BIG FUCKING EXPLOSIONS

Scary movies with explosions. A BFE Halloween special event.

1. They Live:  They live is supposed to be a terrifying, morality play about the decline of man and how we are all puppets, controlled by the media, the money and the man. What it’s realllllly about is a homeless man (played by wrestler Roddy Piper) who finds a pair of amazing sunglasses that enables him to see the “real world”.

Stop right here if you haven’t seen THEY LIVE. Go rent THEY LIVE.

The real world is composed of these awesome looking skull alien creatures in business suits. Lets say you walk into your local bank and speak to your teller. If you by chance are wearing these magic glasses then BAM. That teller looks like a decomposed corpse wearing a business suit. Do not speak to that teller. Shoot him.

In this little masterpiece, billboards and magazines (when wearing these magic glasses) display really cool messages like BUY, SELL, and OBEY. Needless to say, this really freaks out Roddy Piper and he spends the rest of the movie blowing the crap out of things and getting into fist fights that LAST FOR TEN MINUTES. A perfect Halloween movie. Guns, skull faces, and explosions.

2. The Thing: A gorgeously shot, impeccably directed tale of a group of men stranded in the arctic with an alien. A shape shifting alien whose only goal is to assimilate every living species it comes across.  It is a truly brilliant piece of filmmaking, one of the best that science fiction has to offer. It is funny, scary, gory and ultimately intelligent. A film that can be watched countless times, it is timeless and rewarding.

But it is also about a half drunk Kurt Russell fighting a fucking alien monster with a flame thrower, a bottle of whisky and some flares. He plays chess too.

3. Dead Heat: A buddy cop movie that plays outside the realm of buddy cop movies. Imagine Riggs/Murtaugh/AxelFoley fighting zombiefied poultry and you get the idea. A brilliant corporation starts zombiefying bad guys in order to pull off bank robberies. Try to kill a zombie that is stealing a priceless necklace. Just try. It’s really hard.  Joe Piscopo and Treat Williams trade witty banter and a massive amount of gun ammunition in order to stop their deadly foes. Seriously. So many bodies drop in this movie, it’s amazing. They even pull the glocks to a reanimated, fried cow.

4. The Hidden: BFE has a nice Hidden piece down below, so please check it out.  It has splosions and scares galore. AND METAL.- Al