All Time Fav scifi/horror

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2006)

I first saw this film in the Scottsdale 6 drive in (yes they were still around) in Phoenix when it was released. Everyone has covered the particulars well enough already so I won't. If you think it freaked YOU out, imagine seeing this movie with your buddy and our then girlfriends while tripping on mushrooms!!! I'll never forget sitting on the bed of a pickup, beer in hand, staring widely dilated at the screen watching a man's head that has just "oozed" off his body spew a three foot tongue around a table leg, pull itself over, turn upside down, sprout spider legs and start walking across the floor :-O . Among many other totally out there, horrific scenes. I think I still have the bruise on my arm from girlfriend gripping it. I've seen it at least 50 times since and own the special edition DVD. Suffice it to say, if you're a fan of scifi/horror, particularly a younger fan and haven't seen this flick, you have not yet been baptized. Like others have said, despite all the technical advances since, story, effects, acting, music, direction, it doesn't get any better than this. Tiribulus -Detroit