#don opper

[roskirambles]

Horror Comedy of the Day: Critters (1987)

The Brown family is an ordinary one, living on the rural side of Kansas. So they take breakfast like any other morning, unaware of the looming threat: a pack of creatures that escaped the Intergalactic Prison Asteriod-sector 17 and are on their way to Earth, with two alien bounty hunters on their tail. They're vicious, they're terrifying! They're… furry balls from outer space? Really? We're meant to feel scared by tha- oh shit, they're carnivorous. And smart. And they can shoot venomous needles! Run for the hills!!

It’s a little hard to explain how big Gremlins (1984) was when it came out, inspiring more than a few imitators with their own variety of small monsters even a few decades afterwards. But strangely enough this film is NOT one of them, starting pre-production before that film came out and requiring more than a few rewrittes to avoid the most similarities once they were beat to the punch. With that out of the way, what the movie does right still gives it a proper sense of identity, not in small part because the film is shamelessly more juvenile. There's more profanity, the human deaths are certainly more graphic, and the general tone feels like a more cheeky take on a slasher with a sci-fi twist.

Aided by at times dated but for the most part really solid special effects, the little monsters tip toe the line between strangely adorable and threatening little shits. The bounty hunters fare similarly, they're effective at killing the creatures once they have them in front but their attempts to blend in always lead to hilarious results(not in small part because the townsfolk aren't a paragon of intelligence either).

It may not be the smartest or most resounding sci-fi horror flick of the 80's by any stretch of the imagination, but it's clear it was made by people who enjoyed themselves and as a result is hard not to follow suite.

#roskirambles #horror movies #halloween movie #horror comedy #stephen herek #dee wallace-stone #m emmet walsh #scott grimes #don opper #billy green bush #nadine van der velde #critters #80s movies #alien horror

[gurumog]

Android (1982) New World Pictures Dir. Aaron Lipstadt

Klaus Kinski as Dr. Daniel Don Keith Opper as Max 404 Kendra Kirchner as Cassandra

#android #klaus kinski #don keith opper #kendra kirchner #1980s science fiction

[80smovies]

#Critters #Stephen Herek #Domonic Muir #Don Keith Opper #80s

[mariocki]

Black Moon Rising (1986)

"Mr. Quint and I go back a ways. We used to be... what, in competition?"

"I never considered you competition, Marvin."

"Aw, that's not nice, Quint. We had our moments."

"You must've had yours in private."

#black moon rising #1986 #american cinema #harley cokeliss #john carpenter #william gray #desmond nakano #tommy lee jones #linda hamilton #robert vaughn #richard jaeckel #lee ving #bubba smith #dan shor #william sanderson #keenan wynn #nick cassavetes #richard angarola #don keith opper #lalo schifrin #william marquez #decentish techno thriller but never quite hitting the levels it should. TLJ is a good charismatic lead‚ and apparently adlibbed a lot #of his own dialogue (but was also reportedly difficult to work with and particularly clashed with Hamilton; he was struggling with #alcoholism during filming) and there's a lot of heavy hitters in that cast but it perhaps spreads itself too thin: i always enjoy seeing #Keenan Wynn turn up (and this was his final film) but his character is under developed and adds nothing to the plot‚ and should #probably have been cut... and maybe more time given to Robert Vaughn's big villain‚ whose deeper motives (beyond stealing fancy cars) #remain largely unexplored. the super duper future car is pretty cool‚ even if it does test the limits of belief at times. idk i think it's #just taking itself a little too seriously in places‚ forgetting to have fun with what is essentially a pretty silly idea. this was a john #carpenter script‚ but his involvement ended there; can't help but feel that if he'd directed it then it would have been more successful #and matched the campy tone of Christine or They Live. a slightly missed opportunity but not a waste of time by any means

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon and Stevegoolie Saturday Night ...Critters 3 (1991) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #critters3 #critters #scifi #monstermovies #creaturefeature #leonardodicaprio #donkeithopper #christiancousins #geoffreyblake #josephcousins #francesbay #dianabellamy #dvd #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

#movies #movie #horror #scifi #creature feature #monster movies #critters 3 #critters #leonardo dicaprio #don keith opper #christian cousins #geoffrey blake #joseph cousins #frances bay #diana bellamy #dvd #90s fest #90s #duran duran tulsa's 3rd annual 90s fest

