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Movies under ‘Sci-Fi’

The Divide Review

John Paul Sartre hadn’t seen The Divide when he declared that ‘Hell is other people’, but believe me, the film would do nothing to dispel his belief. It begins predictably enough: as a nuclear explosion ravages New York, the residents of an apartment block take refuge in the bunker-like basement, which also happens to be the home of survivalist janitor Mickey (Michael Biehn).

From the start, the combination of characters is not a happy one: quiet, determined Eva and her weak husband Sam (Lauren German and Iván González), shell-shocked mother Marilyn (Rosanna Arquette) and her young daughter Mary, short-tempered Delvin (Courtney B Vance), arrogant bully boys Bobby (Michael Eklund) and Josh (Milo Ventimiglia) and Josh’s sensitive brother Adrien (Ashton Holmes).

Of course they immediately start bitching, bickering and ganging up on each other, but when armed, biohazard suited soldiers burst in to the bunker, snatch Wendy then, after a surreal, aborted sortie by Josh, weld the iron door shut, the trouble really starts. What follows is a powerful, disturbing, down right nasty depiction of the mental and physical deterioration of a band of desperate, disparate people suffering from cabin fever, radiation sickness and, eventually, full blown certifiable lunacy.

The performances in the film are of a calibre rarely seen in this kind of genre picture. In particular, Milo Ventimiglia (from Gilmore Girls!!) descent from regular guy to Lord of the Flies-style underground overlord is horrifically chilling, but even he is outshone by little known actor Michael Eklund’s extraordinary turn as the psychotic, sexually depraved Bobby, whose sordid treatment of Marilyn is nasty in the extreme. (Poor Rosanna Arquette – what did she do to deserve this?)

The Divide is seriously not for the faint-hearted – with some scenes you’ll really need your mental floss handy. But it’s a stunning achievement for director Xavier Gens (whose last output was the creaky action flick Hit-man, which even Timothy Olyphant couldn’t save) and a must for any self-respecting horror fan.

Just don’t expect to come out of this bleak drama smiling: as the nuclear ash falls silently across a desolate New York City, we are left with the feeling that, to misquote Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, there is nothing worth fighting for in the spirit of man.


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The Thing Movies Review

What really made John Carpenter’s The Thing so magical was not its sci- fi elements, its alien movie aspects or even, I daresay, its splendid 1980s animatronic gore. It was the psychological tension! The issue of trust was a horrifying prospect: Who can you trust? Are you who you say you are? How can I tell what you say is the truth? At any moment, someone could be an alien waiting for the opportune moment to burst out and consume the vulnerable person. As a prequel to John Carpenter’s work, The Thing (2011) taps respectfully into this raw suspense from the start, but towards the end loses its direction and falls victim to the Hollywood clichés of a typical alien monster film.

The Thing prequel (for simplicity I’ll call the 1982 film “John Carpenter’s”) covers what happened in the Norwegian base. Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is recruited cautiously by Dr. Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen) to aid in an Antarctic dig of a great scientific discovery: an alien specimen found frozen in the ice near its ship. With the help of Norwegian scientists, they recover the body to the safety of the base, but soon learn that it is still alive… and has the ability to assume the shape of that which it kills.

The first half of the story follows how John Carpenter’s film goes down almost exactly. (I won’t say anything about how it fares against 1951 The Thing from Another World… because I haven’t seen it.) After the alien has proved to infect several humans already, extreme paranoia and distrust breaks out among the surviving crew. Kate quickly assumes the Kurt Russell-type leader, herding the survivors into open areas and investigating methods of exposing the monster. Tensions run extremely high, as they did in John Carpenter’s, and at these moments I felt The Thing prequel had a good thing going for it. The suspense was thrilling and engaging, and aliens were bursting out of bodies at wholly unexpected times. The acting was consistently solid; Winstead did her part well, and the use of authentic Scandinavian actors was an added bonus. Within thirty minutes the film had paid enough homage to the original to be a worthy predecessor – more than I expected it to do in the first place — but then it decided to take its own stylistic turn, which most would consider to be fine but Carpenter fans not so much.

First, the age of animatronics is over. It’s realistic to expect the effects in every Hollywood movie these days to rely on CGI, The Thing (2011) being no exception. So while it lacked that creepy gooey tangible feel of John Carpenter’s animatronics, The Thing prequel had plenty of fast- paced alien sequences while still looking fairly good. The monster design stays pretty faithful, including wiry tentacles and frighteningly random mouths. Of course at this point though, these kind of CGI effects are nothing we haven’t seen before; many times it seemed to be a zombie-type monster rather than Carpenter’s amorphous alien, and in that sense was a bit unbelievable.

Second, the movie switched tone halfway from primarily a psychological thriller to an alien, sci-fi flick. Whilst in Carpenter’s film the alien tended only to burst out into its true form necessarily when discovered, in The Thing prequel it is glorified with an ungodly amount of screen time. The film quickly loses its intensity as it dwindles away into an ordinary monster chase around the Norwegian base.

By measures of any typical Hollywood monster horror film, The Thing is still an engaging and impressive ride. But trying to continue in the same spirit as John Carpenter’s, the film fails to sustain the classic psychological suspense it starts out with. 7.5/10

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Attack the Block (2011)

Attack the Block continues 2011 of aliens on Earth, starting with Battle: Los Angles and Paul and with Cowboys and Aliens and Super 8.

On Guy Fawkes Night in a council estate in South London our gang of teenage protagonists lead by Moses (John Boyega) bravely mug our heroine, newly qualified nurse Sam (Jodie Whittaker) when a alien clashes down to Earth. Their natural response is to kick the living s**t out of it and celebrate their triumph. But more aliens start to land on Earth, large, hairy, pitch black beasts with grow in the dark teeth. With the aliens gathering on the estate the gang have to tool themselves up to fight this deadly menace.

Attack the Block is another send up of typically American genres by Big Talk Productions, the company that made Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. For me it is great to see that alien do invade outside the USA. Attack the Block is a very competent debut by Joe Cornish who combines a witty script with lots of action and horror in an 88 minute package. There was a certain B-Movie clarm to film, a little like John Carpenter with characters grabbing whatever they can for weapons, including a katana, the way the score sounds and even the font for the title. For horror fans there is plenty of violence and gore to keep you happy and the aliens are effective monsters with their long black hair and glowing teeth. Cornish needs to be praised for using as little CGI as possible.

Comedy veteran Nick Frost provides the most laughs as a drug dealer who shall a little apathetic to the situation. Most of the actors are good and believable, many of them being unprofessional youngsters. The dialogue felt like it was improvised and makes the characters sound more natural and funny. Boyega certainly has a lot of potential and I hope he sticks to acting.

There is however a tonal shift in the film, from a light-hearted affair to something more serious as the film moved on. Attack the Block is funny but it needed to spread its humour more evenly. There are some running gags through the film, some working better then others. The little kids who want to be hard-men are funny as they try to be like the gang, but the middle-class university student played by Luke Treadaway, becoming annoying: possibly because I found him too stereotypical.

Overall, this is the best alien based comedy starring Nick Frost this year.

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