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"I realized that I had the opportunity of doing a series in the genre of the 'creature films' of the Forties that featured Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Jekyll and Hyde. But all those characters were evil - and the Hulk was not evil. He is the personification of anger. He is anger brought to a physical sense."   -Bill Bixby, The Hulk #10 Magazine (August 1978)-   O ne could imagine master of disaster Irwin Allen would have enjoyed this particular slice of episodic television delivered by The Incredible Hulk in the form of Season One, Episode 11, Earthquakes Happen . Stock footage is utilized from the film Earthquake (1974) which, surprisingly, Irwin Allen had no hand in. The disaster master loved his stock footage too. Though the success of his The Poseidon Adventure (1972) reignited interest in making the film Earthquake happen. David Banner continues his fugitive-like existence by slipping into a nuclear research facility to utilize its gamma radi

"I felt that we had gotten a film with more layers than we were ever thinking of. I knew right away that this was a very different and special movie. Life is how you look at it, and Blade Runner decided to look at it in a poetic but dark way and, at the same time, with a lot of wit. It was not consumer-ready crap and it was not a fast-paced, science-fiction thriller. Instead, it was thoughtful and slow moving, and it challenged audiences to enter its world. This is a great movie---one that is beautiful, dark, wicked, poetic, exotic and beautiful." -Rutger Hauer, All Those Moments: Stories Of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, And Blade Runners (p129-130, 135)- (c) Susan Okoro's Blog

"I 've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." A n absolutely essential component that is the science fiction masterpiece classic Blade Runner (1982), this writer and fan is saddened at the loss of the wonderful performer that was Rutger Hauer (1944-2019). Hauer will be forever immortalized through film especially in his role as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner . I just adore his performance in that film. Love him for it. In his b ook All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (2007) Hauer noted he incorporated many of his own lines especially written for the final scene of that wonderful picture that he memorialized in the falling rain. As a young person this writer enjoyed many of his films and some of my favorites included: Nighthawks (1981; opposite Sylvester Stallone), Blade Runner (1982; opposite Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah and Edward James Olmos among many), The Osterman Weekend (1983; opposite J

"G amera has revived. Barugon has met his master." W riter Stuart Galbraith IV wrote in his book Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror Films that Frankenstein Conquers The World (1965) was "one of Toho's best and last monster movies to revolve around interesting human characters" (p.111). Perhaps I've something of a Showa era bias when it comes to the kaiju eiga picture, because part of me agrees with the overall sentiment of that statement. There is something about the more contemporary kaiju pictures, in relative terms (1980s forward), that seems to lack for me in human terms, not that they don't work for others. Never mind that this writer also has something of a built-in predisposition toward the suit design and production work on Godzilla from the 1950s through the 1970s. Take Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). This film feels (or doesn't) simply devoid of humanity in general, never mind a single interesting human character.