Official Cinematic Decapitation Count
Amount: 😰
Instruments of beheadedness: 🖐🏽
Impact: 😰😰 — Didn't know him at all, but he did not deserve this.
Style: 😰😰😰😰😰 — There are head-rips, and there are head-rips. Now, there are HEAD-RIPS. Yanked completely free of the body, bringing the spine along for the ride. Samson, you are one class act.
Ever-growing list of cinematic decaps at Don’t lose your head oh darn too late.
I knew this was an Italian Omen rip-off, and a fairly decent one at that. But I was unprepared for the delivery of eight times the recommended cinematic dose of naked Kirk Douglas.
Ah, the 1980s. It was a simpler time: a time of magic, miracles, demons and gods. A time when a cult horror director could commandeer a $25 million budget to construct an amalgamation of thoughtful British science-fiction and American horror. A time when Steve Railsback was considered a viable leading man. I speak of the infamous flop Lifeforce.
Loosely based on Colin Wilson’s novel The Space Vampires — fairly on-the-nose for a title — director Tobe Hooper and screenwriter Dan…
Where would horror movies be without slime? It’s the perfect go-to method for disguising effect flaws while making the audience squirm with disgust. Enter From Beyond, the movie that puts the “goo” in “goopy.” Its chief monster, the dimensionally disfigured Dr. Pretorius, almost puts John Carpenter’s Thing alien to shame with its overall shape-shifting malleability and gallons of ooze.
As if that weren’t enough, the movie as a whole is an excellent exercise in mad science, sadomasochistic inventiveness and squirrelly…
