struggle ensues between the couple and the children as the couple are chased through the city. Burt and Vicky rescue Job and his little sister Sarah, who do not wish to be part of the cult. Vicky is captured by Malachai, and is prepared as a sacrifice before they track down and capture Burt and the children.
Meanwhile, Malachai and the others have grown tired of Isaac's arrogance. Assuming command over the children, Malachai orders Isaac to be sacrificed in Vicky's place, though Isaac warns them that they will all be punished for this affront. Night soon falls and Burt enters the cornfield to rescue Vicky. The sacrifice begins and He Who Walks Behind The Rows (in the form of a writhing, hungry light) seemingly devours Isaac. Burt arrives and battles Malachai, telling the children that their minds have been poisoned and their humanity sacrificed in the name of a false god. As Malachai tries to regain control of the children, Isaac's re-animated corpse (possessed by He Who Walks Behind The Rows) appears and kills Malachai, breaking his neck.
Soon, a terrible storm gathers over the cornfield and Burt and Vicky gather the children inside a barn to shield them from He Who Walks Behind The Rows' wrath. As the storm intensifies all around them, Job shows a Bible verse to Burt and Vicky that indicates that they must destroy the cornfield for the evil to cease (it is heavily implied that He Who Walks Behind The Rows is not the God of the Biblebut an aspect of the Devil). While filling the irrigation pumps with gasoholfuel, He Who Walks Behind The Rows (this time in the form of both a burrowing underground shape and a demonic red cloud) lashes out at Burt, and prepares to destroy the barn. However, Burt is able to spray the fields with the flammable liquid and lights a Molotov cocktail, tossing it into the field, burning it and seemingly destroying the demon.
Burt, Vicky, Job and Sarah survive and are able to leave Gatlin as the cornfields burn. As Burt grabs the map they used to get there, a teenage girl who is a member of the cult jumps out at him from the back seat and attempts to stab him. Vicky knocks her out with the passenger door, and the four walk off into the distance to parts unknown.
Cast[edit]
Peter Hortonas Burt Stanton
Linda Hamiltonas Vicky Baxter
R.G. Armstrongas Diehl ("The Old Man")
John Franklinas Isaac Chroner
Courtney Gainsas Malachai Boardman
John Philbinas Richard 'Amos' Deigan
Anne Marie McEvoyas Sarah
Reception[edit]
The film received negative reviews from Gene Siskeland Roger Eberton At the Movies.[1]It currently rates as "Rotten" on the website Rotten Tomatoeswith 39% of 23 critiques being favorable.[2]The film took in over $14 million at the US box office.[3]
Television remake[edit]
In June 2008 it was confirmed that Donald P. Borchers would begin writing and directing a TV remakeof the first film, which would premiere on the Syfychannel. Production began in August, filming in Davenport, Iowa, however, it was moved to Lost Nation, Iowa.(TJC)
The cast included David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey, Daniel Newmanand Alexa Nikolas. The movie aired on September 26, 2009, and the DVD was released on October 6, 2009 by Anchor Bay.[4]The television remake closely follows the original storyline present in the short story, and not that of the original film.
Sequels[edit]
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
Children of the Corn: Revelation
Children of the Corn: Genesis
See also[edit]
Who Can Kill a Child?
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^Reviewon At The Movies
2.Jump up ^"Children of the Corn (1984)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
3.Jump up ^"Children of the Corn (1984)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
4.Jump up ^http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003850085[dead link]
External links[edit]
Children of the Cornat Facebook
Children of the Cornat the Internet Movie Database
Children of the Cornat AllMovie
Children of the Cornat Rotten Tomatoes
Entire filmat Google Video
Children of the Cornat YouTube
ChildrenoftheCornMovie.com


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Cujo
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Author
Stephen King
Country
USA
Language
English
Genre
Horror
Publisher
Viking Press

Publication date
 September 8, 1981
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
319
ISBN
978-0-670-45193-7
Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a rabid dog. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982,[1] and was made into a film in 1983.


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2 Plot
3 References
4 External links

Background[edit]
Cujo's name was based on the nom de guerre of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Hearst's kidnapping and indoctrination into the Symbionese Liberation Army.[2][3] Stephen King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he "barely remembers writing at all". The book was written during a period when King was drinking heavily. Somewhat wistfully, King goes on to say that he likes the book and that he wishes he could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them down on the page.[4]
Plot[edit]
The story takes place in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, the setting of numerous King works, and revolves around two local families. The narrative is interspersed with vignettes from the seemingly mundane lives of various other residents. There are no chapter headings, but rather breaks in between passages, which indicate when the narration switches to a different point of view.
The principal characters are the Trenton and the Camber families. The middle-class Trentons have recently moved to Castle Rock from New York, bringing with them their four-year-old son, Tad. Father Vic discovers that his wife Donna has recently concluded an affair. In the midst of this household tension, Vic's fledgling advertising agency is failing, and he is forced to travel out of town, leaving Tad and Donna at home. The blue-collar Cambers are longtime residents; Joe is a shade-tree mechanic who dominates and abuses his wife Charity and their ten-year-old son Brett. Charity wins a $5,000 lottery prize, and uses the proceeds to inveigle Joe into allowing her to take Brett on a trip to visit Charity's sister, Holly, in Connecticut. Joe acquiesces, secretly planning to use the time to take a pleasure trip to Boston.
Cujo, the Cambers' large, good-natured St. Bernard, chases a wild rabbit in the fields around their house and inserts his head in the entrance to a small limestone cave where a rabid bat bites him on the nose and infects him with the virus that causes Cujo's madness in one day. Soon after Charity and Brett leave town, Cujo attacks and kills their alcoholic neighbor, Gary Pervier and Joe while he attempts to call authorities for help.
Donna, home alone with Tad, takes their failing Ford Pinto to the Cambers' for repairs. The car breaks down in Camber's dooryard and as Donna attempts to find Joe, Cujo appears and is ready to pounce. She climbs back in the car and Cujo starts to attack. Donna and Tad are trapped in their vehicle, the interior of which becomes increasingly hot in the sun. During one escape attempt, Donna is bitten in the stomach and leg, but manages to survive and escape back into the car. She plans to run for the Cambers' home but abandons the idea due to her fears that the door will be locked and she will be subsequently killed by Cujo, leaving her son alone.
Vic returns to Castle Rock after several failed attempts to contact Donna and learns from the police that Steve Kemp, the man with whom Donna was having an affair, is suspected of ransacking his home and possibly kidnapping Donna and Tad. In an effort to explore all leads, the state police send Castle Rock Sheriff George Bannerman out to the Cambers' house, but Cujo attacks and kills him. Donna, after witnessing the attack and realizing Tad is in danger of dying of dehydration, faces Cujo down with a baseball bat, breaking it over his head and fatally stabbing him in the eye with the broken end. Vic arrives immediately afterwards, only to discover that Tad has died. Donna is rushed to the hospital, and Cujo's head is removed for a biopsy prior to cremation of his remains, which are then thrown into Augusta's waste treatment plant.
The novel ends several months later with both the Trenton and Camber families trying to go on with their lives: Donna has completed her treatment for rabies and survived her marriage with Vic, and Charity gives Brett a new, vaccinated puppy named Willie. A postscript reminds the reader that Cujo was a good dog who always tried to keep his owners happy, but the ravage of rabies drove him to violence.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "1982 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
2.Jump up ^ March 1, 1976. Patty's Long Ordeal on the Stand [1] Time.com
3.Jump up ^ August 14, 1981. Cujo: New York Times Book Review [2] New York Times.com
4.Jump up ^ King, Stephen. On Writing, page 110, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000, ISBN 978-0-340-82046-9
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Cujo
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Directed by
Lewis Teague
Produced by
Robert Singer
 Daniel H. Blatt[1]
Screenplay by
Don Carlos Dunaway
 Lauren Currier
Based on
Cujo by
Stephen King
Starring
Dee Wallace
Danny Pintauro
Daniel Hugh-Kelly
Christopher Stone
Ed Lauter
Music by
Charles Bernstein
Cinematography
Jan de Bont
Editing by
Neil Travis
Studio
Taft Entertainment
 Sunn Classic Pictures
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
(United States and Canada)
PSO International
(Icon Productions)
(international)
Release dates
August 12, 1983
Running time
91 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$8,000,000
Box office
$21,156,152 (USA)
Cujo is a 1983 American horror/thriller film based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Cujo was directed by Lewis Teague from a screenplay by Don Carlos Dunaway and Lauren Currier.[2]


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2 Cast
3 Reception
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace) is a frustrated housewife whose life is in turmoil after her husband Vic learns about her having an affair with her ex-boyfriend. Brett Camber is a young boy and a son of a mechanic, Joe, who is abusive to a St. Bernard named "Cujo" who is bitten by a rabid bat and his behavior changes. While the dog begins to succumb to the disease, Brett and his mother leave for Connecticut to visit his mother's sister. The gentle Cujo, now crazed by the disease, has killed Joe and his neighbour, also abusive to Cujo, Gary Pervier.
Later, Donna and her young son, Tad, drive up to the Cambers' house. But as they arrive, Cujo appears out of nowhere and tries to attack them, but with Donna and Tad in the car safely, he gives up and walks away. Making matters worse, Donna's Ford Pinto car's alternator dies, meaning the two can't leave. So they are forced to stay inside the Pinto while Cujo waits outside, attacking repeatedly, all while Vic is out of town on a business trip.The hot sun makes the conditions nearly unbearable, but Donna knows that certain death awaits them outside and decides that she must do something before they both die from either heatstroke or dehydration, but Cujo could be around, however, and attempts at escape are foiled by the repeated attacks of Cujo, who tries to get into the car. The local Sheriff comes to the house for a brief standoff, before Cujo kills him. Donna decides that she must risk going outside to save Tad, but Cujo jumps out from underneath the car and bites her in the leg, forcing her back into the car. Eventually, a badly wounded Donna makes an attempt to dash for the house but is attacked by Cujo, the only safety being the car. Vic arrives home and tries to rekindle his marriage, but finds out Donna and Tad are missing. He begins to suspect that Steve Kemp for the kidnapping, but realizes where they might be.
After her brutal struggle against Cujo, Donna takes advantage of a momentary distraction and hits Cujo with a baseball bat several times until the bat breaks off, leaving only a jagged handle. Cujo jumps at her, only to land on the broken handle, impaling him. Donna pushes Cujo off and uses the sheriff's revolver to break open the windshield and retrieve Tad, as Cujo had broken all of the handles. Donna revives her son, who had passed out due to the extreme heat and dehydration. Cujo wakes up and breaks through the kitchen window and uses the last of his strength to try to kill the two, but Donna pulls out the Sheriff's pistol and shoots and kills Cujo. Vic arrives at the Camber's house, and is reunited with Donna and Tad, who is still clinging to life.
Cast[edit]
Dee Wallace as Donna Trenton
Danny Pintauro as Tad Trenton
Daniel Hugh-Kelly as Vic Trenton
Christopher Stone as Steve Kemp
Ed Lauter as Joe Camber
Kaiulani Lee as Charity Camber
Billy Jacoby as Brett Camber
Mills Watson as Gary Pervier
Jerry Hardin as Masen
Sandy Ward as George Bannerman
Reception[edit]
Reviews of the film were mixed, and a more recent collation of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes has earned Cujo a "rotten" rating of 59% based on 29 reviews. Eleanor Mannikka of the New York Times wrote that:

Cujo is not as menacing or frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially can not compare to the 1976 Carrie...His condition deteriorates as he attacks people again and again, until finally, mom Donna Trenton and her son Tad are trapped inside the family car with Cujo lurking nearby, set to kill them any way he can. A showdown is inevitable but is just as predictable as the rest of the film.
Cujo was a modest box office success for Warner Brothers. The film was released August 12, 1983 in the United States, opening in second place that weekend.[3] It grossed a total of $21,156,152 domestically,[4] making it the fourth highest grossing horror film of 1983.
See also[edit]
Man's Best Friend - a film about a genetically engineered mastiff.
Stephen King's Cat's Eye - a 1985 film that briefly features Cujo.
Cynophobia
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Blu-Ray Art and Details: Near Dark, Cujo, and Frailty".
2.Jump up ^ "Cujo - Cast & Crew". AllRovi. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
3.Jump up ^ "Weekend Box Office August 12-14, 1983". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
4.Jump up ^ "Cujo (1983)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
External links[edit]
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Cujo at AllMovie
Cujo at Box Office Mojo
Cujo at Rotten Tomatoes


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Bats
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Directed by
Louis Morneau
Produced by
Bradley Jenkel
 Louise Rosner
Written by
John Logan
Starring
Lou Diamond Phillips
Dina Meyer
Bob Gunton
Music by
Graeme Revell
Cinematography
George Mooradian
Editing by
Glenn Garland
Distributed by
Destination Films
Release dates
October 22, 1999

Running time
91 minutes
 92 minutes (R-rated cut)
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$6.5 million
Box office
$10,155,690[1]
Bats (originally titled Blood Moon) is a 1999 American science fiction monster horror thriller film, directed by Louis Morneau and produced by Bradley Jenkel and Louise Rosner. The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton and Leon. It was the first film released by Destination Films.
The plot concerns a dangerous swarm of genetically mutated bats who terrorize a local Texas town and it is up to Zoologist Sheila Casper who teams up with town Sheriff Emmett Kimsey to exterminate the creatures before they take more lives. The film was panned by several critics for its sub-par special effects, underdeveloped characters, and for failing to be scary or creepy in any way. The film's positive reviews have proclaimed that the film is so bad that it is good and should be viewed as an unintentional comedy rather than a horror film.
Despite all the negative acclaim the film was a moderate box office success recouping nearly half it's budget.


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Plot[edit]
After people start to die in the small Texas town of Gallup, the prime suspects are bats. The CDC calls in Dr. Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer) and her assistant, Jimmy Sands (Leon Robinson), who are zoologists who specialize in the study of bats to investigate the situation. Dr. Alexander McCabe (Bob Gunton) is secretive about the situation, but admits that the bats were genetically modified by him to become more intelligent and also omnivorous so they wouldn't be in danger of extinction any longer. Sheila is disgusted by this but it seems that McCabe had the best intentions.
Aided by Sheriff Emmett Kimsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) and CDC specialist Dr Tobe Hodge (Carlos Jacott), Sheila and Jimmy begin to search for the nest. The first night they are attacked and manage to capture one and plant a tracking device on it. However as soon as they let it go, it is killed by the other bats, who knew of the feint. Emmett decides that Gallup needs to be evacuated, and the mayor is told to broadcast a warning to all residents to stay indoors and secure their houses. Unfortunately, no one listens. The bats invade the town and, within minutes, chaos ensues and several people are killed, including Dr. Hodge, who sacrificed himself to save Sheila.
The National Guard arrives and begins evacuating the town. They give Sheila and her bat hunters 48 hours before they destroy the town in hopes of killing the bats. Sheila sets up headquarters in the school. The military has promised to center the infrared cameras of a Chromo-B340 satellite on the area around Gallop to help locate the bat roost. Even when the roost is located, however, how are they going to annihilate every last bat? From the numbers they saw the other night, there are thousands of them. Bombing the roost will only scatter them, leading to the creation of other roosts and potentiating the problem. Poisoning them is not an option, as the most popular bat poison is only marginally effective against bats but highly lethal to humans. Sheila thinks the best solution is to put them to sleep by lowering the temperature in the cave. At 40 degrees, bats begin to hibernate. At 32 degrees, they freeze to death.
Jimmy arranges for an NGIC Industrial Coolant that uses freon, carbon dioxide, and oxygen to be dropped off as soon as the roost is located. When the spy satellite begins sending pictures of the bats, Emmett recognizes the area as that of the old Black Rock mine. Everything is set to begin at 0600 hours. Except that the government has other ideas, which don't include waiting until dawn. During the night, they wire the mine with explosives set to trap the bats inside and freeze them. Unfortunately, the bats kill all the soldiers at the location and then attack the school. They use electrified fences and blowtorches to keep the creatures at bay, but it is revealed that McCabe, actually insane, has created the bats to be the ultimate predator, creating them to kill people. McCabe flees only to be killed by his own creation after believing that they would listen to his wishes.
When Sheila, Emmett and Jimmy arrive at the mine the next morning, they are informed by the military that they weren't able to turn on the coolant unit, so the plan now is to bomb and gas the mine starting in one hour. Emmett calls the military and tells them that they will be able to activate the unit but they are unable to get the airstrike called off. Sheila decides that one hour is enough time for them to get the coolant unit started, so she and Emmett suit up and enter the mine. Jimmy stays outside to monitor their progress and to blow up the mine entrance should it become necessary. Although they find themselves up to their waist in bat guano, they are successful at starting the coolant. As they make for the exit, the bats are flying in hot pursuit. The moment they exit, Jimmy detonates the explosives, collapsing the mine entrance and trapping the bats inside, freezing them. However, one final bat burrows out of the ground, having survived the freezing temperatures. It prepares to escape, only to be crushed by the car as the group drives away.
Cast[edit]
Lou Diamond Phillips as Emmett Kimsey
Dina Meyer as Sheila Casper
Bob Gunton as Alexander McCabe
Leon as Jimmy Sands
Carlos Jacott as Tobe Hodge
David McConnell as Deputy Wesley Munn
Marcia Dangerfield as Mayor Amanda Branson
Oscar Rowland as Dr. Swanbeck
Tim Whitaker as Quint
Juliana Johnson as Emma
James Sie as Sergeant James
Ned Bellamy as Major Reid
George Gerdes as Chaswick
Production[edit]
Principal photography and filming mostly took place in Utah between November 23, 1998 and May 8, 1999 in the cities Genola, Magna, American Fork, and Park City despite the film's plot being set in Texas. The bats in the film were a combination of CGI, Animatronics, and actual bats which were brought over from Indonesia.
Release[edit]
The film received it's theatrical premiere in the U.S. on October 22, 1999. The film was not released theatrically in Norway, Japan, Hungary, or Finland. The film was released direct-to-video in Norway, Japan, and Hungary and as a TV movie in Finland.
Home Media[edit]
The film was released on VHS and DVD on February 22, 2000. An extended edition which was rated R was released on the same date (which is unusual considering most extended versions of a film are unrated) which extended certain scenes in the film by a few seconds and featured more graphic violence, blood, and gore than the theatrical cut.
Reception[edit]
Bats received mainly negative reviews from critics, where it currently holds a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews with the critical consensus simply stating "Neither scary nor creepy". Metacritic, which assigns a rating from 0 to 100, gave the film a 23 indicating generally unfavorable reviews.
Sequel[edit]
A television sequel to this film, Bats: Human Harvest, was made by the Sci Fi Channel in 2007.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "BATS". Box Office Mojo.
External links[edit]
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Event Horizon (film)
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Event Horizon
Picture of spacecraft with the text "Infinite size, Infinite Terror"
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Paul W. S. Anderson
Produced by
Lawrence Gordon
Lloyd Levin
Jeremy Bolt
Written by
Philip Eisner
Andrew Kevin Walker
(uncredited)
Starring
Laurence Fishburne
Sam Neill
Kathleen Quinlan
Joely Richardson
Richard T. Jones
Jack Noseworthy
Jason Isaacs
Sean Pertwee

Music by
Michael Kamen
Orbital

Cinematography
Adrian Biddle
Editing by
Martin Hunter
Studio
Paramount Pictures
 Golar Productions
 Impact Pictures
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release dates
August 15, 1997 (United States)
August 22, 1997 (United Kingdom)

Running time
95 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
 United States
Language
English
Budget
$60 million[1]
Box office
$47,073,851[2]
Event Horizon is a 1997 American science fiction horror film. The screenplay was written by Philip Eisner (with an uncredited rewrite by Andrew Kevin Walker) and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill. Despite negative reviews on release, it has been looked at in more positive light in recent years, and is considered a cult film.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 In media
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 2047, the rescue vessel Lewis and Clark is dispatched to answer a distress signal received from the Event Horizon, a starship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years prior. Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) and his crew —Lieutenant Starck (Joely Richardson), pilot Smith (Sean Pertwee), Medical Technician Peters (Kathleen Quinlan), Engineer Ensign Justin (Jack Noseworthy), Rescue Technician Cooper (Richard T. Jones), and Trauma Doctor D.J. (Jason Isaacs) —are joined for the mission by the Event Horizon's designer Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill). Dr. Weir briefs the crew that the Event Horizon was built to test an experimental gravity drive, possibly a variation of an Alcubierre drive, which generates an artificial black hole to use the immense gravitational power to bridge two points in spacetime, greatly reducing travel time over astronomical distances.
Upon arriving at the ship's decaying orbit around Neptune and boarding the Event Horizon to search for survivors, the crew finds evidence of a massacre. During the search, the ship's gravity drive activates automatically. Justin is pulled into the resulting portal, returning in a catatonic state. He is later placed in stasis after a failed suicide attempt in apprehension over the events he witnessed during his crossover. The activation of the gravity drive causes a massive shockwave which critically damages the Lewis and Clark and forces the entire crew to board the Event Horizon. The crew then begins experiencing hallucinations of their fears and regrets: Miller sees a subordinate, Corrick, he was forced to abandon in a fire; Peters sees images of her son Denny with his legs covered in bloody lesions; and Dr. Weir, a widower, sees his wife Claire with missing eyes, urging him to join her.
After deciphering a warning from a video log of the Event Horizon's crew going insane and mutilating each other, Miller and D.J. deduce that while the ship's gravity drive did successfully open a gateway in spacetime, it leapt outside the known universe and into another dimension, described later on by Dr. Weir as "a dimension of pure chaos, pure evil" (and implied to be Hell). The Event Horizon has since then gained an evil sentience and telepathic abilities, tormenting its occupants with the aim of compelling them to return to Hell.
Miller decides to destroy the Event Horizon despite objections from Dr. Weir, who is seduced and eventually possessed by the evil presence and uses an explosive device from the Event Horizon to destroy the Lewis and Clark. Smith is killed in the explosion which also launches Cooper out of the ship and into space. Peters dies from a long fall after being lured into the engineering section by an apparition of her son. Dr. Weir kills D.J. by vivisecting him and corners Starck on the bridge. Miller tries to rescue Starck but is caught by Dr. Weir, who activates the ship's gravity drive, initiating a ten minute countdown after which the Event Horizon and its passengers will return to the other dimension. Cooper, having used his space suit's oxygen to propel him back to the ship, tries to contact those inside, and Dr. Weir retaliates by shooting out the bridge window. Dr. Weir is blown out into space by the ensuing decompression while Miller, Starck, and Cooper survive and manage to seal off the bridge area of the ship.
Miller then resolves to detonate the explosives installed on the Event Horizon to split the ship in two and use the forward section of the ship as a lifeboat. He is attacked by manifestations of Corrick and Dr. Weir, who shows Miller horrifying visions of the Lewis and Clark's crew being tortured and mutilated once they return to Hell. Miller fights off the manifestation and manages to detonate the explosives, sacrificing himself so Justin, Cooper, and Starck can escape. The gravity drive activates, pulling the rear of the ship into a wormhole. Starck and Cooper join Justin in stasis and wait to be rescued.
72 days later, the Event Horizon is located by a rescue party, who discover the remaining crew still in stasis. Starck has a nightmare of the scarred Dr. Weir being one of the rescuers and is awakened in a distraught state by a rescue team. Cooper restrains Starck, and one of the rescuers calls for a sedative as the doors ominously close.
Cast[edit]
Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller
Sam Neill as Dr. William Weir
Kathleen Quinlan as Peters
Joely Richardson as Lt. Starck
Richard T. Jones as Cooper
Jack Noseworthy as Justin
Jason Isaacs as D.J.
Sean Pertwee as Smith
Noah Huntley as Edward Corrick
Peter Marinker as Captain John Kilpack
Holley Chant as Claire Weir
Barclay Wright as Denny Peters
Robert Jezek as Rescue Technician
Emily Booth as Girl on Monitor (uncredited)[citation needed]
Teresa May as Vanessa (uncredited)[citation needed]
Production[edit]


