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Encounters of the Third Kind
The Arrival
Hudson Hawk
Total Recall
(um, ok...better off reading PK Dick, talk about paranoid)
Neighbors
Naked Lunch
The Thing
(Carpenter's version)
Heinlein's
The Puppet Masters
Bladerunner
- the directors cut
Capricorn
One (MJ-12 fakes Mars landings)
Invasion of
the Bodysnatchers (The version with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy:
the ultimate paranoia film EVER!)
The Boys from
Brazil
Logan's Run
Soylent Green
The Usual
Suspects
Conspiracy
Theory - was still great even with Julia Roberts.
Twin Peaks:Fire
Walk with Me - not as much conspiracy as weird.
La Femme Nikita
- much better than Point of No Return, great atmosphere.
The Professional
- excellent examples of Agent gone bad and a Cleaner.
The Firm -
for indie characters in over their head.
The Amatuer
- good from memory, but I'd like to see it again.
The Net -
could have been better, but still a scary thought.
3 Days of
the Condor - Fantastic says it all.
The Manchurian
Candidate - See above.
The Man Who
Knew Too Much - Dated, but still good. Better for indies.
North by Northwest
- See above.
The Exorcist
III (WPB directed and it is based on Legion)
and a little
known film: The Ninth Configuration (WPB directed and wrote, based on a novel
Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane)
Jacob's Ladder
The Dead Zone
Dead Ringers
The Prince
of Darkness
Cat People
The Devil
Rides Out
The Parallax
View
A Very British
Coup
Angel Heart
Earth: Final
Conflict
Don't look
now
Fallen - A
great paranormal/paranoia movie.
The Truman
Show - One of those wonderfully offbeat movies that Hollywood
pumps out once in a while (like Falling Down or Groundhog
Day) This has very good paranoia/reality isn't real
overtones.
The Spanish
Prisoner.
Deciever
Matango (Japanese,
Honda, 1963 - aka The Attack of the Mushroom People)
Mulholland
Falls
Star Chamber
JFK
The Manchurian
Candidate
All the
President's Men
Absolute Power
LA Confidential
- stylish film noir, more suited to thirties/forties/fifties
role-playing
Humanoids
from the Deep
this 1980 'wonder' features genetically altered fishmen who make occasional visits to the beach to...ahem...interact with the locals (read here: rape and kill). it has everything you could want in an 80's flick...blood, gore, thick necked characters with bad acting and worse dialogue...and of course, deep one birth (which is stolen more from the then recent Alien). Not necessarily a /good/ movie, but a fun one.
Deep Rising.
What looks to be a mockery of the Big C pops his head up for a scene or two in it.
Screamers
(Italian feature)
(the video box features a skinless guy in blue jeans). As I recall, it was pretty bad and involved some generic mad scientist who lived on a remote island. There were a lot of pearls in the water, and this scientist bred these fishmen which pearl-dove for him. Pretty damn corny idea, if you ask me. Kinda cross btwn. Island of Dr. Moreau and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Horror of
Party Beach
As long as we're on the topic of Deep One movies, what about the truly abysmal Horror of Party Beach? That one's always good for a laugh.
