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My interpretation is the poltergeist is only associated with the tree, the tornado is Spielberg throwing in a "subtle" nod to God in his spirit-and-afterlife movie (he supposedly believes in a god).
The tornado interrupts the poltergeist from using the tree. The tornado barely touches down just enough to only remove the tree. It's a miracle, an act of God.
Marion had a lot on her mind between her wedding date closing in and her Father just passing, she was making a panicked and overly emotional gesture to escape the current situation of her life with someone she felt temptation with (Bill). As for Bill and the plot this moment is another push for Bill to explore/consider infidelity.
On a more dream logic note, Marion somewhat resembles Alice as if they are doppelgangers (Marion's fiancé also passes for Bill's double, just with glasses). Parallel this scene with Bill and Alice's previous scene together; Alice reveals her passing desire for infidelity and a sort of "death" occurs in their relationship as result, making Bill feel like he doesn't know Alice. Back to the scene with Marion we have a literal death involved with her father and Bill tells the Alice-double (paraphrased) "We hardly know each other. I don't think we've had a conversation about anything other than your Father." who has now passed.
I'm also curious; I remember it advertised in Lego magazine way back when and the concept stuck with me but I never did watch it.
Yes, am a fan of 1, 2, and 3. Disappointed in 4, and 5 didn't look anymore promising than the former and I don't plan on seeing it.
I'm not writing off the correlation with the 34th Street title, but I took Elm street's name as being a double-entendre on the horror genre's (especially in the 80's) use of the word nightmare in titles. Like the murders are a nightmare just as much as the whole thing is also a dream nightmare.
EDIT: Furthermore the use of "Elm Street" in the title makes more sense if "Nightmare" is supposed to partly describe the horrible scenario of murders happening.
Jeeps are utilitarian, they're for getting around (Bill owns a Land Rover which has the same connotation). It seems to suggest Bill's efforts are getting him somewhere/something desired, but also that he's really just fooling himself and that the cult is only giving him what they want to give him. The fact that it's red denotes power, passion, aggression. The cult seems to already know about what he's trying to pull off and are "playing along".
I agree with your comments on the weirdness of Crichton's way of describing things, but I still think it's a good book overall.
The F word can be said up to twice in a PG-13 so they just maxed out the usage for the rating.
Carnosaur 2 influenced Dino Crisis 1 more than Jurassic Park, it's the closest we get to a Dino Crisis movie.
With Lost Highway I felt like Lynch was being somewhat neutral on portraying how we should feel about Fred, leaving room for the audience to both sympathize with him and see his ordeal as justice.
If you're a big fan of the cultural impact the series has had on pop culture (to the extent that people know of tropes without even having seen the actual movies), then part 6 is a must.
Alien fits into the subgenre of cosmic horror (same as Lovecraft). I take the sex/birth/trauma themes as a tool to subliminally express that cosmic-type horror.
I think this movie shows the males as much as females as victims in that way; Ridley Scott specifically wanted a male character as host for the birthing cycle as one example. The alien itself is androgynous in it's behavior.
It adds to the chaos and madness of the climax.
I don't have the whole Shining analyses I've read over the years completely memorized but here's my attempt to make sense of the camera-glance: When Jack is tossing the kitchenware off the nearby tables near the end of the movie, at least one visibly bounces off the camera. Then later When Wendy walks through the same area she glances at the objects now on the floor, drawing more attention to said objects. Then there's the camera feeling like a "pursuing entity" following behind Danny when he's riding his tricycle and running in the maze. There are several closeups of Jack, Wendy, and Danny basically looking into the camera in the second half of the movie.
Even though Kubrick modelled the character on Harrison Ford, wasn't Kubrick's first pick actually Alec Baldwin (and his then wife as co-star) before Cruise and Kidman got the roles?
Funnily enough we did get "Aliens with dinosaurs" by way of Carnosaur 2.
For anyone interested I would add any film directed by Kyoshi Kurosawa.
Tom Hanks (He Knows You're Alone).
Agreed, Scream's probably going to stay a trilogy in my head-cannon.
The line where Casey talks about ANOES and says the sequels sucked? According to that line New Nightmare sucked, which was directed by Mr. Craven.