Word: fi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True to the genre, Romero runs clever twists on mandatory horror-movie citations like the Psycho shower sequence (Mrs. Bates is a monkey) and The Old Dark House climax (Ella pulls the power switch). And at the end, Monkey Shines soars into that rarefied sci-fi air where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg...
Using computer graphics and controls, the newest simulators re- create reality -- or sci- fi fantasy -- with gut- wrenching accuracy...
...bulkier-than-life creature who knows he's a cartoon. So his pecs-'n'-sex epics have become dependably profitable. And in the occasional election year, he makes a good movie. In 1984's The Terminator he played a killer cyborg -- typecasting for a terrific sci-fi parable. Now he teams with Director Walter Hill for an informal remake of Hill...
...Fi, Fo, Fum: The Crimson have some intimidating swimmers on its team. They have several players who stand 5-ft., 8-in. and taller...
With the mythic, vivid The Day of Creation, J. G. Ballard confirms his transformation from sci- fi cult figure to mainstream novelist...