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After directing the successful Mortal Kombat in 1995, Anderson was offered the job. The release date had already been set and Anderson agreed, despite that the deadline meant that the post-production period was severely reduced. On the commentary, Anderson cites this as the main cause for the many troubles faced during production and especially when Anderson was to make decisions on the final cut.[3]
In the commentary Anderson mentions the wish he had to direct an R rated picture after the PG-13 rated Mortal Kombat and also mentions that he turned down the opportunity to direct X-Men in order to make Event Horizon.[3]
Anderson said that his initial cut of the film, before the visual effects had been completed, ran to about 130 minutes in length. The film was even more graphic in this incarnation, and both test audiences and the studio were unnerved by the gore. Paramount ordered Anderson to cut the film by thirty minutes and delete some of the violence, a decision that he regrets. Some of the lost scenes were offered as special features on the 2006 DVD but were taken from poor quality video tape, the only format in which the scenes now exist; the studio had little interest in keeping unused footage and the film has since been lost.[3]
The original cut including the missing footage was reportedly found on VHS as announced in an interview by Paul W.S. Anderson when he was at ComicCon 2012.[4]
Reception[edit]
 The film received generally negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 24% based on reviews from 37 critics.[5]
Owen Gleiberman at Entertainment Weekly gave the film a grade of B-.[6]
Empire magazine gave the film a score of 3/5 stars.[7]
 It was a box office flop, recouping only $47 million of its estimated $60 million production budget.[1][2]
In media[edit]
Trey Parker and Matt Stone cite the film as an inspiration for their Satan-worshipping woodland critters who engage in gory acts and orgies in the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas".[8]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring space stations
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Event Horizon - Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Event Horizon at Boxoffice.com
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Special Edition DVD Commentary
4.Jump up ^ UK Editor (28 August 2012). "Infinite Space, Infinite Terror: A 15th Anniversary Look Back at Event Horizon". Brutal As Hell. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
5.Jump up ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon/
6.Jump up ^ Owen Gleiberman (Sep 5, 1997). "Event Horizon (1997)". Entertainment Weekly.
7.Jump up ^ http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/event-horizon
8.Jump up ^ South Park Season 8 DVD Commentary, episode 814
External links[edit]
Event Horizon at the Internet Movie Database
Event Horizon at AllMovie
Event Horizon at Rotten Tomatoes
Event Horizon at Box Office Mojo
Event Horizon at The Numbers
Event Horizon at the Cinematic Intelligence Agency (thecia.com.au)
Event Horizon at Planet Origo


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The Thing (1982 film)
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John Carpenter's
 The Thing
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Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan

Directed by
John Carpenter
Produced by
David Foster
Lawrence Turman
 Wilbur Stark
 Stuart Cohen
Screenplay by
Bill Lancaster
Based on
Who Goes There?
 by John W. Campbell
Starring
Kurt Russell
Wilford Brimley
Keith David
T.K. Carter
Donald Moffat
Music by
Ennio Morricone
 John Carpenter (uncredited)
Cinematography
Dean Cundey
Editing by
Todd C. Ramsay
Studio
David Foster Productions
 Turman-Foster Company
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release dates
June 25, 1982

Running time
109 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
 Norwegian
Budget
$15 million
Box office
$19,629,760 (US only)
The Thing (also known as John Carpenter's The Thing) is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. The Thing infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it absorbs, and paranoia develops within the group.
The film is based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella Who Goes There?, which was more loosely adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as 1951's The Thing from Another World.[1] Carpenter considers The Thing to be the first part of his Apocalypse Trilogy,[2] followed by Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Although the films are narratively unrelated, each features a potentially apocalyptic scenario; should "The Thing" ever reach civilization, it would be only a matter of time before it consumes humanity.
On June 25, 1982, The Thing opened #8 in 840 theaters and remained in the top ten box office for three weeks.[3] The lower-than-expected performance has been attributed to many factors, including Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was also released by Universal Studios around the same time and featured a more optimistic view of alien visitation,[4][5][6][7] as well as another popular science fiction film, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, being released on the same day.[8] However, The Thing has gone on to gain a cult following with the release on home video. The film subsequently spawned a novelization in 1982; a comic book miniseries adaptation, entitled The Thing From Another World and published by Dark Horse Comics, in 1991; a video game sequel, also titled The Thing, in 2002; and a prequel film with the same title on October 14, 2011.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Reception 5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical reception
5.3 Accolades
6 Soundtrack 6.1 Original soundtrack
6.2 Re-recording by Howarth and Hopkins
7 Legacy 7.1 Sequels and prequel
7.2 Theme parks
7.3 Books and comics
7.4 Video games
7.5 Action figures
7.6 Annual viewings
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
A Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan malamute to an American Antarctic research station. As the Americans run out, the helicopter lands. One Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter and pilot. A rifleman pursues the dog, firing, until he is killed by Garry, the station commander. The team decides to send helicopter pilot MacReady and Doctor Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but find only a charred ruin, with the body of a man who committed suicide and a large block of ice with a hollowed cavity. Outside they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with two faces. MacReady and Copper return with the humanoid corpse, where their biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy, finding a normal set of human internal organs.
Clark kennels the Malamute with the station's sled dogs where it begins to metamorphose and attacks them. MacReady pulls the fire alarm when he hears the commotion, and calls for a flamethrower. Childs incinerates the creature, and Blair does another autopsy, which leads him to believe the creature is capable of perfectly imitating other life forms. The Norwegians' records lead the team to a crater containing a flying saucer and a hole left by the block of ice they suspect the creature came from. The station's geologist, Norris, hypothesizes that the crater is likely over 100,000 years old. Blair becomes suspicious of the others and withdraws, calculating that if the alien escapes to a civilized area, all life on Earth will be assimilated in a few years. Fuchs secretly tells MacReady that he is worried about Blair, and that according to Blair's journal, the creature's "dead" remains are still active on a cellular level. They warn everyone not to share food or drink, and to avoid being alone with the creature, which has been brought into a storeroom.
Bennings is assimilated by the creature but he is caught outside by the team before his metamorphosis is complete, and MacReady burns him before he can escape. They realize Blair is conspicuously absent, just before MacReady sees him running inside. They discover he has wrecked all the transports and killed the remaining sled dogs. The team corners him as he is destroying the radio, and then locks him in the tool shed. Determined to learn who is infected, they discover the blood stores have been sabotaged before they can perform a blood-serum test Copper recommends, and the paranoid men begin to turn on each other.
MacReady takes charge and orders Fuchs to continue Blair's work, but Fuchs disappears when the power goes out. As a storm closes in, MacReady, Windows, and Nauls continue the search for Fuchs outside where they eventually find his burned body. Windows goes back to tell the others, and MacReady takes Nauls to check out his shack, where the lights have mysteriously come on. On the way back, Nauls cuts MacReady loose from the tow line, assuming he has been assimilated when he finds a torn shirt with MacReady's name on it. As the team debates MacReady's fate, he breaks in and threatens to destroy the station with a bundle of dynamite if they attack him, causing Norris to suffer an apparent heart attack.
When Copper attempts to revive Norris by defibrillation, his chest gapes open and closes like a giant mouth full of teeth, biting off Copper's arms and killing him. MacReady incinerates the creature and orders Windows to tie up everyone for a new test, killing Clark when he tries to resist. MacReady explains his theory that every piece of the alien is an individual organism with its own survival instinct that will react defensively when threatened. One by one he tests everyone's blood with a heated piece of copper wire. They are all still human except Palmer, whose blood flees from the copper wire; when he is exposed, he begins to metamorphose and attacks Windows, forcing MacReady to burn them both.
Leaving Childs on guard, the others head out to test Blair, only to find that he has tunneled under the tool shed. They realize that Blair is now the Thing and has been scavenging the equipment he appeared to destroy in order to build a small escape craft. Discovering both Childs and the station's power generator missing, MacReady speculates that the Thing now intends to freeze itself until a rescue team arrives in the spring. They decide to dynamite the complex hoping to destroy the Thing, but Garry is killed while Nauls disappears. A much larger monster emerges from below and attacks, destroying the detonator, but MacReady triggers the blast with a stick of dynamite and the base explodes.
Stumbling through the burning ruins, MacReady finds Childs, who claims he got lost in the storm while pursuing Blair. Exhausted and with virtually no hope of survival, they acknowledge the futility of their distrust, sharing a bottle of scotch as the camp burns.
Cast[edit]
Kurt Russell as MacReady
Wilford Brimley as Blair
Donald Moffat as Garry
Richard Masur as Clark
Keith David as Childs
David Clennon as Palmer
Charles Hallahan as Norris
Richard Dysart as Copper
T. K. Carter as Nauls
Peter Maloney as Bennings
Joel Polis as Fuchs
Thomas G. Waites as Windows
Norbert Weisser as Norwegian Pilot
Larry J. Franco as Norwegian Passenger with Rifle
Production[edit]
The screenplay was written in 1981 by Bill Lancaster, son of Burt Lancaster.[9] The film was shot near the small town of Stewart in northern British Columbia. The research station in the film was built by the film crew during summer, and the film shot in sub-freezing winter conditions. The only female presence in the film is the voice of a chess computer, voiced by Carpenter regular (and then-wife) Adrienne Barbeau, as well as the female contestants viewed on a videotaped episode of Let's Make a Deal.
According to the sign post outside the camp, the Antarctic research team is stationed at the United States National Science Institute Station 4. However, in early drafts of the script, the base was called, "U.S. Outpost 31".[10] When making a recording of events, Kurt Russell's character, MacReady, signs off as, "R.J. Macready, helicopter pilot, U.S. Outpost #31".
The film took three months to shoot on six artificially frozen sound stages in Los Angeles, with many of the crew and actors working in cold conditions.[9] The final weeks of shooting took place in northern British Columbia, near the border with Alaska, where snow was guaranteed to fall.[9] John Carpenter filmed the Norwegian camp scenes at the end of production. The Norwegian camp was simply the remains of the American outpost after it was destroyed by an explosion.[11]
The Thing was Carpenter's eighth time directing a full-length feature and his first movie under the production of a major film studio (Universal Studios).
The Thing was the fourth film shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey (following Carpenter's Halloween, The Fog, and Escape from New York) and the third to feature Kurt Russell as the lead actor. Russell would appear in two additional Carpenter films following The Thing: Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from L.A.. Most of the special creature effects were designed and created by Rob Bottin and his crew, with the exception of the dog creature, which was created by Stan Winston.[11] Winston was brought in when Bottin's team found themselves overloaded with work on the other creatures seen in the film.[11]
The film was shot anamorphically for the 2.39:1 "scope" ratio. Despite current trends leaning towards digital shooting, the 2011 prequel was also shot on film in the anamorphic format.
In the documentary Terror Takes Shape on the DVD, film editor Todd C. Ramsay states that he made the suggestion to Carpenter to film a "happy" ending for the movie, purely for protective reasons, while they had Russell available. Carpenter agreed and shot a scene in which MacReady has been rescued and administered a blood test, proving that he is still human. Ramsay follows this by saying that The Thing had two test screenings, but Carpenter did not use the sequence in either of them, as the director felt that the film worked better with its eventual nihilistic conclusion. The alternate ending with MacReady definitively proven to be human has yet to be released.
According to the 1998 DVD release, the "Blair Monster" was to have had a much larger role in the final battle. However, due to the limitations of stop-motion animation, the monster appears for only a few seconds in the film.
One of the film's associate producers, Larry J. Franco, has a credited cameo as the Norwegian rifleman from the beginning of the film. Director John Carpenter and his then-wife Adrienne Barbeau have uncredited cameos as a man in the Norwegian video footage and the voice of the chess computer, respectively.
Although the production's helicopter pilots are not characters within the movie and only serve as body doubles when the helicopters are in flight, they are listed under the credits. Nate Irvin is listed as Helicopter Pilot and William Zeman is listed as Pilot.
Two names were changed from Bill Lancaster's second draft of the script.[10] The character Windows was originally named Sanchez, who was described as "hating it here" and "lousy at his job". The second character changed is the Norwegian rifleman, who was identified as "Jans Bolan" in a deleted scene from his dogtags and named Lars according to the 2011 prequel.
The film's musical score was composed by Ennio Morricone, a rare instance of Carpenter not scoring one of his own films,[12] although Carpenter did score a few pieces of music with Alan Howarth which were also used in the final film.[13] In 2012, Morricone recalled,
“ Regarding The Thing, by John Carpenter, I've asked him, as he was preparing some electronic music with an assistant to edit on the film, "Why did you call me, if you want to do it on your own?" He surprised me, he said - "I got married to your music. This is why I've called you." I was quite amazed, he called me because he had my music at his wedding. Then when he showed me the film, later when I wrote the music, we didn't exchange ideas. He ran away, nearly ashamed of showing it to me. I wrote the music on my own without his advice. Naturally, as I had become quite clever since 1982, I've written several scores relating to my life. And I had written one, which was electronic music. And [Carpenter] took the electronic score.[14] ”
Release[edit]
After its cinema run, the film was released on VHS and laserdisc, and a re-edited version was created for television by TBS and Universal Studios. The edited version was heavily cut to reduce gore, violence, and profanity; additionally it featured a narrator during the opening sequence (in the same manner as the original 1951 film), a voiceover during Blair's computer-assisted study, and an alternate ending. In the alternate ending, the "Thing", which has once again mimicked one of the sled dogs, looks back at the burning camp at dawn before continuing on into the Antarctic wilderness.[15]
The Thing has subsequently been released twice on DVD by Universal in 1998 and 2005. The 1998 edition was a Universal Collector's Edition, featuring The Thing: Terror Takes Shape, an extensive 83-minute documentary. It details all aspects of the film and features interviews from many of the people involved. There are detailed stories from the cast and crew concerning the adapted screenplay, the special effects, the post-production, the critical reception, and more. Other features include deleted scenes, the alternative ending shown in the television version, a theatrical trailer and production notes. Additionally, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell provide commentary throughout the film. An anamorphic widescreen transfer was not included, but this omission was remedied with the second DVD/HD DVD release in October 2004, which featured identical supplements to the 1998 release, with the exception of the isolated score track from the documentary. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc in Europe on October 6, 2008.
Unlike the American version of The Thing released on Blu-ray, the European version features most of the extras from the 1998 and 2005 DVD releases. These extras include the documentary The Thing: Terror Takes Shape although several extras, most notably the alternate ending, were not included. The Blu-ray version also includes various Blu-ray only features, such as a HD version of the film (although the extras are still presented in 480i/p, depending on the extra) as well as a picture-in-picture mode that pops up at various points of the movie. Although the feature is new, the footage included in the picture-in-picture mode are all taken from "The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary. The Blu-ray versions of The Thing are Region Free, making any version playable in any BD player.
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
The Thing opened #8 and remained in the top 10 at the box office for three weeks. The movie was released in the United States on June 25, 1982 in 840 theaters and was issued an "R" rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (limiting attendees to 17 and older without a guardian). The film cost $15,000,000 to produce, and debuted at #8 at the box office, with an opening weekend gross of $3.1 million. It went on to make $19,629,760 domestically.[8] Carpenter and other writers have speculated that the film's poor performance was due to the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial two weeks earlier, with its more optimistic scenario of alien visitation (which received a "PG" rating from the MPAA). The Thing also opened on the same day as Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner, which debuted at #2.[8]
Critical reception[edit]



"I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was The Thing. My career would have been different if that had been a big hit...The movie was hated. Even by science-fiction fans. They thought that I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling on was insane. Even the original movie's director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me."
—John Carpenter on the reception of The Thing[16]
The film received mixed reviews upon release. The film's groundbreaking makeup special effects were simultaneously lauded and lambasted for being technically brilliant but visually repulsive and excessive. Film critic Roger Ebert called the film "disappointing," though said he found it scary and that it was "a great barf-bag movie." However, he criticized what he felt were poor characterizations and illogical plot elements, ultimately giving the film 2½ stars out of 4.[17] In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it "a foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80s."[18] Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "Designer Rob Bottin's work is novel and unforgettable, but since it exists in a near vacuum emotionally, it becomes too domineering dramatically and something of an exercise in abstract art."[19]
In his review for the Washington Post, Gary Arnold called the film "a wretched excess."[20] Jay Scott, in his review for the Globe and Mail, called the film "a hell of an antidote to E.T."[21] In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote, "Astonishingly, Carpenter blows it. There's a big difference between shock effects and suspense, and in sacrificing everything at the altar of gore, Carpenter sabotages the drama. The Thing is so single-mindedly determined to keep you awake that it almost puts you to sleep."[22]
Despite mixed contemporary reviews, the film has been reappraised substantially in the years following its release, and now maintains an 79% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating "Grimmer and more terrifying than the 1950s take, John Carpenter's The Thing is a tense sci-fi thriller rife with compelling tension and some remarkable make-up effects."[23] It's been listed as one of the best of 1982 by Filmsite.org and Film.com.[24][25] The film ranked #97 on Rotten Tomatoes' Journey Through Sci-Fi (100 Best-Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies), and a scene from The Thing was listed as #48 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[26] Similarly, the Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 17th scariest film ever made.[27] The Thing was named "the scariest movie . . . ever!" by the staff of the Boston Globe.[28] In 2008, the film was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[29]
In 2011, The New York Times asked prominent horror filmmakers what film they had found the scariest. Two, John Sayles and Edgar Wright, cited The Thing. "The theater was full, and I had to sit in the front row," Sayles recalled.[30]
Accolades[edit]
The Thing received nominations from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for Best Horror Film and Best Special Effects, but lost to Poltergeist and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, respectively. The film was nominated in the Razzie Awards for Worst Musical Score.[31]
Soundtrack[edit]

The Thing Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Ennio Morricone

Released
June 25, 1982
Genre
Film score
Length
49:37
Label
Varèse Sarabande
Producer
Ennio Morricone
The original soundtrack was released by Varèse Sarabande in 1991 on compact disc. It was also available as an isolated score track on the 1998 DVD release, but is not present on the 2005 edition. The soundtrack has since gone out of print. A re-recording of the soundtrack, produced and arranged by Alan Howarth and Larry Hopkins, is currently available.[32] It is the only version of the soundtrack that contains the unused Carpenter and Howarth pieces.
Original soundtrack[edit]
All music composed by Ennio Morricone.

No.
Title
Length

1. "Humanity (Part I)"   6:59
2. "Shape"   3:20
3. "Contamination"   1:06
4. "Bestiality"   2:59
5. "Solitude"   5:58
6. "Eternity"   5:36
7. "Wait"   6:30
8. "Humanity (Part II)"   7:16
9. "Sterilization"   5:09
10. "Despair"   4:50
Total length:
 49:37 
Re-recording by Howarth and Hopkins[edit]
All music composed by Ennio Morricone except where * is indicated;
(* denotes John Carpenter in association with Alan Howarth).

No.
Title
Length

1. "Main Title*"   1:45
2. "Main Theme - Desolation"   4:29
3. "Humanity 2"   2:42
4. "Despair"   4:46
5. "Humanity"   6:51
6. "Shape"   3:18
7. "Burn It*"   1:27
8. "Solitude"   5:32
9. "Fuchs*"   2:27
10. "To Mac's Shack*"   2:52
11. "Wait"   6:21
12. "Sterilization"   3:42
13. "Eternity"   5:26
14. "Contamination"   1:01
15. "Bestiality"   2:55
16. "Main Theme - End Credit"   4:34
Total length:
 60:45 
Legacy[edit]
Sequels and prequel[edit]
The Sci Fi Channel planned to do a four-hour mini-series sequel to the film in 2003. Carpenter stated that he believed the project should proceed, but the Sci Fi Channel later removed all mention of the project from their homepage. In February 2009, a positive review of the abandoned screenplay for the Sci-Fi miniseries was published on Corona's Coming Attractions.[33]
In 2004, John Carpenter said in an Empire magazine interview[34] that he has a story idea for The Thing II, which centers around the two surviving characters, MacReady and Childs. However, Carpenter felt that due to the higher price associated with his fee, Universal Studios will not pursue his storyline. Carpenter indicated that he would be able to secure both Kurt Russell and Keith David for the sequel. In his story, Carpenter would explain the age difference of the actors between the two installments by having frostbite on their face due to the elements until rescued. The assumption of the sequel would rely on a radio signal being successfully transmitted by Windows before Blair destroyed the communications room. Thus, after the explosion of the base camp, the rescue team would arrive and find MacReady and Childs still alive. Carpenter has not disclosed any other details.
In September 2006, it was announced in Fangoria magazine that Strike Entertainment, the production company behind Slither and the Dawn of the Dead remake, was looking for a writer or writers to write a theatrical prequel to The Thing.[35] After accepting a script from Eric Heisserer, Strike Entertainment began production to the prequel, also titled The Thing and was filmed in 2010.[36] The prequel focuses on the Norwegian crew that first discovered the alien three days prior to the dog arriving at Outpost 31. The film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. was shot in Toronto and released on October 14, 2011.[37]
Theme parks[edit]
In 2007, the Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, the film property was designed as a haunted attraction called The Thing - Assimilation.[38] Guests walked through Outpost 3113, a military facility where the remains of Outpost 31 were brought for scientific research. Scenes and props from the film were recreated for the attraction, including the bodies of MacReady and Childs. In 2009, the event's icon house, Silver Screams, contained a room based on the film.
Universal Studios also featured Haunted Attractions based on "The Thing"'s 2011 prequel at both the Florida and Hollywood editions of Halloween Horror Nights in 2011.[39]
Books and comics[edit]



The Thing From Another World #01
A novelization of the film based on the second draft of the screenplay was published in 1982 by Alan Dean Foster. Although the novel is generally true to the film, there are minor differences: the Windows character is named Sanders, and an episode in which MacReady, Bennings and Childs chase after several infected dogs which escape into the Antarctic tundra was added (this sequence was featured in Lancaster's second draft of the screenplay). The disappearance of Nauls is also explained in the novel; pursued by Blair-Thing into a dead end, he kills himself rather than allow it to assimilate him.
Dark Horse Comics published four comic sequels to the film in the form of three miniseries and one serial (The Thing from Another World, The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear, The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows which sees the return of MacReady, as he pursues The Thing to New Zealand's Stewart Island, and The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research, which was serialized in Dark Horse Comics #13-16), again featuring the character of MacReady as the lone human survivor of Outpost #31 and depicting Childs as infected (The Thing From Another World: Climate of Fear issue 3 of 4).[40] Questionable Research explores a parallel reality where MacReady is not around to stop the Thing and a suspicious scientist must prevent its spread, after it has wreaked destruction on Outpost 31. The comic series was titled The Thing from Another World after the original 1951 Howard Hawks film in order to avoid confusion and possible legal conflict with Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four member, the Thing. Much later, Dark Horse released a digital comic called The Thing: The Northman Nightmare as a prelude to the film's 2011 prequel.[41]
In January 2010, Clarkesworld Magazine published "The Things", a short story by Peter Watts which retells the film events from the alien's point of view and paints it in a much more sympathetic light by describing the thing as an alien with an innocent impulse to share with the human race its power of communion and its frightened, not to mention severely saddened, reaction when they attack it. The story received a nomination to the Hugo Award in 2011.[42]
Video games[edit]
In 2002, The Thing was released as a survival horror third-person shooter for PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox, acting as a sequel to the film. The video game differs from the comics in that Childs is dead of exposure, and the audiotapes are present (they were removed from Outpost 31 at the start of The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research). At the completion of the game, R.J. MacReady is found alive and helping the main character complete the last mission. The game used elements of paranoia and mistrust intrinsic to the film. Some retailers, such as GameStop, offered a free copy of the 1998 DVD release as an incentive for reserving the game.[43][44][45] In 2011, a region of the Entropia Universe was created based the on the theme of The Thing.[46]
The story follows on where the movie left off: Childs is found dead and frozen where he was last seen at the end of the film, but at the end of the game it is revealed that R.J. MacReady survived as he evacuates the game's main character in a helicopter.
Action figures[edit]
In September 2000, as part of the third series of its "Movie Maniacs" line of toys, McFarlane Toys released two figures based on the film. One was the Blair Monster[47] seen near the ending of the movie, and the other is the Norris Creature seen during the defibrillator scene. The latter included a smaller figurine of the disembodied head with spider legs also seen in the film. Sota Toys also released a bust of the spider head, as well as a box set of the kennel scene showing the thing imitating the dogs. [48]
Annual viewings[edit]
The Thing is regularly viewed by members of the winter crew at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station after the last flight out, usually in a double-feature with The Shining.[49] It is also viewed by scientific personnel at the Summit Camp on the apex of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
See also[edit]
List of films considered the best - Horror/thriller
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Further readingeBook All About ‘The Thing’; analyzes the film in depth
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the novella on which The Thing is based
The Thing by Anne Billson; a monograph about the film in the BFI Modern Classics series
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Thing
The Thing at the Internet Movie Database
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The Thing
Thingprequelfairuse.jpg
Teaser poster

