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Aliens (1986) - 25 points
 
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Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action film co-written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 film Alien and the second installment of the Alien franchise. The film follows Ellen Ripley as she returns to the planet where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines.
 
Production Budget: $18,500,000
Domestic Total Gross: $85,160,248
Academy Award Nominations/Wins: 7/2
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
 
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Sigourney Weaver had initially been very hesitant to reprise her role as Ripley, and had rejected numerous offers from Fox Studios to do any sequels, fearing that her character would be poorly written, and a sub-par sequel could hurt the legacy of Alien. However, she was so impressed by the high quality of James Cameron's script - specifically, the strong focus on Ripley, the mother-daughter bond between her character and Newt, and the incredible precision with which Cameron wrote her character, that she finally agreed to do the film.
 
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) - 26 points (tied with Poltergeist)
 
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 slasher film directed by Joseph Zito. It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter", there have been many further sequels in the franchise. The popularity and financial success of the film kept Paramount Pictures from retiring the franchise.
 
Production Budget: $2,600,000
Domestic Total Gross: $32,980,880
Rotten Tomatoes score: 24%
 
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Takes place on Sunday the 15th, the second "Friday" film to not actually take place on a Friday at all. While the beginning with the coroners takes place during the night of Sunday the 15th, the rest of the movie takes place Monday the 16th and Tuesday the 17th being the climactic night.
 
Due to the production's low budget, several actors had to perform uncomfortable or dangerous stunts, including Judie Aronson (Samantha), who was required to stay submerged in a lake in near-freezing temperatures, and Peter Barton, who was actually slammed into the shower wall when Jason attacks him. Ted White, who portrayed Jason, advocated for several of the actors, requesting that Barton be allowed to use a crash pad and threatening to quit when director Joseph Zito refused to allow Aronson to get out of the lake between takes. White and Zito ultimately developed a combative relationship on set, which culminated in White demanding his name be taken off of the film, calling it "a piece of shit."

 

 

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Poltergeist (1982) - 26 points (tied with Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
 
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Poltergeist is a 1982 American horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the first and most successful entry in the Poltergeist film series. Set in a California suburb, the plot focuses on a family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct the family's youngest daughter.
 
Production Budget: $10,700,000
Domestic Total Gross: $76,606,280
Domestic Total Gross, Adjusted for Inflation: $209,755,300
Academy Award Nominations/Wins: 3/0
Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%
 
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When questioned about who had the greater control over Poltergeist, Steven Spielberg or Tobe Hooper, Spielberg replied "Tobe isn't... a take-charge sort of guy. If a question was asked and an answer wasn't immediately forthcoming, I'd jump in and say what we could do. Tobe would nod agreement, and that became the process of our collaboration." Co-producer Frank Marshall spoke out to the press and claimed "the creative force of the movie was Steven. The issue of who had creative control over Poltergeist is still a muddy issue even today.
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Rosemary's Baby (1968) - 27 points
 
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Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. Rosemary is a pregnant woman who fears that her husband may have made a pact with their eccentric neighbors, believing he may have promised them the child to be used as a human sacrifice in their occult rituals in exchange for success in his acting career.
 
Production Budget: $3,200,000
Domestic Total Gross: $33,395,426
Academy Award Nominations/Wins: 2/1
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
 
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This film, along with Repulsion and The Tenant, forms a loose trilogy by Roman Polanski about the horrors of apartment/city dwelling.
 
Rosemary's baby was born in June 1966 (6/66).
 
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The Thing (1982) - 32 points
 
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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. The Thing infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it absorbs, and paranoia occurs within the group. The film is based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella Who Goes There?, which was more loosely adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as 1951's The Thing from Another World.
 
Production Budget: $15 million
Domestic Total Gross: $19,629,760
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%
 
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In August 2003 a couple of hard-core fans, Todd Cameron and Steve Crawford, ventured to the remote filming location in Stewart, British Columbia and, after 21 years, found remains of Outpost #31 and the Norwegian helicopter. The rotor blade from the chopper now belongs to Todd and rests in his collection of memorabilia from the film.
 
The producers consider the film's disappointing box office performance was down to the fact that people were flocking to a more benign interpretation of an alien presence on earth - Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial which was released 2 weeks earlier.
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