Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Tag: movies
Scary Movies: The Wolf Man
My daughter really likes this one for some reason, so we’ve seen it the past two Halloweens in a row. I, however, found it to be the most disappointing movie included in Universal’s two-volume classic monster collection. Compared to the likes of Dracula and… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: The Wolf Man”
Scary Movies: King Kong
Now here’s a true classic, whose imagery has embedded itself in our culture, and which has been re-made multiple times. Surely I don’t need to describe the plot, right? A giant gorilla, discovered by the obsessive Carl Denham on mysterious Skull Island, whom he… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: King Kong”
Scary Movies: The Thing
John Carpenter remade the Thing From Another Planet (1951) in 1982. I wonder if this was the first example of the sub-genre of action-horror? Certainly, Aliens (1986), Predator (1987), Pitch Black (2000), and the 1999 remake of The Mummy, fall into this genre. But I can’t… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: The Thing”
Scary Movies: Village of the Damned
Last night, as per our annual Halloween scary movie schedule, the family watched Village of the Damned (1960). This is a British film, produced by MGM-UK, and I’ve always had something of a fascination for it. When I was seven or eight, an issue… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Village of the Damned”
Ranking Scary Movies
I’ve love horror movies. I always have, ever since I was a little kid. Not sure why, there’s just something primal in them that appeals to me. In my house, we have movie night every Saturday. We cycle so that my son picks the… Continue Reading “Ranking Scary Movies”
Ranking the James Bond Movies
So my son is 10 years old, and over the past year or so, we’ve been watching some of the James Bond movies together. Many of these I have not seen since I was in high school. We have half a dozen on DVD,… Continue Reading “Ranking the James Bond Movies”
Ranking the Spider-Man Movies
So far I’ve ranked the Batman movies, the Superman movies, the other DC movies, the Avengers movies, the X-Men movies, the summer 2015 comic movies and the non-Marvel and non-DC comic movies. There’s only one major franchise of super-hero movies yet to do, and that is the Spider-Man franchise. So here… Continue Reading “Ranking the Spider-Man Movies”
Ranking the Summer 2015 Marvel Movies
So far I’ve ranked the Batman movies, the Superman movies, the other DC movies, the Avengers movies, the X-Men movies, and the non-Marvel and non-DC comic movies. There’s only one major franchise of super-hero movies I haven’t ranked yet, and that is the Spider-Man franchise. But I’ll continue to put… Continue Reading “Ranking the Summer 2015 Marvel Movies”
