Two Tickets to Parasites – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

The Thing (1982) | John Carpenter

January 1, 2021December 31, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

The story starts out in Antarctica, where a group of scientists is bunkered until one day they are disturbed by the sounds of gunshots coming from a Norwegian helicopter, apparently trying to kill a runaway dog. They miss their quarry, and the Norwegians end up getting offed, with no explanation as to what their problem […]

The Hidden (1987) | Jack Sholder

December 25, 2020December 23, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Michael Nouri stars as LAPD detective Tom Beck, who takes down a bank robber gone berserk in one of the bloodiest shootouts in department history. What Beck doesn’t know is that the culprit is actually being controlled by a parasite within his body that loves danger, money, speeding, and good ol’ rock-n-roll, and it can’t […]

Night of the Creeps (1986) | Fred Dekker

December 18, 2020December 17, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Jason Lively and Steve Marshall are the primary stars as Chris and J.C., a couple of nerdy college freshmen fraternity pledges who must steal a corpse as part of their initiation. They accidentally end up releasing a small army of leeches, jettisoned from an alien spacecraft, dormant in the cryogenic cadaver they find in the […]