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Thank you. I think I'm going to try tracking that down and see how it holds up after all this time.TOSDOC wrote:Freefall, the movie with Rutger Hauer is Split Second.
That actually just reminded me of seeing the old War of the Worlds TV show as a kid. The Martians there were actually pretty scary; they would kill you by sticking their suction cup fingers in your eyes. Then they'd apparently merge with your cells so they could wear your body like a suit, or something.dworkin wrote:Well's martians. They look terrifying and if they don't zorch, choke or squash you they'll exsanguinate you.
Oooo, I'd actually forgotten about that. Yes, I recall it now as being pretty scary as a kid.Korvan wrote:The monster from the "Dragon's Domain" episode of Space 1999 freaked the living shit out of me when I was a kid. It's a big tentacle monster that sucks people into some sort of mouth and then spits out charred corpses soon after. You can see it here.
It's cheesy by today's standards, but you have to remember it came out in 1975 and I was only 4 when I watched it.
IIRC there was a scene where a Thing rammed its hand up into a guy's mouth and under the skin of the face that looked rather painful.PREDATOR490 wrote:I dont recall much of the Thing so I dont know how it killed. I thought it just killed / absorbed and then impersonated you ?
If your alive during that process and its painful then Thing wins for being the worst way to go. I do remember the scene with the dogs though and I think thats the scene that really made me unable to watch.
Moontrap was basically the same thing as Virus, but had thousands of weird pod things, held up on the moon, that were intending to invade earth, building themselves bodies out of pretty much anything. Plus it had Walter Koenig and Bruce Cambell. Koenig utters the most awesome line in the movie while in a cell waiting to be killed, (IIRC)Kyler wrote:I justed remebered a movie that was awful, but the creatures were pretty scary.
Virus (1999) had Donald Sutherland & Jamie Lee Curtis in it.
Basically an evil energy creature for space infects a Russian communications ship. An American salvage crew finds the ship only to discover that something has been turning people in some pretty crazy cybernetic things. I think the way the creatures were done was the only good part of the entire movie.
That's all we are to them, spare parts.
It doesn't just impersonate you.. the copy of you has every single cell duplicated, including the state of your brain at the time that it absorbed you.PREDATOR490 wrote:I dont recall much of the Thing so I dont know how it killed. I thought it just killed / absorbed and then impersonated you ?
If your alive during that process and its painful then Thing wins for being the worst way to go. I do remember the scene with the dogs though and I think thats the scene that really made me unable to watch.
)That's how it worked in Campbell's original story "Who Goes There?", and Peter Watts's more recent short-story "The Things". I haven't read the novelization but I want to say I heard it mentioned there as well?Galvatron wrote:Wait...how do we know that Thing-victims believe they're still human? I always assumed they were just very good at pretending to be human because they absorbed all the knowledge and memories of those they imitated.
The commentary with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter has Russell saying that was actually a big topic of discussion amongst the actors themselves while shooting; if it really is a perfect copy, would their characters even know if they were the Thing or not?ThomasP wrote:
That's how it worked in Campbell's original story "Who Goes There?", and Peter Watts's more recent short-story "The Things". I haven't read the novelization but I want to say I heard it mentioned there as well?
The movie doesn't really hint either way, so I guess you can choose your canonicity.
Well, technically, CSMs and cultists aren't really aliens, no? I suppose demons may count depending on how strict your definition is...wautd wrote:The forces of Chaos (40k) deserve mention. It is described that just looking at an unhelmeted CSM will induce nausea and panic. Nevermind that as opposed to a xenomorph (which at the end of the day is just a dangerous animal), the forces of Chaos have a huge standing army and fleets that can flatten worlds at their disposal. Nevermind thinking of what could happen if you get corrupted by Chaos yourself.
Well their inhuman and live on other planets. That's alien enough for meSrelex wrote:Well, technically, CSMs and cultists aren't really aliens, no? I suppose demons may count depending on how strict your definition is...wautd wrote:The forces of Chaos (40k) deserve mention. It is described that just looking at an unhelmeted CSM will induce nausea and panic. Nevermind that as opposed to a xenomorph (which at the end of the day is just a dangerous animal), the forces of Chaos have a huge standing army and fleets that can flatten worlds at their disposal. Nevermind thinking of what could happen if you get corrupted by Chaos yourself.
I don't know how applicable that aspect of it is to the real world based reader. Simply stating that something is apsolutely terrifying in the fictional is a very easy thing to do and does not make them horrifying. You could write a book about a Character thats has same personnality of Spongebob Squarepants with a similar set of plots with a G rating and state his apperence would drive any mortal whom dared laid sight of him mad with dark primal and deep psycological terror.wautd wrote:It is described that just looking at an unhelmeted CSM will induce nausea and panic.
Point taken.Zor wrote:I don't know how applicable that aspect of it is to the real world based reader. Simply stating that something is apsolutely terrifying in the fictional is a very easy thing to do and does not make them horrifying. You could write a book about a Character thats has same personnality of Spongebob Squarepants with a similar set of plots with a G rating and state his apperence would drive any mortal whom dared laid sight of him mad with dark primal and deep psycological terror.wautd wrote:It is described that just looking at an unhelmeted CSM will induce nausea and panic.
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Well, actually, with Chaos stuff, that is an effect of them. Just looking at certain Chaos runes causes nausea or paralysis (in Titanicus a PDF trooper lines her lasrifle's optics up on a Chaos skitarii's insignia - and promptly collapses, vomiting. Hell, in Brothers of the Snake Chaos runes manage to paralyse an SM (through his visor, which means he's not even seeing them directly) until his Sergeant backhands him hard enough to dent his helmet).Zor wrote:I don't know how applicable that aspect of it is to the real world based reader. Simply stating that something is apsolutely terrifying in the fictional is a very easy thing to do and does not make them horrifying. You could write a book about a Character thats has same personnality of Spongebob Squarepants with a similar set of plots with a G rating and state his apperence would drive any mortal whom dared laid sight of him mad with dark primal and deep psycological terror.wautd wrote:It is described that just looking at an unhelmeted CSM will induce nausea and panic.
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