Iconic Horror Figure Hangs Up His Glove For Good

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In 1984 our worst dreams had come true, as normally back then teenage thought having hormone and oversex drives were the problem with jason voorhees walking around, until a psychopathic child killer became something much worst when the parents took the law into their own hand and burn the man to death.

This was the combination of events that lead to one of the most iconic slayer film of 1984 as Robert Englund took on the role the child murdering Freddy Krueger who took the word nightmare to a whole new level as he invaded teenager’s dream’s.

Over 20 years Robert has play Freddy 8 time with certain famous quotes like “How sweet fresh meat” and “welcome to prime time bitch” which Robert did with so much style that brought the character out. Looking back it now was kind of campy for a horror back then but it was still a cult classic and still enjoyed by new fans to day

Since the last film Robert Englund did in 2003 with the battle of the century, special in film history as two iconic horror slayer’s went head to head in a blood soaked adventure with Jason vs Freddy spin off.
Robert never really return after 2003 to play the iconic character which resulted in a recasting for the iconic character in 2010 played by Jackie Earle Haley, But sadly didn’t quite hit the mark to revamp the franchise.

Most fan’s and critic would agree which i would mostly agree with as i do feel there were other elements that made the film bad, but the real reason why it flop accord to the fans and critics which they do agree on is because Robert Englund didn't reprise the role.

Now with the franchise kind of up in the air fans across the world are wondering whether Robert would reprise the role one last time, but sad news has come in that Robert Englund sadly won't be return as freddy krueger (You can just see as millions of people cry out and suddenly silenced at this bad news)

But there is a reason and it’s a good reason which i do agree or those sadden by this news, reason for him not reprising the role is because he too old to play the part again. In a interview with EW (Entertainment Weekly) Robert went on to say:

“I’m too old to do another Freddy film now. If I do a fight scene now, it’s got to be real minimal because I can’t snap my head for eight different takes and different angles. My spine gets sore,” Englund said. “I can still be mean and scary, but I’m mostly relegated now to sort of Van Helsing roles, old doctors, and shit. So it’s fun that the last moment of me ever playing Freddy is a wink to the audience.”

Which Referring to the wink he means the end credit scene of “Jason v Freddy”, although we have seen him do low budget less action film’s and we would’ve of loved to see him reprise this role, sadly it's official that the origin Freddy krueger is hanging up his glove once and fo

Dark Universe is in Danger

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Well i can't say i didn't see this coming in Hollywood as i wrote an article a while back on universal trying to recreate the famous monster universe, is now by the looks of it dead in the water.
Which doesn't come as a surprise to be-honest as from what I've heard and read the creator are have issue writing and get the universe of the ground special with two flops now trying, this is because i feel the pg-13 certification is restricting them from making this work.

Some may disagree agree but it pretty clear this is the problem as let be honest here Dracula, creature of the black lagoon and all the other classic movie monsters need that R-rating for there own characters to actually work.

Maybe this is what this dark universe needs and R-rating concept so they can let their imagination give the films what it need, special looking back at the mummy with a 12A - pg-13 even i could see this was holding the film back it the reason it flop. The mummy should have been give a much darker tone with a more psychological Egyptian feel similar to Brandon film but with a different twist, maybe just maybe he would have worked but I'm not a writer for these films.

As it is the dark universe being in trouble is because Bill Condon's "Bride of Frankenstein" has flat-lined, johnny depp's "The invisible man" has vanished into thin air and the wildly misguided "creature from the black lagoon" has return from once it came and sunk into the blackness of the swamp.

There has been others opinion of how to save this universe from getting a director that knows what they are doing and can make this universe work to just doing stand alone movies that have no connection to each other, but as it seem at the moment doesn't look like this universe is gonna happen; looks to be completely dead which is sad news as this would have made a brilliant universe if done right.

What do you think do you think they just need a better director and writer to make this universe or do you think is just impossible they should just scrap it and do something else? Let us know in the comment below. 

Hollywood most shocking endings

Throughout cinema for the past 40 years we've seen alot of films that have had some strange ending to film that have had good emotional ending, but what about the films that you never saw coming.
 The one with the most shocking and most screwed up ending that leave you with a chill or your jaw just hitting the floor. Well here the top ten film with the most shocking ending that most would agree were the most shocking ending in a film.


10. SHUTTER ISLAND

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the noir novel of the same name in a psychological film leads us down a twisted path at an asylum in the Northeast. As we believe we are following Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo on the hunt for an escaped patient in to this labyrinthine plot, we soon realize not only is DiCaprio's character the escaped inmate.

which everyone in the story is actually a doctor or a figment of his insanity. Daniels/Laeddis actually murdered his wife and is the person they have been hunting all along.

9. SAW

Before this franchise descended into a mockery of itself with 7 films, the SAW series started as a small horror film set almost entirely in a single room with two men trying to determine who would live and who would die in a sick twist game. while this would have made a decent film on it's own as a single twilight horror style film, the twist that the Jigsaw Killer was actually laying in the middle of the room as a "DEAD BODY" between them the whole time was absolute genius writing which caught everyone off guard leave everyone gobsmacked with a shocking ending

8. BURIED

Ryan Reynolds career has featured some off the wall choices like "voices" many other films, but this 2010 thriller puts the focus on his acting ability as a man buried alive in a coffin slowly filling with sand.