Directed by
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Produced by
Marc Abraham
Eric Newman
Written by
Eric Heisserer
Based on
Who Goes There?
 by John W. Campbell
Starring
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Joel Edgerton
Ulrich Thomsen
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Eric Christian Olsen
Music by
Marco Beltrami
Cinematography
Michel Abramowicz
Editing by
Julian Clarke
Peter Boyle
 Jono Griffith (add'l ed)
Frank J. Urioste (add'l ed)
Studio
Strike Entertainment
Morgan Creek Productions
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release dates
October 12, 2011 (France)
[1]
October 14, 2011 (United States)

Running time
103 minutes[2]
Country
United States
 Canada
Language
English
 Norwegian
 Danish
Budget
$38 million[3]
Box office
$27,428,670[4]
The Thing is a 2011 science fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. It is a prequel to the 1982 film of the same name by John Carpenter. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. They are part of a team of Norwegian and American scientists who discover an alien buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, realizing too late that it is still alive. The film was made into a maze at both Universal Studios Hollywood's and Universal Orlando Resort's 2011 Halloween Horror Nights events, having the subtitle Assimilation at Hollywood's version.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Filming and post-production
4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical reception
4.3 Accolades
5 Soundtrack 5.1 Track listing
5.2 Reception
5.3 Uncredited
6 Home media
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1982, an alien spacecraft is discovered beneath the Antarctic ice by a Norwegian research team: Edvard (Trond Espen Seim), Jonas (Kristofer Hivju), Olav (Jan Gunnar Røise), Karl (Carsten Bjørnlund), Juliette (Kim Bubbs), Lars (Jørgen Langhelle), Henrik (Jo Adrian Haavind), Colin (Jonathan Lloyd Walker), and Peder (Stig Henrik Hoff). Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is recruited by Dr. Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen) and his assistant Adam Finch (Eric Christian Olsen) to investigate the discovery. They travel to the Norwegian base in a helicopter manned by Carter (Joel Edgerton), Derek (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and Griggs (Paul Braunstein). After viewing the spacecraft, Kate, Sander and Adam are told the group also discovered an alien body from the crash buried in the ice.
The body is brought to the base in a block of ice. That evening, while the team celebrates their find, Derek sees the alien burst from the ice and escape the building. The team searches for the creature and discovers that it killed Lars' dog. Olav and Henrik find the alien which then grabs and engulfs Henrik. The rest of the group arrive and set fire to the creature, killing both it and Henrik. An autopsy of the scorched alien corpse reveals that its cells are still alive and are consuming and imitating Henrik's own.
Derek, Carter, Griggs and Olav take the helicopter to seek help. Kate discovers bloody dental fillings near a blood-soaked shower. She runs outside to flag down the helicopter after it takes off. When it attempts to land, Griggs transforms into the Thing and attacks Olav, causing the helicopter to crash in the mountains. When Kate returns to the shower, she finds the blood is gone. The team agrees to evacuate, but Kate confronts them with her theory that the Thing can imitate them and has likely already done so. They dismiss her claims, but Juliette says she saw Colin leaving the showers. Juliette and Kate look for the vehicle keys to prevent the others from leaving, when suddenly Juliette transforms and attacks Kate. As Kate flees, she runs past Karl who is consumed by the creature instead. Lars arrives with a flamethrower and burns the Juliette-Thing.
Carter and Derek return to the base, but the team refuses to believe that they could have survived the crash. Kate has Carter and Derek isolated until a test can be prepared to verify they are human. Adam and Sander work on a test, but the lab is sabotaged. Kate proposes another test; believing that the Thing cannot imitate inorganic material, she inspects everyone and singles out those without metal fillings: Sander, Edvard, Adam, and Colin. Lars and Jonas go to retrieve Carter and Derek for testing, and discover they have broken out of isolation. As Lars searches near a building, he is suddenly pulled inside. The group hears Carter and Derek breaking into the building and rushes to intercept them. Edvard orders Peder to burn them. Peder takes aim, but Derek now has a gun and shoots several times, killing Peder and rupturing the flamethrower's fuel tank which ignites. The explosion knocks Edvard unconscious. When brought to the rec room, Edvard transforms, infecting Jonas and Jameson before assimilating Adam. Kate torches the infected Jonas and Derek before she and Carter pursue the Thing. While the pair searches, Sander is also infected. After they separate, the Thing into which Edvard and Adam are fused corners Carter in the kitchen, but Kate burns it before it can attack. Kate and Carter see Sander drive off into the blizzard and pursue him in the remaining snowcat.
They arrive at the now-active spaceship. Kate falls into the ship and is separated from Carter. Confronted by the creature (which briefly uses Sander's face), Kate destroys it with an explosive grenade and the damage deactivates the ship. As Kate and Carter return to their vehicle, Kate accuses Carter of being a Thing because he is missing his earring. When she confronts him, Carter points to the wrong ear. Kate burns him and retreats to a snowcat. Whether she survives or not is left as a mystery, but Carter did mention that there is a Soviet base a few miles away, before Kate killed his Thing replicant.
The following morning, helicopter pilot Matias arrives at the base. Colin is shown to have committed suicide in the radio room. Matias sees the burned remains of the Adam/Edvard alien in the snow. Lars orders Matias at gunpoint to show his dental fillings to prove he is human. The Thing, in the form of Lars' deceased dog, runs out of the camp, and Lars and Matias give chase in the helicopter, thus setting the events of John Carpenter's The Thing in motion.
Cast[edit]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Lloyd, an American vertebrate paleontologist graduate from Columbia University:[5] In order to be different from Kurt Russell as the 1982 film's protagonist, R.J. MacReady, Kate Lloyd was written to have similar traits as the character Ellen Ripley from the Alien film series.[6][7]
Joel Edgerton as Sam Carter:[8] An American helicopter pilot and Vietnam War veteran running a supply operation to the bases. He and his two co-pilots are left in the dark as to why they are there and what is the mysterious thing the scientists have found.[6][7]
Ulrich Thomsen as Dr. Sander Halvorson, the arrogant Danish leader of alien research. He orders the team to obtain a sample of the recently discovered creature despite Kate's warnings.[7][9]
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Derek Jameson, an American helicopter co-pilot and also a Vietnam veteran who is Carter's best friend.[7][10]
Eric Christian Olsen as Adam Finch, a young American scientist working as Dr. Sander's research assistant who invites Kate to the Norwegian base.[7][11]
Trond Espen Seim[12] as Edvard Wolner, a notable Norwegian geologist who is the station commander and an old friend of Sander.[7]
Kristoffer Hivju as Jonas, a nervous but friendly Norwegian polar ice researcher.[7][11]
Stig Henrik Hoff[13] as Peder, a Norwegian rifle-toting camp member who is Edvard's right hand man.[7]
Kim Bubbs as Juliette, a geologist from Georgia who is part of Edvard's team.[7]
Jørgen Langhelle as Lars, an ex-soldier who works as the dog keeper of the Norwegian base, also the only member of the Norwegian base who does not speak English.[7][14]
Paul Braunstein as Griggs, a co-pilot member of the American helicopter transport team.
Jonathan Lloyd Walker as Colin, an eccentric English radio operator.[7][15]
Jo Adrian Haavind as Henrik, another Norwegian base member who assists the alien research team.[7][16]
Jan Gunnar Røise as Olav, a Norwegian Snowcat vehicle driver and guide.[7][11]
Carsten Bjørnlund as Karl, a Norwegian geologist also part of Edvard's team.[7]
Ole Martin Aune Nilsen as Matias, the helicopter pilot of the Norwegian base currently in a mission to restock kerosene at McMurdo Station.
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
"It's a really fascinating way to construct a story because we're doing it by autopsy, by examining very, very closely everything we know about the Norwegian camp and about the events that happened there from photos and video footage that's recovered, from a visit to the base, the director, producer and I have gone through it countless times marking, you know, there's a fire axe in the door, we have to account for that…we're having to reverse engineer it, so those details all matter to us ‘cause it all has to make sense."
 — Eric Heisserer describing the process of creating a script that is consistent with the first film.[17]
After creating the Dawn of the Dead remake, producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman began to look through the Universal Studios library to find new properties to work on.[18] Upon finding John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, the two convinced Universal to create a prequel instead of a remake, as they felt that remaking Carpenter's film would be like "paint(ing) a moustache on the Mona Lisa".[19] Eric Newman explained; "I'd be the first to say no one should ever try to do Jaws again and I certainly wouldn't want to see anyone remake The Exorcist... And we really felt the same way about The Thing. It's a great film. But once we realized there was a new story to tell, with the same characters and the same world, but from a very different point of view, we took it as a challenge. It's the story about the guys who are just ghosts in Carpenter's movie - they're already dead. But having Universal give us a chance to tell their story was irresistible."[20]
In early 2009, Variety reported the launch of a project to film a prequel—possibly following MacReady's brother during the events leading up to the opening moments of the 1982 film—with Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. as director and Ronald D. Moore as writer.[21][22] Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. became involved in the project when his first planned feature film, a sequel to the Dawn of the Dead remake, a zombie film taking place in Las Vegas written and produced by Zack Snyder, who directed the Dawn of the Dead remake, and co-produced by Abraham and Newman, called Army of the Dead, was cancelled by the studio three months before production began. Needing to start all over again, he asked his agent to see if there was a The Thing project in development, since Alien and The Thing are his favorite films.[23] As a fan of Carpenter's film, he was interested in the project because, being European himself, he had always wondered what happened at the Norwegian camp.[24] In March 2009, Moore described his script as a "companion piece" to Carpenter's film and "not a remake."[25] "We're telling the story of the Norwegian camp that found the Thing before the Kurt Russell group did", he said.[25] Eric Heisserer was later hired to do a complete rewrite of Moore's script.[26] Heisserer explained that in writing the script, it was necessary for him to research all the information that was revealed about the Norwegian camp from the first film, down to the smallest details, so that it could be incorporated into the prequel in order to create a consistent backstory.[17] The decision was made to name the film the same title as the first film, because the producers felt adding a "colon title" such as Exorcist II: The Heretic had felt less reverential.[24]
Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. explained that he created the film not to simply be a horror film, but to also focus largely on the human drama with the interaction between characters, as the first film had.[27] The director felt that horror films worked better when time was spent to explore the characters' emotional journeys, allowing the audience to care about them.[28] Mary Elizabeth Winstead insisted that the film would not feature any romantic or sexual elements with her character, as it would be inappropriate considering the tone of the film.[29] Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje said that the film would try to recreate the feeling of paranoia and distrust that the first film had, where the characters can't tell who has been infected by the alien.[30] The filmmakers drew additional inspiration for the film from the original novel Who Goes There?, in making the characters in the film educated scientists as opposed to "blue collar" workers.[24] However, the filmmakers drew no influence from the events of the The Thing video game.[24] The director also drew additional inspiration from the film Alien in creating the film, particularly in regard to casting a female lead,[27] and in the way the alien creatures are filmed by not showing too much of them.[23] Matthijs van Heijningen also cited the films of director Roman Polanski as influence, such as his work on Rosemary's Baby.[28] Actual Norwegian and Danish actors were cast in the film to play the Norwegian characters,[24] and the director allowed the actors to improvise elements different from what was scripted when they felt it was appropriate, such as a scene where the characters sing a Norwegian folk song called Sámiid Ædnan ("Lapland").[28][29][31] Many scenes involving characters speaking Norwegian were subtitled,[32] and the language barrier between them and the English speaking characters is exploited to add to the film's feeling of paranoia.[33] Director Matthijs van Heijningen said that the film would show the alien creature in its "pure form", as it was discovered in its ship by the Norwegians; however, it is not revealed whether this is the creature's original form or the form of another creature it had assimilated.[6] Addressing rumors stating that John Carpenter wished to have a cameo appearance in the film,[24] Carpenter himself corrected these in an interview for the fan site "Outpost 31", in August 2012. "[Those] rumors are not true", Carpenter stated in the interview.[34]
Filming and post-production[edit]
The film was shot in the anamorphic format on 35 mm film, as the director dislikes the look of films shot digitally.[28] The director chose not to fast cut the film, instead opting for a slower pace, hoping to build a sense of pending dread.[28] The prequel was filmed in Pinewood Toronto Studios, Port Lands on March 22, 2010 and ended on June 28, 2010.[35] On set, the director had a laptop computer which contained "a million" screen captures of the Carpenter film, which he used as a point of reference to keep the Norwegian camp visually consistent with the first film.[36] Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. of Amalgamated Dynamics created the practical creature effects for the film.[37] In addition to creating the effects for the human-Thing transformations, Gillis, Woodruff and their team had the challenge of coming up with the look of the alien in the ice block unearthed by the Norwegians. While it was initially only intended to be shown as a silhouette, the director liked their designs and encouraged them to fully create the creature, which was realised by creating a monster suit that Tom Woodruff wore.[33] The effects team opted to use cable-operated animatronics over more complex hydraulic controls, as they felt they gave a more "organic feel".[33] In order to emulate the creature effects of the first film, Heisserer revealed that traditional practical effects would be used on the creatures whenever possible.[38] The film's computer-generated imagery was created by Image Engine, the effects house who worked on Neil Blomkamp's 2009 film District 9.[27] Computer Graphics were used to digitally create extensions on some of the practical animatronic effects, as well as for digital matte paintings and set extensions.[27] Alec Gillis stated that the advancement of animatronic technology since 1982 combined with digital effects allowed the effects team to expand upon the possible creature conceptions.[36] Matthijs van Heijningen preferred to use practical effects over computer imagery, as he believed actors give better performances when they have something physical to react to.[24] However in post release interviews, Alec Gillis revealed that while Amalgamated Dynamics creature designs for the film remained intact, most of their practical effects ended up being digitally replaced in post production. The creation of Gillis' all practical effects independent horror film Harbinger Down was partially in response to this.[39][40] Stunt men covered in fire-retardant gel were used in scenes when characters are set on fire.[33] The original Ennio Morricone score was reflected in the film's score, but it was initially reported that Morricone did not score the film, nor was his music from the 1982 version used.[32] However, his theme "Humanity (Part II)" appears in a bonus scene during the prequel's ending credits (indicating how it leads directly into the 1982 film).
The interior of the crashed alien spacecraft was created by production designer Sean Haworth.[33] To design the ship, Haworth had to recreate what little was shown of the spacecraft in the Carpenter film, then "fill the gaps" for what was not originally shown. Haworth and a team of approximately twelve others then created the inside of the ship as a several story-high interior set constructed mostly out of a combination of foam, plaster, fiberglass, and plywood.[33] The ship was designed specifically to look as if it were not made to accommodate humans, but rather alien creatures of different size and shape who could walk on any surface.[33] A section of the craft called the "pod room" was designed to imply the alien creatures manning it had collected specimens of different alien species from around the universe for a zoological expedition.[33][41]
While the film was originally set for release in April, Universal Pictures changed the date to October 14, 2011,[42] to allow time for reshoots. The intention of the reshoots was to "enhance existing sequences or to make crystal clear a few story beats or to add punctuation marks to the film's feeling of dread."[43] On his Facebook page, Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. claimed that the reshoots of the film included making an entirely different ending, referring to the original cut as the "Pilot Version" and the new cut as the "Tetris Version". In the original ending, Kate was to discover the original pilots of the spaceship which had all been killed by The Thing, which was an escaped specimen they had collected from another planet, implying that the ship was crashed in an attempt to kill the monster. "I liked that idea because it would be the Norwegian camp in space. Kate sees the pod room and one pod being broken, giving her the clues what happened. What didn't work was that she wanted to find Sander and stop the ship from taking off and still solve the mystery in the ship. These two energies were in conflict."[44]
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
The Thing grossed $8,493,665 over the opening weekend and ended up third on the box office chart. It was distributed to 2,996 theaters and spent a total of one week on the top 10 chart, before dropping down to the 16th position in its second week. It concluded its domestic run with a total of $16,928,670.[45] Its box office collections was called "an outright disappointment" by Box Office Mojo, who goes on to say "[the film] was naturally at a disadvantage: a vague "thing" doesn't give prospective audiences much to latch on to. It was therefore left up to fans of the original, who are already familiar with the concept, to turn out in strong numbers."[46] The film grossed $9,530,415 in foreign countries,[47] bringing the total worldwide box office gross so far to $27,428,670.[45]
Critical reception[edit]
The Thing received mixed reviews. It currently holds a 36% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 149 critic reviews, with an average rating of 5.1 out of 10, with the site's consensus: "It serves the bare serviceable minimum for a horror flick, but The Thing is all boo-scares and a slave to the far superior John Carpenter version."[48] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 49 based on 31 reviews.[49] In CinemaScore polls users gave the film a "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[50] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film a rating of 3 out of 4, saying "While I wish van Heijningen's Thing weren't quite so in lust with the '82 model, it works because it respects that basic premise; and it exhibits a little patience, doling out its ickiest, nastiest moments in ways that make them stick".[51] Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com called it a "Loving prequel to a horror classic", saying "It's full of chills and thrills and isolated Antarctic atmosphere and terrific Hieronymus Bosch creature effects, and if it winks genially at the plot twists of Carpenter's film, it never feels even a little like some kind of inside joke."[52] James Berardinelli gave it three stars out of four, saying that it "offers a similar overall experience" to the 1982 film, but "without replicating styles and situations".[53] Christopher Orr of The Atlantic wrote that the narrative choices open to a prequel "exist on a spectrum from the unsurprising to the unfaithful", but van Heijningen "has managed this balancing act about as well as could be hoped" and although the line between homage and apery is a fine one, "in our age of steady knockoffs, retreads, and loosely branded money grabs, The Thing stands out as a competent entertainment, capably executed if not particularly inspired."[54]
Other critics singled out Mary Elizabeth Winstead for praise in her performance as the lead, Dr. Kate Lloyd. "[Winstead] stands out with her portrayal of a paleontologist. She keeps a cool, logical head whilst others around her start to panic. It's a refreshing change from your traditional horror film where the lead characters do moronic things as if to prolong the story", Matthew Toomey of The Film Pie wrote.[55] Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly rated the film three out of five stars and wrote, "Winstead makes for an appealing protagonist, and Kate is portrayed as competent without being thrust into some unlikely action-hero role."[56]
Kathleen Murphy of MSN Movies rated it two-and-a-half out of five stars, calling it "a subpar slasher movie tricked out with tired 'Ten Little Indians' tropes and rip-offs from both Carpenter and the Christian Nyby-Howard Hawks' 1951 version of the chilling tale that started it all, John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Who Goes There?".[57] Jim Vejvoda of IGN Movies also rated the film two-and-a-half out of five, saying, "This incarnation of The Thing is much like the creature it depicts: An insidious, defective mimic of the real, er, thing. It's not an entirely lost cause, but it is a needless one."[58] Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four, the same rating he gave the 1982 film.[59] In Patrick Sauriol of Coming Attractions' review, he states, "Stack it up against John Carpenter's version and it looks less shiny, but let's face it, if you’re that kind of Thing fan you’re going to go see the new movie anyway. Try and judge today's Thing on its own merits."[60]
Accolades[edit]
The film was nominated for two awards at the 38th Saturn Awards, but lost to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and X-Men: First Class, respectively.

Year
Award
Category
Recipient
Result
Ref.
2012 Saturn Awards Best Horror/Thriller Film The Thing Nominated [61]
Best Make-Up Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis Nominated
Soundtrack[edit]

The Thing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Marco Beltrami

Released
October 11, 2011
Genre
Film score
Length
55:31
Label
Varèse Sarabande
The music composed for the film by Marco Beltrami was released in October 11, 2011. The soundtrack was released under the label Varèse Sarabande.[62]
Track listing[edit]
1."God's Country Music" – 1:27
2."Road to Antarctica" – 2:41
3."Into the Cave" – 0:39
4."Eye of the Survivor" – 2:25
5."Meet and Greet" – 2:55
6."Autopsy" – 3:08
7."Cellular Activity" – 1:38
8."Finding Filling" – 3:25
9."Well Done" – 1:32
10."Female Persuasion" – 4:51
11."Survivors" – 3:28
12."Open Your Mouth" – 4:20
13."Antarctic Standoff" – 3:28
14."Meating of the Minds" – 4:28
15."Sander Sucks at Hiding" – 2:22
16."Can't Stand the Heat" – 2:10
17."Following Sander's Lead" – 2:39
18."In the Ship" – 2:39
19."Sander Bucks" – 0:45
20."The End" – 2:33
21."How Did You Know?" – 2:29
Reception[edit]
AllMusic rated the album 3.5/5 saying, "Composer Marco Beltrami's appropriately tense and brooding score for director Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.'s 2011 [prequel to] The Thing dutifully echoes Ennio Morricone's stark score for the original version, which in its own way echoed the soundtrack work of that film's director, John Carpenter."[63]
Uncredited[edit]
The Norwegian characters play an excerpt from the song Sámiid Ædnan.
Home media[edit]
The Thing was released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 31, 2012 in the US.[64] The film earned an additional $5,174,780 through DVD sales.[65]
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 The Leprechaun as depicted on the cover of the DVD box Leprechaun Pot of Gore Collection
Leprechaun is an American horror comedy film series consisting of six films. Beginning with 1993's Leprechaun (filmed in 1991) the series centers around a malevolent and murderous leprechaun named "Lubdan", who, when his gold is taken from him, resorts to any means necessary to reclaim it. English actor Warwick Davis plays the title role in every film with, currently, the only exception being the reboot, Leprechaun: Origins, in which Dylan Postl (known as Hornswoggle in the WWE) replaces Davis as Lubdan.
A reboot of the series has been announced, as a part of a two-picture deal between Lionsgate and WWE Studios.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Films 1.1 Overview
1.2 Crew
2 Literature
3 Reboot
4 References

