January snow and monsters on the rampage

January and yet again the country is paralysed in the face of snow. Because we are so unused to it, we never seem prepared. No doubt, the news will show the lines of cars, trapped on the road while the snow piles up. Of course, children will overjoyed at the closing of schools. In a few years, that won’t matter. So many children will have computers with internet connections, that they will be made to work from home.

I’d ordered the films ‘Q-The Winged Serpent’ (1981) and ‘Alligator’ (1981) on DVD, as the price had dropped down and the former has arrived. I’d ordered the two from fond memories of seeing them on video. That was from when they were part of a double bill from the format of ‘Moviedrome’ on BBC2. This was film director Alex Cox introducing a movie considered to be ‘cult’ on a Sunday night. This could be anything from ‘The Terminator’ (1984) to ‘Yojimbo’ (1961).

Both ‘Q-The Winged Serpent’ and ‘Alligator’ admittedly lack the technical sophistication of ‘Jurassic Park’ (1993). But it may be agued that they have more interesting, frightening and intelligent scripts then the latter movie.