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Horror-meister John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.

Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks THE THING is John Carpenter's stunning masterpiece of horror. A group of weary scientists enduring the winter in an isolated camp deep in Antarctica chance upon an alien spacecraft buried in the ice. Near the strange craft is the body of an alien being frozen solid. Thinking they have made the find of a lifetime the scientists bring the alien body back to camp and thaw it out. The alien awakens not in the best of moods and proceeds to take over the identities of the scientists one by one body and all. Helicopter pilot MacCready Kurt Russell must lead the surviving men in discovering who among them is human and who is not and how they can destroy "the thing" before it takes them all and moves on to the heavily populated mainland and the rest of humanity. Rob Bottin supplies the awe-inspiring special effects of the creature in its many ever-changing forms. The effects were groundbreaking at the time and hold up flaw

An abused albino boy is cursed as different when he is integrated with teens his own age at school. His classmates teachers and others around him are both inspired and terrified by the strange-looking boy who apparently possesses certain inexplicable powers.

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Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its negative publicity led us to expect. At the time it was the most expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a Titanic-sized $200 million budget), and the film arrived in theaters with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworld stars Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a criminal when he's freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn't more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior, this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. --Jeff Shannon

As the third installment of the X-Men series opens the world has entered a relatively peaceful period for mutants. There's a mutant-tolerant president of the United States a blue furry mutant named Beast Kelsey Grammer heading up the Department of Mutant Affairs and Magneto's shape-shifting femme fatale Mystique has been captured. The tranquility is shattered by two events. Worthington Laboratories using a powerful mutant boy develops a serum that eliminates the "mutant X gene" permanently. This so-called "cure" quickly divides the mutant community; Professor Xavier Patrick Stewart and his school are willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt but Magneto Ian McKellen and his mutant Brotherhood see the serum as a vile threat to their way of life. They form an army of mutants and march on the fortified Worthington Laboratory located on Alcatraz Island. A much more dire threat appears in the form of the resurrected super-mutant Jean Grey Famke Janssen who has succumbed to her cataclysmic Id identity

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When a cockroach-spread plague threatens to decimate the child population of New York City evolutionary biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates rig up a species of "Judas" bugs and introduce them into the environment where they will "mimic" the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. So far so good...until the bugs keep on evolving and learn to mimic their next prey--humans. Noirish dazzling production work ensconces reliably creepy bug-related thrills. Based on the short story by Donald A. Wolheim.

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