Ask FlickChick Movies affected by the writers strike dubbed performances whats that movie and more movie questions answeredQuestion I was wondering what major films slated for this year were cancelled or delayed because of the writers strike -- John Wao FlickChick Although TV shows were hit most badly because their schedules are so tight movies didnt escape unscathed The biggest films delayed by the strike include Angels Demons Ron Howards Da Vinci Code follow up with Tom Hanks reprising the role of symbologist Robert Langdon was the first film to fold Its now due to star shooting this summer and has a May 2009 release date Justice League of America George Millers superhero picture looks as though its dead in the water cast members DJ Cotrona Superman Armie Hammer Batman Anton Yelchin Wally WestThe Flash Santiago Cabrera Aquaman Zoe Kazan Iris Megan Gale Wonder Woman Teresa Palmer Talia al Ghul and Common Greeread more
Question: There's a B&W sci-fi/horror movie where the creatures have turtlelike bodies and elephant trunks that suck people's bones out. Do you know the title?
Answer: I do. If I believed in guilty pleasures, which I don't, the Peter Cushing picture Island of Terror (1966) would be one of mine. Cushing plays a scientist summoned to a remote island to look into the mystery of its boneless corpses, both animal and human. What he finds is the very unpleasant result of a local doctor's search for a cancer cure: His research accidentally produced a monster that feeds on calcium, which it obtains by liquifying the bones of its victims and sucking them out through its proboscis. The film is in color, by the way, but I thought it was B&W for years because I first saw it on a B&W TV set.
read more