Films[edit]
Overview[edit]
In the original Leprechaun (1993), Daniel O'Grady (Shay Duffin) captures the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) while in Ireland, takes his gold and smuggles it back to his home in North Dakota, unaware the Leprechaun has followed him. Confronting O'Grady and demanding his gold the Leprechaun is injured by O'Grady and sealed in a crate with a four-leaf clover, though before O'Grady can kill the creature he suffers a stroke. Ten years later the Leprechaun is accidentally released by Tory Redding (a then-unknown Jennifer Aniston) and her new friends, and goes on a killing spree in search of his gold, which Alex Murphy (Robert Gorman) and Ozzie (Mark Holton) had discovered. After the Leprechaun reclaims the bulk of his gold he is defeated when Alex shoots a four-leaf clover down his throat with a slingshot and Alex's older brother Nathan (Ken Olandt) blows up the well the Leprechaun falls into.[2]
In Leprechaun 2 (1994) the Leprechaun seeks out a new bride in modern day Los Angeles, one thousand years after an earlier attempt to claim a bride was foiled. Claiming a fussy teenage girl named Bridget (Shevonne Durkin), the descendent of his original choice of a wife, the Leprechaun holds her captive in his lair and terrorizes her boyfriend Cody (Charlie Heath), who had taken one of his gold coins. In the end Cody saves Bridget and defeats the Leprechaun by impaling him with a spike made of wrought iron, one of the few substances that can harm a Leprechaun.[3]
Leprechaun 3 (1995) begins with the Leprechaun, having been changed into a statue by a magical medallion, being sold to a Las Vegas pawn shop. Assuming his original form when the clerk removes the medallion, the Leprechaun kills him and goes on a rampage through Las Vegas in search of one of his wish granting coins, which is passed from hand to hand. The Leprechaun is ultimately defeated by college student Scott McCoy (John Gatins) and Scott's new girlfriend Tammy Larsen (Lee Armstrong), who blast his gold with a flamethrower, causing it to vanish and the Leprechaun to burst into flames.[4]
Taking place in the future, Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997) has the Leprechaun abduct and begin courting snobbish alien princess Zarina (Rebekah Carlton), seducing her with promises of wealth. After being blown up by a group of marines who rescue Zarina, the Leprechaun is reborn on the marines' ship via exploding out of the groin of one of an unfortunate man, Kowalski. He then goes off in search of his stolen bride and gold, killing all those who get in his way. After being turned into a giant via an enlargement ray, the Leprechaun is ejected into space by the survivors of the massacre, Tina Reeves (Jessica Collins), Books Malloy (Brent Jasmer) and Sticks (Miguel A. Núñez, Jr.) [5]
Set in Compton, California, Leprechaun: In the Hood (2000) has the Leprechaun being turned to stone once more, this time by pimp Mack Daddy O'Nassas (Ice-T), who uses the Leprechaun's mind-controlling magic flute to become a successful music producer. Years later, the Leprechaun is unknowingly changed back to flesh and blood by a trio of wannabe rappers led by Postmaster P. (Anthony Montgomery) who rob Mack Daddy, taking the Leprechaun's gold and the flute from him with the intent of using the objects to become successful. Hunted by both Mack Daddy and the Leprechaun, Postmaster P., after his friends and Mack Daddy are killed, is brainwashed into becoming a servant of the Leprechaun.[6]
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003) begins with the Leprechaun stalking Father Jacob (Willie C. Carpenter) trying to get his gold back, only to be dragged into the ground by demonic hands when the priest uses four-leaf clover laced holy water against him before dying from a heart attack. One year later the Leprechaun's gold is discovered by eighteen-year-old Emily Woodrow (Tangi Miller) and her friends, who use the gold to fulfill their wildest fantasies, unintentionally releasing the Leprechaun, who goes after Emily and the others to get his gold back, killing everyone who gets in his way. On the rooftop of the abandoned community centre Father Jacob had been building using the Leprechaun's gold Emily and her boyfriend Rory Jackson (Laz Alonso) defeat the Leprechaun by knocking him and his gold off the roof and into a pool of wet cement below, where the Leprechaun sinks and becomes trapped.[7]
Crew[edit]
Film Director Writer(s) Producer(s)
Leprechaun (1993) Mark Jones Mark Jones Mark Amin & Jeffrey B. Mallian
Leprechaun 2 (1994) Rodman Flender Turi Meyer & Al Septien Donald P. Borchers & Mark Jones
Leprechaun 3 (1995) Brian Trenchard-Smith David DuBos Mark Amin, Jeff Geoffray, Walter Josten & Henry Seggerman
Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997) Dennis A. Pratt & Scott Atkins Mark Amin, Jeff Geoffray & Walter Josten
Leprechaun: In the Hood (2000) Rob Spera Doug Hall, John Huffman, Alan Reynolds, Rob Spera & William Wells Bruce David Eisen, Darin Spillman & Mike Upton
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003) Steven Ayromlooi Steven Ayromlooi Mike Upton
Leprechaun: Origins (2014) Zach Lipovsky Matt Venne & Harris Wilkinson Chris Foss & Michael Luisi
Literature[edit]
Prior to the release of the original Leprechaun Trimark Pictures released an eight-page comic book prequel to the film. The story presented in the book is contradictory to the events of the film in several regards, such as depicting Daniel O'Grady as a lowly farmer and inhabitant of Ireland (instead of America) who obtains the Leprechaun's gold not by capturing the creature (as was stated in the film) but by following a rainbow.[8]
In 2008 publishing company Bluewater Productions announced that it would release a Leprechaun comic book series, which began in May 2009. Written by Zach Hunchar and illustrated by Kris Carter the first arc of the series follows the Leprechaun (who is revealed to be named Lubdan and is also the king and last of his species) as he battles rival race the Clurichaun and travels the world in search of his gold, which was stolen and auctioned off online, with the reluctant help of the geeky Ethan Thomas and his friends. With only four issues released, the series was seemingly cancelled, as no new issues have been announced. Micheal Kingston was slated to write the second arc of the series.[9][10]
Plans for a four-issue comic book crossover between the Leprechaun and Warlock series, which would have been written by Nick Lyons and released in late 2009, were made, but did not come to pass.[11]
Reboot[edit]



 A promotional poster from WWE.com for Hornswoggle's new movie.
Main article: Leprechaun: Origins
It was revealed in March 15, 2012 that Lionsgate and WWE Studios (who worked together on See No Evil and The Condemned) are teaming up to reboot the film series.[12] Two weeks later, WWE.com unveiled a new video depicting Dylan Post (who works under a leprechaun gimmick in WWE as Hornswoggle) starring in the role as Lubdan.[13] He announced via Twitter that it would come out in March 2013.[14] Until May 2013, there were no updates on the film's progress. However, on May 28, 2013, it was reported that Zach Lipovsky, a visual effects supervisor and a finalist on the reality game show On the Lot was contracted to direct the reboot, now scheduled for screening in August 2014.[15]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Lionsgate pacts with WWE on film deal". Variety. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
2.Jump up ^ Mark Jones (Director) (1993). Leprechaun (DVD). United States: Trimark Pictures.
3.Jump up ^ Rodman Flender (Director) (1994). Leprechaun 2 (DVD). United States: Trimark Pictures.
4.Jump up ^ Brian Trenchard-Smith (Director) (1995). Leprechaun 3 (DVD). United States: Trimark Pictures.
5.Jump up ^ Brian Trenchard-Smith (Director) (1997). Leprechaun 4: In Space (DVD). United States: Trimark Pictures.
6.Jump up ^ Rob Spera (Director) (2000). Leprechaun: In the Hood (DVD). United States: Trimark Pictures.
7.Jump up ^ Steven Ayromlooi (Director) (2003). Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (DVD). United States: Lions Gate Entertainment.
8.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun Merchandise". Connie's Warwick Davis Fanpage and Leprechaun Center. Retrieved 2009-02-28.[dead link]
9.Jump up ^ "Bluewater Inks Deal With Lionsgate For Comic Series". Bluewater Productions. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
10.Jump up ^ "Bluewater Productions May 2009 Solic!". Bluewater Productions. Retrieved 2009-02-20.
11.Jump up ^ "Exclusive Interview: Warlock Writer Nick Lyons". Fangoria. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
12.Jump up ^ "Lionsgate pacts with WWE on film deal". Variety. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
13.Jump up ^ Hornswoggle to make film debut in 'Leprechaun: Origins' by Zack Linder, March 29, 2012
14.Jump up ^ Hornswoggle's tweet
15.Jump up ^ http://screencrush.com/leprechaun-reboot-director/


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Leprechaun: Back 2 tha hood
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Promotional poster

Directed by
Steven Ayromlooi
Produced by
Peter Block
 Phyllis Cedar
 Mike Upton
Written by
Steven Ayromlooi
Based on
Characters Created by Mark Jones
Starring
Warwick Davis
 Tangi Miller
 Laz Alonso
 Page Kennedy
Music by
Michael Whittaker
Editing by
Stephen H. Sloaa
Studio
Lions Gate Entertainment
Distributed by
Lions Gate Films
Release dates
30 December 2003
Running time
90 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood is a 2003 American direct-to-video comedy horror film written and directed by Steven Ayromlooi. The sixth installment of the Leprechaun series, the film has the villainous Leprechaun rampaging through a town looking for his gold, which was stolen by a group of urban youths who are using it to fulfill their wildest dreams. He will hunt and kill to retrieve his pot of gold.


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2 Cast
3 Filming
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]


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The film opens with an animated prologue revealing the origins of leprechauns, stating that they were summoned by a king to protect his gold. After the death of the king the Leprechauns returned to their places of origin, all except one (Warwick Davis) who through the ages slowly became corrupted and obsessed with the gold he still guarded. In the present, in the year 2000, Father Jacob (Willie C. Carpenter) is chased through the construction site of the youth center he had planned on building with the leprechauns gold whose gold Jacob had taken to fund the building project. Jacob manages to banish the Leprechaun, summoning demonic hands which drag him underground, but soon after dies of injuries inflicted by the Leprechaun during the fight.
In 2003, two friends, Emily Woodrow (Tangi Miller) and Lisa Duncan (Sherrie Jackson), have their fortune told when the clairvoyant Esmeralda (Donzaleigh Abernathy) who warns them that they will attain great wealth soon, but it must be denied as it will come at a great price and summon a terrible evil. While having a barbecue at the abandoned youth center construction site with Lisa, their stoner friend Jamie Davis (Page Kennedy) and her ex-boyfriend-turned-drug dealer Rory Jackson (Laz Alonso), Emily falls through a hole and discovers the Leprechaun's gold in a tunnel where it was hidden by Father Jacob. Evenly splitting up the gold, the quartet of friends use it to fulfill their fantasies, unaware that by taking the gold they have released the Leprechaun, who begins stalking the group (killing a guest by impaling his chest with a bong, taking one of his coins at a party held by Jamie, prompting the police to temporarily arrest him). At the salon where Emily works the Leprechaun sneaks in and, after killing a regular customer, Doria, on the massage table by breaking her neck, attacks Emily, who barely escapes and warns Rory and the recently released Jamie, who rush to get to Lisa's. In her house, Lisa is attacked by the Leprechaun and manages to fight him off for a short while, but is killed when the Leprechaun claws her in the stomach, with her friends finding her body.
While Emily and Jamie want to return the gold, Rory does not and takes off with it; shortly after realizing Rory is gone, Emily is attacked and chased outside by the Leprechaun, but is saved when Rory has a change of heart and comes back for her. Searching for Rory the Leprechaun stops by his house and kills Rory's profligate girlfriend Chanel (Keesha Sharp) by tearing out her jaw, reclaiming the gold she used to make a tooth while Rory and Emily are stopped and harassed by Officers Thompson (Beau Billingslea) and Whitaker (Chris Murray). After the Leprechaun appears and kills the two officers, Emily and Rory escape and regroup with Jamie, only to be confronted by a machine gun wielding group of Rory's drug-dealing rivals, led by Watson (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) and Cedric (Sticky Fingaz). Planning on killing Rory for infringing on their territory, Watson and his gang are all disposed of by the Leprechaun, while Emily, Rory and Jamie drive off in Watson's car (which the Leprechaun latches to the bottom of for a short while) and go looking for help from Esmeralda.
Told to use four-leaf clovers against the Leprechaun by Esmeralda, Rory laces the hollow-point bullets of his gun with clovers Jamie finds in the marijuana Rory had earlier sold him. When the Leprechaun arrives, Rory shoots him several times with the clover bullets, only for his gun to jam before he can finish the Leprechaun off. Rory and Emily are given the chance to run with the gold when the Leprechaun is distracted by Jamie, who is quickly wounded with a baseball bat to the leg, and Esmeralda dies in a magical duel with the Leprechaun. Followed to the roof of the building, Rory tries fighting the Leprechaun and is knocked out, though before the Leprechaun can kill him, Emily taunts him by throwing some of his gold into nearby wet cement and lures him into the ruins of the youth center, where she tosses his gold into a furnace before knocking the Leprechaun in with it.
Believing the Leprechaun is dead, Emily returns to Rory, only for the Leprechaun to renew his attack on them. Knocking Emily off the roof and leaving her barely holding on, the Leprechaun taunts her, but is shot several times in the middle of his speech by Rory, who had fixed his gun. Shooting the Leprechaun repeatedly, Rory runs out of bullets, but distracts him long enough for Emily to hit the Leprechaun with the chest of coins, sending him off the rooftop and into the wet cement below, where the Leprechaun sinks and becomes trapped with his gold.
The movie then cuts back to the animated prologue like the one at the beginning, and the Leprechaun digs himself out of the ground, leaving on a cliffhanger.
Cast[edit]
Warwick Davis as The Leprechaun
Tangi Miller as Emily Woodrow
Laz Alonso as Rory Jackson
Page Kennedy as Jamie Davis
Sherrie Jackson as Lisa Duncan
Donzaleigh Abernathy as Esmeralda
Shiek Mahmud-Bey as Watson
Sticky Fingaz as Cedric
Keesha Sharp as Chanel
Sonya Eddy as Yolanda
Beau Billingslea as Officer Thompson
Chris Murray as Officer Whitaker
Vickilyn Reynolds as Doria
Willie C. Carpenter as Father Jacob
Filming[edit]
The original setting for the film was a tropical island in the midst of spring break, though executives at Lions Gate had director and writer Steven Ayromlooi change the location of the film to an urban environment like the previous entry in the series.[1]
Reception[edit]
The film was panned by critics, and currently holds a 25% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on eight reviews.[2] In its "25 Worst Sequels Ever Made" article Entertainment Weekly named the film the third worst sequel of all time, writing, "if a movie could spark a race riot, this is it."[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood DVD commentary.
2.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun - Back 2 Tha Hood - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
3.Jump up ^ "The 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made | EW.com". ew.com. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
External links[edit]
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Leprechaun in the Hood
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Promotional poster

Directed by
Rob Spera
Produced by
Bruce David Eisen
 Darin Spillman
 Mike Upton
Written by
Mark Jones
Screenplay by
Doug Hall
 Jon Huffman
Story by
William Wells
 Alan Reynolds
 Rob Spera
 Doug Hall
Based on
Characters Created by Mark Jones
Starring
Warwick Davis
Ice-T
Music by
Nicholas Rivera
Cinematography
Michael Mickens
Editing by
J.J. Jackson
Studio
Trimark Pictures
Distributed by
Trimark Pictures
Release dates
March 28, 2000

Running time
90 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Leprechaun in the Hood also known as Leprechaun 5: In the Hood is a 2000 American comedy horror film directed by Rob Spera and the fifth entry in the Leprechaun series. It was released straight to video on 28 March 2000. It was the last entry to be released by Trimark Pictures.


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2 Cast
3 Reception 3.1 Awards
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Wannabe Los Angeles rap artists Postmaster P. (Anthony Montgomery), Stray Bullet (Rashaan Nall) and Butch (Red Grant) accidentally free a Leprechaun that was imprisoned by record producer Mac Daddy O'Nassas (Ice-T) 20 years earlier. The Leprechaun hunts the friends in order to recover his magic flute, which places listeners of its tune in a euphoric trance. After killing some people, such as a reverend, DJ artists, and a hot girl, the Leprechaun reaches the three friends at Postmaster P.'s home. When the rap artists and the Leprechaun engage in a fight, the Leprechaun kills Stray Bullet by making him shoot himself in the mouth with his own pistol while Postmaster P. and Butch stare in horror. Butch visits Postmaster P. at his grandma's house and convinces him to use a joint laced with clovers to strip the Leprechaun of his powers in order to steal back the flute.
Postmaster P. and Butch then visit the club in which the Leprechaun has taken up residence. In order to gain entry they dress in drag. Postmaster P then disenchants the Zombie Fly Girls by having them smoke one of the joints laced with clovers. The duo then goes upstairs to find the Leprechaun who wants the dragged up Postmaster P. to give him a blowjob. Before proceeding any further, the Leprechaun smokes the clover laced joint and passes out. The rap artists take the flute and head downstairs where Mac Daddy shoots Butch, killing him. Postmaster P. retaliates by shooting Mac Daddy three times. No longer under the effects of clover, the Leprechaun comes downstairs and uses magic to pin Postmaster P. against a girder. Postmaster P. then distracts the Leprechaun, allowing the bullet-ridden Mac Daddy to hit the Leprechaun with a wooden chair. Immediately, the Leprechaun uses magic to explode Mac Daddy's torso, but with the last of his strength, Mac Daddy throws the magic amulet in the air.
Cut to a dark stage with much fog and a silhouetted Postmaster P. rapping about how he's finally made it. He moves to the forefront where his eyes are hidden behind sunglasses. He removes the sunglasses to show that his irises glow a neon green, which indicates that he is under the Leprechaun's spell. The camera pans to the front row, in which the Leprechaun sits wearing the same glasses as Postmaster P.
The movie ends with the Leprechaun rapping about being an evil Irish leprechaun.
Cast[edit]
Warwick Davis as Leprechaun
Ice-T as Mack Daddy O'Nassas
Anthony Montgomery as Postmaster P. Smith
Rashaan Nall as Stray Bullet
Red Grant as Butch
Dan Martin as Jackie Dee
Lobo Sebastian as Fontaine Rivera
Ivory Ocean as Reverend Hanson
Coolio as Himself
Reception[edit]
The film received a negative critical reception, and currently holds a 33% approval rating, the highest for any film in the series, on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews.[1] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote that a hip-hop themed sequel in the film series was "inevitable" and the result is "intermittently amusing".[2] Mike Flaherty of Entertainment Weekly rated it B+ and wrote, "Bloody, broad, and comically brutal, it's blaxploitation at its best."[3] Kevin Archibald of IGN rated it 6/10 stars and called it "really dumb, but entertaining".[4] Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic rated it 1/5 stars and wrote, "There’s simply nothing to recommend here even a little."[5]
E! Online ranked it eighth in their Top 10 High-Larious Stoner Movies.[6]
Awards[edit]
Warwick Davis was nominated for the Video Business Video Premiere Award for best actor in a direct-to-video release.[7]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun in the Hood". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Rabin, Nathan (29 March 2002). "Leprechaun In The Hood". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
3.Jump up ^ Flaherty, Mike (31 March 2000). "Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
4.Jump up ^ Archibald, Kevin (17 March 2000). "Leprechaun in the Hood". IGN. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
5.Jump up ^ Weinberg, Scott (3 April 2000). "Leprechaun in the Hood". eFilmCritic.com. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
6.Jump up ^ "Top 10 High-Larious Stoner Movies: 8. Leprechaun in the Hood". E! Online. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
7.Jump up ^ "Video Business Video Premiere Award winners". Variety. 25 February 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
External links[edit]
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Leprechaun: In the Hood at Rotten Tomatoes


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Leprechaun 4: In Space
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Directed by
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Produced by
Mark Amin
 David R. Cobb
 Jeff Geoffray
 Andrew Hersh
 Walter Josten
 Jonathon Komack Martin
Written by
Dennis Pratt
Based on
Characters Created by Mark Jones
Starring
Warwick Davis
 Brent Jasmer
Jessica Collins
 Tim Colceri
Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.
Debbe Dunning
 Gary Grossman
 Rebekah Carlton
Rick Peters
 Geoff Meed
 Michael Cannizzo
 Ladd York
Guy Siner
Music by
Dennis Michael Tenney
Cinematography
David Lewis
Editing by
Daniel Duncan
Studio
Trimark Pictures
 VIDMark Entertainment
 Blue Rider Productions
Release dates
25 February 1997
Running time
95 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,600,000
Leprechaun 4: In Space is a 1997 direct-to-video horror comedy/science fiction film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It is the fourth film in the Leprechaun series.


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2 Critical reception
3 Cast
4 References
5 External links

Plot[edit]
On a remote planet, the Leprechaun attempts to court a princess named Zarina, in a nefarious plot to become king of her home planet. A platoon of space marines on a search and destroy mission attack and kill the Leprechaun. Gloating over the victory, one of the marines, Kowalski, urinates on the Leprechaun's body. The marines return to their ship with the injured Zarina, where the half-robotic scientist Dr. Mittenhand explains his plans to use Zarina's regenerative DNA to recreate his own body, which was mutilated in a failed experiment. Elsewhere on the ship, the Leprechaun violently emerges from Kowalski's penis after he is aroused during a sexual act. The marines hunt the Leprechaun, who outsmarts them and kills most of the crew in gruesome and absurd ways.
While pursuing Zarina, the Leprechaun injects Mittenhand with a mixture of Zarina's DNA and the remains of a blended scorpion and tarantula, before initiating the ship's self-destruct mechanism. A surviving marine, Sticks, rushes to the bridge to defuse the self-destruct but is stopped by a password prompt. The other survivors confront the Leprechaun in the cargo bay, who has grown to many times his own size after being exposed to Dr. Mittenhand's experimental enlargement ray.
Mittenhand, who has mutated into a spider-like creature and assumed the name "Mittenspider," tangles Sticks in a web. The ship's biological officer Tina Reeves rescues Sticks, sprays Mittenspider with liquid nitrogen and shoots him, shattering his grotesque body. The only other surviving marine, Books, opens the airlock so the giant Leprechaun is sucked into space and explodes. Books joins the others at the helm and they deduce that the password is "Wizard," since Dr. Mittenhand previously compared himself to the Wizard of Oz, stopping the self-destruct with only seconds to spare. The survivors rejoice and Books and Tina kiss as the remains of the giant Leprechaun's body appear in the window. His fist is visible from the bridge, clenched with middle finger extended.
Critical reception[edit]
This film was panned by critics. It currently holds a 0% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on six reviews.[1] It has the lowest rating of any film in the series on IMDb (3.1/10). The A.V. Club wrote that "the outer-space setting comes off as a desperate ploy to continue a horror series without having to pay any attention to continuity or the laws of reality."[2]
Cast[edit]
Warwick Davis as Leprechaun
Brent Jasmer as SSgt. Books Malloy
Jessica Collins as Dr. Tina Reeves
Guy Siner as Dr. Mittenhand/Mittenspider
Gary Grossman as Harold
Rebekah Carlton as Princess Zarina
Tim Colceri as MSgt. Metal Head Hooker
Miguel A. Nunez Jr. as Sticks
Debbe Dunning as Pvt. Delores Costello
Mike Cannizzo as Danny
Rick Peters as Mooch
Geoff Meed as Kowalski
Ladd York as Lucky
James Quinn as Computer Voice
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun 4 - In Space - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
2.Jump up ^ "In space?: 17 film franchises that took strange left turns". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
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Leprechaun 3
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Promotional poster

Directed by
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Produced by
Mark Amin
 Bill Berry
 Jeff Geoffray
 Walter Josten
 Henry Seggerman
Written by
David DuBos
Based on
Characters Created by Mark Jones
Starring
Warwick Davis
John Gatins
Caroline Williams
Lee Armstrong
 Marcelo Tubert
John DeMita
Michael Callan
Music by
Dennis Michael Tenney
Cinematography
David Lewis
Editing by
Daniel Duncan
Studio
Trimark Pictures
 VIDMark Entertainment
 Blue Rider Productions
Release dates
27 June 1995
Running time
94 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,200,000
Leprechaun 3 is a 1995 American comedy fantasy horror film. It is the third installment and first direct-to-video entry in the Leprechaun series.