[geekgyrl]

Critters 1986 Movie Review Gremlins on Steroids

#youtube #Critters movie review. Gremlins in Space!!! Starring Don Keith Opper Scott Grimes Terrence Mann Lin Shaye Dee Wallace Billy Zane Ethan Phill

[thealmightyemprex]

Top 10 Non American Animated Villains

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @storytellergirl @amalthea9 @princesssarisa @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark if you wanna do a list like this feel free to or just discuss these awesome baddies

My favorite Non Disney animated villains

Disclaimer for all these films not made in English , it was the English dub I saw (SAve for number 1 where I have seen it both dubbed and in its original language )

Also I am going to spoil a few movies,especially number 1 but

1.It is legit the only way I can discuss said villain

2.Its a movie that is devisive due to its subject matter ,so if you arent gonna see it anything I say wont sway you and if your on the fence maybe you will find this interesting

10.The Face from Phantom Boy

A criminal mastermind who seeks to ransom New York by causing a black out using a computer virus ,known only as the Face due to the fact his face i resembles a Picasso painting ,and everytime he tries to explain his tragic backstory,he is interrupted.He's a fun over the top villain (Wonderfully played in the English dub by Vincent D'Onofrio )

9.Mr Jones from Animal Farm

Jones is the cruel alcoholic farmer who is taken out of power when his animals rise against him.Now those familiar with the book might be calling foul,after all the leader of the Pigs is the main villain ,Jones is out of the picture pretty early....And while thats true ,and Napoleon is still the villain....I gave this spot to Jones cause.....His shadow LOOMS over this adaptation ,as the animals actions are all in rightious anger against ghis tyrany,defiance of his methods,fear of his return and even realizing Napoleon has basically beco9me a second Jones .He is also very menacing and he is animated brillaintly

8. Lucifer from the Wonderful World of Puss n Boots

An ogre sorcerer who wants to wed the princess.....And the more she says no the less nice he becomes .So while Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre has my favorite take on the ogre from Puss n Boots ,I think this might be the best take .Here the ogre is an entitled suitor who while intitially having a nice guy facade ,becomesw meaner and nastier the more he do9esnt get what he wants

7.General Woundwort from Watership Down

A chief rabbit who rules his warren with an iron paw .So gonna be honest here,I much prefer him in the book ,as the film cuts out his backstory and the more complicated aspects of his characters.In the film he is just a brutal monster.....But hot damn thats what makes him scary .He is a incredibly savage killer who values strength above all ,assuming that tough guy Bigwig is the chief of the heroes and dismissing the real chief Hazel cause he is smaller and has a limp .Also Harry Andrews harsh delivery adds to the intimadation factor .I also his final act is bad ass

6.Mok from Rock and Rule

Mok is an aging rock star whose past his prime,coasting on his sucess , who has decided to raise a demon because ...I have no idea.His motivation is vague and honestly kind of dumb.....But damn does this guy have style ,I love his various costume changes and wigs .His animation gives him this sort of swagger about him and I adore Don Francks vocal delivery .He is very style over substance,which is oddly fitting for the character

5.Count Cagliostro from Lupin III:The Castle of Cagliostro

An evil count who is in charge of a massive counterfitting opperation that has infiltrated multiple countries that made him arrest proof who seeks to use two mcguffins to find an ancient treasure and marry a princess against her will .When I first saw this film,I didnt like this guy ,I thought he was a generic bad guy......But upon rewatch thats kind of what I like about him.This is a guy who knows he is the bad guy and enjoys it .He is going by the classic bad guy textbook and I love that .Heck I dont even think he has any reason at all to marry the princess other then thats what villains do .He's also one of the few Lupin villains who feels like a threat .I do like more nuanced villains(The top three are examples of that ) but I do have a soft spot for uncomplacted very evil dudes and miss the days of classical mustache twirly villainy

4.Colonel Muska from Castle in the Sky

A government agent who is an expert on Laputa (Titular flying castle) ,he intitally seems to be just a "suit",a face to give the faceless government ....Cept while he seems like one type of villain he actually is another ....Cause Muska is actually a descendent of Laputa and seeks to use its destructive cpabilities for conquest ,and is a power mad monster killing all the soldiers he had been working with through out the movie (Also when watching the English dub once he shifts to crazy mode that is the exact moment you go "Oh so thats why they cast Mark Hamill " ).I think the shift is very well handled .He's easilly a favorite of mine

