<![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @annalee:
Well, sure - but not just Overfiend... Maybe the Anime/Manga world was a lot milder when I was 5.
-Kle.



Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> Hedorah would win in a fight hands down.

Project Thanatos

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @acceptablerisk: Im not from korea either but if ur a SF fan...then the feeling of seeing an SF movie is universal. Asian movies always have soul, just like Oldboy, the host hit all the right notes.

Ghost Particle

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Jonn: No, the real question is how did I write this whole post without showing you guys a picture of my Hedorah action figure? Yes, I have one! With bendy arms!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> How did you write this entire article without going "the power is yours!" at least once?

Jonn

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> Come to think of it, I do need to see if I can find the "Save The Earth" song from Godzilla vs The Smog Monster. It's priceless.

Szin

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Klebert: If you are thinking of Overfiend (and I think you are!) you have to remember that The Smog Monster was 1971 -- a couple of decades before the Overfiend was sending his atomic bomb sperm flying over Tokyo.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @CyberKender: But he's more like Darkman or Toxic Avenger or any other hero/villain created when somebody falls into a toxic vat. He's not created by pollution in the environment. I realize it's a kind of hair-splitting distinction, but there you go.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> One could make the argument that (Jack Nicholson's) Joker is (the/one of the best) pollution-spawned monster...

CyberKender

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> Hedorah scared the poop out of me as a kid.

Don't forget, it was only the second Godzilla movie to show mass civilian casualties (hedorah spews sulferic acid mist that dissolves people, fairly gruesom).

But, he spares a kitten early on.

Weirdest Godzilla movie ever.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Bellatrixie:
Both 79, so who came first?

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @aspiringexpatriate: We don't really have to. There's a lot of debate as to whether the "A" in "Amazon" is a negatory or an augmentive syllable. So, maybe "Amazon" means "no-breasted," but, hey, it could also mean "large-breasted." Wooo.

Female archers are hot.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> I am instantly struck by how much the cover for Prophecy looks like the cover for Alien.

Bellatrixie

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Plague: Yeah, it's true they only do movies and they're fanboyish, but I still ogle the site all the time. CHUD is also teh awesome.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Annalee Newitz:
I find BloodyDisgusting to be rather fanboy in its approach, unlike the (mostly) intelligent discussions we have on here.
Also, it only covers film. Too limited in scope for my constant craving for useless information.
But, just to throw them out there- movies sites I visit: CHUD, Cinematical, Dark Horizons, Movie Morlocks, Twitch.
That pretty much covers every freakin' genre.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> Also, Host rocks. So much fun. And female archers are hot. Or something.

Time for an Amazon movie! [only we'd have to tape down a breast to make it look like they cut it off, damn]

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @artistentropy: Viggo's role alone should push Procphecy off a 'bad' list. Let alone Adam Goldberg's comedic romp as a corpse/zombie. And throw in Eric Stoltz, Elias Koteas, and Virginia Madsen, and you've got very good sci-fi groundwork.

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Plague: I second Plague's request. Horror and Fantasy blogs for all.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> "Japanese children saying the scariest thing they could imagine was pollution"

That's amazing - had these children somehow never been exposed to their nations popular culture, or were things different back then?

I mean, it seems like being raped to death by some sort of extradimensional horror/demon/government scientist/robot would be worse than pollution, and that's just the anime/manga you can get in the US...
-Kle.


Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> Thanks Metropolis. I couldn't agree more. I remember seeing Prophecy as a kid and enjoying the mutant bears. Saying its better than a movie that casts Christopher Walken and Viggo Mortenson as angels is completely insane though.

artistentropy

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Plague: I would have to say that the best part in Prophecy was the "stuck in my sleeping bag" scene.

Hop,hop.
Giant bear paw swings.
*Poof* Feathers everywhere.

steven522

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Metropolis: Yeah, I had forgotten about Viggo! I should rewatch.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> Prophecy is such a bad movie. I think you are a little harsh on The Prophecy, yes sequals are god awful but I enjoyed that movie and Viggo Mortensen plays Lucifer perfectly.

Metropolis

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> I honestly don't know what people see in The Host. It's terrible. It's badly written, the motivating plot points are all contrived, and worst of all, the pacing completely sucks. The first two points would be forgivable if it was actually supposed to be a comedy, but I'm pretty sure it's not.

What am I missing here that makes The Host so good to people? Is there some overarching political message that I don't understand because I'm not from Korea? Is there a subtext that I didn't see because I mistakenly thought it to be a monster movie?

I'd honestly like to know, because right now it's rating out better than Oldboy, which I feel to be one of the greatest Korean films ever made.

acceptablerisk

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Annalee Newitz: true too. Im still in the dark on what the Tarugato company deal is with the viral story, is it pollution or...what and what. Is it simply a satellite falling into the sea waking the thing up? The more u think about the movie, the more it sucks and the more I think The Host is one of the best monster movies of all time.

Ghost Particle

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @zeppelined: When I was a kid, I saw Tarantula, which was another atomic giant monster movie. Holy crap it scared the pulp out of me. I think it was the giant pool of venom it would leave behind.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> I know they come from the pre-pollution monster days of the radioactive 50s, but the giant ants from "Them!" are the scariest giant monsters I've ever seen. That weird high-pitched noise they made? Still freaks me out. I went into a grocery store once, and the AC unit was making that noise.

I fled.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Plague: If you want a lot of good horror coverage, I recommend [www.bloody-disgusting.com] I LOVE that site.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> According to the Gamera reboot, Gamera & Iris are left-over bioweapons, and Gaos are pollution-spawned. I think it was in G v. Iris where a submarine found a Gamera dumping ground: rows of giant turtle shells, reminiscent of the airplane graveyard in AZ.

AmishJohn

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Ghost Particle: Based on what the filmmakers said, Cloverfield was a really ancient monster who had just come out of the water. So probably not pollution -- though pollution might have pulled him out of the water I guess.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> @Ghost Particle:
Not known.

I dug Prophecy- seeing a mutant bear knock a guys head CLEAN OFF at a Drive In theater was quite amusing.

Now if only HORRORHEAD was it's own site. And we need a Fantasy one, too.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants]]> All hail The Host, read that they're making a prequel. Isn't Cloverfield a pollution monster as well?

Ghost Particle

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