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3 Reception
4 References
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In 1995, at a Las Vegas pawn shop, a decrepit old man with one leg and hand shows up and pawns the shop owner Gupta with a statue wearing a medallion around its neck. The old man claims the statue is his good luck charm and warns Gupta to never touch the medallion it's wearing. Gupta cannot resist taking the medallion, so he removes it from the statue. Then a Leprechaun (Davis) suddenly springs to life from his statue prison, jumps on Gupta's back, and bites off a part of his ear, accusing him of being a greedy thief. Before he can cause him anymore harm, Gupta reveals that he is wearing a medallion that he found on the Leprechaun's then petrified body. The Leprechaun grabs his pot of gold and runs from it and hides in the basement, where Gupta traps him inside. The Leprachaun notices one gold coin is missing.
Gupta then attempts to negotiate with the Leprechaun by allowing him to have half of the gold in exchange for the Leprechaun's freedom. Knowing he is being tricked, Leprechaun tosses the medallion aside. Gupta runs back upstairs to call for help, but is strangled to death by the Leprechaun via the phone cord. Meanwhile, college student Scott McCoy has just arrived in Las Vegas, but while driving on the streets, he notices a woman with car trouble. Introduced as Tammy, Scott becomes immediately infatuated with her and takes her to a casino where she works. Through there, Scott can't resist gambling, so he plays at the tables and loses all of his money at the roulette wheel. He heads to the local shop to pawn his watch, where he uncovers Gupta's lifeless body on the floor. While calling for police, Scott unknowingly finds and takes Leprechaun’s coin and is given one wish. The computer on the counter next to him states in folklore that one wish grants the mortal anything he or she desires and that it remains permanent if kept in possession by that mortal. After hearing this, Scott sarcastically wishes that he had a winning streak.
The coin's magic transports him back to the casino, causing Scott to strike rich at the casino (realizing his wish had come true). He is later robbed by Loretta and Fazio, casino employees and then attacked by the Leprechaun. He is able to throw Leprechaun out of the hotel window, but is bitten by him in the process. During his stay at the casino, Scott begins to undergo Leprechaun-like tendencies (for instance, quoting random limericks in an Irish accent). In the meantime, Loretta and Fazio, along with the Lucky Shamrock's owner Mitch pass the coin around making wishes.
Leprechaun has survived the fall and vows to kill. Mitch wishes he could sleep with Tammy, while Loretta steals the coin, and shuts the door loudly, snapping Tammy out of the coin's spell. After she leaves the room, the Leprchaun enters, using magic to turn the television on. A woman who loosely resembles Tammy on the television starts speaking Mitch's name. She comes out of the television and starts making out with Mitch. Mitch hears the Leprechaun on the television, making odd remarks in different commercials, and looks up to see the woman is actually a robot, which electrocutes him.
Scott and Tammy spot the Leprechaun beside Mitch's body asking for the coin to be given back to him. They manage to subdue him and flee Mitch's room. Outside the casino, Scott begins to experience pain and is slowly turning into a leprechaun himself from being bitten. When Tammy takes him to the nearest hospital, Scott is promptly taken to the examination room. The doctors notice irregularity in both his skin and blood, due to Scott's transformation. Scott, now a tall Leprechaun, stands up from his stretcher, subdues the medical officials observing him, and starts wandering around the hospital sensing that his "brother" is somewhere in the building. Tammy, worried over Scott's condition, ventures into the empty hospital hallways to find him. Noticing a dead mortician, the Leprechaun captures her at the morgue and threatens to kill her if she doesn't tell him where Scott is. Before he can cause any fatal harm, Scott immediately appears and a showdown commences between the two. As they each use magic to subdue one another, Leprechaun warns Scott that his Leprechaun-like tendencies cannot be fought so easily and that he will eventually be drawn to the gold's power. Scott then informs him that Fazio is the one who has the coin, so Leprechaun strolls away on a stretcher.
Meanwhile, back in the casino, Loretta wishes for her 20-year-old body back. When confronted by the Leprechaun she tells him she doesn't have the coin anymore, the Leprechaun inflates her lips, chest, and buttocks. The inflated Loretta tries to escape, but becomes lodged in the doorway due to her size. She continues to grow larger before finally exploding. Shortly after, Fazio wished to be the best magician in the world. During his magic performance, however, Leprechaun shows up, and attempts to saw him in half. Armed with an actual chainsaw, Fazio attempts to make another wish on the coin that he would be at Caesars Palace, but the Leprechaun informs him that he already used his one wish. Everyone in the crowd starts insisting they want the saw trick to be done, not knowing the bloody consequences. The whole crowd - in disgust - sees Fazio being killed on stage.
The audience immediately leaves, while Scott continues to battle. Still in Leprechaun form, Scott can't resist the pot of gold the Leprechaun leaves on the stage floor. Leprechaun promises Scott that if he takes the pot of gold, they'll share it, and Scott will be trapped forever as a Leprechaun. After hearing Tammy's pleas to not take it and that the Leprechaun's gold makes him powerful, Scott burns the gold thus incinerating Leprechaun. Scott and Tammy leave the casino together.
Cast[edit]
Warwick Davis as Leprechaun
John Gatins as Scott McCoy
Lee Armstrong as Tammy Larsen
Caroline Williams as Loretta
John DeMita as Fazio
Michael Callan as Mitch
Marcelo Tubert as Gupta
Reception[edit]
The film was panned by critics and currently holds a 0% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on five reviews.[1] It, however, has the highest rating of any film in the series on the Internet Movie Database with 4.5/10.
Warwick Davies later said the film was his favourite of the series because he liked the humour in it. "I think it tapped into the potential of bringing a comedic element to it all. And Brian Trenchard-Smith, who directed that one, is an incredible director. He manages to get so much out of so little money, and that was what was great about working with him. He really got the humor."[2]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun 3 - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Christopher Carle, "Interview with Warwick Davis", IGN Films, 12 April 2012 accessed 8 February 2013
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Leprechaun 2
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Leprechaun 2
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Rodman Flender
Produced by
Mark Amin
 Donald Borchers
Mark Jones
 Michael Prescott
Written by
Turi Meyer
 Al Septien
Based on
Characters Created by Mark Jones
Starring
Warwick Davis
 Charlie Heath
Shevonne Durkin
 Adam Biesk
Arturo Gil
Linda Hopkins
 James Lancaster
 and Sandy Baron
Music by
Jonathan Elias
Cinematography
Jane Castle
Editing by
Richard Gentner
 Christopher Roth
Studio
Planet Productions
Distributed by
Trimark Pictures
Release dates
8 April 1994
Running time
85 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000
Box office
$2,260,622
Leprechaun 2 (also known as Leprechaun II and One Wedding and Lots of Funerals) is a 1994 American comedy horror film and the second film in the Leprechaun series. It released in 1994 and is the final entry in the series to be released theatrically. It centers on a sadistically evil leprechaun (Warwick Davis) hunting for a bride. Characters from the first film aren't seen or mentioned at all in the film.


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On March 17, 994, The Leprechaun is a thousand years old. Since that is his birthday, he can choose any woman to be his bride. He picks a young girl of the O'Day family. The Leprechaun describes the girl he has chosen to O'Day, but when O'Day sees that the girl is in fact his daughter, he intervenes with "God bless you, my child" therefore denying the Leprechaun his bride, as the creature can marry any girl who sneezes three times, provided no one says "God bless you." The Leprechaun captures, tortures and tells O'Day that he will marry his descendant in a thousand years time on St Patrick's Day, before he kills O'Day, whose corpse is then discovered by his daughter.
One thousand years later, St Patrick's Day 1994, in modern-day Los Angeles, the Leprechaun has found a petulant sixteen-year-old girl named Bridget Callum, a descendant of the O'Day bloodline, who has got into a fight with her boyfriend, Cody Ingalls. Cody, whose legal guardian is his uncle, Morty, frequently has to break their dates in order to support Morty, an alcoholic scam artist. The Leprechaun steals some whiskey and a gold tooth from a homeless man and a gold ring off the finger of Tim Streer, a talent agent, who believes that the little man is some kind of performer. After all of this, he follows Bridget to her house, where a boy named Ian attempts to persuade her into letting him in; she refuses with a swift elbow to his ribs.
The Leprechaun then creates an illusion that fools Ian into believing that Bridget is asking him to kiss her big breasts, while in actuality, they are a pair of lawnmower blades that start up after Ian shoves his face into them. Shortly afterwards, Cody knocks on the door and apologizes, offering flowers, which causes Bridget to sneeze all over his shirt. The third time she sneezes, Cody begins to say "God bless you," but is unable to complete the blessing when the Leprechaun attempts to strangle him with a telephone cord. After a struggle, the Leprechaun grabs Bridget and disappears, losing one of his gold coins, which Cody soon finds.
The police soon arrive, find Bridget missing, Ian dead, and a note from Cody at the scene, leading them to get an arrest warrant out for him. Cody returns to Morty's house and tells him what happened; Morty says he's crazy until the Leprechaun breaks into the house and they barely escape.
Morty and Cody then go to a bar, which is filled with little people dressed as leprechauns, celebrating St. Patrick's Day. While there, Cody is given a piece of chocolate in a gold wrapper by one of the bar's patrons (Tony Cox). The Leprechaun appears and Morty challenges him to a drinking contest in honor of his wedding. While the Leprechaun downs whiskey, Morty is actually drinking soda and water. The Leprechaun eventually becomes extremely drunk, so much to the point he can barely speak properly or use his magic. He distracts Morty and Cody by turning on a jukebox with his powers, leading him to bash Morty in the head with a bottle to get away.
He goes to a coffee shop, where he sobers up, and takes the time to murder a waiter (Michael McDonald) who was making jokes about his size and speech. Upon being asked for payment for the coffee, the leprechaun thinks the waiter wants to take his gold and kills him. Meanwhile, Cody and Morty break into the go-kart racetrack that Ian worked at since the office contains a huge safe on wheels made of wrought iron, the only thing that can harm the Leprechaun. Cody traps the Leprechaun inside, but Morty takes advantage of the opportunity to claim three wishes and locks Cody in a store room. His first is for the Leprechaun's pot of gold, which the creature causes to appear in Morty's stomach, grotesquely stretching it. Morty wishes for the Leprechaun out of the safe so that he can help him, and, for his third wish, asks for the pot of gold out of him. The Leprechaun cuts Morty's stomach open and pulls out the pot, killing Morty. Morty begs for help as he dies, but the Leprechaun laughingly says "love to, friend, but you're all out of wishes."
Just then, as Cody breaks out of the store room, a security guard, who has responded to a silent alarm that Morty tripped, enters. The Leprechaun disappears, setting Cody up to take the fall for the brutal murder. Before he can arrest Cody, however, the officer is lured onto the track by the Leprechaun's impersonation of Bridget and is run over twice and killed by the little green man in his own custom go-kart. He attempts to kill Cody for his gold coin, but Cody realizes that as long as he holds it, the Leprechaun cannot harm him, leading him to run to the Leprechaun's lair to attempt rescuing Bridget.
Before he can find Bridget, however, Cody is attacked by the skeleton of Willam O'Day carrying out the Leprechaun's bidding. When he manages to fell the skeleton, he is encased in a tangle of tree roots. When the tree roots turn out to be an illusion, he finally stumbles upon Bridget in the Leprechaun's room with a gold collar on her neck. Suddenly, the Leprechaun corners Cody, demanding that he return his coin. Bridget, who has been picking at her collar with a broken awl, breaks off the collar, throws it at the Leprechaun's head, and runs. Cody follows. The Leprechaun dusts off his hat and pursues them both ("A game of hide-and-seek! How lovely!"). Wherever Cody and Bridget run, they end up back in the same place. In their mad dash to find an exit, Bridget and Cody get separated. When they meet up again, Bridget convinces Cody to leave the coin behind on the supposition that the Leprechaun will stop chasing them if they give him what he wants. When Cody is reluctant to part with the coin, the only thing that is keeping the Leprechaun from harming them, Bridget turns on the charm and kisses him, so Cody hands her the coin. Bridget backs away and starts to laugh saying "You Lose!" in the Leprechaun's voice. The Leprechaun knocks Cody across the room and then goes after Bridget, intending to lead her to their wedding bed. Suddenly, Cody jumps up and shoves an iron crowbar through the Leprechaun's chest. As the Leprechaun begins to sizzle, Cody points out that the gold coin he gave him was actually the gold-covered milk chocolate that a St. Patrick's Day reveler had given him earlier. Together, Cody and Bridget run out of the lair, and the Leprechaun explodes behind him. In the final scene, Bridget asks Cody how he knew that the illusionary Bridget wasn't really her kissing him, and Cody informs her that her kisses are different. She then asks him whether he's going to keep the coin. "It's not worth it," Cody replies and tosses it on the ground. They then share a laugh and walk home.
Cast[edit]
Warwick Davis as The Leprechaun
Charlie Heath as Cody Ingalls
Shevonne Durkin as Bridget Callum
Sandy Baron as Morty Ingalls
Adam Biesk as Ian
Linda Hopkins as Housewife
Arturo Gil as Pub Drunk
Kimmy Robertson as Tourist's Girlfriend
Clint Howard as The Tourist
Billy Beck as Homeless Man
Al White as Desk Sargeant
Martha Hackett as Detective
Tony Cox as Black Leprechaun
Mark Kiely as Tim Streer
Michael McDonald as Waiter
Warren Stevens as Wiggins
Release[edit]
This film opened in 252 theaters and took in $672,775 its opening week. Domestically, the film has made $2,260,622.
Critical reception[edit]
Leprechaun 2 received a very negative response from critics. It currently holds an approval rating of 0% on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on fifteen reviews.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun 2 - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
External links[edit]
Leprechaun 2 at the Internet Movie Database


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Leprechaun: Origins
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Leprechaun: Origins
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Directed by
Zach Lipovsky
Produced by
Chris Foss
 Michael Luisi
Written by
Harris Wilkinson
Based on
Characters Created by Mark Jones
Starring
Dylan Postl
 Stephanie Bennett
 Teach Grant
 Bruce Blain
 Adam Boys
Music by
Jeff Tymoschuck
Cinematography
Mahlon Todd Williams
Editing by
Shawn Montgomery
Studio
WWE Studios
Distributed by
Lionsgate Films
Release dates
August 2014

Country
United States
Language
English
Leprechaun: Origins is an upcoming 2014 American horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky, written by Harris Wilkinson and starring the wrestler Dylan Postl (better known under his ring name Hornswoggle). It is the seventh film in the Leprechaun film series, serving as a reboot. The film has been described "a dark, hard-R horror film".[1][2]


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Plot[edit]
The Leprechaun returns in the horror reboot starring WWE wrestler Hornswoggle, Stephanie Bennett, Teach Grant, Bruce Blain and Adam Boys.
Cast[edit]
Dylan Postl as Lubdan/Leprechaun
Stephanie Bennett as Sophie Roberts
Teach Grant as Sean McConville
Bruce Blain as Ian Joyce
Adam Boys as Francois
Production[edit]
Slated for a 2-picture deal with Lionsgate/WWE Studios.[3] It is scheduled to be released in August 2014.[4]
Marketing[edit]
On March 17, 2014, WWE Studio's official YouTube channel premiered an exclusive clip from the film with an introduction by Dylan Postl, in light of Saint Patrick's Day.[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/71312/new-york-comic-con-2013-footage-descriptions-wwes-see-no-evil-2-and-leprechaun-origins
2.Jump up ^ http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/203627-sundance-2013-interview-wwe-studios-president-michael-luisi
3.Jump up ^ http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3249541/leprechaun-origins-is-already-filmed-heres-the-cast/
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5.Jump up ^ Hornswoggle's "Leprechaun: Origins" Sneak Peek


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Leprechaun
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Directed by
Mark Jones
Produced by
Jeffrey B. Mallian
Co-Producer :
 Michael Prescott
 David Price
 William Sachs
Others :
Mark Amin (executive)
 Barry Barnholtz (associate)
 Jim Begg (supervising)
Written by
Mark Jones
Starring
Warwick Davis
Jennifer Aniston
Ken Olandt
Mark Holton
 Robert Gorman
Music by
Kevin Kiner
 Robert J. Walsh
Cinematography
Levie Isaacks
Editing by
Christopher Roth
Studio
Trimark Pictures
Distributed by
Trimark Pictures
Release dates
January 8, 1993
Running time
92 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$900,000
Box office
$8,556,940
Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror comedy film written and directed by Mark Jones, starring Warwick Davis as the Leprechaun and Jennifer Aniston in her first feature film role as Tory Redding. The film was shot in Saugus, California.


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In 1983 on January 10, Daniel O'Grady returns home from a trip to Ireland to tell his wife that he had captured a Leprechaun and that by doing so, acquired his pot of gold. Unbeknownst to him, the evil Leprechaun had stowed away in one of his suitcases, killing his wife by pushing her down the basement stairs. After burying the gold, Daniel discovers the leprechaun and tries to kill it by showing him a four-leaf clover, the Leprechaun's weakness. He manages to trap him inside a crate and attempts to burn it and the house to the ground, but suffers a stroke, leaving the leprechaun inside, guarded by the magic of the four leaf clover.
10 years later, in 1993, J.D. Redding and his teenage daughter Tory rent the O'Grady farmhouse for the summer when they meet Nathan Murphy, his little brother Alex, and their dim-witted friend Ozzie Jones, who are re-painting the farmhouse. Ozzie is looking around the basement when he hears the Leprechaun's cry for help, mistaking him for a little child. He brushes the old four-leaf clover off the crate, letting the Leprechaun break free.
After trying to convince the others that he met a Leprechaun (which fails horribly due to his former ludicrous stories), Ozzie spots a rainbow and chases it, believing that there will be a pot of gold at the end. Alex accompanies him for fear Ozzie might hurt himself when they come across an old truck, with the bag of one hundred gold pieces magically appearing. After testing to see if it's real gold (where Ozzie bit the gold piece and accidentally swallowed it), they plot to keep it for themselves, hoping to fix Ozzie's brain.
The Leprechaun lures J.D. into a trap by imitating a cat, biting and injuring his hand. Tory and the others rush him to the hospital, followed by the Leprechaun, who travelled there on a tricycle. Alex and Ozzie go to a pawn shop to see if the gold is pure while Nathan and Tory are out, waiting on J.D.'s results. The Leprechaun attacks the pawn shop owner, killing him by crushing his chest with a pogo stick. After terrorizing and killing a policeman, the Leprechaun returns to the farmhouse, searching for his gold, while shining every shoe in the house. Everyone (minus J.D.) returns home, finding the house ransacked. Nathan goes out to see what is outside when he is injured by a bear trap set up by the Leprechaun.
After shooting the Leprechaun several times, they try to leave the farmhouse when the truck breaks down, due to the Leprechaun biting all the cords. After ramming the truck with his specially-made car, the Leprechaun terrorizes the gang until Ozzie reveals that he and Alex found the pot of gold. Tory recovers the bag from the old well, and gives it to the Leprechaun. Believing the worst to be over, they try to head out to the hospital. The Leprechaun is counting his gold when he discovers that he is missing one gold piece (the one Ozzie swallowed) and thinks that they have tricked him, leading him to terrorize them until Ozzie tells them about O'Grady, who was taken to a nursing home after his stroke. Tory decides to head out to the home to find out how to kill the Leprechaun.
Tory arrives at the nursing home, searching until she finds O'Grady, who is actually the Leprechaun, who chases Tory to the elevator. Tory escapes, while the bloodied body of O'Grady crashes through, managing to tell her that the only way to kill him is by a four-leaf clover, before dying. Tory returns home, and automatically starts searching for a clover until she is chased by the Leprechaun, who almost kills her until she is saved by Nathan and Ozzie. Alex tries to set a trap but is attacked by the Leprechaun, almost killing him but Ozzie tells him that he swallowed the last gold coin, and is critically wounded by the Leprechaun. Before the Leprechaun can kill Ozzie, Alex takes the four-leaf clover from Tory, sticks it to a wad of gum and shoots it into the Leprechaun's mouth, taking away his power. The skeleton of the Leprechaun appears out of the well until Nathan hits him down and pours gas inside the well, blowing up the well and killing the Leprechaun.
The police arrive where Tory is reunited with her father as the police investigate the remains of the well, where the Leprechaun vows he will not rest until he recovers every last piece of his gold.
Cast[edit]
Warwick Davis as The Leprechaun
Jennifer Aniston as Tory Redding
Ken Olandt as Nathan Murphy
Mark Holton as Ozzie Jones
Robert Gorman as Alex Murphy
David Permenter as Deputy Tripet
William Newman as Sheriff Cronin
Shay Duffin as Dan O'Grady
Pamela Mant as Mrs. O'Grady
John Sanderford as J. D. Redding
John Voldstad as Shop Owner
Raymond C. Turner as Dispatcher
Heather Kennedy as Waitress
Timothy Garrick as Customer
Production[edit]
Joel Harlow worked on the film as a makeup artist.
 The two times Oscar nominee sound engineer, Geoffrey Patterson worked on the movie.
Release[edit]
Leprechaun opened in 620 theatres and took in $2,493,020 its opening week,[1] ultimately earning $8,556,940 domestically, on a $900,000 budget. Critically, the film received negative reviews. It currently has an approval rating of 27% on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on eleven reviews.[2]
Reboot[edit]
Lions Gate and WWE Studios are set to reboot the film as Leprechaun: Origins. The film will be released in August 2014. The reboot, which is a complete re-imagining of the series, is directed by Zach Lipovsky, and starring Dylan Postl (WWE's Hornswoggle).[3] Also appearing are Stephanie Bennett as Sophie Roberts, Teach Grant as Sean McConville, Bruce Blain as Ian Joyce and Adam Boys as Francois.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun (1993) - Weekend Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ "Leprechaun - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2345613/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
External links[edit]
Leprechaun at the Internet Movie Database
Leprechaun digital comic books from Devil's Due Digital.


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Christine (novel)
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Christine
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Author
Stephen King
Cover artist
Gerry Grace
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Horror
Publisher
Viking

Publication date
 April 29, 1983
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
526
ISBN
978-0-670-22026-7

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Christine is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces. Later that same year, a film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, and Harry Dean Stanton, was released. In April 2013, PS Publishing released Christine in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Synopsis[edit]
While riding home from work with his friend Dennis, nerdy teen Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham spots a dilapidated red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury parked in front of a house. Arnie makes Dennis stop so he can examine the car, despite Dennis' attempts to talk Arnie out of it. The car's owner, Roland D. LeBay, an elderly gentleman wearing a back supporter, sells the car—named "Christine"—to Arnie for $250. While waiting for Arnie to finish the paperwork, Dennis sits inside Christine. He has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they were twenty years ago, when the car was new. Frightened, Dennis gets out of Christine, deciding he dislikes Arnie's new car.
Arnie brings Christine to a do-it-yourself auto repair facility run by Will Darnell, who is suspected of using the garage as a front for illicit operations. As Arnie restores the automobile he becomes withdrawn, humorless, and cynical, yet more confident and self-assured. Dennis is puzzled by the changes in both his friend and Christine; the repair work proceeds haphazardly, and the more extensive repairs do not appear to be done by Arnie. Arnie's appearance improves in tandem with Christine's. When LeBay dies, Dennis meets his younger brother, George, who reveals Roland's history of violent behavior. George also reveals that LeBay's small daughter choked to death on a hamburger in the back seat of the car, LeBay's wife was so traumatized that she apparently committed suicide in its front seat by carbon monoxide poisoning. As time passes, Dennis observes that Arnie is taking on many of LeBay's personality traits. He also notices that Arnie has become close to Darnell, even acting as a courier in Darnell's interstate smuggling operations.
When Arnie is almost finished restoring Christine, an attractive girl named Leigh Cabot transfers to his high school. She is regarded as the school beauty, and her decision to go out with Arnie puzzles everyone. While on a date with Arnie, she nearly chokes to death on a hamburger and is saved only by the intervention of a hitchhiker who uses the Heimlich maneuver. Leigh notices that Christine's dashboard lights seemed to become glaring green eyes, watching her during the incident, and that Arnie tried to save her by ineffectually pounding her on the back. She realizes that she and Christine are competing for Arnie's affection and vows to never get into the car again.
Arnie's mother refuses to let him keep Christine at home. After several arguments, Arnie's father purchases a 30-day pass for the airport parking lot, helping to restore peace in the family. Soon afterward, Buddy Repperton, a bully who frequently targeted Arnie before being expelled from high school, and his gang of thugs vandalize the car. As Arnie pushes Christine through Darnell's garage/junkyard, the car repairs itself. Arnie strains his back in the process and begins wearing a brace all the time, as LeBay did. His relationship with Leigh declines.
A number of inexplicable car-related deaths occur around town, starting with Buddy's and all but one of his accomplices' in the vandalism and ending with Will Darnell. The police find evidence linking Christine to the scene of each death, although none is found on the car itself. A police detective named Rudy Junkins becomes suspicious of Arnie, and his suspicions are not allayed even though Arnie is able to produce an airtight alibi for each death. It is revealed that Christine, possessed by LeBay's vengeful spirit, is committing these murders independently and repairing herself after each one.
Arnie becomes obsessed with Christine, forgetting Leigh entirely, and Leigh and Dennis begin their own relationship, unearthing details of Christine and LeBay's past. Dennis speculates that LeBay may have deliberately sacrificed his daughter to make Christine a receptacle for his spirit, after learning that he deliberately took her into the car when she started choking (an incident strongly paralleling Leigh's near-fatal experience).
One evening, Arnie stumbles upon Leigh and Dennis intimately close in Dennis' car, sending him into a rage. Then, Rudy Junkins falls victim to a gruesome death. Knowing they are now at the top of LeBay and Christine's hit list, Dennis and Leigh devise a plan to destroy the car and, hopefully, save Arnie. While Arnie is out of town, they lure Christine to Darnell's garage and batter her to pieces using a septic tanker truck. Dennis briefly witnesses LeBay's spirit attempting to order him to stop. The remains are put through a car crusher, and Dennis learns that Arnie and his mother were both killed in a highway accident, while Christine killed Arnie's father earlier. Witness accounts lead Dennis to believe that LeBay's spirit, tied to Arnie through Christine, tore itself away and caused the wreck.
Four years later, Dennis reflects on these events. He and Leigh parted after attending college together, and he is now a junior high school teacher. He learns about a freak car accident in Los Angeles, in which a movie theater employee - possibly the last surviving member of Buddy's gang - was struck and killed by a car that smashed in through the theater wall. Dennis speculates that Christine may have rebuilt herself and set out to kill everyone who stood against her, saving him for last.
See also[edit]

