Comfort Blanket

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Don Siegel delivers the ultimate paranoid nightmare as Kevin McCarthy watches the town of Santa Mira succumb to an alien hive mind. You’re next!

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Them! The definitive American atomic big-beast picture, and the original bug-hunt (inspiring the soldiers-take-the-nest shenanigans of Aliens).

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: George Pal smash! It's When Worlds Collide, in which the puny Earth is spectacularly knocked about in a game of interplanetary billiards.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: Robert Wise sets Michael Rennie loose with a giant robot, and teaches the world to say Klaatu Barada Nikto.

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Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.

This time: The Thing. Howard Hawks sends his usual capable men to deal with an intelligent carrot from outer space. It's for a Thing.

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