It mostly has to do with the concept of people slowly discovering hidden horrors that are too vast and alien for the human mind to fully grasp, all wrapped up in Lovecraft's incredibly florid, but engagingly descriptive prose.

That's a pretty fair summation of why I've learned to avoid Von Trier's films. Although it sounds like the misogyny level in this one might not be cranked all the way up to 11 like it usually is in his other works, he's exhausted my patience at this point.

Another one vaguely similar in concept to the Troma movie, but much better quality is Who Can Kill a Child? (AKA: Island of the Damned) from 1976.

Looks more like it's punting a chicken to me. No 'raptor there, I say!

I predict we'll be seeing these critters in mug shots before too long.

"The chimpanzees in the film are played by actors in chimp costumes"

I'm trying to figure out if Georgia's greatest fear being "The Devil" is a reference to the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", or merely yet another smug implication that everyone in the south is a Christian living in fear of that mean ol' Satan.

It was one of my all-time favorite toys as well. I wasn't even allowed to see "Alien" in the theater when the few toys based on the movie came out in '79, but I liked the monstrous design so much, I got everything I could find (which as I recall was only the Kenner figure, two shooting target sets, and a board game).

Especially since loony, Xenu-fearing Tom Cruise isn't quite the guaranteed audience draw he used to be.

One doesn't need to look too hard to find reoccurring phallic and vaginal imagery in Giger's artwork. Hell, the Alien's head is basically an inverted erect schlong.

If you had a choice, you'd probably want to wait until at least several hundred years after the big meteor, if not longer, due to the catastrophic environmental damage that followed the impact.

"Sure, Micronauts might not have the name recognition of Transformers..."

So I'm more of a leg man myself. Does that make me respectable?

Gee, I feel kind of silly now for assuming the Bicycle Girl zombie had simply been a girl who had gotten killed by zombies while she was riding her bike and then became a zombie while she was lying next to said bike.

Wow, that's some pretty sharp video, considering it was supposedly taped by a 1988 camcorder.

My Little Pony at 1:03 - squee!

I failed in my attempt to post a video of Godzooky (Godzuki?) from the '70s Godzilla cartoon.

The overall look of Denver, the Last Dinosaur always reminded me a little too much of another, much more annoying dinosaur character from the 1970s...

Poor T-Rex.

Agreed on Goonies being a bit underwhelming back in the day. I remember actually being disappointed after seeing Goonies because I had attached so many expectations to everything Spielberg touched up to that point, and it just didn't measure up.