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Christine, a 1983 film adaptation
The Car, a 1977 film about a killer car
From a Buick 8 (2002), another novel by Stephen King about a mysterious car
"You Drive", an episode of The Twilight Zone
Route 666, an episode of Supernatural about a possessed truck.
"Black Cadillac", a 2003 film about a car that stalks its victims relentlessly.
"Sally", a 1953 short story by Isaac Asimov.
"Alice", a episode of Star Trek: Voyager about an intelligent shuttlecraft
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/christine-30th-anniversary-edition-by-stephen-king-1712-p.asp
External links[edit]
Christine at the Internet Movie Database
Christine at theofficialjohncarpenter.com


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Christine (1983 film)
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Christine
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Directed by
John Carpenter
Produced by
Richard Kobritz
 Larry J. Franco
Screenplay by
Bill Phillips
Based on
Christine by Stephen King
Starring
Keith Gordon
John Stockwell
Alexandra Paul
Robert Prosky
Harry Dean Stanton
Music by
John Carpenter
 Alan Howarth
Cinematography
Donald M. Morgan
Editing by
Marion Rothman
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release dates
December 9, 1983

Running time
110 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$9.7 million
Box office
$21,017,849[1]
Christine is a 1983 American horror thriller film directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. It was written by Bill Phillips and based on the homonymous novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. The story, set in 1978, follows a sentient and violent automobile named "Christine", and its effects on Christine's teenaged owner.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production notes
3 Cast
4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical reception
5 Soundtrack (original score)
6 Soundtrack (songs used in the film)
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]


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In 1957 Detroit, several off-white 1958 Plymouth Fury models are shown lined up on an assembly line. In the middle of the line of cars, a lone bright red and white Fury stands. The Plymouth's malevolent character is established when one worker is injured when the car's hood slams shut on his hand while he is working on the car, and another is apparently choked to death inside after dropping some cigar ash onto one of the seats.
21 years later, in the 1978 school season, Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham (Keith Gordon) is a nerdy teen boy with only one friend, a childhood companion named Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell), who, although very popular among peers, remains loyal to Arnie. One day, school bully Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander), a greaser and an alcoholic, gets expelled from school after threatening Arnie with a switchblade.
Later that day, Arnie sees an opportunity to buy a rusty red-white Fury from crusty bachelor George LeBay (Roberts Blossom) for $250, even though the vehicle is in serious need of repair. Dennis fruitlessly attempts to dissuade Arnie from purchasing the car (which LeBay has informed the pair is named "Christine"), pointing out that the odometer reads 93,495 miles, which Dennis surmises is more likely to be 193,495. Enamored with the car, Arnie ignores his friend and hastily writes LeBay a check, and he proceeds to drive home with Dennis following in his blue Dodge Charger. After his parents refuse to let Arnie park Christine in the family's driveway, as punishment for not informing them he was going to buy a car, he is forced to store her at a local garage, run by the grouchy Will Darnell (Robert Prosky), for whom he starts to work to help pay for the storage and parts for Christine.
As he begins to restore Christine to her original beauty, Arnie sits behind the wheel and the radio, which only seems to play 1950s era rock and roll, begins playing the Johnny Ace song "Pledging My Love", assuring Arnie that his feelings of admiration for Christine are requited. Those in his life notice changes in his attitude and appearance as he spends more time with the car. Initially shy and timid, Arnie develops a cocky arrogance, and a dark side, which begins to make him popular among his peers, and takes on a different appearance; he no longer wears his thick glasses and begins dressing in all black clothing. Dennis' concern for his friend deepens when George LeBay informs him that the car originally belonged to his brother, Roland, who committed suicide in it. Roland's wife and young daughter had died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Christine, and Roland was also obsessed with the vehicle.
During a football game, Dennis spies a newly restored Christine and is shocked to see Arnie with Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), the most popular girl in the school. The distraction causes him to be hit while leaping for a pass, and he is seriously injured by another player, placing him in the hospital. Buddy is also there, and he notices Arnie with Leigh and Christine, and he becomes extremely jealous of the shiny, beautiful red car. Buddy and his gang follow Arnie back to Will's garage one night, where they severely vandalize and crush the newly restored Christine at night, leaving her totally ruined.
The next day, Arnie returns with Leigh to the garage to pick up his wallet, and when sees the wreck of Christine, he is shocked that all the work he put into restoring the car has been destroyed. Although his parents want to buy him a new car as he has become obsessed with Christine, Arnie is determined to restore the car again. The next day, as he looks the wreck over, he turns his back and hears metal creaking behind him; he turns and sees that the bent dual chrome air cleaners in Christine's engine have straightened themselves. Stepping away, Arnie smiles and says, "Okay...show me." Christine's headlights flicker on, and she then comes to life and fully restores herself to mint condition.
The next night, Moochie, a sidekick of Buddy's, is left on the road by a truck driver and begins walking home through an industrial area. He finds Christine in a parking lot on the way, playing 50's music. He becomes scared when Christine starts her engine, and so begins to run as Christine chases him around the industrial complex. He runs into an alley, which is too narrow for Christine, but she steps on her gas and smashes herself into the tight space to cut Moochie in half.
A few days later at school, Arnie receives a visit from Detective Rudolph Jenkins (Harry Dean Stanton) who suspects Arnie killed Moochie in a fit of revenge against those who vandalized Christine. However, he is unable to produce adequate proof because, although Christine was badly damaged in the attack on Moochie, she had regenerated herself to showroom shape, while Arnie again had a strong alibi. Christine carries on and seeks out each gang member who had destroyed her and gruesomely kills them one by one. The spree climaxes when Christine confronts the last three remaining gang members: Don Vandenberg (Stuart Charno), Richie Trelawney (Steven Tash), and Buddy himself.
The slaughter begins when Christine tails Buddy and Richie from a local drugstore in Buddy's Chevrolet Camaro. Buddy pulls over at Don's service station. Buddy challenges her, thinking that Arnie is inside. Christine guns herself straight into the Camaro. Snagged, she pulls back and slams the Camaro right into Rickie who had sought refuge inside a garage stall. The fuel tank ruptures in the collision and spills gasoline onto the floor. Buddy's Camaro catches fire which quickly ignites the fuel on the floor, setting the building ablaze and killing Don.
Terrified of the situation, Buddy flees the station on foot and, as a burning Christine gives chase, she runs over the station's gas pumps, causing the station and tanks to explode. Christine chases Buddy down and runs him over, leaving him on fire on the road. Christine returns smoking and charred to the garage where Will Darnell notices her. Grabbing his shotgun, he approaches the smoldering Christine, ordering the driver to get out. After burning his hand on the drivers side door, Will finds an empty front seat. Slipping into the front seat, he smirks at the melted dashboard, burnt seats, and interior until the radio starts pumping out 50's rock and roll. The door slams, locks and the seat slides forward, suffocating Will against the steering wheel.
Next morning, Arnie arrives at the garage with Will's Cadillac full of parts he had picked up the night before and is met by Jenkins. When Jenkins informs Arnie of his boss's death, Arnie says he had no idea of Will's death and discovers his car newly restored and Will dead behind the steering wheel. Arnie was also clueless about the death of Buddy and his gang. Jenkins knows a witness story about Christine the night before, but has no concrete evidence on Arnie. After an incident in which Leigh almost choked to death in Christine at a drive-in theater, she beseeches Dennis for help. Leigh and Dennis resolve to try and save Arnie, unaware that Christine is unwilling to give up Arnie without a fight.
On New Year's Eve, Dennis and Leigh reason that the only way to stop Christine and save Arnie is to destroy the car. Dennis then says that he is going to Arnie's, and Leigh urges him to be careful. After she leaves, Arnie pulls up to Dennis' house in Christine, picks him up, and the pair drive off. During the ride to Arnie's house, Arnie displays erratic and reckless behavior (drinking beer while driving, playing chicken with other motorists, and taking his hands off the wheel), and tells Dennis about how strong the bond is between Christine and him. During the ride, Dennis sees that the odometer now reads less than 58,000 miles and is still rolling backward.
The next day, Dennis goes to the school parking lot and scratches "Darnell's Tonight" into Christine's hood, and drives off with Leigh. The pair go to Darnell's, where they wait in a bulldozer. Dennis tells Leigh to wait in the office so she can shut the door after Christine arrives, trapping the vehicle. When Leigh exits the bulldozer and heads for the office, Christine's headlights suddenly blaze out of the darkness from under a pile of trash, and the car charges at Leigh. As Christine crashes into Darnell's office in an attempt to kill Leigh, Arnie is ejected through Christine's windshield and is impaled on a shard of glass, fatally wounding him. He survives just long enough to admire Christine one last time and lovingly caress her front bumper.
Enraged about Arnie's death, Christine proceeds to attack Leigh. Dennis counters in the bulldozer and he proceeds to fight Christine, who is playing "Pledging My Love" at top volume on her radio. As she is launching her final assault on Leigh, Dennis drives the bulldozer up on to the car's back, stopping her and apparently killing her. Leigh climbs into the cab and she and Dennis embrace, but Christine springs back to life and again begins to heal herself. Dennis then finishes driving over her with the bulldozer, and her headlights flicker and then go out for good.
The scene cuts immediately to the next day; Dennis and Leigh are seen along with Detective Jenkins at a wrecking yard, where Christine has been crushed into a cube by a metal compactor, apparently finally destroying her. Leigh and Dennis lament that they were unable to save Arnie and as they reflect on the events, loud 1950s rock music begins to play. Startled, Leigh and Dennis look up and see a worker in a hard hat playing the music on a boombox as he walks into view from behind some other wrecked cars. Leigh exclaims "God, I hate rock and roll." The last scene shows the camera zooming in on the crushed cube that was formerly Christine and a piece of the grill slowly begins to move into a mock smile, implying that Christine's consciousness is still intact.
Production notes[edit]



 A red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Belvedere.
King's novel, the source material for Carpenter's film, made it clear that the car was possessed by the evil spirit of its previous owner Roland D. LeBay, whereas the film version of the story shows that the evil spirit surrounding the car was present on the day it was built.
Although the car in the film is identified as a 1958 Plymouth Fury—and in 1983 radio ads promoting the film, voiceover artists announced, "she's a '57 Fury"—two other Plymouth models, the Belvedere and the Savoy, were also used to portray the malevolent automobile onscreen. Total production for the 1958 Plymouth Fury was only 5,303, and they were difficult to find and expensive to buy at the time. In addition, the real-life Furys only came in one color, "Buckskin Beige", seen on the other Furys during the initial scenes of the movie. Several vehicles were destroyed during filming, but most of the cars were Savoy and Belvedere models dressed to look like the Fury. Of the twenty cars used in the film, only two still exist; one vehicle was rescued from a junkyard and restored by collector Bill Gibson of Pensacola, Florida.[2]
Christine's license plates read "CQB 241". CQB is a military acronym for "close quarters battle", where targets are engaged at very close range, very swiftly and usually very violently, leaving the victim with little chance of withdrawal and/or survival. The "241" on the license plate may be read "Two for One" indicating a fight of two (Arnie and Christine) against "one" (the next victim).[citation needed]
Cast[edit]
Keith Gordon as Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham
John Stockwell as Dennis Guilder
Alexandra Paul as Leigh Cabot
Robert Prosky as Will Darnell
Harry Dean Stanton as Detective Rudolph "Rudy" Junkins
Christine Belford as Regina Cunningham
Roberts Blossom as George LeBay
Kelly Preston as Roseanne
William Ostrander as Clarence "Buddy" Repperton
Malcolm Danare as Peter "Moochie" Welch
Steven Tash as Richard "Richie" Trelawney
Stuart Charno as Donald "Don" Vandenberg
David Spielberg as Mr. Casey
Kevin Bacon was originally offered the leading role, but he left it to do a screen test for Footloose, at the time a risky move for him which paid off in the end.
Release[edit]
Christine was released in North America on December 9, 1983 to 1,045 theaters.
Box office[edit]
In its opening weekend Christine brought in $3,408,904 landing at #4. The film dropped 39.6% in its second weekend, grossing $2,058,517 slipping from fourth to eighth place. In its third weekend, it grossed $1,851,909 dropping to #9. The film remained at #9 its fourth weekend, grossing $2,736,782. In its fifth weekend, it returned to #8, grossing $2,015,922. Bringing in $1,316,835 it its sixth weekend, the film dropped out of the box office top ten to twelfth place. In its seventh and final weekend, the film brought in $819,972 landing at #14, bringing the total gross for Christine to $21,017,849.[1]
Critical reception[edit]
Based on 22 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Christine has an overall 68% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 5.8 out of 10.[3]
Soundtrack (original score) [edit]

Christine: Music from the Motion Picture

Film score by John Carpenter
 and Alan Howarth

Released
June 1, 1990
Genre
Soundtrack
Length
33:14
Label
Varèse Sarabande
Producer
John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Two soundtracks were released, one consisting purely of the music written and composed by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth, the other consisting of the contemporary pop songs used in the film.[4]

Christine: Music from the Motion Picture (by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth)

No.
Title
Length

1. "Arnie's Love Theme"   1:15
2. "Obsessed With The Car"   2:07
3. "Football Run/Kill Your Kids"   2:42
4. "The Rape"   1:10
5. "The Discovery"   1:30
6. "Show Me"   2:36
7. "Moochie's Death"   2:25
8. "Junkins"   3:33
9. "Buddy's Death"   1:27
10. "Nobody's Home/Restored"   1:44
11. "Car Obsession Reprise"   1:53
12. "Christine Attacks (Plymouth Fury)"   2:30
13. "Talk On The Couch"   1:23
14. "Regeneration"   1:25
15. "Darnell's Tonight"   0:13
16. "Arnie"   1:01
17. "Undented"   1:54
18. "Moochie Mix Four"   2:26
Soundtrack (songs used in the film)[edit]
The soundtrack album containing songs used in the film was entitled Christine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and was released on LP only. It contained 10 (of the 15) songs listed in the film's credits, plus one track from John Carpenter and Alan Howarth's own score. The track listing was as follows:
1.George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
2.Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away
3.Johnny Ace - Pledging My Love
4.Robert & Johnny - We Belong Together
5.Little Richard - Keep A-Knockin'
6.Dion and The Belmonts - I Wonder Why
7.The Viscounts - Harlem Nocturne
8.Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One
9.Danny & The Juniors - Rock n' Roll is Here to Stay
10.John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Christine Attacks (Plymouth Fury)
11.Larry Williams - Bony Moronie
The following tracks were not included on this LP release, but were used in the film and listed in the film's credits:
Abba - The Name of the Game
Bonnie Raitt - Runaway
Richie Valens - Come on Let's Go
Tanya Tucker - Not Fade Away
The Rolling Stones - Beast Of Burden
See also[edit]
Two Black Cadillacs, a music video by Carrie Underwood, in which two cheated women team up to murder their loved one with the help of a car with a mind of its own.
"A Thing about Machines", a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone
"You Drive", a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone in which the car of a hit-and-run driver hounds him to confession
My Mother the Car, a 1965 television sit-com series
The Love Bug, a 1968 comedy film about an anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle
Killdozer!, a 1974 made-for-TV horror movie based on a short story of the same name by Theodore Sturgeon
The Car, a 1977 film about an anthropomorphic customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III
The Hearse, a 1980 horror movie about a possessed hearse
Knight Rider, a franchise—begun in 1982—featuring an anthropomorphic third generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am named KITT (Knight Industries Two-Thousand)
Nightmares, a 1983 movie consisting of four separate story segments; the third segment, "The Benediction", features a traveling priest (played by Lance Henriksen) attacked on the highway by a demonic pickup truck
Maximum Overdrive, a 1986 horror movie; and Trucks, a 1997 made-for-TV remake film; both based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King
The Wraith, a 1986 film starring Charlie Sheen, who plays a man murdered by a gang of car thieves who gets revenge upon his killers by returning as a phantom car and driver set out to eliminate them
"The Honking", a 2000 Futurama episode in which the robot character, Bender, is possessed by a were-virus, transforming him into a murderous car every night at midnight. The curse could only be lifted by destroying the originator of the virus, a project-Satan car located at the "Anti-Chrysler" building. The car that hits Bender is actually a 1958 Plymouth, just like the one in Christine.
Road Kill, a 2010 Australian supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less road-train in the harsh Australian outback.
Super Hybrid, a 2011 Science Fiction Horror thriller film about a malicious shape shifting sentient car that devours its victims by tricking them into its cab.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Overall Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
2.Jump up ^ 30th Anniversary of Stephen King's "Christine", WEAR-TV, 16 February 2013
3.Jump up ^ "Christine Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
4.Jump up ^ "Christine – Production Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
External links[edit]
Christine at AllMovie
Christine at Box Office Mojo
Christine at the Internet Movie Database
Christine at Rotten Tomatoes


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The Midwich Cuckoos
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First edition

Author
John Wyndham
Cover artist
Dick Hart
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Michael Joseph

Publication date
 1957
Media type
hardcover, softcover
Pages
239
OCLC
20458143
The Midwich Cuckoos is a science fiction novel written by English author John Wyndham, published during 1957. It has been filmed twice as Village of the Damned, with releases during 1960 and 1995.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot summary
2 Major characters
3 Title
4 Critical response
5 Adaptations 5.1 Books
5.2 Films
5.3 Radio
6 Allusions/references from other works
7 References

Plot summary[edit]
Ambulances arrive at two traffic accidents blocking the only roads into the (fictional) British village of Midwich, Winshire. Attempting to approach the village, one paramedic becomes unconscious. Suspecting gas poisoning, the army is notified. They discover that a caged canary becomes unconscious upon entering the affected region, but regains consciousness when removed. Further experiments reveal the region to be a hemisphere with a diameter of 2 miles (3.2 km) around the village. Aerial photography shows an unidentifiable silvery object on the ground in the centre of the created exclusion zone.
After one day the effect vanishes along with the unidentified object, and the villagers wake with no apparent ill effects. Some months later, the villagers realise that every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant, with all indications that the pregnancies were caused by xenogenesis during the period of unconsciousness referred to as the "Dayout".
When the 31 boys and 30 girls are born they appear normal except for their unusual, golden eyes and pale, silvery skin. These children have none of the genetic characteristics of their parents. As they grow up, it becomes increasingly apparent that they are, at least in some respects, not human. They possess telepathic abilities, and can control others' actions. The Children (they are referred to with a capital C) have two distinct group minds: one for the boys and another for the girls. Their physical development is accelerated compared to that of humans; upon reaching the age of nine, they appear to be sixteen-year-olds.
The Children protect themselves as much as possible using a form of mind control. One young man who accidentally hits a Child in the hip while driving a car is made to drive into a wall and kill himself. A bull who chased the Children is forced into a pond to drown. The villagers form a mob and try to burn down the Midwich Grange, where the Children are taught and live, but the Children make the villagers attack each other.
The Military Intelligence department learn that the same phenomenon has occurred in four other parts of the world, including an Inuit settlement in the Canadian Arctic, a small township in Australia's Northern Territory, a Mongolian village and the town of Gizhinsk in eastern Russia, northeast of Okhotsk. The Inuit killed the newborn Children, sensing they were not their own, and the Mongolians killed the Children and their mothers. The Australian babies had all died within a few weeks, suggesting that something may have gone wrong with the xenogenesis process. The Russian town was recently destroyed by the Soviet government, using an "atomic cannon" from a range of 50–60 miles.
The Children are aware of the threat against them, and use their power to prevent any aeroplanes from flying over the village. During an interview with a Military Intelligence officer the Children explain that to solve the problem they must be destroyed. They explain it is not possible to kill them unless the entire village is bombed, which results in civilian deaths. The Children present an ultimatum: they want to migrate to a secure location, where they can live unharmed. They demand aeroplanes from the government.
An elderly, educated Midwich resident (Gordon Zellaby) realises the Children must be killed as soon as possible. As he has only a few weeks left to live due to a heart condition, he feels an obligation to do something. He has acted as a teacher and mentor of the Children and they regard him with as much affection as they can have for any human, permitting him to approach them more closely than they allow others to. One evening, he – in effect abusing their trust – hides a bomb in his projection equipment, while showing the Children a movie about the Greek islands. By implication, Zellaby activates the bomb, killing himself and all of the children.
Major characters[edit]
Gordon Zellaby – an academically-minded man
Richard Gayford – a published writer and the narrator
Bernard Westcott – the middle man between Midwich and the military
Title[edit]
The "cuckoo" in the novel's title is in reference to the bird, of which nearly 60 species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.[1] These species are specifically obligate brood parasites, in that they only reproduce in this fashion, with the best-known example being the European Common Cuckoo. The cuckoo egg hatches earlier than the host's, and the cuckoo chick grows faster; in most cases the chick evicts the eggs or young of the host species, while encouraging the host to keep pace with its high growth rate [2][3]
Critical response[edit]
Damon Knight wrote that Wyndham's novelistic treatment "is deadly serious, and I'm sorry to say, deadly dull... about page 90 the story begins to bog down under layers of polite restraint, sentimentality, lethargy and women's-magazine masochism, and it never lifts its head long again."[4] Galaxy columnist Floyd C. Gale, reviewing the original issue, praised the novel as "a most off-trail and well-written invasion yarn."[5] Thomas M. Wagner of SFReviews.net concludes that the novel "remains a cracking good read despite some obviously dated elements".[6]
Adaptations[edit]
Books[edit]
Wyndham began work on a sequel novel, Midwich Main, which he abandoned after only a few chapters.[citation needed]
Films[edit]
The novel was filmed as Village of the Damned during 1960, with a script that was fairly faithful to the book. A sequel, Children of the Damned, followed soon afterwards.
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer remake to have begun filming during 1981 was canceled. Christopher Wood was writing the script for producer Lawrence P. Bachmann when the Writers Guild of America went on strike early that year for three months.[7][8]
The 1994 Thai movie Kawao Thi Bang Phleng (Cuckoos at Bangpleng) is a localised version of the story. It was based on a 1989 novel by the Thai writer and politician, Kukrit Pramoj, that was clearly based on unattributed major borrowings from Wyndham's book. The Thai version has differences due to the confrontation between the alien intelligences and Buddhist philosophy.[9]
A remake of the 1960 movie was made during 1995 by John Carpenter and set in Midwich, California; it featured Christopher Reeve in his last movie role before he was paralysed, and included Kirstie Alley as a government official, a character not present in the original novel.
Radio[edit]
The novel was adapted by William Ingram in three 30-minute episodes for the BBC World Service, first broadcast between 9 and 23 December 1982. It was directed by Gordon House, with music by Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the cast includes:
Charles Kay - Bernard Westcott
William Gaunt – Richard Gayford
Rosalynd Adams – Janet Gayford
Manning Wilson – Gordon Zellaby
Pauline Yates – Angela Zellaby
Jenny Quayle – Ferelleyn Zellaby
Gordon Dulieu – Alan Hughes
Jill Lidstone & Rosalynd Adams – Children
This version is regularly repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
An adaptation by Dan Ribellato in two 60-minute episodes for BBC Radio 4 was broadcast first between 30 November and 7 December 2003. It was directed by Polly Thomas, with music by Chris Madin, and the cast includes:
Bill Nighy – Richard Gayford
Sarah Parish – Janet Gayford
Clive Merrison – Gordon Zellaby
Katherine Tozer – Ferelleyn Zellaby
Nicholas R Bailey – Alan Hughes
Casey O'Brien – William
Mariella Brown – Angela
A CD version of this set was released by BBC Audiobooks during 2007.
Allusions/references from other works[edit]
The Stepford Cuckoos, a group of New X-Men characters, were inspired partly by the Midwich Cuckoos.
The Golden in The Establishment were a trio of characters who looked like adult Midwich Cuckoos.
In The Simpsons episode, 'Wild Barts Can't Be Broken', the children go to see a movie entitled 'The Bloodening', a parody of Village of the Damned. The children in the movie look like those from the movie adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos.
The Befort Children from the anime Fantastic Children were also inspired by The Midwich Cuckoos.
"1440 Cuckoo" is a song composed during 2006 by British singer/songwriter Pete Doherty and was inspired by the serial number of the Penguin edition of the novel which Doherty read while in rehabilitation at the Priory in London.
In Smallville, episode 9 of season 3, entitled "Asylum" (2004), one of the characters is reading "The Midwich Cuckoos", which proves to be predictive of that character's nature.
In Catherine Jinks's book, Evil Genius, teachers of the main character, Cadel, speculate about the possibility of his physical resemblance to the children in The Midwich Cuckoos.
The plot of Beetle in the Anthill, a novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, has some similarities. Authorities of Earth have a great fear about the group of foundling children, alleged to be Wanderers' spies and probably even non-human. These children were moved out of Earth by a secret order of government, but later one of them came back to Earth and was killed by Earth's security service.
The weekly webcomic FreakAngels, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield, is also based somewhat on The Midwich Cuckoos. It portrays characters of a similar type who have grown into adulthood.[10]
In Elizabeth Bowen's 1964 novel, The Little Girls, a character notes another's unease at the impending birth of his grandchild; she notes that the man is terrified of children, and ruefully regrets having loaned him The Midwich Cuckoos to read: ‘Frank's terrified that some Hostile Race, which will go on to drive everyone else out, is at any moment going to begin to be born’ (The Little Girls, 229). This passage has been interpreted as representing the anxieties of the Cold War.
For the videogame Silent Hill, the local elementary school is named Midwich Elementary School.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories introduces Midwich High School. The school's football team is called the Cuckoos, and its founder is named John Wyndham.
In Hearts in Atlantis, a Stephen King novel, the movie based on the novel is referred to by Bobby Garfield, one of the protagonists of the novel.
The song "Children of the Damned" from the "Number of the Beast" phono-album by the Heavy Metal band Iron Maiden is inspired somewhat by "The Midwich Cuckoos".
'Crowning Glory', the fictional beer served in all the pubs in Edgar Wright's 2013 movie The World's End is brewed by the equally-fictional Winshire Brewery, named after the county in the novel.[11]
References[edit]

