can't remember what they were called, but they came out of what looked like cocoon's, big fat and white "creatures" Anyways, these guys always freaked me out when I was a kid watching this movie. They sill give me the willies cuz I remember them freaking me out as a kid. Did they give anyone else the willies as a kid?
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I thought they were positively disgusting!!
Worst part is when one of them gets ahold of Wolff and he has to wrench it over to avoid getting pulled back out of his Scrambler. EWWWWW.... I bet his arm was all wet and slimy after that!!
Tom Burman did a great job making those.
They were actually referred to as the Bat People, as they were nocturnal creatures and slept upside down. One of the original concepts for these was to have them as actual bat-people, but Burman simply worked off the description of what they were like - nocturnal creatures that lived in the silo and fed off the infected grain stored inside - This resulted in the pale squishy fat things. Their appearance actually has quite scientific logic behind it.
There's an apocryphal story put about in magazines that Burman was on the phone and mis-heard 'Bat People' as "Fat-People", but this has since been dispelled after interviews with several crew members, including Burman himself.
Starlog magazine even ran a competition to win one of the Bat-People suits used in production. I don't know who won it, but I am seriously jealous!!
Regardless of how they came about, they are seriously yuck!!
Good call on the ALIENS quote by the way, Darlene - That's gotta be my *second* favourite film!
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Yeah, I figured there was a reason they were like that. I would have loved to have entered a contest to win something from the movie, except that. I could just see myself waving up in the middle of the night, seeing it and freaking out. I'm just thankful I didn't get any nightmare from them
Yeah, that's gotta be one of my favrite quotes from Aliens. I sometimes quote the movie while I'm at work. One of my other quote I like to use is "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid"
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Much of Spacehunter's background is surprisingly sound.
The only thing I cannot really explain so far is why Wolff just happens to have, of all things, a bottle of shampoo in his pocket.
Admittedly, his hair *is* rather stylish...
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lol... the VERY convenient bottle of shampoo and the "swim'n women" scene are the 2 scenes that always bug the hell out of me when I watch this.
I mean, the shampoo in its very own side holster is a WTF (Why the Fook) moment, but the scene where Niki is walking in 2 feet of water, spotting for the jeep, then get's pulled down by the Amazons, oh I apologize... swim'n women... I don't want to use scazzy words ;) THEN... Wolff dives into said 2 foot water that magically become a good 10+ feet deep. THEN.... Niki and Wolff are both hosted out of said 10+ foot deep water, via the nets that they are captured in, just to escape from said net to land in the magic water that is, now again, 2 feet deep. lol...
Regardless, I love this flick!
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Shampoo is in his right hip pocket. You can see him unzip it.
Water has shallow and deep sides:
Niki: "There's shallows in here, you just gotta look for 'em... Shallows are on that side".
She actually walks around and tells Wolff which side to drive on.
Upon escaping the net, Wolff swings over to the shallow side and drops down.
All the important details are covered in the film... if you look close enough ;-)
The cheesy grabbing shot by the Amazon girls is obviously reverse-filmed, but such effects clearly showed some of the bugetary limitations of the project.
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Now, now! Come on, and give it a little brain work!
If you were quite literally the only person on board a deep space salvage scow, for who knows how long at any given time, and knowing that your only real contact with the rest of humanity is going to come from video-camera transmissions over the communicator, you are going to know that bathing is by no means going to be all that overly important, just important enough to worry when you might start to stink yourself out or something, but maintaining a dandruff-free hair style might just get you invited back into mingling with the rest of humanity. So, of course you're going to keep a ready supply of medicated shampoo close on hand. And if you find yourself embarking upon any kind of rescue mission, you're going to take the chance to fully bathe yourself into being completely presentable, and among everything else you're going to need: sidearm, scrambler, star clips, female android, etc., why in the world would you ever, in a millonium, not take at least a pocket-sized portion of medicated dandruff shampoo?
Ha ha, great post and very much in the spirit of the film!!
Actually, it could easily be one of those free 2-in-1 shampoo/shower-gel things that he had left in his pocket from the last space-motel he stopped at, or something.
Given his perpetually good hair and civilised Earther ways, he may well be the sort who scrubs up before supper in that very same pond Niki ends up in. People today carry little bottle of hand sanitiser, so why not something appropriate when you're on a plague-ridden planet like that?
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i watched an interview with molly ringwald about this film and she mentioned that the fat people / bat people story was tue
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I was the same as the OP. I thought those blobby creatures were quite freaky when I was a kid. One of the reasons I love the movie so much :)
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