The film features many voices, one of whom is searching for Reynolds' Paul Conroy and assures him they rescued a man in a similar situation weeks before. As the film comes to a close and the rescuers get close to Paul's coffin, they reveal that it is the man "rescued" weeks before. The downer and one hell of a gut punch to the audience is that his character isnt the one getting rescued.


7. The DivideFilm staring Michael Biehn set in a situation where someone has attacked the city, group of people are force to take shelter in a nuclear bunker. The sick twist thing about this film is that over time food was becoming less as the group to lose their mind paranoia set in, one by one they go complete mad as they start to turn on one another.
But this is where the shocking and twisted ending come in as one of the try to escape the nuclear bunker only to find that the world has been complete destroyed by nuclear war leaving the audience in shock that there is no escape.


6.  Drag me to Hell

All though the film was pretty much explainable young bank accountant name Christine reject a Jipsey woman plead to save her house due to to many bank loans, the woman places a curse on Christine which end up being a pretty messed up nightmare to get rid of the curse before it too late.
Although the ending was a little predictable as she falls on the train tracks hell opens up watch her flesh burn off her face iss a truly haunting imagine that sticks with you.


5. (John Carpenter's original) The fog

Now most of us that are horror fan should of come across this film at some point in there lives and watched this film, story of the Elizabeth Dane who made a deal with the town fork who were lure to the death the town stolen the gold as a fog role in.

Several hundred years later the soul of the Elizabeth Dane return in a strange fog killing although they come in to contact with, as a group of town people try to defend off the ghostly ghouls the priest hand back to the gold to the ghosts giving the audience a sense thats it over as the ghosts and fog dispear.
But as the priest look back the leader of the Elizabeth Dane is stood in front of the priest just as the credit roles a sword strike the priest down, leaving the audience with a shocking ending.


4. Se7en

Psychological crime thriller starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freemen are thrust into a what looked like a normal homicidal case actually turn in to a serial killer hunt as a nut job religion killer is going around killing a select few people over the 7 deadly sins.

The most shocking apart of this film not that most of this film is pretty much shocking ,this scene audience never saw coming was at the end when the audience is subject to the ramble of a serial killer kneeing in front of brad Pitt characters a strange package arrive which leave the audience shock as in side the box was the the head of brad Pitt characters wife. Leaving the audience in complete shock.


3.  Death watch

In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night as they capture a German soldier. The German soldier that starts ranting that evil is in the trench which was forcing the soldiers to kill each other and asks them to leave the place. Soon after it was only private Charlie Shakespeare listens and helps this prisoner,

Soon after this strange things started happen as one by one the British Soldiers were drop like fly it because a battle against an unseen supernatural forces. What shocking about this film is the audience probably never saw coming, the only survivor in that trench was German solider that no one expect him to actually be the evil supernatural force that was lure solider to there deaths but what more shocking is it let Charlie go free for his kindness.

Were left with the lone German solider waiting for another group which turn up camera pan on the German face he look up and grins (screen goes black)


2. The Shinning

Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.

Now most everyone would say that the shocking ending to this film after Jack descended in to madness and at the end of the film he meets his demise in the freezing cold weather, this is in fact not the shocking ending of this film.

 The shocking end comes as the camera pans down a lobby toward a group of photo on the wall, the photo show party's taken many year before jack came to the hotel, as the camera pans closer to one photo we see jack standing in the very photo.

Yet this couldn't be possible as the photo was take 70 years ago leaving the audience shock and some saying that he part o the hotel ghost now.


 The Most SHOCKING AND HEART BREAKING ENDING OF ALL TIME.

1. The Mist.

Everyone thinks of it as a harmless lightning storm. When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he thinks nothing of it. When he, his son, Billy Drayton, and his neighbor Brent Norton travel to the supermarket, the unthinkable happens. On their way to the market, they see the army, firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist.

When he sees this Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead", a secret military project that no one knows about. As they are shopping, they see three soldiers walk in, pick up a few things, then head toward the mist. All eighty of the store's shoppers have no clue what is going on until an old man runs in the market with a bloody nose and declares "Something in the mist!" He tells them to close the door.

About five seconds after they close the door, the entire store shakes, as though it has been lifted several feet above the ground. When David is asked to check on the generator, he finds the loading dock door being pushed on by something outside. Then Dave hears a groan. He asks three people to come with him.

When Norm the bag-boy volunteers to go out, he is dragged away by a creature with large squid-like tentacles that have mouths, teeth, and arms. After Dave and the other three fight off the tentacles, they warn everyone in the store what is out there.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Carmody exclaims that it is the End Time and that God is punishing them. People don't believe it, but finally Mrs. Carmody has almost everyone in the store on her side. Does 'Project Arrowhead' have anything to do with this? Will Dave Drayton, his son, and his friends make it out alive as they make a last stand against this destruction? Or will they be taken by the demon-like creatures of 'The Mist'?


The ending of the film what seem to be the only 5 survivors left of the town try to escape from deadly creature only to find that the car had run out of fuel there is no escape, this is where the shocking end comes as they believe there is no escape commit suicide leaving only David Drayton (Tom jane) and his son.