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1.Jump up ^ Payne R.B. (1997) "Family Cuculidae (Cuckoos)", pp. 508–45 in del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds) (1997). Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 4; Sandgrouse to Cuckoos Lynx Edicions:Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-22-9
2.Jump up ^ Adams, Stephen (2009-01-04). "Cuckoo chicks dupe foster parents from the moment they hatch". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 2010-04-30. "Cuckoo chicks start to mimic the cries that their foster parents' young make from the moment they hatch, a scientist has proved."
3.Jump up ^ Biology (4th edition) NA Campbell, p. 117 'Fixed Action Patterns' (Benjamin Cummings NY, 1996) ISBN 0-8053-1957-3
4.Jump up ^ Knight, Damon (1967). In Search of Wonder. Chicago: Advent. ISBN 0-911682-31-7.
5.Jump up ^ "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1958, p.130
6.Jump up ^ http://www.sfreviews.net/midwich.html Wagner's review
7.Jump up ^ anonymous (9 April 1981). "Movie is Cuckoo". Windsor Star. p. 29.
8.Jump up ^ "Future Projects". Film Bulletin (Philadelphia: Wax Publications) 49: 20. July 1981.
9.Jump up ^ And You Call Yourself a Scientist! – Cuckoos at Bangpleng (1994)
10.Jump up ^ "Interlude – Page 3". FreakAngels. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
11.Jump up ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpKZuVZWlRA Hidden Secrets of the World's End


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FreakAngels


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FreakAngels promo ad, artist Paul Duffield

Author(s)
Warren Ellis (writer)
Paul Duffield (artist)
Website
www.freakangels.com
Current status / schedule
concluded
Launch date
2008-02-15
Publisher(s)
Avatar Press
Genre(s)
steampunk
FreakAngels is a Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction webcomic created in 2008 by Eagle Award-winning writer Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield, and published in book format by Avatar Press. The plot focuses on twelve 23-year-old psychics living in Whitechapel six years after civilization in Great Britain is destroyed.


Contents  [hide]
1 Publication history
2 Synopsis
3 Characters 3.1 The FreakAngels 3.1.1 KK
3.1.2 Connor
3.1.3 Karl
3.1.4 Luke
3.1.5 Sirkka
3.1.6 Kirk
3.1.7 Mark
3.1.8 Arkady
3.1.9 Carolyn
3.1.10 Jack
3.1.11 Miki
3.1.12 Kait
3.2 Other characters 3.2.1 Alice
3.2.2 Janine

4 Collected editions
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links 7.1 Interviews
7.2 Reviews


Publication history[edit]
Warren Ellis announced the project at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con with the statement: "I've written two hundred pages and I still have no idea what it's about… it's retro-punk, it's near future steampunk"[1] It was launched on February 15, 2008. New installments were released in six full-colour page episodes every week,[2][3] a schedule that allows the story the chance to grow naturally.[4]
The story grew out of Ellis' question as to what would have happened if the Midwich Cuckoos had survived and grown to "disaffected and confused twenty-one-year-olds." The story builds on the legacy of John Wyndham's style of disaster fiction.[5]
The series ran for 144 episodes, completing on Friday, August 5, 2011.
Synopsis[edit]
Ellis' synopsis of the plot involves characters "living in a post-flood London that they might possibly have had something to do with."[1] The so-called FreakAngels, who possess telepathy and many other "special" abilities, such as space-time manipulation/distortion, and pyrokinesis, live in Whitechapel.[3]
As the story progresses, eleven of the FreakAngels are introduced and their role in the community is expanded. For the most part cooperatively they have created a small community of roughly three hundred people with fresh water, watch towers, markets, home-grown vegetables and a medical clinic. Their society is threatened, however, externally from refugee attacks and internally from personal conflicts and crime.
Characters[edit]
The FreakAngels[edit]
KK[edit]
The first FreakAngel introduced, having just awoken from a night of excessive drinking, she is horrified to find she has apparently "fucked a boy from the Lambeth Road." KK pilots a steam-powered helicopter and she indicates that the FreakAngels have access to a "big steam gun." [6] She dresses primarily in goth clothing and, like the other FreakAngels, has violet eyes. She is shown to be impulsive and temperamental, dropping a full water canteen on Alice's head without regards to the possibility she might have killed Alice.[7] KK was featured in promotional material for the series. Her helicopter is referred to as a "bikicopter" by artist Paul Duffield.[8] KK herself calls it "the bike."[9] Her full name is Kolfinnia Kokokoho Titching, which she doesn't like being called.[10]
Connor[edit]
Connor is first seen telepathically contacting KK, and he appears as a face in a window.[6] Later he is seen confronting Alice and angers her with his intrusion into her mind. Connor is shown to be compassionate towards Alice, despite her threats on his life.[7] He is very soft spoken and in control, even when Alice has a knife to his throat. He is possibly the voice of reason within his clan. He sees himself as the recorder of the clan's history, time line and past; this occupies him while others work to improve the infrastructure and technology. Jabs are frequently made at his expense about his (slim) size, much to his annoyance; KK at one point jokes that it's so fun to tease him. After learning of the FreakAngels death experiences that open the FreakAngels 'package', he shoots himself in the head to bring on an upgrade, in order to stand with Arkady against Luke and Mark, if necessary. Connor then upgrades the rest of the FreakAngels, apart from Mark and Luke.
Karl[edit]
Appears to live above Ten Bells Pub in Shoreditch. He has turned the roof into a garden and grows fresh produce for the people of Whitechapel. He has distanced himself from the other FreakAngels by wearing a tinfoil hat which apparently muffles or silences telepathic communication, claiming that it's because he can't stand how much they talk/think about things like sex. He seems to have a certain amount of guilt over the FreakAngels involvement in the end of the world. His gardening is by his own admission, "The least I can do for having helped end the world. Am I right?" [11] While Karl does feel somewhat guilty for what they did, he has no regrets as it was "kill or be killed" and "if nothing else we made a much calmer world. A quieter world." Unknown to the other FreakAngels except for Kirk, it was Karl that apparently killed Mark and "heard his brain die."[12]
Recently Karl's abilities seem to have evolved, allowing him to manipulate weather patterns along with some form of clairvoyance which allows him to detect Mark: a feat that only Arkady has duplicated.
Luke[edit]
Luke is an apparently homeless FreakAngel, first shown sitting in a storefront covered by a cardboard box. He is having a "seminar on the nature of time inside the dreams of twelve randomly chosen local people," or as KK puts it "invading the heads of twelve girls [he] wants to fuck." It seems that the other FreakAngels barely tolerate his existence. It is indicated that he was kicked out by his girlfriend and she burned his clothes, leaving him with only an overcoat and boots.[13] He then gets up and goes to his ex-girlfriend's house and gains entry to her flat through mind control.[12] He is confronted and stopped by Arkady, the only FreakAngel whom he considers dangerous to himself. Shaken, he spends some time in the streets before resurfacing during the assault on the FreakAngels in a rather dubious moment (Jack and Sirkka suspect him of helping the attackers which he denies). He is confronted by Carolyn and Alice in an alleyway while he is raping a girl under his mind control, and Alice angrily slams the lid of a trash can in his face. Afterwards, Sirkka and Carolyn mentally erase the whole incident from the girls mind without talking to her, assault and incapacitate Luke, and place a 'mass call', a mental broadcast to other FreakAngels, that Luke has broken their main law. Luke was briefly detained in order to wait for trial, however he incapacitated his jailor, Kirk (making a point to spare Kirk's life), and attempted to flee the scene. He was then gunned down by Alice, before being shot in the head and apparently killed by Jack. He later stumbles into Miki's office, complaining of a headache, with a hole in his brain. Luke is the first to realise that the FreakAngels are immortal, and reveals that upon dying they see their future selves and have their powers upgraded.
Sirkka[edit]
Lives in a big house and has apparently used her psychic talents to amass a harem. Along with KK, she intervenes when Alice makes a second attempt to kill Connor. It's implied that she had a relationship with Jack before, and still loves him, despite their parting due to her promiscuity.[14] She apparently notices when Luke takes control of Janine's mind, suggesting a level of clairvoyance on her part.[12] She helped defend Whitechapel during the invasion by using a massive steam-powered mini-gun from a roof top. Also, she seems to be trying to reconnect with Jack, although not with much success. She does save his life following the invasion during a small assault on them by erecting an energy field in order to deflect the bullets. Having integrated another 100 or so people into Whitechapel, she is seen giving a seminar and helping the newcomers to adjust. She is, however, interrupted as she once more senses Luke meddling with the mind of a girl. She joins Caz and Alice and while Luke claims that only Arkady is strong enough to take him, Sirkka points that she is not alone and she proceeds to beat him unconscious, with Caz's help, by telekinetically slamming bricks and other things against him.
Kirk[edit]
Lives in a makeshift tower perched on top of Christ Church, Spitalfields, overlooking Whitechapel. He acts as a watchman for the people of Whitechapel, protecting them from an unseen threat.[9] The residents of Whitechapel are very grateful for this and reward him with free food.[15] It is indicated by Luke that they are not aware of the FreakAngels' possible involvement in the flooding of London (and presumably the end of the world), and it is suggested that they would treat the FreakAngels differently if they knew.[16] Kirk's role as watchman is seemingly a self-imposed penance for his involvement in the end of the world, a "way to salve a little guilt."[12]
Mark[edit]
An unseen character until a flashback in Episode 73, Mark's presence is first felt when he sends Alice to kill his fellow FreakAngels. Alice uses a full name in reference to him, Mark Fox, when she is patrolling the street looking for the FreakAngels.[7] Whether this is his real name or an assumed name has yet to be confirmed. He was involved in gunrunning with Alice's brothers, as well as running food and fuel coming in from Ireland. He was cut out of their dealings when it was discovered he was skimming some of the profits. Mark killed Alice's brothers in front of her and told her that he was a FreakAngel and the rest were in Whitechapel. He programmed Alice to kill the FreakAngels no matter what, and it takes KK and Sirkka to deprogram her. Mark was apparently expelled from the FreakAngels for practicing mass mind control, in an attempt to build an army for himself. He broke FreakAngels law when he did this,"you leave their minds alone unless there's a gun to your head".[12] The other FreakAngels had not been sure if he was alive or dead before Alice arrived, although Kirk and Karl had thought they had killed him shortly after he had been exiled.
Mark has made a reappearance, confronting Kait and telling her about the attempt on his life. Failing to recruit her, after revealing that he has several sleeper agents, he attempts to take over her mind. This attempt fails, and 5 of the FreakAngels collapse a building on top of him and take his unconscious body to Miki.
Arkady[edit]
Arkady is first seen in Old Spitalfields Market, dressed very eccentrically with her most distinguishing feature being her bald scalp. Her mind seems to have been affected due to an overdose when "[they] were fifteen." She's had issues with memory that appear to have been aggravated by attempts on her part to "see the future". These attempts seem to have worked somewhat, as a week previous to the events of the comic she "told three people when they were going to die. To the minute. With details." She also seems to have foretold KK would "shag someone from Lambeth" rousing anger within KK.[15] She later stops Luke from assaulting and taking over the mind of his ex-girlfriend, which would have gone against the FreakAngels' code, and would have resulted in his death had the situation escalated. Before the end of the world, she was the one to raise the question of what would happen if the twelve of them combined their powers, and apparently feels guilty about this. Conner has said that while sometimes she seems like an "acid casualty", she can also be "sharper than anyone has a right to be".[17] She can teleport, but initially kept that ability secret from the other FreakAngels.[18] During his confrontation with Alice, Sirkka and Caz, Luke stated that his belief is that only Arkady is powerful enough to take him on alone; if this is an overestimation of his power or true fact remains unknown. Arkady's power later increases again when she is concussed and drowns saving KK, making her still the most powerful of the twelve despite all being upgraded, shown by her now possessing a form of x-ray vision, being able to read animals' minds, and perform more complex teleportation.
Carolyn[edit]
Carolyn "Caz" is the first Jamaican British FreakAngel we are introduced to. She maintains the water purification plant, and designs much of Whitechapel's technology. Arkady is the only member of the FreakAngels who does not call her Caz. Despite her ethnicity, she has a pale skin tone nearly identical to that of the white characters, which she calls part of "the FreakAngel package." When a group of refugees are adopted into the FreakAngel protection, she accepts the challenge of improving the current technology to accommodate for the new survivors, like building solar panels and creating an electrical power source. She is shown to be good friends with KK.
Jack[edit]
A cynical FreakAngel who spends most of his time on his boat; he is portrayed to be a loner who prefers the isolation which his boat has to offer. He looks for supplies or other items that could be useful to Whitechapel in the submerged parts of town. His fellow FreakAngels rely on him for a variety of materials, from rope for Alice to chickens for Karl. He is singularly unique in the gang as he is shown to have knowledge of operating firearms as well as finding or hoarding the occasional weapons cache, regularly carrying around a Glock and later seen handling a Desert Eagle in Sirkka's house. Presently, he is the only FreakAngel other than Kaitlyn to have combat experience without relying solely on his powers. He has feelings for Sirkka, but is frustrated by her promiscuity as well as her lifestyle. It is revealed that before the London flood he had issues with his father growing up, and that he and Sirkka were in a relationship.
Miki[edit]
Miki is the eleventh FreakAngel introduced, and the first Asian FreakAngel. Even though it is implied that she is not a fully qualified doctor, she runs a medical clinic for the people of Whitechapel and appears to disagree with the methods of the other FreakAngels. After a violent encounter between the FreakAngels and outsiders (of which she doesn't play a part), she complains they're "just like [Mark]." She is the motivating force behind the decision to accept 100 refugees into FreakAngel protection, arguing that the Hippocratic Oath supported her decision. She has helped Kait in her criminal investigations before on at least one occasion, the ongoing murder investigation of a refugee killed in the style of Jack the Ripper. It is shown that she is running low on medical supplies at her clinic.
Kait[edit]
The final FreakAngel named, Kaitlyn (Kait) is the equivalent of Kirk on the ground, and does not interact regularly with the rest of the group. Miki describes her as the first to take an interest in community safety, and as having a penchant for "eighties cop videos." She is "genuinely mental"[17] according to Connor, and this is also mentioned by Caz and KK. She serves as a cop or legal regulatory force in the Whitechapel area under FreakAngel protection. She tends to shield her thoughts and herself from contact from the other FreakAngels, allowing her privacy to investigate criminal matters. She takes her powers to a more investigative route, such as waking the dead to learn more facts about their murder, but her powers are as yet undeveloped.
During her Jack the Ripper investigation Kait comes across Mark. Holding a sword against her back Mark reveals to her that he wants Whitechapel-the Freakangel's home for himself. He also tells her that he brainwashed several of the new people they have taken in and that he plans to brainwash her to be his sleeper agent. Having no way to call for help, since Mark is blocking all form of telepathic communication, Kait uses her powers to pull apart the layers of his katana, rendering it useless.
Other characters[edit]
Alice[edit]
Alice is from Manchester. Her brothers were gunrunners who were killed by Mark. She is first seen hunting for Mark and any of the other FreakAngels.[7] After she confronts Connor and KK knocks her out, she awakens to Connor telling her that they are "going to fix things." She has been programmed by Mark to kill the FreakAngels and so she pulls a knife on Connor, threatening to cut his throat.[17] KK and Sirkka intervene and proceed to "flush out her brain," removing Mark's influence. It is decided that she will act as relief for Kirk in his lookout post.[14] She has since taken up a post at the watchtower used for defensive measures.
Alice tends to use the word "fook," "summat," and other stereotypically 'northern' words. Her full name is revealed to be Alice Shona Mahoney in episode 2, page 3. Recently she has proven herself by spotting an assault team and aiding the FreakAngels with information on weapons. She joins Caz in confronting Luke, who seems to have brainwashed and sexually assaulted one of the new settlers. Upon witnessing the sexual assault, she violently responds by smashing a trash bin lid into Luke's face.
Janine[edit]
Janine is Luke's ex-girlfriend. She kicked him out of her flat and burned his clothes when he allegedly cheated on her. She refuses to grant him entry to the flat until he forcibly controls her mind.[12]
Collected editions[edit]
The series has been collected into trade paperbacks:
Volume 1 (144 pages, November 2008, hardcover, ISBN 1-59291-057-2, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-056-4)
Volume 2 (144 pages, May 2009, limited edition hardcover, ISBN 1-59291-072-6, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-071-8)
Volume 3 (144 pages, November 2009, limited edition hardcover, ISBN 1-59291-078-5, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-079-3)
Volume 4 (144 pages, June 2010, hardcover, ISBN 1-59291-095-5, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-094-7)
Volume 5 (144 pages, January 2011, hardcover, ISBN 1-59291-116-1, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-115-3)
Volume 6 (144 pages, November 2011, hardcover, ISBN 1-59291-134-X, softcover, ISBN 1-59291-133-1)
Awards[edit]
2010: Won "Favourite Web-Based Comic" Eagle Award[19]
Nominated for "Best Comic/Graphic Novel" British Fantasy Award[20]
2012: Won "Favourite Web-Based Comic" Eagle Award[21]

References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Anderson, John (July 29, 2007). "Warren Ellis Addresses His "Children" at Comic-Con". Comics Alliance.
2.Jump up ^ McMillan, Graeme (February 15, 2008). "Get Your Steampunk Freak On With New Webcomic". io9.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "Warren Ellis' "FreakAngels" webcomic is online" (Press release). Comic Book Resources. February 15, 2008. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Stuart, Alasdair (February 15, 2008). "Comic Review 'FreakAngels' Week 1". Firefox News.
5.Jump up ^ Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Interlude 01", 2008-05-09.
6.^ Jump up to: a b Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 001", 2008-02-15.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c d Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 002", 2008-02-22.
8.Jump up ^ Duffield, Paul "FreakAngels: Episode 005 Discussion",Whitechapel Forum 2008-03-14.
9.^ Jump up to: a b Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 007", 2008-03-28.
10.Jump up ^ Ellis, Warren "FreakAngles:Episode 017"
11.Jump up ^ Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 003", 2008-02-29.
12.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 010", 2008-04-18.
13.Jump up ^ Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 004", 2008-03-07.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 006", 2008-03-21.
15.^ Jump up to: a b Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 008", 2008-04-04.
16.Jump up ^ Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 009", 2008-04-11.
17.^ Jump up to: a b c Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 0033", 2008-10-31.
18.Jump up ^ Ellis, Warren "FreakAngels: Episode 038", 2008-12-12.
19.Jump up ^ http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/10/30/2010-eagle-award-winners/
20.Jump up ^ Armitage, Hugh (June 20, 2010). "British Fantasy Award nominees announced". Digital Spy. Retrieved June 27, 2010.[dead link]
21.Jump up ^ http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/your_2012_eagle_awards_winners/
External links[edit]
Official website
Interviews[edit]


 This section includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (July 2010)
Arrant, Chris (February 14, 2008). "FreakAngels, I: Talking to Warren Ellis". Newsarama.
Manning, Shaun (February 14, 2008). "Avatar Head talks Warren Ellis' "FreakAngels" Web Comic". Comic Book Resources.
Arrant, Chris (February 15, 2008). "FreakAngels, II: Talking to Paul Duffield". Newsarama.
Weiland, Jonah (February 15, 2008). "Ellis Takes Flight Online with "FreakAngels"". Comic Book Resources.
Arrant, Chris (February 21, 2008). "The Business of Angels: William Christensen on FreakAngels". Newsarama.
Marshall, Rick (July 3, 2008). "Warren Ellis on FreakAngels, Webcomics and Doctor Who". Comic Mix.
Arrant, Chris (September 29, 2008). "On to Book 2: Warren Ellis on 'Freakangels'". Newsarama.
Furey, Emmett (October 31, 2008). "Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield talk FreakAngels". Comic Book Resources.
Francois, Denis-Jose (June 23, 2010). "Interview with Paul Duffield". Liberation Frequency.
Reviews[edit]
Freakangels Review, Liberation Frequency, July 2010
Freakangels Review, July 25, 2009 Major Spoilers
Freakangels Review, ComixTalk, June 2008


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Blackbirds at Bangpleng
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Blackbirds at Bangpleng
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Directed by
Niratisai Kanjareuk
Produced by
Jareuk Kanjareuk
Surang Prempree
Written by
Wanit Jaroong-Git-Anun
Kukrit Pramoj (novel)
Music by
Jaran Manopet
Cinematography
Tanit Poo-sara
Editing by
Niratisai Kanjareuk
Distributed by
Kantana
Release dates
1994
Running time
132 minutes
Country
Thailand
Language
Thai
Blackbirds at Bangpleng (Thai: กาเหว่าที่บางเพลง, Kawao tee Bangpleng or, literally, Cuckoos at Bangpleng) is a 1994 Thai science fiction horror film. Though it is based on a novel by the famous Thai writer and politician Kukrit Pramoj, the story closely mirrors The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, which itself was adapted into the 1960 film, Village of the Damned.[1]


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2 Further reading
3 References
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Plot[edit]
A village in rural Thailand is celebrating Loy Krathong, when the festivities are disrupted by the descent of a spaceship. Ray beams are fired from the craft and all the village's women find they are suddenly pregnant. Only a few hours later the women give birth. The alien offspring have the power to kill by just staring and they have an insatiable appetite for raw meat.
Further reading[edit]
Close encounters of the generic kind: A case study in Thai sci-fi, essay by Adam Knee, Screening the Past, Latrobe University, November 1, 2000.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Movie review at You Call Yourself a Scientist, retrieved on 2007-03-02.
External links[edit]
Kawao tee Bangpleng at the Internet Movie Database
Blackbirds at Bangpleng at AllMovie


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Children of the Damned
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Directed by
Anton M. Leader
Produced by
Ben Arbeid
Written by
John Briley
Starring
Ian Hendry [1]
Alan Badel
Barbara Ferris
Alfred Burke
Music by
Ron Goodwin
Cinematography
David Boulton
Editing by
Ernest Walter
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
January 29, 1964
(U.S.A.)
Running time
90 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Box office
$1,000,000 (US/ Canada)[2]
Children of the Damned is a 1964 science fiction film, a thematic sequel to the 1960 version of Village of the Damned. It is about a group of children, with similar psi-powers to the original seeding,[3] but enabling an opposite interpretation of the children being a more good and more pure form of human instead of totally evil and totally alien.


