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FIRST CONTACT IN FILM AND PRINT

ByEdward McKeown

Following on my discussion of ARRIVAL, I updated an article that was published in the Science Fiction Writer’s Bulletin on First Contact.     This has been handled wonderfully as in Ray Bradbury’s “It Came from Outer Space” and miserably as in an episode  “Star Trek- Enterprise” when Captain Archer, informed that an alien ship was…

VANCE NORRIS’S DEATH: The Subtle Horror in John Carpenter’s THE THING

VANCE NORRIS’S DEATH: The Subtle Horror in John Carpenter’s THE THING

ByMichael Hanson

Think About It! The truly horrific part of the famous AFib Paddles bursting through Vance’s Chest Sequence in John Carpenter’s THE THING, is NOT Vance Norris’s chest turning into a giant mouth full of jagged fangs and biting Dr. Copper’s hands off! The truly horrific part, that lingers in your mind long after seeing the…