Which left the audience stunned and shocked as David killed his son but as he went to kill himself the gun was out of bullets, audience thinking David would be killed by a creature moment after a large group of soldiers came in to a clear leaving the audience shock as if they just held on for just 5 mins more they would have been rescued were left with David screaming in pain that he killed his son for nothing.


These are just some of the most shocking ending to a film, what you favorite shocking ending to any film give us a comment below.

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why is the horror genre in decline

Over the past 40 to 50 year's alot of us have seen quite alot of horror film, iver on the big screen or on the small screen. Clearly from the the 40's horror films we're in decline because of the great recession which didnt help the industry, but then world war 2 happen which further push horror genre out of Hollywood.

This was mainly due to a lot of people saw enough horror in the real world to actually watch the horror on the big screen, but horror film clearly made a big come back from the 60 to 80s in a big way

"For example" : Friday the 13th's Jason vorhees hacking and slashing his way through campers to Freddy Kruger invading the dreams with a nightmares to kill them in their sleep.

This was enough to terrifie young and old viewers across the world for years as most cinema goers have seen in shock and ore, this is because of the director / writers with imagination brought us some of the most terrifying creatures and monster to the screen.

With an honorable mention of "Clive barkers" "Hell Raiser" with Pin head was enough to put chills down you're spine for any audience. These classic went on to be the biggest horror icon's of the generation but since the 90's the Biggest Question in the film industry is why "Horror" films are in decline? Well this is mainly due to a number of factor that are killing the horror - genre.

One is being the certification of the film which seem to have become the normal with (MPAA PG13) - (BBFC-12A) thinking that a teen style horror film is gonna scare the audience. Sadly this is not the case as (PG13- 12A) horror restricts the art form of the film, this tone down concept to the point you can't use true natural horror to frighten the audience is an example of this.

What i mean by this is the fact is most Hollywood director use the jump scare moments like sound or load bangs to make the audience jump at the right moments, this isnt horror; this is an amateur thing to do in a horror film to give cheap scare show that the director has no clue what they are doing.

Although some horror are subject-able like gory horror, this is not scary as this is meant to shock you more than scare, it's the slasher and psychological horror that are meant to scare

"Good example" : House of haunted hill, shutter island, poltergeist, the conjuring etc great examples of psychological horror that dont use jump scares to frighten the audience.

Bad examples: "Mama", "Ouija", "it follows", and many other horror film in this generation that have failed to scare the audience, this is the one of the main reason.

The other Reason stem from wrong timing of the year which yes we can all agree on mainly always having a horror film around the time of the month's January or February, which everyone knows is the two month of the year where the film dumping are for crappy movies goes.

The other will probley piss off the comic book fans but fuck it who cares im gonna say it anyway, the reason why i calling in the comic book genre as well on this is because i have notice over the past few years that comic book movies are staggering other films.

What i mean by this is the fact the comic book genre is taking over cinema which over shadows other film's as well because all people want to see now is comic book film all the time, as most people can't seem to appreciate a movie out side of the comic book genre which i have noticed.

This is other reason why the Horror genre is dying because Hollywood think the 12A- PG13 will bring in more money because they feel a 18 cert film wont make money, yet Dead pool was 18 cert made money proving that audience would watch a 18 cert film if it was made right.

For those that say that not every film has to be an 18 certification sadly horror film do or whats the point in making a horror film, Horror needs the 18 certification so it can go all out in the psychological concept to truly get under the skin of the audience without that you don't have a horror you have a twilight film for teenagers.

Hollywood inst just to blame here it's also from the IPF industry (Independent film) also, two many sub-genres like zombies and found footage adopted by horror film director on a low budget have become over used, which sadly is killing horror genre as well because with there scary camera and lack of imagination really doesn't help.

Simple put Horror in 2017 is simple just not frightening anymore, compared to the horror from the 60's to 80's horror back then horror was horror, now its become this complete washed down industry which sadly is why this horror genre is in decline.

Personally i think the horror genre need to bring back the old school time of horror, forget about the 80s, stop trying to copy whats done before and truly make a dark sinister chill to the bone horror film that the audience will love.

What do you think as an audience do you feel the horror genre should just die out or get a complete make over?  Let us know in the comment section what you think.

By Movie Knights
 

Film's : Original Vs Reboots

Written by Movie Knights In the world of cinema over the past few years we seem to be in a flux of reboots and remakes of the original film's, which some haven't been to bad where others have been just seriously bad. It these bad ones that make us think what was the point in trying to make a reboot/remake in the first place.

In this article i'm gonna try to give a in depth look at these reboots vs the original film, try to explain why some fail where some actually work, so here a few reboots from their originals.

• Evil dead vs Evil dead (Reboot)

Here is something that should've been felt well alone special when "Evil dead" is such a big classic in the horror genre, with its comedic moments with "Bruce Campbell" playing the unwittingly boyfriend who unleashes the an ancient evil force from the book of the dead; which take his girlfriend and his friends which become this funny but disturbing blood feast battle good vs evil film.

Unfortunately which most would disagree with me on the 2013 reboot of evil dead does try its best to come up with an original story while still slightly copying what's been done before, this i feel was it down fall has it didn't quite feel like it could make a sequel out of sadly, maybe this film should have been give a new twist instead of copying.