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Plot[edit]
Six children are identified by a team of UNESCO researchers investigating child development. The children have extraordinary powers of intellect and are all able to complete a difficult brick puzzle in exactly the same amount of time.
British psychologist Tom Lewellin (Ian Hendry) and geneticist David Neville (Badel) are interested in Paul, a London boy whose mother Diana (Allen) clearly hates the child and insists she was never touched by a man. This is initially dismissed as hysteria and it is implied she has 'loose' morals. But after a while the two men realize that all six children were born without a father and are also capable of telepathy.
The children, from various countries — China, India, Nigeria, the Soviet Union, the USA and the UK, are brought to London for a collective study into their advanced intelligence. However the children escape from their embassies and gather at an abandoned church in Southwark, London. They intermittently take mental control of Paul's aunt (Ferris) to help them survive in the derelict church. Meanwhile, the military debates whether or not to destroy them. The children have demonstrated the capacity for telekinesis and construct a complex machine which uses sonic waves as a defensive weapon, which kills several government officials and soldiers. But the military realizes that they only fight back when attacked. After psychologist Tom Lewellin makes a passionate plea asking the group return to their respective embassies, the children obey and murder embassy and military officials before returning to the church.
Lewellin urges the government to give the children leeway. However his team of scientists observe the difference between an ordinary human blood cell and the cells of one of the children, thereby implying the children to be non-human, and destined to become a threat to the human race.
When authorities try to take control of the children, they are forced to protect themselves. As the situation escalates into a final showdown between the military and the children, one of the scientists postulates that the judgment of the children being alien was incorrect, and that the children's cells are in fact human, advanced by a million years. Meanwhile, the children also imply that they have arrived at the decision that their presence is incompatible, and therefore intend to lower their defenses and sacrifice themselves. The military commander recognizes that a mistake has been made, and aborts the attack command. However, the command is triggered accidentally, by a screwdriver — one of the simplest of man's machines. The church is destroyed and the children of the damned are killed.
Difference in theme from Village of the Damned[edit]


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"This story takes an opposite primary thematic direction from the original Village of the Damned, and from that movie's 1995 remake. In those other versions, almost all the children are portrayed as irredeemably ruthless non-human aliens who must be defeated. In Children of the Damned, the children are clearly implied instead to be Christ-like advanced humans, complete with "virgin births" and the raising of the dead, and they are destroyed as a result of the average adults' inability to rise above their backward paranoia. In the other stories, the alien children are "damned," i.e. "cursed beings," while in this version, it is the human race that is metaphorically "damned" due to its inability to embrace its own (future) children. In addition, the children in other versions all result from an evident alien intervention upon a single village, while in this version they are drawn from natural events in diverse regions and races, thereby epitomizing all the children of the human race. One of the Village version children is made redeemable but is still an emotionally diminished alien. Thus not enabling the philosophical message of Children of the Damned in which the children are instead revealed to be the most pure form of humanity."[citation needed]
Cast[edit]
Ian Hendry as Col. Tom Lewellin
Alan Badel as Dr. David Neville
Barbara Ferris as Susan Eliot
Alfred Burke as Colin Webster
Sheila Allen as Diana Looran
Ralph Michael as Defense Minister
Patrick Wymark as Commander
Martin Miller as Professor Gruber
Harold Goldblatt as Harib
Patrick White as Mr. Davidson
André Mikhelson as Russian official
Bessie Love as Mrs. Robbins, Mark's Grandmother
Clive Powell as Paul
Yoke-Moon Lee as Mi Ling
Roberta Rex as Nina
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Official Website of Ian Hendry". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
2.Jump up ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p 39. Please note this figure is rentals accruing to distributors not total gross.
3.Jump up ^ Children of the Damned at the Internet Movie Database.
External links[edit]
Children of the Damned at the Internet Movie Database
Children of the Damned at AllMovie
Children of the Damned at the TCM Movie Database


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Village of the Damned (1960 film)
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Village of the Damned
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Directed by
Wolf Rilla
Produced by
Ronald Kinnoch
Screenplay by
Stirling Silliphant
 Wolf Rilla
 Ronald Kinnoch
Based on
The Midwich Cuckoos
 by John Wyndham
Starring
George Sanders
Barbara Shelley
Martin Stephens
Michael Gwynn
Music by
Ron Goodwin
Cinematography
Geoffrey Faithfull
Editing by
Gordon Hales
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
July 1960

Running time
77 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$320,000[1]
Box office
$2,175,000[1]
Village of the Damned is a 1960 British science fiction film by German director Wolf Rilla. The film is a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) by John Wyndham. The lead role of Professor Gordon Zellaby was played by George Sanders. This film was #92 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. A sequel, Children of the Damned, followed in 1963.
A remake was released in 1995, also called Village of the Damned.


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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Box Office
6 Sequel and remake
7 Home media release
8 In popular culture
9 Sources
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

Plot[edit]
All of the inhabitants (including the animals) of the British village of Midwich suddenly fall unconscious, and anyone entering the village also loses consciousness. The military arrives and establishes a cordon. The military send in a man wearing a gas mask, but he too falls unconscious and is pulled back by a safety rope. The man awakens and reported that he had experienced a cold sensation just before he passed out. The pilot of an observation aircraft goes below 5,000 feet, loses consciousness, and the plane crashes. A five mile exclusion zone around the village is established for all aircraft. At nearly that very moment, the villagers regain consciousness, seeming otherwise unaffected. The incident is referred to as a "time-out," and no cause is determined.
About two months later, all women and girls of childbearing age who were in the affected area are discovered to be pregnant, sparking many accusations of infidelity and premarital sex. The accusations fade as the extraordinary nature of the pregnancies is discovered, with seven-month fetuses appearing after only five months. All the women give birth on the same day, and their children's unusual appearance is remarked upon: They have "unusual," "arresting" eyes, odd scalp hair construction and colour (pale blond, almost white), and unusually narrow fingernails. As they grow and develop at a rapid rate, it becomes clear that they also have a powerful telepathic bond with one another. They can tell each other anything that they see from great distances. As one learns something, so do the others.
Three years later village resident Professor Gordon Zellaby (Sanders), whose wife Anthea (Shelley) gave birth to one of the children, and who is linked to the military via his brother-in-law Alan (Gwynn), attends a meeting with British Intelligence to discuss the children. There he learns that Midwich was not the only place affected, and follow-up investigations had revealed similar phenomena in other areas of the world:
In a township in northern Australia, thirty infants were born in one day but all died within 10 hours of birth.
In an Inuit community in Canada, there were ten children born. Fair-haired children born to their kind violated their taboos, and all of them were killed.
In Irkutsk, RSFSR, the men murdered all of the children and their mothers.
In the mountains of the north-western Soviet Union, the children survived and were being educated to the highest possible level by the state.



 The sinister children
Although only three years old, the children are precocious, being physically and mentally the equivalent of children four times their age. Their behaviour has become increasingly unusual and striking. They dress impeccably, always walk as a group, speak in an adult manner, are very well-behaved but show no conscience or love, and demonstrate a coldness to others. All of this has had the effect of most of the villagers fearing and being repulsed by them.
They begin to exhibit the power to read minds when expedient, or to force people to do things against their will. The latter is accompanied by a glow in the children's eyes. There have been a number of villagers' deaths since they were born, many of which are considered unusual (such as the drowning of an expert child swimmer), and it is the opinion of some that the children are responsible. This is later confirmed when they are shown making a man crash his car into a wall, killing him and then later (following an inquest concerning the crash wherein the children were cleared of responsibility) forcing his suspicious brother to shoot himself.
Gordon, whose "son" David is one of the children, is at first eager to work with them. With government agreement, he attempts to teach the children while hoping to learn from them, and the children are all placed in a separate building where they will learn and live. While the children continue to exert their will, Gordon learns that the Soviet government has used an atomic cannon to destroy the village containing their own spawn of mutant children.
Gordon compares the children's resistance to reasoning with a brick wall, and uses this motif as self-protection after the children's inhuman nature and motive become clear to him. He takes a hidden time-bomb to what he expects to be a session with the children, and tries to block their awareness of the bomb by visualizing the brick wall. David scans his mind, showing an emotion (astonishment) for the first time: "You're not thinking of atomic energy, you're thinking of ... a brick wall!" The children exert force to try to break down Gordon's mental wall to learn what he is hiding from them. They discover the hidden truth just a moment before the bomb detonates, consuming the building in flames as his wife and brother-in-law look on in horror.



 The final shot showing the glowing eyes of the children against the background of the burning building
Cast[edit]
George Sanders as Gordon Zellaby
Barbara Shelley as Anthea Zellaby
Martin Stephens as David Zellaby
Michael Gwynn as Alan Bernard
Laurence Naismith as Doctor Willers
Richard Warner as Harrington
Jenny Laird as Mrs. Harrington
Sarah Long as Evelyn Harrington
Thomas Heathcote as James Pawle
Charlotte Mitchell as Janet Pawle
Pamela Buck as Milly Hughes
Rosamund Greenwood as Miss Ogle
Susan Richards as Mrs. Plumpton
Bernard Archard as Vicar
Peter Vaughan as P.C. Gobby
John Phillips as General Leighton
Richard Vernon as Sir Edgar Hargraves
John Stuart as Professor Smith
Keith Pyott as Dr. Carlisle
Production[edit]
The film was originally an American picture when preproduction began in 1957. Ronald Colman was contracted for the leading role, but MGM shelved the project, deeming it inflammatory and controversial because of the sinister depiction of virgin birth. Colman died in May 1958—by coincidence, his widow, actress Benita Hume, married actor George Sanders in 1959, and Sanders took the role meant for Colman.
The film was shot on location in the village of Letchmore Heath, near Watford, approximately 12 miles (20 kilometres) north of London. Local buildings such as The Three Horseshoes Pub and Aldenham School, were used during filming.
The blonde wigs that the children wore were padded to give the impression that they had abnormally large heads.
The children were lit in such a way as to cause the iris and pupils of their eyes to merge into a large black disc against the whites of their eyes, to give them an eerie look.
The glowing-eye effect, when the children used their mental powers, was achieved by creating animated overlays of a bright white iris; this created a bright glowing iris with a black pupil when optically printed into the film. This technique was used mostly on freeze frames to create the required effect, the only sequence of live motion processed in this way being the scene where David tells Alan Bernard to "leave us alone," where the eye effect appears as David speaks. The other time David's eyes go from normal to glowing on screen (after one of the girl children is nearly run down by a car), a two shot of the girl and David, is in fact a composite shot split by a slightly jagged black line; the half with the girl is live motion, and you can see her hair moving in the breeze, whereas the half with David is a freeze frame with the eye effect added.
A similar split screen effect is used during the first scene of a boy and girl using their powers to stop their 'brother' stealing a puzzle box; the close ups of the Mother holding the boy as his eyes begin to glow and she turns to look at him are achieved as above this time without a black line separating the freeze frames of the boy from the live motion of the Mother. The final effect of the children's eyes zooming out of the flames of their burning school house utilized multiple exposures of a model head with glowing eyes which the camera zoomed in on.
Alternative UK prints without the 'glowing eyes' effects exist, which show that during the final sequence, in the close-ups, the kids widen their eyes as they 'attack' Zellaby's mind unlike the freeze frames with added glowing eyes used in the American prints. Another example is a slight smile that David makes after setting one of the villagers on fire in the UK print; the freeze frames of the American print obviously do not contain such subtle detail. This print also has a credit for being filmed at MGM's British studios, that is not on the American prints. According to Peter Preidel who played one of the children in the film the initial UK release in June 1960 had no glowing eyes; they were added for the American release in December 1960. The Guardian newspaper claimed in an article in 2003 that the British censors precluded the use of glowing eye effects in the initial UK release as being too horrific.
"And now we come to the nitty-gritty: why didn't the Children's eyes glow in the recent BBC screening? When I originally saw the film back in Australia as a kid I was particularly taken (i.e. scared witless) by the way the Children's eyes glowed whenever they used their mind powers. I'm sure I've seen the same version since but, as with the last BBC screening, I've also seen the movie sans glowing eyes. Why two versions?" from a review by John Brosnan, Starburst Magazine No.173 January 1993, after a screening of the film on BBC2 in 1992.
Reception[edit]
Given an 'A' certificate by the British censors the film opened in June 1960 at The Ritz cinema in Leicester Square, London. According to director Wolf Rilla (interviewed in 2003 by the BBC), it soon attracted audiences, and cinema goers queued round the block to see it.[2] The 18 June 1960 edition of The Guardian[3] had this to say:

The story is most ingenious and it is told by Wolf Rilla (director and co-author of the screenplay) with the right laconic touch.
Positive reviews also appeared in The Observer (by C.A. Lejeune): "The further you have moved away from fantasy, the more you will understand its chill"; The People (by Ernest Betts), "As a horror film with a difference it'll give you the creeps for 77 minutes"; and Dilys Powell in The Sunday Times on 20 June 1960:

Well made British film: the effective timing, the frightening matter-of-factness of the village setting, most of the acting, and especially the acting of the handsome flaxen-haired children (headed by Martin Stevens) who are the cold villains of the piece.
The American critics were also in favour of the film. Time magazine, December 1960:

Apparently assuming that a picture with only one star (George Sanders) of second magnitude could not possibly be any good, M-G-M is hustling Village around the neighborhood circuits without even bothering to give it a Broadway send off, it is missing a good bet. Based on a clever thriller (Midwich Cuckoos) by John Wyndham and made in Britain for around $500,000. Village is one of the neatest little horror pictures produced since Peter Lorre went straight.
Positive reviews also appeared in the New York Times (by Howard Thompson) "as a quietly civilized exercise in the fear and power of the unknown this picture is one of the trimmest, most original and serenely unnerving little chillers in a long time" and Saturday Review (by Hollis Alpert) in January 1961: "An absorbing little picture that you may yet be able to find on some double-feature bill."
Pittsburgh's Loew Penn Theatre ran Village of the Damned from 18 January 1961,[4] even in the UK the film was still playing in cinemas such as the ABC Regal in Levenshulme, Manchester in March 1961,[5] on a double bill with The Hand (1959) starring Derek Bond.
Box Office[edit]
According to MGM records the film earned $1.4 million in the US and Canada and $775,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $860,000.[1]
Sequel and remake[edit]
A British-produced MGM sequel, Children of the Damned, directed by Anton M. Leader, followed in 1963 with a smaller group of six children (each one from a different nation: China, India, Nigeria, the Soviet Union, the USA and the UK). Although their powers are similar, the theme and tone are nearly opposite, with the children in the sequel being portrayed as sympathetic characters.
A US-produced remake was released in 1995 by Universal Studios. Also titled Village of the Damned, the film was directed by John Carpenter and moved to a contemporary time period and into an American setting. It was not well received by critics.[6][7]
Home media release[edit]
MGM/UA video released the film on NTSC VHS in the US in 1995, there was also a German VHS release. It has also been released in the US on VCD and with the sequel on Laserdisc.
Warner Home Video released the film on DVD as a 2 Disc NTSC Region 1 set under the Horror Double Feature title with The Children of the Damned in August 2004. both films were 16:9 ratio, original Trailers for both films were also included. A UK Region 2 PAL DVD release, initially exclusive to HMV, of this 2 Disc set was released in 2006.
Village of the Damned (Den Fortabte By), was released on DVD in Denmark in October 2006, a single Disc without the Children sequel. The original Danish title of the film (released on 13th Nov 1961) was Raedslen fra Himmelrummet which can be translated as "Horrors of Celestial Space," the Danes also originally gave it the subtitle Satan Eyes. The subtitle used for this DVD release means "The Lost City" and was also the title given to John Carpenter's 1995 remake in Denmark.
In popular culture[edit]
In The Simpsons episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (1999), the kids go to a drive-in theatre to see a horror film called The Bloodening, a parody of Village of the Damned.
Sources[edit]
'Beware the Stare' (2003) BBC Radio 4 Documentary (11/12/03) (Wolf Rilla interview).
'Return of the Cuckoos' (2003) Guardian newspaper article (5/12/03). retrieved (25/05/09)
Cinema, TV and personalities from the Levenshulme Area website (newspaper clipping of cinema listing March 17th 1961 ABC Regal.) retrieved (28/05/09)
Cinema Treasures website (list of films that played at the Pittsburgh Loew Penn theater from June 1958 - September 1964) retrieved (28/05/09)
Skyrack Newsletter No.20 dated (20/06/60) bottom of page this note - *** Ritz, Leicester Sq. showing VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (Midwich Cuckoos)(Archive website of Skyrack newsletter published between April 1959 and July 1971) also No.10 dated (01/12/59) this note# MGM-British are to make the Midwich Cuckoos with George Sanders. And a short positive review of the film in No.21 dated (25/07/60)by George Locke.
The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television website (original 1960/61 press reviews) retrieved 28/05/09)
The New York Times website (Harry Thompson review December 8, 1960, page 43)
Exclamation Mark website (comment posted by Peter Preidel April 30, 2009) retrieved (25/05/09)
Starburst Magazine No.173 (Vol.15/No.5) January 1993 issue, page 50. (John Brosnan review of 1992 BBC2 screening sans glowing eyes.)
Off air VHS of BBC2 1992 screening without glowing eyes.
Off air recording of TCM 2009 screening (in 4:3 ratio) with glowing eyes.
BBFC website VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED rated A by the BBFC, 2 May 1960. retrieved (16/06/09)
www.uncut.dk//Videoteket, Danish website - details of Danish DVD and original Danish film titles. retrieved (17/06/09)
See also[edit]
Under the Dome
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
2.Jump up ^ Mark Burman (2003-12-05). "Mark Burman on John Wyndham biography Beware the Stare | Film". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
3.Jump up ^ "Village of the Damned (1960) - Press @ EOFFTV". Eofftv.com. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
4.Jump up ^ "Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
5.Jump up ^ "Cinema". Levyboy.com. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
6.Jump up ^ "Village Of The Damned Has Mediocre Plot, Acting"
7.Jump up ^ Wilson, John (2000-08-23). "1995 Archive". Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
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John Carpenter's
 Village of the Damned
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Theatrical poster

Directed by
John Carpenter
Produced by
Michael Preger
Sandy King
Written by
Screenplay:
 David Himmelstein
Novel:
John Wyndham
Starring
Christopher Reeve
Kirstie Alley
Linda Kozlowski
Mark Hamill
Michael Paré
Meredith Salenger
Music by
John Carpenter
Dave Davies
Cinematography
Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by
Edward A. Warschilka
Studio
Alphaville Films
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release dates
April 28, 1995
Running time
99 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$22 million
Box office
$9,417,567 (USA)
John Carpenter's Village of the Damned is a 1995 science fiction-horror film directed by John Carpenter. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name which is based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The 1995 remake is set in Northern California, while the book and original film were both set in the United Kingdom. The film was marketed with the tagline, "Beware the Children."
It stars Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Pare, Mark Hamill and Meredith Salenger.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production
3 Main cast
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
The quiet coastal town of Midwich in California's Marin County is invaded by an unseen force which leaves ten women mysteriously pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born simultaneously on one night, though one is stillborn. At first, they all appear to be normal, but it does not take the parents long to realize that their children are anything but normal. As they grow older, the children are shown to have pale skin, white hair, fierce intellect and steely, cobalt eyes. The emotionless children display eerie psychic abilities and remarkable powers, which they use with deadly consequences, unleashing a reign of terror. When they actively use their mind-control powers, their irises or their entire eyes glow in different colours, mostly reddish-orange, but also green, yellow, violet, blue or pure white.
The children soon "pair off," except for one of the boys, David, whose intended partner was the stillborn baby. As a result, he shows human compassion while still resembling the other children and retaining some degree of psychic powers. This leads to David not fitting in well with the rest of the alien offspring. Their leader, Mara ("daughter" of a local physician, Dr. Alan Chaffee; her mother, Barbara, commits suicide by walking off an ocean cliff), considers him less important due to his expression of emotions. Because of his childhood loss, he understands what the other children do not: pain. He and his mother Jill McGowan (the local school teacher) share a brief conversation about this, with David understanding that if he feels pain, he can understand others' pain also. When the other children experience pain, they simply use their powers to inflict the same pain on the adult responsible for the pain.
Soon it is revealed that there are other colonies of psychic children in foreign countries, but they were quickly eliminated because their "parents" realized that they were evil. The scientific team at Midwich quickly flees the town to escape the chaos. However, the lead government scientist, Dr. Susan Verner, is killed by the children after being forced to show them the preserved unborn corpse who was intended to be David's partner. Susan has secretly kept it so that she could perform an autopsy and study it. A mob of angry townspeople attempt to stop the children, but the latter use their powers to kill the leader of the mob, causing the other townspeople to flee quickly. The State Police and the National Guard are then sent out to kill the children, who instead hypnotize them into shooting each other in a chaotic gun battle.
In order to rid the town of the children, Alan devises a plan: to detonate a briefcase of explosives inside the children's classroom. By thinking of a brick wall, he is able to create a mental barrier and keep the presence of the bomb a secret from the children. Jill begs him to save David (because he is not like the others), and Alan agrees. He attempts to do this by asking David to leave the classroom to get his notebook from his car. Finally, Jill shows up, but the children stop her. David, angered by this, rushes to her defense and knocks Mara over. The children turn on David, but Jill rushes him from the building. At last, within a few seconds of the end of the bomb countdown, the children break through Alan's defenses, the explosives detonate, destroying the barn and killing everyone, including Alan.
Jill and David survive the massacre; she says that they will both move to a place where nobody knows them. David, riding in his mother's car, looks off into the distance as they drive away.
Production[edit]



 The sinister children.
Unlike its predecessor, the film was shot in widescreen color. Lloyd Paseman of the Eugene Register-Guard said that the shooting in widescreen color and the fact that major actors such as Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley were a part of the film made it so that the film was "anything but cheap".[1] Additional graphic violence was added in the remake; the children cause one adult to kill herself by cutting herself open with a surgical knife and another has an adult immolate herself.[1]
John Carpenter moved the story from England to Northern California and set it in the contemporary time period. The film was shot in color. He gave female characters larger roles in the story. Paseman said that aside from those moves, the film "made no attempt to update his source material" and that the film was "not unlike most of the science-fiction/horror movies Hollywood churned out for a mostly teen-age audience during the 1950s and into the early '60s."[1]
If the children apply moderate psychic powers, their pupils have the appearances of red or green-flecked pupils, and the color becomes a bright white when they apply strong psychic powers.[1]
Charlotte Gravenor, the hairstylist, bleached the hair of the actors who played the children, and then applied white hairspray to their hair. This made them appear like aliens. Bruce Nicholson and Greg Nicotero applied a special effect where the eye pupil colors change when the children seize control of the adults. Paseman said that the eye effect was "less impressive" than the hair effect.[1]
Main cast[edit]

Actor
Role
Christopher Reeve Dr. Alan Chaffee - The Midwich town doctor[1]
Kirstie Alley Dr. Susan Verner - An epidemiologist working for the federal Government of the United States who investigates the mass pregnancies[1]
Linda Kozlowski Jill McGowan - A widow who becomes the mother of David
Michael Paré Frank McGowan
Meredith Salenger Melanie Roberts
Mark Hamill Reverend George - The town minister[1]
Thomas Dekker David McGowan - Son of Jill McGowan[1]
Lindsey Haun Mara Chaffee - Daughter of Dr. Chaffee[1]
Reception[edit]
Based on 30 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Village of the Damned holds a 30% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 4 out of 10.[2] In 1996, the film was nominated at the 16th Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake or Sequel.[3]
Lloyd Paseman of the Eugene Register-Guard said that while the film did not attempt to make it "something" that its predecessor was not, the film had "mediocre" dialogue and plot development.[1] He gave it two stars out of four.[1] Paseman also remarked that in this film Reeve made an "earnest" attempt, that Kozlowski did the highest quality acting for the film, that Dekker was "credible," and that Hamill was "badly miscast."[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Paseman, Lloyd. "Village Of The Damned' Has Mediocre Plot, Acting." Eugene Register-Guard. Friday May 5, 1995. 10F. Retrieved from Google News (28 of 28) on April 7, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Village of the Damned (1995). Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
3.Jump up ^ Wilson, John (2000-08-23). "1995 Archive". Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
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