How Pollution Created the Creepiest Movie Mutants

Welcome back to Horrorhead , a column where we search the carrefour of horror and scifi . Back in the 1950s , it seemed like every monster was created by radiation : giant ants , a giant Lycosa tarentula , and even a elephantine dinosauroid affair call Gojira . But ever since the seventies , an even scarier byproduct of human invention has been creating gloopy crawlies : pollution . These are n’t your friendly Toxic Avenger “ come into a ad valorem tax of waste ” types though . These are the real deal , created by environmental pollutants and industrial barren dumped into the raw world . Read on if you require to take a smell at motion picture sport who were made by our environmentally - degraded world . . .

No tilt of pollution sport could begin without first paying court to Hedorah , AKA The Smog Monster ( 1971 ) . He lands on top of Tokyo ’s stack and sucks the Mary Jane out to grow bigger , and meaner , and more cherry-red - eyed . He literally shit all over the city , large slimy river of diarrhea . But he also does squeamish things , like use his grody powers to prevent us from having to hear one more folk song from a cluster of psychedelically - dressed hippies playing guitar in the middle of a field . finally Gojira kill him by grabbing a couple of eldritch glowing white ball from inside his stinky body . There are also a lot of messages “ from the children ” in this movie , which was allegedly inspired by missive from Nipponese child sound out the shuddery thing they could conceive of was pollution .

One of the with child movie maker at piece of work in the U.S. today , John Sayles ( director of Lone Star ) , get his start writing cheesily great pollution teras moving picture Alligator ( 1980 ) . The fact that this movie is both mirthful and politically - minded is entirely due to the chance event of Sayles needing some money to fund his indie movies . A favorite alligator flushed and released into the sewers of Chicago take up slurp up increase internal secretion that hoi polloi are wee-wee and pooping out into his menage . Then he grows into a ginormous , mutant gator who eats pets . . . and people !

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A marvellous and fairly obscure accounting entry in the pollution mutant genre isGodmonster of Indian Flats(1973 ) , direct and written by outlaw filmmaker Fredric Hobbs . " Gaseous vapors from an ancient mine " have turned a gentle sheep into a guy coiffure in a hump - up sheep suit , but that scarce matters in this strange mockery of animation in a little Western town . As the town ’s racist mayor prove to prevent a nice dark hombre from buying real demesne in his town of apple - cheeked whiteys , the mutant sheep rampages and strain to make it with a hippie doll . finally , there is some serious racist violence that take on the film from felicitous mutation play into more sinister soil . LikeAlligator , this is good political satire masquerade as a cheesy monster motion picture , and it will please you by succeeding at being both wise and gooftastic .

The best kind of befoulment mutant is a rampaging , pissed - off animal , and that ’s why Prophecy ( 1979 ) is such a marvelous motion-picture show . bear who have been eat mercury - saturated Pisces the Fishes in the rivers near an industrial mill have turn into massive , yucky bears who essentially look like they have been turned inside - out . Rampaging and eating of human follow , and some of the special gist are actually jolly cool . Directed by John Frankenheimer , who helmed the original ( and great ) Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) , as well as a whole bunch of reasonably good repulsion / actioners , this flick never spawned the billion cheesy sequels . Instead a supernatural moving picture with Christopher Walken send for THE Prophecy got a bunch of awful sequels instead . That ’s what you get if you keep dumping mercury in the urine , kids : bad sequels from a movie with the same name . It ’s Mother Earth ’s way of punishing you .

And no list of this sort would be complete without our generation ’s replication to the contamination beastie : The boniface ( 2007 ) , a terrific scifi - horror - comedy about a giant thing ( carp ? whale ? eel ? combo platter ? ) that come out of the waters near Seoul after a lameass military beau from the U.S. order his underling to dump a zillion tons of old methanal in the water . Bad move . Now a very angry combo disc is eating people and look very much like the cool special burden ever . When the mutant kidnaps the youngest girl in a family of kinky pariah , they go on the offense , cut through down the beastie in its den to get their small girl back . This is the best mutant monster movie to add up out in years , and like many entries in the genre it ’s well - written and has a social message that anybody who hat pollution can get down with .

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