3. Tetsuo from Akira

So Tetsuo is a troubled kid who ends up awkening psychic powers.....Then everything goes wrong .Tetsuo is kind of tragic .Oh he's still certainly a villain ,but when you break him down....He's just a kid.A kid with a inferiority complex,jealousy of his best friend and rage issues ,which are all inhanced and made worse due to his powers .Break him down,he's just a kid lashing out

2.Karaba from Kirikou and the Sorceress

A evil sorceress known for hating and eating all men .At first she seems like a classic fairy tale villain ,an evil sorceress who our young hero must defeat....Until we find out....She's a victim. Her hatred of men comes from being wronged by them ,and her power comes from a poisionus thorn,that while great power comes from it so does great pain . Her pain has isolated her ,made her cruel and hate filled,not entirely a monster (She actually does not eat people ) but definately living up to the villain image people see her as .I like her style and I find her sympathetic

1.Pascal from Felidae

Are number one villain is also the darkest villain . Our hero Francis has stumbled upon a series of cat killings in his new neighborhood and gains a few alies to solve the case.One being Pascal who becomes Francis mentor .Pascal is a likable old cat with high inteligence(Able to use a computer ).....Who also turns out to be a killer with a 400 cat bodycount .Pascals real name is Claudandus ,experimented on by humans ,he killed the scientist responsible and has vowed to breed a race of "Supperior cats" and eventually take down man kind ,while killing those cats he views as "Undesireable" .However Claudandus has cancer and is dying and wishes for Francis to continue his work .Now I wont say Pascal is the best twist villain ,but I like that even after he turns out to be a monster his demeanor doesnt shift,he stays as a pleasent gentlecat until he goes fully murdery during the final fight .I also like that he is a pure monster....But ya know how he became that ,and he has become as monstrus if not more so then those he despises .I think the reason he is my number 1 is his final line where he admits he is pure evil and laments it "You look at me now and all you see, Francis...is evil...yet once I was...good."

[notforemmetophobes]

Critters (1986) PG-13 - 1h 26m Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.

Director: Stephen Herek Writers: Domonic Muir, Stephen Herek, Don Keith Opper Stars: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush

#movie #movie poster #comedy #horror #sci fi #critters

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original:  Critters 4   

Año: 1991

Duración: 112 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Rupert Harvey

Guion: Joseph Lyle, David J. Schow. Historia: Rupert Harvey, Barry Opper

Música: Peter Manning Robinson

Fotografía: Thomas L. Callaway

Reparto: Don Keith Opper, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Terrence Mann, Paul Whitthorne, Anders Hove, Eric DaRe, Martine Beswick, Anne Ramsay

Productora: New Line Cinema

Género: Horror; Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101628/

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[picsinhead-blog]

Tim’s Favorite Movie Project: Critters 2: The Main Course

Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)

Directed by Mick Garris

Starring Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Don Opper, Terrence Mann, Barry Corbin, Roxanne Kernohan

Released April 29, 1988

Plot: Two years after the events of Critters, the citizens of Grover’s Bend have resumed a normal, Krite-free existence. The peace is shattered when Krite eggs are discovered, mistaken for some kind of antiques (?!) and begin to hatch. Soon after, shape shifting alien bounty hunters Ug and Lee return to join the citizens in an epic battle for Grover’s Bend – and Earth itself!

One of my favorites because: Critters 2 is an oddity in so many ways. On the surface, it’s a pretty basic sequel – it gathers all the survivors of the first film (well – those who were willing to return), and more or less repeats the premise. But Critters 2 is a gratuitous sequel that’s self-conscious about being a gratuitous sequel. Critters 2 is a PG-13 rated film that raises the level graphic gore from the first film, and features 80’s action movie levels of nudity (working in a brilliant Airplane! level sight gag). It’s a film that doesn’t seem to have any artistic reason to exist, and it capitalizes on that by featuring main characters struggling to find their place in the world: Brad tries to hide his identity because of his association with the events of Critters, and Charlie is reluctant to return to Earth for fear of being shoehorned back into his old role. The shapeshifting Lee spends the whole film restlessly trying to find what shape it belongs in; Sheriff Harv is now played by a different actor and doesn’t want to be a part of this at all. But what really makes Critters 2 memorable, and what earns it a place (at least for now) on this favorites list, is the strength and novelty of its Easter imagery. The Krite eggs are mistaken for God knows what, decorated, and used in an Easter egg hunt, which is all well and good, but can’t compete with the most memorable sequence in the film in which a man dressed as the Easter Bunny gets his suit filled with hungry Critters and crashes as a bloody mess through a church window. Exceptional. There are so many Christmas horror movies, but it’s somewhat harder to find any that exploit the bright colors and silly imagery of Easter – and maybe that’s because it’ll never get any better than this.  

