Exploring Invaders from Mars - A Remake Done Right for a Change 

haha yep as kids my brother and I always discussed this prop being used to play Krang in.a live action tmnt flick

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Ironically, I heard they never used Krang in the films because it was deemed either too expensive or too advanced to build.

the big blue

Don't you mean Spiderdemon/Arachnoton from classic Doom and Doom 2: Hell on Earth.

Doom 2016: Spider Mastermind is the final boss Doom Eternal: they're smaller but they're everywhere and their head turret drives you nuts

Never realised before but can completely see it. Thanks man!

Krang was 1987 as well.. one year after.

@@private2132 Actually the alien species Krang is part of first appeared in the original Ninja Turtles comic book around 84-85.

HOLY SHIT DUDE the exact same thing happened to me! The scene where the boys parents walk over the hill towards the light while their son watching stuck with me my whole life... Never knew what movie that was from until now.

@@permafrost2064 - The kid's teacher combined with that moment you described scared the shit out of me as a kid. The Gate (1987) and Return To Oz (1985) were a couple others that traumatized me as well lol.

@@nkw1985 Oh man, The Gate was such a cool movie. Those little Claymation demons were terrifying as a kid. They look pretty silly as an adult haha!

@@permafrost2064 - I totally agree. The moments that freaked me out were the neighbor kid's dead mother showing up and then I think she turns into his dead dog. Then toward the end of the movie the little demons turn into this old zombie man that comes out of the closet.

@@permafrost2064 holy shit I have that exact same memory of this movie, that's f@#ked up! Lol good movie though

I guess the Air Force softened their stance when the production featured head-snakes instead of little green men, because the creators of Stargate had their full cooperation.

You mean... "SPACE FORT," I mean, "force..."

@@ccggenius Fun Fact: The real life Cheyenne Mountain Base has a broom closet labeled "Stargate Command".

Martians: "And this is how we were able to invade".

Air Force: "We won't do it, because aliens and UFOs do not exist!" @__@ Tobe Hooper: "Errr, you know movies are *fictional,* riiiight??" '@~@'

*i've had teachers that i'm convinced actually could and most probably did consume amphibians in exactly the same manner*

Om nom nom! > > > > > > \'🐸'/

for me, the scene of the teacher being eaten scared me as a kid (i'm surprised they actually got away with that one)

Jeez, that's not what I meant about eating French cuisine.

Cecil did a project on this years ago

That was the video that got me subscribed

Night Of The Living Dead was also remade very well, though the ending changed.

@@WhiskeyBrewer For me it was his great Exploring Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows video that made me hit the Sub button. Yeesh. I just looked it up and now I'm feeling pretty damn old. :P I really like his old stuff even though obviously it's less polished, but it'sstill a guilty pleasure of mine to go back and rewatch them from time to time. :) I'm sure he hates it, but you can even see how he started to loosen up after his very first few videos. At any rate, while I wish him luck in growing his channel, I still kind of miss the days when you are one of the few (thousand) to first sub to a small/new channel. There's just something special about it. But of course, without success/growth you usually end up with NO channel to watch, so like I said, I wish the best for GBF. These days it's VERY hard to wedge your foot into the RU-vid market door and I'm glad Cecile started when he did. I can't imagine not having his videos to watch. In my book, he's right up there with Chris Stuckmann and Oliver Harper. So, keep sharing links to his videos and check out his Patreon, too! Support your favorite creators! :)

@@SMDoktorPepper They honestly had to change it and were right for doing so. It shows respect to the character, Duane Jones, and Tony Todd in retrospect.

“C’mon little buddy, I’ll show you what’s, over the hill.”-Dad

There's a great documentary from a couple of years ago about Cannon.

@@keithfulkerson TWO docs. The "Electric Boogaloo" is way better.

Thanks for the extra background info!

That's awesome!

Could easily add Alien (1979) to that list, since it's basically a remake of It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958). Also The Blob (1988) is pretty sharp for its time.

@@Formakiwi Really?? I didn't know that connection between Alien and It: The Terror From Beyond Space. 🤔🤔 As for The Blob remake, it wasn't too bad. Still prefer the original 50's version though. 🤔🤔

I think the 80s in general knew how to properly remake a film. I watched Cat people recently and that was really good. And after some googling found that it was a remake and followed some scenes fairly accurately.

the 80s The Blob is better than the original

@@kri249 Likewise; and I've been saying how the 80's knew how to do remakes right, for years. Totally agree with your statement. 😊😊 The most recent horror remakes, which I still think are amazing, are Dawn Of The Dead, and The Crazies.

Thanks! Lots more to come :)

As weaksauce as the original's aliens were, that weird, haunting atmosphere they had when they took people really does stick with you. The payoff may not be great, but it really did feel like a bad dream.

The Razzies were always more of a publicity stunt than an actual award. They're not interested in finding the actual worst movies of the year, they just want to pick on "unpopular" movies.

Given that they’re supposed to be the anti-Oscars, that tracks.

Yeah, many movies that get a Razzie are movies I will like. Often, I just like movies that are just fun to watch. People take things too seriously these days.

ehhh, idk, most of the Worst Picture winners are on point but the nominees they pick to fill out the categories often causes them to grasp at straws

I agree, Jason. The Razzies nowadays are just trying to stay relevant and popular. I mean come on, Louise Fletcher for worst actress and then Razzed for the special effects?! I enjoyed almost everything about that movie.

Overwork. Lack of sleep. Lots of projects going at once. I can see it.

I LOVE the production design in this flick. Soooo visually appealing.

@@Axolotl_Mischief That's cool. I more specifically mean the art. I would buy something from that artist.

