Friday, October 26, 2007

Happy HalloMeme!

In the run-up to Halloween, my all time favorite holiday, I thought I'd run a daily feature of my favorite ocean-themed scary movies. There's some schlock, some gore, some laughs, and even some genuine scares from these marine fright flicks over the years. So take a walk with me down spooky memory lane and see if you remember these screen gems.

First up: The 1980 classic Humanoids From the Deep. PG13 warning for some brief nudity in the above clip. How can you go wrong with a film featuring horny, mutated fish?! Stunningly bad acting, cardboard dialogue, but entertaining special effects.

And this wouldn't be HalloMeme if I didn't drop a little somethin' somethin' into your goody bag. So as we approach the big fright night, I'm inviting a few fellow bloggers to recall some of their favorite spooky ocean or scary science-themed films. Here's a first round of victims:

The Radula
The Other 95%
Deep Sea News
The Saipan Blog
Pharyngula
A Blog Around The Clock

And don't forget to pass along the pain fun!

3 comments:

Kate said...

ok, I now have 4 hot trailers for some of the best/worst horror pictures relating to science... and for the first one I chose a film featuring nasty marine inverts ;)

Anonymous said...

Hah! Doug McClure, inspiration for Troy McClure, in one of the highlights of his career following the cancellation of The Virginian!

Kevin at The Other 95% tagged me, and I found the trailer for a movie I saw with my son just this last August at the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota.

You'll have to come over to my site to see it.

cow_2001 said...

Halloween related link:
http://rifters.com/real/2007/10/remedial-gigerology-part-2.html

I think it's scarier.