• Poltergeist vs Poltergeist (Remake)

Now this original film special for me when i first watched this film was one of the most creepiest films I've ever seen, even though it was give a PG (parental guidance) rating which i still to this day think was a mistake because poltergeist though it's classed as a fantasy film is still a psychological horror film that wasn't under any circumstances a family film.

Sadly after 3 films the child actress "Heather O'Rourke" who play the little girl Carol Anna sadly past away with a rare child bowel disease, which soon after this came the famous curse theory because they used real skeletons on set several actor and actress died curse or strange coincidence it was a little weird.

The remake of the original Poltergeist didn't do to badly but again with a Remake although it's more like a sequel as in the film it does mention about a house disappearing as a joke at the diner table, state that the film is set a few years on after this event. But sadly this film does try to copy what's been done before this is why it flop in the cinema, although it was a enjoyable film to watch as it had it moments and we see what's on the other side. But sadly this didn't save it.

• Ghostbusters vs Ghostbusters (2016 Reboot)

Yes i know this is beating a old horse but lets face it this was a pretty big mistake by sony to give this film a reboot instead of just giving us a third film, but why the original worked was because of comedic time and off script acting which actually help the film a lot.

This gave the original a balanced of a dark creepy film with comedic moments that breaks up the doom and gloom of the film, which made it a classic cult movie of the 80's.

Sadly for the Ghostbusters 2016 which has been met with hostile criticism which let's be honest was a pile of trash although some would disagree on that, did quite work out for sony as it took a major hit in losses in box office. Mainly due to the fact Amy pascal and Paul feig turning ghostbusters in to a SNL (Saturday night live) Film which was its downfall along with other issue.

• Magnificent seven vs Magnificent seven (Reboot)

Here is a rare example of a film that's been rebooted from the 1960's version starring "Yul Brynner", to the 2016 version starring "Denzel Washington" that has actually been a good remake. Both have similar traits where a group of corrupt government official use their official title to run a town with an iron fits, the town folk hire a us marshal to take them down which is hard pressed to tell which one was better as they are both good in their own right.

This is because the reboot version mixed up the film a little and didn't try to copy what was done before, which is why this reboot is a rare reboot that works.

• Teenage mutant ninja turtle vs Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles (Reboot)

This is probably the most hate reboot in the history of cinema along with transformers but growing up on the original Turtles movies it didn't really bother me that much as it did most others, from the originals the first two films we're good, but sadly the third film wasn't that great which is why i agree this need a reboot.

My first choice wouldn't of been "Megan Fox" playing April o'Neil but she didn't do to bad in the reboot, despite people actually hate on the films even the sequel out of the shadows bring in DC Arrow's "Stephen Amell" playing Casey Jones was good but was it really a good a reboot i'l let you decide that as it had mixed view.

• Nightmare on Elm st vs Nightmare on Elm st (Reboot)

Now this one is a pretty easy choice to make which one was the best of the two version, which no offence to Jackie Earle Haley who's a great actor the script for the new "Nightmare on elm st" waste that great. Which is why the remake failed to make that impact plus it did take the story a little too dark on the child moltser / serial killer side of Freddy Krueger character which i don't think was it downfall.

I believe the down fall just came from poor concept writing, where this film could've used the sleep deprivation better with a more creepier tone with a lot more Freddy krueger scene maybe it might of worked. As is stand the original "Nightmare on elm st "still stand the best classic icon film of it generation, should of seen the return of "Robert Englund" as Freddy in a more darker film it could've been a success plus fan-base would have loved his return.

• Robocop vs Robocop (Reboot)

Here a film that could've of been good as its original yet it just fails in compression, to factor that bring down the reboot certification 12A vs the R-rated version of Robocop. The 12A PG13 as i've said in a previous article i wrote of the decline of horror films, its important not to tone down a character if they need that R-rating to actually work for it concept which sadly they did here.

Not that the reboot wasn't good it had it entertainment value but without that R-rating the character didn't have the impact, plus changing the suit of Armour to look black was another reason this film failed because believe it or not the new design actually looked better in the classic silver Armour.

This sadly is why the original film will always been the best of the two version.

• Friday the 13th vs Friday the 13th (Reboot)

What is it about this iconic serial killer that Hollywood can seem to get right? It one of the most easiest character to give a good concept script for. We have had over ten films of the original Friday the 13th film including Freddy vs Jason spin off film, they attempted a reboot of the film which wasn't that bad but still missing something this character so needed which sadly didn't do so well in box office.

Original films will always stand the test of time will always been great classic films, but for a reboot ya their attempt was great but not good enough, but i would if I was a film writer capitalize on the supernatural side of Jason voorhees using the mist teleportation effects like a demon in a dark creepy but blood thirst film with more than just a few campers.

• Terminator vs Terminator Genisys (Reboot)

Where do i start with this? Terminator first came out this was one of the biggest franchise movies to hit the cinema, spawn 4 films and a reboot, although the third film was a bit of a let down and some would say Terminator salvation was just the franchise killer.

Although i would tend to agree that although salvation was a good film the ending of that film did kind of kill anymore film from being done, so technically Terminator and Terminator 2 Judgement Day T-1000 Edition were really the only two film in the franchise that were a massive success.

In light of salvation this franchise was reboot with the return of Arnold playing the T-101 killing machine, only in Genisys play a Terminator father figure for a more hardened Sarah Connor with a mixed concept of Terminator and Terminator 2 might of been its downfall.