My relationship to this movie: When I was little, my grandparents had a side room where grandpa had a little 8” or 10” color television set up. When we were at their house, us kids would hang in that room and watch whatever was on – usually movies on TBS or Channel 11. This meant very little adult interference, but also zero control over what was on or what parts of it we saw. That is where I saw the Easter Bunny sequence for the first time. (This is the first but definitely not the last time a movie I saw on that TV will make this list.) That experience, probably in 1989, represented the sum total of my direct knowledge of the Critters franchise until 2019. I would have movie nights with my friend in Buffalo by syncing our starts and texting throughout the movie; she picked Critters (and for some reason, Critters Attack!) in late fall 2019, and was disappointed that the scene I was waiting for was not in that movie. Then, in late summer 2020, I got into the rest of the series via Scream! Factory’s loaded Blu-ray box set. Revisiting Critters 2 for this writing was the fourth time I’ve watched the movie in its entirety.  

My favorite _________: Critters 2 is my favorite Easter movie. List Position at Debut:Critters 2 is the twelfth entry in this project and starts at number twelve.

#Critters #Easter #favorite movies #mick garris #critters 2 #scott grimes #critters 2: the main course #horror

[jedivoodoochile]

Critters 2: The Main Course , es una película de terror y ciencia ficción, con toques de comedia, del año de 1988.

Es la segunda película de la saga Critters. Es protagonizada por Don Keith Opper, Cynthia Garris, Liane Curtis y Scott Grimes; fue dirigida por Mick Garris y escrita por él mismo junto a David Twohy.

#critters

[slimewalk]

#critters 2 the main course #critters #horror #horror movies #sci fi #science fiction #movies #80s horror #80s horror movies #80s sci fi #80s science fiction #80s movies #1980s #80s #roxanne kernohan #actress #terrence mann #scott grimes #don opper

[trailerparty]

ANDROID (1982), DIR. A. LIPSTADT

Max is the awkward assistant to a reclusive doctor on a lonely space station that does illegal android experiments. When a ship with three convicts takes refuge on the station, Max’s life changes as he meets a woman for the first time…

Don Opper really steals the  show here as Max, in what has got to be one of my favorite Pinocchio robot/nerd coming of age flicks out there. I don’t understand why more people don’t talk about this movie. Max’s sullen voyeurism (a recurring motif) during one scene in particular, while also watching Lang’s Metropolis and listening to James Brown, is an especially great and resonant moment.

#disc 01 #aaron lipstadt #don opper #klaus kinski #0 thru F #science fiction #1981 to 1990 #movie trailer #bad parents

[80smovies]

#Critters 1986 #Critters #Stephen Herek #Domonic Muir #Don Keith Opper #80s

[bats-in-my-pants]

#critters #stephen herek #domonic muir #don keith opper #80s horror #creature feature #horror #horror movies #horror comedy #critters 1986

[esperwatchesfilms]

Critters (1986)

ESE: 95/100

50 +5 for smart little Crites +5 for believable sibling rivalry -5 for faking illness poorly -5 for hitting April’s butt instead of the Coke can +5 for Chewie the cat +10 for “Power of the Night” +5 for the cute crites +5 for Brad’s bravery +5 for the Johnny Steele bounty hunter +5 for the crite trying to befriend an E.T. stuffed toy +5 for growing crites -10 for crites exploding their home +5 for crites exploding themselves +5 for Chewie surviving +5 for house rebuilding and mailbox cat

#Critters #Critters 1986 #80s movies #80s films #comedy #sci-fi #horror #Stephen Herek #Domonic Muir #Ethan Phillips #M. Emmet Walsh #Lin Shaye #Billy Zane #Billy Green Bush #Scott Grimes #Nadine Van der Velde #Don Keith Opper #Terrence Mann #Dee Wallace #Jeremy Lawrence #world record #movies #films #review