Director Name: Stanley Kubrick

Director:
- Day of the Fight (1951)
- Flying Padre (1951)
- The Seafarers (1952)
- Fear and Desire (1953)
- Killer’s Kiss (1955)
- The Killing (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Lolita (1962)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- The Shining (1980)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Producer:
- Fear and Desire (1953)
- Killer’s Kiss (1955)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- The Shining (1980)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Writer:
- Flying Padre (1951)
- Fear and Desire (1953)
- Killer’s Kiss (1955)
- The Killing (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- The Shining (1980)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Short Bio and Review:
Stanley Kubrick born in New York on July 26, 1928, was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, and lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Stanley’s father gave him a camera for his thirteenth birthday and Stanley became an avid photographer and by the age of seventeen he was offered a job as an apprentice photographer.

He had four films under his belt when he made his first UK film called Lolita in 1962, followed by 2001 Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. He turned down the offer to direct the sequel to The Exorcist and instead made another horror film called The Shining. It is well known that Stephen King disliked the way Stanley adapted his story for the big screen.

Read more on Stanley Kubrick brought to us by OBS staff-member Rose here.

Welcome to the third part in our Top 5/10 Halloween Edition! We have three interesting lists for you, all by staff member Rose! Ever realize how creepy an eye can be? Well check out these movies posters that all happen to feature some freaky eyes! Also Hollywood is known for their remakes, especially in the horror genre! Just the past 2 years we have seen well over 5 reboots and some remakes, of the classic horror movies. Well Rose takes a look at the Top 5 BEST remakes, and of course the real stinkers ‘Top 5 WORSE remakes’….

10 Sci Fi/Horror Movie Posters with a Twist – Rose

Top 10 Lists of either SciFi or Horror Movie Posters are as abundant as they come, everyone has one.  But here at OBS we decided to be different,  so we put a little twist on our new Top 10.

We collected the Top 10 SciFi /Horror Movie Posters depicting the human, or not so human eye. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Here’s a window into the eye as an art form, from creepy to the ghoulish, all designed to depict hidden meanings.  If you take a closer look there is more than meets the eye.

Godzilla
The modern (1998) take on the Japanese fictional giant monster.

The Eye
The remake of the Hong Kong film “Jian Gui”.  A woman who receives an eye transplant suddenly sees into the supernatural world.

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Stanley Kubrick SciFi Classic

Candyman
Clive Barker’s Horror about a mythical being who has a hook instead of a right hand. Candyman will appear behind you if you say his name five times while looking in a mirror.

The Crawling Eye

Released in 1958 it is set in Switzerland.  Invasion ensues by horrible alien creatures that like to decapitate humans.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again!
Vincent Price plays a vengeful doctor seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.

Jeepers Creepers

Don’t let this flesh-eating creature find you, it’s on its last day of it’s ritualistic eating spree.

The Return
Poor Joanna Mills, is determined to learn the truth behind the terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her.

Seed of Chucky

The follow up to the first movie,  Child’s Play.

Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound
Raul Julia, John Hurt and Bridget Fonda lead in this story Frankenstein with a twist.

Top 5 Best Film Remakes by Rose

1. The Ring
The remake of the Japanese Ringu introduced Japanese horror to America and opened the door for a floodgate of remakes, though nothing comes to close the excellence of The Ring. The image of the girl crawling out of the TV will give anyone goose bumps.

2. The War of The Worlds
It’s as if Steven Spielberg can do no wrong. Great special effects and fantastic performances by Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins elevated this timely classic to new heights. The only qualm; the too neatly wrapped up ending.

3. 13 Ghosts
Great special effects and overall well done. It added to the original and it did not take anything away and that’s folks is a good remake.

4. The Hills Have Eyes
Sure the original was grim, violent, creepy and terrifying, but the 2006 version upped the ante to bring us even more hellish gruesome attackers; with all the upgrades 21st century make-up has to offer.

5. The Thing
Utilizing special effects unavailable in the 1950’s, John Carpenter brings us a suspenseful and intense film that surpasses the original.

Top 5 Worst Film Remakes by Rose

1. Stepford Wives
Unfortunately another Nicole Kidman movie missed the mark again. It was basically turned into a comedy. What the ???

2. The Invasion
You would think with actors like Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig being attached to this film it would have catapulted this third attempt at Invasion of the Body Snatchers and take it to the number one spot amongst them all. Hardly. Third time is definitely not the charm with this remake. They made the ending anti-climactic therefore ruining all it’s potential.

3. Godzilla
I don’t care how cheesy the originals special effects were, that is what made it what it is, a classic. The modern take tried to too hard to be modern and FX heavy and lost Godzilla’s essence along the way, turning poor Gojira into an Americanized homogenized horror creature.

4. The Day The Earth Stood Still
More like the day I wish this reel stood still. Replacing the menacing robot with an alien in human form with the robotic performance of Keanu did nothing to enhance this remake.

5. Dawn of the Dead
An absolute butchering of George Romero’s classic. Enough said.

*Remember this is the Halloween edition, so next week will be the LAST of the Top 10/5 lists, so keep an eye out I will give you a small hint of next week’s edition….OBS will give you some tips on ’surviving’ in a horror movie!!!

I had NO idea that there was so many movie posters with eyes on them, really creepy! *shivers* Also, I agree about the remakes, some should have been left alone! (bad Hollywood)

What do you think about this week’s edition? Do you know of any more posters with ‘eyes’ on them? Do you agree with the list of remakes, did we miss any?

Also check out this week’s ‘Poll of the Week’ and tell us “Which is Your Favorite Scary Movie?” VOTE on the home page.. and read more HERE.

by Michael Adams on rottentomatoes.com

For critics, Pandorum has been like an alien in the ventilation shafts – it’s on the radar, heading towards them, but they just can’t see it, no matter how hard they try. The glimpses from the trailer make it look, well, familiar, which got us to thinking about some of the of the movie’s precursors, those examples – both in the very best and worst sense – of the sci-fi/horror sub-genre we like to call… “Stalked on the spacecraft!”

It! Terror From Beyond Space (1958)

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Solaris (1972)

Dark Star (1974)

Alien (1979)

Galaxina (1980)

Creature (1984)

Event Horizon (1997)

Sunshine (2007)

To read more HERE

I loved ‘Alien’ and ‘Event Horzion’ (for it’s being stupid) and – of course – Stanley Kubricks ‘2001′. But I’m also not sure if ‘Pandorum’ can catch up with them or will become one of the ‘funny’ space-movies. What do you think of this films? What’s your favorite space-movie?

screenhead.com has compiled a list of the top 10 sci-fi movies that should NEVER be remade:

Iconic sci-fi movies stay iconic only until they’re remade, and since the remakes are usually far inferior, the new movie going audience (which in many cases wasn’t born when the original movies were released), will only remember the remake. Which are, in most cases; mediocre movies that do the original more harm than good. Here are ten sci-fi movies that should never, under any circumstance, be remade. They’re called “classics” for a reason.

10: Minority Report

9: Close Encounters of The Third Kind

8: A Clockwork Orange

7: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

6: ET: The Extra Terrestrial

5: Gattaca

4: Dark City

3: Stalker

2: Blade Runner

1: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Read more here

Interesting list, although I don’t like over half of them. Do you agree with this list? Why or why not? Which movies would make your top ten list?