Plus with sky-net actually killing john Connor as well by turning him into a an advanced Terminator which was supposed to lead the future of mankind against the machines, kind of throw the franchise off level to the point you couldn't really take it anywhere. So again the original wins out of this one.

Honorable mention of  Reboot / Remake to come:

• Ace Ventura                                      Akira
• Big Trouble In Little China                 The Black Hole
• Blade                                                  spawn
• Bloodsport                                          Blue Thunder
• Death Wish

These are just a few of reboots about Around, what reboot do you think was better than its original or do you think the original was better? Let us know in the comments below.

Monster universe in the making has been given a name.

Well if you've been keep up with the news just lately in the film industry you would see that it is now official that universal studios are creating a monster universe, whether the rumors are true about it being a  DC Justice league / MARVEL Avengers type film remains to be seen.

From what we know Luke Evan Dracula untold was meant to start the universe but because of an unfortunate box office failure, Dracula untold flop putting a closed open end universe on hold. This was until a few month ago when it was announce that tom cruise would be starring in a new reboot of the mummy.

Most everyone though great yet another reboot film coming, but what we didn't know until now is that the mummy film isnt just a mummy film, it a start to a new monster universe movie as we see from the film trailers Russel Crowe is playing the famous Dr Jekyll Hyde.

Not much is known on the plot of the film yet but its been quite a while since we have see those monsters on the big screen, we've had a few adaptation of Frankenstein monster, Dr jekyll, mummy and invisible man along with many version of Dracula, never really had the merman from the black lagoon on the big screen which will be interesting.

So really the question is what do we expect from this monster universe?  Are we gonna get a league of extraordinary monster type film or a completely different film involving monster vs monster, as in the trailer we hear Dr Jekyll say to caught a monster you must become a monster.

Its been confirmed today that this cinematic universe will be called the dark universe, which the mummy reboot will be the first film in this universe which hits most country cinemas between the 7th and 8th June, will hit USA / UK cinema on the 9th June.

This will all depend on whether the mummy is a hit and make the box office and doesnt fail, im pretty sure most fans are a little pissed off about Luke Evan Dracula which is such an underrated film, that would have been perfect but that Hollywood for you hit or miss

What do you expect from this? are you excite for a monster universe or do you think this is gonna fail? let us know what you think leave a comment.

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39 Years of the Alien Franchise

by Movie knights

1979 became a year to fear as the one quote rang out across space "No one can hear you scream in space" which sounded terrifying in it self, from the design artist / designer H.R.Giger came the first creature that would terrify the audience for years across the world.

Alot of the film franchise's we're inspired by H.R.Giger work include poltergeist 2, all 4 alien movie, 1995 species film, which went on to create an expanded universe. H.R.Giger achieved international fame with Ridleys Scott Alien film, I'n 1990 he received the academy Award for the "Best Achievement for Visual Effect" for his design of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment that came with this xenomorph design.

 Alien game Franchise although its been a rocky road from the start with over 23 games altogether

• Alien (1984 video game)
• Alien (video game)
• Alien 3 (video game)
• Alien 3: The Gun
• List of Alien, Predator and Alien vs. Predator games
• Alien Trilogy
• Alien vs. Predator (mobile game)
• Alien vs. Predator 3D
• Alien War
• Alien: Isolation
• Alien: Resurrection (video game)
• Aliens (video game)
• Aliens Adventure Game
• Aliens Infestation
• Aliens Online
• Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction
• Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure
• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Aliens: Extermination
• Aliens: Thanatos Encounter
• Aliens: The Computer Game (Activision)
• Aliens: The Computer Game (Software Studios)
• Aliens: Unleashed

 start from 1984 with it first game Alien on the Amstrad cpc, commodore 64. ZX spectrum, the game was a suspense heavy game using a black and green graphics with some add colour for the text revolving around the nostromo. I remember the game being very difficult to play special as you moved around the air ducts, as you never knew where the alien was for its time this game was great, but out dated by now.

Over the years the the game when from computer to arcade with Alien 3 the gun which after a lot of coins i actually did complete the levels of this arcade game, which was actually brilliant going from outside of the complex seen 1000 of xenomorphs run cross the screen to walking down the corridors gun down face huggers and xenomorphs left ,right and center.

1992 in London movie magic attraction created by John Gorman and Gary Gillies on the movie The marines originally carried blank firing pistols. For Alien War London, an innovative electronic system called Sound fire was developed to allow the weapons to sound like those used in the film Aliens.

The system consisted of M41A pulse rifles with infrared transmitters and small strobe lights (to simulate muzzle flash). When the trigger is pulled a signal is transmitted to receivers hidden in the set. A central computer then plays gunfire sound effects to speakers in the correct area of the set. The method of producing the effect was entirely different from how it would be imagined the weapons would discharge.

 The strobe lights also resembled blue camera flashes, and did not resemble a muzzle flash. The system also played other sound effects such as the Alien sounds and suffered teething troubles in the first months after opening meaning that the blank firing pistols had to be used for most early shows.

The show was seen in various guises and briefly featured an actor dressed as the Predator for a spell prior to it closing in Glasgow.

