In the first-season "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Skin of Evil", the shuttlecraft carrying Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) crashes on a seemingly uninhabited alien world called Vagra II. The Enterprise goes to rescue her, but finds that Troi's crashed shuttle is being guarded by a mysterious living puddle of black tar. The tar shapeshifts into a vaguely human form and calls itself Armus, the only inhabitant of this world. Armus is seethingly cruel and takes pleasure in the death and suffering of the people it encounters. It refuses to let Troi go, wanting to torment the Enterprise crew members who have beamed down to gather her.
In one of the most notorious moments in "Star Trek" history, Lieutenant Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) attempts to walk around Armus, and it zaps her with a mysterious psychic blast. Yar is thrown several feet through the air, severely injured. She is...
In one of the most notorious moments in "Star Trek" history, Lieutenant Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) attempts to walk around Armus, and it zaps her with a mysterious psychic blast. Yar is thrown several feet through the air, severely injured. She is...
- 8/1/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
With the release of Arrow Video’s The Annihilators, read film historian and author Chris Poggiali’s introduction into New World Pictures – Roger Corman’s now legendary cult movie production company that brought it to life….
When Roger Corman cut the ribbon on New World Pictures in May of 1970, he was in the right place at the right time with the right idea in mind for his latest business venture: a production and distribution company that would provide a training ground for young filmmakers eager to get into the business. Less than a year after the release of Easy Rider, every studio in town was trying to duplicate its success by seeking out independent filmmakers with an eye on the youth market and all things counterculture. This was the height of the New Hollywood era, which Corman himself had helped usher in with his trailblazing 1966 smash The Wild Angels. Mostly known as a producer-director,...
When Roger Corman cut the ribbon on New World Pictures in May of 1970, he was in the right place at the right time with the right idea in mind for his latest business venture: a production and distribution company that would provide a training ground for young filmmakers eager to get into the business. Less than a year after the release of Easy Rider, every studio in town was trying to duplicate its success by seeking out independent filmmakers with an eye on the youth market and all things counterculture. This was the height of the New Hollywood era, which Corman himself had helped usher in with his trailblazing 1966 smash The Wild Angels. Mostly known as a producer-director,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
New World Action Pictures! week continues at Trailers from Hell with filmmaker David DeCoteau introducing "Bury Me an Angel," described in its tagline as "a Howling Hellcat Humping a Hot Steel Hog on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge!" The film's director, Barbara Peeters, was the first woman to helm a biker film.Busy '70s indie trailer editor Ken Dixon set the bar pretty high (or low) with this seminal early New World trailer which established the template for hawking impoverished production values and making them sound pretty cool. The peripatetic Ron Gans narrates in practiced orotund style.
- 6/12/2013
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Legendary voiceover artist Ronald Gans has been silenced, aged 78.
The actor, whose voice was frequently used in movies and on TV, died at the end of June in Los Angeles.
Gans' voice could be heard on beloved TV shows Lost in Space, Quincy, M.E. and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He also worked on Welcome to Pooh Corner and The Transformers.
The actor, whose voice was frequently used in movies and on TV, died at the end of June in Los Angeles.
Gans' voice could be heard on beloved TV shows Lost in Space, Quincy, M.E. and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He also worked on Welcome to Pooh Corner and The Transformers.
- 7/12/2010
- WENN
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