It’s amazing how many people are having the same reaction to this video, me included! Can’t believe your school showed this to you Lolol! I saw this on tv around 86-87 probably but was just about the kid’s age so i definitely identified with him and this traumatized me as well and I forgot about it until now! Got that kid panic-attack just watching the scenes from it!

this movie came out in 1986 so no way you saw it in 83/84

That's pretty cool.

A real Marine, or one of the extras?

@@0311Mushroom both.

@@rcLawnDartPilot he was a real Marine then, only a few were extras. Is he was from Seal Beach, tell him Corporal Martin, 1st Section says hello. And if from one of the other units, Semper Fi.

"Your being controlled by aliens :P"

Probably a development from Vietnam. A buddy of mine growing up, his Grandfather still had the 25 and 50-cent denomination bills they used to give GIs back then.

This movie was not set in a real war zone. So you would have to check for loose change.

Krull (1981) was rated G where I grew up. This being the film that featured graphic, slow impaling by telescoping wall spikes, someone being squashed to death by a stone door, multiple stabbings, sword wounds and horrific mutations, as well as the pronounced sexual threat of a bestial union between the female lead and a monstrous reptilian giant. Like early-80s Doctor Who, the old Robin Hood TV show and the incredibly bloody animated Lord of the Rings (1980) from Ralph Bakshi, the kid's stuff did not fuck around back then.

I rewatched that a few years ago. It's still fantastic!

@@Syklonus it really is! It has a special place in my heart. The full tv show was, not as great and I actually liked the reboot back in 2008 and I was sad it was cancelled, but OG allllllll the way.

Robert Englund was adorable in V.

@@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt he really was! I loved the his character.

OM NOM NOM!! > > > > \'🐸'/

@@zetetick395 Well, that's one way to sample French cuisine.

@@Reapermaskhybrid Just make sure their frog is unplugged first, and always check the underside for batteries....

@@zetetick395 Right, right.

I take it you never seen the miniseries "V".

You are welcome :)

Maaan, the big filthy demon... thing, that comes outta that fellows back / spine in *Phantasm II* is frigging _ho-rrendous!_ '😨' (and the slow impaled doggy death of Brewsters mate-turned-vamp-slave (in Fright Night) is pretty grueling too!) - It was Amityville 2: The Possesion (1983) that freaked me the fuck out when I was nine, my first Horror movie experience _definitely_ fulfilled its genre category for me! '@~@'

I can't believe it flopped! It was crazy terrifying to see as a kid, although my cousins and I did watch it over and over again. The effects were so good - its why so many comments here talk about how scary it was!

You haven't watched the video to the end before commenting, I see? The scene was intended, but scheduling errors had the FX team wrap up early.

@@nettack yeah, not to mention, I was beginning to fall asleep after pulling off a long shift at work. so with that said, the scene of the parents being eaten (if filmed as intended) definitely would've been pretty damn brutal. and you could make a strong case, that because it cuts to the scene of David screaming, it's only implied that he sees his parents being devoured (making the "less is more" argument just)

Yes, we are under the control of 666 they are Reptilians masquerading in human bodies. They're also called the Vril. They control all the governments and media.

I also had memories in bits and pieces and couldn't remember what movie it came from. I was so happy when i realized this what that movie.

Had the same feeling with another scene, knew I saw it in a movie somewhere but couldn't remember for the life of me as it was damn near 2 decades ago. Finally asked on Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews channel, someone told me it was a movie called Deadly Friend 1986. That movie gave me nightmares particularly because of the final scene. Anyway, a few scenes had stuck in my head as a kid but I couldn't find what movie it was until a month ago. And the thing that's strange is that as known as the movie is I've never seen someone who talks about older movies ever do a review on it (like GoodBadFlicks, Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews, etc.). Literally like a thorn in your brain when you get that feeling and can't put your finger on it.

Here's an interesting piece of movie trivia: Woody Allen and Bradley Cooper were not in DeathStalker or its sequel. In fact, they weren't even in Devilfish or Silver Bullet.

Genuine, non-sarcastic question: is your mother a psychopath ?

@@TheRealMacCabbe Ha, I love my mother to death but I was a kid in the 80's and I swear my parents were trying to see how bad they could mess me up. They never censored what I watched as a kid because they felt that movies were fake and as long as I knew that it would be fine. We watched Children of the Corn when I was 5, then just a few weeks later went on vacation to Iowa where my grandparent own a 160 acre corn farm. The first time I flew on a plane was when I was 6 and we had just watched the Twilight Zone movie that has the story of the gremlin on the wing. It rained our entire flight and I had the window seat. My mom also made me a Freddy Krueger glove to wear to school for Halloween, when I was in the 2nd grade. My childhood was nuts but I loved that I could watch all the movies that my friends couldn't.

@@2buxaslice Aight then, fair enough ! :)

@@2buxaslice 80's Moms are great! Mine just turned 70 yesterday. Her favorite movies still tend to be on the violent side. Especially when you're contrasting them with the movies of today. Most movies that have an "edge" today, seem to have zero heart or sincerity behind it.

fortunately my mom had common sense, and did not let me watch things that were to mature for me, my dad on the other hand let me watch Alien very young, scared the crap out of me, there is a reason I lived with my mom, and not him. ;)

You're wrong, plain and simple, and here's why: James Brolin was the star of that movie, not Burt Reynolds. How did you mess that up? Eh? I wanna know...HOW DID YOU MESS THAT UP?!

@@conalcochranh3274 huh

@@blackdragon6 What?

Thanks!

Well, the fact that a superior intelligent entity is a giant brain does not seem that farfetched. Only question would be, if alien brains look similar to human ones.

@@nettack its not just a brain. its a brain with eyes and a mouth making a humanoid face and tentacle like arms. Though this one doesn't talk beyond screams.

Metroid with mother brain was released in 1986