This was one of the best Alien franchise arcade games ive actually played at it time, there has been a few alien franchise games out but over the years this game seem to slacking haven't been great with gamers over the years. This main is because they've tried to give the gamers a cross over which is in the the dark horse comic alien v predator war, yes some of these game have been ok but just like the films this cross over has been shorted lived.

Sadly the gaming side of the franchise has been slowly going down hill special when Sega got a massive law suit against them from the gaming commission for false advertisement of Alien colonel marines, from what i found out is that time gate studios that this game was past over for the graphics while Sega works on the rest of the game.

Time gate which is no longer in business after the law suit screwed up the by past back a poorly made game which left no time for Sega to fix it, which unfortunately instead of Sega delaying the game release Sega got sued for the false advertisement.

Which sadly almost destroyed the  Alien game franchise, but thankful Sega redeemed themselves with the best Alien game they've brought out Alien Isolation, which follow the story after alien with Ripley's daughter Ellen Ripley as just like her mother she is forced to face the same nightmare situation.

Unlike the nostromo incident the station Ellen on was a fully operation living station full of malfunctioning Cyborgs which is one thing to fight against but also one extremely dangerous xenomorph that is stalking your every move. This game gave the gamers experience in fear as you have no weapons no way of defending yourself, which give a whole new meaning of survival horror which hopefully we will get another game of this soon.

Film side of the franchise has actually done better than the game industry with 3 successful films, i know what your thinking how can i say alien 3 was a success, well that because im not talking about alien 3. The problem alien 3 had was with the script writer which had 10 scripts written and rejected one you were kind of glad they didnt make, with a power ranger feel with xenomorphs forming to be one big giant xenomorph.

Ya this would have completely killed the franchise, which is why you got the version we have now although you have the director cut and theatrical version, but i do prefer the director cut make things make sense more although the cinema C.G.I didnt match  the colour of it surroundings which made the alien look fake in apart.

Also a few Tv adverts didnt match up with what the audience was seeing as in the original trailer for Alien 3 it said it was set on earth but this was false because the alien 3 story was set on a prison planet, which might of also been its being a failure.

Alien (Ridley Scot Director cut) "No on can hear you scream in space" was the best version of the franchise as we got the full version, in 1979 this was the firsts film we were introduced to the terrifying xenomorph which is like no other creature anyone has brought to the screen. With it vicious way it's born from an egg which wait for a victim to come by, it creepy form hugs the face like a brace of death, paralyses the victim into a coma where it lays an egg or parasite inside it's host then burst through the chest which is where the term chest buster came to light.

As the plot of "Alien" as we all know on its return to Earth, the U.S. commercial star-ship Nostromo is diverted to a desolate planetoid after receiving a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. While exploring the alien ship, one of the Nostromo's crewmen discovers the remains of the ship's pilot and also a large chamber that contains thousands of egg-like objects. One of the eggs releases a creature that attaches itself to his face and renders him unconscious.

The others break quarantine to bring him back aboard the ship. The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly fine. Soon afterwards, an alien organism bursts from his chest and grows extremely rapidly into a terrifying eight-foot (equivalent 2.5 meters) tall creature that starts killing off the crew.

This is where we get the a great performance from "John Hurt" who plays Kane which is one of the most talked about and memorable moments in the first alien film, this is where the film take on it nightmare fueled intense roller coaster ride as the crew are force to defend them-self against this unknown creature. Alien made a whooping $104,931,801 on a budget of only £11 million.

In 1986 "James Cameron directed" Aliens which up the action and fear, unlike alien with no one can hear you scream in space having to deal with one xeno, this time is war Ripley is once again thrown in to the lion den with a team of harden colonial marines who are up against the odds.
One thing this film gave the audience from the first film as well was alot of theory's and question that needed answering, for me personal looking at the direction of where these film was going its like the weyland company know about the exists of this creature set the 80 family's up as an experiment to see what this things can do.

If you remember in aliens before they landed the complex still had power so ever video monitor was recording and being sent back to the company, hense why they knew they lost contact on lv-426 Halley hope population 101 so there was more family there.

With the plot : After 57 years in hyper-sleep, the sole survivor of the Nostromo, LT Ellen Ripley, awakens aboard a medical space station orbiting Earth. Her story of the Alien terror she encountered is disbelieved and she learns that the planetoid from the first film (now designated as LV-426) is now home to a terraforming colony.

When contact with the colony is lost, Ripley, against her better judgement and to regain her pilot's license, hesitantly accompanies a squad of high-tech Elite Colonial Marines aboard the spaceship Sulaco to investigate. Once there, they discover the colonists have been wiped out after they had found the derelict alien ship (and its deadly cargo) from the first film.

Aliens budget £18.5 million and made worldwide £131, 060, 248

Probable the most hated film in the franchise Alien 3 came out in 1992 like ive said before alien 3 had 10 scripts written and rejected for being bad, which result in the film being a pretty average movie, although there are a few fans out there that like this film. This may of added to the reason why the film on a budget on $50 million only made $55,473,545 domestic and $159, 814,498 worldwide.

The bring the fear to a prison colonel on fury 161 where once again Ripley is force to not just face the xenomorph queen, but also the prison inmates that havent seen a woman in years. Due to a fire aboard the Sulaco, an escape pod carrying the survivors of the second film is automatically jettisoned. It crash-lands on the refinery/prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161, but Ripley is the only one to survive the crash. Unbeknownst to her, some alien facehuggers were also aboard the ship. Before long, a full-sized Alien is then loose in the prison, killing the inmates and staff. Ripley also discovers there is an Alien queen growing inside her, and must not only kill the rampaging Alien but also herself in order to save humanity.

