Post by jeffan on Jul 3, 2009 3:19:24 GMT -5
One of Hollywood’s most standard forms of scaring its audience is an oft overused play on humanity’s basic phobias: acarophobia (fear of insects that cause itching), arachnophobia (fear of spiders), apiphobia (fear of bees),or entomophobia (fear of insects). People just in general cringe at the sight of either lots and lots of bugs confined to or coming out of nasty spaces, or gigantic insects laying waste to familiar cities and towns. Back in the golden age of horror movies when every other release was chilling, thrilling, terrifying, or unbelievable, giant bugs and other crawlies were the draw of choice; audiences swarmed (get it?) to theaters and such films as Them!, The Beginning of the End, The Deadly Mantis, and The Black Scorpion -just to name a few- became box office gold, often despite their terribly reviewed stories. And then something new happened. At some point it became even scarier and more horrific to have humans become the very bugs they sought to destroy. Men and women slowly transforming into human-sized insect people bent on wreaking havoc on everyone. Perhaps one of the earliest and best looks into this genre was the original The Fly with Vincent Price. In it, Andre Delambre has invented a matter disintegrator/integrator in which he and a fly basically switch heads; man acquires giant fly head, and tiny fly body ends up with the head of the scientist. Pretty nasty. Well, movies and plots just got wackier from there. Here are ten of the coolest human-to-bug movies...
Men in Black 1997
Will Smith is Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones is Agent K and you will never know who they are or why they’ve just investigated an alien presence in your back yard, basically because they’ve just flashed your brain with a Neuralyzer. But they can fight, when the situation demands it. And in the case of Edgar (the Bug) played by Vincent D’Onofrio, it was that very time. Sure, he was an alien, but you can’t deny that the ‘man’ (albeit a suit of sorts) turned into one hell of a bug.
The Fly 1986
I have used this classic Cronenberg movie on lists before, and on this one, well, it just had to be number one. I mentioned the original in the opening because I really wanted to use this far superior remake (which is an oddity for sure) and horror classic. No real need to go into the plot, only to mention that Jeff Goldblum’s performance as Seth Brundle is just fascinating and something you really need to see for yourself. It’s fun to compare the two as there are many similarities, but somehow Cronenberg’s attempt stands out.
Gunaxin
July 2, 2009.
Full article
www.gunaxin.com/the-ten-coolest-human-bug-flicks/23011
Men in Black 1997
Will Smith is Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones is Agent K and you will never know who they are or why they’ve just investigated an alien presence in your back yard, basically because they’ve just flashed your brain with a Neuralyzer. But they can fight, when the situation demands it. And in the case of Edgar (the Bug) played by Vincent D’Onofrio, it was that very time. Sure, he was an alien, but you can’t deny that the ‘man’ (albeit a suit of sorts) turned into one hell of a bug.
The Fly 1986
I have used this classic Cronenberg movie on lists before, and on this one, well, it just had to be number one. I mentioned the original in the opening because I really wanted to use this far superior remake (which is an oddity for sure) and horror classic. No real need to go into the plot, only to mention that Jeff Goldblum’s performance as Seth Brundle is just fascinating and something you really need to see for yourself. It’s fun to compare the two as there are many similarities, but somehow Cronenberg’s attempt stands out.
Gunaxin
July 2, 2009.
Full article
www.gunaxin.com/the-ten-coolest-human-bug-flicks/23011