Hellboy - in which Ron Pearlman plays Hellboy, AKA Anung Un Rama, who works for the government division of BPRD in New Jersey (!!). New agent is assigned to keeping Hellboy happy, but instead hits on his would be girlfriend, Selma Blair. Liz the Firestarter. Nice. Famous Russian bad guy Rasputin tries to convince Hellboy to join his weird evil family of sand/murder-bots and Skankoviches, but Hellboy has already tried pancakes, so he's on the side of maple syrup for eternity. John Hurt is his father who dies, Abe Sapien conspires with Dr. Broom to keep his cancer a secret from Hellboy. Not surprising anyone, Hellboy does not like being blindsided by death. Underground rampage ensues. Hellboy wins. except for losing his father.
Event Horizon - in which sci fi space body horror gets very fucking real, and totally gross. First, Lawrence Fishburne is a space captain named Miller, and his first mate is Joely Richardson, and she rocks. Her accent is real. A bunch of space sailors are escorting science genius Sam Neill to the wreckage of a space ship. It wasn't just a space ship, it was a massive black hole generating machine, and it recently re-emerged around Neptune, and now its just orbiting, being spooky af. To give all the details, Sam Neill, AKA Dr. Weir, is having creepy dreams about his dead wife in his cryo/gravi-sleep pod before they even get to the abandoned wreck. Oh, its called the Event Horizon. So, once the crew rolls up on Event Horizon they get nervous, because its creepy, and a few people go out to investigate the empty ship. Miller orders Dr. Weir to stay aboard their vessel, and he doesn't do a good job of listening. As soon as the crew splits up, one young guy gets sucked into the g
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