The Tale Of The Body Thief Horror Movies - Page 8 of 10

”The terror film, with puzzling, disturbing, multivalent images, often leads us into regions that are strange, disorienting, yet somehow familiar; and for all the crude and melodramatic and morally questionable forms in which we so often encounter it, it does speak of something true and important, and offers us encounters with hidden aspects of ourselves and our world.” So writes S. S. Prawer in his concise and penetrating study of the horror film—from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari…

What compels us to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the media use disturbing images to inform, at the risk of offending? How is our sense of politics, morality, and culture affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death? In Body Horror, John Taylor addresses these questions by examining how the media presents unsettling pictures, especially those of dead and injured "foreigners." Drawing…

(W/A) Evan Dorkin, Peter Kuper, Kelley Jones, Kelvin Mao, Lemmy Fan-favorite Evan Dorkin graces the pages of this year's annual with a tale of an intergalactic monster bent on conquering distant worlds named "The Glavin", who intercepts a space broadcast from none other than Professor Frink! Alternative and political cartoonist Peter Kuper shows off his penchant for Edgar Allan Poe with a story entitled "The Tell-Tale Bart!" Kelley Jones teams up with Kelvin Mao to tell…

Love Like Blood is a story from the streets of New York. Kevin (Thaddeus Schneider - "Law & Order" / "Rescue Me") is a notorious car thief at the top of his game. His life is about stolen cars, sex and cash. But as good as Kevin is, he knows it's only a matter of time until he'll get caught. Before his life starts to completely unravel, Kevin tries to walk away from his criminal lifestyle and start over. Can he get out before it's too late? Does Kevin own the streets or do the streets own him?…

Jean Cocteau reinvented the fairy tale for the cinema with this enchanting, exquisitely realized vision of Mme Le Prince de Beaumont's fantasy romance. With all manner of unparalleled visual effects and photographic tricks, Cocteau makes the spellbinding tale of transformative love both ethereal and tangible, and his indelible images haunt the cinema like no others.

Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the "hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene" (Publishers Weekly). Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, Dr. Myss's work shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding…

REGION: NTSC / REGION 3 DISC: 1 DVD AUDIO: THAI SUBTITLES: CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED OR TRADITIONAL); NO English subtitles SYNOPSIS: Chon is suffering from nightmares. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl that he sees each night in his dreams. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is brutally murdered. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the illusion that Chon sees in his dreams, so she introduces him to a psychiatrist. Chon tries to prove that what he sees is not…

Jeepers Creepers tries to solve the mystery of what happens to people on the lonely highways that they just end up missing. This is a nice take on the mystery of the disappearances. It so happens that there is this creature whom is like the Devil himself with a horrible face, great agility plus speed, massive strength and the ability to fly as well. The creature comes out every generation to claim a new body part. A victim and body part is selected by the creature scaring the [**] out of a group…

Incident at Blood Gorge is a classic haunted house story in the tradition of Alien and The Thing. The lone survivor of a group of grisly murders tells the tale of his incredible escape down a Himalayan mountain. As an Army interrogator questions him about the massacre, the truth unfolds. Stationed on the world's highest battlefield, a skeleton crew of U.S. soldiers fights with the elements and the gnawing isolation. The routine is broken when a blizzard forces some climbers to seek shelter…

Percy Jackson’s seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get . . . well, ugly. And the unexpected arrival of Percy’s friend Annabeth brings more bad news: the magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless a cure is found,…

Parisian cll girls murdered... Send for Inspector Bogart! This gory sex thriller stars a galaxy of Eurocult acting talent. Anita Ekberg (the killer nun); Howard Vernon (Awfull Dr Orloff); Rosalba Neri (Lady Frankenstein)... not to mention hunky Gordon Mitchell, sexy Barbara Bouchet and glamorous Evelyn Kraft. Oh - and professional Humphrey Bogart lookalike Robert Sacchi! To match its sparkling cast, the film boasts a suitable wild plot. it featuires hooded killers, mad scientists, an eyeball thief…

Sam's parents are trying to extract his twin - who's still inside Sam's body.

After being shot in the cemetery, Detective Nick Crowell encounters ghosts and people with paranormal problems.In this collection of nine stories, five of which were originally published in DemonMinds from 2007 to 2008, you'll read about people who's lives have changed so drastically that they seek out Detective Crowell for help. The problem, in many cases, is that there is little he can do. This tends to weigh on him each time.A few synopsis...Empath: A young homeless boy discovers that…

At one time John Coffee was a sneak thief, a burglar who slipped into places where he didn’t belong and took things he shouldn’t. When he was on vacation in Trinidad in the Southern Caribbean he broke into a ramshackle unoccupied home and found great wealth. But a sixth sense told him if he stole anything, that it would come back to haunt him in a horrible way. So he backed on out of there, however he couldn’t resist leaving empty handed, so he picked up a worthless looking locket…

The Noble Dead saga continues as Magiere and Leesil, the slayers of the undead for DHAMPIR and THIEF OF LIVES, embark on a quest to uncover the secrets of their mysterious origins - and those responsible for orchestrating the events that brought them together.... Magiere is a dhampir - half human, half vampire - sired for the purpose of slaying the undead. Outside the village of Chemestúk, where she was born and raised, stands her father's keep. Within its walls, she hopes to discover…