With the night’s already drawing in, it’s time to turn our eyes forward to the winter holidays, and around here that means one thing: Hallowe’en.
Generally speaking we’re a bunch of pantywaists down at STS towers, but if there’s one thing guaranteed to stop us hiding behind the sofa and get us out and about on the spoooookiest night of the year, it’s the promise of some classic head-off-shoulders-catches-fire-turns-dogs-inside-out John Capenter action, so we were especially pleased when the marvelous chaps at top discount website vouchercodes.co.uk and Most Wanted got in touch to tell us about their new all hallows eve promo.
For one night only, it seems they’ll be taking over a fancy-schmancy central London location, laying on booze and popcorn and showing at least one of the above classic horror flicks – but which one?
Well, that’s up to us see – It’s one a’dem crazy ‘bloggers choice’ award things! Huzzah -finally someone respects our opinion! This despite the fact that I nominated ‘The sasquatch Gang’ for Oscar glory last year.
While freddy, Leatherface and even dear old Satan himself all have there attractive points, we have to say that nothing scares like the thought that your friend, your lover, or heck -even you, could at any point turn into a hideous multi-mandibled star-beast hell bent on wiping out mankind!!
Of course, we’ve been wrong before. What do you think? Is The Shining scarier? Does ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ put the willies up you in a way that ‘The Thing’ never will?
We’re going solidly with the alien menace on this one – but if you think we’re wrong -then hell kids – let us know!
From Nightmare on Elm Street to Heartless (an…uhhh…probably some others I expect…) our screens are currently boiling with the stench of sulpher and brimstone as faustian pacts are forged, ethereal barriers are broken down and nasty do-badders escape from the bounds of hell itself to inflict second-tier horror schlockers on our unwitting eyeballs -the Satanic rat bastards. Yep, Mephisto is definitely a guy who’s around for the long haul cinematically speaking, and while Heartless has Joseph Maul as a weird, voodoo-doing East End Devil, we’re sure there must be better ways to portray the one who walks backwards on screen. Oh, wait! There are! Yep, time to bathe in holy water, get Jim Caveizal round and hope it’s the power of Christ compelling us to sit through a bunch of shitty horror flicks, as we check out six of the best: Movie Satans!
1: Tim Curry: The Darkness (Legend)
Ok, so he goes by the name of The Darkness, but his clever disguise isn’t fooling us! One look at those three-foot long horns, fangs and bright red skin and we know exactly who we’re dealing with. Unfortunately for the erstwhile Frankenfurter, Curry’s decided to pick on the only being in existance more evil than he is – That’ll be Tom Cruise then. Still, scores extra devil points for his fantastically spooky arrival on screen; stepping out of a mirror. Well, a taxi doesn’t really scream ‘Prince of Darkeness’ does it? Easily the most evil appearence in Curry’s considerable repertoire (apart from the hotel manager in Home Alone 3 obviously).
Back in the 70’s, terror-tainment was thin on the ground, and the hilarious spider-walk was actually considered disturbing – which is probably why overrated old cobblers The Exorcist has such a huge, scary rep.
Well, it seems that even appearing in Reposessed with Leslie Nielsen wasn’t enough to kill young Regan’s demonic career, as head-spinning honcho William Peter Blatty claimed there’s definite probability that pea-soup will be sprayed directly into your living room in the near future:
“I’ve written an Exorcist miniseries script that not only faithfully includes all the main elements of the novel, but also some rather spooky new material and scenes, as well as a totally new (and perhaps much more satisfying) ending. I’ve also updated it. Billy Friedkin has agreed to direct.”
STS is actually looking forward to seeing how the original production team handle a reboot, rather than some guy who made a Skittles ad following a studio push for a PG script.
What do you think- should they mess with things man was not meant to know?
With Bruce Willis currently clanking robotically across cinema screens everywhere, the danger of being replaced is high on the public agenda!
It’s safest to assume you already have a colossally evil doppelganger lurking out there, ready to bump you off and slip into bed with your old lady as soon as possible – and she won’t be complaining, he’s got rechargeable Plutonium power cells!
Fortunately Hollywood has long represented the other you on screen, and STS has waded through a whole bunch of them –yep, even those godawful 70s ones with John Saxon – to compile this handy print out and keep guide to make sure you stay you!
Don’t go changing –It’s the STS guide to Replacement Thrillers!