This one i would call the abomination of the franchise which it never existed in 1997 Alien Resurrection. set two hundred years from alien 3 where the companies have managed to get their hands on a xenomorph queen, which as before breed more of them which was their mistake in thinking they could control them.

The very through of this film script just kills any film going further with Ripley being cloned she become half xenomorph half human, which resulted in a reserve change of the queen instead of eggs giving birth to a human xenomorph which was not only one of the most stupid scripted writing ive seen for a film, but just killed the franchise.

Two hundred years after the events of the previous film, Ellen Ripley (and the Alien queen she was carrying) are cloned. The Alien queen is surgically removed from her body as the United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study on the spaceship USM Auriga, using human hosts kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries.

The Aliens escape their enclosures, while Ripley 8 (a clone who contains some Alien DNA herself) and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches its destination, Earth.

What made this worst was the two alien v predator films spin off's that just almost crippled the franchise for good, Alien V Predator and alien v predator 2 requiem which we'rent bad just we're done right.

Few years on there was talk of an alien 5 being done by director Neill Blomkamp in 2015 which sounded like a pretty good script for the story, but was put on hold for Prometheus direction which now with the latest news from Ridley Scott director another 3 films from the Prometheus films could be on hold preminently.

Since Ridley Scott Released Prometheus in 2012 we got the first look at the space jockeys we saw in the 1979 Alien fossilized in the pilot chair on the diralict ship on lv-426, which gave us the answer to what it was we were looking at.

Which also gave us the first look at how this xenomorphs where first created with some kind of black jelly liquid, that is teeming with some sort of genetic transformation genesis, which we saw from the film can create life by transforming something in some esle. Here's the kicker Ridley Scott announced that the space jockeys didn't create the xenomorph, so it begs the question on who or what created such a devastating force of death and destruction as the xenomorphs?

With Alien Covenant hitting cinema's may 12th 2017 there is alot of rumors and theory's flying around as to what happened to Elizabeth Shaw two theory which one mention that David could've of killed her as she tried to stop him doing something or the other one is that David trying to save here life used the black liquid and transformed her in to a queen.

But these are theory's but it would be a shock that the neomorph is in fact Shaw transformed but again these are just theory's, so we wont know until the film come out, according to Ridley Scott there is gonna be another 3 films inlcuing Alien Covenant which is set 10 years after Prometheus, the next will be Alien Awakening and he third film "untitled" at the moment i assume will be linking the story to how the ship landed on lv-426 to the events of alien.


This is part of the alien franchise so far spanning from film media, to comic books, action figures and games, the franchise has been running for 39 years. As the audience and fans of the franchise where do you think this franchise could go and do you like the direction Ridley Scott is taking or do you think they should've of just let Neill Blomkamp make alien 5?

34 Years of Transformers Franchise

It been 34 years of the transformer's franchise and look to be going on a lot longer, according to the new's transformers movie franchise look to be going on for a whopping 14 films. But lets take a look back at the very beginning of the franchise starting from 1984, ya i know makes you feel old special if your a late 70 to 80s child growing up with this franchise.

Transformers creators Hasbro and Takara Tomy first created transformers toy-line based on Diaclone which was created in 1980 along with Micro man, these toys were designed by Shoji Kawamori and Kazutaka Miyatake who were both contracted from Studio Nue), who designed the mecha and the figures respectively.

the toys were describe as "full-scale" toys of its 10-centimeter-tall alien cyborgs, the figures in Diaclone represented full-sized human (and enemy alien Waruder) pilots, and were in approximately 1/60 scale toys. Later in 1982 these line of toys like car robots where transforming like transforming robot toys, invented by Ōno Kōjin with some initial designs by Kawamori and others in to 20th century contemporary vehicles, which in 1984 Hasbro licensed these toys along with mircoman toys from Takara which became the toys we know today as transformers.

Probable what you didnt know is that certain transformers were design from original toys before them, like the dinobot and Insecticons were inspired by Diaclone line toys with the from the enemy Waruder toys. Decepticon planes we're inspired by the original two "jetrobo" toys which is where  Decepticons "Starscream" and "Thundercracker" where originally inspired from.

Constructicons came later from the Car-Robots set. The Constructicons came from near the end of the series, at which point Takara was starting to abandon the Inch-Man pilot figures and being limited the toys to a 1/60 scale. The six TrainRobo were also produced in the same sub-line as the Constructicons, but would only become Transformers (as the Trainbots) in Japan's 1987 line.

It wasn't until 1985 the transformers mini series hit our tvs from the franchise, this was during the late 70 and 80s Federal Communications Commission had regulations that prohibited toy companies from broadcasting cartoons based on their products until 1985 when this regulation was scraped.

Thank to this transformer began it three-episode miniseries as a trial test to see if it work which introduced "Optimus Prime" and "Megatron" with the auto bot and Decepticon, as they traveled from the metal world of Cybertron to Earth in search of new sources of energy which the all-spark gave them.

