Welcome once again, to ?Movies From Beyond? your weekly celebration of the good, the bad and the ugly of films! We love horror and gore and all things drenched in blood and can only assume you're the same, so sit back and relax, oh, and feel free to use the sick bags?
As a rule we like films set on planes; (?Redeye? and ?Snakes on a Plane?) and we REALLY like horror movies set on planes.
So imagine our delight when we got our sweaty little paws on the recently released ?Quarantine 2? which combines air travel and zombies in a blood drenched spectacular we haven't seen the likes of since ?Flight of the Living Dead? dragged it's rotting corpse through passport control.
This is, of course, the sequel to 2008?s ?Quarantine? which is a remake of the excellent Spanish shocker ?REC? and the action takes place high above the rampaging infection that is changing normal folk into ultra violent, dribbling, cannibals.
The passengers get on board and before they can open their peanuts, Ralph the Golfer starts to feel a bit Tom Dick and inevitably turns into a flesh muncher and starts to gobble his way through the rest of economy class.
When the plane finally lands (a little lighter than when it took off), the terminal is on lockdown and the remaining band of survivors have to try and get out, you can imagine what happens next… but it is good fun watching it.
If you like this (and you will), we recommend you check out the original ?REC? movies, both of which are easy to find on DVD, don't be put off by the subtitles, your Mum will read them for you.
Moving on, we thought we?d continue our theme of travel and so took the opportunity to watch ?Christine? from ’83.
Written by Stephen King (?The Shining?, ?Carrie? et al) and directed by king of horror John Carpenter (?Halloween? ?The Thing?), this time the star of the show is a possessed car that takes liberties with it's teenage owner , changing him from a jolly nice young man to a moody type who is a cross between Danny Zuko (‘Grease)’ and Peter Parker when he goes all emo in ‘Spiderman 3’
The car creeps out at night and dispatches people it doesn't like in more and more gruesome and pretty imaginative ways.
Of course, it always returns back to the garage as good as new.
We love this film and one of the best things about it is that no sanitised bozo has tried to remake it…
…yet.