And, when you really, really think about it, it’s a film that perfectly encapsulates a type of horror that isn’t usually present in the brand of action films that flirt with horror, of which Twister may very well be the best at. It’s the film that makes connecting The Lost Boys, Boogie Nights, Saving Private Ryan, The People Under The Stairs, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Mulholland Drive to The Terminator in my infamous Connect A Movie To The First Two Terminator Jawns Through Actors thought exercise possible. It’s a movie that is glaringly scientifically inaccurate and almost unbearably ridiculous and yet still manages to get its fingers into the soft bits of yours truly literally every single time I watch it. A film that embodies everything great and ghastly about the mid-90s when it comes to pop culture (Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s constant refrain of “It’s The Extreme!”, the soundtrack, the copious amounts of A for effort CGI) and yet remains unironically beloved by millennials everywhere. Each week I’ll be taking you on a deep dive into something creepy and/or crawly and talking your ear off about why I love it so much.Īh, Twister. It’s fantastic cat-and-mouse sci-fi stuff and, courtesy of Scott’s mastery of lighting and the stellar production design, looks so, so good for a movie now over 40 years old.Welcome to THIS JUSTIN, a column dedicated to my love of all things weird and spooky. But, yes, it involves a murderous, predatory alien stalking its prey through the corridors and vents of the ship. When one of these hatches, it sparks off a deadly sequence of events that we wouldn’t dream of spoiling here. When the crew of commercial space hauler the Nostromo (a great cast of ‘normal’, highly relatable characters rather than exaggerated, OTT personalities) detect a transmission from a moon out in deep space, they land to investigate and discover a strange derelict craft full of large eggs. It’s the film that spawned a sprawling franchise based around its iconic titular ‘xenomorph’, and is a masterpiece of tension and visuals with director Ridley Scott at the very top of his game. Alien is the best space-set horror movie ever made (not to mention one of the best horror movies full stop).
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