Those are very impressive effects, but also unnecessary.

I'm old enough to remember Hero At Large. It's one of those movies that has aged well, over a quarter century before the 'non-superpowered ordinary guy in costume' wave of Special, Mirageman, Kick-Ass, Defendor, and Super. (Super doesn't come to my non-coastal town until the 28th.)

I haven't seen it, but this looks more like speculative history ('what if humans lived in a different kind of ecosystem?') or pseudohistorical court politics (Gormenghast + Richard III + Kings) than fantasy. I like my fantasy fantastical - even Middle Earth and Harry Potter are a bit too real world-ish, I mean stuff…

This looks like 'freak' exploitation, like Arbus and Witkin. There's something cruel, smug, and aristocratic about that tradition in avant-garde art. But maybe my judgment is premature since I haven't seen Sante Sangre.

OK, your points are well taken. I'm not going to walk back what I wrote about exploitation comics nor the Silver Age, but what you've said is valid. The Code definitely had its detrimental aspects. Thankfully there was the rise of underground comix in the sixties and alternative comics in the eighties. And I…

I wish that were true in my case. My regular speaking voice is a sepulchral croak that sounds like a cross between a death metal vocalist and Rocky Balboa.

I've noticed some comments on the thread defending Fredric Wertham, and I'd like to go even farther.

These Gigeresque, Cenobite-like conquering or assimilating races have a tendency of becoming dominating prescences in scifi/fantasy franchises. The Borg in Star Trek. The Yuuzhan Vong in Star Wars. The Phyrexians in Magic: The Gathering.

"a single neurological 'Great Leap Forward', a freak genetic mutation in the human brain."

Yes, they were the true vanguard of human evolution.

You've given me an idea...

This conflates the origin of language with the dispersal of language. All it suggests that modern human languages arise from the same language, not that this language was the first language ever.

I just learned that a grunge-looking Labine has a bit part in the 1996 TV movie Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

You know who else had the flayed look? The Abomination in the Norton Hulk, Grendel in Gaiman's Beowulf, and the angels in Knowing. It's a Giger-influenced design fad that will instantly date the movie to the early 21st century. In contrast, the classic Gil Kane design is timeless. Hell, even Golden Age GL would…

My eyes! The mask does nothing!

Is it sculpted to his junk too?

Speaking of They Live-style paranoiac conspiracies (The Forgotten, Dark City ...) everyone should see Save The Green Planet if they haven't already.

Galifianakis + "zombie cop" = too many memes dating it to '09-'10 for one movie.

It is kind of ridiculous that after a Hollywood star turns 35 or so he stops being paired with women his own age until finally his leading ladies are young enough to be his granddaughters.

Movies featuring angels are fun and all (Prophecy, Constantine, even Legion) but how about instead of another comely human with fluffy bird wings we get the terrifyingly bizarre combination of human & animal parts, wheels, and fire described in the Bible?