This is the standard practice of tv series to put out 3 to 6 episode just to see how the audience react to the series, with transformers being aired for the first time its audience rating sky rocketed which gave the go ahead for a standard season's worth of 13 more episode. This is when the franchise just became this iconic cartoon for kids around the world, special for me being a big fan of transformers series.

This became the first generation of fans that grow up on the first original transformers, which got a second season with a whooping 49 episode's in 1986, which introduce more characters to the series including "Triple Changers",  "Aerialbots", "Stunticons", "Combaticons" and "Protectobots" with a few new autobots and decepticons to the series which created more new ideas and concepts which added to the history of the cartoon universe.

Then in late 1986 transformers took a big huge change from the small screen to the big screen with its first animated film "Transformers: The movie", which hit the cinemas in the usa on 8th august 1986 and in the uk on 5th December 1986 time travel the series twenty years into the near future of 2005.

Which introducing one of the biggest transformers bad guys in the history of transformers franchise the ultimate planet eating "Unicron", which later in the film transforms the broken body of megaton into Galvatron. Which also introduced new characters Ultra Magnus and hot rod which cause alot fo shop a few problems with the toy departed to store their shelves to make room for these new character.

Unfortunately this film didnt make it budget of $6 million it fell short of making only $5.8 million which is a shame as the film was actually good, but the film did spin off the third season of the transformers series right off where the film ended. The series start off the miniseries called five faces of darkness which brough back Galvatron from the film and also brought multi-faced alien Quintessons who created the transformers,

Unfortunately the american version series in 1987 marked the end of original american series, which mirrored its being with a three part miniseries called "The rebirth", which was written by David wise (who had previously written several of the series' mythology-building episodes).
This last final series introduced Headmasters and Targetmasters, as well as several other characters, concluding with the restoration of Cybertron's Golden Age with the Decepticons who stole the final scene of the series to prove that their threat still lingering.

It unknown why the exact reason for the american series to end after the movie although it is assumed that sun bow lost its contract on running the series by 1987, the final episode "the rebirth" finished with the final G.I.Joe: the movie.
The series when on to make "Transformers: Super-God Masterforce" which was a Japanese exclusive animated series in 1988 and "Transformers: Victory" in 1989, which there was a "Transformers: Zone" which unfortunately was cancelled after one episode.

Over the years the cartoon series turn into a C.G.I series with the second generation with Beast wars which followed with a few more series of this type, introducing  "Beast Wars II", "Beast Wars Neo", "Beast Machines" series. Then in 2001 "Transformers: Robots" in Disguise introduced "Unicron Trilogy", "Transformers: Armada" in 2002, "Transformers: Energon" in 2004. "Transformers: Cybertron" in 2005.

Then in 2007 we're were introduce to the live action film transformers directed by Micheal bay which grossed over $1 billion , despite the negative reviews and reception this film got from people with positive reviews. It became not only the forty-fifth highest grossing film, it became the fifth highest grossing film of 2007, which i actually through was good despite the comment from people saying bay ruined their childhood.

Which is so stupid because the original animated series was back in 1984, it has changed so much from cartoon to c.g.i series over the past years so how can this really ruin your childhood with a live action film. I mean if you gonna complain at the live action film, why arnt you complaining at the way transformers has changed in the animated series? This leads me to believe people are just complaining for the sack of complaining.

So far we have had 3 more films "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" which was released on June 24th 2009, then we had the third film "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" which was released on June 2011 which was that bad, in 2014 we were introduced for the first time in live action the dinobots in "Transformers: Age of Extinction" which also made over $1 billion which again got mixed reviews.

Now in 2017 we are wait on the latest transformers the last knight which will hits cinemas June 23rd 2017 which is the fifth film in the live action franchise , which we are wait on see how plays out and there is a rumor and screen shots that the big boss could be unicron but whether this is true is your best guess.

But as a surprise to everyone to everyone which has been confirmed Michael bay announced that the franchise could be seeing 14 more films in the live action movies, which further stories in development will focus more on the war between the auto bot and decepticons.

But dont go thinking that "oh Michael Bay will ruin more films" Michael Bay will not be directing them all, as we know the bumblebee spin off film is in the works and being directed by Travis Knights (director of Kudo and the Two strings).

Where this franchise goes in the future no-one knows but it has alot of room to explore and expand the universe, even though this film franchise has ignored the 1984 tv series and the 1985 animated movie.
 We can only speculate if unicron isnt in the 2017 last knight transformers film that somewhere down the line in this franchise will come to a massive climax in the story-line with unicron or the Quintessons bring the franchise to a good end.
With several inspired games from the franchise:

1.The Transformers original released in 1985 on Sinclair spectrum and Commodore 64
2.Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth original release in 1986 on the Commodore 64
3. The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy original released december 5th 1986 on Famicom and 2008 on virtual console.
4. Transformers: The Headmasters original released August 28th 1987 on Famicom Disk System
5. Transformers original released October 30th, 2003 on the playstation 2
6. Transformers G1: Awakening original released November 12th, 2008 Mobile phone and ios 2010.
7.  Transformers: Devastation released on October 6th, 2015 on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.


These are just a few to mention with Many more all included at least over 33 inspired games from the franchise.

Question for everyone where do you think this franchise should go in the story line? or do you think this franchise should just be rebooted?

Give us you're opinion on this, this has been "Movie Knights" giving you 34 years of the transformers franchise.