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The Thing (2011) — Why was the Pilot Creature fired?
On April 25th, 2012, Amalgamated Dynamics published a showreel video depicting their work on the 2011 prequel of John Carpenter’s The Thing. The creatures, which ranged from full-size animatronics, to...
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Monster Gallery: The Thing (2011)
The Gallery will be updated with photos of the various Thing creatures once an article covering those is published.
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Predator Metamorphosis
June the 12th, 1987 saw the first introduction to the cinematic screen of one of the most memorable and well known Movie Monsters to date — El Diablo Cazador de Hombres: the Predator. Since then, the...
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Support ADI’s project HARBINGER DOWN
Amalgamated Dynamics, the special effects company behind the Graboids from Tremors and many other fantastic cinematic effects, is currently asking for support for their new project, Harbinger Down. The...
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Only 50 hours left to help HARBINGER DOWN!
Only 50 hours more, and the project still needs 150.000 dollars to go into production! —>Support Harbinger Down!!<—
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HARBINGER DOWN LIVES!
Harbinger Down managed to reach its Kickstarter goal! Congratulations to all who contributed to the project in any way they could. And now we wait for an avalanche of practical effects…
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Predator Metamorphosis – Part III: Alien Vs. Predator
Predator 2 was ultimately only a modest box-office success, and with its lukewarm reception, a sequel was temporarily abandoned. Another project instead surfaced; Twentieth Century Fox decided to...
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Monster Gallery: Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
- Main Articles: Alien Mutation – Part V: Alien Vs. Predator [COMING SOON] Predator Metamorphosis – Part III: Alien Vs. Predator
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Monster Gallery: Starship Troopers (1997)
Would you like to know more? The Main Article is Army of Klendathu.
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Army of Klendathu
“The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization,...
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Subterranean Terror — Part I: Tremors
In the early 70s, filmmaker Steven S. Wilson was working for the Navy in an isolated area near China Lake. One day, whilst the writer was sitting on a rock, an idea came to his mind: he wondered what...
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Subterranean Terror — Part II: Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Universal expressed early interest in making a sequel to Tremors — which had achieved a near cult status on the video market since its release. “We didn’t take it too seriously at first, because we...
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Monster Gallery: Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
Main Article: Subterranean Terror — Part II: Tremors 2: Aftershocks
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Subterranean Terror — Part III: Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
General note: to avoid repeating the term “Assblaster”, the article (and further entries featuring said creature) will mostly use abbreviations such as “AB” or “Blaster”. The success of Tremors 2:...
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Subterranean Terror — Part IV: Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
The fourth — and as of now, final — chapter in the Tremors series depicts the Graboids first attacking the city of Perfection (then called Rejection) in 1889, 100 years before the first film. When...
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Monster Gallery: Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Main Article: Subterranean Terror — Part IV: Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
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StarBeast — Part IIIa: Alien³, the Beginning
Alien³ underwent a long, articulated creation process — which saw several scriptwriters elaborating their own screenplays, only to be replaced — one after the other. Going from William Gibson to David...
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StarBeast — Part IIIb: Alien³, the Dragon
Like many other aspects of Alien³, the creature effects department was plagued by constant changes in direction and contradicting studio decisions. Gillis recalled in an interview with Fangoria: “Fox...
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