![]() ![]() alien movies like "Edge of Tomorrow" that may make you look at the stars with a bit more curiosity. With all that in mind, we've compiled 28 great alien movies, from scary horror movies to family-friendly flicks to military vs. "The aliens simply have to create an impression, even if it’s the fear of wondering what it is in 'Alien' or the trying-to-make-sense-of-it-all in 'Contact,'" he said. ![]() "The best movies about aliens are ones that, on the one hand, create a species that is very obviously and distinctively other and on the other hand, do what science fiction does best, which is use that very same other-ness to comment on an aspect of humanity," said Keith DeCandido, the award-winning, best-selling author of dozens of novels based on alien-heavy films like "Alien," "Star Trek," "Serenity" and "Farscape."Īs DeCandido notes, aliens don't even have to spend a lot of time on screen to be part of the movie's message. And alien movies can tell stories that propel us into the stars while helping us understand our own blue marble in space a little better. But the cast and the period piece pall they perform under make this mixed-bag of a thriller worth a look.Aliens are out of this world - literally and figuratively. I have to say I like this sort of 1930s Gothic horror, even though I’m generally more impressed by the detail than jolted by the frights. The effects are more interesting than chilling –sequences in which the vicar’s wife sees different versions of herself in various states of terror over what she’s experiencing, or fears she’s caused. ![]() The story’s dawdling pace works against it, and attempts at injecting urgency into the third act seem too chatty and explanatory for suspense to build. That last element is handled quite clumsily. And there’s value in putting the sinister, whispering Harris and menacing Lynch into opposition, playing two men at odds over “the secret” of the house and maybe the politics of Britain on the cusp of a World War where you were either fascist or anti-fascist. Hefferman’s vicar in meltdown mode passes muster. The kid is properly creepy, and Findlay (“Brave New World,” “Harlots,” “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”) does a fine job of testily judging her repressed and somewhat shamed husband and increasingly alarmed mother not able to process the threats to herself and a little girl who stops acknowledging her as her mother. That’s the state of the horror, here, a child menaced, perhaps possessed, a husband in denial and a mother under supernatural assault because of her childcare skills. The basements in these British fixer-uppers always look like dungeons, and that’s always where little girls wander and their guilt-ridden mummy’s see the awfullest things when they set out in search of their child. It is - visions, mirrors that don’t perform to spec, thump and moans, and these creepy dolls that little Adelaide finds and plays with, a girl doll that looks like “Annabelle” prototypes, and tiny cowled monks who watch over her. “Is the house playing games with your wife’s head?” It’s about the house, the “sect” that had a monastery on this land, what happened to them and what happens there now. He’s the one we saw walking in on the murder suicide, and promptly pouring himself a whisky in his best “nothing to see here” nonchalance.īut there’s this wild-eyed visitor ( Sean Harris, great casting) who has… answers. The bishop ( John Lynch, good casting) didn’t warn him. Bringing his wife ( Jessica Brown Findlay) and daughter ( Anya McKenna-Bruce) and their troubled marriage into it can’t be a good idea. “Three years later” a new vicar ( Paul Heffernan) is on the job and in the house. A prologue shows us a vicar who descends into murder-suicide madness, obsessed by First Thessalonians 4:5, warnings about avoiding “lustful passion,” as St. But it’s that other half that’s that separates the terrifying from the travelogue. Today on “Escape to Horror Country,” we visit a haunted parsonage in Essex, a manor house that in a prior life, was home to a burned-out Christian sect, and the period perfect setting for “The Banishing,” a pre-war British period piece, because aren’t they all?Ĭhristopher Smith’s thriller (now on Shudder) is proof that if you get the gloomy tone, the production values and period polish perfect, your haunted house tale is halfway there. ![]()
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